We climbed to the highest point of the Red and White Mountain, stood on the edge of the cliff and looked down, in the bright moonlight, those regular stone bars put together a pattern, and it was a pattern that we were very familiar with.

It's just a lot bigger than we've seen before.

A huge feathered dragon was embedded in the sea of sand, and we couldn't see the whole picture of this feathered dragon even from the top of the highest mountain, but we were too familiar with this two-winged wyvern to be recognizable from the patterns of its wings.

Everyone didn't make a sound, looking at the mountain sluggishly, they should have been shocked by the feathered dragon below, this feathered dragon has been buried under the yellow sand for thousands of years, looking up at the sky as if ready to spread its wings and fly high at any time, this is the mark left by Ling Xuan, the Vientiane Divine Palace is under this huge feathered dragon.

But now I raised my head and looked down into the night sky, where we are now, the highest place in the Red and White Mountain, standing here I can't see the whole feather dragon clearly, but what surprises me is that the feathered dragon made of stone strips below is both lifelike and lifelike.

I took the necklace off my neck, and looked blankly at the pattern of the feather dragon inside, my mind was full of unexplained confusion, every detail of the huge feathered dragon under the mountain was exactly the same as the one in my necklace, and the feathered dragon pattern in the necklace was also the epitome of the dragon below, and it was exactly the same.

But......

How did Ling Xuan build this huge feathered dragon?

In the absence of a reference, to piece together such a large pattern, it would have required extremely precise instrumentation to measure the orientation, and the slightest careless construction would have been severely distorted, but the feathered dragon we see is impeccable.

This is not what confuses me the most, Ling Xuan built the Vientiane Divine Palace to hide the three dragon veins, but why build a huge feathered dragon on the Vientiane Divine Palace, even if this thing is built, no one can see the whole picture.

"Get down!" Neither the general nor Bai Jin went up the mountain with us, they could not stand the tossing up and down at this age, and his hurried shouting below interrupted my thoughts, and I saw him waving his hand below, and his movements were very anxious.

We hurriedly went down the mountain and found Zhuo Mingfeng still standing in front of the stone platform in the middle of the sloping valley: "I want to see the scenery, you will come back in the future, I don't have time to spend time with you." ”

Zhuo Mingfeng's voice was thousands of miles away, he didn't look back and walked along the stone bar alone, he dodged away and I saw the stone platform behind him, and the Lianshan Yi mechanism that was opened by us has now begun to rotate irregularly, and the wind that had stopped just now was howling again.

Gong Jue said with a wary face, it seems that the mechanism that has been opened will not last many times, and the sudden tornado can blow away the yellow sand, and it can also flood this place again, and the entrance must be found before the next mechanism is closed.

We immediately packed our bags and walked briskly behind the people who approached them towards the center of the feathered dragon patchwork of stone strips, and I used the feathered dragon pattern in the necklace as a reference, and I could roughly compare the directions according to the stone stripes under my feet in the endless sea of sand.

After walking for more than two hours, Ye Zhiqiu pointed happily ahead under the moonlight: "Look, look!" ”

At our feet looms the stone path covered with yellow sand, wide and straight, each with a subtle carved ornamentation, like a wave, but if you stand on a high place and look down, you will find that this is actually the dragon scales on the body of the feather dragon, and we are close to the center of the feather dragon.

In Ye Zhiqiu's cheers, a towering city wall appeared in front of us, and we could even see the towering city tower above, a typical mountain gate building in the Tang Dynasty at that time, seeing this high wall that was half submerged by yellow sand, I secretly breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, we finally found the Vientiane Shrine.

On both sides of the stone road, there are stone statues standing in a forest, the shape is the eight heavenly dragons of different forms, because it has been covered by the yellow sand, it is still intact after thousands of years, there is an obvious Tang Dynasty carving specific, the lines are delicate and the ornamentation is exquisite, and the demeanor is expressive into the wood.

