Chapter 295: Yuwang Jiuding

"What should I do?" Lao Wang looked at the two closed palace doors and lost his mind, and there was neither a bolt nor a handle on the door of this Immortal Palace. From the outside, there is no place to start, and it seems that after it was built, it was not intended to let people in.

"Is this a false door?" Lao Wang shook his head and asked.

Zi Yang looked at the bottom of the door and said, "No, there is a door mortar underneath, which means that this door has a door shaft, which should be able to rotate." ”

"Lao Wang, give it a try." Zi Yang instigated Lao Wang Dao.

"Okay! Step back a bit, I'll take a step! ”

Zi Yang and Su Rui took a few steps back with the old king, and the old king held the skull of the overlord salamander in front of him, took a deep breath, and rushed forward.

There was a muffled sound, and the heavy palace gate was knocked open by Lao Wang's brute force.

"Nerd, push it away! Who made you bang! Zi Yang complained and looked inside from Lao Wang's shoulder.

"You don't have a backache when you stand and talk! This door hasn't been opened for hundreds of years, and the door shaft has long been rotten to death, can you push it open without giving some acceleration? Lao Wang muttered dissatisfiedly, the most annoying thing is that this kind of non-work is still pointing fingers there, and others are still picking all kinds of thorns.

"Next time you come by yourself, don't always look at Lao Tzu unpleasantly!" Lao Wang said viciously.

"Hey, turn off the lights!" Zi Yang suddenly said urgently.

Su Rui and Lao Wang hurriedly turned off the flashlight and mining lamp, and the surroundings suddenly fell into darkness.

But from the gap in the palace gate, there was a faint glimmer of yellow fire.

"Damn, there's someone in there!" Lao Wang suppressed his voice and exclaimed in a low voice.

Zi Yang and Su Rui looked at each other, it was really evil, judging from the dust spread outside, this palace was obviously vacant for hundreds of years, how could there be lights inside?

"Hey, anyone?" Lao Wang shouted tremblingly.

The crowd waited with bated breath for a while, but there was no sound inside, and no one answered him.

"Get the door open!" Zi Yang patted Lao Wang's shoulder.

The crack in the door was only two fingers wide, and there was another shield in front of them, so they couldn't see what was inside.

"Let's talk about it first, is it a push or a bump? Don't wait for me to finish you chirp crookedly. Lao Wang said angrily.

"Whatever you want, just get out of the way." Zi Yang didn't want to bother with him about the details at this time.

Lao Wang pressed against the door with his carapace, bowed his waist and stepped forward, and arched forward with all his strength, but who knew that the heavy wooden door did not move at all.

Seeing this, Zi Yang and Su Rui grabbed one side of the carapace, and with the joint efforts of the three of them, they only heard a creaking sound from the door shaft below, and the two heavy wooden doors were finally pushed open. The three of them buried their heads and pushed forward with all their strength, and finally opened a hole more than one meter wide.

"Alright, you can enter!"

Lao Wang stood up and turned the shield armor sideways, and Zi Yang couldn't wait to step into it. As soon as his feet hit the ground, the surrounding firelight suddenly shook, and almost at the same time, a faint sound of "bang, bang, bang" was heard in the distance.

"Be careful!"

Lao Wang shouted, took a step forward and raised his shield armor to block in front of Ziyang.

Hearing a dense sound of "pop, pop, pop, pop", Lao Wang's body shook for a while, and several cracks appeared in the shield armor in his hand under the blow of gravity. Almost at the same time, everyone felt that there was a strong wind around them, and several long arrows were nailed to the wooden door behind them, and the tail of the arrow was still trembling slightly, which showed the strength of the force!

Lao Wang cautiously turned the carapace sideways, only to see that there were more than a dozen long arrows densely inserted on it, and one sharp arrow even shot through the carapace, revealing a cluster of sharp arrows.

The frightened Ziyang touched the cold sweat on his head, and said secretly in his heart: It's dangerous!

The subtle banging sound just now should be the sound of the machine spring starting, the sharp arrow breaking through the air caused the fire to shake, if it wasn't for Lao Wang's quick reaction to block him with a carapace, he would have been shot into a hedgehog.

