Chapter 52: The Dragon's Bone
The wooden man of the guide car kept pointing to the fan-shaped ice wall, which is where we saw those ice sculpture patterns before, Tian Ji stayed and watched the wooden figure guide us in the direction, and Gong Jue and I walked back to the ice wall.
Eventually, we were told to stop at the last ice sculpture, which, if we were not mistaken, was hiding something in this sculpture that we hadn't noticed.
The picture of the ice sculpture is related to the legend of the Yellow Emperor ascending to immortality by dragon, and I and Gong Jue can not see any clues from this rumored story, Gong Jue suddenly took a step forward, raised his finger and pointed to the top of the picture, where the dragon lowered its dragon head.
"The Yellow Emperor returned to the dragon, as if he was holding something in his hand."
I looked up carefully for a long time, and suddenly opened my mouth in shock, it was rumored that the Yellow Emperor should ride the dragon's back here, but in the picture, the Yellow Emperor was kneeling, and his attitude was pious and respectful, bowing his head and stretching out his hands, as if he was receiving something.
I finally saw clearly that the dragon was holding a ball-like thing in its mouth and handed it to the Yellow Emperor.
"Do you remember, Han Jin said before he died that the gold lord asked him to come to Kunlun Jinque for a bronze ball." I excitedly pointed to the picture.
"Remember, I didn't think much about it at the time, since Jinque is the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, anything in it is worth a fortune, but the gold owner is obviously not for money, and the bronze ball he is looking for should be extraordinary." The palace lord nodded.
"In this painting, the dragon has a ball in its mouth and handed it to the Yellow Emperor." I looked thoughtfully at the ice sculpture pattern. "This ball is probably the one Kim is looking for."
According to legend, the Yellow Emperor finally ascended by the dragon, but in this ice sculpture pattern, the Yellow Emperor did not ride on the dragon's back, I suddenly reacted, Kunlun Jinque may not be the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, the Yellow Emperor built here to welcome the dragon, to be exact, the ball held in the dragon's mouth.
Presumably, this ball is so important to the Yellow Emperor that he will spare no effort and use incalculable manpower to build this ice palace in the Kunlun Mountains.
Gong Jue said that in these nine ice sculpture patterns, truth and myth and legend are interspersed alternately, and it is impossible to distinguish what is real and what is fiction, but any apocryphal legend has a basis, and it is obvious that the Yellow Emperor can defeat Chiyou only after receiving some kind of help.
Who taught the Yellow Emperor to build weapons and make equipment, and also gave the Yellow Emperor the Dragon Horn Divine Medal, and the Hetu Luo Book could not have been obtained by the Yellow Emperor from the dragon horse and the tortoise, as well as the dragon that fell from the sky, these ice sculpture patterns almost record the life of the Yellow Emperor's great achievements, but we still can't see many places.
Gong Jue hesitated for a moment, his hand slowly stretched out to the ball in the dragon's mouth in the pattern, touched it slightly, and found that it could move, I and Gong Jue looked at each other in surprise, Gong Jue turned it lightly with his hand, and then put his ear on the ice sculpture and listened for a moment.
"It's like this ball is a trap, something can be opened." The palace lord was delighted.
Hearing Gong Jue say this, I looked at the ball more carefully, and found that there was a circle of words around the ball, these words were the same as the hieroglyphs we saw in the ice gate at the bottom, these words were from the period of the Yellow Emperor, and it is estimated that even Ye Zhiqiu would not be able to recognize them here.
This circle of words is evenly spaced, it looks like a scale, Gong Jue found a place like a pointer on the ball, Gong Jue is sure that this must be a mechanism, only the pointer points to the correct scale will be opened, Gong Jue did not say a word and turned the ball back and forth calmly, his ears have been tightly attached to it, and after a long time, Gong Jue slowly turned.
With a click, the ice carved dragon's mouth was opened, and a bronze ball with lines engraved around it appeared in front of our eyes, which should be what the gold lord wanted Han Jin to bring back in every possible way, and it was also the round ball that the dragon gave to the Yellow Emperor in the pattern.
Hidden so hidden, this should be the most important thing in Kunlun Jinque, people who visited here forty years ago did not find this bronze ball, I am curious about what this bronze ball is for, so that the Yellow Emperor will hide in his own mausoleum.
