"Next, you can find the corresponding parts of the statue as I told you."

"Xiao Chen, go to the third statue on the right, (zao) the fish's claw."

Based on Professor Jiang's knowledge, I counted three statues from where I was to the right. When I saw the statue of a fish, I couldn't help but be speechless. I had never heard of such a strange fish. The fat fish even had a long body under it.

A pair of slender bird claws.

I have always heard that painting a snake is superfluous. This is the first time I heard that painting a fish can also be superfluous.

"If I take off its claws, will the statue break?" I asked.

Everyone shook their heads, so I had no choice but to do it. Sure enough, I easily took off the pair of claws, and unlike what I imagined, the upper part of the statue did not fall down.

It is fixed in the wall behind.

I paid special attention. The cut at the break was very smooth, as if it had been separated from the beginning.

Professor Jiang waved to me and pointed out to me the platform in front of the bronze door. The floor tiles there had been removed, and I discovered that there were grooves under some of the movable floor tiles.

And it can just fit a pair of paws down.

At this time, Erpang also took out a pair of claws from the corresponding statue of Yong, which corresponded to the four grooves in my hand.

"Very good, next you have to find fish scales, mirage belly, snake neck, hump head, rabbit eyes, tiger claws, and cow ears." Professor Jiang assigned the task.

There aren't many of these things, and they seem easy to find. After all, they are just looking for them from these statues. They are much safer and simpler than the previous situation on the fifth floor.

But in fact this is a very boring and detailed job.

Things like tiger claws, cow ears, rabbit eyes, and snake necks are easy to find, but fish scales, mirage belly, and hump heads are very troublesome.

First of all, looking for fish scales will test your patience. After all, the fish statues of the Great Eagle account for almost one-fifth of all animal statues. In terms of number, there are at least nearly a hundred species of fish.

And not every scale on these fish can be peeled off, such as the snapper.

"The Book of Mountains and Seas. Beishan Jing" records that there is a kind of fish living in Pengshui, called Shuyu. This fish has three tails and six claws, looks like a chicken, and has red feathers.

Yes, you heard it right, this chicken-like creature with red feathers actually belongs to the order of fish!

In addition, the "Western Mountain Sutra" also mentions a fish called Feng. Although it has scales on its body, its scales look more like a turtle shell.

All in all, after doing a lot of removal and groping for scales from the remaining fish statues one by one, we finally collected all the fish scales.

Sometimes we are afraid of omissions and have to check again and again.

But this is not the most outrageous thing. At least when it comes to scales, we still have a goal.

The other two are the real needle in the haystack.

First, what kind of creatures are mirages and camels?

In the traditional sense, mirage generally refers to mirage, but in fact, no one has really seen what a mirage looks like. It is precisely because of its mysterious clouds, mountains and mist that it is often called those illusory scenes.

Mirage.

In addition, there is a folk saying that the so-called mirage refers to a relatively large clam. However, it is difficult to find a concrete animal in the hall.

We searched all over the main hall but didn't see any shell statues.

The other is a camel.

However, judging from the year when King Yu's Palace was built, it is impossible for camels to exist here.

There is only one possibility left, and the camel refers to the ancestor of the horse, the camel beast.

When I was in college, there was a senior who loved studying the Classic of Mountains and Seas. He once told me not to read The Classic of Mountains and Seas as a fictional work. In fact, the content described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is probably beyond our imagination.

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And he also came to the conclusion that a major event occurred in ancient times, and the scale of this event may be exaggerated enough to change the earth's landscape and ecological environment.

The landforms and ecology we see now are all after that incident, so it is normal that the contents of the Classic of Mountains and Seas often do not match up.

But this does not deny that most of the creatures in the Classic of Mountains and Seas actually exist.

For example, owl refers to an owl, and deer may refer to zebra or the okapi living in Africa.

I thought this was all the crazy eyes of the senior, but after seeing these statues, I suddenly realized that the senior might have touched some truths recorded by ancient people on his own.

Just like what is said in a science fiction novel: The people closest to the truth in this world are often madmen, because only fools can be normal people.

And I am the psychopath between a madman and a fool.

The sculptures in King Yu's Hall are all very abstract. Although I have some guesses about the image of the camel beast, to be on the safe side, we can only look for them one by one.

There are nearly a thousand statues in the entire hall, which is a huge project.

We don’t remember exactly how many days we stayed in the hall, but in the end, we were hungry and cold, and we finally found everything.

After we pieced together the found statue fragments bit by bit, I discovered that these parts together turned out to be a lifelike dragon!

