“Little brother, it seems we have found a big treasure this time.”
“The term Xuan Palace in Taoism is not simple. It refers to both Taoist temples and palaces where immortals live.”
The old Taoist priest became more and more excited as he talked.
According to what the old Taoist said, this Xuan Palace must be the main hall of the underground palace, where the owner of the tomb is buried.
Unexpectedly, they found the main tomb chamber so easily and got a glimpse of the true face of the tomb owner in Lushan.
Perhaps because of the relationship between being members of the Taoist sect, the old Taoist priest was particularly excited when he saw Xuan Gong, while Jin'an was much calmer.
He bent down and checked the dusty footprints on the ground, frowned and said: "There are many footprints on the ground that entered the Xuan Palace and never came out. They should be those left by Daoyou Xu, Prince Xiaoling, and Monk Qianshi. The only footprints left are those of entering.
Come out, be careful on the next road, these people may still be in the Xuan Palace, unless there are other exits in the Xuan Palace."
Next.
Like a long snake procession, the three people entered the magnificent and huge temple in front of them one by one. Jin An was in the front, Chi Jian was in the back, and the old Taoist priest was in the middle.
They entered the Xuan Palace with caution and vigilance one by one. The torch in their hand was crackling and burning, reflecting the surrounding stone walls. In fact, Jin An, who was dressed in jewels and jewels, was walking in front, which was the best light source.
The door of Xuan Palace and Ming Tower has been pushed open. I don’t know whether it was pushed open from the beginning or by Prince Xiao Ling and others. After passing through the hole in the Ming Tower city wall, there is the main building of Xuan Palace. Xuan Palace is
Made of stone strips, each of which is half a person's height, most of the main buildings in Xuan Palace are still well preserved and were not seriously damaged in the earthquake.
This Xuan Palace is very grand and tall, which makes the environment inside even more dim. Except for the stone buildings that can be seen everywhere, there is not even a trace of gold, silver, bronze and iron. The Xuan Palace is obviously the main tomb chamber, and it is magnificent.
The level of grandeur is actually not as good as the last floor of the morgue tower.
Not only does this place not have the grandeur of gold, stone and jade railings as imagined, but after the ever-burning lamps in the lamp holders were extinguished, only the gloomy darkness remained.
Even if you want to look up at the top of your head, because Xuan Palace is so tall, the top of your head is completely shrouded in dark shadows and you can't see anything.
It’s really weird everywhere.
An open land appeared in front of us, and there were several five-color earth pagodas lined up in a row on the open land, corresponding to the five colors of earth: green, red, yellow, white, and black.
In each five-color earthen pagoda, there is a sarcophagus.
The three of them counted carefully and found that there were ten five-color earth pagodas lined up in a row. Among them, the first to the ninth five-color earth pagodas all contained a sarcophagus. Only the tenth five-color earth pagoda was empty and contained nothing.
Didn't release it.
"Nine is the number of extremes, and ten is the number of infinity. The ten after nine is the circle of the sky, and all things are destroyed, which represents the return of the nine and nine to the chaotic world where all things originated, that is, escaping into the void. This tenth
There is nothing placed in the five-color earth pagoda. It should be taken from the void, which means chaos, and corresponds to death?" The old Taoist priest studied the five-color earth pagoda and whispered to Jin An, who was standing behind him.
He continued: "Old Taoist, I see that the surfaces of these five-color earth pagodas are all engraved with scriptures. The ten five-color earth pagodas in front of me should not only correspond to death, but they should also be used to ward off evil spirits and exorcise nuó. There is a lot of yin energy underground in this mountain.
It is good at raising evil spirits, mountain spirits and wild monsters, so it requires guardian gods and door gods to prevent evil spirits from intruding into the Xuan Palace, so as not to disturb the sleep of the deceased."
