The Wu lit the torches, and the fish entered with a respectful and pious attitude, and we followed behind the Wu Clan, and this passage led us to the very center of the Temple of the Serpent God, where the lit brazier illuminated the entire secret room.

Inside the temple of the snake god, there is also an even more elaborate and magnificent space, with a whole wall of gold and a passage carved with original patterns, and on both sides of the passage are erected gold pillars engraved with the totem of the spirit mountain.

In the firelight, we saw that the two sides of the passage were inlaid with golden snakeheads of various shapes and sizes, all of which looked majestic and hideous, and underneath the passage were roads paved with snake-scale gold.

Under the leadership of Si Wu, the people of the Wu tribe stopped at the front of the passage, and all knelt on the ground, and the old woman of the Si Wu danced and recited strange lyrics around the people.

"Why didn't they leave?" I asked.

"They are not qualified to enter here, in the Spirit Mountain, only the ghost priests of the clan can enter it to worship the snake god." Xue Xinrou listened for a while and explained to us.

"A bunch of crazy people, it's better if they don't come along." Tian Ji was unimpressed and planned to move forward.

He was pulled back by the palace lord, he checked for a long time and told us that the construction of this passage is very strange, not like an ordinary road, these inlaid golden snake heads, all of them are hideous and terrifying open mouths, the snake's mouth represents an attack, but also indicates death.

Inlaid here, it is more of a warning and deterrent, the people of the Wu clan say that they are not qualified to enter it, but the palace lord believes that the origin of this so-called qualification may be due to fear.

"The floor of these snake scales doesn't look like they are inscribed, they are all staggered and uneven, and they should be pieced together piece by piece according to the distribution of snake scales."

As he spoke, he brought a long wooden stick, stood at the edge of the passage, and carefully touched the snake scales with the stick, and we were surprised to find that the snake scales that were touched could actually move, and the palace lord used a little force, and the snake scales fell.

Lofty!

In an instant, on both sides of the entire narrow passage, the inlaid golden snake head seemed to shoot out strong and dense steel needles, covering the entire passage impermeable, and if someone stood inside, I am afraid that they would be shot into a sieve in an instant.

"This, how did this go?" Tian Ji's heart palpitated.

The deeper I went, the brighter the necklace around my neck shone, and it seemed that something was really hidden here by the Moon Palace Nine Dragons Boat, and this passage was meant to prevent anyone from trespassing.

"There's the text here." The Lord had been pondering the floor of the snake scales, and he found an inscription on the ground at the entrance to the passage.

Xue Xinrou hurriedly squatted down, carefully identified each pattern, and finally raised her head to tell us: "This is a hidden saying, which means that only the most humble priest can comprehend the parable and pass the test path of this snake god." ”

This is the same as what the old woman said before, the people of the Wu tribe firmly believe that this is a road that only priests can pass, and I frowned: "Why can only priests pass?" ”

"The priest in the Wu clan must be the great ghost master, that is to say, a person with a very high status, but the great ghost lord is no different from other Wu clans." Xue Xinrou was puzzled. "The point of this sentence should not be to refer to a specific person."

"Whether it's the big ghost lord or the priest, they're all two-legged people like us, so I don't believe the priest can jump over." Tian Ji said dejectedly.

"Xinrou is right, it should be said that you must use a specific method to pass." The palace lord nodded and said. "These snake scales are connected to the mechanism, only by stepping on the place where the mechanism is not triggered, can you pass through unharmed, maybe the big ghost master knows the secret of passing through here, and then the word of mouth spreads, plus the big ghost master is the best choice to serve as a priest, so over time it becomes, only priests can pass here."

"What did you just say?" Ye Jiuqing suddenly looked up at Tian Ji.

"I said, I said I didn't believe the priest could jump over." Tian Ji scratched his head, probably thinking that he had said the wrong thing.

"Yes, why is it that only the priest can pass, because the priest can jump over." Ye Jiuqing's brows slowly stretched.

"Uncle Ye, when is it, are you still joking." Tian Ji smiled helplessly and pointed to the passage. "It's twenty or thirty meters long here, and if the priest can really jump over it, then there will really be a ghost."

"There are many kinds of jumps, and maybe the priest's jumping method can pass it." Ye Jiuqing smiled faintly.

"What can a priest do?" The field chicken was confused.

"For example, the great god of jumping." Ye Jiuqing replied meaningfully, but his eyes had already fallen on Si Wu, who was dancing.

