Chapter 245: The Secret Armored Beast Resurrects, Conspiracy [Subscribe]

It was drizzling in Yecheng at the end of August.

The sky is a little dark.

An ancient ship appeared on the scroll, depicted in extremely gorgeous detail, with multiple floors on top like a fairy palace.

The ship is majestic and floats in the air.

But there was no one on the boat, not a single sign of life.

Although it is a rubbing of a painting, it exudes a dead and eerie atmosphere.

Everyone who saw the picture felt an indescribable sense of fear.

There seemed to be a pair of eyes on the boat, staring at everyone through the scroll.

Among the people in the room, Guo Jia felt it most obviously.

He glanced at his arms and got goose bumps all over his forearms.

Is it because I am weak that the evil spirits easily take advantage of me... Guo Jia had a thought as if he had suffered a critical hit, and he stayed there.

Jia Xu... When the scroll was unfolded, a strange feeling came over him. Jia Xu suddenly said, "Generals Dian and Xu, come quickly! There is something wrong with this scroll. Protect the governor."

Dian Wei and the other man came in as soon as they were called, and Jia Xu immediately stood beside Cao Cao, with Dian Wei, who was like an iron tower, standing in front of him.

Guo Jia glared at Jia Xu: This fellow is using the excuse of protecting the governor to actually let Dian Wei and Xu Chu protect him behind his back.

Cao Cao looked at the scene.

On the ships in the painting, there are dark patterns engraved like an array.

The entire ship is depicted in lines and no coloring is used throughout.

Only the cabin on the ship was dark, and there seemed to be black air swirling inside.

"Provincial Governor, this is a rubbing of a painting. It's not big enough, so some of the content is not included."

Ling Jin was also feeling nervous all the way back.

He is a professional tomb robber and works under Yanzhou, with financial and material support. With his past experience, he claims to be the third most important person in the tomb-robbing world, second only to Cao Cao, who gave them an official title, and Jia Xu, the director of the Tomb-Robbing Office.

He has many ways to guard against evil spirits.

But this time it was obviously not prevented.

On the way back, he had been having dreams every few days, but he couldn't find out the reason.

He knew that Cao Cao had great popularity and good fortune. He had relied on the Han Guang Sword given by Cao Cao to escape danger several times when he entered and exited the tomb, so he wanted Cao Cao to take a look, perhaps he could unravel the mystery.

"Piece together the original painting." Cao Cao said.

The core members of Ling Jin's subordinates were outside, carrying in boxes one after another.

Each box is half the size of a person and very heavy.

The box was opened, and golden light shone brightly.

It was filled with gold plates.

"These gold plates, each weighing about one pound, were embedded in the four walls of the tomb. We pried them off, packed them in boxes and took back more than 500 pieces in total."

Ling Jin said: "There is no engraved gold plate in the tomb. It was left in the tomb according to the governor's order."

One catty in the Han Dynasty was equal to sixteen taels in later generations.

The value of these gold plates is truly astonishing.

Cao Cao wondered if the tomb of Marquis Haihun that later generations saw was what was left after I robbed it?

A group of tomb raiders spread out the gold plates.

After a while, the floor of the large study was almost covered.

The golden light is flowing, magnificent.

Dian Wei said: "Isn't this Qinling Mountains?"

The main subject of the picture on the golden plate is still the ancient ship just seen.

But a huge mountain appeared ahead of its voyage.

The ship was sailing towards the mountain.

There is a hazy mist on the mountain, and judging from the mountain's shape, it is none other than Taibai Mountain, the main peak of the Qinling Mountains!

In the cabin of the hull on the gold plate, the darkness is also clearer.

That was the only place with color in the entire picture. It seemed to be filled with ink, forming a deep pool so dark that it seemed to swallow up the light.

[You used the ability of watching a fire from the other side of the river, combined with your innate ability of insight, to gain insight into the secret of the Ascension Map on the golden plate of the tomb of Marquis Haihun... You saw death]

With the help of his abilities, Cao Cao was able to see the light of day.

He saw a coffin placed in the dark center of the ancient cabin in the picture.

It was a large imperial coffin, square in shape and apparently made of bronze.

Ling Jin said that he did not see the coffin in Haihunhou's tomb.