“Of course, no matter how powerful this five-color earthen pagoda was originally, it has been destroyed now. If it had not been broken, the sarcophagi in the five-color earthen pagoda would not have been overturned and destroyed.” The old Taoist priest finally added.
It is indeed as the old Taoist said, the sarcophagi in these five-color earthen pagodas have long been destroyed and covered with thick dust.
After passing through the gap between the five-color earthen pagodas, you directly come to a grander and more spectacular main hall paved with huge stones. The main hall is very empty. In the center stands a huge stone tree covered with yellow symbols. Only the tree body is bare.
And branches, no leaves.
That petrified tree was really huge, with a thick texture. It was actually taller than the giant tree they spent the night on a few days ago. The bark was like the edges of rocks, showing a lime-gray color, and a heavy and ancient artistic conception was oppressing it.
The three of them were all surprised. They held torches in their hands and tried to look up to see how tall the petrified giant tree was. As a result, the petrified giant tree kept growing into the darkness above their heads, with no end in sight.
咻!
Jin An pulled out a stone arrow, tied it to a torch, and shot an arrow into the sky. He finally saw what was happening on the top of Xuan Palace for the first time.
"ah?"
The old Taoist priest exclaimed, and there was a huge mural on the top of Xuan Palace. The painting was of an ugly monster with arms and legs, a green face and fangs. It was staring downwards with a pair of evil eyes that seemed to want to eat people.
For everyone who steps into Xuan Palace.
Under the lighting of the torch, Jin An saw a large hole in the roof of Xuan Palace. The body of the petrified giant tree passed through the hole in the roof, growing towards the sky, and finally pierced into the rock formation. He did not know where it ended up growing from.
A large number of ancient vines and beards like stone pillars hang down from high places.
Seeing that the petrified giant tree could not be seen to the end, the three of them looked back at the tree trunk in front of them. When they carefully walked around behind the petrified giant tree, they suddenly saw a white shadow standing motionless behind the tree. They were caught off guard. The three of them were caught off guard.
It was all a sudden kick under the feet.
When I looked carefully, I realized that the white figure was a lifelike stone figurine. The posture of the stone figurine was a bit strange, with its palms pressed against the petrified tree, and its face still showed the excitement and joy of life, as if it was in
What kind of unique treasure was found in Xuan Palace?
It is also weird to say that the skin of this stone figurine is exactly the same as that of the dead people covering the riverbed outside.
The only difference between the two is that the clothes of the dead people in the river bed are old-fashioned and they are not from the Kangding country at first glance, but the stone figurine in front of them is wearing the clothes of the Kangding country.
“Will they be the same people who went down to the underground palace before?”
It wasn't until the torch came closer that he could see clearly the facial features of the stone figurine. Jin An was surprised. This man had just exchanged information with him in the morning! The man in front of him was not a stone figurine carved from stone. He was clearly a living person who had been petrified and became a stone figurine.
dead.
This discovery directly made him frown.
“Hey, why does this old Taoist look so familiar to me?” The old Taoist also followed Jin An and leaned his head to look at the stone figurines on the ground.
Jin An held a torch and shined a light on the petrified tree, and then on the stone figurines on the ground who were full of fear before they died. After several comparisons, he said solemnly: "Old Taoist, sharpen your sword, do you think this is the case?"
The color of the petrified tree is very similar to the skin color of the stone figurines in front of us, and the skin color of the stone figurines piled with corpses in the riverbed outside?"
Well!
The old Taoist priest was not a dull man. He seemed to think of something immediately. He was so frightened that he quickly took a few steps back, away from the stone figurines and giant petrified trees on the ground: "My mother, it turns out that we really stepped on dead people along the way.
The corpse came over!"
“There are so many stone figurines in that valley...how many people should die?”
Jin An did not answer the old Taoist priest's words. He took a few steps closer to the petrified tree, and this time he made an even more surprising discovery. There were a large number of yin polygonum multiflorum growing on the bark of the petrified tree. These yin polygonum multiflorum were much larger than those on the white marble bridge.