I don't know if there is an arrow mechanism behind it, the three of them hid behind the carapace and didn't dare to move, Su Rui used a flashlight to shine the cluster of arrows that pierced the carapace, only to see that this was a three-edged arrow a few centimeters long, after nearly a thousand years of baptism, it was not rusted, and it still looked sharp and abnormal.

Lao Wang leaned over and sniffed it with his nose, frowned and said, "It smells of oil!" ”

Lao Wang held the carapace with one hand, and reached over with the other hand to touch the arrow, Zi Yang took his hand, "Maybe it's poisonous!" ”

Lao Wang retracted his hand, swallowed and salivaed: "Hey, do you think there is any mechanism?" This kind of hidden weapon should be disposable, right? It should be gone after ejaculation, right? ”

At this time, no one dared to say anything for sure, and the three of them trembled and poked their heads out from behind the carapace, and under the strong light of the flashlight, they finally saw the complete appearance of this Immortal Palace.

The Palace of Eternal Life is also very empty, and there is a two-meter-high lamppost standing in the corner of each side, on which each holds a three-legged round tripod, and a dragon-shaped grip extends on one of the feet, showing the shape of a neck to rise. The light of the fire came from inside the dome.

"Damn, what kind of lamp oil is in here? Can it be burned for hundreds of years? Lao Wang shouted in surprise.

Neither Su Rui nor Zi Yang answered, their eyes attracted by what was in the middle of the Hall of Eternal Life.

In the center of the Hall of Eternal Life was a huge square platform, on which several black things were stacked unevenly.

Under the illumination of the flashlight, it can be seen that these containers are more than one meter high, some are three-legged, some are four-legged, some are round-bellied, some are square-bodied, and there are two standing ears at the upper edge.

The vessel looks old, blue-black throughout, and seems to be carved with strange patterns.

"W-Is this the bronze tripod?" Ziyang exclaimed.

Su Rui nodded: "That's right, it's the bronze tripod!" ”

Zi Yang counted, and there were a total of nine bronze tripods with different appearances on the platform.

Seeing that there was nothing in the huge palace except four lampposts and nine bronze tripods, Lao Wang was a little disappointed. These things seem to be very heavy, and one guy has at least a thousand pounds, and there is no way to move it out, and it seems that this time he will return empty-handed.

"Let's go and have a look!" Su Rui said.

Thinking that the bronze tripod might contain treasures, Lao Wang's eyes lit up again, and he motioned for Zi Yang and Su Rui to walk behind him, raising the armor shield full of long arrows in both hands to block in front of him, and the three of them moved forward step by step.

Although there was only a distance of about ten meters from the door to Jiuding's position, the three of them walked for a while, holding their breath, watching and listening to all directions, and cautiously took a step to stop, lest another rain of arrows shoot from a dark corner.

Fortunately, there were no more accidents along the way, and everyone walked to the edge of the stage smoothly, and it seemed that there was only one mechanism at the door in the Immortal Palace.

The three of them still didn't dare to be careless, and when they arrived at the steps where Jiuding was placed, they didn't rush up, but first carefully observed the platform where Jiuding was placed.

This is a platform with a length and width of 10 meters and a height of 20 centimeters, and it seems that it is also made of solid wood, boxy, and the nine bronze tripods on it are placed according to the direction of the nine-square grid.

"Hey, there are still words under the copper tripod." Ziyang used a light to illuminate the bottom of a three-legged round-bellied bronze tripod, and two fist-sized characters were carved on the wooden platform with a small seal. After carefully identifying it for a long time, Zi Yang muttered: "It seems to be the 'Jingzhou' of the seal body." ”

"Look at what's carved under the other tripods." Su Rui said, the three of them moved slowly along the square platform, and under a four-legged bronze tripod next to them, the word "Yangzhou" was engraved with a seal.

Turning along this bronze tripod, the other two are "Xuzhou" and "Qingzhou". There are three tripods on each side of the square platform, and two seal characters of the same size are engraved below. When they turned to the bronze tripod engraved with "Yanzhou", they had already reached the opposite side of the temple gate, and they could see some small holes arranged on the wooden wall behind them, which should be the place where the sharp arrow shot just now.