My eyes lit up and I raised my head suddenly, Jiang is still old and spicy, why didn't I think of this, it's not that a specific person can pass, but a specific step can pass here, and when the priest is sacrificing, it is like the old woman dancing in front of us, she has been dancing the unique sacrificial steps of the Wu clan.

The Wu clan attaches great importance to the sacrifice, and the process of this sacrifice has been preserved from generation to generation, Ye Jiuqing asked us to carefully write down the position of each step of the old woman, and draw it on the paper.

Ye Jiuqing asked the palace lord to give him the wooden stick, and held these steps to find the first snake scale at the entrance, but Ye Jiuqing tried all the five snake scales in the first row, and all of them triggered the mechanism.

"No, it's impossible for all snake scales to trigger traps?" Ye Jiuqing frowned. "Am I overlooking something?"

"It is mentioned that only the humblest priests can pass through here." Xue Xinrou squatted on the ground again to study and said suspiciously. "If the key to passing through here is the pace of sacrifice, then why emphasize the humble?"

"I see that there is no one who is not humble when he mentions God." Tian Ji pointed to the Wu clan who was still kneeling on the ground. "It's been so long since I've been here, and I haven't even stood up."

Gong Jue pondered, looking back and forth at the passage inlaid with snake heads, there was a row of fire troughs straight through from above, it seemed to be used for lighting, looking at Gong Jue's expression as if he thought of it, pulled out the machete, and slowly stretched into the passage, when the height of the machete was just more than the fire trough, the steel needles that shot like pear blossoms in the rainstorm penetrated out of the mouths of the snakes on both sides.

Even the hard machetes were shot with thousands of holes, which shows how powerful these steel needles are.

"I see, these traps are not only triggered by the snake scales below, once the relationship above is blocked, the traps will also be triggered." The palace lord said to us ecstatically. "When the priests sacrificed to the serpent god, they buried their heads low, which is the most humble meaning, and their heads did not exceed the height of the fire trough."

After the palace lord finished speaking, according to the pace of the sacrifice to the gods, he used the handle of the knife to try to touch the snake scales on the ground, and sure enough, there were no steel needles from the snake's mouths on both sides, Ye Jiuqing took a deep breath, took the paper with the steps recorded, and planned to walk over and try it first.

"If you make a mistake and take a wrong step, you will never recover, and you can't react fast enough when you're old, so I'll come." I stood in front of Ye Jiuqing.

"Cut off today, I don't want to worry about this kind of thing in the future, it's no big deal if I die, you have more important things to do when you live, and it's not for the elderly to come with you." Ye Jiuqing lifted me open and said confidently. "To put it bluntly, from the moment I said the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, there are too many people who want me to die, I will earn a day if I live, and I will risk my life in the future, as long as I am not dead, don't shout."

After Ye Jiuqing finished speaking, he walked into the passage with his head firmly buried, I was worried about every step he took, constantly squirming the Adam's apple, and felt that the person walking on thin ice in the passage was himself, until Ye Jiuqing walked to the opposite side unharmed, I breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone cautiously walked through the passage, there was no brazier in front of us, we had to rely on torches, but we still could not see the darkness as far as the eye could see, only a faint rustling sound, but the necklace was getting brighter and brighter.

"Look!" The palace lord pointed to the distance and said excitedly.

In the darkness there was a flash of light, the same as in the necklace, but more and more intense, until it shone brightly, and at the same time illuminated the place where we stood, a huge semicircular groove, and in the middle of the groove lay a golden pillar the size of a finger, and that thing shone brightly.

Xue Xinrou just wanted to go down, and was bounced back heavily, as if something was blocking us in front of us, but he couldn't see it, Tian Ji pulled out the knife and slowly tried forward, and suddenly didn't know what it touched, a halo appeared at the tip of the knife, and then quickly spread around, but soon disappeared fleetingly.

After several repeated attempts, we found that on this semicircular groove, there was a halo that could not be seen by the eyes, and this halo was like a cover and groove to form a circle, no matter how hard the field chicken tried, it could not penetrate the slightest.

Ye Jiuqing suddenly pulled the corner of my clothes, and then pointed to my chest in surprise, and looked down, the necklace was actually suspended, and it extended straight forward, as if I felt some kind of calling, I subconsciously took a step forward slowly, and when the necklace touched the halo, it magically passed through.

I was taken aback, and I was even more sure that the thing left in the huge groove must be related to the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, so I quickly took off the necklace, held it tightly in my hand, took a deep breath and slowly took a step forward, I could actually step into the halo, but when I fully entered, the halo was immediately tightly resealed.

I looked back at the others, my eyes fell on the palace lord's body, and suddenly I remembered something.

"Gong Jue, come and try it."

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