These eight heavenly dragons with angry faces, with majestic expressions, stand here and still guard this magnificent palace in the depths of the desert despite the vicissitudes of time.

This is also in line with Bu Dongyuan's story, when Ling Xuan built the Vientiane Shrine here, she used a lot of manpower from the surrounding countries, she was using these people's belief in Buddhism, perhaps in the minds of those who participated in the construction thousands of years ago, they firmly believed that they were really building a heavenly kingdom of Western saints.

Walking here, in addition to joy, everyone's expression is different, I saw that Bai Jin's face had a hesitant persistence, he is the same as the general, he is not a liar, what attracts him here is not wealth, but the last regret of his life, such a person's heart is always full of unyielding faith, which is far more important than gold and silver.

And in the eyes of those people brought by Bai Jin, I saw greed and desire, such eyes are actually Tian Ji, but Tian Ji is far cleaner than them, sometimes I am curious, I never understand that Tian Ji is obviously loyal and righteous, people with such a character should be very indifferent to gold and silver, but he loves money as life.

Moreover, Tian Ji is not greedy for wealth for pleasure, he just wants to prove it to his father, and for his father, that is the only thing that Tian Ji does not say in front of us, and he seems to be deliberately avoiding everything related to his family.

The rest Zhuo Mingfeng still looked indifferent, even if he arrived here, I didn't see the slightest excitement on his face, the general had always been anxious, and he was always worried about Ye Jiuqing's safety.

Closer and closer to the city wall that came out of the sand in the sea of sand, suddenly there was an inexplicable feeling in my heart, we found an unknown ruin, but enough to cause a sensation and shock the world, all the way to the present, from the moment I met the palace lord, it seems that I am destined to a thrilling but magnificent life.

I just want ......

"I'm begging you first, this time you raise your noble hands, don't destroy the Vientiane Divine Palace again." Tian Ji looked a little nervous and said to us in a voice that bordered on pleading.

Gong Jue and I both laughed, looking back, it seems that we really went to destroy everywhere, I just hope that this time we will not repeat the mistakes of the past, after all, it is a pity that the magnificent buildings of a thousand years ago are ruined in our hands, not to mention that Ye Zhiqiu is still by his side.

"Just don't move." Ye Zhiqiu hadn't been to Kunlun Jinque with us, and she finally found the Temple of the Ancestral God, but she couldn't remember it at all, this Vientiane Divine Palace should be her biggest discovery so far, and she was even more nervous than Tian Ji.

"The Ling family has been searching for a thousand years of secrets, and I finally found it, it is this place that makes the Ling family the target of public criticism, I must make this place public." Ling Zhihan's side face was still gentle and soft, but now it was a little more resolute.

"Your grandfather's spirit in the sky can now rest in peace, what he didn't finish, you finally helped him finish." After I finished with a relieved smile, I turned my head to look at the palace lord next to me. "Why don't you speak, what do you think?"

"When the Vientiane Shrine is over, I'll have to go to the hospital to see my eyes."

"What's wrong with your eyes, I look good, huh?" Tian Ji asked worriedly.

"I can see the map in the stone chamber, do you think it's okay?" Gong Jue smiled faintly and looked at the city wall in front of him. "This Vientiane Divine Palace and I can't beat the eight poles, why is it only me who can see?"

"Go in and know, there may be secrets we don't know......" I said this to the palace lord, in fact, I also said to myself, who is the recruiter who looks exactly like me, why did it appear in the photo forty years ago, and what is the reason for him to come to Dunhuang, presumably it is also related to the Vientiane Shrine, all the doubts I hope can be found in this palace.

A glimmer of dawn brightened in the sky, and Zhuo Mingfeng at the front suddenly stopped, turned his head to stare at the morning light towards the sky, and as the sun rose, the unobstructed sunlight gradually illuminated this desert that was inaccessible.

