Chapter 31 Three Verses
Without conflict, the dark coffin soon fell into silence.

The faint light brought by sporadic mobile phone lights was not enough to dispel all the fear in people's hearts.

At Li Zhi's invitation, Ye Fan and the other six people enjoyed a delicious fruit feast.

The sweet juice soothed their tense spirits.

It's just that the crisp "crunching" sound they made when eating the fruit aroused the appetite of others.

Most people did not carry any food with them.

After a thrilling night's journey, I was starving.

In the darkness, Zhou Yi saw that Lin Jia was about to go to Ye Fan, so he quietly pulled Wang Ziwen's sleeve, and then the two of them followed Lin Jia tacitly and came to the corner where Li Zhi and the others were having a fruit feast.

"Mr. Li, did you bring all these fruits? Can you share some with us?" Lin Jia displayed the very friendly attitude that is unique to elite women in the workplace.

"Miss Lin, you're welcome. I still have a lot of fruits here, please feel free to enjoy them." Li Zhi raised his head and glanced at the shrewd Lin Jia, and said indifferently.

"Mr. Li, you see, we are all companions who have experienced the test of life and death together. If you have any extra fruits, can you share some with our classmates?" Zhou Yi, who was following Lin Jia, saw that Li Zhi was so easy to talk to, so he spoke immediately.

"Come and get some when you're hungry. I have dozens of kilograms of fruit here, enough for everyone to eat for two or three days."

"Mr. Li, I thank you on behalf of my classmates." There was a hint of surprise in Zhou Yi's eyes. He didn't expect Li Zhi to be so easy to talk to.

Pang Bo originally wanted to say something about Li Zhi's generous behavior, but Ye Fan shook his head at him.

Ye Fan knew that Li Zhi had never been a good person in the traditional sense.

On this journey with no known end, how could it be possible to easily share one's food with others?

According to Ye Fan's understanding of Li Zhi, if there really was a food shortage, he would most likely raise the butcher knife against his classmates without hesitation.

Afterwards, Zhou Yi and Wang Ziwen used their clothes to pocket almost half of the fruit.

Including Li Zhi, there are now a total of fifteen living people in the bronze coffin, but they are clearly divided into two groups.

The two groups of people sat at both ends of the huge bronze coffin, separated by the small coffin in the middle.

After eating, Li Zhi said to Ye Fan and others: "Are you all full?"

Ye Fan nodded and asked, "Brother Li, can you give us a detailed introduction to the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin?"

Li Zhi smiled and said, "I don't know much about it. Since everyone is full, please do me a small favor and continue to copy the pattern on the small coffin."

Ye Fan asked: "Brother Li, are there any particularities about those patterns?"

Li Zhi said truthfully: "I don't know. But I know one thing, as our knowledge increases, one day we will understand what they represent."

Everyone nodded.

Afterwards, they helped Li Zhi to copy all the carvings on the small bronze coffin in the center.

After doing all this, seeing that there were still a few sheets of rubbing paper left, Li Zhi planned to select some representative patterns on the wall of the giant bronze coffin and make rubbings of them.

At this moment, Ye Fan suddenly made a gesture to silence everyone.

"Shh!"

Then he walked to the small coffin and put his ear against the wall to listen to the movements inside.

After a moment, Ye Fan turned around and asked everyone: "Did you all hear it?"

"I didn't hear anything. Ye Zi, what did you hear?" Pangbo asked.

Only Li Zhi sensed that something in Ye Fan's arms seemed to be heating up. He thought it was the Bodhi seed he got from the Great Leiyin Temple.

Then he saw Ye Fan reach out to touch the coffin lid, as if he really heard something.

"Everyone should try to listen." Li Zhi said at the right time.

Afterwards, Li Zhi came to Ye Fan, rolled the rubbing paper in his hand into a paper tube, stuck one end on the wall of the coffin, put the other end on his ear, and then began to listen carefully to the movements inside.

Seeing this, others also followed suit and came to the small bronze coffin and began to listen to the sounds inside the coffin.

Soon, a strange scene appeared inside the giant bronze coffin.

On one side of the small coffin, Ye Fan, Li Zhi, Lin Jia, Pang Bo, Liu Yiyi, Zhang Ziling, Zhang Wenchang and others lined up, all with their ears tilted to listen to the sounds inside the small coffin.

And the people on the other side of the small coffin also felt a little curious after seeing what Li Zhi and the others did.

After Zhou Yi, Wang Ziwen and Li Xiaoman nodded to each other, they followed Li Zhi's example and began to listen on the other side of the small coffin.

As Li Zhi gradually emptied his mind, he subconsciously practiced the breathing method learned from Stealing the Heaven's Secret. Suddenly, a loud heavenly sound came to his ears, which had been silent before.

The heavenly sound of the Tao seems to be filled with supreme truths, which make people intoxicated.

"The way of heaven is to reduce the excess and replenish the deficiency. The way of earth is to absorb all things and return them to chaos. The way of man is to establish heaven and earth and cultivate all other ways."

Li Zhi could only hear the first three sentences of the mysterious heavenly sound of the Tao clearly. The subsequent sounds became unclear. No matter how hard he tried, he could not hear the specific content of the sounds.

It just feels vast and profound, as if it is the supreme sound of Tao coming from the ancient times.

The three verses that he heard clearly soon turned into thirty mysterious Tao runes and were firmly imprinted in his heart.

Then he came out of that state of unity between man and nature.

