Chapter 864: Nine Layers

It's about to get close to the top floor, and there are only nine floors in this Tianyou Pavilion in total, removing the bottom three layers are Jingzhong Pavilion, and the four layers of Supreme Treasure and Lu Xiaoyu on the top have all been seen, but there is nothing special about some forbidden books. I can only sigh that this Southern Chu regime is really amazing, and it is estimated that it will not be able to finish reading so many strange books to collect, just the things in it. If these books are allowed to circulate to the world, it will cause an uproar, probably because they are afraid that the impact will be too great, so they were sealed here at the beginning, and they will never see the light of day again, if it were not for the appearance of the Supreme Treasure so that some of their essence can benefit the world, it is estimated that these books will really be slowly corroded until they rot in the end.

"Big brother, there are still two floors left, do you think what we are looking for will be on top of this?" Lu Xiaoyu asked.

"I don't know very well, but I'm sure that the things in this Heavenly Blessing Pavilion are all helpful to us, just look at the books on the following floors, it is a 'big treasure' for us to benefit the people! I believe that regardless of whether the upper two floors reveal the secrets of the three artifacts, at least the books hidden inside will not be bad. The Supreme Treasure replied.

They continued to walk towards the eighth floor, and sure enough, the eighth floor was still full of books like the previous ones, and the Supreme Treasure flipped through a few of them, and the books here were not the same as the previous ones, all of them were books on statecraft.

And many books are not only placed on the shelves, but some are packed in large iron boxes, which Supreme Treasure probably guessed the reason. Because the political books here were not transferred to the service of the Southern Chu court and deposed the Confucian books of the hundred schools, but the books that were still handed down during that period when the hundred schools of thought contended. There are all kinds of sects, and they all expound their own views on governing the country, but some of the views here are not in line with the political policies of Southern Chu, so they are abandoned. For example, one of the books says that the Central Plains is big, and that the Southern Chu family is the only one, and there are even one hundred and eight countries in the four seas. We must take its essence and remove its dross, and we must not be arrogant and close the country.

This sentence is very correct, if a country wants to develop, if it rests on its laurels and feels that its things are the best, no one can compare to it and cut off contact with the outside world, and in the long run, when other countries are developing each other, this closed country will slowly move towards the time of destruction. This is true from the current Southern Chu to the later Qing Dynasty. The current Nanchu is because after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it thought that it was the most powerful country in the Central Plains, and did not take the surrounding small countries in its eyes, thinking that they were all vulgar people, not even ordinary people. So until now, the pattern of Southern Chu has only died in the Central Plains and has not gone abroad to explore the Western Regions.

Not only such books, but also some of them attack traditional culture, such as women's rights. In the feudal dynasty, it was natural to pay attention to the fact that women are not talented and virtuous, but this book does the opposite, feeling that a woman also has the power she should enjoy. There is a lot to be said, such as the suggestion that women should be able to walk down the street as generously as men without covering. There are also measures that women can do the same work as men without deliberately avoiding them, etc., which are understandable in modern times, but in the era of Nanchu, it has become a shocking remark.

This kind of open-mindedness will inevitably affect the originally calm Nanchu, so these are blocked at this level by those in power, and there are many more reactionary books that say that they want to overthrow Nanchu, and they are directly blocked in this iron box, as for why they didn't burn them all but kept them, Supreme Treasure and Lu Xiaoyu don't know.

In short, the things on this level are very shocking, so this is the reason why it is placed on the eighth layer, second only to the place where the artifact is placed! Supreme Treasure and Lu Xiaoyu went around in a circle, and there was nothing else on this layer, and it seemed that the real secrets were hidden on the top layer.

"Big brother, the last time you went up, didn't you see anything else except those two artifacts?" Lu Xiaoyu asked as he stepped up the stairs to the ninth floor with the Supreme Treasure.

The Supreme Treasure thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "If I remember correctly, there really is nothing, only a bronze beast face and a wordless gold book placed on a high platform. Because the top floor is not strictly a floor at all, but a pavilion, surrounded only by a railing to look into the distance. I really don't know how something so important could be placed in an unsheltered place, and if someone really wanted to steal these two artifacts, wouldn't they be able to get them without much effort? Just like last time, I also took them straight from the inside without any hindrance. ”

But what the Supreme Treasure doesn't know is that this Tianyou Pavilion is not a simple pavilion, it has long been set up by the Taoist priest, and ordinary people have no way to pass through it, even the emperor of Nanchu can only move on a few floors below the ninth layer, and he can't get close to the ninth layer at all, as long as he takes a slight step, he will be blocked by a magical force outside the door, and he can no longer move forward half a step.

Emperor Nanchu asked many people to try, including the dead Chen Hongliang and Hua Taiyi, who had been brought up, but none of them entered the ninth layer in the end. The Taoist priest also left after helping the Emperor of Southern Chu place the two artifacts and set up the enchantment, so the Emperor of Southern Chu was naturally very relieved that he was not afraid that others would be able to enter if he opened the door so openly, if he could go in and help him find out, even he had no choice.

When Xiong Jie became the emperor, he didn't have the energy to care about the affairs of Tianyou Pavilion, and no one had set foot in that place for a long time. In addition, the palace is heavily guarded, and no one can sneak into here. Therefore, that time when the Supreme Treasure came out of the Tianyou Pavilion, the Southern Chu Emperor was immediately frightened, and since then, a large iron door has been set up at the door of the Tianyou Pavilion with iron locks and chains, and the contents will always be sealed in it, and no one will be allowed to enter. As for whether the ninth layer has been stolen, no one knows, anyway, no one can go up to the top.