These days, with the help of Lu Qi, he has ruled out the places where the map may be hidden, and the little emperor's bedroom is full of flowing water and concubines, and it is impossible for the queen mother to hand over such an important thing to this undecided little emperor for safekeeping, it should be in the queen mother's bedroom.

At the same time that Chu Xianzhao was planning to steal the map, the great eunuch Yu Itianzheng was helping the Queen Mother back to the palace, the Queen Mother was in a good mood today, the biggest reason was because the emperor was in a good mood tonight, especially after the prince of Zhejiang and Han was defeated unscathed by the illegitimate son of the Shen family, His Majesty the Emperor, who rarely watched a good show, was in a good mood tonight, who said that in addition to the Dragon Protector Legion, the young juniors in Luoyang City are all weak people, and it can be regarded as giving them a face.

His Majesty the Emperor can casually call a young man to defeat the prince of Zhejiang and Han, who is known as the god of killing, which is undoubtedly a huge shock to the princes and kings, and in the end, the queen mother can't help but be happy, but I don't know why this illegitimate son actually has such a strong swordsmanship, and even the sword of the eldest princess's fame has been used, which is a bit strange.

The Queen Mother and Yu Itian's acquaintance was much earlier than she knew the first emperor, and now Yu Irita is the head of the eunuchs in the palace, and Huang Yu is the queen mother of Yiqing Kingdom, anyway, Yu Irita has been Huang Yu's person from the beginning, watching her go from a palace maid to the position of a concubine, from a concubine to a queen, and finally become the current Queen Mother of Daqing, the only thing he has to do is to protect her safety, and anyone's life is a worthless existence in his eyes.

Yu Irita gently held the arm of the Queen Mother, and now her son has become the emperor of Qingguo, and the power struggle of this generation of women in the Daqing Palace is obviously won by her, and a lot of the credit comes from Yu Irita.

The Queen Mother was very happy to talk to him about what happened at the banquet tonight, the great eunuch thought that Shen Sanqian's illegitimate son actually had such a great swordsmanship, and his extremely thin lips were slightly upturned, even if he was an illegitimate child, but he was also a native of their Qingguo, and he could actually make the prince of Zhejiang and Han suffer once, no wonder the emperor and the queen mother were in a good mood today, and it could be regarded as a disappointment for the princes and kings.

The Queen Mother said with a smile: "You said that Shen Sanqian, an illegitimate son, came out of nowhere, and even Zhao Xi's swordsmanship was used, which really opened the eyes of the mourning family." ”

A rare smile appeared on Yu Irita's old face, and he said: "A sword shocks the princes, and the ministers of the court and the central government can have such descendants who are better than the blue, which is naturally a blessing for my dynasty." ”

The Queen Mother shook her head and said: "Alas, the Mourning family originally wanted to call Shen Sanqian back to the court to assist the new monarch, but unfortunately he didn't appreciate it, speaking of the illegitimate son Mourning Family, I remember that Zhao Xi seems to have an illegitimate daughter, do you say that the girl is still alive now?"

Yu Irita pursed his lips and shook his head, he couldn't help but look around, always feeling that there was something strange around here.

Changle Palace is very large, and now it has just passed the eighth day of the second month, and it is the time to melt the snow and freeze the bones, passing by

The palace maids are all wearing cotton clothes, even in such a bitter cold night, they can only patrol and dare not be lazy, and the eunuch guards scrunk their shoulders and patrol carefully, for fear of disturbing the queen mother's rest.

When Chu Xianzhao just climbed in from outside the wall, he happened to meet the Queen Mother returning to the palace to rest, and had to hide in the rockery to avoid the Queen Mother returning to the palace, fortunately, the color of Chu Zhaozhao's clothes and the rockery were the same, under the cover of the night, if you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see the difference at all.

At this time, he was only ten steps away from the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother had the existence of the big devil Yuhuatian beside her, he forcibly calmed his mind and watched the Queen Mother go back into the palace, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

The young man with white frost looked at Yu Yuitian and accompanied the Queen Mother, and left not long after entering, and soon the lights in the Queen Mother's bedroom were also extinguished, presumably the old woman should have gone to bed to rest, and then he moved silently and walked in the direction of the bedroom.

