Holy Bone

Chapter 346 Profound Palace
"Master, there is no way ahead."

Chi Jian turned his head to look at Jin An who was in charge of the rear of the hall, and explained why he couldn't stop suddenly.

Jin An found a slightly wider crack, exchanged places with the old Taoist priest, and walked to Jianjian. The first thing he heard was the sound of gurgling water. He was surprised. Is there an underground river nearby?

There was indeed no road ahead of them, only an underground river flowing gently.

Jin An looked at the underground river in surprise: "Since King Xiao Ling and the others were able to pass through here, they did not return the same way, which means that the underground river is not deep. King Xiao Ling and the others finally waded through the river."

Next, Shajian tested the depth of the water with the ancient sword in his hand.

This underground river is really not deep.

About to the waist position.

Later, Jin An found several bloody palm prints on the rock wall of the river. It seems that these bloody palm prints were left by the feng shui master of Tianshi Mansion whose eyes were stabbed blind. The feng shui master walked all the way back from the underground river.

The three of them tidied up and started to enter the water. They walked in the direction of the bloody palm print. Plop, plop, plop, three consecutive sounds of falling into the water, Jin An, Jianjian, and the old Taoist all jumped into the underground river.

But as soon as he jumped down the underground river, the old Taoist exclaimed in a low voice: "There seems to be something broken at the bottom of the river, old Taoist, I seem to have stepped on something!"

The three of them lowered their heads and got close to the water surface, carefully looking through the dark river surface to see what was under the water. As a result, Jin An's heart skipped a beat when he saw it. Stare at them.

They are now crossing the river on dead bodies.

It turned out that it wasn't that the underground river was shallow, but that the underground river was full of corpses.

This unexpected scene shocked the old Taoist so much that his scalp was about to fly. He happened to step on a dead man's head. He couldn't stand steadily, and he almost staggered and fell into the underground river. Fortunately, Jin An had quick eyesight and quick hands. , grabbed the old Taoist priest in time, so that he didn't let him drink the corpse soaking water.

After the old Taoist was stabilized, Jin An boldly moved his head closer to the surface of the water again, carefully looking at the sunken corpses under the water.

This time, when I was mentally prepared to observe carefully, I found several abnormal places on these dead people piled up on the river bed.

"Old Daoist, Chijian, have you noticed that the skin color of these dead people is a bit different, and the skin is not at all like the pale white or black and blue color of other dead people... Their skin color looks like stone, To say that they are dead is better to say that they are stone figurines?"

"And have you noticed that these corpses are very hard, and we crossed the river by stepping on these corpses full of rivers, just like crossing the river by stepping on stones, without the soft feeling of ordinary corpses?"

While talking in deep thought, Jin An continued to hold a torch in his hand and carefully examine every dead body in front of him and behind him.

He had a calm expression on his face, and he was not timid because he was walking on a river of dead people.

He didn't worry at all whether the countless dead bodies under his feet would suddenly violently eat people.

If these sinking corpses really want to cheat the corpses, it is impossible for the masters of Yujing Jinque, Zhenguo Temple, and Tianshifu who are far more knowledgeable than him to fail to see it. Since those people are willing to go down the underground river and go upstream, it means These dead piles are safe for the time being.

After hearing Jin An's words, the old Taoist priest, who had regained his footing and no longer had cramps in his calves, said in surprise, "Little brother, do you mean that these are not real dead people, but stone figurines used as sacrifices in the local palace?"

Jin An glanced at the old Taoist priest, neither admitting nor denying that since they entered the underground palace, strange things have happened one after another in the underground palace. Since there is no danger for the time being, there is no need to create an overly tense atmosphere.

but.

Stepping forward on the pile of dead people in a river valley, even if you are as bold as Jin An, you will feel panicked. It is as scary as stepping on a corpse in a cemetery. Stuck in the dead man's armband, it will take a lot of effort to pull out the leg.

The three-person team followed the bloody palm prints on the rock wall and began to swim upstream upstream.

The further upstream you go, the shallower the water level is, because there are more dead people accumulated in the river, and those dead people downstream are washed down from the upstream.

There were several forks in the underground river, but fortunately, with the bloody palm print as a guide, the three finally found a place to go ashore smoothly.

As a result, as soon as they landed, they saw several rotten boxes that were thrown on the shore after they were opened.

The old Taoist hurriedly rushed to those rotten boxes, but naturally found nothing.

The box is empty.

If there were treasures inside, they would have been taken away long ago.

"Little brother, there are water stains and indentations that have not been completely dried under these boxes. They were just fished ashore. The underground palace must have been shaken and cracked, and many good treasures fell from the depths of the underground palace along the underground river. Come out, we are one step late." The old Taoist looked at the empty box on the ground and said distressedly.

At the beginning, the three of them were attracted by the rotten boxes on the bank. It wasn't until they re-examined the huge crypt in front of them that they found that they were now in an underground cave with a huge space. The decline caused the underground air to be very humid, and many stalactites hung down above their heads.

There are no traces of artificial carvings or mausoleum layout in this crypt. It seems that it was not part of the underground palace in the first place. It was because the underground rock formation was shaken that it was shaken out of such a temporary passage.

Listening to the sound of gurgling water in their ears, the three of them walked along the river bank in the darkness. After walking for about a stick of incense, they saw traces of human activities again.

It was a very grand square. There were four bronze pillars standing on the square. Each bronze pillar was surrounded by several people. Behind the four bronze pillars was a temple. Cause the underground river to divert. The river in the moat has already dried up, exposing the bare riverbed and the dead people piled up on the riverbed.

Those dead people were all the same as those in the underground river, with weird skin colors, like stone figurines.

When there was no river to block the line of sight, and it was the first time when they clearly saw so many dead people like stone figurines, Jin An and the old Taoist felt belatedly that they were able to step on so many dead people all the way just now. Bold.

As for cutting the sword?

There was no change in expression along the way.

Passing through the square with four bronze pillars, the three of them stood in front of the majestic temple with high walls, Xuangong?

A bronze plaque hangs high above the main entrance. Although it has grown a lot of patina, the word "Xuan Gong" can still be vaguely recognized.

(End of this chapter)