Although the terrain on the north side of the mountain is gentle, but looking at the silver-white, snow-covered mountain, the eyes of the people are swollen, Ye Jiuqing squatted on the ground, brushed away the snow and picked up a handful of soil from the ground, rubbed it carefully in his hands, and then raised it with the wind and looked at it for a while.

"Since the holy palace is related to feng shui, the key is on the dragon sand, and the soil is the key to the dragon sand, a good dragon sand soil must be delicate, moist and no residual air, that is, moist but not sticky, such as cutting fat and brittle jade, and with five colors of gold, wood, water, fire and earth." Ye Jiuqing said.

"Brother Ye, how is the soil here?" Bai Jin asked.

Ye Jiuqing patted the soil in his hand, looked back and forth, and replied at a loss: "That's far from it, the soil here is dry like buried millet, hoeed into hard particles, scattered but not sticky, like fine sand and small stones containing water, such soil is not the land of dragon sand." ”

"Then how do you find this place for the dragon sand phoenix crown?" Ye Zhiqiu asked.

Ye Jiuqing smiled bitterly and said: "I'm just half a catty and eight taels, this is the same as exploring the dragon's nest, the so-called three years to find the dragon and ten years to find the dragon, where is it as simple as you think, the art of the earth pays attention to mutual growth and restraint, and there is a special method for finding the dragon sand." ”

"Uncle Ye, what other way is there to find soil?" Tian Ji asked.

"I'm not too proficient in the specifics, but I've only heard about it, and it involves Tai Chi."

"Why have I never heard you mention it?" I looked at Ye Jiuqing and asked with a faint smile. "I thought you'd taught me everything."

"If you want to teach you, I have to know how to do it, and I have a specialization in the art industry, where can I study and be proficient." Ye Jiuqing stood up and smiled helplessly and said, after finding the general location of the dragon sand, in order to confirm whether the soil to which it belongs is dragon sand, the ancients would make a final conclusion on the phenomenon called Tai Chi halo.

In ancient times, the search for dragon sand was considered a major event for tribes or countries, so rituals such as sacrifices were held, and the worshippers burned a substance called a seal book along with the soil.

It is not nonsense that a seal book is a scroll made of bamboo and wood, and a seal will be added to it, and the specific method of seal is recorded in detail in an ancient book known as the Yin and Yang Book of the Tang Dynasty.

The burned seal book will react with the soil called dragon sand at high temperatures, and the ashes formed will appear like stones but not stones, like soil but not soil, rubbed like powder, and there will be a circle of patterns like tree rings, which ancient people called Tai Chi halo.

"Dad, why do you talk more and more mysterious, should we still burn paper here?"

"That's not necessary, this is not a dragon vein, this method will not have an effect, and I don't understand the seal book at all, this is the secret of the earth's phase, there are very few people who can master this method, I think Qing Taizu doesn't understand it even more." Ye Jiuqing smiled and shook his hand.

"Uncle Ye, since Qing Taizu doesn't understand this, what does the dragon sand phoenix crown in the second sentence mean?" Xue Xinrou asked.

"It is not difficult to see from the location of the Shengjing Imperial Palace that Qing Taizu must have been guided by a master of the Qing Dynasty at that time, although this place is not a dragon vein, but the location of the Holy Palace is bound to be related to feng shui." Ye Jiuqing touched his chin. "Unfortunately, the mountain is now covered with snow, making it difficult to see the terrain."

"Forget it, instead of wasting time without a clue here, it's better to look for it honestly." I took the probe shovel out of my bag and said to the others. "If the Holy Palace is here, it will definitely leave traces of excavation, and everyone should be rewarded by digging separately."

We explored the north side of the hill one by one to explore wherever we could, but we were overwhelmed by the shovel, and the soil at the top of the hill was covered with rocks.

"It's not a good place to build any buildings." Xue Xinrou said.

"That's not necessarily, there is also a possibility that after the construction was completed, in order to prevent anyone from probing the place, the stones were deliberately distributed under the soil layer." Ye Jiuqing said with experience. "In the industry, this is called anti-stone soil, and it is also the most tricky way to prevent theft."

"Dad, since this method is so good in preventing theft, why are there few mausoleums in the Central Plains that use such a method?"

"The Central Plains pays attention to entering the soil for safety, and after death it is filled with sealed soil, who wants to die with a stone on the body, but the Manchurians should not have this taboo." I'll explain on the side.

Tian Ji panted and brushed away the snow on a mountain rock behind him, and sat on it weakly, looking a little tired: "It's going to be dark soon, it seems that it will be impossible to find it in a moment and a half, what should I do now?" ”

"The temperature here is very low on winter nights, and I'm worried that you can't stand it if you stay on the mountain, so it's better to go back first and then think about it in the long run." Bai Jin said.

"It only took three days for Dolgon to go back and forth, which means that he quickly found the Holy Palace here, and Dolgon doesn't know Feng Shui and the earth, he can find it, why don't we have eyebrows?" I muttered to myself.

"If the blind cat hits a dead mouse, maybe he's luckier than us." Tian Ji said listlessly. "Seriously, I'm really cold......"

