Chapter 117: Obtaining the Divine Weapon [Votes Requested at the Beginning of the Month]

It's still dark outside the window, and the stars and the moon seem to be gone but not yet.

As soon as Cao Cao sat down, the window beside him was pushed open.

The tiger man stood up, put his paws on the window sill, and poked his head in. Seeing that Cao Cao did not scold him, he became a little bolder, jumped out of the window and jumped into the house. Then he bent down, stood there motionless, and observed Cao Cao first.

If it was scolded, it would move out through the window again. If it was not scolded, it meant that Cao Cao had allowed it in.

Cao Cao's eyes were on the mirror, but when he waved his hand, Yin immediately raised his paw and rushed over, extremely happy.

It lay down beside him and joined in the fun, looking at the scene in the mirror.

Cao Cao patted the tiger's head with one hand, his eyes always fixed on the mirror.

Yinxu was called Beimeng in the late Shang Dynasty. It was originally the capital moved here by Pan Geng. Until the fall of King Zhou, it had been ruled by eight generations and twelve kings for more than 270 years.

After the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Shang Dynasty, it granted Wu Geng, the son of King Zhou, the title of Duke of Shang. Later, Wu Geng rebelled and was killed. The people of the Shang Dynasty moved away and the city gradually fell into ruins.

Now, a thousand years have passed, and only a few ruins and foundations are left, which are barely visible.

I wonder which emperor of the Shang Dynasty is buried under these ruins.

After Ling Jin came over, he touched the ground lightly with his fingers, as if he was using his fingers instead of his ears to listen to the movements underground.

He pointed at different locations around him and quickly selected a place.

As he took his hands off, two small animals, slightly larger than mice and curled up into a ball, shaped like pangolins, shook out from his sleeves.

These two little beasts have sharp claws and their claws are covered with spells.

This is a secret technique of the Mohist school, which involves raising animals and combining them with the technique of carving sacrificial objects to strengthen certain aspects of the animals' powers.

Ling Jin released the two little beasts, whose claws were as sharp as daggers.

Although it is small in size, it can dig the ground as fast as shoveling sand.

In a short while, the two little animals dug a hole about a foot square in the ground, like the entrance to a dry well, extending diagonally downwards.

Ling Jin squirmed his body and used a method similar to shrinking his bones to follow the two little animals into the ground through the small hole.

About three or four feet deep underground, there is a sacrificial pit, officially known as the bone cellar.

During the Shang Dynasty, sacrifices were often used to predict good or bad luck, and using living people as sacrifices was not uncommon.

Sometimes human flesh was cooked as a sacrifice.

The sacrificial pit that Ling Jin encountered was filled with bones and evil spirits.

The two little animals jumped into the cellar, inhaling and exhaling the evil spirit, and they were surprisingly quite happy.

Ling Jin also entered the cellar, took a quick look, designated a location on the side of the wall, and dug deeper again.

Half an hour later, Cao Cao saw Ling Jin's two little beasts digging another five or six feet deep, creating a tunnel for robbers.

Ling Jin took out a cone-like object, chiseled a layer of bluestone deep underground, and was looking at the scene at the other end of the tunnel.

His expression became somewhat solemn, and he thought that the location of the tomb given by the governor was not simple.

Cao Cao was watching through the mirror and thought that this Ling Jin was obviously not digging graves for the first time and was an old hand.

Bian Mei’s recommendation was appropriate.

The location of the hole that Ling Jin had the two little animals dig was the underground palace underneath.

What’s amazing is that the place he chose was facing the back chamber of the underground palace, that is, the ceiling above the main tomb chamber, and he had opened a hole in it.

The location was chosen accurately, the excavation was fast, the process was easy, and there were no detours.

Ling Jin immediately jumped down from the ceiling of the tomb, landed about three or four feet below the ground, and entered the tomb.

Cao Cao also saw the scene in the tomb.

This tomb chamber is so big, like an underground palace.

The four walls are made of huge stones.

However, copper was poured into the cracks between the huge rocks, making the four walls appear as one, and it is difficult to get in by ordinary means.

There is a miasma inside that has not dissipated for many years.

Ling Jin entered with bated breath and moved as usual.

The four walls are painted with ancient murals from the Shang Dynasty.

In the picture, there is an emperor standing on an altar, praying for heaven and earth, and the people around him are kneeling in worship. The scene is grand.

