sjar Chapter 602: Beidou Jade Pendant, Strange Half-Rhino Horn Candlestick
Chapter 602: Beidou Jade Pendant, Strange Half-Rhino Horn Candlestick
The Beidou jade pendant on Ye Bai's neck suddenly made a buzzing sound.
A half-broken rhino horn candlestick rolled out from the wreckage of the altar, and a ghostly ball made of candle wax was spinning on its own.
He glimpsed scenes of his childhood emerging from within the sphere.
"The two thousand day countdown is a cover."
The old woman kicked away the bronze goblet that was blocking her way, and purple smoke rose where the wine spilled.
"Every star is a living nail, and you are just a dog on a leash..."
Ah Fu's jade finger bones suddenly penetrated the gap in the coffin and grabbed the old woman's ankle.
The star map's light cast cracks on his white skull.
Those cracks are spreading at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Sister's sundial is moving the wrong way."
The friction between the jade bone joints produced the whimpering sound of the xiao.
"It's three quarters past three in the morning when you should be drinking sweet spring water, yet you're still drinking human blood."
The old woman suddenly froze.
The broken pieces of the silver hairpin in her hair fell off and vaporized into mercury beads the moment they touched the bronze abacus.
Ye Bai smelled a strong smell of saltpeter and found that his shadow was being nailed into a twisted cross by twenty-eight abacus chips.
The blood seal formed by the barrage suddenly exploded and turned into hundreds of green-winged termites that pounced on the armillary sphere.
When the termite hit the bronze abacus, ice chips flew out, and Ye Bai heard the distant neighing of war horses mixed with the sound of metal clashing.
"Quick! Cut the star's life line!"
Ye Bai took out a sandalwood ruler and pierced his left knee, then endured the severe pain and cut the wound on his right leg.
He threw the counting stick out with all his strength.
The old woman's body slowly fell to her knees.
Her body was pulled by an invisible force towards the crack in the floor.
Click!
A dark door suddenly appeared behind the old woman.
It was an ancient stone door with exquisite carvings.
There is an ancient stone bridge on the stone gate.
The river flows rapidly under the bridge, with waves rising and falling.
Ye Bai knew this ancient bridge because he and the old woman had once stepped onto this mysterious river when they were in danger on the stone bridge.
There is a lonely grave in the bushes on the river bank.
There is a sentence written on the tombstone: I am the common ruler of the Nine Provinces, and I was ordered to seal away all the evil spirits in the world. However, the heroes of the world coveted me, and I could not escape death in the end.
The old woman seemed to notice something unusual behind her and looked back with bloodshot eyes.
"What do you want to do?"
Ye Bai shook his head with a calm expression.
"You want to save them? Haha..." the old woman said in a low voice, "Their souls are trapped in this evil spirit. Even if you kill me, their souls will never be able to escape."
The old lady's arm suddenly stretched out.
The arm turned out to be a strange hand formed by the decayed branches that fell from the old woman's body.
"However, I can make their souls leave their bodies."
The old woman grinned at the moment the edge of the sandalwood ruler cut through the flesh.
Ye Bai saw his blood beads floating and turning into red stars.
The severe pain in the knee wound suddenly became thick and long, as if someone was pouring molten bronze into the bone marrow.
He gritted his teeth and pushed the ruler deeper, and blood foam splashed on the bronze abacus, making a hissing sound like a branding iron entering water.
The old woman's rotten palm suddenly spasmed when it was three inches away from his throat.
The armillary sphere made up of twenty-eight counting chips made a muffled sound as if its gears were jamming.
The green rust on a bronze bar was fading into fresh bloodstains.
"How dare you stain the Zhou Tian Yi with your blood!"
The skin on the old woman's neck suddenly peeled back, revealing the bronze sundial spinning in her throat.
Mercury beads dripped from the corners of her torn mouth, etching hexagram patterns on the ground.
"Two thousand years ago, when I cut open your great-grandfather's throat, he wasn't as tough as you."