Chu Xianzhao observed the terrain, walked through flowers and grass, as fast as a civet cat, invisible as a ghost, and finally touched the window sill, looked around, patted the leaf chips on his body, gently pushed open the window, and climbed into the heavily guarded Changle Palace like an ape.

The night was already very deep, and the Queen Mother should be asleep.

Chu Xianzhao sensed the surrounding environment with his breath, and after confirming that there was no master whose strength could be compared with him, he slowly walked forward in the dark, this is a very dangerous thing, and it is also a very safe environment, the eunuchs and guards who guard the safety of the queen mother seem to be outside the palace, there is only a defenseless old woman here plus a few palace maids on duty, you must know that the top masters in the palace are all guarding the emperor's bedroom to prevent someone from assassinating.

Even if the queen mother is the emperor's mother, she is not the needle of the dynasty, and the assassination of this woman will not affect the overall situation except for causing panic in the court and the anger of the emperor, and no one seems to think that someone would break into the queen mother's bedroom at night.

Although it is true that the power in the hands of the Queen Mother cannot be compared with that of the emperor, she holds one of the biggest secrets of the Zhao royal family in her hands, and now Chu Xianzhao knows one of the secrets.

Chu Xianzhao stood up straight in the extremely dim light, and when he raised his eyes, he saw the incomparably noble phoenix bed, on which the most powerful woman of the Daqing Dynasty slept, anyway, he had already killed a queen in his hands, what if he killed another queen mother, he couldn't help laughing at himself in his heart.

He didn't have time to think about the terrible impact that killing the Queen Mother would have on this dynasty, he just wanted to find the map as quickly as possible, but where would such an important thing be hidden?

Chu instantly summoned the boxes and smashed the cabinets for a while, but except for all kinds of precious jewelry and rouge that blinded his eyes, he couldn't find anything related to the map.

He quietly approached the Queen Mother's bed, examined the woman covered with a rich brocade quilt, and wondered if the old woman would hide such an important thing in the bed

, so without hesitation, he reached out and touched the bed board.

At this moment, the Queen Mother suddenly turned over, her face was just facing Chu Xianzhao's eyes, and she muttered something in her mouth, which immediately startled him and took a few steps back, and the whole person crashed into the desk at the head of the bed, thinking that she was going to die now!

But to his surprise, the Queen Mother did not open her eyes, and strangely enough, even the vase on the desk that he hit did not fall to the ground.

When he stood up and looked at the stable vase, a trace of strangeness arose in his heart, and he felt something with his palm lightly pressed against the vase.

When he confirmed that the vase could not be pushed down, he grabbed the top of the vase with the idea of giving it a try and twisted it gently.

Everyone has secrets that they don't want to be known by others, some secrets are in boxes, some secrets are hidden in the heart, and some secrets are hidden in the most conspicuous places, and they can be seen by simply twisting the vase.

As Chu Xianzhao slowly twisted the vase, a creaking sound sounded in the bedroom, and a scene that shocked him finally appeared.

Somewhere in the dormitory, the wall was actually a huge door that could be moved, and it was moving upwards at this time, and the light inside glowed faintly, illuminating half of the originally dim dormitory.

Chu Xianzhao showed a very strange expression on his face, looking at the sleeping Queen Mother, and the secret door that he suddenly opened, and after a moment of silence, he strode in.

As soon as he stepped in, the wall fell automatically, catching him off guard and resigned himself to fate.

Chu Xianzhao found that he was moving forward against the wall in the dark, and found that there were rows of steps under his feet, but he could only hear his heartbeat and breathing, so he walked down, he didn't know where the darkness would eventually lead him, just as he didn't know where the road under his feet would eventually go, when he first came to Sunset, he often had some strange nightmares, he dreamed that Sunset City was burning, and the flying dragon that had been killed by him with a sword towered into the sky in his dream, and the dragon flame in his mouth seemed to be able to pierce the sky, and everyone around him turned into charcoal。 He walked through the streets of Sunset City, walking and weaving through endless roads, snow-white ash brushing his shoulders until a downpour of blood arrived, completely submerging his body.

Sometimes, he could feel Chu Xiaohua's voice everywhere, as if he was ridiculing his current situation, and as if he was begging him to go back to Yinguo, until this voice was getting farther and farther away from him, and in the deepest darkness, he was often the only one left.