In the cabin in the painting?
The carvings on the painting are like the crafted patterns on an ink bag, expanding and opening up the space in the painting?
Cao Cao stood up from behind a low mat, walked to the picture paved with gold bricks, stretched out his hand and pressed down, and the dragon of luck behind him brought with it majestic luck.

Purple air was like a tide, pressing towards the coffin inside the golden plate.

click-

Several gold plates were broken.

[You extracted a breath of soul differentiation from the Ascension Map in the tomb of Marquis Haihun, and your soul-phase dragon of destiny absorbed it. You obtained the dream-telling technique that can be promoted based on the soul-phase.]

There is something sinister hidden in the ascension diagram in the tomb of Marquis Haihun.

So Ling Jin and others were dreaming all the way.

Fortunately, Cao Cao had great popularity and good luck, making him immune to all evil.

The dragon of luck spews out purple flames, sweeping across the map of ascension to immortality.

When everyone looked at the scene again, the weird feeling gradually weakened and finally disappeared.

Ling Jin was amazed and said, "This is definitely not an ordinary dream-entering technique. Only the governor of the state can be immune to evil spirits. It must be destiny."

He was implying that Cao Cao was the emperor.

Now look at the picture of ascension to immortality.

The top cabin of the ancient ship remained dark, but the trickery had been stripped away.

On the main peak of Qinling Mountains in the painting, there is a line that goes vertically downwards and deep into the mountain, as if implying that there is a large tomb hidden in the mountain.

The hull carries the coffin and rises into the air, which is called "ascension to heaven" or "flying to heaven" in the burial layout.

But why is the destination of ascension to heaven the main peak of Qinling Mountains?
"Ling Jin, keep the dark and dark gold plate with the cabin in the Ascension Map. The rest of the gold plates can be used for public use."

Cao Cao originally wanted the gold in the tomb of Marquis Haihun to build the Bronze Sparrow Tower Palace.

But during this period, wars were fought on multiple fronts and lasted for more than half a year.

Although Yanzhou has a strong foundation, it is also somewhat vulnerable.

There was still money in the treasury, and the recent confiscation of property from the nobles had brought in a large sum of money, so it was bulging. However, the government treasury, which was the money managed by Xun Yu, had been completely used up.

Half of the proceeds from the cleansing of the aristocracy went into the public treasury, and the other half was given to Diao Chan.

Together with these gold plates, the public treasury can be recharged and its silver and money consumption can continue to be supported.

Building the Bronze Sparrow Tower can only be discussed later.

If there was really space in the cabin on the golden plate, it would contain the coffin of Marquis Haihun.

Since he was still obsessed with it after his death, and used the Ascension Map to depict the scene of flying to the main peak of Qinling Mountains, Cao Cao planned to send the golden plate to the tomb on the main peak of Qinling Mountains when he had the chance in the future.

It can be considered as taking Haihunhou's money to help him fulfill his wish of becoming an immortal.

Cao Cao returned to the low seat and sat down, thinking that many of the emperors' tombs he had opened contained clues pointing to the Qinling Tomb.

So who is buried underneath? Is it someone related to immortality or longevity?
There is also a huge stone door in the tomb that is as big as a mountain wall. What is behind the door?
Some emperors may have found clues about the Qinling Tomb during their lifetime and knew that it was related to eternal life and immortality, but they could not enter.

So you hope to enter that tomb and open the gate to immortality after death?

Thoughts one after another flashed through Cao Cao's mind.

"How do we control this pair of secret armor beasts?"

He took out the secret armor beast.

The two little guys shook their scales from their spherical form, stretched out into two armored beasts, and lay on the low mat.

When Ling Jin saw the dark golden armor plates on their bodies, he immediately became excited and took a closer look.

"This pair of armored beasts is undoubtedly the pair left behind by Mozi."

"With them, many high-level tombs are no longer inaccessible."

"If you want to use them, just do it like refining a weapon. After refining them, they can move on their own, like living things."

"Mozi once said that the three things he was most proud of were his creations."

"One of them is this pair of secret armor beasts, which almost created a kind of life. The divine armor beasts he conceived are comparable to immortal weapons."

"And this pair of armored beasts may be only one step away from becoming divine armor."

"There is a divine chamber hidden in my pair of secret armor beasts, which corresponds to the human brain, that is, the place where the consciousness, spirit and soul reside."

"If you want to sacrifice them, you just need to think about them every day, divide your thoughts, and integrate them into the body of the armored beast."