Ye Bai suddenly felt the bruise on his collarbone begin to move.
Seven dark red marks crawled along the spine to the back of the neck, and the place where the jade pendant touched the skin felt like an ice needle piercing the pain.
He touched the mucus oozing from the back collar of his sportswear with his backhand, and pulled out translucent silk threads between his fingers.
It was exactly the same as the silvery-white liquid that flowed out of Ah Fu's eyes before.
The green-winged barrage of beetles suddenly turned around collectively.
They gnawed on the blood mist that overflowed from Ye Bai's wound, and their abdomens gradually swelled into clear crystal lanterns.
Through these suspended light sources.
Ye Bai saw scales growing on the old woman's jade ankles under her skirt, and star maps the size of rice grains were embedded in the gaps between each scale.
"Three quarters past three in the morning..."
"The sweet spring should gush out from the Li position, but you changed the gate of life into the gate of death."
The old woman's crazy laughter shook off the debris from the tomb roof.
She tore open her chest and grabbed the bloody jade cicada.
The bloodstains slid down along the texture.
"Do you know how much hard work I put into setting up this scheme, and how much it will cost me?"
The old woman's face was distorted, and she put the bloody jade cicada close to Ye Bai's eyebrows.
The bloody smell made Ye Bai's stomach twitch.
A strange melody sounded in his mind.
The bronze hexagram formed by counting sticks suddenly stopped playing.
The armillary sphere paused for a moment and then returned to its original state.
The old woman stood there in a daze.
"How could this happen?" she muttered.
Ye Bai moved with difficulty and walked to the side of the coffin.
He reached out and pressed on the coffin lid, pushing it open to reveal the brass coffin underneath.
The coffin is engraved with dense ancient characters.
"Is the Taiyi Rescuer of Sufferings contained in this?" Ye Bai asked.
The old woman was silent for a long time and then nodded.
"It's a catastrophe."
The old woman said, "You have seen that all the spirits in the world have suffered from it."
Her voice turned cold: "If you insist on opening it, you will have to fight against the heavens and exchange your life for his."
Ye Bai shook his head.
"No, thank you for telling me that."
He picked up a jade token.
When the old woman saw the pattern on the jade token, her pupils shrank sharply and she was extremely angry: "You actually——"
Ye Bai put away the jade pendant and turned to leave.
After taking a few steps, his eyes swept over the coffin and saw that the patterns on the coffin were trembling slightly.
Ye Bai hesitated for a moment and walked to the side of the grave pit.
At the bottom of the tomb pit, there is a protruding bluestone slab, which is covered with tiny calligraphy.
"I am the co-lord of the Nine Provinces, and was ordered to guard the southern border. However, I was taken advantage of by treacherous people and died in the Jiulong Mountains."
"Although I am the common ruler of the Nine Provinces, I feel guilty towards the people and the ancestors. I have no face to show myself to others."
"I am buried in this tomb. May all the people of the world forget my death."
"My name is..."
"King Wu."
......
"King Wu?" Ye Bai frowned.
He had never heard of such a person in Jiuzhou.
But since he is the common ruler of the Nine Provinces, he should be a hegemonic figure who can unify all the princes.
"His remains are buried in Jiulong Mountain. What is this Jiulong Mountain?"
He thought about it but couldn't find the answer.
Ye Bai continued to search the cemetery, trying to find useful information.
He suddenly saw a few pieces of black silk paper with gold plastered on it hanging on the tomb wall, with four powerful characters written on them:
Heaven's Secret
He walked over and uncovered the silk paper, and saw a map of mountains and rivers on the back.
The mountains, rivers and peaks depicted on the map are lifelike.
"What does this map represent..."
Ye Bai muttered in confusion, and suddenly remembered the old woman's last words.
"Do you know why the ruler of Kyushu can't be a female emperor?"
His heart began to beat rapidly.
This piece of silk paper may contain a shocking secret!