Chapter 67 A debt of love spanning a thousand years
With the help of the talisman, the evil spirit in the passage was almost dissipated, and Qing Yanrou and the others could also see the mural carved on the ancient tomb clearly with the flashlight.
It is obvious from the mural that this is the tomb of a Taoist priest. The mural depicts a Taoist priest with fluttering sleeves and an immortal look. Behind him stands a woman who is also wearing a Taoist robe. From the mural, it can be seen that the woman's gaze is always following the man's figure.
Looking at the familiar face, Qing Yanrou and Chu Tingbai looked at each other in the dark, with a hint of interest in each other's eyes.
"Could this be the joint tomb of a Taoist couple?" Lin Yaoyao's tone was filled with confusion.
"We can't tell much from this mural alone. Let's keep going inside and find them first."
Qing Yanrou counted quickly with her fingers as she led them forward. Gu Yuan looked at the face in front of him that looked exactly like the one in his memory, feeling a little dazed.
The girl in her memory was bright, cheerful and generous, but her daughter was a calm and composed Taoist priest. This did not seem like the child of her and the man from the Bai family.
After being reminded by Lin Yaoyao beside him, he finally came to his senses and paid close attention to the situation in the ancient tomb, without thinking too much about it.
'Boom, boom, boom'
They came to a stone gate and heard continuous banging sounds coming from inside. Everyone stopped in front of the gate with frowns on their faces.
"There's no sign of life inside."
When the others heard what she said, their brows furrowed even more.
"Don't be so pessimistic, maybe they haven't been here yet."
Lin Yaoyao said with a trembling voice.
Qing Yanrou actually knew that there was a high probability that they would not meet anyone of their kind in here, but after hearing the noise coming from inside, she became a little wary of this ancient tomb. However, thinking that there were still so many people inside, she absolutely could not retreat.
Seeing her raise her leg to kick the stone door, Gu Yuan said helplessly: "This is a heavy stone door, at least a thousand pounds, you..."
A loud bang interrupted his words, and the heavy stone door collapsed after Qing Yanrou kicked it.
Now, not only the two people from the special department were stunned, but even Chu Tingbai who was standing next to her was a little stunned.
How much strength does this take...
She looked at their shocked expressions and felt a little embarrassed. She was naturally strong and there was nothing she could do, but she did use a little external force just now.
"I used a talisman to bless it. My strength is not that exaggerated."
'roar'
Everyone's attention was instantly drawn to the roar.
The stone door collapsed, and the stone man inside was stunned for a moment, staring blankly at the four people at the door. Seeing that they were still talking to themselves and leaving him aside, he suddenly became furious, roared, and walked towards them with heavy steps.
They first looked around the structure of the stone chamber and saw signs of a fight. They thought that the Taoist people must have fought with this stone man.
The stone man looked bulky, but he was actually very agile and soon arrived in front of them.
The stone man swung his fist towards them, bringing with him a strong gust of wind, and first attacked Qing Yanrou who was standing in the front.
'Bang', Chu Tingbai raised his leg and kicked the stone man, then grabbed Qing Yanrou's waist to avoid the stone man's attack. The moment his foot kicked the stone man, a muffled sound was heard, and the stone man was only kicked back half a step.
His movements were blocked, and the stone man attacked them fiercely again. Chu Tingbai grabbed Qing Yanrou and put her behind him, then faced the stone man's attack head-on.
At this time, Gu Yuan also came out from behind him, and the two of them dealt with the stone man together.
"Bang bang bang" the dull sound of the two people colliding with the stone man continued to be heard, and a lot of dust was stirred up in the stone chamber. Qing Yanrou took out the dust removal talisman to eliminate the dust floating in the air.
Lin Yaoyao on the side felt that no matter what kind of talisman she took out, she would not be surprised anymore. After all, in such a tense environment, she did not forget to use the dust-removing talisman, which was quite special.
At this time, the stone man, who was at a disadvantage, suddenly made hand seals and began to use Taoist magic.
Everyone was surprised. They didn't expect that this was a stone man who could perform Taoist magic. However, when they thought that the owner of the tomb might be a Taoist, it seemed understandable.
The stone man quickly formed hand seals, and the stones that had fallen on the ground around him floated up tremblingly, stayed in the air for a moment, and then smashed towards them together.
This didn't pose much of a threat to them, but they didn't know for sure if he had other tricks up his sleeve, so they wanted to end the battle quickly.
Qing Yanrou held a mountain ghost coin in her hand, injected the light of merit into it, found the right opportunity, stepped forward, and slammed it hard into the stone man's forehead.
The stone man, who was still concentrating on making hand seals, suddenly stopped, his hands dropped weakly, and his huge body collapsed with a loud bang, stirring up a large cloud of dust.
At the moment the stone man collapsed, Chu Tingbai quickly grabbed her and pressed her head against his chest to prevent her from inhaling the dust.
Qing Yanrou: What she meant was that she still had plenty of dust-removing talismans, so there was no need to do this.
But she didn't refuse because she smelled the faint scent of cedar on him.
Knowing that her nose was sensitive and couldn't stand the dust, Chu Tingbai held her head in his arms with one hand, and with the other hand he took out a dust-removing talisman to remove all the dust that had been stirred up. Only then did he let go and let her go to check the stone man.
She took out the mountain ghost coin embedded in the stone man's forehead, and then easily turned the stone man over, so that his face was facing down and his back was facing them.
Sure enough, she saw a small area on the back of the stone man that was cut into a square pattern. She reached out and picked off the square along the line, and saw a talisman stuck inside.
After taking out the talisman and taking a closer look, he found that it was actually a high-level puppet talisman. It seemed that the owner of the tomb was no ordinary person.
The talisman was already broken, but Qing Yanrou still put the broken talisman in her bag, stood up and checked with them the traces left after the fight in the stone chamber.
"This stone chamber should be the first checkpoint of the tomb. There are signs of fighting inside, but there is no blood. I guess they were not injured here."
"This stone man is quite difficult for them to deal with. So, since they are not injured here, where else did they go instead of leaving the tomb?"
Gu Yuan looked at the messy stone chamber. Apart from the stones that the stone man had just moved, which were caused by their fight, the rest of the stone pillars that collapsed on the ground were left over from the previous fight. From them, one could still see traces of the Taoist magic weapons left behind.
He really couldn't understand why they didn't run away when they couldn't win.
"Maybe it's not that they don't want to, but that they simply can't."
Chu Tingbai, who usually speaks little, suddenly spoke in a deep voice.
"What's the meaning?"
Gu Yuan looked at him in confusion.
"Looking here, the footprints in other places are scattered yet orderly. Even when they were fighting with the stone men, there was order in the chaos."
"But here, the footprints are concentrated and chaotic, indicating that they were probably defeated by the stone men and were forced to move forward."
Looking at the messy footprints in front of them, everyone felt a growing sense of foreboding.
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