Volume 2 Sand Sea Dragon's Lair Chapter 188 Woe to Xiao Wall
The stone rock stretched outward for more than ten meters, and the plane diameter of the entire cylindrical grotto was only twenty-five or six meters.
Moreover, the top of the stone rock is not narrowed, but enlarged to form a perfect circle, which looks like a circular platform. The diameter of the platform is almost five meters or more.
In the center of the platform is a huge coffin. The coffin is more than three meters long and more than two meters wide.
If you look at it from the side, this circular platform is completely suspended between the cylindrical caves, on the cliffs, and there is such a huge coffin pressed on it, it seems that it is really dangerous, and people are very worried that if a little more weight is added to it, the whole platform will collapse.
The coffins of King Cheng and Master Ao Jian before were just ordinary bluestone coffins with mahogany coffins, but this huge stone coffin showed a warm and delicate royal blue luster, which seemed to be extremely rare and precious lapis lazuli.
Lapis lazuli is the most respected gemstone by the emperors of previous dynasties, but because it is too rare, it is generally only worn as an ornament, such as the Qing Dynasty four-grade officials wear lapis lazuli on the top of the court dress.
In other words, such a large lapis lazuli coffin, and the color is so bright and pure, it is already a peerless treasure that has never been seen from ancient times to the present.
Chen Xiaopang saw it at a glance, didn't care about anything else, and ran directly to Shiyan, circling around the lapis lazuli stone coffin, while snorting in his mouth, and said straightly: "This trip is too worthwhile! This lapis lazuli stone coffin alone has far exceeded the biggest harvest we expected!"
Poplar Iron Bull and Max didn't know how precious lapis lazuli was, but the rest of the others were all excited and their faces lit up.
Even Chu Changjiang, who has assets of tens of billions, nodded again and again, and said: "Yes, just this lapis lazuli coffin can be worth my full worth!"
Poplar Tie Niu was taken aback, and finally had a more vivid understanding of the value of this coffin.
Tie Niu couldn't help but sigh and said, "No matter how precious it is, this stone coffin is too heavy, and it is impossible for us to carry it back!"
Speaking of this, he suddenly blinked his eyes and said half-jokingly: "Otherwise, if we smash this stone coffin, since it is so precious, even if we only take out a small piece, it will be worth tens of thousands of dollars, right?"
As soon as he said this, everyone else thought he was joking, but Chen Xiaopang's face changed and he said: "If you have such thoughts, don't do archaeology as soon as possible! Doing archaeology will encounter peerless treasures all the time, but anyone who has a little greed and selfishness will sooner or later degenerate into criminals!"
That's a very ugly thing to say.
Although Chen Xiaopang and Bai Yang are not quite right, they are quite affectionate with Tie Niu, but they didn't expect him to turn his face when he said that he would turn his face, and he didn't even care about the slightest affection.
only choked an iron bull and his face was flushed, and Bai Yang was afraid that he would get angry, so he hurriedly said: "Lao Hei is just joking, little fat brother doesn't have to take it seriously like this!"
"It's better not to make jokes like that!" Chen Xiaopang said, still with a straight face.
Iron bull rushed upward, and Poplar hurriedly put his arm around his shoulders and walked towards the stone cave at the back of the rock.
It was also an open stone cave, and the area of the stone cave was much larger than the stone cave next to Master Ao Jian's coffin.
The cave is also full of murals, but the contents of the murals are all the great achievements established by the Celestial King.
It can be seen that the Celestial King was born very majestic, and there are also depictions that the Celestial King is indeed the founding king of the Celestial Kingdom.
But the specific length of time the Celestial King lived, the mural does not indicate, but judging from the changes in the shape of the characters in the mural, he did rule the Celestial Elephant Kingdom for a long, long time.
And by his side, there will always be a person dressed as a scholar with him, which can also prove that Chu Changjiang's previous speculation was accurate.
One of the alchemists who fled from the Qin State was not Master Ao Jian, but the Celestial Elephant King, and it was likely that Master Ao Jian was just a loyal retinue of the Celestial Elephant King.
It was precisely because of his loyalty that the Celestial Elephant King turned him into an immortal body and made him the Grand Master of the Celestial Elephant Kingdom.
So much so that Ao Jian's status in the minds of the people of the Celestial Elephant Country is only slightly inferior to the Celestial Elephant King, but it is more lofty than the prince and grandson, and even the successor to the throne later.
This is evidenced by the fact that Master Ao Jian's coffin is set on top of King Cheng.
In addition, on the murals, there are also several pictures of the Celestial King sleeping, and next to him is also guarding the scholar dressed as Master Ao Jian.
Poplar believed that these pictures of the king of the planets sleeping were in a state of deep sleep for a long time.
The Biyou Priestess had said before that the immortal medicine could not really make people immortal, and even the three immortal pills refined from the immortal god furnace only allowed the Biyou Divine Daughter to live for more than four hundred years, but since she was more than two hundred years old, the Biyou Divine Daughter often felt weak and sleepy.
And the longest time I slept was when I woke up for three years.
Therefore, Bai Yang estimated that the Celestial Elephant King had fallen into a deep sleep more than once, and every time he fell into a deep sleep, it was Ao Jian who was guarding his body and managing state affairs in his place.