The murals praise the great achievements of the emperor and even the Shang Dynasty.

On the other side of the picture, there is a burial pit.

Countless slaves were beheaded, had their hearts pierced with spears, and died in burial pits!
What is strange is that the blood spilled in the burial pit was bright red and eye-catching, and it seemed that it had not dried up even after thousands of years.

Ling Jin observed the tomb calmly.

On the high platform in the center of the room, there is a huge coffin.

In the gaps between the murals on the four walls, there are copper buckles, and on each buckle is hung a weapon, mostly bronze, and there are also a few jade ritual objects.

In the corner of the wall, there were piles of skulls, and even the skulls were covered with spells. They were the remains of slaves who were buried alive.

The incantations carved on the skeletons were meant to make them enslaved by the Shang emperor even after death.

It made the breath behind him surge.

A series of illusory auras vaguely emerged from the shadow and moved several things on the wall.

The next moment, Ling Jin suddenly jumped onto the top cover of the coffin.

Boom!

The moment he stepped onto the coffin lid, it shook for unknown reasons.

But Ling Jin just happened to flip him over and pushed him back.

On the other side of the wall, the blood in the burial pit slowly overflowed and flowed from the wall into the bones on the ground.

"The tombs of the Shang Dynasty are not good places. The resentment is nourished by the veins of the earth, and the evil spirits will not disappear."

Ling Jin flipped his hand and took out a bronze object that looked like a hexagram plate.

The hexagrams carved on the hanging plate flowed and intertwined, corresponding to the heaven and earth, mountains and rivers. There was a phantom of a mountain, which Ling Jin sealed, lifted from the hanging plate, and placed steadily on the coffin.

Using mountains to suppress officials is a technique called the Five Mountains Coffin-Suppressing Technique.

The coffin immediately stopped showing any abnormalities.

The process of blood oozing out of the wall also stopped.

Cao Cao watched with great interest.

The Fa Qiu Tian Guan and Mo Jin Xiao Wei could only be seen in Ling Jin.

Xu Huan and his colleagues do a rough job.

At this time, the weapons hanging on the side wall of the tomb were transported one after another by the five strands of Qi differentiated by Ling Jin and taken away from the wall.

But the coffin lid suddenly became abnormal and was lifted by a huge force, almost shattering the shadow of the mountain that was pressing on Jin.

The coffin lid was opened a crack, and it seemed as if there was a pale hand, with bloody spells engraved on the nails, trying to poke out from the coffin, and a creepy smell filled the air.

A layer of fog rose in the tomb and became thicker and thicker.

Ling Jin stood beside the coffin, slowly put his hand on the wall of the coffin, and actually opened the coffin lid wider, then put his head into the coffin.

"Sir, what is he doing?"

Yin jumped into the study window, and Dian Wei stretched his neck to watch the scene in the mirror.

"He practices the art of Yin and Yang, and the Yang energy in his body turns into Yin energy, just like a ghost. He might be talking to the ghost in the coffin, discussing whether he can take away the burial objects in the tomb." Cao Cao made up a story.

Dian Wei asked in confusion: "This Ling Jin can still speak ghost words, can the ghost agree?"

"Wait until he comes back and ask him in person."

Cao Cao and Dian Wei chatted for a while, closed the mirror, and walked out.

We have seen Ling Jin's methods before, and he is indeed capable of taking on the important task.

There might be some entanglements in the tomb he entered, but Cao Cao saw that he would be able to escape successfully, so there was no need to watch any further.

It was already bright when he arrived at the study in the front hall.

[The Cao camp under your command has added 9721 new soldiers... 9723... 9724...]

Cao Cao picked up a scroll on the low mat, which was a message delivered by Jia Xu early in the morning.

The content is that Yuan Shao wrote two letters to Cao Cao and Yuan Shu respectively.

Yuan Shao was the most prestigious person in the world, and had many followers.

Yuan Shu occupied Nanyang County, the most populous and richest county in the world.

If the two brothers unite, it will be difficult to find anyone in the world who can match them.

Yuan Shao wanted to form alliances, so he wrote a letter to Yuan Shu, suggesting that they put aside the conflicts at home and work together.

The same was true of his letter to Cao Cao.

Basically, it means that the current emperor was the one deposed and enthroned by Dong Zhuo, and is not the legitimate emperor.

We can appoint another wise member of the royal family as emperor and jointly deal with the situation in the world.

