Chapter 124: Mowu Palace
At the beginning, there was a dragon court palace standing here, with the middle road as the axis and the yin and yang as the auxiliary. The gate of heaven is the main gate of the Dragon Palace, opposite the gate of heaven to the gate of Naidi, the city wall on both sides can not see the end at a glance, the auspicious beast on the eaves of the building comes from the ancient legend of the stars, from the platform to look at it, the "stars" that flicker with blue light seem to build a huge star map, and the gods of the bright stars seem to be watching everything here on the other side of the star map.
Passing through the Gate of Heaven, you can't smell the stale smell of the pavilions, the palace city is intact after a long time, and every few meters on the side of the gravel paved road there is a white marble stone lamp, which is a thousand-year-old wick, illuminating the whole road so brightly that you don't even need to use torches to pass through here.
The bold and careful Gui Xun'er immediately understood the mystery, only to see her gently put her hand into the stone lamp frame and take out a square oily paper box, and the cyan light spots suddenly moved irregularly in the carton. When everyone approached, she tore open the oiled paper box.
"It turned out to be fireflies!" Wang Zhaolin exclaimed, and a group of cyan light points quickly jumped out, but it didn't take long for them to lose their luster and fall to the ground.
"These fireflies have been poisoned and can only survive inside the lamp, and once they come into contact with the outside air, they will die instantly. Gui Xun'er picked up the corpse of a firefly and looked at it, and turned to look at the light spot in the "starry sky", "I can't imagine that the delicate environment of the Dragon Palace provides such a peaceful habitat for these creatures, whether its builder originally planned it, or ......"
The center of the map of Qishui Dragon Palace is marked with the main road, as well as the three major halls of the Dragon Palace: Xuanfeng Hall, Chigu Hall, and Mowu Palace, and the layout is symmetrical with the main road as the axis. The modern Junlong people's architectural style still retains this charm, and if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would definitely think that Western-style architecture is the ancestral thing.
The dragon is the national totem symbol of the Junlong people, with stone carved steps, eaves and beasts, and pavilion guardrail decorations...... All of them are sculpted with real dragon patterns to pray for a bumper harvest and good weather. Interestingly, it is not the humans who rule here, but the dragons, and these carvings are their original images, but in the style of human emperors, perhaps thousands of years ago, there was an era of mutual borrowing and imitation between humans and dragons.
The Dragon Palace, hidden deep at the bottom of the river, should not be so silent, at least a thousand years ago it was a temple with infinite glory, the war between humans and dragons led to the decline of the place, the dragons betrayed their faith, drove away, and even slaughtered the "gods" of their people, the dragons, causing infinite desolation and sorrow.
The ancient history buried in the three major halls has long been turned into a puddle of dust under the erosion of the years, but the handwriting that can barely be recognized is some unfathomable dragon characters, which have little value, after exploring the Xuanfeng Hall and the Chigu Palace, everyone seems to be a little disappointed, although the ancient palace buildings of the dragon clan are gorgeous, but they still can't find the relevant clues of the dreadnought sword.
Only the Mowu Hall has not yet been explored, if the Dreadnought Sword is not in this hall, the previous conjecture that the artifact must be hidden in one of the three major halls will be overturned, and they can only go to other side halls and pavilions to find it, and the search will be much more difficult. The Dragon Clan's treasure must be in a very hidden place, otherwise, with his father's ability, why didn't he find it?
Wang Zhaolin thought so, shouted and ordered everyone to walk towards the Mowu Hall with him. When they came to the temple, they were completely shocked by the splendor of the momentum. Mowu Hall is slightly smaller than Xuanfeng and Chigu two halls in scale, and the palace body is different from the golden color of Xuanfeng and Chigu two halls in Danqing*.
The wide platform in front of the hall is furnished with a pair of copper turtles and copper cranes, His Royal Highness is a three-layer white marble stone carving pedestal, surrounded by a railing, there is a stone carving auspicious beast for drainage under the railing, enter the hall, the first thing to see is the decorative color painting on the outer beam, the upper part of the door and window is embedded into the gold flower texture, the lower part is embossed with the real dragon pattern, there is the gilded copper leaf of the dragon language carved in the seal, the whole hall is paved with gold bricks, although it accumulates a thick layer of dust, but it still does not lose its luster.
The dark yellow dragon chair is placed on the steps of the court hall of the early dynasty in the center of the main hall, which is not much different from the dragon chair that ordinary human emperors sit, and the idea of the supremacy of imperial power is also rooted in the blood of the dragon clan, the difference is that there is an empty jade box made of pure crystal on the dragon chair, which emits a faint white light in the dark hall.
They were collectively stunned the moment they saw the jade box, not out of admiration for the beauty of the jade box, but the size of the jade box was just enough to hold a baby, maybe it was just a coincidence, but it would never exist here for no reason, the objects in the jade box had already been taken away, according to the clues on the map of the Qishui Dragon Palace, Wang Zhaolin boldly deduced that his father took the things of the jade box.
But what is the thing in this jade box? Gui Xun'er, who has been circling around the dragon chair for a long time, can't guess it, and it will be even more difficult for him to gain something, thinking about it, Wang Zhaolin felt that the three people in his vision gradually blurred, leaned on the steps of the court hall and closed his eyes quietly.
