Unexpectedly, the height of the underground palace was not low, so I jumped down without any preparation in advance. My foot sprained, and severe pain spread from my ankle in an instant.
However, before I had time to breathe, it must be that the Ashoka Tower outside the underground palace could no longer bear the weight of the ruins on the top of the tower pressing on the sandalwood lotus.
There was a huge "boom", and the Ashoka Tower seemed to collapse.
Immediately afterwards, I felt countless water jets spraying out from the center of the underground palace, beating me painfully.
It was dark in the underground palace, and I couldn't figure out the situation at all. I could only squat on the ground with my head in my hands, my back to the water column, and I tried my best to use the backpack on my shoulders to resist the attack of the water column.
About half an hour after I came here, the water began to gradually weaken, and I slowly stood up.
After confirming that there was no other danger in the underground palace for the time being, I took out the only light source left in my backpack - the lighter that had always been with me.
I shook off the water hard and tried beating it a few times, but I was able to get some flames out.
Under the flame of the lighter that could go out at any time, I quickly browsed around the underground palace - due to the destruction of the water column just now, the underground palace was in a mess within the range illuminated by the lighter, and basically no valuable cultural relics could be seen.
Suddenly, a black object on the wall behind me caught my attention. I had seen that object on the altar table in the Xiangtang Hall. It was a spiny-scaled snake and mackerel oil lamp.
I hope God will bless me again and let the lamp still contain lamp oil. I prayed in my heart while walking to the edge of the spiny-scaled snake mackerel oil lamp.
The lighter has been burning for a long time, the steel wheel has begun to get hot, and the flame has gradually weakened, and it feels like it is about to die.
I didn't even have time to see clearly where the lamp was, so I moved the flame to the Spiny Scale Snake Oil Lamp.
As a result, after a few "sizzling" sounds, the flames suddenly shot up, and the thorn-scale snake mackerel oil lamp took over the work of the lighter.
I took the thorn-scale snake mackerel oil lamp off the wall, and the lamps on the other three walls of the underground palace were lit. All of a sudden, the underground palace was brightly illuminated.
Surprisingly, this underground palace was built very crudely.
The underground palace is a single room with a square plan. The walls and floors are made of bricks. The four walls are empty. There is nothing except the four spiny-scale snake mackerel oil lamps. There is a column in each corner with chrysanthemums inlaid on it.
Patterned bronze mirror.
I stood in front of the column, and the yellow-glow bronze mirror reflected my whole body in it. I looked at myself in the mirror, my hair full of mud, my eye sockets sunken, my beard unshaven, and my clothes in tatters.
I could hardly find a complete piece of cloth, so I couldn't help but sigh deeply, turned the spiny-scaled snake mackerel oil lamp in my hand, and walked towards the other end.
The altar in the center of the underground palace is a rectangle running east-west. There is a single-story Xumizuo under the altar, which seems to be used for the owner of the ancient temple to meditate. The altar is full of irregular holes, and there are also small holes near the ground.
Water kept flowing out.
Could it be that those water jets with extremely strong impact just now were ejected from the altar, but why was there water inside the altar, and the impact of the water was so strong, like turbulent waves?
Although the murals on the four sides of the altar have been damaged by water jets, in the incomplete images, it can still be seen that the front of the altar is carved with two ancient beast statues of Zhuyin with human heads and snake bodies. Their bodies are intertwined with each other.
, decorated with lotus petals and cloud patterns around it. At first glance, it looks like two ancient mythical beasts sitting in the clouds looking down at the people meditating on the Sumeru Seat.
The copper letter and Ashoka Stupa on the altar have been destroyed, and stone flakes, copper flakes, and wood chips are scattered around.
I placed the Spiny Scale Snake Oil Lamp on a flat place on the altar table, then took out the foldable weapon shovel from my backpack and rummaged through the pile of rubble on the altar table.
Generally speaking, there will be a gold coffin and a silver coffin hidden in the Asoka Pagoda, and the relics of the Lord Buddha are placed in the gold coffin.
Sure enough, I saw a copper coffin before I turned over it a few times. I put down the engineer shovel, cleaned up the ruins on the copper coffin, and then took it down from the altar.
While holding the copper coffin, my hand touched the copper box under the copper coffin, and I found that the copper box could move. Suddenly, I had an enlightenment.
There should be a spring under the altar. The owner of the ancient temple used the huge power generated when the spring surged to push up the Ashoka Pagoda placed in a copper letter on the altar. Therefore, the Ashoka Pagoda suddenly appeared.
A phenomenon that appears under the sandalwood lotus at the bottom of the tower.
I have to admire the wisdom of the owner of the ancient temple, but at this moment, the principle of the Asoka Tower being able to rise does not have much appeal to me. My interest lies in the copper coffin on the ground.
The exquisiteness of this copper coffin exceeds my imagination. The copper coffin is about half a meter long, more than 30 centimeters wide, and about 30 centimeters high. It sits on a beautifully carved gilt copper xumizuo. The front rail is
The spire-shaped door has a lintel and frame decorated with beads. The top of the door is inlaid with vermilion birds. There are two jade snakes circling on both sides of the door. The top of the back rail is inlaid with basalt and the bottom with snake tails. Both sides of the copper coffin are inlaid with green dragons and white tigers. There are two jade snakes on both sides of the coffin lid.
The two paving hand rings and the dragon and tiger patterns inlaid on the coffin wall are all inlaid with copper sheets of less than one millimeter, and the craftsmanship is particularly fine.
Although the casting process of the copper coffin is exquisite, I didn't have much time to calm down and appreciate it slowly. I just regretted that my phone was broken and I couldn't take pictures of it.
Don't think too much, let's open the copper coffin first.
The stone coffins used to store the relics of Buddha's bones in past dynasties were all nested in a matryoshka style, with the stone coffin covering a wooden coffin, the wooden coffin covering a copper coffin, and the copper coffin covering a silver coffin. The innermost gold coffin was where the Buddha's bone relics were kept.
Sure enough, when I opened the lid of the copper coffin, there was indeed a silver coffin inside.
This silver coffin is only slightly smaller than the copper coffin that surrounds it. The auspicious animal patterns and patterns carved on the outside are exactly the same as those of the copper coffin. Its shape, relief, engraving, gilding and other techniques are basically the same as those of the copper coffin, but there are some differences.
When embellished with various gemstones such as turquoise, quartz, and onyx, it becomes even more luxurious. A small and slender head at the door is actually embedded with red gemstones smaller than a grain of millet. The sophistication of this craftsmanship is amazing.