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Chapter 339 Royal Mausoleum and Book Emperor's Secret

A golden door opened behind the dragon chair, and after entering the golden door, one came into a dark tunnel.

This is a tunnel through the mountain, about 500 meters long, and there is nothing in the tunnel. Liu Xing and Hua Yingxue walked for a few minutes, and finally a light appeared in front of the tunnel, which was the exit of the tunnel.

When the two left the tunnel, they suddenly understood.

What appeared in front of us was a vast valley surrounded by mountains, like a huge basin.

This valley is the place where Huang Lingtian built his secret bedroom. It was originally surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it was magnificent. There were dozens of palaces, large and small.

However, at this time, the palaces, pavilions, towers and other buildings in the valley have been severely damaged, ruined walls, overgrown with weeds, and the sight is a mess, and it is already a ruin.

And among the ruins, a lot of corpses can still be vaguely seen!
Passing through a collapsed hall, Liu Xing and Hua Yingxue saw a long crack on the mountain behind the hall. The crack was ten meters deep and about 500 meters long, extending from the foot to the distant mountains.

This crack is very smooth, not like a natural fracture of the ground, but as if the ground was split open after being hit by energy fluctuations similar to shock waves.

Along the cracks in the valley, Liu Xing looked into the distance, and saw a mountain range hundreds of meters away was broken in the middle, and the originally connected mountains became a cliff, and the cliff was connected with the cracks on the valley floor.

Seeing this, Liu Xing realized that an extremely violent fight had taken place in this valley.

Both sides of the fight were peerless masters, the two of them fought in the dark, landslides and ground cracks, all the palaces with a radius of hundreds of miles were destroyed, and many people died.

"Why is this palace so chaotic, the palace has collapsed?"

Looking around, Hua Yingxue felt suspicious, raised her head and looked into the distance, her eyes lit up, "Brother Jie, look!"

I saw a fiery red building at the foot of the mountain about 800 meters away. After careful identification, it was actually a palace!
Almost all the palaces in the valley were in ruins, but this red palace seemed to be intact.

"Go and have a look."

Liu Xing and Hua Yingxue flew up, swept towards the red palace, and landed on the open space in front of the palace in a blink of an eye.

The red palace in front of me is about 40 meters high. It is made of red jade, shining red. Under the moonlight, it looks like a giant burning flame. In the flame, a pair of red wings spread out. Like a red phoenix in the fire.

The gate of the red palace is also fiery red. Above the gate hangs a red jade plaque, engraved with three bright red characters—Phoenix Palace!

Hua Yingxue said: "The palaces here are all destroyed, why is this Phoenix Palace preserved intact?"

Liu Xing swept his spiritual sense and said, "There is a formation guarding around this Phoenix Palace."

"Formation?" Hua Yingxue asked again, "What kind of formation?"

Liu Xing said: "It's a formation used to deceive people."

Hua Yingxue was surprised: "There are still people who lie in the formation?"

Liu Xing said: "You can try to see if you can enter this Phoenix Palace."

Hua Yingxue looked at the gate of the Phoenix Palace, it seemed to be just an ordinary mahogany door, which should be accessible, so she walked to the mahogany door, put her small hand on the door, and pushed hard.

The mahogany door was locked and remained motionless.

Hua Yingxue turned her head and asked, "Brother Jie, can I use violence to break down the door?"

Liu Xing smiled and said, "Just try."

After receiving an affirmative answer, Hua Yingxue's beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, and she began to run the "Jade Girl-Heart Sutra", continuously gathering her internal energy in both palms.

Bang!
After a loud noise, Hua Yingxue's white figure was blown out and fell back to Liu Xing's side. On the other hand, looking at the mahogany door of Phoenix Palace, it was unscathed.

"Sure enough, it can't be opened!"

Hua Yingxue was puzzled, "It's just a mahogany door, why is it so strong?"

"Because it's not a mahogany door, everything you see is an illusion." Liu Xing explained, "The formation of this Phoenix Palace is laid out according to the third force 'True and False' in the "General Outline of Plot Rhythm". In the formation, true and false will keep changing, true can be transformed into false, and false can also be transformed into true. The door you see may not be a door; but the door you cannot see may be a door. If you cannot distinguish Of course, the real door cannot be found if it is true or false in the formation."

