When all the stone pillars vibrated and sounded at the same frequency, under the surprised gazes of the four people, the stone pillars began to descend and sink into the ground.
"Back off!"
Ye Xiao shouted softly, and the four of them retreated towards the spacious place. However, before taking a few steps back, the ground began to shake. Then, the giant bat corpse lying in the middle of the stone room suddenly curled up and gradually sank.
After all the bat corpses fell into the ground, the surrounding stone pillars also collapsed and disappeared, leaving only fire altars burning with flames on the surface.
As the ground stopped shaking, the four people looked towards the place where the giant bat corpse disappeared, and a square entrance suddenly appeared.
Down from the entrance, there is a row of stone stairs that extend downwards. Looking along the stone stairs, you can faintly see the shadows of firelight flickering.
"Let me go, there is a cave in this stone room!"
Lying down at the entrance, Sun Jie stretched his neck and reached his head into the entrance, trying to see as far as possible.
When Ye Xiao saw this, without saying a word, he kicked Sun Jie on the butt, and the latter immediately rushed towards the stone staircase like a hungry dog eating shit.
"Who kicked me!"
Sun Jie, who had been kicked into the entrance by Ye Xiao, had not yet stood up, but was already resentful. Taking advantage of the opportunity for him to stand up, Ye Xiao, Zhu Tingcen and Situ Yanlan jumped up the stone stairs one after another.
"Let's go! Don't complain, don't you want to see it? I kicked you down just to let you see it more clearly."
Ye Xiao patted Sun Jie's back gently with his palm and spoke with reason. After finishing speaking, he was the first to walk towards the bottom of the stone staircase.
Zhu Tingcen and Situ Yanlan smiled and said nothing, catching up with Ye Xiao, while Sun Jie could only keep up silently.
After walking for a short time, the four of them arrived at the end of the stone staircase. The moment they saw what they saw, the four of them couldn't help but take a breath of cold air and their scalps became numb.
At the end of the stone staircase, a blood-stained stone tablet stood, with the three words "Netherworld Road" engraved on it.
Of course, just like the entrance to the cave at the bottom of the abyss, they belong to ancient times and only Ye Xiao can understand them.
Behind the stele, a stone path extends straight, which is undoubtedly the Netherworld Path described on the stele.
Stone altars were placed on both sides of the stone path. Flames rose from the altars and illuminated the stone path. Along the way, they also illuminated the bottomless cliffs on both sides. Looking around, the black life was lingering, and it was so wide that it made people wonder.
Not to the edge.
"It's really weird. This thing must be thousands of years old at least, but how can the blood on it be kept so fresh?"
Sun Jie was about to touch the stone tablet out of curiosity, but was soon stopped by Ye Xiao.
"Have you forgotten the ice crystal rocks at the bottom of the abyss?"
Ye Xiao kindly reminded him, but Sun Jie's pupils suddenly shrank and he retracted his hand angrily.
"Let's go!"
Ye Xiao waved his hand and then stepped onto the Netherworld Road. From his point of view, there was only this road behind the stone monument. As long as he walked along it, a different kind of scenery would appear.
call!
The strong wind howled through the cliff, blowing the air of death that filled the air, giving people an extremely eerie feeling.
"I bet all the dead energy outside escaped from here! I don't know what is under this cliff that could give birth to such a ghost thing!"
As Sun Jie walked, he began to talk.
"If you want to know, please beg me. I can send you down easily with just one kick, just like Xiao Zizi kicked you onto the stone stairs before!"
Zhu Tingcen raised his eyebrows at Sun Jie and deliberately poked his scar.
"Go, go, go! Who wants you to send me away? Why can't I go down by myself?"
Sun Jie scolded impatiently and pushed Zhu Tingcen aside.
While the two were joking, Ye Xiao and Situ Yanlan reached the end of the stone path, and a wide stone door appeared in front of them.
The stone door is tightly closed, the surface is pitch black, and the lines carved on it have long been blurred by the passage of time, but even so, you can still roughly tell that it is a ferocious beast with fangs.
