The bell of Yin hour rang with a bloody smell, and Su Chen climbed the stone steps with the "Yu Bu". The surface of the bronze bell was covered with claw marks. Tang Ren held up a torch and took a closer look: "These grooves are embedded with human teeth!"
Qin Feng used a silver needle to scrape off the rust from the copper, and suddenly fire burst out from the tip of the needle.
Xing: "Magnet, magnetite powder mixed with sulfur!" Su Chen took off the compass from his waist, and the magnetic needle spun wildly around the bell. He suddenly tore off the red thread on his sleeve, and the silk thread soaked in black dog blood was wrapped around the bell pestle. The moment the bell was struck, the sound waves condensed into a unique Bagua pattern in the air.
"The sound resounds in all directions, and the energy flows through all nine mysteries." Su Chen bit his fingertip and wrote a funeral rite on the bell. "This is the Taoist soul-catching formation!" The bronze bell suddenly rang by itself, shaking off the prayer flags on top, and the gold foil that flew out formed a constellation map of an island reef in the Gulf of Siam.
At dawn, the fishing boat was tossed among the reefs. Tang Ren lay on the side of the boat and vomited. Su Chen used the compass to calibrate the direction, and suddenly poured the whole pot of realgar wine onto the sea. The wine boiled when it met the water, and the floating dead fish formed the Big Dipper formation.
"The magnetic palace under the sea." Su Chen untied the lead that was entangled with the talisman.
"This kind of institution was recorded in the Maritime Illustrated Records." While diving in the coral reef, Qin Feng found a jade slip in a giant clam shell, which was engraved with the remaining chapters of the Yin Fu Jing. Tang Ren pried open the oyster, and a death warning in Javanese appeared on the surface of the pearl.
An undercurrent suddenly came, and veins popped up on the back of Su Chen's hand as he grasped the coral branch. The blood-red anemone suddenly blossomed, revealing an altar filled with human skulls. On the tops of the twenty-three skulls, there were variations of the Chinese character "承" from different dynasties.
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Tang Ren used the Luoyang shovel to knock on the skull, and the hollow echo was hidden with the sound of a mechanism. Su Chen arranged the bone array according to the "Qi Men Dun Jia", and a bronze box rose in the center of the altar. On the box, half a tiger talisman was stuck in the corner of the twenty-eight constellations, which was exactly the same as the evidence from the Bangkok police station.
"Jia Zi, Bing Yin month..." Qin Feng compared the skull marks, "This, this is the day Chong Zhen was hanged on Coal Hill!" Su Chen suddenly threw the tiger talisman towards the rock wall, and the trajectory of the rebound just happened to break a skull. A piece of saltpeter human skin floated out of the broken bone fragments, with a revised route map of Zheng He's voyage to the West.
The underground river suddenly changed its course, and the three were washed into the cave by the rapids. Tang Ren's forehead hit the stalactite, and blood dripped on the stone, revealing the words in water script: "The gate of Guixu, the inheritance of the business forever".
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The rusted keel of the Fuzhou ship was tangled with kelp. Su Chen used a water-dividing thorn to pick open the rattan pot in the captain's room. Tang Ren found a half-volume of "Following the Wind" in the rotten wooden box. The wormholes on the edge of the remaining pages just formed the location of the islands in the South China Sea. Qin Feng suddenly stuttered and pointed to the ship window: "Those corals are moving!"
Su Chen scratched his palm with a porcelain shard, and the blood attracted the bloodthirsty coral polyps. On the exposed hull wall, twenty-three sailing logs were glued into a star map with fish glue. When Tang Ren arranged the remaining pages according to the regulations of Zhenghe Treasure Ship, a tin imperial edict tube slid out of the secret compartment. Inside the tube, yellow silk read "Act at your own discretion", and the signature was stamped with the yin-yang fish seal of the Su family's ancestors.
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The Chaozhou Guild Hall was filled with gloomy air during the heavy rain. Su Chen pressed the tiger talisman into the fish eye of the door ring. The screen wall inside the door suddenly flipped over, revealing rows of camphorwood boxes in the secret room. Qin Feng pried open the lock, and a whole box of Nanyang magic tools made Tang Ren retreat three steps.
"This is not a magic weapon." Su Chen picked up the human bone flute, "It's a navigation instrument of the Chaoshan ancestors!" When he blew the human bone flute according to the "Essence of Lü Lu", the bats between the beams fell down, revealing the Maritime Silk Road map hidden under their wing membranes.
Tang Ren suddenly convulsed and fell, bloody fish-shaped marks appeared on the back of his neck. Su Chen tore open his clothes and found half a bone needle inserted in his Tanzhong acupoint - it was the missing occipital bone in the skull of the altar!
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At midnight, candles flickered in the ancestral temple. Su Chen placed the twenty-three pieces of evidence on the altar. Tang Renhun curled up on the mat, and the yin-yang fish tattoo on his back was oozing black blood. Qin Feng suddenly pointed at the ancestor's portrait and exclaimed: "The eyes, the eyes are moving!"
Su Chen used a silver knife to pry open the painted silk, and a copy of "The Pisces Record" fell out from the interlayer. When he inserted the blood-stained bone needle into the spine of the book, the yellowed pages automatically flipped, and the word "Cheng" floated in the air and reorganized into a navigation star map. The bricks of the ancestral hall collapsed suddenly, revealing a secret cellar where a bronze compass was buried.
"This is the real Si Nan." Su Chen held up the mottled bronze plate, "The Su family is not a grave keeper..." As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of tiles breaking came from outside the house. Under the moonlight, twenty-three men in black knelt in the shape of the Big Dipper, and the leader raised the compass engraved with the letter Q: "Welcome back, the helmsman!"
Tang Ren suddenly jumped up, and the Yin Yang fish tattoo on his back glowed with golden light. The Si Nan in Su Chen's hand and the compass of the man in black exploded at the same time, and the flying copper pieces formed a complete "눁海承놂图" in the air...