Hua Yingxue frowned slightly: "You mean, this mahogany door is fake, it's not the entrance of Phoenix Palace at all?"

Liu Xing nodded.

Hua Yingxue asked: "Where is the real gate of Phoenix Palace?"

Liu Xing explained: "The true and false momentum is not static, it is in continuous change, so the gate of the Phoenix Palace is also constantly changing. Only by understanding the law of the true and false momentum can we find the real gate."

After finishing speaking, Liu Xing flew up, swept to the front of Phoenix Palace, and began to jump up and down, flying back and forth near Phoenix Palace, sometimes jumping to the gate of Phoenix Palace, sometimes falling on the pillar of Phoenix Palace, and sometimes flying to Phoenix Palace top.

In this way, Liu Xing went up and down in the Phoenix Palace, erratic, as if he was catching something.

What Liu Xing wanted to capture was the gate of the Phoenix Palace.

The gate of the Phoenix Palace has a "true and false momentum" formation, and there are a large number of fake doors, and the real door is hidden among these fake doors, and it can be converted into a fake door at any time.

This real door is like a cunning "mouse", running and changing in every corner of Phoenix Palace to avoid being discovered.

And Liu Xing is like a "cat", he wants to see through all the tricks and changes of the "mouse", and catch the real "mouse" amidst many illusions.

Because the "rat" is difficult to distinguish between true and false, and unpredictable, it is not easy to catch it.If it is an ordinary person, there is no possibility of success at all.

Fortunately, Liu Xing has comprehended the true and false trends of "General Outline of Plot and Rhythm" from the imperial text, and he is familiar with the laws of the "rat"'s tricks, knowing himself and the enemy, and can predict the "mouse"'s change route in advance.

Whoosh!
After dozens of chases, Liu Xing jumped onto one of the pillars of the palace, with his toes pointing, his figure jumped up and rushed towards the plaque on the gate of the palace, and slapped out his right palm.

Bang!
Suddenly, the plaque was shaken open a rectangular opening.

"Finally caught you!"

Liu Xing wiped the sweat from his forehead, sat on the plaque, and said, "Yingxue, come up, the gate of Phoenix Palace is inside the plaque."

"..." Hua Yingxue was a little speechless, the door was hidden too deep, she paused, she jumped onto the plaque, and glanced into the opening of the plaque, "Do you want to get in from here?"

"Yes, let's go."

After finishing speaking, the two of them got into the opening of the plaque one after another and entered the Phoenix Palace.

Flying down from the air, Liu Xing and Hua Yingxue found that they had arrived at the main hall of the Phoenix Palace.

The hall is round, spacious and bright, and the walls are all made of ruby. Dozens of fire phoenix reliefs are carved on the walls, presenting the image of "Phoenix Nirvana".

"what!"

While looking at the relief on the wall, Hua Yingxue suddenly screamed because she found a foreign object in the hall.

I saw hundreds of mausoleums standing around the hall of the Phoenix Palace!
These tombs are densely packed, they are arranged in three circles, standing quietly around the hall, Liu Xing and Hua Yingxue just stand in the center of these tombs.

"Don't be afraid, it's just a mausoleum." Liu Xing comforted him.

Hua Yingxue calmed down a bit: "Why are there hundreds of tombs here?"

While speaking, Hua Yingxue glanced at the tombstones of the mausoleum, and saw such words written on the third row of tombstones - "Tomb of Concubine Xuerui", "Tomb of Concubine Siyu" Tomb of Concubine Baihe" "Tomb of Concubine Zimei"...

On the second row of tombstones, there are words like this: "Tomb of Concubine Mei Lan", "Tomb of Concubine Yuyan", "Tomb of Concubine De Mingyun", "Tomb of Concubine Shu Jingyi"...

On the first row of tombstones, there are only two tablets in total. One reads "Tomb of Imperial Concubine Qinglian" and the other reads "Tomb of Imperial Concubine Fire Phoenix".

