Holy Bone

Chapter 341 Beam

The exit of the side hall is quite special.

Those are two huge stone gates cut from intact white marble, each of which is as tall as three people.

It looks heavy just by looking at it.

A door has collapsed and is covered in dust.

One door remained intact.

I don’t know how many years this underground palace has been buried deep in the ground. It must have been thousands of years. These giant white marble gates are still as white as snow, and each white marble gate is inlaid with two barefoot gold pagodas.

The shop head is the beast head ring decorated on the door leaf.

According to the 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 the shop head has another function.

Appearing on temples, it is used to drive away demons and evil spirits; when used on folk doors, it is used to avoid disasters and pray for blessings, praying for gods and beasts to bless the safety of a family.

"After such a long time, these two gold shop heads are still as good as new, which shows that they are genuine bare gold." The old Taoist couldn't help marveling at the two shop heads that were about the size of his head and studied. .

Unlike bronze and silver, gold remains of high purity and rarely changes color in natural environments.

On the ground inside the door, there is another heavy white marble strip used to support the door.The stone strips are engraved with scriptures used to ward off evil spirits, and the two ends are firmly stuck in the grooves of the stone wall.

The white marble strips are placed inside the gate, which shows that it is specially prepared to prevent someone from opening the door from the outside, and it was planned to seal 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 not destroyed inside, but was destroyed by a catastrophe outside. The ground shook 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 strip and the grooves on the stone wall, and he roughly figured out how the stone strip sealed the gate from the inside.

The stone strip should be put into the groove at an oblique angle. As the door is slowly closed, the stone strip also slides down. When the door is closed, the stone strip also falls to the bottom, completely resisting the white marble gate.

Stepping on the stone door cut from white marble that fell on the ground, outside the door is a long and narrow space after the earth and rocks have been hollowed out, which is as long and narrow as a tomb passage, and a magnificent palace complex has been built in the long and narrow space.

It turned 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, carved beams and painted buildings, which is not at all like the gloomy style of a shady mansion, but is as magnificent as an underground palace.

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

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

Jin An speculates that it may be related to the geological disaster that the earth collapsed and a grand canyon was opened by the earthquake?
Perhaps because of the dry environment of the underground palace, coupled with improper maintenance, the dusty jade railings and jade stones that were originally used to decorate the palace complex have lost water and become gray and dull. These jades are considered useless.

"There are so many gold and jade, if this underground palace is not 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 said in surprise.

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

"Since ancient times, people have always pursued death as life. They pursued what they thought before death and thought about what they would think after death. Before they were alive, they spent all day in secluded cultivation in a dojo like a fairyland to seek longevity. After death, they would definitely not want to sleep in the In the gloomy tomb."

Can live well, who wants to be a neighbor who sleeps with corpse mountains, hanging coffins, mass graves, scriptures of the dead, and messy things like hanged people all day long?

Anyway, Jin An felt that if he died, he would definitely not want to be as miserable as the Lord of Teng, hiding in the gloomy mausoleum all day to practice.

As the saying goes, how can you return empty-handed after entering Baoshan? The old Taoist felt a little itchy at this moment, looking at the palace full of gold and jade in front of him, he always wanted to buckle a few pieces and take them out. He began to look carefully at the palace complex in front of him, thinking Where is the most convenient place to start.

But looking at it, the old Taoist realized that something was wrong.

"Little brother, have you noticed that there seems to be no footprints in the palace complex, and no one has stepped into the palace complex..." said the old Taoist priest.

Jin An took a closer look and there were no footprints, which is strange. There are so many people from Tianshi Mansion, Yujing Jinque, Zhenguo Temple, and several other forces going down to the underground palace together, it is impossible not to leave a footprint.

There must be something weird in this palace complex.

Thinking of this, he looked around and found a strange place. It was a stone pillar with several people hugging it, and there were distinct shoe prints on the pillar.

Jin An followed the stone pillar to look at the roof of the cave above his head. This stone pillar is connected by one of the pillars in the huge space where the palace complex is located, supporting the underground space.

The ground is hollowed out, and support columns are definitely 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 Xiao Ling Wang and the others followed the stone pillars and stone beams, and left the palace group. I guess they discovered something at the beginning..." Jin An said in a deep voice.

Since someone took the initiative to lead the way for them, it was unreasonable to take more detours. After discussing for a while, the three decided to also go up to the beam and walk over the beam.

This underground palace has a large space, even the supporting stone pillars and beams are built tall and heavy, and the stone beams are spacious enough for one person to walk easily.

There were many messy footprints on the beam, but fortunately they all walked in one direction, so the three of Jin'an only had to follow the footprints.

The team is led by Jin An, the old Taoist is in the middle, and the sword is broken.

Jin An, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, and he raised his arm to signal that there was something wrong.

It turned out that they passed a small hall under their feet. There was a coffin in the small hall, but the coffin was open, and the inside and surroundings of the coffin were covered with dust. It was obvious that no one had stepped into the palace complex for a long time.

There was no body in the coffin.

The three of them observed quietly and saw that there was no abnormal movement around the coffin, so they continued to walk forward, and only a few feet away, another opened coffin appeared in a small hall under their feet.

Also there is no body inside.

On the road that followed, I saw several open coffins one after another, all without exception without corpses, and I don't know if the coffins were originally empty, or did the corpses inside run out by themselves?

No wonder Xiaoling Wang and the others walked over the beams above their heads instead of on the ground. If there were corpses in those coffins that really ran out and wandered around the palaces, it would be enough for them to drink a pot.

The three of them held their breath all the way, without exchanging a word, quietly passed above the palace group, and got down to the ground again.

(End of this chapter)