There was a red jade dragon coiled on the throne, and when it shone with the wolf's eyes, the dragon's body suddenly shone brightly, and there was a surge of billowing red light—it was all mercury—but this hollow mercury dragon was not strange, and what really attracted our attention was the first half of this dragon.

Only a small part of the dragon's body, including the dragon's tail, was entrenched on the throne, and its head was plunged into the wall, and the dragon's tail and claws rested on the back of the throne, looking a little lazy. Most of the front half of the dragon body is inlaid on the back wall of the throne, which is integrated with the painting on the temple wall, so that the whole wall painting shows a strong sense of layering, but there is no incongruity that makes people feel abrupt. The wonder of its conception and the essence of its craftsmanship have all reached the realm. People in the world often say, "The dragon sees the head but does not see the end." The dragon on the throne and the wall was not visible, as if the hollow mercury jade dragon was coming to life and flying into the mural.

The large-scale mural combined with the dragon's body shows the scene of the king becoming an immortal ascending to the sky, in the painting, the fairy clouds are like the sea, the cigarette smoke is around, the continuous mountain peaks and palaces appear to loom in the clouds, and the clouds and mountains are full of agility. The most prominent red jade dragon is heading up towards the sea of clouds, the sky is cracked with a red gap, half of the dragon's head has penetrated into it, the dragon body is connected to the throne in the palace of the "Lingyun Heavenly Palace", and a crown prince is surrounded by all the courtiers, stepping on the dragon body, slowly stepping into the sky.

This king is probably the king, I saw that he was much taller than ordinary people, wearing a wide python robe with a round neck, a jade belt around his waist, and a gold crown on his head. There is a bead embedded in the crown, like a human eye, which clearly looks like a dust bead.

The king has three strands of long hair, I can't tell how old he is, and his face is not very vicious, which is not what we imagined beforehand. I always felt that a tyrant should have a fleshy face and a bearded halberd, and this portrait of the king was solemn and serene, and I guess it was probably artificially beautified.

At the top of the picture, there is an old man riding a crane, with white eyebrows and a smile on his face, arching his head and looking down, and there are countless immortals who have escaped from the dust behind him. Although the postures are different, the expressions are very respectful, and they are greeting the king who stepped on the dragon body and stepped into the heavenly court.

I couldn't stop at first glance, it turned out that the so-called "sky collapse" was the scene of the immortal king becoming an immortal, not whether outsiders could enter the Xuangong Hades Temple, presumably this matter was extremely secret, and it was difficult to know if it was not a close confidant of the king.

In the corner of the large mural in the middle, there are two small paintings, both of which are the scene of offering sacrifices when the king ascends to the sky, and the corpses are filled with corpses and burned in the copper tripod, the situation is terrible, so I don't look closely.

The fat man said: "According to the depiction in this mural, the king should have gone to heaven as a god." It seems that we have pounced on it, the underground palace of the king's tomb has long been empty, I think we might as well chisel this dragon, and then burn the heavenly palace, go back as soon as possible to find a family to sell the jade dragon, make a windfall, and then eat and drink. ”

Shirley Yang said: "No, this is just wishful thinking before the death of the king, how can there be such a thing in the world where mortals become immortals." ”

I also agreed with Shirley Yang's words, and said to the two of them: "We have reached the top of the king's tomb, how can we not enter the underground palace and fight backwards, not to mention that you have not seen that the image of the king on this painting, and the golden crown he wears on his head, is the phoenix gall that can save our lives." ”

After a little discussion, the three of them decided to search this "Lingyun Palace" first, and then find out whether the hole in the pool is the tomb of the underground palace, and then start overnight.

Before the Qin Dynasty, the palace was the core facility of large-scale sacrificial activities and political rule, with a variety of functions, until the Qin Dynasty, it was only used as the residence of the emperor in front of the dynasty and the queen, and was set up separately.

As for the Ming Tower on the emperor's tomb, its apse should be a sacrificial hall, not a dormitory, and there should be many inscriptions and murals in it for future generations to worship and pay respects.

We have not seen what the Qin Palace looks like, but the "Lingyun Heavenly Palace" should be similar to the "Afang Palace" in Qin Shidi, although the scale is certainly not as good as the "Afang Palace" that burns in March, but it may surpass it in terms of situation, thinking that Qin Shi Huang is also the first person who is the most persistent in alchemy and cultivating immortals among the emperors in ancient times, but the First Emperor probably never dreamed that his subordinates would build a heavenly palace to make a tomb, which is much more prominent than his Qin Tomb.

We thought about it, and then turned to the apse, I walked at the end, and couldn't help but look back at the bronze man and bronze beast in the middle of the hall, and my heart was still puzzled, I always felt that something was not right, and there was an indescribable sense of incongruity.

When I turned my head, I saw Shirley Yang standing still waiting for me, looking at her expression, it seemed to be in the same place with me, but I didn't notice anything wrong for a while, I shook my head at Shirley Yang, I didn't have to think about it for the time being, anyway, the boat was naturally straight to the bridge, so I went to the apse side by side.