"Be careful, there may be some bows and arrows that haven't been triggered." Ziyang reminded.

Lao Wang hurriedly put the carapace behind his back.

Zi Yang looked at these fine holes, and then looked at the direction of the temple gate, and had to admire the ingenuity of the designer. All the sharp arrows passed through the gap between the nine tripods and shot directly at the temple gate, and none of the sharp arrows touched the bronze tripod on the square platform.

Su Rui carefully observed the patterns on the Yanzhou tripod and said, "These bronze tripods are cast with gluttonous patterns and dragon patterns, and there are oracle bone inscriptions on the tripods, combined with the words engraved below...... Could this be the legendary artifact of Zhenguo - Yuwang Jiuding? ”

"What, what? The Rain King? King of Fish? Lao Wang was stunned again.

Su Rui explained to him: "Yuwang Jiuding is a Chinese supreme artifact made by Dayu in the early years of the Xia Dynasty, which is synonymous with China in ancient times, symbolizing the destiny of heaven, the supremacy of royal power, and the unity and prosperity of the country.

In the summer of that year, Wang Dayu divided the world into Kyushu, ordered the state pastor of Kyushu to contribute bronze, and cast nine bronze tripods. Then collect the portraits of the famous mountains and rivers and strange things in Kyushu across the country, and engrave them in the body of Jiuding, with a tripod symbolizing a state, and Jiuding meaning Kyushu. Having Jiuding symbolizes domination of the world.

Jiuding, as the treasure of Xia, Shang and Zhou, was suddenly lost after more than 2,000 years. There is a theory that Jiuding has sunk in Surabaya. However, it is recorded in the historical records that Jiuding was obtained by Qin Mugong after the fall of the Zhou Dynasty and hid in the capital Xianyang.

Some foreign scholars believe that Jiuding should have fallen into the hands of Qin Shi Huang in the end, and it is very likely to be buried in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang - I didn't expect to see Jiuding here. ”

After listening to Su Rui's introduction, Zi Yang and Lao Wang were dumbfounded, if it was really as she said, then these nine bronze tripods were not a question of whether they were worth anything or not.

"Is it possible that this is an imitation or something? We Chinese have been good at imitation since ancient times. Zi Yang said this without a trace of pride. He just felt that it was a little strange that this ancient treasure appeared in front of his eyes without warning.

Su Rui nodded and said: "This probability is relatively small, in ancient history, although Wu Zetian and Song Huizong also cast Jiuding, but in terms of symbolism and historical value, they are far inferior to Yuwang Jiuding." ”

The three of them continued to turn in the direction, from the front of "Jingzhou" and "Yangzhou", and then went down to "Xuzhou", "Qingzhou", "Yanzhou", "Jizhou", "Yongzhou", and "Liangzhou".

The tripods at the four corners of the square platform are all four-legged square bodies, and the other four diagonal statues and the middle one are three-legged round bellies.

"If I guessed correctly, the largest bronze tripod in the middle should be 'Yuzhou'." Su Rui stepped onto the wooden platform. Zi Yang and Lao Wang hurriedly followed.

Sure enough, under the big tripod in the center, there are two words engraved with the seal book. Around the big ding, a line of seal characters was also engraved. Zi Yang lowered his head to carefully identify it, and muttered in his mouth:

"The sky is round, the yin and yang are smooth, the positive oblique is in place, Kyushu Taikang."

The three of them glanced at each other, and all kinds of signs indicated that this was Yuwang Jiuding!

Lao Wang put the carapace shield aside, leaned over and looked at Yuzhou Dingzhong - it was empty!

"Huh? What is this? Lao Wang touched the inside of the ding body with his hand, and everyone saw that there was a pool of black, viscous liquid on his palm.

"Isn't it some magic poultice like immortality?" Lao Wang stretched out his tongue and wanted to lick it, but when he saw Zi Yang's shocked eyes, he retracted his tongue again.

Suddenly, a black object fell from above, "snapped", and smashed on Lao Wang's head impartially. A black, viscous liquid dripped down his face.

"What's that!?" Lao Wang roared, and everyone raised their lights and looked up together.

What greeted you was an incredible sight.