The group cautiously walked down the stairs, which spiraled down, and the end was always pitch black.

The staircase seemed to have no end, and everyone could feel that it was going in circles, as if they were going down a winding mountain path. But after more than ten minutes, I don't know how far I have walked, the stairs still have not come to the end, everyone is surprised, but they want to find out the truth, and then continue to walk down.

This staircase is elegant and simple, with stone steps at your feet and endless auspicious cloud pattern wall carvings on both sides, no matter how far you go, the surroundings are always the same. The crowd walked for more than ten minutes, but there was no change before and after, and it was always pitch black.

Everyone stopped to rest, and Nanyang said, "Teacher Xiao, can you calculate our current position?" ”

At this time, the communication signal seemed to be a little unstable, Xiao Gang said: "The signal shielding in the ancient ruins is very serious, and the positioning system cannot detect your location, but according to the distance you have walked, you should have reached a depth of about fifteen meters now." He continued: "This doesn't seem to be an ordinary place, so you might as well quit first and think about it in the long run." ”

Xu Ming said: "Teacher Xiao, this is not necessary, we are very safe, there is nothing strange here, let's take a walk first and take a look." ”

Time seemed to stand still, and the crowd continued to walk down the endless staircase...... Every time everyone walked a distance, a square milky white jade tablet would appear on the wall, and each jade tablet was inlaid with crystal gemstones, forming different patterns. Everyone inspected each jade tablet, the jade quality was exquisite, and the workmanship was excellent, but they did not understand the meaning of the different patterns on each jade tablet. However, these jade tablets give everyone the same feeling: they are not only decorations, but also markers. Like a station sign, or like a house number, each pattern marks every location.

However, this staircase is still a staircase, and there is no passage to lead to other places, so what do these stop signs indicate? Everyone was silent, holding their breath and moving forward cautiously. There was no danger in front of or behind the stairs, and everyone kept walking, but the communication signal with the ground became worse and worse.

Everyone walked for more than half an hour, still in the dark stairs, as if neither advancing nor retreating, Xu Ming was also a little panicked, everyone seemed to be in place! Only the cloud sculptures on the walls of the stairs on both sides moved, and the auspicious clouds were moving slowly, and everyone seemed to be in the clouds and fog, driving the clouds.

The crowd gradually felt as if they were not in the staircase, but in heaven. Not going down, but up, and even a bit of weightlessness.

At this time, another jade tablet appeared on the wall in front of him, and Zhou Zhongzhong suddenly said, "We have arrived!" ”

Everyone was shocked, what Master Zhou meant by this is that this seemingly endless staircase has finally come to an end?!

Nanyang: "Master Zhou, where do you say this is?" ”

Zhou De's face was grim and said: "'The world'." ”

"'The World'?!" Everyone was stunned when they heard this, what is this "world"?

Nanyang asked, "Master Zhou, what place are you talking about?" ”

Zhou De's eyes were confused, and he said blankly: "The world is the world." What do the wall carvings on both sides of the staircase remind you of? ”

Xu Ming said angrily: "What do you think of, it's just an ordinary wall carving, what's this?" ”

Qiu Tian said, "I think this place is like heaven." "The walls are carved with auspicious clouds, which makes you feel like you're flying in the sky.

Zhou De's eyes flashed, and then he asked Qiu Tian, "How many jade tablets have we seen?" ”

Qiu Tian thought about it, and before he could answer, Gao Qin hurriedly replied: "Nine pieces." Nanyang, Ah Hu and Zhu Zi all showed admiring eyes, this beautiful girl has a delicate mind and knows every detail, and sure enough, Bing Xue is smart. If this is a question to ask them, it really needs to be thought about.

As soon as Gao Qin finished answering, he immediately asked again: "Master Zhou, can you understand the patterns on these jade tablets?" ”

Zhou De shook his head and said, "I don't understand." He continued: "But I've seen the layout. The ancients believed that there were nine heavens, which were called 'nine heavens'. And this staircase symbolizes the road to heaven, and each jade tablet represents a heavy heaven. ”

Zhou De pointed at Gao Qin and said: "She said just now, this ancient site seems to be waiting for someone to break through the ground and travel from the inside out, so let's push the space backwards, the top is the ninefold heaven, and now the ninefold has fallen, and the bottom is the world." ”

Xu Ming sneered and said, "This is too mysterious." He thought that this strange old man was playing tricks again, which was a bit outrageous, and retorted: "Master Zhou, you are completely guessing, what if there is still the tenth or eleventh jade tablet?" Do you want to say 'ten heavens' or 'eleven heavens'? Anyway, everyone can't understand the pattern on the jade tablet, so you can just talk nonsense now! ”

Zhou Deqi's face turned purple, and Nanyang immediately said with a serious face when he saw this: "Everyone, don't make noise." He continued: "What is below, we will know when we go down." ”

Everyone continued to walk down the stairs, walked for a while, the pattern on the walls on both sides suddenly changed, the auspicious clouds drifted away, the wind was light and light, under the clouds was a piece of tall and handsome Qifeng mountain group, the mountains flowed, the trees stood tall, a majestic ancient city gradually appeared at the foot of the mountain, at this time the proportion of the pattern carved on the wall is also getting bigger and bigger, and even the bustling streets appeared, the houses in the wall carvings were lifelike, as if they were around. Walked here, the stairs came to an end.

Everyone was stunned, this is really the same as Master Zhou said, descending from the nine heavens and coming to the world?!

Zhou De was not in a hurry to move forward at the moment, he took a flashlight to carefully observe the wall carvings on both sides, Gao Qin and others also began to check, and everyone found a problem: the wall carvings at the end of the stairs painted a delicate image of the ancient city, pavilions, bustling streets, small bridges and flowing water, grass and trees, but there was no one in this wall carving, this ancient city is an empty city. This is an eerie ancient city.

Xu Ming saw that the stairs were really at the end, no more jade tablets appeared, and everyone had also arrived at the "world", his expression was angry and angry, he secretly thought: This strange old man is actually right, is he also an expert?

Qiu Tian said happily: "It seems that we have really arrived at the 'human world', or returned to the human world. ”

Xu Ming said indignantly: "Hmph! What is this, it's just a wall carving. It doesn't have to be anything ahead, 'the world'?! Listen to me, this is just an underground palace. ”

After inspecting the murals at the top of the staircase, the group continued to walk forward, and there was a dark circular corridor. The corridor was very clean and simple, made of large dark stone slabs, and everyone had not gone far along the corridor when they suddenly stopped and saw the exit.

The expressions of the people were all very surprised: this deep darkness of the underground actually poured in a piece of moonlight through the exit! Could it be that there is a bright moon in the sky outside?!