Seeing this, Hua Yingxue immediately reacted: "These hundreds of tombs are all buried with Huang Lingtian's concubines?"

Liu Xing analyzed: "Why is the tomb of Concubine Huang Lingtian standing here? Who erected it?" Pointing to the first row of tombstones, "As far as I know, Huang Lingtian only had one noble concubine during his lifetime. It's called Baihe, why are there two tombs of noble concubines here? Noble concubine Qinglian and noble concubine Huofenghuang, these two noble concubines have no relevant records in the history books."

In China's imperial power system, the status of the imperial concubine is second only to the queen, and her status is noble, which is generally recorded in the annals of history.

"Could it be that Qinglian and Huofenghuang are imperial concubines conferred by Huang Lingtian privately?"

Just as Liu Xing finished speaking, at this moment, the ghost book hidden in his arms flashed white, and a white streamer flew out from the pages of the book, floating in the void, it was Nie Xiaoqian.

"Xiaoqian, why did you come out?" Liu Xing asked.

"Engong, I have something to tell you." Nie Xiaoqian looked at the tombstone of the imperial concubine Qinglian in front of her, with a strange look in her eyes.

A moment later, Nie Xiaoqian floated to the tombstone of the imperial concubine Qinglian, knelt down, and kowtowed three times in front of the mausoleum.

Her actions surprised both Liu Xing and Hua Yingxue.

After kowtowing, Nie Xiaoqian got up slowly, floated into the air, and said, "Grandfather, this noble concubine named Qinglian is my great-grandmother."

"Grandma?" Liu Xing asked, "Xiaoqian, are you also a descendant of the royal family?"

Nie Xiaoqian nodded: "Four years ago, my mother told me before she died that my great-grandmother was called Qinglian, and she was a concubine favored by Huang Lingtian, the last emperor of China. It's just that people in the world have too deep prejudices against the royal family. For the sake of safety, my mother For the sake of it, I never dared to reveal this identity, and didn't tell me the truth until before I died."

Hua Yingxue asked: "Xiaoqian, didn't Huang Lingtian and all his concubines be executed back then, why does imperial concubine Qinglian still have descendants?"

Nie Xiaoqian introduced: "Actually, Huang Lingtian didn't die at all back then."

"Huang Lingtian is not dead?"

"Well." Nie Xiaoqian said, "More than 100 years ago, after the Reading League invaded the palace, they put Huang Lingtian and all the concubines on death row, and were about to execute them. However, there was a concubine named Qinglian in the palace at that time, who was as beautiful as a fairy. , the leader of the death row was shocked and decided to take Qinglian as his own. He never expected that this concubine named Qinglian was loyal to Huang Lingtian. The key to the prison, rescued Huang Lingtian, and then escaped through the secret passage of the prison."

"After Huang Lingtian escaped, in order to avoid affecting morale, the Reading League deliberately concealed the news and lied that Huang Lingtian had been executed."

"After escaping from the prison, Huang Lingtian and Qinglian fled to an island, reorganized their forces on the island, and built a palace in the valley near Tianlong Temple on the island. Because of Qinglian's meritorious service, Huang Lingtian loved her very much and made her a noble concubine. Although Huang Lingtian later accepted hundreds of concubines, there was always only Qinglian as a noble concubine."

"It wasn't until more than 30 years later that Huang Ling appointed a second imperial concubine, and she was Huo Fenghuang. Huo Fenghuang was not only outstanding in appearance, but also extraordinary in intelligence. Huang Lingtian always wanted to regain the imperial power and build his own empire in China again. Fire Phoenix is ​​his most powerful assistant."

"At that time, the influence of the Four Great Book Kings in China was increasing day by day, and they became Huang Lingtian's biggest obstacle. Therefore, Huang Lingtian has always wanted to secretly eradicate the Four Great Book Kings."

"Unfortunately, the situation is not satisfactory. The plan to assassinate the four great book kings many times has not succeeded."

"And one night more than 40 years ago, a masked man in black suddenly broke into the island and sneaked into the palace in the valley. All of Tianhe's more than 300 concubines were killed, and Huang Lingtian's dream of imperial power came to naught."

