As Shen Lang ignited the grease in the trench, the firelight extended along the trench into the distance, and the place suddenly became brighter.

And by the light of the fire, we looked up and found that at the entrance, above the gate we had just entered, there was indeed a plaque hanging high in the same way as the Taimuro Hall.

But if you look closely, it's very different from the first floor.

In the first floor of the palace of the Tai Chamber, the door is made of vermilion lacquer, and the plaque on it is carved by golden silk nanmu, which looks full of royal majesty, high-end atmosphere, and noble.

On the second floor, the gate in front of us was painted a strange black, and even the plaque hanging above the gate was also pitch black, looking strange and mysterious, like the legendary ghost gate.

Vientiane Divine Palace is Wu Zetian's life's work, and since it is a royal land, in my imagination, it must be resplendent and full of royal atmosphere, no matter what, it should not be the eerie and terrifying black in front of us.

Anyway, it must be a demon, Yi He saw this strange gate and plaque was also puzzled, he jumped up, supported the top of the gate with one hand, and gently touched the plaque on the door with the other hand, and after careful observation, he fell back to the same place, and said in disbelief.

"No wonder the gate and the plaque are pitch black, and when I looked at them, I found that they were both carved from gloomy wood."

When I heard what Yihe had discovered, I was equally stunned and couldn't believe it.

This gate and plaque are actually carved from gloomy wood?

Because the ancients regarded gloomy wood as a treasure to ward off evil spirits and towns, it can be called an inch of wood and gold in any era, and the number is extremely rare.

The gate before us was extremely majestic, roughly about five meters high and three meters wide, and there was no trace of any splicing except for the door leaf, as if each door leaf was carved from a single piece of gloomy wood.

It is no exaggeration to say that if this door leaf is really carved from a single piece of gloomy wood, regardless of its age, regardless of its carving, the material itself can be called a rare treasure!

But why is such a precious material used in such an insignificant gate?

Qi Zhi saw our frowning brows, and knew that the gloomy wood in Yi He's mouth had made us wonder again, so she gently took my hand and asked why this gloomy wood surprised us so much.

"Brother Chuan, isn't this just a wooden door and a plaque, and it's not made of gold, why are you so surprised."

Ling Xuan didn't seem to want Qi Zhi to disturb my thoughts, so he spoke before I could answer, explaining the preciousness of this gloomy wood to Qi Zhi.

"Xiao Qizhi, you don't know, even if this gate is made of gold, we won't be so surprised, but the gloomy wood stock is scarce, no matter how rich your family is, it is a sacred object that is difficult to buy with money, and it is much more valuable than gold."

Then, looking at the gate and the plaque in front of him, he began to talk about what this gloomy wood was.

The so-called gloomy wood, because of a variety of natural disasters, so that the forest buried in the depths of the riverbed, after tens of millions of years of slow carbonization and formed, because after tens of millions of years of carbonization of the ancient wood will show coal-like black, out of the ancients for the so-called Yin Cao Difu awe, so it was named gloomy wood.

The gloomy wood is wonderful, the color is bright and delicate, smooth and smooth, dense and corrosion-resistant, with a special fragrance, excellent stability, and at the same time does not deform, the weight is heavy, the density is high, and the insect moth-proof, it can be comparable to the golden silk nanmu and red sandalwood, which can be called the essence of the tree and the soul of the wood.

It is precisely because of these reasons that gloomy wood has been regarded as a rare thing since ancient times, and is a symbol of dignity and status.

Ling Xuan was indeed a learned person, and it was not bad to listen to what he said.

Gloomy wood is the essence of the tree in the hearts of the ancients, the soul of the wood, symbolizing the awe of the ancients to the saying of the underworld, especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties, gloomy wood has become the first choice for the emperor to build palaces and make coffins, and the people can not adopt it privately, resulting in more scarce gloomy wood.

That's why we're so surprised when we see this door.

Where is this a door, this is clearly a mountain of gold.

"So that's the case, it took thousands of years to naturally produce this gloomy wood, so to speak, this black wood is indeed rarer and more precious than gold."

After Qi Zhi heard Ling Xuan's explanation, she nodded as if she understood Fei Dong, but she still said her opinion.

"But this is the Vientiane Shrine, even if there is a gate and plaque carved from this gloomy wood, it shouldn't be an unusual thing, right?"

"I was surprised not because of the door carved out of the gloomy wood, but because a bold guess suddenly arose in my mind when I saw it."

Hearing Qi Zhi's opinion, I stopped thinking in my head and shook my head at her.

"The first layer is the Taimur Palace, not only a place of sacrifice, but also a place where the dragon body of the martial queen rests, no matter what the reason, the first layer should be extremely important."

Shen Lang spoke at the right time, first agreeing with my opinion, and then raising his own questions.

"That's right, the sacrifice is a major event in the imperial court, Wu Zetiangui is a generation of empresses, and the place where she rests after death is also extremely important, Brother Chuan, what you said these two points are not wrong, but we have already explored the first layer, Brother Chuan, what is the use of thinking about these now?"

I shook my head, it seemed that Shen Lang didn't notice the strangeness.

"You also said that the first layer is extremely important, and even so, we don't see the existence of any gloomy wood on the first layer, even if it is the dragon couch where the Empress Wu sleeps, it is just made of golden silk nanmu.

But we had only just reached the second floor, and we found that the inconsequential entrance was carved out of a single piece of gloomy wood, which only said one thing. ”

At this point, I paused slightly, and my eyes hesitated to speak.

Shen Lang couldn't resist his curiosity, and when he saw that I didn't talk about it, he urged me anxiously.

"Brother Chuan, why are you learning the same as Brother Ting now, just say what you find, whether it's right or wrong, don't hang people's appetites."

"He was afraid that he would guess wrong, so he didn't dare to say it."

Chunting opened his mouth to relieve me at this time, he knew me very well, and after hearing what I said, he understood my guess after thinking about it.

But he was not as hesitant as I was, and after knowing my guess, he watched the crowd speak leisurely and said the final conclusion that I did not dare to say.

"This can only show that the secret here is far more important than the first layer, which is why the people of the perfect Guanshan Ministry of Engineering used this precious and rare gloomy wood at the entrance of the second layer!" Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "Guanshan Chronicle Claw Book House" for free for the first time.