The corpse polygonum multiflorum seen above is even larger, which shows that the corpse poison is more toxic, but now it is just the gray petrified polygonum multiflorum.
I didn’t notice it when I was standing far away. It wasn’t until I got closer that I realized that the stone bumps I saw before were all petrified Polygonum multiflorum.
When the old Taoist priest saw that Jin An was so close to the petrified tree, he was so frightened that his heart almost jumped into his throat. He quickly shouted in a low voice: "Little brother, be careful, don't get too close. This is a giant tree that looks like a stone."
Question, haven’t you seen that everyone who touches it turns into a stone? This petrified tree can petrify all things, somewhat like the Taoist Midas Technique!"
The old Taoist priest stared at Jin An who was very close to the petrified tree without blinking. He was deeply afraid that the other party would accidentally fall or trip over the floor tiles without paying attention, so he would throw himself on the petrified tree and be turned into stone.
From now on, every July 15th, he and Xiajian, his brothers and sisters could only come to this underground palace to burn paper money to pay homage to Jin An.
The old Taoist priest persuaded him again and again, and finally persuaded him to come back to Jin'an. He then breathed a sigh of relief and expressed some of his guesses: "Little brother, old Taoist, I probably understand why this Xuan Palace only has stones, and there is nothing like a stone bridge. Stop."
It is as magnificent as the tower in the corpse room, inlaid with gold, silver and jade..."
"The five elements are mutually reinforcing and restraining each other, metal overcomes wood, and wood overcomes earth. This sacred tree in front of me can be like Taoist stone magic. Among the five elements, it is wood. It serves as a needle to stabilize the sea and stabilize the eye of the formation. It can stabilize the underground palace and the thick earth and ward off evil spirits.
To expel Nuo. That’s why we didn’t see gold, silver, bronze, or iron in the Xuan Palace, except for stones, because the people who built the underground palace didn’t want the gold energy to damage the foundation of the stone tree.”
After walking around the stone tree and finding no clues, the three of them decided to look for other clues in other parts of Xuan Palace first.
"Mom, that mural above my head looks really scary. I don't know why such a scary demon mural was painted in the Xuan Palace where the immortals live." Along the way, the old Taoist priest searched the Xuan Palace.
He murmured in a low voice, and from time to time he looked up at the terrifying green mural with gloomy and twisted features above his head under the dim and unclear light of the torch.
In fact, the old Taoist priest originally wanted to say that what was enshrined here was not the Taoist immortals, but some kind of man-eating demons and ghosts. But he was also worried that if he slandered the underground palace in such a way, something in the underground palace would hear it and anger this person.
The underground palace, so I forced myself to hold these words back in my stomach.
Subsequently, they found a left hall in a corner of the main hall, but there was nothing in the left hall except a dry spring.
According to the guess of the old Taoist priest, the springs that appear in the tomb are generally used to vent the Yin energy and gather the Yang energy, bringing vitality to the cemetery. The main purpose is to prevent the Yin energy in the tomb from being too heavy, which can easily nourish evil spirits and bring about evil spirits.
Ominous sign.
Although water belongs to black evil and xuanshui is yin energy, the cathode generates yang energy. The flowing water can bring vitality. In places with cold and heavy yin energy, it can bring a glimmer of life, that is, yang energy.
After walking out of the side hall, the three of them continued to explore in the dark Xuan Palace, looking for any other clues. They did find another passage, but before they could go far, they found that the passage collapsed and turned into a dead end.
Jin An stepped forward and looked at Duantou Road, then shook his head at the old Taoist priest and Xiejian and said: "No, these earth and rocks are buried very deep at first glance, completely blocking the passage. Even if you want to blow it up, you can't blow it open. It will only
Cause bigger landslides."
At this time, the old Taoist priest held up the compass and said: "Old Taoist, if I read it correctly, this passage is opened on the central axis of Xuan Palace, and it should be an apse."