Walk through a short corridor, come to the more dark back palace hall of the yin forest, look at the corridor in the carving, this second half is called "Shangzhen Palace", the inscription in the hall is numerous, there are eight separate mural walls, although the hall is deep, but because the stone tablet painting wall is many, it still seems slightly cramped, there has been quite reasonable, eight mural walls are placed in the shape of nine palace gossip, each wall is made of a piece of big bricks, all are painted on a white background and three colors.

Except for some murals that reflect the war scenes, almost one brick and one painting, or one or two figures, or two or three animals, buildings, and instruments, covering the political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, military, sacrificial, ethnic and other military fields of the ancient Dian Kingdom during the Xianwang period.

These may be priceless treasures for scholars who study the history of dynasties, but they are of little use to a person like me, who only hopes to find some information about the situation of the king's tomb and palace, but for a while, I am dazzled, and where can I see so much.

The murals in the eight mural walls, no less than thousands, combined with the stone tablet inscriptions in the hall, the whole is a complete collection of historical materials of the Dian Kingdom, I xing the "wolf eye" flashlight, selected one of the large murals, a few cursory glances, and by Shirley Yang explained a few sentences, but also understood a eight or nine points.

The large murals are all war scrolls, recording the two wars commanded by King Xian during his lifetime, the first was with the "Yelang Kingdom", "Yelang" and "Dian Kingdom" were both regarded as the southwestern Yi in the Han Dynasty, and the second war was after the Xianwang broke away from the ruling system of the "Ancient Dian Kingdom" and slaughtered the local Yi people under the "Shalong Mountain".

These two wars were great victories, killing the enemy very hard, capturing a large number of prisoners of war, seizing a lot of items, the two opponents at that time, their social form was still in the late stage of slave ownership, the means of production were extremely backward and primitive, and the smelting technology of bronze was far inferior to the Dian State that inherited the means of the Qin people, so it was defeated at one touch, and it was not the opponent of the Dian people at all.

Among the captives of these wars were a large number of slaves, and these prisoners of war and slaves became the main force in the construction of the king's tomb in the future, and the frescoes and inscriptions naturally exaggerated these exploits.

But the mural still does not have any description of the underground palace of the king's tomb, there is a mural on the wall, the Ministry of Human Martial Arts is a ritual, including inviting the heavens, divination, witchcraft and other activities, the scene is very strange, Shirley Yang used a camera to shoot all these murals, maybe in the future to crack the secret of the "dust beads", will be used.

When the fat man saw that this apse was full of these things, he was suddenly bored, carrying a submachine gun and flashlight, and wandering around in it, when he suddenly found something in the middle of the mural wall, and hurriedly beckoned me and Shirley Yang to come over and have a look.

The ground in the middle of the original hall stands a six-legged big copper tripod, the tripod is covered with a copper cover, there is a huge copper ring on both sides, the six legs of the copper tripod are six half-kneeling beasts, the shape is vigorous and simple, the whole body is full of muscles and flesh, the whole body is full of scales, and the appearance of roaring is made, from the shape point of view, it is very similar to the unicorn class.

This bronze tripod is surprisingly large, for some reason, it is painted all black color, without any pattern decoration, in the dark palace, we only notice those inscriptions and frescoes, until the fat man wanders to the middle, beckons us to come and see, and only when we get closer, otherwise it is not easy to find this giant tripod mixed with the darkness.

The fat man tapped the urn with the butt of Miai's gun, and immediately let out a dull echo, and asked me and Shirley Yang: "Isn't it that there are too many burial utensils that can't fit in the dungeon, so they exist here temporarily?" Open it to see first and pour it also makes. ”

Shirley Yang said: "This is probably the big tripod that is ready to cook the corpse in the festival, and the mouth of the tripod is still sealed, which shows that the king has not been dissected into immortals, and his bones are still in the coffin of the underground palace, otherwise there is no need to seal this giant tripod." ”

I said to Shirley Yang and the fat man: "The devil knows what this is for, if it is used to cook people, cattle and sheep as sacrifices, it should be a kettle instead of a tripod, and besides, this is probably not an urn or something like that, how can a tripod have six legs?" ”

The three of them insisted on their own words, and they couldn't convince each other, so they were ready to see what was going on, this time we came to do something, in order to find the "dust beads", we would never let go of any suspicious place, the black copper tripod was within reach, I took out the probe claw for opening the coffin from the fat man's backpack, scraped open the fire paint that sealed the mouth, and saw that there was a seal on the lacquer, the pattern was a criminal who was chained through the pipa bone, since there was a seal, it means that it has never been opened.

After scraping the fire paint, try it with the inch needle on the top of the probe claw, there is no connection obstruction at the mouth of the ding, just remove the lid of the ding, and call the fat man to come and help, the two of them caught the copper ring, and the two arms just screamed, and then listened to the lifeless palace depths, there was a burst of "giggles, hey, hey, hey" laughter, listening to the voice was a woman, but her treacherous and cold laughter, absolutely ill-intentioned, laughter like ice, as if it could freeze people's hearts.