I sat on the top of the mountain with a bunch of demon pets and pondered for a long time, and Xiaofeng, who had a quick temper, jumped up first. "No, that's not the way to go. We should have arrived at the target location, and the system is deliberately playing us. ”

Ling pressed Xiaofeng and said: "The system won't play us for no reason, it should be that we didn't expect it." ”

Xiao Chun also nodded in agreement. "It's not an option to waste time complaining, we still have to think about what went wrong."

"Why don't we think about it?" "Let's assume that the system is not wrong, that is to say, we really did not reach the goal. ”

"But that's what the map shows!" The princess whispered.

"I see." Yeyue suddenly shouted: "Master, your map may be a three-dimensional map, we only reached the target in the horizontal direction, not in the altitude position. ”

This is actually a small thinking trap, and as soon as Yeyue said it, we all reacted. I gratefully opened the map again and laid it on the ground, and then put my hand on it a little. "Convert the display to stereo projection." All areas on the map are instantly displayed in a three-dimensional way like a miniature sandbox. I circled where we were again. "Zoom this area into all-map mode."

The place we were on the map was suddenly zoomed in to the size of the entire map, and it showed an ordinary mountain, but the problem was that the red dot that we had thought was the target was not at the top. If you look down from above, the red dot is exactly the same as the latitude and longitude coordinates of the mountain. But from the side, it is clear that the route map has reached the summit and suddenly forked, one straight up and the other straight down.

"How can there be two coordinates?" Yeyue was the first to ask.

"That's not a problem." Ling looked up at the sky. "As things stand, we have two targets, one above our head and one under our feet. It's a bit of a hassle to have two points, but at least we know what the problem is. ”

Xiaofeng also said: "These two places are not far from here, why don't we go and see them?" ”

I said to Xiaofeng: "The system restricts me from flying, you help me go up to see what is at the target location, and then I decide how to go up." Pioneer and Rose Vine, you two will start digging down now, and when Xiaofeng comes down, you should be able to dig a position here. ”

The pets immediately began to split up. There were a few other flying magic pets that went up with Xiaofeng, but they soon came down together again. Xiaofeng rubbed his head and said angrily: "I'm really angry." More than 100 meters above our heads was a floating island, and it was completely invisible, and I crashed into it. Really, it hurts me! ”

The little dragon girl on the floating island nodded: "We have all seen it too." After Xiaofeng hit it, the floating island was revealed, eh, no! It's only a little over a hundred meters from above, don't you see it visible below? ”

"We didn't see anything!" Yeyue asked suspiciously, "Did you mistake the height?" ”

Xiao Chun said: "How long have we been going up?" Even if you get it right, you can't fly beyond the distance you can't see, right? ”

As we spoke, the screams of Amenes suddenly came from the cavern around us. "Come down, we've dug up the slate."

"Slate? Is there a man-made structure? I immediately shouted to the people below, "Dig up the soil in the vicinity and see if you can get around." ”

"No, the soil and rocks on the top of the mountain are not strong enough, so digging the top of the mountain will collapse."

"Then just take it off." I said to the Emmenes below, "Come up first." ”

"Oh."

After Aimenis climbed up with the two burrowing pets, I asked the unrelated pets to return to the phoenix dragon space first. Only the demon pet that can transform into a human form is left to stay on the side for the time being. According to the depth of the digging in Aimenes, we found a corresponding position on the side of the mountain, and then I asked Lucky, Plague, and Xiao San to go up and dig together. The huge dragon claw is not much worse than the excavator, digging more than ten meters deep in three or two clicks, and then we see some densely arranged stone slabs forming a wall. I didn't let the lucky ones break the slabs, but let them dig along the slabs to the sides and above. In a short time, the entire mountain was almost toppled down, and the original peak became more than 200 meters shorter, and now the top of the excavated mountain stands a huge palace-like stone building.