"It took me nearly a hundred days to complete the ritual of the armored beasts. The moment I succeeded, they seemed to come alive, like an extension of my limbs. I could sense their every move."

"It's that simple. Just concentrate on differentiating your consciousness and then perform the ritual?" Cao Cao asked.

Ling Jin: "It's not easy. It took me a hundred days to complete it, and I couldn't stop every day... Eh?"

Cao Cao has a spiritual appearance, and the strength of his soul is far beyond that of ordinary people.

The dragon of luck behind him exhaled and merged into the bodies of the two secret armor beasts.

The armor plates on the two armored beasts had shimmering textures, as if they were infused with life energy.

The nail plates all over its body close and open repeatedly.

Suddenly, under the gaze of everyone, one of the two figures in armor opened his mouth and spit out a thumb-sized bead.

Another armored beast spat out a bronze tablet, which was like a small sword, four or five inches long.

There are still hidden secrets in this pair of armored beasts.

Cao Cao remembered the pattern on the belly of the armored beast and took the bronze tablet it spit out. On it was the word "tomb" written.

On the back are three more words: Falling Moon Pearl.

Cao Cao looked at the bead spit out by the other armored beast.

Is this the Falling Moon Pearl?
The bead emitted a faint glow and had a warm color, very much like the legendary night-shining pearl.

"Governor, news of the war between Youzhou and Wuhuan has arrived." A personal soldier came in to report.

Cao Cao had actually known the battle situation earlier through the information beads.

But he still put down the Falling Moon Pearl for the time being, took the battle report from his personal soldier and started to check it.

Youzhou.

Liaoxi County!
Tadun paced anxiously in the big tent.

His shoulders and back were wrapped in clean animal skins, through which traces of blood could be seen.

Many days ago, the Yanzhou army came up from the coastal ferry.

Because Tadun was tipped off by the gentry in advance, he was too late to stop the attack.

They could secretly deploy troops and horses to form a pocket-like defense line, waiting for the Yanzhou army to get in and then surround and annihilate them!
Taishi Ci and Le Jin did lead the troops that had landed northward and fell into the trap he had set.

However, in addition to Huang Zhong's group, Zhang Liao also led 800 soldiers from the Xianzhen Camp and 1,000 Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to advance simultaneously. They took the northern route along the Great Wall on the border of the Han Dynasty. After approaching Liaoxi County, they suddenly turned south and penetrated into the territory of Wuhuan.

Tadun was shocked when he heard the news.

Is the surprise attack from the south fake?

Is this route in the north the real surprise force?

Three armies attacked Wuhuan simultaneously, but there was actually no surprise attack.

This was a completely overt military strategy, and the target of the attack was the Wuhuan, who only had three counties and lacked depth.

Zhang Liao was on the northern route, and Huang Zhong was advancing from the front. If Tadun hesitated for a moment, he would face a great defeat.

He had no choice but to give up the fight with Taishi Ci and Le Jin and shrink his defense line.

After that, the Yanzhou army advanced on three fronts.

Tadun had previously thought that the attack from the southern line to Tonghaikou was a surprise attack by Yanzhou.

But suddenly he discovered that the three armies of Yanzhou were actually regular troops.

Cao Cao's military deployment this time does not involve any cunning or trickery, because there is no need for it. He simply uses our large numbers and generals to overwhelm you with our overwhelming strength.

At first, Tadun thought it was a surprise attack because Taishi Ci and Le Jin came up from the port, but he was overthinking it.

He retreated his defense line twice, and Youbeiping County was completely lost.

After shrinking the defense line for the third time, Tadun wanted to rely on his bravery to attack Zhang Liao first and regain the lost territory.

He mobilized 5,000 elite Wuhuan troops to deal with Zhang Liao's 1,800 cavalry.

The Wuhuan soldiers were then trapped and defeated.

He was also rushed forward by Zhang Liao and stabbed in the left shoulder by a spear, almost falling off his horse.

When Tadun was retreating in panic, Taishi Ci rushed into the battlefield from the south and shot him with an arrow from mid-air, nearly killing him.

After Tadun escaped back, he could only retreat and hold his defense line again.

At this time, even most of Liaoxi County was lost.

In such a short period of time, Wuhuan lost nearly two counties, and only a little more than one county was left in their hands.

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