The map in the stone chamber outside the Yumen Pass, as well as the castle tower here that is disguised by mirage fantasies, I always thought that only the palace lord could see it, because he was the only one who said it.

But there is also a Zhuo Mingfeng beside us who cherishes words like gold, and his lack of speech does not mean that he can't see!

I can't ask him now, I believe that Zhuo Mingfeng can casually find a lot of reasons to prevaricate in the past, I followed him forward, why should an indifferent person like him remind me, it seems that as long as there are people and things that have nothing to do with him, Zhuo Mingfeng has always been indifferent.

The stone path under my feet was gone, and everything in front of me was like a mirror, and only when I approached did I see the reality of what appeared, and I walked through the open city wall and looked at the mottled walls as before, and I could vaguely imagine the glory of this place when it was built.

The wind and sand whistling in my ears became bigger and bigger, Zhuo Mingfeng in front of me quickened his pace, and after about half an hour, I finally saw Gong Jue and others stopped in front, here was a thick sand dune of yellow sand, Gong Jue looked around and said that there was nothing else, we followed the pattern of the feather dragon all the way, and this should be the position of the head of the feather dragon.

Gong Jue took a few steps forward, and I felt that he was struggling to walk, and it took a lot of strength to lift his feet every time, until his feet could no longer be lifted, and Gong Jue's body slowly began to sink in the yellow sand.

Quicksand!

I was shocked, and hurriedly went over with Tian Ji to grab Gong Jue, encountering quicksand in the desert is undoubtedly fatal, we just approached Gong Jue, and the body involuntarily sank like him, and soon fell into the yellow sand, no matter how hard it tried, it was useless.

I turned my head and wanted to warn the others not to approach, but I found that they were the same, slowly sinking in the quicksand, and the palace lord was shocked: "This is the Vientiane Divine Palace, it stands to reason that Ling Xuan shouldn't set up a trap here." ”

"Don't move, the bigger the movement in the quicksand, the faster it sinks." Bu Dongyuan said loudly.

Quicksand is known as a death trap, not to mention such a large area of quicksand, in the absence of rescue, we can't leave it anyway, everyone panicked, watching their bodies swallowed by the yellow sand, there is nothing to be done.

I caught a glimpse of Zhuo Mingfeng, when his life was hanging by a thread, I couldn't see the slightest panic on his face, but calmly put on a sweat towel to shake his mouth and nose, and his exposed eyes looked at me, calm and calm.

When the yellow sand submerged our waists, the sinking speed suddenly accelerated, and before we could react, the whole person was completely submerged in the fine sand, and the chest was heavily pressed and a feeling of suffocation, the only thing we could do was to close our eyes tightly.

With a bang, I only felt my body fall from a height, and then fell heavily on the sand dune, surrounded by people who fell down one after another, and my body was full of fine sand, so I finally opened my eyes, spit out the sand in my mouth and stood up, and the dark but subtle sound around me echoed for a long time.

Someone lit a torch and a flashlight, and the light that burned one after another lit up the place, and I checked that everyone else around me was safe and sound, all of them were embarrassed to clean up the yellow sand on their bodies, I raised the flashlight and looked up, about seven or eight meters high is the sand that flows like water, that is the quicksand layer we encountered before.

It was difficult for the firelight to illuminate the place we were, but from the echo it was quite empty, so I patted the sand on my body and walked down, and soon found on the ground a stone path similar to the cemetery road, which was extremely wide and flat, brushing away the yellow sand covering it, revealing a lotus pattern on the stone slab.

"This is called step by step lotus, these lotus flowers have as many as a thousand petals, it is the Pure Land lotus, it is a sacred object of Buddhism, which means that it is pure and clean in addition to troubles, and it is mostly used on the pavement and steps of the building in the Tang Dynasty, meaning auspicious." I couldn't hold back the joy in my heart. "Judging from the map of the stone chamber outside the Yumen Pass, the Vientiane Shrine was built at the foot of the Red and White Mountain, and it seems that we are not far from the Vientiane Shrine."

Ye Zhiqiu half-knelt on the ground, looking nervous and excited, carefully cleaning the yellow sand on the stone road, and soon a clean stone slab appeared in front of us, in addition to the thousand-petal lotus flower in the middle, there was also a delicate dragon scale decoration like water waves, and the Bodhi tree was carved on both sides of the stone slab.

"Nope! We've already arrived at Vientiane Shrine! Ye Zhiqiu raised his head and opened his mouth with excitement.

"Arrived?" The field pheasant looked around. "It's pitch black everywhere, you can't see anything, where is the Vientiane Shrine?"

Ye Zhiqiu hurriedly excitedly asked Tian Ji to take off his backpack, and took out the sketch of the Vientiane Divine Palace left by Ling Xuan from it: "The design of the Vientiane Divine Palace is based on the Big Dipper Constellation, the so-called seven stars in the sky, seven heavens on the earth, and there are seven buildings corresponding to the seven stars in the Vientiane Divine Palace. ”

Everyone else gathered around, and in the firelight, Ye Zhiqiu pointed to the sketch and said that the Vientiane Divine Palace was built on a north-south central axis, and the southernmost point was the Heavenly Gate, according to Ling Xuan's design, this represents the entrance to the Heavenly Palace, which is often called the South Heavenly Gate!

"And Wu Zetian imitated the Vientiane Divine Palace in Luoyang, and did not know the meaning of the Heavenly Gate, she set it up as the Dragon Gate, which is now the Yique in the southern suburbs of Luoyang, where the two mountains confront each other, and the Yishui flows, such as the natural gate, which is just the same as the Tianmen in the Vientiane Divine Palace designed by Ling Xuan." Ye Zhiqiu looked at us happily and said. "Yique, also called Longmen, is a natural gateway to the south of Luoyang."

