Chapter 20: Finding the Book of Heaven
Along the way, except for the twists and turns in this corridor, Zhou Chen did not encounter other accidents, and everything was calm.
About half a stick of incense was gone, a bright light shone from the distance, and a stone room that was even larger than Fang Cai faintly appeared in Zhou Chen's eyes.
The whole stone chamber is in a circular shape, and the corridor is in the middle of the stone chamber.
On the opposite side of the stone chamber, there is actually a corridor that extends inward, and it seems that this is not the only end.
To the left of the stone chamber, there are two huge stone statues.
A statue with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, standing with a smile, and a dress carved like a wind blowing, is a bit like the Guanyin Bodhisattva of Buddhism.
The other one is completely different, hideous and vicious, with black faces and ghost horns, eight hands and four heads, and even a trace of blood is engraved on the side of the mouth, which makes people shudder.
In addition, in front of these two statues, there is a stone table, an incense burner on it, and several packets of incense candles are placed next to it, all of which are dusty, and it is estimated that there has been no incense for hundreds of years.
As for the other end of the stone chamber, there were only a few futons thrown on the ground haphazardly, and there was nothing else.
These two statues are the gods of faith enshrined in the first line of the Demon Dao today, a Holy Mother of Darkness, and the other is the King of Heavenly Evil.
Distinguish between good and evil, good to the good and evil to the evil.
However, it's a pity that how many of those people in the Demon Dao understand the true meaning of this? Most of them are just murderous and bloody.
Without stopping at all, Zhou Chen continued to walk deeper along the corridor.
This time, he didn't have to go far to find himself in a spacious place.
It's just that this place is not as smooth and tidy as the stone chamber outside, but a cave with stalactites hanging upside down and strange rocks abruptly.
Inside the cave, all kinds of stalactites are strange, and the colors are also colorful.
Next to the entrance of the cave, there is a huge stone tablet standing on this side, on which the dragon and the phoenix dance are engraved with ten big characters.
[Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs]
These ten big characters, each word is almost half the size of a person, the pen is clumsy, the gesture is vigorous, straight to the dragon and snake, there is a head-on, roaring sky.
Seeing these ten big characters, Zhou Chen knew that the first volume of the Book of Heaven he was looking for was already close at hand.
Beyond the stone monument, Zhou Chen continued to walk inward along the passage full of craggy and strange stones.
It didn't take long for him to find himself in a much larger stone chamber hall.
Although there is no fluorite or fire source in it, it is inexplicably bright.
Looking around, Zhou Chen realized that it was a smooth and shiny stone wall in the hall, which lit up the entire hall.
On both sides of the stone wall, there is a tunnel that leads to which point.
Below the stone wall, a bluestone platform is neatly placed, and a black skeleton sits on the top of it.
Even if he has died, he still exudes a momentum of dominating the world, and the original body of this skeleton must be a generation of black-hearted old men of the Demon Dao.
It's just that I don't know what the reason is that this black-hearted old man is actually sitting in the hall here, instead of in the deeper secret room.
Looking at the bones on the stone platform, a trace of doubt flashed in the depths of Zhou Chen's eyes.
Immediately, he distilled his mind into the two tunnels.
In an instant, Zhou Chen figured out the situation behind the two tunnels.
Neither of these tunnels is very long, with the one on the right leading to a chamber for weapons, and the one on the left leading to a chamber for books.
The chamber on the right is a medium-sized stone chamber with items on the east and west sides.
On one side was a pile of broken weapons, such as swords, guns, halberds, axes, hooks, forks, etc., most of which were forged from mortal iron.
The only thing that was still intact was a huge axe on top of the weapon pile, which was cast entirely of molten iron and covered in reddish-brown rust.
On the other side, there is a neat row of wooden shelves, but unfortunately there are few items on the wooden shelves.
Judging by the labels attached to each part of the wooden frame, most of the magic weapons stored here were extremely powerful magic weapons in the Demon Dao vein.
For example, the Wuyue Divine Halberd, the Moon Viewing Rope, the Liren Cone, etc., it can be seen how powerful and huge the Blood Refining Hall was back then.
However, the wooden frame is not empty, in the most inconspicuous place of the wooden shelf, Zhou Chen found an iron box, which looks unsightly, but there is a strange treasure stored inside.
Shen Nian moved slightly, and the details in the iron box were still completely mastered by Zhou Chen, and what was contained in it was a small and delicate copper bell.
In front of that bell, there was also a strange and evil black gas.
If you open the iron box rashly, the bottom gushing out will definitely be this black gas.
There was no doubt that this black gas must have been the means used by the black-hearted old man to protect the bell.
Now that he has insight into the location of the mechanism inside this iron box, it is naturally impossible for Zhou Chen to be plotted by the black gas inside the iron box.
With a wave of his hand, a burst of energy came out of his hand and shot straight into the secret room.
"Click!"
The moment the qi hit the iron box, the iron box immediately split apart in response, and the black gas naturally dissipated in his mouth.
Immediately afterwards, with the slight movement of Zhou Chen's thoughts, the energy rolled back with the bell.
Holding the bell in the palm of his hand and playing with it a little, Zhou Chen turned over and put it away.
The power of this bell is not bad, and the predecessor of the gold brick in his hand is not much worse.
However, the style of this bell is too delicate and small, and it is carved and embroidered leaves, which seems to be a magic weapon suitable for women.
Therefore, Zhou Chen put away this magic weapon, and as for whether it was re-refined or traded, it would be decided in the future.
After taking away the only treasure in the secret room on the right, Zhou Chen walked straight into the tunnel on the left.
The secret room behind the tunnel is much more spacious, and there are bookshelves on three sides, and countless books are displayed on the shelves.
These books are all written on paper, and over the course of more than 800 years, they have long since decayed, and now they are only intact.
However, when Zhou Chen walked into this secret room, the movement of the air currents formed by his march directly caused the long-weathered bookshelf, as well as the bookshelves displayed on it, to completely collapse into fine dust.
Seeing such a scene, Zhou Chen couldn't help but feel that the way of cultivating immortals in this world was really superficial, and he still used the most primitive books to preserve the inheritance.
Although he felt a little pity in his heart, he didn't care too much.
After all, the goal of Zhou Chen's trip was only the first volume of the book that day.
Just now, when he was exploring these two stone chambers with his divine thoughts, he had already discovered the contents of the Heavenly Book engraved on the stone wall behind the opposite bookshelf.
With the Heavenly Book Zhuyu in front of the origin of the ten thousand laws in this realm, Zhou Chen naturally didn't have much interest in the shallow exercises that those people in the Demon Dao had comprehended.