Chapter 61
The road in the cave is very difficult to walk, sometimes you will encounter steep rock walls, and sometimes you will encounter huge cracks that are bottomless. Every time he walked a certain distance, Master Mingzong would stop, put his hands forward, and draw a wisp of air under his nose to smell it.
He told Zheng Qiu that this is a technique for exploring unknown caves. With this method, there will be no situation where you will not be able to step out of the miasma area and lose your life.
After wandering around the cave for a long time, Zheng Qiu completely lost his way. There were stalactites in the front, back and back, and they all looked the same. However, Master Mingzong discovered something. He squatted on the ground, picked up a piece of gravel and examined it carefully.
The shape of the crushed stone is extremely irregular, but there is a small plane, which is full of pits and pits, similar to the long stone steps in the swamp. It should also be the trace of a chisel, and the building where the roulette is stored must be nearby. He stood up, increased the brightness of the halo, and continued walking inside with his apprentice.
After turning over a two-foot-high stone wall, the karst cave in front of him suddenly became open, and when stepping into it, you can see gravel scattered everywhere.
Master Mingzong made the other hand glow with a halo. Under the light yellow light, there are broken walls and broken pillars everywhere you look. Some walls and stone pillars are deeply embedded in the cave wall and blend with the rock of the cave wall.
It's building, finally there! Master Ming Zong was so excited that he dragged Zheng Qiu forward. The further you go, the higher the roof of the cave, and after a few steps, a huge triangular rock appears in front of the halo.
This boulder is at least ten feet long and four feet high, and Zheng Qiu is not as big as the flower reliefs on it. There are still many broken walls and pillars behind the boulder, which are collapsed ruins. Master Ming Zong went around and decided that this is the roof on the front of the building. Since it is a roof, the roulette should be hidden in the ruins behind the boulder.
Bypassing the boulder, Master Ming Zong led Zheng Qiu up the ruins. There are a large number of stalactites mixed in the rubble of the ruins, which should have fallen from the top of the cave.
There is a thick layer of stone powder on the surface of the gravel, and large pieces fall off with a light touch. Master Mingzong turned over the gravel on the surface and looked down. The bottom was not as badly weathered, and the roulette might be well preserved.
"Apprentice, retreat behind the roof."
"Huh? What roof?"
"It's that triangular boulder, hide behind it, don't come out."
After Zheng Qiu hid, Master Ming Zong swayed the air waves and lifted the rubble from the ruins. Crash, clatter, a large piece of gravel mixed with stone powder was swept to the sides of the cave, and the ruins of the broken walls underneath were revealed.
There were still clear reliefs on these stones. He took a closer look, but found nothing of value, so he had to dig down.
Master Ming Zong was very careful this time, he no longer swayed the air waves, but kept the energy in his hands, and pushed the stones away one by one with the palm of his hand.
When he lifted the stone pillar, a toppled stone tablet jumped into his eyes, engraved with round characters on the stone tablet, which was exactly the same as the stone tablet seen in Wentian Pavilion. Master Ming Zong picked up the stele and carefully placed it where Zheng Qiu was hiding. Then he returned to the original place and accelerated the digging.
Soon, his hand touched a stone slab, strangely, it seemed that the slate could not be lifted, and he increased the energy poured into his arm, but the slate remained motionless.
Is there somewhere stuck? Master Mingzong squatted down and looked along the stone slabs. On the left, right, and directly in front of the ruins, the stone slabs all extended. This slab will not be the ground of this building, will it?
Thinking of this, Master Mingzong changed direction and began to clear the stones on the front and left and right sides. As the ruins were cleared away bit by bit, the stone slab gradually revealed its true appearance, and Master Mingzong's heartbeat gradually accelerated, with an excited expression on his face.
The outer edge of the stone slab is curved. It is an extremely huge plate. There are strange lines engraved on the plate. The closer to the center, the denser the lines. These lines are both like words and symbols.
There are obvious broken marks on the large stone plate, and the broken marks are embedded with rusty metal, connecting the broken stone plates together.
It is written on the stone tablet of Wentian Pavilion, "Pick up broken pieces and repair them, and erect pillars into a hall", which indicates that the roulette has been repaired, and the big stone plate in front of us has been repaired.
Master Mingzong took a few steps back, raised his hands high, and let the light shine further. Only a quarter of the stone plate was dug out, not even half a circle, but the excavated part was six feet wide. If the stone plate was completely dug out, it would be a small square.
Looking at the piled stones, Master Ming Zong was heartbroken, and continued to dig, and found the roulette, how could he be stopped by this difficulty.
Zheng Qiu waited and waited. When he was hungry, he ate a meal of herbal medicine. When he was sleepy, he leaned against the stone to sleep. He fell asleep three times. The master was still digging in the ruins. However, there are more and more stone tablets placed around Zheng Qiu, there are already twelve pieces, all of which were dug out from the ruins by the master.
Zheng Qiu stood up and walked around the boulder roof to see the master.
At this time, the cleaning of the ruins was coming to an end. Master Mingzong was covered with stone powder all over his body, and his whole body turned gray. His sweat and stone powder mixed together to form small hard flakes, which kept falling down as he moved.
Similar to Master Ming Zong's estimate, this stone wheel is indeed very large, with a diameter of more than ten feet. A small part of the roulette is embedded in the stone wall of the cave, and the thick rocks cover the lines on the roulette.
The pattern in the center of the roulette is in the shape of a hexagram, with six wavy lines radiating out along the six sharp corners. Large blocks of text are engraved around the lines, tightly intertwined.
These characters are twisted and twisted, like earthworms. Master Ming Zong has never seen them in any classics, so he can only casually call them earthworm characters.
Master Ming Zong also knew a thing or two about the formations. Judging from the direction of the lines on the stone plate, the earthworm script played a vital role in the operation of the stone plate, but he didn't know a word, and he was completely blind.
By the way, there must be something written on those stone tablets. Since the stone tablet and the stone plate are placed in the same building, they must be related to each other. Master Ming Zong held the halo and sat down in front of the twelve stone tablets to study slowly. While reading, he took out pills from the bag inside his clothes and stuffed them into his mouth.
Zheng Qiu saw the act of eating the pill, and he asked worriedly: "Master, why are you taking the pill? Are you feeling unwell? Why don't we go back to the station."
Master Ming Zong shook his head and refused: "It's okay, it's just moving the stones for a long time, which consumes a lot of energy, just use pills to recover."
After finishing speaking, the master stopped talking to Zheng Qiu and concentrated on studying the content on the stele. The writing on these steles is exactly the same as the writing on the Wentian Pavilion stone stele, written by the same person.
On one of the steles, the signature, Wooden Plum Blossom, appeared. Obviously, this Mumeihua is not her real name.
The words and sentences on the stone tablet are different from those in Wentian Pavilion, they are not disturbed, and each paragraph records an event that happened. But the sequence of things is out of order, making it impossible to find the key content.
After watching for a long time, Master Mingzong finally found the first thing that happened: the sky is very abnormal, it is daytime, there are no dark clouds in the sky... the sky is very dark, the sun seems to be unable to reach the ground...it is a roulette, from the sky The ones that fell down have words on the roulette wheel, we put them away and take them away...