Unfortunately, after reading the letter, Yuan Shu not only refused to accept it, but also wrote back to ridicule Yuan Shao, saying that the emperor was not legitimate, just like their Yuan family, where legitimate and illegitimate children were not distinguished. Someone who steals the reputation of the world will sooner or later be exposed.

Some time later, Yuan Shao wrote a second letter to admonish Yuan Shu again, but was still met with irony.

The two brothers officially turned against each other.

In September, as autumn deepened, Yuan Shao took control of Jizhou as he wished.

Yuan Shu, on the other hand, was trying to win over Gongsun Zan of Youzhou, and the two formed an alliance.

From a geographical point of view, Cao Cao's Yanzhou and Yuan Shao's Jizhou are adjacent to each other, but they are almost all surrounded by powerful enemies.

To the north is Gongsun Zan's Youzhou.

The White Horse Volunteers he formed inherited the characteristics of the Youzhou cavalry. It was a powerful force that lasted for hundreds of years and often fought against foreign tribes in the north.

To the south of Yanzhou is Yuzhou, which is the area that Yuan Shu is expanding and influencing.

To the southeast is Tao Qian's Xuzhou.

From a geographical point of view, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were surrounded in the middle.

After Yuan Shao took control of Jizhou, he frequently contacted Cao Cao and the alliance became increasingly close. The purpose was of course to deal with the surrounding situation.

On this day, Ling Jin came back to report, and the number of weapons he carried on his back was like a peacock spreading its tail.

There were two more bloody marks on his arm.

After Cao Cao closed the mirror, he still had a fight with the "big zongzi" in the tomb, but it was safe. He only suffered minor injuries and would be fine after a few days of recuperation.

He took the magic weapon and presented it to Cao Cao.

It was actually a halberd and a bronze spear.

Both objects have blades on the front, and are engraved with spell patterns all over, and are as sharp as ever.

There are also two swords and a bronze axe with animal face patterns.

The shape of the Yue is somewhat similar to an axe and it was a symbol of military power during the Shang Dynasty.

The axe in front of me might be a ceremonial weapon used by the emperor to command the army. It is made of bronze, but it has a hazy and gorgeous purple halo.

Both sides of the axe are carved with human faces with open mouths and angry eyes, with protruding eyebrows, eyes, ears and noses, and a stern image.

In addition, Ling Jin also took out several items from the tomb, including a bronze tripod, a jia, a jue, a dagger, an arrowhead, and an adze.

Cao Cao said that he would not move the remains in the tomb, but would take all the property.

In order to show his talent, Ling Jin took out everything in the tomb, leaving nothing behind.

There is also a very crude Shu, which is a stick-shaped weapon with a sharp tip and a spiked ball at the front, somewhat like a golden melon hammer.

Finally, there is a pair of halberds of special shape.

One is long and the other is short, with a sharp blade on the head and a crescent and a sun wheel on the sides, that is, a circular blade edge.

The halberd tip in the middle looks like the tip of a spear.

The short halberd was three and a half feet long, and the long one was nearly five feet long.

[Sun-Moon Halberd, Divine Weapon Sequence: 69, the only double halberd among the eight halberds of ancient and modern times]

[These two halberds are of different lengths and weights, a total of 161 jin]

Cao Cao remembered that Dian Wei's large double halberds in history weighed eighty kilograms.

The pair in front of me weighed twice as much.

When Dian Wei saw the pair of halberds, his eyes lit up and he looked at Cao Cao eagerly, just like when he wanted to eat donkey meat.

Cao Cao smiled and said, "Only you can use this pair of double halberds, so I give them to you. There will be a big battle soon, and they will be useful to you."

Dian Wei was not polite at all. He stepped forward and picked up the large double halberds. When the two collided with each other, a clanging sound was made, like the beating of a war drum.

He cried out in excitement, waving his hands, and his halberd shone like the blazing sun, making a thunderous sound that captivated everyone.

The other halberd was just the opposite, silent like a dark moon, its arc flowing like water.

This pair of halberds and Dian Wei are a perfect match.

[Dian Wei, your subordinate, has been blessed with a divine weapon, and his combat power is +1]

Dian Wei was dancing happily with his double halberds. Jia Xu came in quickly and handed Cao Cao a piece of paper.

Cao Cao took the letter, read it, and sneered.

The news was sent by Gongsun Zan, and an imperial edict was actually sent from Chang'an.

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