The Great Wei Music Bureau

Chapter 195: Looking for the Ruler (Part )

Last time we talked about Li Yi and Xia Houying being swept away by the undercurrent, so where will they be swept to? Let’s take a look together.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Yi opened his eyes and found himself and Xia Houying lying on a huge tortoise shell! He looked at Xia Houying, who was motionless. Without saying anything, he started CPR! This was proper first aid! It was definitely not Li Yi taking advantage of the girl, he was following the proper procedures!

First clear the water from the mouth and nose, then lay the person flat and perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

The first step is to perform chest compressions. Cross your hands, raise your left hand fingers, and stretch your arms. Find the right position. Adults can press 100 to 120 times per minute!

The second step is to open the airway and clear oral and nasal secretions.

The third step is artificial respiration. It is not just about blowing into the mouth! You have to pinch the other person's nose, then cover the other person's mouth with your mouth and blow inside! After blowing once or twice, you have to observe whether the other person's chest rises and falls. If not, you have to perform chest compressions!

After kissing, ah, and blowing more than ten times, Xia Houying finally responded. Li Yi immediately helped her turn over, patted her back to help her drain the water, and after spitting out a few mouthfuls of water, Xia Houying finally came back to life.

Li Yi let out a long sigh and said, "Oh, you scared me to death!" But as soon as he finished speaking, something even more frightening happened!

The big turtle stuck its head out of its shell and twisted its neck to look at the two of them. Li Yi patted Xia Houying, who looked up and saw the turtle. She was so scared that she immediately hugged Li Yi tightly. At this time, the turtle suddenly moved and swam slowly along the waterway.

They then realized that they were in a cave, and the stalagmites hanging from the top of the cave emitted a faint light like stars. Li Yi stretched out his hand and spread his talent to illuminate. Xiahou Ying looked at the surrounding scenery and wondered, "I seem to have been here before!"

Li Yi looked at her in surprise, and she nodded and said, "It feels very familiar, as if I have been here in a dream."

Soon, the giant turtle stopped at a shore, stretched its head out and looked at the two, as if signaling them to get off. Li Yi pushed Xiahou Ying, and the two stood up and jumped onto the shore. The giant turtle turned around and was about to go back. Li Yi looked at its carapace and suddenly shouted, "Fuck! Luo Shu! Are you the divine turtle?"

The giant turtle ignored Li Yi and disappeared into the darkness. Li Yi stamped his feet and said with great regret: "Oh! I feel like I missed out on a billion, no! Hundreds of billions! Not enough! Hundreds of billions are not enough!"

Xiahou Ying looked at Li Yi who was beating his chest and stamping his feet and said, "You said that giant turtle just now is the legendary divine turtle with the Luoshu on its back?"

Li Yi sighed, "Yes! I have seen a replica of the Luoshu in the Imperial Astronomical Observatory before. I regret it so much! Why didn't I think of it earlier! Didn't King Yu come up with a way to control floods after he got the Luoshu?"

Xia Houying comforted him, "Alright, alright! The divine turtle saved us after all, what else do you want to do with it?"

Li Yi replied: "I don't want to do anything to it, but at least let me write down the real Luo Shu. What it has is the original version, maybe it hides some great secrets! Alas!"

Xia Houying sighed: "Now that they're gone, what else can you do?"

Li Yi shook his head and said, "There's nothing I can do about it. I can only thank it!"

Xiahou Ying turned around and looked around and said, "It seems we have arrived at an altar. We must have found the right place. This is the altar for worshiping King Yu!"

Upon hearing this, Li Yi turned around and asked in surprise: "Is this true? How did you tell?"

Xiahou Ying pointed to a relief on the wall that was no longer clearly visible and said, "This looks like the divine tortoise that saved us just now."

Li Yi came forward, shone the light on the wall and said, "What you said seems to be true. But it's so big, and there's nothing else except a relief. How can you say it's an altar?"

Xiahou Ying replied: "This kind of relief can only be found in the Yuwang Temple, but it is on the screen wall." (The screen wall is the wall you see when you enter the courtyard, also called the hidden wall, which has existed since the Western Zhou Dynasty)

Li Yi was puzzled and asked, "If it is the relief on the screen wall, then this is the main door, but there is no road around, how can we get in?"

