Chapter Sixty-Nine: The Cold Lonely Palace Meets on a Narrow Road
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Behind the temple gate is a long corridor paved with green jade.
The white air like a mist spread all over the ground, looking like a cold air, but after Shao Heng stepped on the corridor, he didn't feel a chill, but a gentle breath passed from the soles of his feet to the limbs of his body, warm like a spring breeze.
One step out, the white mist on the ground dissipates slightly, revealing the faintly carved lines on the green jade floor tiles, such as birds, animals, mountains and rivers or exotic flowers and plants.
On both sides of the corridor, there are jade pillars supporting the high dome, and the jade pillars are also exquisite and abnormal, and they are not as mottled as the statues outside the hall.
Shao Heng and Ning Qingyun walked cautiously along the corridor, but they didn't find a single demon spirit in the Lingji Cave.
"In the water, land, wind wall, and thunderclouds before, there were no cave demons. It seems that there will be no mountains and rivers here......" Ning Qingyun said with some disappointment.
Shao Heng shook his head and said: "Shanhezhu is just a general name set by each faction itself, and those demon spirits should only be low-end existences in this world. The wind and thunder are so dangerous, less than one in ten can survive safely, and it is pure luck that you and I are here. I suspect that the secret in this palace is the reason why the mountains and rivers are closely related to the fortune of Shenzhou. โ
"You mean, if you can find this secret, it doesn't matter how many mountains and rivers there are?" Ning Qingyun was still worried: "However, the footprints on the snow outside the palace gate just now, maybe someone has already taken the lead." โ
"If it is an extraordinary product, it will not be quietly acquired, so let's take a look at it first. โ
No matter how long the promenade is, it is only a few tens of meters.
After a while, Shao Heng and Ning Qingyun had already come to the end and came to an empty and vast hall.
In the hall, the rui qi is curling, the clear air is swirling, the jade steps are like washing, and the aura is very full, such as the ethereal immortal family.
Shao Heng only felt that the pores around his body seemed to be open, greedily absorbing this extremely pure vitality.
Shao Heng subconsciously held his breath.
The purity of the aura in this hall has only been seen in the sea of clouds in the cliffs and clouds in the back mountain of Cunwei.
And the spiritual wind baptism in the sea of cliffs and clouds is turbulent like waves, very violent, but it is not as moisturizing and silent as it is now.
"Ahh
Because the top of the mountain is already unattainable for ordinary people, when I look up, the white clouds seem to be close at hand and can be plucked.
The heavenly dome was like a toppling, pressing on Shao Heng's heart, bringing a supreme majesty.
Shao Heng stretched out his hand to touch the Heavenly Phantom Bead in his arms, and only touched a cool piece, indicating that everything above his head was not an illusion, but someone used the sky as a dome with his magical powers to create such a scene.
Shao Heng retracted his gaze and carefully examined the scene in the hall.
At this time, after taking a closer look, Shao Heng realized the decadence hidden under this immortal aura.
Cracks spread like spider webs on the ground, a few toppled jade chairs, and splinters peeling off the walls around them.
In addition, in the innermost part of the main hall facing the long corridor, on a ten-step high platform, there was a four-person-high golden throne placed there alone.
Shao Heng walked quickly, and Ning Qingyun followed him.
Where the two passed, Rui Hao took the initiative to separate from the two sides.
The chair that looked like an emperor on earth was empty, and even a little shabby: the floor tiles of the contrast corridor were all depicted with the strange sounds of the fairy family, and this chair was extremely smooth and unmarked. It's like a simple chair.
For some reason, Shao Heng turned his back to the golden throne and looked at the center of the hall, and a feeling of being cold in a high place arose.
"Shao Heng, look!" Ning Qingyun pointed to the base below the golden throne, where a thin straight line was crossed.
Shao Heng squatted down and took a look, and found that it was not a thin line, but a sword mark that was not shallow.
Shao Heng stretched out his hand and touched the sword mark, only to feel that the tentacles were slightly hot, and a pure yang sword intent came out of it: "Yanyang Immortal Sword?"
He immediately realized that Shen Yuanxi was the one who entered the palace before them.
It's just that Shao Heng was a little shocked in his heart: what happened to make Shen Yuanxi lose his temper and leave snow footprints, and what happened to make him leave such a reckless sword mark in this place?
"Senior Brother Shen?" Ning Qingyun also saw the sword mark clearly, but he didn't know as much about Shen Yuanxi as Shao Heng, and only heard him mention Shen Yuanxi's sword before asking.
"Not bad. Shao Heng stood up, a little worried about Shen Yuanxi, who had been separated from him for a long time.
"And where is he?"
Shao Heng was also thinking about this question in his heart.
He glanced at the four closed doors on the left and right sides of the main hall, and on each of them was a divine beast carved on the door, which was the four divine beasts in the Zhou Tian Constellation.
Except for a sword mark at the bottom of this golden throne, Shen Yuanxi did not leave any other information here, and Shao Heng naturally had no way of knowing which door he entered.
Shao and Ning chose the gate near their left hand, and a winged vermilion bird was flying in anticipation on the door. The bird's head eyes are unusually agile and vivid, revealing a kind of stunning majesty.
The stone door is heavy and opens very slowly, and behind the door is a long corridor, and there are several rooms scattered on both sides, each with a pair of low lampposts at the door, all carved with the same vermilion bird as on the stone door.
