Chapter 308: Underground Spiritual Hall
Imagine when you wake up in the middle of the night and there is no one around, and suddenly you find a crack in the wardrobe door in the corner - what does that feel?
And now, changing this scene to a strange thousand-year-old ancient tomb - what does it feel like?
The light of the firefly talisman illuminated the half-open copper-skinned door, but the black shadow in the center suddenly squeezed out from the crack of the door, like a long black tentacle.
"this…"
Su Yuzhu, who was in front, subconsciously took a step back and was grabbed by Jie Tianyang behind him.
"Be honest." Jie Tianyang stared at the crack in the door, lowered his voice and shouted at Su Yuzhu, "Is this what your people pried open before?"
"The last time I came, this door was obviously closed!"
Su Yuzhu cursed softly, but while cursing, she shook her nose and smelled it, and then her face turned pale: "There is a strong spiritual smell here... This smell is probably more yin-like!"
Xie Tianyang's face changed slightly. He turned his head to look at Han Jiangchen behind him. The latter was also frowning at the crack in the door. After a while, he shook his head, indicating that at this angle, he could not see the specific situation inside.
According to Su Yuzhu's narrative, his previous experience ended here, and the team was also missing here.
In other words, this door may be the key node that separates the world from the extraordinary - and now it is automatically opened!
The five of them immediately held their weapons tightly and waited in front of the door with their bodies tense, so as to prevent the door from suddenly opening up, and a ghost corpse or something popping out of it.
But after waiting for a long time, not only did the imagined enemy not move, but even the spiritual power inside seemed to have stopped and had no fluctuations at all.
"I can try to use my spiritual sense to sweep it inside first." Jiang Ling whispered, "But if there is really a barrier of soul-devouring spells here, my soul that I release may be imprisoned inside. If you find that I have a sign that my soul is out of my body, hurry up..."
"No, it's too risky, and it's not necessary."
Before the other three people raised their concerns, Jie Tianyang, the previous one, had already rejected the proposal: "Let Tenggen come in and try it first. Be prepared and prepare all the defense and transfer techniques. If something really triggers, you must ensure that you can retreat as soon as possible."
Everyone responded and consciously prepared according to his words. Jie Tianyang flipped his wrist and the chess piece with a flash of inspiration. The red snake as big as a palm was already held in his hand.
But this time he did not inject spiritual power to expand it, but raised it directly, and saw the little snake hissing and spitting out a letter, bounced its tiny body and squeezed into the dark crack in the door.
After watching the snake shadow disappear into the crack in the door, everyone's hearts were raised to their throats. They stared at Jie Tianyang in front of them and kept making gestures silently. They closed their eyes and seemed to be feeling something. When they opened their eyes again, the tight lines on their faces were already relaxed a little.
"I haven't encountered any danger yet." Jie Tianyang let out a sigh of relief, "I have let Tenggen recover his body. If the mechanism is not triggered with this body shape or spiritual power fluctuation, there should be no problem for people to enter."
With this sentence, the few people felt a little relieved.
"I'm the first to enter." Wu Hao in the team stepped forward first, "The danger cannot be completely eliminated now. If there is any accident, I might be able to stop it."
Although it is buried within the burial of the soil, in the reflection of this strange light, the temple seems to be suspended among the golden auspicious clouds in the sky, with lifelike golden dragons and silver phoenixes accompanying them, each brick and tile revealing its magnificence, and a stone and a wood show the royal atmosphere.
Just looking at the hall, the six people seemed to have an illusion: it seemed that a vermilion gate was slowly opening above the temple, and the emperor in a black dragon robe stepped on the steps and stood on the golden platform, looking down at it.
The other tombs were buried deep underground, wishing to hide themselves without anyone to see, only the First Emperor was not. He was the best in the world during his lifetime, but still stood on the top of the mountain after his death.
No matter when and after his death, that man always stood at the highest point in history, looking forward to his thousand-year dynasty and country.
Even though he was already a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, the illusion that spanned time still made the five people feel palpitations.
After more than ten seconds, they came back to their senses from the shock, and then they realized that there was no emperor figure on the top of the palace, and just a rippling stream of white smoke rose from it.
"This seems..." Yuan Qingqing took the lead in seeing the smoke clearly, "like... the elixir smoke came out of the furnace during the alchemy."
This statement shocked several people. In a tomb, there were people who were refining alchemy?
After the shock, the horror came immediately.
The external formation, the open gate, the glorious imperial city, and the current elixir... Could it be that someone is using this terrain to refine some special elixirs? He also ran to the imperial tomb to refine elixirs?
The door outside is open, which means someone has entered here, but if the person has left, there is no reason not to re-enclose the place.
Could it be that...the person who entered here has not left yet?
No one spoke for a while, and everyone was secretly thinking about various measures to deal with it.
In the solidified atmosphere, only Su Yuzhu leaned forward, shook her nose and sniffed, and then her expression darkened.
"The smell of the spiritual weapon I lost came from here," he said.
