Following Ye Lingyue's gaze, the Queen Mother looked over.

"Hey, why is there a missing spiritual tablet?"

The Queen Mother said in surprise.

It has been more than 1,200 years since the founding of the Great Xia. Including Xia Houqi, there were more than fifty emperors in the Great Xia.

Each spiritual tablet is arranged in order. The missing spiritual tablet is the first Xia Emperor.

"The first Xia Emperor's name was Xiahou Ke?"

Ye Lingyue looked at the Queen Mother.

"good."

The Queen Mother nodded.

Ye Lingyue didn't say much and took out a spiritual tablet from her body.

"How come you have a spiritual tablet on your body, but there's not a single word on it?"

The Queen Mother was slightly surprised.

The spiritual tablets in Ye Lingyue's hands were exactly the same as those on the desk. They were obviously made by royal craftsmen, but there were no imperial titles or names engraved on them.

"This spiritual tablet is Xiahou Ke's spiritual tablet. I got it when I was in Xiayang Palace."

Ye Lingyue didn't explain much.

According to what Xia Houqi said, the person who asked him to take away the ancient coffin was Xia Houqi, the first Xia Emperor.

If Ye Lingyue's speculation is correct, this Xiahou Ke is probably the first human race to establish contact with the Dark Territory.

Alternatively, this Xiahou Ke may be a member of the Dark Territory.

As Ye Lingyue had more and more contact with Thirty-Three Heavens, Ye Lingyue also learned a lot about it.

For example, there are corresponding laws of heaven and earth between the Thirty-three Heavens and the Ninety-nine Earths. The Ninety-nine Earths cannot be crossed and anyone who enters the Thirty-Three Heavens without permission can do so.

Similarly, the superiors of the Thirty-three Heavens cannot easily interfere with the affairs of the Ninety-nine Heavens.

For hundreds of millions of years, the laws of heaven and earth have been like this.

But non-intervention is not absolute, and the relationship between heaven and earth is not static.

The Heaven-Sealing Order came into being, allowing the ninety-nine lands to ascend into the thirty-three realms.

Similarly, the existences on the Thirty-three Heavens will also use various methods to intervene in the Ninety-nine Lands to a greater or lesser extent.

Just like Buddhism, it will send corresponding disciples and even believers to ninety-nine places to spread branches and establish sects and even countries.

Xiahou Ke should be such an existence.

Xiahou Ke's consciousness had been wiped out by Ye Lingyue the last time.

Ye Lingyue pondered for a moment, then rearranged the spiritual tablet back on the dark table.

Just when all the spiritual tablets were restored to their original state, there was a slight sound on the desk.

Those spiritual tablets trembled.

"Watch your step."

Ye Lingyue felt a tremor under her feet. She looked up and saw a small piece of floor tile on the ground not far away where the ancient coffin had been placed earlier. The ground was sinking.

On the ground, a dark grid about the size of two palms appeared.

There is a booklet displayed in the secret compartment.

Ye Lingyue looked at it and saw the secret history of Daxia written in large characters on the booklet.

When Ye Lingyue had just changed from a silly girl to a normal person, she had seen a history book of Great Xia in the courtyard of the Ye family, but the one in front of her was obviously different from that one.

Ye Lingyue turned over a few pages and her eyes darkened.

On the title page of this Secret History of Great Xia, there are the words Xiahou Ke.

"It is a history book written by Taizu himself."

The Queen Mother came forward and took a look, and was also very surprised.

She had never heard that there was such a secret history in the underground palace.

Xia Houchi did not find this history book earlier. Obviously, this history book was left here by Xia Houke.

Ye Lingyue flipped through a few pages. Fortunately, Ye Lingyue recognized all the words on them.

Just as Ling Yue guessed earlier, this Xia Taizu was indeed from the Dark Territory.

He established Daxia with the support of money and manpower from the Dark Territory.

As a price, Xiahou Ke promised that people in the Dark Territory would contribute the true dragon bodies and true dragon souls of successive Xia emperors to the Dark Territory as sacrifices for generations to come.

This secret history is equivalent to the agreement signed between Xiahou Ke and the Dark Territory.

"Unexpectedly, for the sake of his own ambition and interests, Xiahou Ke actually sold out the rights and interests of future generations, even at the expense of the entire people of Daxia."

After Ye Lingyue read it, she shook her head.

This secret history is of great significance, but what makes Ye Lingyue regretful is that Xiahou Ke did not write clearly in the book what the origin of the Dark Territory is.

What kind of existence the Dark Territory is, and the force that belongs to the Ninety-nine Lands, are not mentioned in the book.

As a result, Ye Lingyue's attempt to investigate clues about the underworld patterns and underworld insects was forced to interrupt.

"How about it, but you found a way to eliminate the underworld bugs?"

The Queen Mother was anxious beside her.

It has been an hour since they entered the underground palace.

Although there was no sound around, the Queen Mother always felt as if someone was spying on them in the dark, which made people's hair stand on end.

Not only that, the Queen Mother was also very worried about the safety of other people.

"Not yet, Xiahou Ke just boasted about some of his life."

Ye Lingyue speeded up the reading. From the book, it can be seen that this Xiahou Ke is also a person who seeks fame and reputation.

He spent a lot of space describing how he used Li Lang from the Dark Territory to open up the country and make Daxia a powerful force in the human world at that time.

After Ye Lingyue gradually lost her patience, she simply scanned the secret history with her consciousness.

At the end of the secret history, Ye Lingyue paused.

Um?

Ye Lingyue's men did some research and saw the records about the Dark Coffin in the secret history.

"Is this the Dark Coffin?"

When Ye Lingyue listened to Xia Houqi's talk about the underworld coffin earlier, she was very curious about the origin of this ancient coffin.

It's a pity that the Ming Coffin had been sucked into Xia Houqi's body at that time, and it was impossible for Ye Lingyue to see it.

In the secret history, there are also some records about the underworld coffin.

Dark Coffin: A special sacrificial weapon of the Dark Territory. Only sacrifices recognized by the Dark Territory can attract the Dark Coffin into the body.

The Dark Coffin is divided into two types: mature and immature.

If you fall in love without absorbing the body and soul of the true dragon, the Dark Coffin will always be in an immature stage.

After entering the true dragon's body, the dark coffin will begin to mature until the dark coffin completely swallows the true dragon's body and the true dragon's soul. The dark coffin will completely mature and break out of the body.

Devouring the host of the true dragon body that is its mother body.

Generally speaking, after a ghost coffin enters the body, its maturity period is forty-nine days.

During this period, the underworld coffin needs to continuously absorb all kinds of fresh energy and flesh and blood as food.

The host that is entered into the body by the underworld coffin will be unconsciously controlled by the underworld coffin, and will kill unconsciously until it is finally completely devoured.

Forty-nine days?

When Ye Lingyue saw this, her heart sank.

she asked quickly.

"Queen Mother, do you remember when Xia Houqi entered the underground palace?"

Ye Lingyue thought earlier that Xia Houqi's soul would be safe as long as it did not leave the body for more than seven days and seven nights.

But she ignored that the Dark Coffin had already entered Xia Houqi's body.
Chapter completed!