"Let's go. Shao Heng walked in first.
Shao and Ning searched room by room, only to see that every room in the passage was empty. Occasionally, there are standing bookshelves, tables and chairs, and there is nothing on them. Including the couch made of warm jade, it is also clean, and there is no clothing and bedding or the like.
Not even a trace of dust.
It's as if no one has ever lived here, and it's like you've sorted everything out and left in a hurry.
Because they didn't get anything along the way, Shao Heng and Ning Qingyun soon came to the end.
I saw a huge plaque hanging above my head, with three unfamiliar ancient seal characters written on it. These three characters are written in a red pen, and the pen is flowing and winding as if it were done in one go. From a distance, I already felt that it was grandiose, and when I got closer, I felt a huge sense of coercion coming out of the words on the plaque.
Shao Heng thought for a moment, and only guessed that the last word was the word "palace", and the first two words were completely confused.
After entering the hall, his eyes were cheerful.
The layout is similar to that of the main hall outside, but the specifications are half smaller.
It's just that there is no golden chair in front of it, but a tall jade platform is placed.
The surrounding walls were covered with some kind of glowing hedron, which was very similar to, but different, the night pearls used for lighting in Shenzhou.
Ning Qingyun touched it casually, only to feel that the tentacles were hot, and when she touched it again, she felt that her hands were cold, which was very peculiar.
There were also several of these spars scattered on the ground, Shao Heng picked up one, I don't know what it was, I wanted to let go of my mind for a moment, and put it into the Void Ring.
This side hall looks not small, but it can be seen at a glance, there is no Shen Yuanxi figure, and there is nothing unusual.
Shao Heng's eyes flashed with disappointment, but when his eyes stopped at the tall jade platform, he suddenly found that there seemed to be nothing on the jade platform, but a dark purple thing.
When I looked closer, I saw a dark purple wooden frame about the length of an adult's palm in the center of the jade platform.
The color is like new, and the breath is like a fragrant fragrance.
Shao Heng repeatedly judged that only the rumored Cangwu Wood could correspond to this purple strange tree that had been immortal for thousands of years and had the same fragrant fragrance.
The cangwu tree has long been extinct in Shenzhou, and there are no surviving trees left.
There are only three sections left in Shenzhou, which are in the hands of Cunwei Mountain, Ciyun Zhai, and Nixia Mountain.
Cangwu wood has the function of nourishing the spirit, which can ensure that things do not rot for thousands of years and the aura does not disperse, but there is no special effect in addition.
The cangwu wood in the hands of Nixia Mountain was made into a head order, and Ciyun Zhai has always had little contact with the world, and it is rumored that this wood is also in the hands of the previous masters. As for the Cunwei Mountain, it was integrated into the scabbard of the Chiyu Fairy Sword by the original Cunwei real person, and was enshrined in the Jiying Hall together with this divine weapon.
The piece of cangwu wood in front of him was firmly fixed on the jade platform, and Shao Heng tried to pick it up, but he didn't move, so he had to stop asking for it.
However, judging from the traces on this wooden shelf, it is clear that something was once enshrined here.
"Senior Sister Ning, can you detect a trace of the strong fire yuan qi on this jade platform?" Shao Heng had touched the canopy wooden frame, only to feel that there seemed to be a faint fluctuation around him.
Ning Qingyun was born with the body of the Fire Element, and he was even more touched by this, and hesitated in surprise: "Not bad." โ
Shao Heng was slightly shocked in his heart: the thing on this wooden frame had obviously disappeared for an unknown amount of time, but there was still such an obvious abnormal fluctuation here, and he didn't know what kind of thing was placed here before?
Shao Heng saw that there were no other clues here, so he had to turn back to the main hall of the palace with Ning Qingyun and enter another door in order.
It was almost the same layout, and Shao Heng could only search the past room by room, as before, with the same emptiness. And at the end of that, there is another side hall that is the same as before, and there is only one tall jade platform in the side hall, and there is only a wooden frame made of cangwu wood left.
This has been the case three times in a row.
Shao Heng said in his heart: "Could it be that the luck is so bad, Senior Brother Shen walked the last door carved with the green dragon?"
While thinking, Shao Heng and Ning Qingyun hurriedly returned to the main hall again.
As soon as I stepped into the main hall, I saw several people walking into the entrance of the main hall.
It was Jiang Huai and his party who had just climbed to the top of the mountain!
When Shao Heng had not yet stepped into the main hall, he already had a sign in his heart, and almost subconsciously raised his hand, and the Heavenly Machine Sword "buzzed" and roared, turning into a wisp of black light, and rushed straight to the entrance of the main hall.
Halfway through, Shao Heng knew that there were several opponents, and raised his fingers, only to see the ink-colored fairy sword trembling slightly in the air, turning into eight sword shadows and spreading out in unison, forming a fan to surround the enemy who entered the hall.
Shao Heng's swiftness and decisiveness made Jiang Huai and the others change color.
It was clear that they were aware of the other party at the same time, but Shao Heng did not hesitate to take action immediately than them, without distinguishing whether it was friend or foe!
At this time, the pitch-black sword shadow turned into a whole curtain of light, rolling down with the momentum of wind and thunder, and everyone except Jiang Huai was at a loss for a while.