Li Zhi realized instantly that the opportunity had ended and he would not be able to listen to the subsequent scriptures.

Turn your head to look at other people.

Those people were frowning and listening hard.

But looking at their blank expressions, it seemed that no one could hear a single word of the scripture. Only Ye Fan held the bronze coffin in his hand, his body like a mirror lake shining with the bright moon, and there seemed to be an extraordinary aura rippling around him, making him look particularly sacred.

And looking at Ye Fan's appearance, it seems that he won't be able to wake up for a while.

Li Zhi shook his head and left the small coffin.

Then, Pangbo followed him and left. When he reached the wall of the huge bronze coffin, he asked, "Boss Li, did you hear that?"

Li Zhi shook his head and said, "I am not blessed enough. I only vaguely heard the sound of chanting, but I couldn't hear the content of the scriptures clearly."

Pangbo asked anxiously, "Why didn't I hear any sound?"

Li Zhi smiled and said, "It means that your luck is worse than mine."

Everyone else pricked up their ears to listen to the conversation between Li Zhi and Pang Bo, and it seemed that a few of them were relieved.

Pangbo said unconvincedly: "It shouldn't be like this. It must be my posture that is wrong. I'll try another posture and listen again."

Then Pangbo jumped onto the small coffin and lay directly on the small copper coffin, with his ear pressed against the coffin lid, trying hard to listen to the supreme scripture.

This scene made everyone laugh.

Everyone was originally a little anxious because they didn't hear anything, but after seeing Pangbo's actions, their anxiety seemed to disappear instantly.

Afterwards, one after another gave up the effort to listen to the supreme sound of Tao.

Like Li Zhi, he began to study the carvings on the walls of the giant bronze coffin.

Some people even used their mobile phones to take pictures of the coffin walls, trying to record all the carvings with photos.

It seemed that some people were whispering about how old-fashioned Li Zhi was. It was a different era now, but he was still using rubbings to record engravings. Wouldn't it be more convenient to just take photos with his mobile phone?

Soon, everyone left the small coffin except Ye Fan who was in a trance and Pang Bo who was lying on the coffin lid and continuing to "work hard".

Suddenly, everyone heard a strange sound that seemed to be able to stir people's minds.

There is sadness in dullness and sorrow in compassion.

"What is this sound?"

Everyone was shocked and looked around, but couldn't find the source of the sound. Then they focused their attention on Ye Fan and Pang Bo.

Mainly on Pangbo.

"Could it be that Pangbo's actions disturbed the dead soul in the coffin?"

"It shouldn't be. Mr. Li had once laid on the coffin lid to copy the engraving there, and even knocked on the coffin lid."

Time passed minute by minute, and the sound of endless mourning seemed to come out of the coffin. Everyone even had the urge to worship the small coffin.

"Could this be the funeral song of an ancient emperor?" Zhang Ziling said with a little surprise.

At this moment, nine consecutive high-pitched dragon roars resounded through the sky, the mountains and rivers shook violently, and it seemed that a real picture was slowly unfolding before their eyes.

In an instant, they seemed to have witnessed with their own eyes an supreme emperor, who began by ruling the earth and ruling the universe, and ended by dying in battle in the wilderness when his blood was exhausted, and then all living beings held a grand funeral for him.

Even Li Zhi was silent, wondering which emperor was in the scroll.

"Look, those Buddhist treasures are glowing again." Someone shouted, pointing at the corner of the giant bronze coffin.

At this moment, the Buddhist treasures placed in the corner by everyone emitted a golden divine light.

Then, all the divine lights were absorbed by the walls of the giant bronze coffin and sank into the ancient bronze carvings.

Then, a star map on the coffin wall began to flicker.

After seeing the image representing the Big Dipper light up, Li Zhi began to try hard to memorize all the details on the star map.

Those star maps seem to be the coordinates of the starry sky.

Although only the area of ​​the Big Dipper lit up, the star map did not only include the Big Dipper. It seemed to encompass the entire universe and there were many unlit areas.

Now, he still doesn't know how to determine the coordinates of the starry sky.

But after memorizing the star map, when you travel in the universe in the future, you can follow the map to find the locations of other ancient stars.

Near the Big Dipper, Li Zhi also saw a star carving representing the ancient star Ziwei.

While he was trying hard to memorize the star map, Lin Jia, Zhou Yi and others were discussing where they were going.

Suddenly someone shouted, "Look everyone, that bright line is no longer spreading forward, it seems to have stopped at the star field where the Big Dipper is."

At the same time, everyone suddenly felt that the huge bronze coffin shook violently, as if it had hit a mountain.

Everyone who had had a similar experience on the ancient planet Mars immediately realized that this was a sign of the landing of the giant bronze coffin.

"It seems we have reached the end." The excitement was palpable.

"Have we arrived at the Big Dipper?" someone asked in surprise.

"Could this be the legendary fairyland?" someone expressed a beautiful expectation.

“When we reach the end of the ancient starry road created by the gods, what kind of world will we face?” Some people also expressed their concerns.

Unlike them, Li Zhi quickly began to pack up his things. He put the rubbings, Luoyang shovel, Eternal Blue Gold Scripture, and Hundred Herbs Map into a snakeskin bag, and then tied the bag tightly to his body.

At the same time, he was silently calling upon the god of Baicaotu in his heart, hoping that Senior Caotu could send him the ginseng fruit to save his life.

(End of this chapter)