"Although more than 300 concubines died, Princess Qinglian, the daughter of imperial concubine Qinglian, survived fortunately. As for why Princess Qingqing survived, I don't know, I only know that Princess Qingqing is me grandmother."

"After Huang Lingtian's death, my grandmother, Princess Qingqing, left the island and lived in a mountain village in Tianhai City incognito. She gave birth to a daughter, my mother."

"In the past 40 years, my mother has always lived an ordinary life and never mentioned these things that happened on the island. It was not until she became seriously ill that she told me the truth, saying that I am a descendant of the royal family Huang Lingtian. Great-grandmother is a noble concubine."

Hearing this, Hua Yingxue was stunned for a while, she never thought that Huang Lingtian would have such a tortuous experience, let alone that Huang Lingtian would have descendants.

Liu Xing asked: "Xiaoqian, you said that Huang Lingtian and more than 300 concubines were killed by a masked man in black. Who is this masked man?"

Nie Xiaoqian shook her head: "I don't know either. I heard from my mother that the weapon used by the masked man was a golden scimitar."

"Golden scimitar?"

"Well." Nie Xiaoqian said, "It is said that Mr. Samsara's favorite round weapon is Western Shu Wang. The masked man who killed the royal family may be Lord Samsara...but..."

Nie Xiaoqian immediately turned around and said, "Judging from Engong's words just now, it is obvious that Engong is not a masked person. There must be a misunderstanding."

Until now, Nie Xiaoqian still sees through and thinks that Liu Xing is Lord Samsara.

Liu Xing didn't explain much, and asked again: "Who built the tombs of these hundreds of concubines in the Phoenix Palace?"

Nie Xiaoqian said: "I don't know about that."

Hua Yingxue thought of something and reminded: "Brother Jie, the old nun in Tianlong Temple is Huang Lingtian's concubine. She has always wanted to assassinate Lord Samsara. Could it be that she built these tombs? Also, why are the palaces in the valley They all collapsed, but this Phoenix Palace was completely preserved?"

Nie Xiaoqian analyzed: "Except for my great-grandmother Qinglian Noble Concubine, Huofenghuang Noble Concubine is Huang Lingtian's favorite concubine. This Phoenix Palace should be built by Huang Lingtian for Huofenghuang."

Hua Yingxue said again: "Could it be that the old nun is Huo Fenghuang, she also escaped? The old nun has been guarding Tianlong Temple for so many years, what exactly is she trying to do? She doesn't want to fulfill Huang Lingtian's last wish, Recapture the imperial power in China, shall we?"

Liu Xing frowned slightly, and sighed inwardly: The supernatural area seems to be another big hole left by the four kings of books. Tianlong Temple, the imperial palace, has buried many little-known secrets.

The old nun of Tianlong Temple has been waiting here for decades, probably not just wanting to seize power.The old nun tried every means to win the "General Outline of Plot and Rhythm", it seems to be to open the hall of reincarnation.

But, what is this reincarnation hall, what is it for, and where is it?
Liu Xing had never heard of it.

Of course Liu Xing could arrest the old nun for questioning, but he was afraid of scaring the snake away.

We still don't know the real identity of the old nun, let alone how powerful she still is, so arresting her rashly is not the best policy.

Liu Xing decided to wait and see what happened, and wait patiently for a while.

"Engong, there is a mausoleum here!"

Just as she was thinking, Nie Xiaoqian floated in the center of the hall of the Phoenix Palace, pointed to the ground and said, "There is a huge mausoleum under the ground."

Hearing what she said, Liu Xing's spiritual sense swept away, and he really felt energy fluctuations in the ground, and there seemed to be a bigger mausoleum hidden inside!

"Why is there a mausoleum underground? Could it be Huang Lingtian's tomb?"

The tombs of more than 300 concubines are all in the Phoenix Palace, so it is reasonable for Huang Lingtian's tomb to be hidden here.

In order to find out, Liu Xing decided to dig a grave in the hall of Phoenix Palace...

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(End of this chapter)