Another unexpected statement, the five people looked at each other again, and then confirmed something from each other's eyes.
All kinds of clues and doubts point to the temple, and now there is no other way to confirm the situation except moving forward.
"Follow me. This time I can't go directly through the main entrance, I have to go around the side door." Su Yuzhu actually spoke on his own initiative, "I heard that the design of this royal tomb often follows the technique of "Qimen Dunjia". There is often more than one entrance in the building, but only one door is the "life gate" that can be passed by for people, and the rest are all "death gates". Once you enter, it will trigger the mechanism."
Everyone determined the policy in silence. Jie Tianyang waved his hand to recall Tenggen, who had turned into a dragon and snake next to him. Only then did the group maintain their formation just now and slowly move forward.
They walked through the open square together, stepped through the moat opened with groundwater, passed through the wide open hall gate in front of the nine-story rammed earth platform, and finally entered the main palace area.
It was at this distance that they saw something clearly.
The light outside the main hall was actually composed of thousands of luminous spiritual patterns!
This entire hall is a huge three-dimensional painting paper, used to support a huge magic array, gather the surrounding spiritual power, and turn the hall into a real sacred temple.
Looking at the marks on it, it is obviously not a recent fine brushwork. I am afraid that it has been carved to protect the hall when it was built.
It is precisely because of this that the underground space can always maintain the circulation of spiritual energy and air without damaging the items inside at all - because the hall itself is a huge underground barrier!
That is to say, the history of immortal cultivators can indeed be traced back to before the Qin Dynasty.
The few people were secretly thinking about it, passing through the palace wall with flashing spiritual patterns and entering the outer palace area.
With the prompt from the "Qimen Dunjia" just now, Jie Tianyang, the leader, was cautious this time, and still asked Tenggen to follow in first. He found out that the situation inside was indeed the so-called "Shengmen", and then led this team into it.
When they stepped into the gate, they imagined all kinds of situations of rivals meeting each other and were ready for battle. But when they really entered, the scene that caught their eyes was... empty.
Yes, there is no one. The structure of this inner hall is similar to the altar. There are square low steps in the center, surrounding the central platform, but there is no living around it.
Moreover, it looked so bright outside, but after entering the outer hall, the light around it did not become brighter, but instead became strangely dimmed.
The square of more than ten acres is silent in the shadows, while the remaining light gathers in the middle like a spotlight, illuminating the platform placed in the center—
It was a high platform made of bronze. The base was supported by nine long dragons, about two meters above the ground. It was arranged like a sacrificial platform. There were bronze statues kneeling in a circle around it, as if they were sacrificial priests. Their hands were raised, surrounding the bronze tripod in the middle, as if they were performing some ritual.
This small tripod is only the size of an ordinary pressure cooker. There is no one operating around and there is no flame burning below, but from it, a rich and abnormal elixir smoke rose from it, soaring straight into the sky and never dissipated for a long time.
Judging from this scene, this is the source of the smoke we just saw outside - a alchemy furnace that is still operating a thousand years later and can still be refined by itself without anyone operating it.
It is obvious that this is a spiritual weapon, and it is a spiritual weapon they have never heard of.
"This taste...this is what I'm looking for!"
At this time, Su Yuzhu in front suddenly made a sound, and saw him sniffing with his nose, his eyes locked on the small tripod.
"The cauldron on it is the spiritual weapon I brought this time!"
This discovery was really unexpected, and everyone couldn't help but look at him.
"Can it be the same thing, but it looks the same?" Wu Hao asked him.
"Impossible." Su Yuzhu shook her head, "Every kind of spiritual power smell is unique, I can't smell it wrong. This is the one I brought."
He was obviously very excited, but he seemed undecided, as if he wanted to come forward to retrieve the lost treasure, but he didn't dare.
Even after listening to the five people from Kunlun University whom he told, they had already noticed something wrong with this.
According to what was said before, Su Yuzhu entered the cauldron with this cauldron, and unexpectedly fell into a coma in the middle of the process, and the spiritual weapon in the cauldron in his arms was lost. But when he entered again, the cauldron had automatically run back to the original object? And he was still performing an unmanned refining?
The five of them fell into deep thought and stared at the still angry cabin in front of them. They felt that the clues in their minds were messy and they didn't know what to do for a moment.
After the silence was maintained, it was Han Jiangchen who broke the silence this time.
"This alchemy tripod may be the source of this disaster."
A sentence attracted everyone's eyes, and he saw him squint at the tripod, and then he continued: "The spiritual power from outside is gathered into this tripod through the artwork on the wall of this hall."
His eyes could not lock and track the target like Su Yuzhu's nose, but he could see through the situation that others could not see through. The moment he entered this outer hall, he had already seen the situation here.
Suddenly, another new clue came. The few people who had not yet thought about the previous article were stunned. In a daze, only Jiang Ling's eyes were deep, as if she had chewed his words carefully before she suddenly spoke.
Chapter completed!