Xia Houying looked at the relief and said, "Perhaps the secret is hidden in this relief."

Li Yi came over to examine the relief and said, "Hiss, the Luoshu on the back of the tortoise is very different from what I saw in the Imperial Observatory."

Xia Houying asked: "What's the discrepancy? Maybe that's the secret!"

Li Yi just put his finger on the Luoshu on the back of the tortoise in the relief, and with a snap, a spark of electricity appeared. Li Yi blew on his finger and said, "It shouldn't be like this. How can there be static electricity in such a humid place?"

Xia Houying asked: "What is static electricity?"

Li Yi stretched out his hand and tried it again. The result was the same spark. He then said, "See? This is static electricity. It shouldn't exist in such a humid environment."

Xiahou Ying reached out to touch the relief, but nothing happened. She looked at Li Yi in surprise, and the latter touched it again and was shocked again. The two of them instantly understood the mystery.

Li Yi stood in front of the relief, crossed his arms, touched his chin and said, "Fuck, DNA unlocked! Is it so magical?"

Xia Houying asked: "What is 'Di En Ai'? And what does 'Fuck' mean? You have said this word several times."

Li Yi explained: "It's okay. 'Fuck' doesn't mean anything. It's an interjection. It's my hometown dialect! As for DNA, you can understand it as bloodline. The bloodline here is guaranteed..."

Xia Houying laughed and said, "You guys? What's wrong with us?"

Li Yi waved his hand and said, "It's okay. Just treat me as an intermittent psychotic disorder. Don't pay attention to me. Let's get down to business first. It seems that this relief is doubly unlocked by DNA and password. Even if there is no measuring ruler here, there must be some treasure hidden here! Open it and take a look!"

Xia Houying shook her head and smiled, "It seems that the rumors are true. They all say that you, Li Yuefu, often talk nonsense, and that most of the great talents in the world are not normal."

Li Yi instructed Xia Houying to correct the Luoshu on the relief, that is, to scrape off the excess stalactites on the relief. After they corrected the Luoshu, the water level in the cave suddenly dropped, and another hole appeared on the wall. The two looked at each other and walked into it.

Li Yi walked in front holding Xiahou Ying's hand, and the latter didn't say anything, just followed Bald Li. The cave looked very different from the outside, more like a long corridor, with smooth walls and murals carved on them, which were the stories of Dayu's flood control and the twelve mythical beasts that helped King Yu control the flood.

The corridor was square and obviously man-made. After passing through the corridor, the two came to a hall. There was a fire stand and lamp holder here. Li Yi used the red lotus fire to ignite his talent and illuminate the hall. In the middle of the hall was a statue of King Yu, wearing a straw raincoat, carrying a Tianshui axe, holding a mountain-moving shovel, and stepping on a Luo River turtle. Behind him was a landscape painting of the Nine Provinces. The statue of King Yu was surrounded by twelve statues of mythical beasts.

"Really?" Li Yi was not surprised to see these statues. There was another reason for his exclamation! "Fuck! This place is built with cement? No, it's concrete! Could it be King Yu too? Fuck, no way! DNA encryption double unlocking! And this concrete-cast hall! It can't be such a coincidence!"

Just as Li Yi was sighing with emotion, Xiahou Ying had already knelt down and bowed. She stood up and said to Li Yi: "Although I don't know what you mean by cement or concrete, I think the soil used to build this altar should be Xirang."

"Xirang? Oh! Right, right, right. According to legend, King Yu's father Gun stole Xirang from the Emperor of Heaven to control floods, but failed. Later, King Yu also used Xirang to control floods, and this Xirang is what I call concrete. This makes sense! I was scared to death. I thought King Yu was the same as me."

Xia Houying asked: "Same as you? Same as you in what?"

Li Yi waved his hand and said, "It's okay. I'm having an intermittent mental illness again. But if that's the case, it's very likely that the Egyptian pyramids were also artificially cast!"

Xia Houying shook her head and ignored Bald Li who was talking to himself, but looked around the hall.

