Chapter 69: Tai Chi Feng Shui Formation, Yin Yang Liu Ren
At this time, the flames had gradually died down, and the flames near the bronze cauldron had all been extinguished.
Su Mo immediately turned around and walked to the side of the bronze cauldron.
This bronze cauldron was located on a stone platform. The spider silk covered by the bronze cauldron had all been burned to ashes at this moment, but flames were still burning inside the cauldron, emitting heat from it.
Su Mo stood at the edge of the bronze cauldron but couldn’t help suddenly pausing.
He possessed the Great Yin Meditation Technique and the Second Level Futuo Technique, so he could naturally sense the flow of magnetic field and energy in this cave.
Although the entire Dragon Ridge Ancient Tomb had chaotic magnetic field and energy due to the overlap of the Zhou Tomb and Tang Tomb, the magnetic field in the space here was not chaotic at all. The overall magnetic field energy was all gathered in one place, and the center of this energy field was the stone platform where this bronze cauldron was located.
Su Mo then used the Great Yin Meditation Technique and carefully looked at the entire space here.
This cave was circular, with the overall energy showing an upward momentum, but on the stone platform, it began to gather downward.
Su Mo couldn’t help but think of the coffin surge in the Nether Hall.
Although the magnetic field in that Nether Hall was chaotic, the overall energy was downward, with only the coffin surge, that is, the inner cavity, surging upward.
These two places were one yin and one yang, one up and one down, exactly forming the shape of a Taiji Diagram.
And the Suspended Soul Ladder connecting the two places in the middle was the channel of cyclic circulation between the two aspects of Taiji!
A flash of insight suddenly struck Su Mo’s mind, and a crisp prompt sound came from his mind:
“You have detected the relationship between yin and yang in the Dragon Ridge Ancient Tomb and achieved enlightenment in Yin Yang Liu Ren mastery!”
As the prompt sound fell, the Yin Yang Liu Ren calculations surged into Su Mo’s mind like a tide. In just a few seconds, he fully comprehended and mastered them all.
He looked around, his eyes suddenly lighting up:
“I got it!”
The entire Dragon Ridge Ancient Tomb, with its labyrinth-like layout, gradually became clear in his eyes.
Hu Ba Yi, Wang Pang Zi, and Da Jin Ya, standing nearby, listened in complete confusion.
“Master said he got it. What did he get?”
“I don’t understand either, but he seems to have seen something!”
“What’s wrong with Master Su?”
All three were somewhat baffled, but they saw Su Mo quickly walk down the stone platform and swiftly clear away the spider silk burned to black ash in a corner of the cave, finding a stone pillar there.
This stone pillar was irregular and located in the corner, wrapped in spider silk. If not for Fatty burning the spider silk with fire, it would have been very hard to notice.
Su Mo found the stone pillar and immediately gripped it with both hands, turning it a full circle.
Although the base of this stone pillar was in the cave floor, it could indeed be turned with force. After Su Mo turned it, a series of clicking sounds came from the ground beneath the stone pillar.
“There’s a mechanism!”
Hu Ba Yi couldn’t help exclaiming.
Da Jin Ya and Wang Pang Zi were also stunned, their eyes wide open.
In such a dark and eerie cave, Su Mo had spotted the location of the mechanism at a glance!
Hu Ba Yi quickly walked over:
“Master, need any help?”
Su Mo nodded and pointed to the east, west, and south directions:
“You three go there and search. There should be three similar stone pillars. Once found, turn them counterclockwise half a turn simultaneously!”
Wang Pang Zi and Da Jin Ya quickly nodded in agreement, turned around, and each went to search a direction with Hu Ba Yi, indeed finding three stone pillars there as well.
The three grabbed the stone pillars simultaneously and shouted loudly at the same time:
“One, two, three, turn!”
The three gripped the stone pillars and turned them counterclockwise half a turn simultaneously.
As the three stone pillars turned, the bronze cauldron above the stone platform suddenly sank downward.
Hu Ba Yi and the others couldn’t help feeling both surprised and puzzled:
“Master, what’s going on?”
Su Mo gave a cold smile:
“If my guess is correct, this is a feng shui site set up by Li Chunfeng, used for breaking the formation!”
“Breaking the formation?”
Hu Ba Yi and the others became even more puzzled.
Su Mo said:
“You’ll know soon enough!”
With that, he turned and walked onto the stone platform, grabbing the bronze cauldron and pressing it downward.
The bronze cauldron had already sunk about two feet. Under Su Mo’s pressure, it sank further, dropping several feet until a dark tunnel entrance was revealed directly on the stone platform.
Hu Ba Yi and the others couldn’t help being both shocked and delighted.
“There’s indeed something more here!”
“But why is the tunnel entrance on the cauldron!”
Su Mo sneered:
“This is Li Chunfeng’s design. Since he broke the formation with feng shui array, even if he entered the formation himself, he placed the tunnel entrance on the cauldron to show that he had no choice but to enter the cauldron!”
Wang Pang Zi and Da Jin Ya couldn’t quite follow, but Hu Ba Yi seemed to grasp a bit.
Throughout history, Huaxia used the cauldron to symbolize the realm, hence the phrase “coveting the throne.”
Su Mo said this was a feng shui formation set up by Li Chunfeng for breaking the formation, and Li Chunfeng was a Tang Dynasty feng shui master favored by the Tang Emperor. The feng shui formation he established naturally concerned the Tang realm.
“Master, do you mean this is fundamentally a feng shui formation set up by Li Chunfeng?”
Su Mo nodded:
“If my guess is correct, this is where Li Chunfeng deliberately had people build a Tang Tomb!”
Da Jin Ya frowned upon hearing this:
“Master Su, I have a question. With Li Chunfeng’s abilities, he should have seen there was a Western Zhou Tomb here. Why would he do this on purpose?”
Su Mo smiled faintly:
“Building the Tang Tomb was a facade. His real intent was to build a feng shui formation here. You’ve already seen that inner cavity and know this place is extremely suitable for burying females. It gathers the energy of Dragon Ridge, yet has a strong yin energy coffin surge. If someone buried their female relative here, the female descendants would greatly benefit!”
Hearing this, Da Jin Ya and Wang Pang Zi still couldn’t fully understand what Su Mo meant.
But Hu Ba Yi seemed to catch the key point:
“Entering the cauldron, inner cavity, Taiji feng shui formation…”
He muttered to himself, then a flash of insight struck his mind. He slapped his thigh and said:
“Master, is this feng shui formation related to Empress Wu!”
Su Mo nodded:
“I’m just guessing. We’ll know for sure once we go down there.”
Da Jin Ya and Wang Pang Zi, hearing the two’s conversation, were completely baffled and couldn’t help asking Hu Ba Yi:
“Old Hu, what are you and Master talking about? What’s this Taiji feng shui formation? How does it relate to Empress Wu?”
Hu Ba Yi chuckled, his eyes gleaming:
“We’ll know once we go down. Master is truly brilliant. He actually uncovered this ancient secret from here! If our guess is right, this must be Li Chunfeng’s feng shui formation to undermine Empress Wu’s fortune and extend the Tang national fortune!”
“And this Tang Tomb was deliberately guided by Li Chunfeng for the Tang people to build!”