"Generally speaking, the back hall of this mausoleum is used to store shrines, ancestors' spiritual tablets, and coffins. This Xuan Palace is where immortals live. There are no coffins for human burials in the main hall. Maybe the underground palace we are looking for
The owner of the tomb was buried in the apse... It is a pity that the apse collapsed and buried him, and future generations will never be able to see the true face of the owner of the Xuan Palace in Lushan."
The old Taoist priest said with a sigh.
Seeing the regretful look on the old Taoist priest's face, Jin An said quite speechlessly: "As an old Taoist, according to the extent of the destruction of this underground palace, we only saw empty coffins and not a single body along the way. Even if this
There are really people buried in the apse, and the immortal’s body is probably gone long ago. Otherwise, why do you think the apse collapsed?"
The curious old Taoist priest couldn't help but ask Jin An: "Little brother, aren't you curious about who the owner of this underground palace tomb is?"
Unexpectedly, as soon as the old Taoist priest finished speaking, an explosion suddenly sounded in the underground palace, and then the mountain shook violently, and a large amount of dust fell from the ropes above their heads.
Jin An nervously shouted: "No, run quickly, there's going to be another landslide here."
The shaking of the earth lasted for a while before it stopped. The three people who had run back from the passage to the main hall were all looking a little embarrassed. Jin An coughed and patted the dust from his hair, and couldn't help but complain to the old Taoist priest.
: "Old Taoist, with your mouth of a crow whose zodiac sign is the thirteenth, stop saying some unlucky words in the underground palace! You see, you have made the old man in the underground palace angry, so you are not afraid that someone who has been dead for thousands of years will really pull you.
Let’s go into the coffin and talk about old times!”
The old Taoist priest felt very wronged. He was just curious about who was buried by the owner of this underground palace. Curious was curiosity, and respect for the dead was due to respect for the dead. However, he had not lived enough yet, and he did not want to be buried as a burial object in a hurry. The old Taoist priest was about to reach the end of his life.
With aggrieved face, he opened his mouth to defend. Suddenly, Jin An shouted coldly in the main hall: "Who is sneaking and hiding there!"
“Sharp the sword, you stay and protect the old man!”
镪! The Kunwu sword was unsheathed, and the air buzzed and vibrated. After Jin An shouted to cut the sword, the man had already strode towards the petrified tree in the center of the main hall.
Through the gaps between the hanging vines and roots, I could vaguely see a dark figure squatting behind the petrified tree, peering at the three of them.
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However.
Jin An rushed behind the petrified tree and there was no movement. There was no sound of fighting or talking. Ever since he entered the underground palace, the cemetery has been full of weirdness. Weird things happened one after another, especially when the Xuan Palace fell into silence.
, the oppressive feeling from the unknown darkness made people even more breathless. The old Taoist priest waited and waited for news from Jin'an. He worriedly shouted in a low voice behind the petrified tree: "Little, little brother, you
How is the situation over there?"
Jin An's voice came from behind the petrified tree: "Old Taoist, sharpen your sword, come here quickly and see what I found! You will never imagine what fell from the petrified tree during the shock just now!"
Jin An's tone was a little strange. It was both surprised, as if he had seen something shocking, and also solemn and vaguely uneasy.
Hearing Jin'an's cry, the old Taoist priest and Chi Jian, who had long been concerned about Jin'an's safety, hurried over.
Deng Deng Deng!
At this moment, the sound of messy footsteps of many people could be heard in the quiet Xuan Palace where only Jin An and the other three were present. All they saw were disgraced people escaping in embarrassment from the other right hall of the Xuan Palace. As soon as they left the right hall,
Hearing Jin An's shout, they all ran towards the petrified tree.
There are many old faces among these people, including Prince Xiaoling, Xu Anping, and Monk Qianshi who were the first to descend to the underground palace...