I didn't know what Zhuo Mingfeng was looking at, so I subconsciously pursued his gaze, but there was nothing but the dazzling light, and then I found that Ye Zhiqiu next to me was pulling the corner of my clothes.

"What do you ......" I turned my head and didn't finish asking, everyone's eyes were wide and staring ahead, Ye Zhiqiu raised his hand, the corners of his mouth kept squirming, looking surprised and dazed.

I was also completely stunned, not far from our eyes, the city wall and the tower, when the sun slowly shone, it disappeared in front of our eyes mysteriously, the sunlight dispelled the haze of the night, and at the same time magically swallowed up the towering city wall.

When the scorching sun completely illuminated the desert, the nearby city wall disappeared in an instant, leaving only an endless undulating sand dune in front of him.

The only thing that was neat was the stone road under our feet, but we could only see the place under our feet, and after walking a few steps forward, the stone road was always there, but when we turned back, we were surprised to find that the place we had just walked through had become barren yellow sand.

I stepped back, and the stone path reappeared, and everyone looked at each other, as if we had entered a maze.

"Xuanzang recorded in the scriptures that he saw the palace that appeared at night, but it disappeared without a trace during the day, and he came here to visit from afar, and some people saw it at night, but he also wanted to look for it during the day, but there was nothing." It dawned on me that I looked around and said. "It's always there, but it's only at night, and it's blocked by light during the day."

"This is using the principle of mirage, but Ling Xuan did the opposite, she used the phenomenon of light refraction." Ye Zhiqiu said excitedly. "The scorching sun in the desert is in the sky, and the sand is scorched by the sun, because the specific heat of the sand is small, the temperature rises extremely fast, and it is extremely easy to have a mirage here, but I didn't expect that there was actually a mirage created by someone, Ling Xuan used the desert illusion elsewhere to cover this place, so even if someone passed by here during the day, they couldn't find the building in front of them."

"Can't you see?" The palace lord's voice was weak.

"You? Can you still see? Hearing him ask, he knew that like the stone chamber outside the Jade Gate, these buildings hidden by the mirage illusion could still be seen by the palace lord.

Gong Jue frowned and looked up at the front, tilting his head in astonishment, and in the end, he only left a helpless wry smile: "It seems that my eyes have really been cured, and I can see anything that shouldn't be seen." ”

Gong Jue led the way in front, let's follow him, I looked at the back of Gong Jue's back a little confused, if he saw the map in the stone room was a complete coincidence, then it should not be as simple as a coincidence to see through the illusion of the mirage and see the real building.

Ling Xuan built the Vientiane Divine Palace and left clues, until Ling Xiao Ge died, he always believed that these clues were left to the descendants of the Ling family, but we are now very clear that these clues of Ling Xuan were left to specific people.

A man who can find the stone chamber and see the map inside, and arrive here at the same time, and can also not be confused by the mirage, and now this man is ahead of us, but I really don't understand why it is the palace lord.

He was an orphan who studied mechanical arts, and he couldn't find the slightest connection with the Vientiane Divine Palace left by Ling Xuan, and the more he thought about it, the more confused he became, and he was suddenly grabbed from behind.

"Be careful." Zhuo Mingfeng let go of his hand and walked by.

I feel that this person is very cold, even if the scorching sun is shining now, his expression of rejecting people thousands of miles away makes people feel extremely cold, I just hope to complete the affairs of the Vientiane Divine Palace as soon as possible, and it is better for such a person to have less contact......

I just took a step forward, suddenly Ting, retreated to the place where Zhuo Mingfeng was pulled before, and slowly stretched out his hand forward, in front of me was an unobstructed desert, but my hand was blocked by something, took a step forward, and a statue appeared in front of me, because the mirage illusion could not be seen at all if it was not pulled by Zhuo Mingfeng just now, I would have hit it hard.

But......

I can't see it, why can Zhuo Mingfeng see it?!