Chapter 92: The Different Theories of the Nanpaibei Sect! The Reclining Buddha Ridge Pagoda!

"Ladies and gentlemen, I told you Chen Pi A Si's eyes were gouged out in middle age when he stole treasure from the Mirror Palace."

"You're all assuming this 'middle age' means around forty, right?"

"Not at all! For someone as long-lived as Chen Pi A Si, even sixty can be called middle age!"

These few lines left the listeners below completely speechless.

A middle-aged man in his sixties?

This Chen Pi A Si really does look young for his age.

At this moment Zhang Lin said, "Don't be so quick to argue, ladies and gentlemen. Chen Pi A Si in his sixties could climb down a hundred-meter cliff, walk as fast as flying, and travel day and night through the mountains."

"Could any of you do that at sixty-something?"

Well…

Ordinary people really couldn't.

Chen Pi may be rotten to the core, but there's one thing about him—his body is strong and he lives long!

He was a beggar as a teenager, couldn't even get enough to eat, yet still had that kind of physical constitution.

Who wouldn't say heaven gave him a living?

"And Chen Pi A Si's theft from the Mirror Palace happened when he was in his sixties."

"The Mirror Palace is what the Nanpaibei Sect tomb raiders call it; the Sidaliu Sect calls it the Yin-Yang Shuttle."

"As for the Nanpaibei Sect and the Sidaliu Sect of tomb raiding, we'll go into detail when we get to the four major schools of tomb raiding."

"This Mirror Palace actually means that beneath an above-ground structure, there is an underground portion equal in scale to the above-ground part."

"It looks just like the reflection of the above-ground building on a lake's surface—the top and bottom are symmetrical!"

"And the Sidaliu Sect's name for it, Yin-Yang Shuttle, also has its reasoning: the whole structure is like a shuttle thrust into the earth, one side being the realm of the dead, the other the realm of the living."

"But such ancient tombs or ancient buildings are already very rare; most of the surface ruins have been completely destroyed."

"So this term is basically no longer used nowadays. Even if the underground structure can still be preserved, spotting it takes a sharp eye!"

"As luck would have it, Chen Pi A Si had exactly that sharp eye!"

At this point in Zhang Lin's telling, Old Lady Huo listening from the private box on the second floor was also lost in memory.

Mirror Palaces like this were common in the old Changsha of the past.

But later, because of war and some special reasons, they were all destroyed by human hands.

For Chen Pi A Si to still find a Mirror Palace in his sixties truly relied entirely on his sharp eye.

This Earth Skill of reading the land was Chen Pi A Si's strong suit.

At this moment Zhang Lin continued, "Ladies and gentlemen, do you remember that village massacre? Not long after, the plot was exposed, and all of Chen Pi A Si's disciples were arrested and shot."