Until he finally came to a huge stone room, this place reminded him of the tomb of the Great Qin Emperor he had been to, the walls were inlaid with many night pearls for lighting, and under the illumination of the night pearls, the things in the stone room gradually became clear.

Countless pairs of hollow eyes were watching him, and the long tusks of the once dead creature in his hands cast an extremely long shadow,

It was as if flames would spit out of their mouths at any moment.

The dragon bones, countless dragon bones are piled up here in the stone room, including mountains of golden sand and jewels, the amount of wealth is unimaginable to Chu Xianzhao, and it is simply more than enough to describe the scene in front of him with a sea of gold and silver.

The members of the Zhao royal family have always had a sick obsession with gold, several palaces in the Daqing Palace are built with gold, and even the emperor's dragon bed is carved from a huge piece of gold, and then covered with a luxurious brocade quilt, known as non-gold not love, non-gold does not lie down, I can't wait to gather the world's gold under the eyes, I didn't expect that there are thousands of gold piled up under the queen mother's bedroom.

Chu Xuanzhao took his gaze away from the gold and stared at the randomly placed dragon bones, which made him shudder.

He cautiously walked into the stone room, all around which were the skulls of giant dragons, Chu Xianzhao touched one of them curiously, and found that the touch of the dragon bones was no different from pig iron, ice and hard, as for the teeth in the dragon's mouth, any one of them could be used as a dagger.

"Dead dragons are not worth fearing. He told himself.

But for some reason, Chu Xianzhao still felt that there was such a thing as gaze, perhaps related to the light of the night pearl through the hollow eye sockets of the skull, in this spacious and tall stone room, Chu Xianzhao tried to walk in the pile of gold, and accidentally touched a huge golden sand hill, and then an even more huge dragon bone skull appeared in front of his eyes.

The dragon's bone skull was much larger than the one he had seen before, and the teeth alone were as tall as his whole person, and his clothes were cut by the dragon's teeth, and then he crossed the row of pitch-black fangs like swords and spines, and continued to walk towards the depths of the stone chamber, a strange fragrance came to his face, like the feeling of warm water flowing through his nose, making people drowsy.

The only weapon in Chu Xuanzhao's hand now was the dagger that the eldest lady had given him, and he quickly took it out and held it in his hand, so that he could attack as quickly as possible before the danger came.

He slowly stepped on the golden sand and keel, and felt as if he had stepped into a bright space, and the light of the night pearl became brighter and brighter, illuminating the magnificent structure underground.

This is not a secret room where the Queen Mother hides her private money at all, this is simply a grand square, he stepped on the flat gold bricks, each gold brick is engraved with dense and gorgeous runes, extending in all directions, every time he observes this gold brick land from a different angle, he feels as if there are golden waves under his feet.

The runes on the gold brick ground seem to be intricate, but in fact they are orderly, but people can't understand what these symbols symbolize?

To provide a light source for such a huge square, the night pearl alone is simply not enough, so there are many lampstands as large as water tanks in the middle of the square, illuminating this square with gold as floor tiles

A little mixed in it can blow up a room, and if used as lamp oil, it can burn for hundreds of years.

The square was surrounded by tall statues, holding huge swords upside down, their faces hidden by a white cloth with long pale golden ropes tied around their faces to hold the charms in place, as if looking down at the people who entered the place, with a condescending majesty, like warriors guarding the king.

Behind these statues is a large mural, as if across the entire underground square, similar murals he has seen in the Great Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, but this mural is only bright red and golden two colors, red thunder and lightning fell from the sky, the terrible flying dragon spit out an extremely long dragon flame from its mouth, each of them rode a knight covered in armor, and below them was a burning city, they were fighting each other, a man covered in red armor with golden eyes was slashed in the neck with a sword by a woman who rose from the dragon's head, splattering ruby-like blood, the dying face was smiling sadly, and countless flying dragons fell from the sky, the smoking dragon's blood shines like the setting sun.

Dragon and fire, the glory and sorrow of the Daqing royal family.

