Chapter 370 Tomb No. 4! Three-way battle gathers at Chibi [Subscribe]

Inside the Qinling Tomb, it was as dark as deep space, eerie and cold.

The Taoists once asked Cao Cao to borrow the Black Bird Coffin and the Falling Moon Pearl before they dared to come to this tomb.

Their trip this time was not smooth.

Ling Jin had been to the Qin Mausoleum once and knew that the entrance to the tomb changed with the position of the stars and was not fixed.

It took them more than two months just to find the entrance to the tomb.

Finally, they dug a passage through the mountain on a cliff and found the entrance to the tomb.

The entrance to the tomb is like a deep well, extending from the belly of the mountain down to the bottom, unfathomable.

It was dark and silent inside.

After the tomb was opened, many methods were used to try, but nothing could be sent in, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea. They could get in but not out.

There were two Taoist experts who lowered ropes and entered the tomb to investigate.

Before going in, we agreed to come out in half a quarter of an hour.

But as soon as the people went down the rope, people outside realized something was wrong and tried desperately to pull the rope out.

When the rope was retracted, the man was gone.

There was no sound during the whole process.

It only took about ten breaths.

"It feels like something is pulling the rope from below." The people outside turned pale.

The Taoist Ziqing, the leader of all the Taoists, is the old Taoist.

He discussed with Ling Jin and Li Wufang and directly used the Xuanniao Coffin.

The three of them personally entered the coffin and went down to the tomb together.

Strangely enough, when the black bird coffin entered Tomb No. 4 and came into contact with the darkness, the curse patterns on the coffin wall began to glow.

The coffin floated in the darkness without falling.

The three people entered the coffin and sank into Tomb No. 4.

Every time the coffin floated and moved in the darkness for a while, Ling Jin, Li Wufang and Taoist Ziqing would take turns to get out of the coffin to investigate, see what area they had reached, and try to find the Taoist master.

When the three men went out to explore, they tied ropes around their waists and connected them to the coffin.

Every time the two of them went out together, they looked after each other, and one of them stayed behind to guard the black bird coffin.

But as we go deeper, unexpected changes occur one after another.

At this time, Ling Jin and the old Taoist priest were both injured in the Xuanniao coffin.

There was a wound on Ling Jin's arm.

There was a dark blue finger mark on the old Taoist's wrist.

He was out exploring when suddenly a hand reached out from the darkness and grabbed his wrist.

Taoist Ziqing put his fingers together to create the Taoist sword technique, and the sword energy surged and slashed at the hand.

But it didn't hurt the hand at all.

Ling Jin came up to save him and ran head-on into a shadow-like thing, which was how he got the wound on his arm.

The two of them took care of each other before returning to the black bird coffin.

After that, the three of them became more cautious when going out to investigate, and used all possible means.

However, the two secret armored beasts were covered with scales and were indestructible. They could move freely in the dark.

As the black bird coffin moved forward, the secret armor beast followed around, observing and exploring Tomb No. 4.

At this time, Ling Jin was sitting in a corner of the coffin, closing his eyes and resting.

Li Wufang and the old Taoist priest opened the coffin a little and looked at the darkness outside.

The curse patterns flowing on the black bird coffin effectively blocked the invasion of darkness, preventing the darkness from spreading into the coffin.

Suddenly, Ling Jin and Li Wufang discovered the rhythm of black energy.

The two secret armor beasts ran back at the speed of lightning.

The scales of both of them shrank and their bodies became as small as mice. They slipped through the gap and got into the coffin in an instant.

The old Taoist and Li Wufang immediately realized that the secret armor beast had encountered something difficult to deal with outside.

The two of them immediately closed the coffin lid.

Clang!
The coffin shook.

"Something is hitting the coffin wall outside." The old Taoist priest told Li Wufang through Ling Jin.

squeak--

The sound outside became very sharp, as if someone was scratching the wall of the coffin with a sharp object, trying to destroy it.

Li Wufang, Ling Jin, and the old Taoist priest looked at each other.

"This tomb is even more dangerous than the one under the Yellow River."

Ling Jin said, "The last time I came in, the king gave me a blueprint and I followed it. This time, the blueprint is useless and even the entrance is different.