"Don't move!" I raised my hand to interrupt Tian Ji, looked at him intently, and turned back to Ye Jiuqing and said. "What do you think the stone he's sitting on looks like?"

Ye Jiuqing walked up to me and watched for a long time, asked Tian Ji to clean up the snow on the stones under him, and then pushed it aside, he was covered with snow before and didn't look very clear: "Why do I look like a chicken?" ”

The stone is black and white, and the more back the stone is distributed with colorful stone patterns, Ye Jiuqing is right, it looks like a chicken with its head held high, and it is still a white-bellied golden chicken from its posture and appearance.

"Golden chicken?" Ye Jiuqing frowned, as if he had thought of something, and hurriedly looked around, and finally stopped at a stone opposite Tianji, beckoning us to help clean up the snow on it.

Then Ye Jiuqing took a few steps back, stared at him without saying a word, I stood beside him, Ye Jiuqing asked me what the stone looked like, I looked at it for a long time and felt like a swimming snake.

"Snake and golden pheasant......" Ye Jiuqing touched his chin and walked back and forth a few steps. Could it be that I think too much, the dragon sand phoenix crown is actually not so profound. ”

"What do you think of?" I asked.

"The so-called dragon sand, there is it when you look at it from a distance, there is nothing when you look at it closely, it is exposed when you look at it from the side, and it is blurry when you look at it. The subtlety of Tai Chi is also good. Ye Jiuqing said to us with a serious face, this is the essence of viewing dragon sand, to the effect that it is to look at the god rather than the form, just like these two stones, if you look closely, there is nothing special.

But as far away as now, looking at its gods, you can see the appearance of snakes and golden pheasants.

"Uncle Ye, these two stones are like snakes and golden pheasants, but what do they have to do with the holy palace we are looking for?" Xue Xinrou asked.

"The second sentence in the clue is the dragon sand phoenix crown Xiansheng Palace, the literal meaning is obvious, the place where the dragon sand phoenix crown is found, is where the holy palace is located, and the coiled snake here is like a dragon, undulating and twisting like a living, and the big snake turns into a dragon." Ye Jiuqing pointed to the stone on the left and said. "Meaning dragon sand."

"The golden pheasant is colorful, and the head has a feather crown like a phoenix." It dawned on me. "These two stones are facing each other left and right, the center is out of the vein, and the negative yin and yang are the dragon sand phoenix crown!"

Ye Jiuqing also nodded, we hurriedly cleared out the snow between the two stones, and it didn't take long to dig the shovel before it touched the stone slab, and it was different from before, it was not a fragmented stone, but a complete sealing stone.

This place is located in the shade of the mountain, and it is Yongling Mountain, and the Manchurians will never come here to break ground, perhaps this is also the reason why Qing Taizu chose to hide his secrets here.

Tian Ji tried to pry open the sealing stone, but was pulled by the palace jue, she said that the stone was tightly sealed around it, it was obvious that there was a mechanism setting, she gently touched the sealing stone with her hand, and found a small round hole in an inconspicuous place, thinking that something was going to be inserted into it.

"Tin stick!" Gong Jue's eyes lit up, let the tin stick be handed to her, sure enough, the size of the tin stick was just right, after inserting it, Gong Jue twisted it slightly, and a low sound came from inside the sealing stone, and then slowly separated, and a passage to the depths of the mountain appeared in front of us.

We cautiously went down the passage, the more spacious we went, I picked up the lighted torch and looked around, the passage was full of mechanisms, just above our heads was a huge rock, supported by a mechanism to connect to the entrance, if you force your way in, these boulders will fall in an instant if you touch the mechanism, blocking the passage in the first place.

Ye Jiuqing said that looking at the specifications and styles of the construction here, it was completely built in accordance with the Central Plains Emperor's Mausoleum, and after we passed through the deep passage, we kept going down The road ahead became more and more wide, but the speed of our march was not fast, and the palace lords were cracking the dense mechanisms here along the way.

I have never seen so many mechanisms set up in a ruin, which shows how careful the people who built this place were, and if it weren't for the presence of the palace lord, I think that even if anyone could find this place, they would either die here or destroy the entire holy palace.

The passage has been going down, bringing us to the center of the mountain, the whole mountain was hollowed out, how huge the project was built here can be imagined, such a big project was not found, it should be the Qing Taizu used to build Yongling, secretly built together.

Our progress was blocked on a small platform, there were grooves on both sides of the field chicken with his hand to tell us that it was boiled animal oil, he used a torch to ignite the oil in the groove, and suddenly the fire began to spread, our torches can only illuminate a small space, but with the spread of the fire appeared in front of us more and more things.

We all looked around curiously and excitedly, only Ye Jiuqing was alone looking at the ground with his head buried in his head, he frowned and squatted down, touched the ground with his hand, and said to us in surprise.

"Silver?!"

Only then did we focus our attention on Ye Jiuqing, as he said, the entire ground where we are standing now is covered with silver, not only the four walls of the ground and everything is made of silver, refracting white light in the firelight, and the entire platform is as bright as day.