The style of this building looks a lot like the Heavenly Court and Earth Spirit Night Treasure Hall, but it doesn't have that complex materials. Rather, it is made up entirely of stone slabs. Somewhat strangely, there is no entrance to this building. Not to mention the door, this thing doesn't even have a window. Around the building, there are indeed some carved structures that look like doors and windows, but they are actually still integral stone slabs, and there is no actual function of doors and windows at all. It just looks like doors and windows.

"Is this our target?" Amenis asked.

"No, it's a lot further down the map." Ling said as he looked at the map.

"Then dig it out underneath it too. Maybe it's just a seal for the entrance to the passage. ”

Yeyue jokingly asked, "You're saying this thing is equivalent to a sewer manhole cover on the side of the road?" ”

"Almost." I said to the lucky ones, "Do you want to move?" ”

Luckily they leaned in and gave it a try, then shook their heads. "No, this thing is too heavy."

"Let me try." The little dragon girl fired a gravity reversal spell at the building. As a result, I was surprised to see that the Heavy Interest Reversal Technique was bounced back.

"Losing is not attacking magic." I walked over and stroked the rocks on the surface of the building, and then said to Lucky, "Let's see if I can pry the slate off." Maybe there's something else in this thing. ”

"Okay." Lucky beckoned the plague and went up with the mistress to dig hard. As a result, they were really dragged down. But just as the first slate fell, we were all stunned.

Jade. We see that the earth is a piece of jade. The exterior of this building is only wrapped in an ordinary layer of stone slabs, but the interior is actually carved entirely from jade. It was only after they were lucky that they had torn off the entire shell that we found that the hall was not without doors and windows, but that there were no doors and windows on the stone slabs outside. This jade hall itself has complete jade doors and windows, and they are all real doors and windows that can be opened.

Even though I knew that this was not the target point of the mission, I decided to go in first. Of course, I didn't forget to let the pioneers and rosevines continue to dig down.

Pushing open the jade gate, which was more than thirty meters high, we walked into the hall together. After entering, we found that this hall is not completely made of jade, and there are other materials in its interior. The interior of the main hall is a typical Chinese architecture, with several huge white jade dragon beams supporting the top beams to erect a large hall. On each side of the hall are two giant jade platforms more than five meters high, and on each stone platform stands a statue. What surprised us the most was that the content of the statue was actually our acquaintance, the Four Holy Beasts.

In addition to the four sacred beasts on both sides of the main hall, there are also statues in the direction of the main gate, but unlike the statues on both sides, these three statues share a long pedestal like an offering table. The pedestal itself is carved from black jade, and its façade has a huge panel framed by a dragon carved in gold. The inside of the panel is densely packed with text pasted with colorful stones, but the fonts are all in Dingwen, which is a little difficult to identify. As for the three on the pedestal, they are the White Jade Qilin, the Golden Heavenly Dragon, and the Bi Ling.

Although the three earth statues on the front are larger than the four holy beasts on the side, they are not really landlords, and there are two rows of higher pedestals behind them, forming a stepped structure with the pedestals in front of them. The only problem is that there is nothing on the back two rows of pedestals.

With great curiosity, we took a closer look at the statues of the Four Sacred Beasts. The carvings are all in the form of the body, of course, the body size will not be as big as the real body, otherwise this house will not fit any of them ten times larger. In terms of left and right positions, the statues of the green dragon and the vermilion bird are located on the right-hand side of the first entrance gate, and the white tiger and Xuanwu are on the other side. In terms of depth. The positions of the green dragon and the white tiger were close to the positions of the three great protector beasts, while the Vermilion Bird and Xuanwu were close to the gate. From this position, you can see the difference in the status of the four holy beasts. In ancient China, the left side was generally honored, and the position facing the main gate belonged to the main position. Now it seems that the position of the three divine beasts is the main seat, and from their direction, the green dragon belongs to the left side of the main hall, and it is closer to the main seat, and it should be the highest position among the four holy beasts. Although the white tiger is on the right, it is close to the main position and should be ranked second, and Suzaku is obviously third. Xuanwu is the last.

