Chapter 16 A Gentleman Loves Money, but Gets It Properly

Thirty meters underground, in the main coffin chamber inside the Huangchangtichou.

After careful search by Li Zhi and Ye Fan.

However, some strange powder was found next to the body of the scholar named Xu.

Then they saw no more traces of other supernatural powers.

Although there were inscriptions on those bronze ritual vessels, there were not many words, only a few names.

To them, it has no practical significance.

There were quite a few scrolls, and the contents were all written in official script, which was very easy to recognize. The contents mainly talked about the general's life and had almost nothing to do with cultivation. After the two of them flipped through them roughly, they did not touch them anymore.

Perhaps archaeologists would be interested in those scrolls, but Li Zhi and Ye Fan had little interest.

Afterwards, at Li Zhi's suggestion, the two dragged all the corpses into the coffin chamber.

Then they moved the bronzes and horseshoe golds that had been moved out by Jia Xiaowu and Zhang Changgui back to the main coffin chamber.

Although Ye Fan was curious, he did not ask the reason when he was moving things.

Only after they moved all the things back to the tomb did Ye Fan ask, "Brother Li, don't you want these things?"

Li Zhi shook his head and said, "It's not so easy to make money from the dead. If your life is not strong enough, you will be robbed. If your life is strong enough, but your blood relatives are not strong enough, you will also be robbed."

Seeing Li Zhi so calm, Ye Fan instantly realized that Li Zhi only said that it is difficult to make money from the dead, but he did not say that it cannot be made.

There must be knowledge here that you can't find in books.

As expected, Li Zhi continued, "If you want to make money from the dead, you must first have a sacrifice, and secondly, you must obtain the owner's consent to ensure that there will be no future troubles."

Ye Fan seemed to understand something, and pointed at the corpses and said, "Is this why we moved all seven corpses into the tomb?"

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Yes. Although it may seem a bit cruel, in fact, using human lives to sacrifice the dead is a very effective way of sacrifice."

In fact, the main reason is that Li Zhi and Ye Fan have no magical powers and cannot use their magic powers to resolve the cause and effect between them and the dead.

If they were strong enough, there would be no need for these fancy rituals.

After all, they are too weak now, so they have some concerns.

This is not only the rules that Li Zhi brought from his previous life, but also the insights he gained after studying "Stealing the Secrets of Heaven".

In front of the bones in the main coffin chamber, Li Zhi lined up the bags of gold horseshoes and bronze ritual vessels.

Then he took out a dark red candle as thick as a chopstick from somewhere.

Under Ye Fan's curious gaze, Li Zhi handed him the candle and said, "We don't have any magic power, so we can only use this stupid method. Line them up in a row, one candle for each bag or bronze ritual vessel."

Ye Fan did as he was told and quickly lit the candles one by one and fixed them in front of the gold bags and bronze ritual vessels.

After Li Zhi saw that there was no problem, he said to Ye Fan: "You step back first."

Then, Ye Fan saw Li Zhi light three sticks of incense, bowed to the skeleton, and muttered: "Lingbao Tianzun said, people and ghosts have different paths, yin and yang are separated, and there are three things in the world, which are called the five directions."

The more Ye Fan listened, the more confused he became. He had studied a lot of Taoist scriptures, but he had never heard that Lingbao Tianzun had left behind such a spell.

Li Zhi recited the scriptures for five full minutes, which Ye Fan felt were very unfamiliar.

Then Li Zhi asked, "Cause and effect are in a cycle, birth and death are endless, peace and tranquility are not disturbed, and wealth and goods are cleared?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the row of twenty-three burning candles began to go out one by one.

He extinguished thirteen of them before he stopped.

Seeing this, Li Zhi said to Ye Fan, "The owner of this place has agreed to let us take the treasure. Little Ye, you should move out the things that correspond to the candles going out."

There were a total of six bags of gold horseshoes and seven bronze artifacts.

There is nothing special about the horseshoe gold. Each generation weighs about thirty to forty kilograms.

The seven bronze artifacts were different. They were a bronze sword, a bronze horse, a bronze crane, a bronze unicorn, a bronze tiger, a small bronze tripod, and a bronze chariot.

Although those bronze artifacts have exquisite shapes, they are not very large in size, with the length, width and height not exceeding one meter.

Even the largest bronze chariot was only about 90 centimeters wide, 60 centimeters high and one meter long.

Although those things were heavy, it was no problem for Ye Fan, who was extremely strong, to move them out.

Li Zhi and Ye Fan quickly moved all those things out.

Afterwards, Li Zhi was responsible for finishing the job.

Before leaving the coffin room, he took out the memory card from the digital camera on the scholar named Xu.

Then he used the dug-out wood to seal the big hole in the wooden wall of the coffin chamber.

After returning to the ground, Li Zhi said to Ye Fan again: "I'm afraid we can't leave tonight."

Ye Fan asked: "Is there anything else to do?"

Li Zhi pointed to the well and said, "We need to fill it up."

Ye Fan opened his mouth in shock, not knowing how to respond to him.

Can they fill up a well with a diameter of one meter and a depth of more than ten meters in one night?

