There is an unknown underground palace hidden beneath the Imperial Palace of Daxia.

That underground palace is extremely secretive.

Except for the Xia emperors of the past dynasties, few people know about it.

Before their death, all Xia emperors in the past dynasties would instruct the next Xia emperor not to open the underground palace unless it was absolutely necessary.

Under the underground palace, there are things related to the rise and fall of Daxia.

This secret was originally supposed to be told to Xiahou Qi by the late emperor, but the late emperor died suddenly while he was out hunting. There was no time to tell Xiahou Qi at that time, so the late emperor could only tell the secret to the empress at that time, who was later the queen mother.

After the Queen Mother learned of this secret, she did not tell Emperor Xia immediately.

Out of the instinct to protect her children, the Queen Mother secretly went to the underground palace to find out what was in the underground palace before telling Emperor Xia about this.

But no matter how hard the Queen Mother searched, she could not find the entrance to the underground palace.

Only then did the Queen Mother know what the late emperor said before his death.

This underground palace could only be opened by the Xia Emperor at that time when Da Xia's life and death were at stake.

So the Queen Mother kept this secret temporarily.

It wasn't until Gu Yuehai took control of Qingzhou Continent that the Queen Mother realized that if Xia Houqi wanted to save Daxia, he had to open the underground palace.

"After I learned this secret from my mother, I personally went to the entrance of the underground palace that my mother mentioned."

In order to keep this secret, Xia Houchi went there alone, without even a bodyguard.

He walked down from the dragon couch in Xiayang Palace and passed a long underground staircase.

Where the Queen Mother had reached a dead end, he found a door.

It was an ancient bronze door, engraved with ancient patterns.

Those lines looked like some kind of ancient beast. When Xia Houqi came to the door, the eyes of the ancient beast above glowed with a faint light.

When Xia Houqi's eyes met the beast's eyes, Xia Houqi subconsciously walked forward and touched the ancient bronze door with his hand.

"I pushed hard, and unexpectedly the ancient bronze door opened. It was a closed stone chamber, and I saw a huge coffin suspended in mid-air."

Xia Houqi said this and paused.

"You opened that ancient coffin, what's inside?"

When Ye Lingyue heard this, her heart was lifted. She also knew that the ancient coffin was the real reason why Xia Houqi became like this.

"I didn't open the ancient coffin at first. To be precise, I couldn't open the ancient coffin."

Xia Houqi shook his head.

Opening the ancient coffin is not as simple as opening the door to the underground palace.

The ancient coffin was suspended in mid-air by several iron ropes. Xia Houchi's first reaction was to open the coffin.

But when he put the ancient coffin down, he found that there were no gaps at all.

"No gaps?"

Ye Lingyue said curiously.

"There is no coffin lid, so the ancient coffin looks like a natural cut stone.

It is shaped like a coffin, but has no lid.

Even Xia Houqi couldn't tell whether it was a coffin or a natural cut stone60

"I tried to open it, but no matter what methods I used, weapons and mental power could not open it."

After Xia Houchi tried several times, he finally decided to give up.

Although he could not open the ancient coffin, Xia Houqi still moved the sarcophagus out of the underground palace.

"Since the ancient coffin cannot be opened, what happened to those dark patterns?"

Ye Lingyue thought earlier that those dark patterns came from that ancient coffin.

But after hearing what Xia Houqi said, Ye Lingyue didn't understand again.

"This matter must be discussed later. After I obtained the ancient coffin, I placed it in the royal temple and worshiped it day and night."

Xia Houqi originally thought that he would understand this matter.

In the next few days, everything went as usual in the ancient coffin.

Until Qin Xiaochuan sent Zhu Nianyu, who established the Bagua Tianmen in Daxia.

Xia Houchi was forced to abdicate, and even his basic powers were emptied.

Xia Houqi worried about this day and night and could not sleep at night.

That night, he went to the Wang Temple to pray for blessings.

"I went to the Wang Temple and saw the ancient coffin again. After many days, the ancient coffin was still the same, without any changes. I didn't pay much attention to it, and knelt down in front of the late emperors of Daxia to pray. Later in the night,

I suddenly felt tired and fell asleep."

Xia Houqi recalled the scene that night.

The Royal Temple of Daxia is located in the Summer Palace, where the spiritual tablets of the successive Xia emperors of Daxia are displayed.

In his sleep, Xia Houqi had a dream.

He dreamed that he was in the royal temple.

The ancient coffin was not far from him, and it suddenly made a sound.

There was something in the ancient coffin, which made a banging sound.

Xia Houqi felt it was very strange, so he walked to the ancient coffin, put his ear against the ancient coffin, and listened.

He seemed to hear a voice.

"Xia Houqi..."

Xia Houqi heard someone calling his name.

He was taken aback and subconsciously asked who the voice belonged to.

"I am Xiahou Ke, the ancestor of Daxia. You are an unworthy son and have allowed Daxia to fall into the hands of foreigners. Do you know your guilt?"

The voice in the ancient coffin scolded Xia Houqi.

When he heard that he was an ancestor, and even the founding ancestor of Daxia, Xia Houqi felt ashamed.

He knelt in front of the ancient coffin and kowtowed several times.

"Let me ask you, do you want to save the country of Daxia?"

Seeing that Xia Houqi's forehead was red, Gu Coffin's voice softened a little.

Xia Houqi knew that the ancient coffin must have a way to suppress Tianmen and save Daxia, which was about to collapse.

He was busy asking for advice, but the ancient coffin said:

"If you want to save Daxia, you can only ask for help from the Dark Territory. You need to prepare enough sacrifices and summon the dark gods from the Dark Territory to save Daxia."

Xia Houqi seemed to understand what the ancient coffin said.

At that time, Xia Houqi was already obsessed with things.

He quickly asked how to prepare the sacrifice.

The ancient coffin said that as long as Xia Houqi took blood and opened the ancient coffin, the gods of the Dark Territory would come looking for sacrifices.

Xia Houqi wanted to deal with Bagua Tianmen. After some hesitation, he shed blood on the ancient coffin.

"When my blood dripped on the ancient coffin, a strange scene happened. The ancient coffin, which was originally as smooth as a mirror, suddenly changed. A strange pattern appeared on its surface. The pattern was composed of

The small ones became larger, and soon they covered the entire surface of the ancient coffin. It was only later that I found out that the patterns were the underworld patterns. I didn't expect them at all to be so terrifying at the time."

Xia Houqi was also surprised when he saw the changes in the ancient coffin.

When he wanted to ask Xiahou Ke again, a rooster crow came to his ears.

Xia Houqi suddenly woke up from his sleep.
Chapter completed!