The last time I came here, I felt that the Qinling Tomb was the most dangerous place in the world.

This time is much more dangerous than last time!"

"Are you sure that Daozun can survive here for two years?"

The old Taoist said: "If you don't believe me, you should believe the King of Wei. He has the same judgment."

"The things outside seem to have left..."

The old Taoist listened attentively.

Li Wufang shook his head: "No, the evil spirits in the tomb are naturally good at reading people's minds. They are very cunning. They pretended to leave to lure us to open the coffin and then attack."

In the darkness outside the coffin, there was indeed something lying on the side wall of the black bird coffin.

He was waiting for the coffin to be opened.

However, the thing lying on the wall of the coffin did not notice that there was a dragon following it in the darkness behind it.

That was a true dragon of destiny formed by a ray of imperial aura pushed over by Cao Cao using the secret armor beast he had sacrificed.

He just checked carefully and found that the Secret Armor Beast encountered something on the wall of the coffin.

The secret armor beast returned the black bird coffin.

However, the true dragon breath that Cao Cao differentiated remained in the darkness, observing the changes in the tomb.

What is that thing...Study, Cao Cao withdrew his thoughts.

He used the true dragon energy to see through the air.

But all I saw was that the thing was white and hazy, somewhat like a human, and seemed to be something between fantasy and reality.

It was dark inside the tomb and I couldn't see more clearly.

In addition to the white shadow lying on the coffin, there are even more terrifying things in the darkness... The real dragon that Cao Cao split into discovered that there was something else deep in the darkness, and it was huge in size.

Its every move made the darkness in the tomb rise and fall like the tide. Cao Cao retracted his thoughts, and the aura of the totem dragon would automatically attach itself to the vicinity of the black bird coffin, waiting to hide in the body of the secret armor beast again, and it would be awakened again the next time he thought about it.

Cao Cao walked out of the study with his hands behind his back and headed towards the inner house.

Tomb No. 4 seemed to contain another small world, with countless things beyond the ordinary.

Cao Cao thought that perhaps he should consume another direction to obtain a path deeper into the tomb.

When he had 15 million reputation, he still had some points left.

Cao Cao was thinking about things and returned to the inner house. Then he understood what Diao Chan said she liked to watch.

In the main hall of the Cao Mansion's backyard, the light of setting sun shines in obliquely from the window.

The music flowed out under Yao Jing's fingers.

She was plucking the strings of the zither used by Cai Yong, which was famous throughout the ages.

The sound of the guqin is like a clear spring in a mountain stream, falling snow, flowing clouds and running water, and it is indescribably pleasant to the ear.

Under Yao Jing's hands, the notes seemed to be given life, lingering in the air, with the previous notes overlapping the next ones.

With just one piano, she can produce the effect of an entire instrumental ensemble, with countless instruments working together.

The audience in the hall were Cao Cao’s wives and concubines.

The house is full of fragrance.

Bai Ke, Bian Mei, Wen Ji, and Diao Chan were all well versed in music. They could not help but keep the beat with their hands and sang along softly.

A scene emerged in Cao Cao's mind, which was waiting for Bai Ke and Bian Mei to give birth to a child.

Let Yao Jing play music, Bai Ke dance, and Bian Mei sing.

The three major groups gathered together to perform on the same stage.

Tsk… When Cao Cao entered the hall, there was immediately a chorus of sweet voices, all calling out “husband”.

There was also a group of singing and dancing girls in the hall, who were the Kucha people from the Western Regions.

The people of Kucha were good at dancing, and after they surrendered, they sent a team of dancers.

Cao Gong watched from the sidelines. When Yao Jing finished playing, he said happily, "It's amazing. You can make a song just by playing the strings. It's really eye-opening."

He paused, looked at his wives and concubines, and suggested, "Let's all sleep together tonight."

All the wives and concubines protested in unison and dispersed.

It's getting dark and the waves are clanging.

Cao Cao has a lot of work to do tonight.

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During the Han Dynasty, Jiangdong lagged behind the northern prefectures in terms of geography, humanities, commerce, and population base, and there were many undeveloped areas.

