This place is far from the crater, and it is estimated that it was not affected by the explosion that year.

And because this archway is all built with black stone blocks and black stone strips, it has been eroded by wind and sand for more than 1,000 years, but it is still very intact.

There are four big characters carved above the archway, Ding Lingling said that it was the earliest Qin Li, which translates to "longevity without borders".

There are two stone beasts crouching on the left and right of the archway, and the stone beasts look very much like the legendary divine beast unicorn.

On the feet on both sides of the archway, a total of eight camels were tied.

Four on the left and four on the right.

Previously, when entering the Black Mountain Pass, four other camels were bitten to death by desert pit vipers, plus the eight camels here, so the first group of people was also a total of twelve camels.

Assuming that there is one person riding each camel, there are at most eight people left in the group, which is exactly the same number as the number on their side.

Chen Xiaopang jumped off the camel first and searched the camels, trying to find out which group of people the owners of the camels were.

It's a pity that what they carried on the camel's back was only some drinking water and dry food, and they didn't even have the tools to explore the tomb and open the tomb, so they were naturally used by these people.

"Little fat brother, don't worry so much, since this group of people's camels are still here, we are not afraid that we won't be able to stop them!" Ding Lingling said.

"But what if these people enter the tomb and destroy the cultural relics in the tomb?" So we still have to go to the tomb as soon as possible!" Chen Xiaopang said.

"How can it be so easy to destroy the cultural relics in the tomb?" Chen Dalin smiled bitterly, "I think we just entered the tomb back then, and we haven't explored anything yet, and suddenly we ......."

When he said this, he suddenly stopped, and his face showed a sense of pain and fear.

Bai Yang, Ding Lingling and the others naturally knew why he was in pain and why he was afraid.

But about "there are living people in the ancient tomb", Chu Changjiang and Chen Xiaopang have never heard anyone talk about it.

Chu Changjiang couldn't help but ask, "What did the old man encounter in the tomb back then, can you tell us about it now?"

Chen Dalin was stunned.

It wasn't until Chu Changjiang called out "old man" again that Chen Dalin shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said, "Let's go in first! There are a few stone tablets inside, and after you have seen the stone tablets, I will tell you again!"

In fact, standing outside the archway, several people can already see that inside the archway is a round mound.

The mound is not high, only three or five meters at most, but the radius is thousands of square meters.

Along the mound around, according to the southeast, southwest, northeast, northwest four directions, stand four huge four-legged square tripods, each of which is more than two meters high.

This archway is just between the two stone tripods in the southeast and southwest, and it is also facing due south.

And due south, it happens to be the direction of the main city of the Celestial Elephant Country.

Because on the two feet of the archway, eight camels of the first team of people have been tied.

So Chen Dalin walked to the square tripod facing southeast and tied the camel reins to one of Fang Ding's feet.

The others also crouched down, tied the reins to the ding, and then looked up at the four-legged square in front of them.

It was a dark blue color, and it looked like it was carved from a large piece of bluestone, and it may have been a large stone quarried from the black stone mountain thousands of meters away.

There is no text on the tripod, but there are many flowers, birds, fish and beasts that symbolize auspiciousness.

There is Danfeng Chaoyang, and there are double dragons grabbing pearls. There are rich flowers blooming, and there are blue birds announcing good news.

And so on and so forth.

In addition, between the tripod and the tripod, except for the south side stands a big archway, there are four stone statues on the other three sides.

These stone statues are all guarding the outside of the mound, crouching or standing, and they are supposed to be the images of fierce beasts.

However, because the mound is too wide, it is impossible to see the appearance of the two-sided stone beasts facing north and west in the Qing Dynasty.

However, judging from the four stone beasts facing the east side alone, it can be seen that the carving is superb and the image is vivid.

Looking further down, you can see that the mound guarded by the stone tripod and the stone beast is in a perfect circle shape. At the edge of the mound, there is even a sleek and regular corner spliced with bluestone.

Looking further at the top of the mound, you can see that at the top of the mound, there are other stone carvings standing, which look like three stone turtles from a distance, carrying three stone monuments.

Chen Xiaopang looked up and down and said: "Although this mound is very much like the top part of a super-large tomb, it is more like an altar!

"Maybe it's an altar and a large tomb at the same time!" Ding Lingling said, looking back at the poplars.

Bai Yang understood what she meant, and hurriedly took out the Yin and Yang Compass, and was adjusting the detection, but Chen Dalin shook his head and said, "It won't be the altar, you can go and see those stone tablets!"

