[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposed-the-old-n":3,"chapter-i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposed-the-old-n-i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-44":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I, The Tomb-Raiding Storyteller: Exposing the Old Nine Gates from the Start",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2162624,3627,"Chapter 44","i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-44",44,"\u003Cp>\"Everyone, I said Chen Pi A-Si's eyes were blinded after he was middle-aged, while stealing treasure from the Mirror Palace.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You must think this middle age is around forty, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Actually, it's not! For someone as long-lived as Chen Pi A-Si, he can also be called middle-aged at sixty!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These few words left the audience below speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A middle-aged person in his sixties?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Chen Pi A-Si really looks young.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can you do that when you are in your sixties?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary people really can't do it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This guy Chen Pi, although rotten to the bone, has one thing: he has a good body and is long-lived!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Begging in his teens, not even having enough to eat, yet still having this kind of physical fitness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who wouldn't say, 'God's gift'?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And Chen Pi A-Si raiding the Mirror Palace happened when he was in his sixties.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mirror Palace is the name used by the Southern School of tomb raiding, while the Northern School calls it the Yin-Yang Shuttle.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"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.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This Mirror Palace actually means that under the ground building, there is an underground part of the same scale as the ground building.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It looks like the reflection of the ground building on the lake, with the top and bottom being symmetrical!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"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.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, such ancient tombs or ancient buildings are already very rare; most of the ground ruins have been destroyed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So there is basically no such talk now; even if the underground buildings can be preserved, discovering them requires a sharp eye!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unfortunately, this Chen Pi A-Si had that sharp eye!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Zhang Lin said this, Old Lady Huo in the second-floor private room also fell into memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Things like the Mirror Palace were very common in old Old Changsha before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But later, because of war and some special reasons, they were all artificially destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That Chen Pi A-Si could still find a Mirror Palace in his sixties was indeed entirely due to his sharp eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This skill of looking at the ground was Chen Pi A-Si's strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"And he himself fled alone to Guangxi, where he pulled together a team to raid tombs again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One day, he happened to be chatting with some local Miao people in a certain place.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Those people drank too much and started talking about the collapse of a pagoda in a temple on Cat Mountain!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They said the movement was very big, and even the ground sank, collapsing into a large pit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"On the night of the collapse, many people also heard a very strange scream!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"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?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Therefore, he specifically kept an eye on it and asked carefully.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"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.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"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.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"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.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The drop is over a hundred meters; they are two completely different worlds!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And there is no road down from the village; to get down to this basin, you can only use ropes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone heard this and knew that the so-called Mirror Palace must be under this hundred-meter cliff!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And for Chen Pi A-Si to raid the Mirror Palace, he had to go down the cliff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, he was already in his sixties, and to still have this courage and boldness was truly incomparable to ordinary people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"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.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Miao hunters and herbalists who went down before often went missing inside, so generally, no one was willing to go down.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That ancient pagoda was built in such a place, almost in the center of the basin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Usually, when people look down from the cliff, they can only see a very small pagoda tip exposed from the dense tree canopy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And it is all covered with plants, so it is impossible to see clearly what is below.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"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.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"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!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As for this pagoda, because it has been too long, there are also many legends locally.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The most famous one is that this pagoda was built by a high monk in ancient times to suppress demons.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"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!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The audience smiled knowingly upon hearing this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kind of ancient legend exists in basically every village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As time goes by, some things become more and more mysterious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, it becomes completely different!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the high monk suppressing demons should just be a rumor among the villagers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that there is something in this pagoda is certain!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The audience already knew that Chen Pi A-Si would definitely sneak down the cliff to raid the pagoda for treasure!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for how thrilling the process was, they could only honestly listen to Zhang Lin's narration!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…….\u003C\u002Fp>",1102,"2026-06-16T21:55:26.381Z","2026-06-16T22:03:03.495Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","15475244ea7a6233ddb724306ad6b651bb27e44e5deb077658cae47c17e43975","i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-45","i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-43",577,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--cover.jpg"]