A closer look reveals that the materials used for the four sacred beast statues are also different. Although the four statues are all jade, they are different in color. The green dragon uses purple and green thunder jade, and the white tiger uses snow run white jade. Suzaku uses red blood jade, and Xuanwu is Tian topaz. All four have their own attributes. But the value is just as expensive, let alone such a large whole piece of jade.

Unlike the Four Sacred Beasts, the statues of the Three Great Protector Divine Beasts were obviously not expensive high-grade Divine Jade. What makes us very strange is that the materials used for the statues of the three major protector beasts, which should be more noble, are all cheap. The sculpture of the white jade unicorn and silver snow is actually frozen into ice with the most ordinary water. The only special thing is that it has been subjected to thermostats, so it can stay all year round. On the other side, Biling's statue is actually made of wood, and it is not a whole piece of wood. Although the level of zuò production is quite high, we can still see the joints between the woods. The golden dragon in the middle is the worst, the ice of the silver snow represents purity, and the wood of Biling can also be seen as a representative of life, but the sculpture of the golden dragon is actually made of yellow clay. Although the color of this yellow mud is very pure, no matter how you say that the mud is mud, no matter how you look at it, it has nothing to do with nobility.

In terms of the material itself, the total value of these three statues of the three great protectors of the divine beast is less than the value of a corner of the pedestal at their feet, but I believe that the use of such materials must have special significance, and the sculptures themselves will not be so simply placed there, they should have a more important meaning.

After a few turns in the main hall, in addition to the gorgeous decoration, a large number of sculptures of divine beasts and demons were found on the pillars and beams in various places. Speaking of carving beasts, I can understand. But I don't understand what it means to carve so many demons and monsters.

I was carefully observing a lampstand in the form of a snake demon placed in the corner of the main hall, when Pepper suddenly beckoned and shouted, "Come and see here." ”

When I turned around, I saw that Chili and the princess had actually climbed onto the two-level pedestals behind the three great protector beasts. "How did you climb up there?"

"Aren't we looking for clues!" The princess beckoned to me: "Come up, there is something to see here." ”

I and the other humanoid demon pets all ran over, but I didn't go up directly, but first bowed to the three divine beasts before jumping up. I only found out after climbing to the top. It turned out that there were two grooves on the second-level pedestal behind the three major protector beasts. In the direction we came up, the groove on the left is square, while the one on the right is round. The depth of the groove is about one foot, and under the square groove on the left is a huge one laid out with soil, and under the round groove on the other side is written in a dark way, the two characters are exactly the same size, both written in a very atmospheric official script, which looks like a very majestic and fierce feeling.

After Ling saw these two slots, he immediately said, "Look at this, there should have been two sculptures on it." ”

"The problem is that they're not here right now." Xiao Chun answered.

Ye Yue said to herself: "The three great protector beasts are so powerful, they are still in front, so who should be the one who can stand behind the three of them?" ”

"It can't be Lao Tzu and Yuan Shi Tianzun, right?" Ling asked.

The little dragon girl shook her head and said, "Impossible. You still don't know much about the Eastern Protoss system, although Yuan Shi Tianzun and Lao Tzu are strong enough. But they are only gods, after all. Among Chinese Taoists, there is something that even gods have to worship. ”

"What is it?" The princess asked quickly.

Night Moon pointed to the two grooves. "These are the two of them."

"Heaven and earth?"

I concluded, "Yes. In Chinese mythology, heaven and earth are the largest, and even gods walk between heaven and earth, so no one dares to be disrespectful to heaven and earth. Heaven and earth are written in these two slots, and who else dares to stand on them? Isn't this looking for death? ”

"Heaven and earth are already the largest, so what else is there that passes the earth?" The princess said as she pointed to the pedestal behind her.

Now even I started to think about it. Although the words heaven and earth are written in these two slots, if there is a stone tablet carved with heaven and earth or simply a three-dimensional sculpture of the words heaven and earth, then it is still said in the past. But what exactly should be put here? According to the Chinese sacrificial customs, the higher position should be the higher status of the Cunzài, but this second level has reached heaven and earth. What higher ground is there?

