Chapter 19: Mechanism Array Secret Technique, Coffin In The Nine-headed Cypress
Thinking of this, Su Mo turned his gaze to the Nine-headed Cypress giant tree behind.
This tree was truly enormous and eerie, with a trunk diameter of several meters and a height of about ten stories, its patches of bark as rugged and mottled as an old dragon’s scales.
However, neither the trunk nor the roots below showed any trace of a coffin!
Su Mo then turned his gaze to the jade bed.
There was indeed a mechanism under the bed, but this mechanism was connected to the hidden crossbows in the stone platform behind, and did not connect to the Nine-headed Cypress trunk.
Little Brother and Uncle Wu San also had faces full of confusion.
They had come for the Ghost Seal.
But if the real coffin could not be found, how could they talk about finding the Ghost Seal!
Over here, Wang Pang Zi was holding the Eight-Layered Treasure Box with a face full of melancholy.
“Damn it, after all that effort, we just got this…”
Su Mo heard his words, and his gaze suddenly fell on the Eight-Layered Treasure Box, but he could not help but feel a stir in his heart.
This Eight-Layered Treasure Box had no reason to contain nothing, just held by this female corpse.
It definitely represented something!
Thinking of this, Su Mo immediately took the Eight-Layered Treasure Box from Fatty’s hands.
This Eight-Layered Treasure Box split into eight petals outward when opened, but the bottom remained motionless, and the opened upper part at first glance looked like a flower, or like…
Su Mo suddenly felt a chill in his heart and turned to look at the Nine-headed Cypress tree.
Right!
The opened appearance of this Eight-Layered Treasure Box looked very similar to this Nine-headed Cypress giant tree.
Could it be…
It represented some kind of mechanism or information hiding the coffin?
Su Mo held the Eight-Layered Treasure Box, frowning in thought, only feeling a spiritual spring gradually emerging in his heart, and his mind seeming to become clearer.
“You explored the secret of the Eight-Layered Treasure Box and achieved enlightenment in ancient mechanism array secret technique!”
As the prompt sound fell, a tide surged along with that spiritual spring emerging from Su Mo’s heart, rapidly occupying his mind.
Strange mechanisms one after another, ingenious arrays one by one, all flashed rapidly before his eyes like a lantern show, and were instantly imprinted deep in his mind.
In just a very short time, he had firmly mastered many ancient mechanism array secret techniques from before the Spring and Autumn Warring States period!
Looking at the Nine-headed Cypress giant tree again, Su Mo’s eyes were already calm and composed, as if he had a plan in mind!
He walked a few steps to the tree, his gaze from the roots to the trunk, finally stopping at a position about five feet from the ground.
Between two patches of mottled bark there, there was a seemingly inconspicuous gap, like a sword mark, or like a tree hole!
Su Mo drew the Frost Moon Sword from behind and thrust the sword tip into the tree hole.
Then, he twisted his wrist.
Clang!
The sword edge actually rang with a metallic sound inside the trunk.
Su Mo then pulled his right hand back.
Click…
The dragon-scale-like bark instantly cracked open, and the crescent sword edge of the Frost Moon Sword twisted around an iron chain, directly pulled out from the trunk by him.
This iron chain was as thick as an arm, yet hidden in the tree hole; if Su Mo had not achieved enlightenment in the ancient mechanism array secret technique, it would have been impossible to detect at this time.
Su Mo grabbed the iron chain and exerted force to drag it…
Amid a sound of iron chain friction, the arm-thick iron chain was completely dragged out from the trunk by him, then dragging the winch inside the trunk, emitting a rumbling sound.
The massive Nine-headed Cypress giant tree suddenly trembled, the vines in the crown driving the corpses to dance together, like a giant wildly shaking its skull in pain from a stab.
A shaking sound even came from between the trunk.
Rumble…
With a massive shock, a huge crack suddenly appeared between the trunk, and an extremely large coffin emerged with the turning of the iron chain winch, suddenly appearing before everyone from within the trunk, like a giant opening its mouth to spit out a treasure!
This coffin was entirely cast from bronze, with several massive iron chains wrapped around it, the coffin surface covered in inscriptions and grown over with greenish copper rust.
Uncle Wu San and the others seeing this scene could not help but be dumbfounded.
They had completely not expected that the real coffin was actually hidden inside this giant tree, with the mechanism hidden under the bark.
Who could have guessed that!
If not for Su Mo, they would probably have had to flip stone by stone, search bark by bark.
That would take until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse!
Fatty was even more full of astonishment in his eyes:
“Brother, you’re a god, actually finding such a hidden mechanism! Is this brain really a human brain?”
Su Mo just gave a faint smile, turned and walked to the bronze coffin, looked carefully at the coffin surface, and saw that this coffin was not a traditional box-like coffin, but had a special mechanism.
It was just like the Eight-Layered Treasure Box that Fatty got!
Su Mo then walked to the middle of the coffin, extended two fingers and stabbed them into a gap right in the center of the coffin lid.
The Fa Qiu Finger pierced into the coffin lid, quickly finding the mechanism hub inside.
Click!
A light sound came from between the coffin lid, followed by a shaking sound of copper rust bursting open.
Then, the entire huge bronze coffin, just like that Eight-Layered Treasure Box, suddenly cracked open like petals, splitting into eight sections from the top, revealing a jade-inlaid lacquered coffin inside.
The jade stones on the coffin surface were arranged very neatly, seeming to follow the form of heaven round and earth square.
Fatty took one look at the jade stones above and his eyes lit up, pulling out his knife wanting to pry them off:
“My goodness, so much ancient jade, taking them down would be worth a lot of money!”
Uncle Wu San looking at him could not help but be both angry and amused:
“Dead fatty, this is Maas jade, not valuable; if you pry them off one by one, it wouldn’t even cover your travel expenses!”
Hearing him say that, Fatty finally stopped, but turned his attention to the coffin.
However, this lacquered coffin was covered in gold threads, looking very intricate.
At this time, Pan Zi, Da Kui, and Wu Tianzhen had also appeared from the tomb passage.
They had been sent to one side by Uncle Wu San, but later lost sight of Uncle Wu San, Little Brother, Su Mo and the others, so they could only stumble forward blindly, almost encountering corpse beetles on the way, and finally made it here with great difficulty.
Seeing Su Mo and Uncle Wu San at the bottom of the cave, the three could not help but be overjoyed and quickly climbed down along the rope.
“Third Uncle, how did you leave us behind and run over by yourself!”
Wu Tianzhen saw Uncle Wu San and complained somewhat angrily.
Uncle Wu San smiled somewhat awkwardly:
“We took a wrong turn on the road, so arrived here first; as long as you’re fine!”
After saying that, he had Pan Zi and Da Kui cut open the gold threads around the coffin, then carefully stack the jade-inlaid outer coffin and put it in the backpack, finally carefully cleaning the gap between the coffin lid and body.
While cleaning, suddenly there was a bang from inside the coffin, as if someone suddenly knocked from inside the coffin.
This sudden sound startled Da Kui and Pan Zi, the short knives for cleaning fish glue almost dropping to the ground:
“Damn, there’s a live person inside the coffin!”