What is recorded on this painting is undoubtedly the battle of the fall of the ten thousand dragons of the Zhao royal family, the picture of dragon blood splashed from the air is simply like the painter splashing it directly with blood, Chu Xianzhao has experienced the battle of Feizi Pass, and he has also killed the flying dragon with his own hands with the Tai'a sword, but the scene of dozens of flying dragons dying in Feizi Pass is far less shocking than the picture recorded on this mural, it is simply to use dragon blood to submerge every inch of land in Luoyang City!

This is a beautiful and sad work, peerless fire, peerless death, peerless sorrow, engraved on this wall with gold and dragon blood, so that everyone who witnesses this mural is only allowed to bow down and not talk about it.

The road ahead became more and more complicated, he passed through this huge square, and passed through several golden gates on the way, and the deeper he went, the more he felt that the underground of the Daqing Palace was unfathomable, which reminded him of the steel square under the Lin'an Palace, and the steel giants hanging on the supports.

The deeper Chu Xianzhao went, the more open and clear the road became, and the passage around him was almost like the official road on land, and there was a snowflake-like white light in front of him.

He stepped on the gold bricks under his feet, walked carefully with every step, raised the dagger in front of him, and slowly urged the qi on his body, the dagger was soaked in the qi and extended into a three-foot sword blade, and the red sword qi emitted a faint fluorescence.

The road here leads in all directions, Chu Xianzhao chose the widest road to move forward, and when he came to the end, he could vaguely see the white mist.

He suddenly smelled a strong smell of blood, accompanied by the sound of gnawing and biting, this rushing smell of blood made him nauseous, and he walked in with courage, and the breath coming from it was like a yellow spring purgatory.

"It's ...... The sound of water?"

Chu Xianzhao couldn't help frowning when he looked around

It was indeed the sound of something stirring in the water, and his hearing had always been very sharp, but this was underground, where did the sound of water come from?

He heard the sound of water being churned, and even smelled the smell of blood, indicating that he was not the only one living here.

The smell of blood was getting closer and closer to him, and the smell of incense was hidden in it, and the sound of the water was louder, and he heard the popping of something slipping into the water, but the bite that he had heard at first was gone.

He forced his mind to calm down, but at some point the soles of his feet appeared a sticky feeling, as if he was stepping on blood, or it was blood, but now he had to keep his eyes straight, any distraction could bring him a terrifying killing opportunity.

When he stepped into the deepest stone chamber, he was greeted by a mountain of bones, not dragon bones but human bones, maybe dozens, maybe more than a hundred.

Chu Xuanzhao didn't know the number of corpses, the only thing that was certain was that some of the corpses had just died, the miserable white bones were connected with flesh and blood, and the ground was full of scarlet spots, these people were all wearing anklets without exception, and their status before death should be prisoners.

Chu Xianzhao slowly squatted down in front of the corpse, thinking about what killed these people, the wounds on their bodies were really terrible, even with an axe, they couldn't cut out such a wound, some kind of weapon wider than the axe blade directly started from their necks, cut their necks and let the blood rush out of their bodies in an instant, but it should also be a neat and smooth wound, and it would never be like being eaten by a wild wolf like now.

The flesh was clinging to the scum, and the corpses were mostly stained with crystalline fluid rather than blood, unless there really was some wild beast wandering around it.

"Is the Queen Mother raising wolves or tigers below, it's impossible to stuff a dragon here, right?"

Chu Xianzhao forcibly endured the smell of flesh and blood, feeling that these people must have died under the minions of some kind of large animal, he could hardly believe that any weapon could inflict such trauma on people, even the internal organs were mashed.

After Chu Xianzhao turned his eyes away from the corpse, he looked up and found that there was a huge pool in the center of the stone room, the pool was glowing with clear light, and in the center of the pool was this wide golden platform with a wooden box on it.

As he stepped on the long path that led to the Golden Terrace, intending to find out, a strange sound appeared from behind him, this time not only the sound of the water being churned, like the sound of steel rubbing against leather, but it was harsh, and then the sound of the water falling into the water in a line, and fear grasped his heart like a cold claw

There seemed to be a lot of swimming things under the pool, and now they all floated from the surface, and the iron-blue heads floated from under the pool, and they opened their red golden eyes, staring at him intently.

He didn't scream, maybe he forgot to scream, thinking that he had come to the Yellow Spring Abyss.

(End of chapter)