The fast-moving kitten jumped onto the last stone platform and said, "What is it, go up and see it first." Oops......"

"What's wrong with you?" Since these pedestals are very high, the plane of the pedestals above cannot be seen from standing one level below. We saw the kitten jump up and disappear, and in the middle we heard a plopping sound, as if it was falling into the water.

Sure enough, after a while, the kitten emerged from the edge of the platform again. "It's unfortunate that it's all water!"

"It's all water?" I thought about it and climbed up, but I wasn't as reckless as a kitten, and I only stood on the edge of the pedestal. It turns out that the pedestal above is like a large bathtub. The inside is not solid, and there is no roof on top. Inside the pedestal, there are five spheres suspended there, but they do not touch the pedestal itself. All five balls were the same size, and they were all spinning slowly. As for their materials, they happen to be in the five shapes of gold, fire, and earth. The kitten jumps right in the middle of the ball. As a result, it fell into it. Fortunately, the water balloon did not touch the ground, and the kitten fell into it and leaked out from underneath.

"It turned out to be the Five Elements element. No wonder it has to be put behind heaven and earth. This is already the existence of the basic law. When the little dragon girl saw what was here, she immediately understood the reason.

"Is this a gossip mirror?" Xiao Chun found that there were octagonal mirrors on the inner walls of the left and right ends of this pedestal, and the five spheres happened to be in the straight line between the two mirrors.

The little dragon girl ran over and studied one of the mirrors in it. Then he said: "This is not a gossip mirror. It's a two-way mirror. ”

Yeyue suddenly said, "Wait." You say it's a two-ritual mirror? ”

"What's wrong?"

"The harmony of the five elements together is chaos, and opening the heavens and the earth means separating the heavens and the earth. The so-called division of heaven and earth gives birth to two instruments, and two instruments give birth to four phases. Take a quick look at the four corners of the pedestal. ”

My four pets ran around four corners and found a round bead each.

The little dragon girl also understood the meaning of Yeyue now. "Two rites give birth to four phases. Four gossip. These four beads are four-phase beads, and there must be a gossip array around here. ”

"Here." The kitten suddenly pointed at our feet. As soon as we looked down, we realized that what we were stepping on under our feet was a huge gossip array.

"I finally got it." Xiaolongnu said: "What is enshrined on this last pedestal is the law of nature, which is the standard for measuring a qiē, even heaven and earth must operate according to the law, so the law is higher than heaven and earth." ”

"It's all right." Amenes's voice suddenly came from outside the temple. "Huh? What are you all running up there for? ”

"What's the matter?" Xiao Chun climbed out from below and asked.

"The hole in the ground is opened. I see the mission objective. ”

"That's great. I'm going to finish the task first, and then I'll come back and work on it. I turned over and jumped out of the hall as I spoke, and then ran out of the hall, and my pets naturally followed.

Following the passage dug by the pioneers and rose vines all the way down, the depth of the descent is already much lower than the ground at the foot of the mountain. It was only after drilling to a depth below ground level that it was about the same height as the mountain. The target of the mission they found was a natural cave**, and we were in it right now.

The cave isn't too wide, but it's quite tall. The cave is very empty, except for a stone platform similar to the Temple of Heaven in Beijing in the center of the cave, and in the center of the platform stands a huge monument of astonishing height. Since the place we entered was on the side of the monument, we couldn't see what was written on the monument, but when we went around to the front, we were all stunned. I saw that the word "Houtu" was arranged vertically on the huge monument with vigorous official scripts.

In addition to the vigorous font, the stele itself is also quite strange, it seems to be made of gold and iron, mud, rock, and jade, and the surface color is uncertain. But the overall feeling is quite harmonious.