From digging the soil to landfilling, Ye Fan felt that one night would definitely not be enough.

I took out my cell phone and checked the time. It was already 1:30 in the morning, and there were less than five hours left until dawn.

When he expressed his doubts, Li Zhi smiled and said, "Have you forgotten about the truck blocking the road?"

"Isn't that truck missing a tire?" Ye Fan said.

Li Zhi pointed in the direction of the base gate and said, "I observed before that the tire is behind the gate."

"We have cars but we don't have earth." Ye Fan said. Li Zhi said, "Remember those construction sites that were shut down when we came here during the day? If we are wrong, there should be earthworks going on there at night."

Under Ye Fan's skeptical gaze and under the leadership of Li Zhi, they drove the repaired truck to the construction site.

Just two packs of cigarettes were enough to buy a truckload of soil.

By daybreak, the two men had finally filled the shaft and transplanted a few tomato seedlings at the mouth of the well.

Afterwards, they drove away in Li Zhi's off-road vehicle carrying the gold and bronze artifacts.

It was as if they had never been here.

As for the seven dead people who were buried forever in the ground, there was nothing worth remembering for them.

In this respect, Li Zhi and Ye Fan are very similar.

As long as you are sure that the other person deserves to die, there will not be a trace of mercy in your heart.

Just as Ye Fan saw with his own eyes Li Zhi using a hammer to blow Jia Xiaowu's head off, but he did not feel any discomfort in his heart.

Li Zhi felt nothing when facing the dead.

What Ye Fan cared about more was actually the scripture that Li Zhi recited in the main coffin chamber.

It seems that it is really possible to communicate with the dead. It is really too mysterious.

On the way back to the city, Ye Fan asked Li Zhi several times about the origin of the scripture, but Li Zhi just smiled and said nothing.

In fact, the scripture was fabricated by Li Zhi based on the content of the "Stealing Heaven's Secrets" sacrificial chapter.

He didn't expect the effect to be so good.

Two days later, the two men returned to the city with rich spoils.

Next comes the much-anticipated division of the spoils.

Li Zhi originally thought that Ye Fan would take the initiative to propose conditions for dividing the spoils.

But what no one expected was that after returning to the city, Ye Fan brought a laptop first.

Then, he said to Li Zhi with expectation: "Brother Li, quickly take out the memory card and see if they have captured any words about the ancient monks."

Only then did Li Zhi realize that Ye Fan, like him, did not value the property they brought back very much.

Instead, I am more interested in what is in the memory card.

However, Ye Fan had not mentioned this matter on the road before, and he thought that Ye Fan didn't know that he had taken the memory card.

Now it seems that is not the case.

Li Zhi couldn't help but think in his heart, with such cunning, it's no wonder that Ye Fan will be able to trick those forbidden area supremes in the future.

Logically speaking, the Supremes of the Forbidden Zone are people who have survived mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and they will never be fooled by ordinary tricks of pretending to be injured.

But Ye Fan did exactly that.
His cunning is so deep that even the supreme masters of the restricted area want to curse.

Sure enough, anyone who associates Ye Fan with a reckless man who can only throw punches is a real fool.

Li Zhi calmly took out the memory card from his pocket and handed it to Ye Fan.

The contents did not disappoint them.

They soon found the photo of the jade book taken by Xu Shusheng during his lifetime.

The text on the jade book was written in official script, so there was no difficulty for the two to read it.

It was a set of exercises called "The Art of Longevity".

After mastering it, one can live a hundred years and remain forever young.

Ye Fan said excitedly: "People in ancient times lived to be a hundred years old, and they were still very active. Could it be because they practiced similar techniques?"

Li Zhi was also studying the technique carefully.

The more he read, the more he felt that something was not right about this "Eternal Life Skill".

It does not seem to be a true text of practice, but rather the starting chapter of a practice.

Just like the beginning of the Taoist scripture that Ye Fan and his companions learned after arriving in Beidou and entering Lingxu Cave, it does not really involve the cultivation of the secret realm of the human body, but is merely a method used to lay the foundation.

After clearing out the sea of ​​suffering, one must choose another complete set of exercises to practice in order to continue making progress.

Although this "Eternal Life Exercise" does not teach people how to sense their own wheel of life or how to guide their vital energy to impact the sea of ​​suffering, the method of maintaining eternal youth recorded in the exercise is enough to make people unable to stop.

The value of this technique is far greater than the property they brought back.

In other words, the skills can be copied and there is no situation where they cannot be distributed.

Otherwise it would be difficult for them to divide the spoils.

However, after reading it several times, Li Zhi suddenly realized that although this longevity skill was mysterious, it was very likely the same as the breathing method recorded in "Stealing the Secrets of Heaven", and could not be truly practiced.

Because the earth is now in the Dharma Ending Period, the essence of heaven and earth is too thin, and there is no excess spiritual energy for them to consume.

After Li Zhi told Ye Fan his guess, the excited Ye Fan finally calmed down.

Looking at the computer screen with regret.

Then he made a copy of the contents on the memory card.

The two also agreed on how to deal with other things.

According to Li Zhi's estimation,
After selling all those things, each of them can achieve a small goal.

(End of this chapter)