Chapter 44

"Everyone, I said Chen Pi A-Si's eyes were blinded after he was middle-aged, while stealing treasure from the Mirror Palace."

"You must think this middle age is around forty, right?"

"Actually, it's not! For someone as long-lived as Chen Pi A-Si, he can also be called middle-aged at sixty!"

These few words left the audience below speechless.

A middle-aged person in his sixties?

This Chen Pi A-Si really looks young.

At this time, Zhang Lin said: "Don't be unconvinced; Chen Pi A-Si, in his sixties, can climb down a hundred-meter cliff, and can still walk like flying, traveling day and night in the mountains."

"Can you do that when you are in your sixties?"

This...

Ordinary people really can't do it.

This guy Chen Pi, although rotten to the bone, has one thing: he has a good body and is long-lived!

Begging in his teens, not even having enough to eat, yet still having this kind of physical fitness.

Who wouldn't say, 'God's gift'?

"And Chen Pi A-Si raiding the Mirror Palace happened when he was in his sixties."

"Mirror Palace is the name used by the Southern School of tomb raiding, while the Northern School calls it the Yin-Yang Shuttle."

"As for the Southern and Northern schools of tomb raiding, we will talk about them in detail when we discuss the four major schools of tomb raiding in the future."

"This Mirror Palace actually means that under the ground building, there is an underground part of the same scale as the ground building."

"It looks like the reflection of the ground building on the lake, with the top and bottom being symmetrical!"

"And the Northern School calls it the Yin-Yang Shuttle, which also has its logic; it means the whole building is like a shuttle inserted into the ground, one side is the underworld, and one side is the human world."

"However, such ancient tombs or ancient buildings are already very rare; most of the ground ruins have been destroyed."

"So there is basically no such talk now; even if the underground buildings can be preserved, discovering them requires a sharp eye!"

"Unfortunately, this Chen Pi A-Si had that sharp eye!"

When Zhang Lin said this, Old Lady Huo in the second-floor private room also fell into memories.

Things like the Mirror Palace were very common in old Old Changsha before.

But later, because of war and some special reasons, they were all artificially destroyed.

That Chen Pi A-Si could still find a Mirror Palace in his sixties was indeed entirely due to his sharp eye.

This skill of looking at the ground was Chen Pi A-Si's strength.

At this time, Zhang Lin continued: "Do you remember that village slaughter tragedy? Shortly after that, the incident was exposed, and all of Chen Pi A-Si's disciples were arrested and shot."

"And he himself fled alone to Guangxi, where he pulled together a team to raid tombs again."

"One day, he happened to be chatting with some local Miao people in a certain place."

"Those people drank too much and started talking about the collapse of a pagoda in a temple on Cat Mountain!"

"They said the movement was very big, and even the ground sank, collapsing into a large pit."

"On the night of the collapse, many people also heard a very strange scream!"

"Chen Pi A-Si felt something was wrong as soon as he heard it; he had been to Cat Mountain many times, and the temples there were built very solidly; how could they collapse just like that?"

"Therefore, he specifically kept an eye on it and asked carefully."

"Only then did he know that this pagoda was not on Cat Mountain, but in the center of a mountain range next to it called Sleeping Buddha Ridge."

"This place is very strange; it is surrounded by villages, and in the middle is a basin of about ten square kilometers, with a very low altitude."

"The vegetation inside is dense, the trees cover the sky and the sun, the villages are on the cliffs, and the forest is below the cliffs."

"The drop is over a hundred meters; they are two completely different worlds!"

"And there is no road down from the village; to get down to this basin, you can only use ropes."

Everyone heard this and knew that the so-called Mirror Palace must be under this hundred-meter cliff!

And for Chen Pi A-Si to raid the Mirror Palace, he had to go down the cliff.

At this time, he was already in his sixties, and to still have this courage and boldness was truly incomparable to ordinary people.

"However, this basin must have other entrances and exits, but the underground vegetation is too dense, making it difficult to walk, and of course, it is even harder to find a way out."

"Miao hunters and herbalists who went down before often went missing inside, so generally, no one was willing to go down."

"That ancient pagoda was built in such a place, almost in the center of the basin."

"Usually, when people look down from the cliff, they can only see a very small pagoda tip exposed from the dense tree canopy."

"And it is all covered with plants, so it is impossible to see clearly what is below."

"The Miao people said they knew there was a pagoda here more than a dozen generations ago, but no one ever thought of going down to see it, and now they are used to it."

"Recently, one day, there was a sudden loud noise, and they realized the pagoda tip was gone; only then did they understand the pagoda had collapsed!"

"As for this pagoda, because it has been too long, there are also many legends locally."

"The most famous one is that this pagoda was built by a high monk in ancient times to suppress demons."

"Now that the pagoda has fallen, the demon is coming out to do evil; that strange scream was the demon's cry as it broke free from its shackles!"

The audience smiled knowingly upon hearing this.

This kind of ancient legend exists in basically every village.

As time goes by, some things become more and more mysterious.

In the end, it becomes completely different!

So the high monk suppressing demons should just be a rumor among the villagers.

But that there is something in this pagoda is certain!

The audience already knew that Chen Pi A-Si would definitely sneak down the cliff to raid the pagoda for treasure!

As for how thrilling the process was, they could only honestly listen to Zhang Lin's narration!

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