Li Yi came back to his senses, looked at Xia Houying and asked, "Did the descendants of King Yu find anything? I just looked around, but there is no treasure, not to mention the measuring ruler, not even a porcelain or bronze artifact! This trip is in vain!"

Xia Houying shook her head and said, "No, the measuring ruler must be here!"

“How come you see?”

Xiahou Ying walked behind the statue of King Yu, looked at the Tianshui Yue and said, "It feels like I was led here! Aren't we here for the Tianshui Ruler?"

Li Yi walked up to Xiahou Yu and looked at the Tianshui Yue, then asked casually, "Why are you so sure?"

Xia Houying turned and walked towards the statues of the twelve mythical beasts, carefully observing the shapes of each statue. The twelve mythical beasts are: Pi Xie, Celestial Deer, Dragon Horse, Giant Elephant, Xiezhi, Divine Ox, Stone Tiger, Yellow Bear, Three-legged Turtle, Nine-tailed Fox, Wild Boar and Yinglong.

Xia Houying looked around and raised her head to the dome. She said, "It is said that these twelve mythical beasts have helped our ancestors control floods. But you see, the twelve mythical beasts here seem to be afraid of our ancestors. No, that's not right. They are not afraid of our ancestors. They are all looking towards the northwest sky."

Xia Houying pointed to the northwest corner of the dome and said, "Since the rise of the human race, there have been two major floods, and both of these floods started from the northwest. They are afraid of something in the northwest! Just take a picture over there!"

Li Yi stretched out his hand and released his talent which turned into a ball of light. He controlled the talent to illuminate the dome. In the northwest corner, there was a huge statue of a python. The giant python was coiled on the stone cone of the dome, with its bloody mouth wide open and its tongue sticking out, staring at the twelve mythical beasts below.

Xia Houying blurted out: "The ruler! The snake in the python's mouth is the ruler! Quick! Send me up!"

Li Yi summoned the image of Acala and carried Xiahou Ying to the giant python statue. From this angle, the twelve mythical beasts seemed to be saluting it, and King Yu seemed to be praying to it. Xiahou Ying slowly put his hand into the giant python's mouth and held its tongue, which was the legendary measuring ruler.

Xia Houying tried to pull out the ruler, but no matter how hard she tried, it didn't budge. She said to Li Yi, "No, I can't pull it out!"

Li Yi controlled the image of the Acala Vidyaraja to grow larger, and held the measuring ruler with the arm behind the image, slowly exerting force, and finally pulled the measuring ruler out! Li Yi put away the image of the Acala Vidyaraja, caught Xia Houying, and then handed the measuring ruler to her.

"Is this the legendary measuring stick? It looks like just an ordinary bronze handle, nothing special about it."

Just as Xiahou Ying was about to take a closer look at this magical weapon left by his ancestors, he heard a rumbling sound coming from the dome! The two looked up and saw a column of water gushing out of the giant python's mouth, and then the entire northwest dome collapsed, and the water poured down.

Li Yi snatched the measuring ruler and stuffed it into the sack, then picked up Xiahou Ying and said, "Hold me tight! This place is going to collapse! We don't even know where we are now! We would be in trouble if we were at the bottom of Poyang Lake!" He then summoned the twenty-foot-tall image of Acalanatha to protect himself and Xiahou Ying.

Boom... Boom... Boom... Huge rocks fell, water poured in, and the entire altar was destroyed...

It seemed like an earthquake had occurred around Poyang Lake, and the epicenter was Poyang Mountain! Rocks collapsed, the lake surged, and the entire Poyang Mountain sank into the water, leaving no isolated island behind. No trace of it could be found! The water level of Poyang Lake dropped by more than ten feet!

The water flow at the confluence of Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River suddenly changed, and the water from the Yangtze River poured into Poyang Lake, sweeping all the large ships that were originally parked at the mouth of Piaotou Lake into Poyang Lake. Everyone on the ship was horrified and had no idea what was happening. They ran to the deck and looked at the vast Poyang Lake, not knowing what to do.

The Yanjia soldiers who were originally fighting on Poyang Mountain sank to the bottom of the lake because they had no time to take off their heavy armor. Only a few generals escaped thanks to their own Qi, but they could only hold on to floating tree trunks to barely support themselves.