It’s a dragon again!

Almost all our experiences along the way were related to dragons or the legendary Sea Eye Dragon Palace, as if they were guiding us step by step towards the true similarity.

After we assembled the dragon statue piece by piece, we waited for the bronze door to open.

But after waiting for a long time, the door still did not change.

"Am I wrong?" Even Professor Jiang was at a loss.

I thought Shang Qingyun would know some clues, but from the moment he entered the hall to now, he has remained silent. He didn't answer anything when asked, like a mute.

At this time, Ah Hui tugged at my clothes and said, "Mr., is there anything we haven't found yet?"

I recalled carefully that we had indeed turned the entire hall upside down and not a single thing was missed: "It's impossible, we've searched everything."

"But look, there's a small hole here."

I followed Ah Fai's instructions and saw that there was indeed a small hole.

It's not quite accurate to say it's a small hole, it should be said to be a small gap.

It's just that this gap is not between the scales, but in the middle of the so-called mirage.

We found this piece of mirage belly on a large centipede-like insect statue. At first, I didn't notice that there was such a gap on it. It looked like something like a key had to be inserted into it.

"Key? I'm coming to Kangkang!" Liu Sa squeezed into the front and explored the small hole with his finger. He thought for a moment, and then took out the amulet that symbolized the Liu family that he had given me before.

He inserted the amulet sideways into the hole, and the dragon statue immediately made a soft clicking sound.

Then the dragon opened its mouth and spit out something.

When I picked it up, I saw it was an oracle bone!

"The Emperor Yu Kong Jia, Gaoyang Huanlong, Yulong Yu Liu's numerous books"

"Let me take a look!" Professor Jiang grabbed the oracle bone uncharacteristically, and he suddenly fell into madness, "Xia Emperor Kong Jia...Gaoyang Huanlong clan...Dragon Yuan Liu Lei...

..."

"It's true! It's true! Haha! I finally found it! I finally found it!"

Professor Jiang seemed to be going crazy, holding the oracle bones and jumping up for joy. The sixty-year-old man suddenly seemed to be dozens of years younger, turning into a jumping kid who got the toy he had always dreamed of.

We looked at him blankly.

Professor Jiang ignored our surprise and ran up to the bronze door with the oracle bone. He groped back and forth on the bronze door and finally found a groove that could just fit the oracle bone.

"Teacher! What's wrong with you?" I don't understand why he suddenly became like this.

Just as I was about to step forward to check on him, Professor Jiang suddenly turned his head, and a pair of eyes under his folds emitted a gaze as sharp as an eagle, which forced me back in an instant.

Simply unbelievable.

I never thought that such a gentle and elegant old professor would burst out with such captivating eyes.

"Don't come here!" he yelled.

The five of us immediately became vigilant, wondering if Professor Jiang had fallen into some kind of illusion.

But his eyes were sharp and clear, and he didn't seem to be confused by hallucinations.

Professor Jiang put the oracle bones into the groove, and the mechanism of the bronze door was immediately cracked. With a heavy rumbling sound, the bronze door slowly opened.

At that moment, the light bursting out from the gap that gradually opened the door almost made us unable to open our eyes, and we could only watch the back of the rickety old man gradually disappear in the light.

Shang Qingyun seemed to realize something, and rushed forward regardless of his own safety.

After we adapted to the light, we also chased after him, but when we chased through the bronze gate, we didn't see Professor Jiang at all.

We only saw a scene that took our breath away.

Behind the bronze door, there is no bronze ceiling or door, nor is there the imaginary wall made of stones or earth.

The moment we walked into the bronze door, we seemed to have stepped into another strange water world.

There is blue water around us, but this water seems to be isolated by an invisible layer of glass, forming a long ocean tunnel.

The swimming fish are like countless bright stars in the sky, swimming in groups wherever we can see. We even saw some deep-sea creatures, such as monkfish, sea worms and jellyfish.

These creatures that should not appear at the bottom of the river are miraculously symbiotic with river fish.

We walked towards the end of the tunnel and encountered the first difficulty.

At the end of the tunnel is a fork in the road. There are really five forks.

"It looks like we are going to be separated for a short time~ Junior, take care of yourself?" Senior Liu Sa patted me on the shoulder.

"Wait a minute!" I called them to stop, and then asked Shang Qingyun, "By the way, Qingyun, you told me before that Limuling has a formation book that can decipher the Sea Eye Dragon Palace."

Shang Qingyun shook his head: "I didn't find it."
Chapter completed!