Xiaolongnu walked over and touched the body of the stele, and then said: "Gold, silver, copper and iron all belong to metal, and the five shapes belong to gold; Dirt, rocks, and jade are all earth. It is also suitable to mix the two elements of gold and earth with the soil stele. ”

Ling suddenly asked, "Do you think this is what is enshrined on the second-level pedestal in the building above?" ”

I looked at the pedestal of the stele, and then said, "This pedestal is indeed square, and the size should be very consistent." ”

"How about we just move it back and try it?"

"Okay!"

With everyone's unanimous agreement, we began to carry the stele, but in the end I sent all the people I could, but the thing just didn't move. Xiaolongnu suddenly said: "By the way, the back soil is the earth, and this thing represents the earth." How is it possible to move? ”

"What then?"

"With wood." Yeyue said: "Wood and soil belong to the affinity of the relatively highland attributes, and wood can be used to pull the soil. ”

I thought about it for a while, and finally summoned my guild guardian dryad, and then asked her to transform into ** to carry the stele. Not to mention, this is really a thing to a thing. She didn't seem to make any effort, and carried away the monument that several dragons couldn't shake like she was carrying a balloon.

Watch my tree division carry the earthen monument. Ling suddenly leaned over and asked, "Did you receive a mission prompt?" ”

I shook my head. "Maybe it's not right on the underground side, it's the mission goal from above. The system gives two coordinates, probably deliberately to delay our time. ”

Ling nodded: "Then we'll put this tablet away and then look at the coordinates above our heads." ”

Due to the relatively large size of this monument, we had to enlarge the hole when we went to the ground to get out. And this process has taken a lot of time. Finally, by the time we got out, there were just over two hours left before the end of the mission. But time was short, but I wasn't in a hurry. Anyway, the floating island is right above my head, so I don't need to make a hole to go there, just let Lucky bring a rope and fly up and pull me up.

After the earthen stele was moved into the jade hall, a faint yellow light suddenly appeared on the surface, which made us more sure of the previous inference. This thing must be the thing that was offered on that pedestal.

According to the saying that the sky is round and the earth is round, we put the post-earth tablet into the square groove where the earth is written. Not to mention, the groove and the stele base are just right on the same page. Almost at the moment when the stele was put in, the entire thick earth stele lit up violently, and the previous faint light was transformed into a layer of golden light curtain, and there were many small golden light spots floating slowly around the stele body, which looked very beautiful.

After putting this monument away, I was about to go to the floating island above to have a look, but who knew that the system notification suddenly rang. "Houtu returns, congratulations to the player for completing 50% of the Purple Sun mission."

"Damn, it turns out that this thing is the target of the mission. Quick, follow me up. There must be a heavenly monument on the floating island above my head, and my task will only be completed if the two pieces are in place together. ”

"Little meaning, boss, give me your rope head, and I'll help you bring it." Lucky stretched out a claw.

I handed the cord head to Lucky, and let the other pets fly up with Lucky. It wasn't until I received the lucky mind notification that I started to activate the automatic take-up function of the dragon tendon rope. The roll automatically lifted me up to the floating island above. Speaking of which, this floating island is actually not big, and it doesn't fly very high, but this thing has a very strange characteristic, that is, when it is more than five meters away, no matter what anti-stealth ability you have, you can't see it, which is why we didn't see it below until Xiaofeng bumped into it, and found that there was a floating island here.

By the time I climbed up the island, my pets had gathered under the monument in the center of the island. The shape of this thing is exactly the same as that of the post-earth monument, but the material is much different. It was actually made of water, and it had flames burning on the surface. The front of the stele body is also written with two words, but the content is replaced with "Huangtian".

This time, there is no need to hesitate, we directly began to carry the Huangtian Monument, and this monument is very light, much easier to move than the Houtu Monument. It didn't take long for us to get the tablet into the main hall and insert it into the circular slot.

Almost at the moment when the Imperial Heavenly Monument was in place, a metal scream suddenly sounded in the main hall, and the entire hall began to vibrate.

"What the hell is going on?"