958: Chapter 0958: The Secret of Immortality 958: Chapter 0958: The Secret of Immortality Long Fei and three others sat around the stone table while Er Gouzi, sent by the village head, brought so ga.
Xu Wei and he went to the kitchen to cook, asking Long Fei and the rest to chat first.
Liuu Ruyan was sitting next to her father, delicately peeling walnuts for him, eager to help him regain his strength.
That feeling of gaining sothing treasured back, others couldn’t understand, so blissful she almost felt faint.
She had already called her mother, who, upon hearing the news, urgently wanted to co over.
Liuu Ruyan persuaded her to stay, saying that Long Fei had already treated her father’s illness and that for now his health was not an issue.
Mother Liuu managed to contain her impatience, but when she spoke with Liuu Wenhan over the phone, she cried like a child.
After everyone had eaten so of the mountain delicacies in the yard, and Liuu Wenhan’s emotions had settled,
Long Fei curiously asked, “Uncle Liuu, what exactly happened that day?
Whose tomb were you looking for?”
Liuu Wenhan knew Long Fei was no ordinary person otherwise he wouldn’t have easily cured the cold poison in his body.
He had encountered people with special abilities in this line of work before.
When Long Fei asked him about it, he truthfully replied, “You have given a new lease on life, so I won’t deceive you.
I’m certain that the tomb belongs to the First Emperor.”
“Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor?”
Long Fei and Wang Xiaoya were both surprised and asked with curiosity, “Isn’t the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor at Mount Li?
Isn’t that more than fifty miles from here?”
Liuu Wenhan said, “Yes, there is a mausoleum at Mount Li that belongs to the First Emperor, but that’s just a diversion.
The real tomb is on one of the extensions of Mount Hua.
Fifteen years ago, the mountain had a major flood, and many valuable things were washed out.
I had bought so antiques around here before and thus knew Xu Wei’s father.
He ca to Binhai City to find , and we salvaged so items in the river.
Upon closer inspection of these items, I realized they were all from the Qin Dynasty.
At the ti, greed got the better of us, and along with Xu Wei’s father, we followed the river upstream.
In my youth, I learned so tomb-raiding skills from my ancestors, and being young and fearless, it was easy for us to find an opening to the tomb passage.
Since the opening was naturally ford by geological movents combined with erosion, we entered through it without triggering any chanisms.
When we got inside, we imdiately regretted it.
It was as if the mountain peak had been hollowed out below, with an imnsely vast cavern.
Our position was roughly halfway up the cave wall, and we could clearly see inside.
Above us, there were glowing stones suspended from the ceiling, resembling a night sky full of stars.
Even in the pitch-black cave, they illuminated everything.
Below, there were ranks of terracotta warriors, neatly aligned.
Clad in armor and wielding long spears, they seed as alive as any person.
Perhaps they were alive.
Ordinary terracotta warriors are made of clay, but these were human corpses.
These bizarre warriors surrounded an altar over a hundred ters tall.
The altar was similar to a pyramid, flat on top, with a stone sarcophagus around ten ters in length and width.
Around the sarcophagus, there were nine copper cauldrons of the sa size, guarding it.
Besides Emperor Qin Shi Huang, I couldn’t imagine anyone else’s tomb having such grandeur.
At that mont, with blood running hot, I thought to myself that after more than two thousand years, any chanisms or secret passages inside would probably have broken down by now.
Xu Wei’s father and I tied a rope and descended carefully through the Terracotta Warriors to reach the ritual platform.
Their bodies were all dried up, looking like black tree roots.
Each of them had their eyes closed, as though they could wake up at any mont.
At the ti, I was solely focused on seeing what was inside the coffin and didn’t pay attention to these monsters.
If I had paid attention, Xu Wei’s father might not have died.
Once we reached the ritual platform, we saw the coffin and were completely dumbfounded.
The coffin…
it was open.
He paused, picked up a cup of water, and took a sip.
Wang Xiaoya, engrossed in the story, asked curiously, “And then what?”
Liuu Wenhan seed to recall sothing horrific, his body trembling involuntarily as he continued, “We carefully examined the coffin, expecting to find so burial goods.
But to our surprise, there was nothing inside, just a stone box.
When the box was opened, there was a wooden box inside.
Its lacquer surface was smooth and, after more than two thousand years, hadn’t suffered a bit of damage.
Inside the small wooden box, there was a pill and a line of blood-red characters.
It read, ‘To live forever, so this is how,’ eight words.
Just as we were engrossed in looking at it, a terrifying scene unfolded.
Those strange beings below started climbing up the ritual platform.
They were alive, they ca back to life.
Xu Wei’s father and I, holding the small box, turned and ran for our lives.
They moved slowly and their movents were very stiff.
Once we got off the ritual platform, they backed us into a corner, and in desperation, we jumped into the underground river together.
The river water was icy cold and biting, as if it was going to freeze one’s body completely.
Xu Wei’s father and I were washed away together by the river, and downstream was exactly where Xu Family Gully was.
After we ca ashore, Xu Wei’s father hit a hidden rock in the river and did not survive to see the next day.
My body also couldn’t take it, I was like I had been frozen solid.
Xu Wei’s family had lost an adult, leaving just him, a nine-year-old child.
The night his father died, he developed a high fever and fainted.
At that ti, I was unable to walk, had no one to call for help, and in a mont of desperation, I rembered that pill, so I gave it to Xu Wei to eat.
I don’t know if it was because of the pill, but Xu Wei’s illness was cured overnight.
He stuck with , taking care of until now.
I’ve wronged him.
If it weren’t for , his father wouldn’t have died.”
Liuu Wenhan grew more and more remorseful as he spoke, pounding his fist onto his head several tis.
Liuu Ruyan, feeling sorry for him, quickly grabbed him and persuaded him, “Dad, what’s done is done, don’t bla yourself.
Even if you regret it now, Uncle Xu can’t co back!”
“Ah!”
Liuu Wenhan let out a long sigh, his eyes brimming with tears.
Long Fei and Wang Xiaoya exchanged a glance, the scene Liuu Wenhan described reminded them of what they had seen in the Demon Cave.
His heart filled with horror, Long Fei thought to himself, could there be another Demon Cave beneath the mountain ahead?
And where did the person inside the coffin go?
Why would he leave behind a pill that could grant eternal life?
The symptoms exhibited by Xu Wei were clearly that of becoming demonized.
Could this pill have the effect of demonizing a person?
One question after another arose, making Long Fei furrow his brow.
At this ti, Xu Wei and Er Gouzi brought the stewed ga they had prepared and invited everyone to try, “Don’t just talk, try the ga from our mountains.
This is authentic wild mountain chicken, with a really fragrant flavor that you can’t find in the city.”
Long Fei smiled and let them sit down as well.
Er Gouzi was as lively as Hei Wa from Long Fei’s village.
He took out two bottles of wine that looked very old from a basket and said to Long Fei, “Brother Long, this is Xifeng Wine that our village chief has kept for thirty years.
Today we’re taking advantage of you, he specifically took it out to treat you.
Let’s drink properly, today we must get thoroughly drunk.
I, Er Gouzi, am telling you, I’m prepared to crawl out of here today.”
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