"Two mountains face each other......" Ling Zhihan thought for a while and said. Could it be the Red and White Mountains we passed through earlier? ”

"That's right, that's the Heavenly Gate of the Vientiane Divine Palace, with two mountains in the Red and White Mountains, and a sloping valley in the middle, shaped like a portal, just corresponding to the Seven Star Heavenly Gate." Ye Zhiqiu nodded.

Gong Jue buried his head in the sketch of the heavenly gate, remembered that slowly passed, what came into view was a city wall and the majestic city tower, is a door and two que pattern, double que and the main city gate tower are symmetrically distributed in a word, there is a flying corridor between the gate tower and the quetai, and the Vientiane Shrine was built behind the city wall, in the sketch, here is called the Qiankun Gate.

"Since Wu Zetian imitated the Vientiane Divine Palace, why is there no place called Qiankun Tower in Luoyang?" Gong Jue asked.

"The architectural style of this kind of castle tower is called, a word que." The advantage of bringing Ye Zhiqiu is that she can always know something very theoretical, and she doesn't hurry to say it. "This kind of city gate is also a solitary case in archaeology, in Luoyang's Vientiane Shrine should be comparable to the Dingding Gate, although the pattern is not as big as the city gate we saw before, but the style is exactly the same, with the city gate as the boundary, Vientiane at the beginning, but since Wu Zetian is imitating this sketch, why did not follow the Qiankun Building, but renamed the Dingding Tower, it is unknown, there is no detailed record in the literature."

"Thousands of years ago, how many things can be recorded in a piece of literature and history, Ling Xuan named this city gate Qiankun Tower, the original meaning is that after the city gate, all-encompassing, Qiankun has everything, the meaning of the seven stars are there, Wu Zetian ordinary people will not understand the true meaning of the word Qiankun, she thinks that there is a dragon gate outside, there are all things inside, and it is not appropriate for a city gate to monopolize Qiankun, so she made her own proposal to change it to Dingding Gate, implying that she is the first person in the world to be the first person in the world."

"Wu Zetian changed it without permission?" Ling Zhihan looked at the arrogant Zhuo Mingfeng. "So there was also a Qiankun Gate before Luoyang?"

"A closed Qiankun for 10,000 years, this poem is about the Dingding Gate, which means to compliment Wu Zetian for thousands of years, and Luoyang, the god capital in the Dingding Gate, has been standing for thousands of years, which shows that the Dingding Gate was indeed called Qiankun Gate before." Zhuo Mingfeng said.

Ye Zhiqiu's fingers continued to move on the sketch, pointing to a long street, then looking at the spacious stone road under our feet and saying, "This is called Heavenly Street, which is the passage that connects the north and south of the Vientiane Shrine. ”

"The Heavenly Street was originally the name of the star official of the Heavenly Palace, and the Heavenly Street was between the two stars of the Pleiades and Bi, which was the main road for the sun, the moon, and the five stars to enter and exit." Ling Zhihan said.

"It seems that Wu Zetian still failed to understand the intention of the sketch design in the process of imitation, and the sky street in Luoyang is far smaller than what we see today."

Ye Zhiqiu stood up and stared in the firelight, and said to us in amazement, the archaeological discovery of the literature described, Luoyang City Heavenly Street, one hundred steps wide, two lines of cherries and pomegranates planted next to the road, from the end gate of the imperial city to the north and south of the Dingding Gate of the outer city, nine miles from the north and south, four looks, people from below, the middle is the royal road, the spring flow canal, and the reflection is in the meantime.

It can be seen that Tianjie Avenue is doubly pleasant because of the green trees, flowers, and flowing water, and Ling Xuan actually uses the culture of Buddhism in the design of Tianjie, with the carvings on both sides of the road being Bodhi trees and lotus flowers in the middle.

"Ling Xuan's main purpose in using these ornaments is to strengthen the control of the believers involved in the construction of the Vientiane Divine Palace with the help of Buddhist holy relics, but Wu Zetian obviously didn't know, so he replaced them with peach trees, cherry trees, and pomegranate trees on both sides of Luoyang Heavenly Street." Ye Zhiqiu said.

Someone whispered in Bai Jin's ear, Bai Jin came over and spread his hands in front of us, there was a viscous dark brown liquid on it, I smelled it was unrefined crude oil, I got up and looked at the place where the crude oil was found, there were stone troughs embedded on both sides of the Heavenly Street, which had been spreading forward with the Heavenly Street.

I lit it with a torch, and suddenly the bright light of the fire bloomed in the darkness, like two fire dragons swimming forward quickly, gradually outlining the outline of the heavenly street before our eyes, and at the same time illuminating the place where we are now.

This is a slightly downward sloping space, surrounded by layers of superimposed rocks, the general has the experience to knock down a few pieces to identify, said to be a sedimentary rock landform, this kind of terrain is extremely convenient for excavation, and there are no traces of a large number of human construction around, so it can be seen that this huge space has been extended forward is a natural formation.

We walked along the heavenly street illuminated by the firelight, and it didn't take long to faintly hear the sound of water flowing like ten thousand horses galloping, Ye Zhiqiu took out the sketch of the Vientiane Shrine, and pointed to a place above, his voice was full of uncontrollable excitement.

"Seven stars in the sky, seven heavens on the earth, and in front of you is the first day of the Vientiane Divine Palace, Tianshu!"