White Bone Monkey King

The entrance outside the side hall is quite special.

They were two huge stone doors cut from complete white marble, each door was more than three people tall.

It looks very heavy just by looking at it.

A door collapsed and was covered in dust.

One door is still intact.

I don’t know how many years this underground palace has been buried deep in the ground, but it must have been thousands of years. These huge white marble doors are still as white as snow, and each white marble door is inlaid with two barefoot gold pavements.

The head of the shop is the animal head ring decorated on the door leaf.

According to different materials, the name of this shop is also different. The one made of copper is called copper shop, the one made of silver is called silver shop, and the one made of gold is naturally called gold shop.

And pasuou also has another function.

Appearing on temples, it is used to ward off evil spirits; when used on folk doors, it is used to avoid misfortunes and pray for blessings, praying to mythical beasts to protect a family's house.

"After such a long time, these two gold shop heads are still as new as new, which shows that they are genuine barefoot gold." The old Taoist priest couldn't help but marveled at the two shop heads that were about the same size as his head and studied them. .

Unlike bronze and silver, gold remains highly pure and rarely tarnishes in the natural environment.

On the ground inside the door, there is another heavy white marble bar used to hold up the door. The stone strips are covered with scriptures used to ward off evil spirits, and both ends are stuck in the grooves of the stone wall.

This white marble bar tops the inside of the gate, indicating that it was specially prepared to prevent someone from opening the door from the outside, and it was planned to seal off this side hall from the beginning.

It's just that the people who built the underground palace didn't expect that the underground palace was destroyed not from the inside, but from the external earthquake. The ground cracked open the Grand Canyon, directly exposing a corner of the side hall buried deep underground, and even the door of the palace was shaken. collapsed.

Jin An studied the stone strips and the grooves in the stone wall for a while, and he roughly figured out how the stone strips sealed the door from the inside.

This stone bar should be placed into the groove at an angle. As the door slowly closes, the stone bar will slide down. When the door is closed, the stone bar will also fall to the bottom, completely resisting the white marble door.

Stepping on the stone door cut from the white marble that fell on the ground, outside the door is a narrow space after hollowing out the earth and stone. It is as long and narrow as a tomb passage. A magnificent palace complex was built in the narrow space.

It turns out that the side hall just now was a corner of the long and narrow palace complex in front of me.

The palace complex is inlaid with gold and jade, and has carved beams and painted buildings. It does not look like the gloomy style of a ghost house at all. Instead, it is as magnificent as an underground palace.

But now this magnificent palace complex has collapsed badly, almost half of it has collapsed, just like the ruins outside.

I don’t know what kind of chaos happened here, which led to the collapse of such a large area.

Jin An speculated that it might be related to the geological disaster in which the ground cracked and a large canyon opened up?

Perhaps due to the dry environment of the underground palace and improper maintenance, the dusty jade railings and jade stones originally used to decorate the palace complex have lost water and turned gray and dull. These jade stones are considered useless.

"There are so many gold and jade. If this underground palace had not been destroyed, it should be as magnificent as the imperial palace. This is not an underground palace, it is clearly a fairy palace." The old Taoist priest said in surprise.

Jin'an was amused by the old Taoist priest's words and said: "Old Taoist, have you forgotten where this is? This is an underground palace buried deep under the five-color soil. Isn't it the fairy palace of the immortals thousands of years ago? Naturally, it must be built magnificently. It’s like a paradise on earth.”

"Since ancient times, haven't people been pursuing death as they were born? They are all pursuing what they want in life and what they want after death. They spend all day in seclusion and practice in a Taoist temple that is like a fairyland and ask about immortality. After death, they definitely don't want to sleep in it. In a gloomy tomb.”

Who would want to live next to a mountain of corpses, hanging coffins, mass graves, scriptures of the dead, and other messy and dirty things like hanged people all day long as a neighbor if they could live well?

Anyway, Jin An felt that if he died, he would definitely not want to be as miserable as the leader of Teng Kingdom, hiding in a gloomy tomb all day long to practice.

As the saying goes, you can't come back empty-handed when you enter Baoshan Mountain. The old Taoist priest felt a little itchy at this moment. Looking at the gold and jade in the palace, he always wanted to take a few pieces away. He began to carefully look at the palace complex in front of him, thinking. Where is the easiest place to start?

But as he watched, the old Taoist priest realized that something was wrong.

"Little brother, have you noticed that there seem to be no footprints in the palace complex? No one has ever set foot in the palace complex..." the old Taoist priest said.

Jin An took a closer look and found that there were no footprints. This was strange. There were so many people from Tianshi Mansion, Yujing Golden Tower, Zhenguo Temple, and several other forces who went to the underground palace together. It was impossible not to leave a footprint.

There must be something weird in this palace complex.

With this thought in mind, he looked around and found something strange. It was a stone beast pillar, as thick as several people could hug it. There were distinct shoe prints on the pillar.

Jin An looked at the cave roof above his head along the stone pillar. This stone pillar was one of the top beams in the huge space where the palace complex was located, supporting the underground space.

The ground is hollowed out, and support pillars will definitely be needed to prevent the earth and rocks from collapsing.

Looking up along the stone pillars, there are criss-crossing beams above the stone pillars, leading to the end of the field of vision.

"It seems that Prince Xiao Ling and the others left the palace complex along the stone pillars and beams. They probably discovered something from the beginning..." Jin An said thoughtfully.

Since someone took the initiative to lead them, there was no reason to go through more detours. After some discussion, the three decided to go up to the rafters and walk over them.

This underground palace has a large space. Even the supporting stone pillars and beams are made tall and thick. The stone beams are spacious and can easily pass a person.

There are a lot of messy footprints on the beam, but fortunately they all go in the same direction, so Jin An and the other two people only need to follow the footprints.

Jin An was in the front of the team, with the old Taoist priest in the middle and his sword broken in the back.

Jin An, who was walking in front, suddenly paused and raised his arm to signal that something was going on.

It turned out that they passed a small hall at their feet. There was a coffin in the small hall, but the coffin was open. The inside and surrounding of the coffin were covered with dust. Apparently no one had set foot in the palace complex for a long time.

There was no body in the coffin.

The three of them quietly observed for a while and saw that there was no unusual movement around the coffin, so they continued to walk forward. Only a few feet away, another open coffin appeared in a small hall at their feet.

There are also no bodies inside.

On the way down, I saw several open coffins one after another, but without exception there were no corpses. I wonder if they were originally empty coffins, or if the corpses inside had escaped on their own?

No wonder Prince Xiao Ling and the others walked over from the beams above their heads instead of walking on the ground. If there were really corpses in those coffins that escaped and wandered around the palace complex, it would be enough for them to drink a pot.

The three of them held their breath and concentrated all the way without exchanging a word. They passed quietly above the palace complex and descended to the ground again.