Gui Xun'er clasped her hands and looked a little dissatisfied: "It's only a short distance, are you really so tired?" Hurry up, maybe the Dreadnought Sword is hidden in the Mowu Palace." ”
"Don't disturb me, let me be quiet for a while. Wang Zhaolin didn't know where the fatigue came from, his consciousness was obviously very clear, but his body didn't listen to the command.
"Whatever you want, if you get the Dreadnought Sword, the bounty will be ours. Gui Xun'er snorted disdainfully, and continued to search for relevant clues around the main hall, but then again, the Dreadnought Sword is one of the seven artifacts, long before Ling Wenxuan agreed to the commission, she expected that once the priest got the Dreadnought Sword, it would be impossible to hand it over to Mo Yi, and she didn't know exactly how to do it, with Ling Wenxuan's skills, I am afraid that he would have escaped from that demon wind by now, but he just took pity on Youna's worries.
"Sister Xun'er, what's wrong with you? Sure enough, you still can't rest assured that Father Priest?" Yuna couldn't help but ask when she saw Gui Xun'er staring at her.
"It's okay, let's continue to investigate the clues. As she spoke, she patted the dust on her hands and jumped down the steps.
With a snapping sound, they noticed the mural of Yinglong on the ceiling directly above the dragon chair, a yellow-whiskered golden-scaled dragon opened its teeth and dancing claws and faced due north, as if it had the potential to swallow heaven and earth, and on the opposite side was a golden-whiskered and silver-scaled Yinglong, facing due south to harmonize, and between the two dragons was a white and flawless night pearl.
Around their surprised gazes, a sense of déjà vu suddenly flashed through Yuna's mind: "I've seen this pattern, but ...... What's wrong?"
"Think about it, where have you seen it. Gui Xun'er hurriedly asked.
"I remembered, in the forbidden area on the fifth floor of the vast library, where the purple scrolls were hidden. Yuna clapped her hands excitedly, "But the location is different, in the forbidden book area, the double dragon is drawn on the floor and the ceiling respectively, and here, the same two double dragons are painted together, can you see what it means?"
"I can only speculate that it has something to do with the way the Purple Scroll solves the puzzle, do you remember how you solved the mechanism of the Purple Scroll?"
In the face of Gui Xun'er's question, Yuna seemed a little overwhelmed, and she vaguely remembered that she needed to open the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth in turn, and the problem was that the Mowu Hall was a very empty hall, and there was no sign of the corresponding mechanism hidden around.
Just as her eyebrows were deep, Wang Zhaolin, who was leaning on the edge of the steps, suddenly woke up, and his expression was very different from before.
"Mowu Hall was originally the place where the dragon kings of the past dynasties ascended the throne, Yanlong, as the last king of the dragon clan, witnessed the last glory of the dragon clan here, originally ......" Wang Zhaolin rubbed his forehead, trying to recall the brief dream just now, "I saw the scene of Yanlong fighting against King Linyun who was holding the Dreadnought Sword, and he captured the Dreadnought Sword and retreated to the Mowu Palace...... After that, I couldn't see clearly. ”
Wang Zhaolin's next move shocked them even more, only to see him follow the instructions in his dream, on the pentagon pattern directly below the Shuanglong mural in turn, and when he completed this step, the night pearl on the mural suddenly emitted a dazzling light, the light converged into a rectangular pure white halo on the wall behind the dragon chair, and lines of strange words appeared on the wall, which was a dragon language that only Wang Zhaolin could understand. At the same time, the steps below the dragon chair quickly shrank backwards, forming a stone door that rapidly spread to the left and right, and a bright secret passage appeared in front of them.
"Xuanji turned out to be like this, it seems that the Dreadnought Sword must be under this secret passage. Lu Juji was so excited that he was about to walk towards the secret passage.
"Don't worry, do you want to hear me translate to you what this says?" Wang Zhaolin called Lu Juji, and at that moment his face was melancholy that he had never seen before, "It talks about the Dragon Clan's Treasure Dreadnought Sword, and it also mentions another thing. ”
The Dreadnought Sword is the sword of Gaiaras, the god of war, found by the dragons in the world, as a supreme artifact, as a symbol of strength and courage, but under the dreadnought sword suppresses the most evil spell of heaven and earth - the heart of the heart, this must be wordless, formless, thoughtless, once released, will be attached to the heart of the person with evil thoughts, the possessed can be the heart of the memory, emotion, The mind is sealed in the heart, even in any living thing, including humans, and is fed on living creatures, making it a walking corpse that loses its soul and only obeys the orders of its host.
"The treasure of the dragon family, the good get it, save the common people, benefit all the people, the evil get it, the legacy is endless, and all things are miserable. Wang Zhaolin paused, pondered for a while, and softly read out the last line, "Only the descendants of the Lin family know this meaning and hope to think about it." ”
Lin's descendants...... That is what Queen Linyun means, this sentence clearly refers to herself, could it be ......
Everyone's eyes were focused on Wang Zhaolin's body, and suddenly the long-standing mystery was finally revealed: why was he born with dragon language? Why was his father able to find the Qishui Dragon Palace and return safely? Why did he have a dream in the Mowu Palace?
Because he and his father are the descendants of the Lin family, the descendants of King Linyun, his original surname is "Wang", Wang and Lin together are "Lin", and "Lin Zhao" is his real name.
The desolation of his life experience hit Wang Zhaolin's whole body, and he couldn't help but half-kneel on the ground, and his thoughts inevitably led to new questions.
Could it be that Yanlong's purpose is that one day, the descendants of King Linyun will return to this place to retrieve the Dreadnought Sword?