He raised his hand and pointed to the stone statue at the top of the mound.

Several people naturally looked up into the distance, but the poplar shouted "ah" at this time.

Ding Lingling hurriedly asked him what was wrong, and Bai Yang pointed to the yin and yang compass and said: "You see that this pointer beats so much, it means that there is indeed a super-large ancient tomb down here, maybe it is the legendary large underground palace!"

As soon as the others heard him, they all rushed up to watch the Yin-Yang Compass.

Chen Dalin smiled bitterly and said, "There should be three ancient tombs down here! When we came, we didn't dare to dig a hole directly from the top of the mound, so we started from ......."

He thought about it carefully, and suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed at the stone tripod facing northwest.

"I remember we opened a hole in the side of the stone tripod and entered, and it was indeed a magnificent palace like a real palace, but unfortunately we didn't go far......

He stopped talking again, just bowed his head with a sad face.

Chu Changjiang glanced at him and said, "I think we'd better go and see what is written on those stone tablets, right?"

As he spoke, he walked up the mound first.

The others followed him. As she walked, Hongxing suddenly asked a question: "All the things here, including the stone archway, as well as these bluestone tripods, plus the patterns on the stone tripods, are all Han style, and I can't see any Western style at all, why is this happen......ing? They have a great Han mage with great powers, so they won't be influenced by this archmage to this extent, right?"

Before Hongxing raised this question, the others didn't think much about it.

But when Hongxing said this, everyone couldn't help but feel more and more strange the more they thought about it.

Tie Niu first said: "Hongxing is right, including those stone beasts, they all seem to be the legendary divine beasts of our Han people! Suppose that the small country in the Western Regions has no writing, so it uses our Han characters, but how can it be that even the architectural styles and carving patterns are all our Han people?"

"The clothes I brought out in Yunlang City are not Chinese-style!" Chen Xiaopang said.

Several people looked at each other, and they were full of doubts, and Chu Changjiang, who was walking in front, turned around and asked, "Ganghong girl mentioned it...... What is the Han Master?"

None of the others answered.

Bai Yang hurriedly spoke: "We saw a record about the Grand Master of the Heavenly Elephant Kingdom in a big tomb under the Crescent Spring before, and later in the cellar of Yunlang City, we saw a green jade statue that looked very similar to the Han scholars, so we think that the scholar statue is likely to be the Grand Master of the Heavenly Elephant Kingdom!"

"Oh, I remembered!" Chu Changjiang showed a look of sudden realization, "You seem to have mentioned such a thing as the Grand Master of the Celestial Elephant Kingdom in Yunlang City before, but I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, so I didn't ask about it!, but do you think that this Archmage alone can make the entire Celestial Elephant Kingdom completely abandon the culture of the Western Regions, whether it is writing, architecture, stone carvings, stone carvings, etc., all of them follow the Han style?"

"We didn't think about it before, but when we mentioned it just now, we thought it was very strange!" said Poplar truthfully.

"Then have you ever thought that the founding monarch of the Celestial Elephant Kingdom, the Celestial Elephant King, is himself a Han Chinese?" Chu Changjiang said, with a smile on his face.

With an "ah", Bai Yang and the others were once again taken aback by Chu Changjiang's high theory.

"It seems that you have never thought like this!" Chu Changjiang shook his head.

"But I don't know why Boss Chu thinks like this?" asked Chen Xiaopang.

"You just treat me as a nonsense!" Chu Changjiang smiled.

Chen Xiaopang turned around and exchanged glances with Bai Yang, Ding Lingling and others, and several people were all thinking: It seems that not only are they hiding some things from Chu Changjiang, but Chu Changjiang is also hiding some things from them.

As they spoke, they approached the stone statue at the top of the mound.

But I saw that the stone statue was also carved from a whole piece of bluestone.

From a distance, it looks like a whole, but in fact it is divided into three seats.

It was three large, delicately carved stone turtles, with their tails facing each other and their heads facing in three directions.

But these three directions are neither south nor north, neither east nor west, as if they were deliberately staggered with the four stone tripods on the outer edge.

On the backs of the three stone turtles, they all carried a stone tablet.

The stele is engraved with words, and the text is also the earliest Qin Li.

Chu Changjiang and Hongxing first came to read the inscription carefully, but Bai Yang and Tie Niu couldn't understand Qin Li, so they could only listen to Ding Lingling translate for them.

(See Chapter 168 "Entrance to the Underground Palace")