Of course, Ao Jian will definitely fall into a deep sleep from time to time, and the immortal medicine that Ao Jian took is just prepared by the Celestial Elephant King himself, and its effect is far inferior to that obtained from the Immortal God Furnace, so the frequency of Ao Jian's sleep will definitely be higher, and the sleep time will definitely be longer.
But he was just an archmage, and he didn't have the heavy responsibility of managing the country, so his slumber could be prevaricated by retreat cultivation, and it wouldn't attract the attention of the people of the Celestial Elephant Kingdom at all.
And the medicinal properties of the immortal elixir refined by the three immortal god furnaces that the Celestial Elephant King took gradually faded, and the Celestial Elephant King had to start taking the immortal elixir he had prepared later, and as a result, he slept more and more frequently, and the sleeping time was also getting longer and longer.
But as the king of a country, he always fell into a deep sleep like this, which would inevitably cause the doubts of his subjects, and finally the king of the celestial phenomena himself was tired of this life, so he simply built a tomb, and when he was sleeping again, he abdicated in the name of death to make way for Xian.
It is likely that after the Celestial King abdicated and went to sleep in the tomb, a huge meteorite fell into the desert.
The previous Qin Shi Huang's immortal furnace was built by the "Heavenly Divine Stone", so Ao Jian immediately asked the first successor to the throne, King Chengda, to send people to find meteorites to build the immortal furnace.
After the immortal god furnace was completed, Ao Jian personally presided over the refining of the immortal medicine.
He must have refined more than one batch of immortal pills, and he and the Celestial Elephant King must have taken these immortal pills before.
Perhaps because the medicinal properties of the immortal elixir were still not ideal, Master Ao Jian - or simply the Celestial Elephant King instructed Master Ao Jian to put a thousand-year-old dragon ball he had obtained in the past into the immortal god furnace to refine it to see if he could get the real immortal elixir.
Neither the Celestial Elephant King nor Master Ao Jian would have imagined that the Immortal God Furnace would actually have a big explosion, and if they had predicted this result earlier, they would definitely not have taken this risk.
As for why Ao Jian was not killed on the spot, it may be because he saw the opportunity quickly, and he was originally equipped with strange arts, so he had already fled far away a moment before the explosion.
Of course, it is also possible that it was around the time of the Big Bang that Master Ao Jian fell into another deep sleep.
And for more than a thousand years, the Celestial Elephant King and Ao Jian can almost be said to be a master and a servant dependent on each other, and whenever Ao Jian is asleep, the Celestial King will inevitably take on the responsibility of guarding the tomb.
Bai Yang even felt that when Chen Dalin and the others entered the tomb before, they encountered not Ao Jian but the Celestial Elephant King, otherwise when he saw the green jade statue of Master Ao Jian in Yunlang City before, Chen Dalin should have recognized that it was the living person they saw in the tomb.
It's a pity that these are just poplars' speculations, and there is no evidence from the cave paintings to prove whether this speculation is right or wrong.
But at least Poplar himself believes that his guess is at least 80% infallible.
The Iron Ox stood beside Bai Yang, because he was angry in his heart, he couldn't look into the mural at all, but glanced at the others on the stone rock from time to time.
The men seemed to be carefully observing the words on the lapis lazuli coffin, but Max couldn't read the characters, so he could only stand to the side.
Hongxing glanced back at the stone cave, and also walked towards the stone cave.
Not wanting to be more than three meters away from the stone cave, Max suddenly caught up from behind, reached out and hugged Hongxing, and quickly lowered his head and bit Hongxing's shoulder.
Hongxing was taken aback and immediately struggled with all her might.
At the same time, Iron Bull shouted, "Max, what are you doing?" and several leaps rushed over.
Before the others, including Poplar, could react, Iron Bull had already rushed to Hongxing and Max, and reached out and dragged Hongxing over.
But Max still held the red apricot and didn't lose it, but he was dragged by the iron bull with the red apricot.
Iron Bull was furious and cursed, "Damn gringo!"
Holding the red apricot with one hand, he pushed Max hard with the other.
Max was pushed backwards and staggered, although he threw away the red apricot, his eyes were staring at the Iron Bull, and at the same time his mouth was wheezing, as if he wanted to bite the Iron Bull.
The others hurriedly walked towards the three of them, and Poplar first asked, "What's the matter?
Hong Xing suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help screaming: "He was bitten by the madman before, is he also infected with some crazy disease!"
Several people were taken aback, and Poplar was about to rush up to check on Max's condition, when Max suddenly let out a low roar and pounced on the Iron Bull.
Tie Niu scolded again, pushed Hongxing away with one hand, and swung a punch into Max's lower abdomen.
He didn't do his best, after all, Max was not an enemy.
But with his strength at the moment, even if he didn't use all his strength, Max should have screamed back.
But no, Max didn't seem to feel the pain at all, and still pounced on the iron bull.
And the force of this flutter was unusually large, and the stone rock was not very wide, and the iron bull was pounced on and took two steps back, and suddenly his feet were empty, and he suddenly fell down with Max.
Poplar was already very close to the Iron Bull, and when he saw this happening, he was so frightened that Poplar took a step forward and grabbed Max's back shirt with one hand.
But how can a shirt stand up to the weight of two big men?
Hearing only a "bang", Poplar only grabbed a rag in his hand, but Iron Bull and Max fell without hindrance.
"Old Black!no!" Poplar hissed, but he couldn't call back the figure of the Iron Bull.
(See Chapter 189 of "Vicious Aoji")