Under such circumstances, Zhou Yu and Lu Su, facing the powerful Cao army, advocated fighting and obviously saw opportunities that ordinary people could not see.

The Jiangdong high-level officials discussed several times, and Lu Su and Zhou Yu took turns to speak, before they finally convinced the previously hesitant Sun Quan.

Upon hearing that Cao's army was heading south, Sun Quan once considered surrendering.

This stems from his early experience in Caoying.

He still remembers the scene when Cao’s camp was opened for service and generals were appointed, with thousands of soldiers and brave generals gathering.

When Sun Quan returned from Cao's camp and took over Jiangdong left by his brother Sun Ce, he realized how big the gap was between his own camp and Cao's camp.

Even now, there is still a bandit problem in Jiangdong, known as the Shanyue.

The so-called Shanyue is a general term for bandits distributed in the counties and prefectures of Sun Wu.

Since the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the area of ​​Jiangdong has been home to local separatist forces such as Pan Lin, Peng Qi, You Tu, Fei Zhan, Zu Lang, Yan Baihu, Jin Qi, Mao Gan, and Huang Luan.

When Sun Ce led his troops to fight and unified Jiangdong, these bandits united together to form the Shanyue.

They hid in the mountains, and occasionally came out to harass and plunder various counties. Their momentum was quite great, and they have not been pacified to this day.

There is also the threat of the aristocratic families within Jiangdong.

More importantly, Zhang Zhao, the trusted minister whom Sun Ce left to Sun Quan, believed that surrender should be made.

Zhang Zhao in Jiangdong was like Xun Yu in Cao Wei. He was in charge of all internal affairs and was the number one powerful figure.

He is a man with a great sense of the overall situation.

He advised Sun Quan that the world had been in turmoil for years and that what Cao Cao had done in governing the north over the past few years was witnessed by everyone.

Cao Wei was a powerful army that had never been defeated in a hundred battles.

Rather than waiting until you are defeated to surrender, it is better to surrender early, so as to promote the unification of the world and reduce the suffering of the people.

Due to Zhang Zhao's status, there were many people in Jiangdong who supported and followed him and wanted to surrender.

This situation put Sun Quan in an extremely passive position.

It was Zhou Yu whom Lu Su repeatedly asked to see and finally persuaded to join forces with Liu Bei to fight against Cao's camp.

In October, Lu Su personally sailed westward from the heart of Jiangdong.

In late October, he met Liu Bei in Jingzhou.

"Liu Yizhou has reorganized the prefectures and counties in recent years at a speed that is astonishing. It could not have been done without great talent," said Lu Su.

Liu Bei bowed modestly.

Guan Yu followed him.

Zhang Fei was still west of Yizhou and had not returned from the battle.

Lu Su immediately mentioned Zhuge Liang's brother Zhuge Jin, with whom he had a good relationship.

Lu Su also invited Zhuge Liang to join the Sun-Liu alliance to jointly deal with Cao Wei.

At the end of October, Jiangdong and Yizhou began to gather their troops with Jingzhou as the center.

On both sides of the Yangtze River, the situation became increasingly tense as the three parties stockpiled troops and food.

North bank of the Yangtze River.

Gan Ning stood at the bow, followed by a row of generals from his Jinfan Army. Their characteristic was that they wore brocade clothes and were dressed quite fancy.

He looked at the increasing number of warships on the other side and said to Cai Mao, "The two families want to unite and fight against our Wei. It's just wishful thinking."

"Although our army is strong, we can only know the outcome after fighting, so we'd better be careful."

Cai Mao: "I heard that Zhou Gongjin is known for his extraordinary strategies, his ability in both civil and military affairs, and he has never been defeated."

Yecheng.

Taishi Ci, accompanied by a group of prisoners, returned from the Western Regions with Zuo Ci, Nanhua and others and went to Cao Cao's mansion to meet him.

Cao Cao happened to be walking out of the mansion. He said, "Ziyi, you've been out fighting, you must have worked hard. Now that you're back, come with me."

Taishi Ci followed behind Cao Cao and asked in surprise, "Where are you going, Your Majesty?"

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