Connected to the stone gate is a huge mountain. Because the mountain is entangled in the black death air in the air, its specific size cannot be clearly seen.
"Zhenling Hall!"
Looking at the dark stone door, Ye Xiao couldn't help but speak. On the top of the stone door, there were also words from ancient times engraved on it.
"Zhenling Hall? Where is it?"
Sun Jie was stunned and searched for a long time on the stone gate, but he couldn't see the 'Zhenling Hall' that Ye Xiao mentioned.
"Far away, yet so close!"
Fortunately, with Zhu Tingcen guiding him, Sun Jie found the location of the 'Zhenling Hall'. However, more doubts soon came to his mind because he couldn't see what was written.
"Don't read it. I don't know what it is written, so don't feel embarrassed. Besides, Xiao Yezi has read it out, so we can just listen."
Zhu Tingcen opened his mouth to express relief. As he spoke, Ye Xiao approached the stone door, placed his hands on the stone door, and pushed hard.
"You all come here and help me!"
Unfortunately, the stone door was too heavy, and Ye Xiao himself was injured. No matter how hard he tried, the stone door still did not move at all, so he had to call Sun Jie, Zhu Tingcen and Situ Yanlan all over.
Wow!
As the four people exerted their strength at the same time, the stone door finally started to move, and it slowly opened to the inside.
"Woo~"
However, just as the stone door opened, a gust of wind roared out from inside the door, carrying a thick black death aura and roaring like a ghost, which made the four people feel chills in their hearts.
"Damn, it scared me to death. I dare say this is the most shocking news I have ever heard in my life!"
As soon as the stone door was pushed open, Sun Jie spoke with lingering fear. However, he was so frightened that the scene in front of him almost paralyzed him to the ground.
In the main hall, there were numerous piles of bones on the ground, scattered in every corner, and the black death energy kept overflowing from the piles of bones and lingering in the air.
"Let me go, this doesn't look like a palace, it's obviously a huge burial ground!"
Zhu Tingcen frowned, trying to cover up the fear in his heart with words, but as soon as he finished speaking, his face turned pale.
"This is Zhenling Hall!"
Looking at the bones on the ground, Ye Xiao felt that his vision had suffered an unprecedented impact, and he didn't know what to say.
Although there were countless towering fire altars in the palace, decorated with various stone carvings of birds and animals, they were still not as powerful as the shock that the corpses brought to Ye Xiao.
He originally thought that there would be all kinds of rare treasures he had never seen before waiting for him in this so-called Soul-Suppressing Hall, but when stacks of bones appeared, he realized how naive he had been.
"Netherworld Road? Soul-Suppressing Hall? Soul-Suppressing. Is it just the bones all over the ground that are being suppressed?"
Thinking of the Netherworld Road he walked through when he arrived, Ye Xiao thought thoughtfully. From the moment he entered the abyss, the entire exploration process gave people a feeling of deathly silence.
Coupled with what he saw before his eyes, Ye Xiao could not help but compare it with the underworld described by the ancients.
If Zhenling Hall is compared to the endless hell, then the giant bats in the stone chamber are like the strange beasts guarding the gate of hell. As for the Netherworld Road, it happens to be the road to hell.
"Could it be that what the ancients said was not a fabrication? Rather, it is a derivative of actual facts."
Ye Xiao thought about it, and the more he thought about it, the more scared he became. According to his calculations, the Zhenling Palace appeared thousands of years earlier than the underworld. If the underworld is a derivative of the real story, then wouldn't this be it?
The truth behind the spread?
"Little Ye Zi, why don't we go back?"
Situ Yanlan couldn't help but get close to Ye Xiao, and interrupted Ye Xiao's thoughts with a low voice.
"I also think it's time to go back, if the black death energy is produced by these white bones in front of me.
And there is so much death energy emerging under the cliff, and God knows how many corpses there are below! This is an absolute place of right and wrong!"
Zhu Tingcen spoke at the side and agreed.
Hearing this, Ye Xiao was silent for a long time, thinking that what Zhu Tingcen said was not unreasonable, and at that moment he had the idea of retreating.