I reached out and took the bronze ball out of the dragon's mouth, and found that it was not too heavy, it was very light, and the lines on it were extremely exquisite, not like the ornamentation on ordinary bronzes, and it seemed to have other meanings.
Before we could take a closer look, we suddenly heard the stone platform where the bronze ball was placed in the dragon's mouth sink, and then there was a low roar in the fan-shaped ice wall.
We never expected that there was a hiding place behind the ice wall, and as the ice wall completely separated, the three of us looked into the ice wall in amazement, and the bronze in my hand fell to the ground.
At that moment, we were completely speechless by the sight before us.
Behind the ice wall, a huge feathered dragon pattern comes into view, and the space here is larger than the ice chamber where the Yellow Emperor's ice coffin was previously placed, with a magnificent rectangular dark room, and the floor and surroundings are inlaid with jade and bronze.
When we walked in, the cold wind whistled and blew over our heads, and the ice and snow were scattered on us, and we looked up to see the long-lost sky, which was the highest place in the entire Kunlun Golden Gate, and the ice wall was not closed by ice blocks.
I stood under the feather dragon pattern for a long time and couldn't speak, this is the symbol of the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, but I never thought that it would appear in the palace tomb of the Yellow Emperor thousands of years ago, that is to say, the clues related to the Nine Dragons of the Moon Palace already existed thousands of years ago in the morning.
According to the structure of the entire Ice Palace, this is the core place of Kunlun Jinque, I don't understand why the most important location is not used to place the ice coffin, even though it is the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor.
There is an open platform in the ice room, which extends to the outside, when we go out, the whole Kunlun Jinque is now under our feet, looking at the reckless Kunlun mountains are undulating, covered in silver, the snow peaks are abrupt and the clouds are standing in the sky, the mountainside white clouds are beautiful, mysterious and majestic, Kunlun Mountain is worthy of being respected as the ancestor of all mountains.
On the left and right sides of the ice platform are the heads of the two huge and mighty ice sculptures of giant warriors, each with an ice bridge about ten meters long and the golden gate are connected, under the bridge is the ice rock cliff of the abyss, leaning down to take a bird's-eye view of the deep and steep under the bridge is dazzling, and it is terrifying to hear.
"Bridge ......" I glanced back and forth, the corners of my mouth squirming. Kunlun Bridge Mountain, the legendary Kunlun Bridge Mountain, originally said here! ”
"What is Kunlun Bridge Mountain?" Gong Jue asked.
"The Yellow Emperor is the co-lord of China, and later generations have been trying to find the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, and the only record in the five emperors of the historical records is only six words." I pointed to the ice bridge that connected the two sides. "The Yellow Emperor collapsed, and the bridge mountain was buried."
"Hashiyama!" Tian Ji looked around and suddenly realized. "Kunlun Jinque is a mountain in the distance, there is a statue of ice bridge connected to it, and the bridge mountain refers to here, this is really the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor!"
The roar in the distance interrupted my thoughts, we looked into the distance, the thunder and lightning flashed in the sky, the direction of the thunder and lightning roar should be the valley of death we had crossed before, from here we could see more clearly, the lightning and thunder were like a sharp sword flying down from the clouds, densely blocking the road to the Kunlun Golden Gate.
There is not only one such minefield, almost all around the Kunlun Golden Gate there are such frightening minefields, it is clear that the site of the Kunlun Golden Gate was carefully selected, and no one can penetrate this place under the protection of these minefields.
The Yellow Emperor didn't want anyone to disturb this majestic palace, but I believe that he didn't want anyone to discover the real secrets here.
"The most important thing in Kunlun Jinque should be the Yellow Emperor's Ice Palace, but why did you hide this huge ice room." The palace lord turned his head to look at the bronze and jade inlaid room. "And why isn't this ice room sealed?"
"This is not simple, no one can climb up to Kunlun Jinque from the outside, and it can be ventilated by opening a skylight." Tian Ji said seriously.
"When people die, they are separated by yin and yang, and they are safe in the ground, and it stands to reason that the mausoleum must be closed, although what you said is right, the Yellow Emperor doesn't have to worry about anyone who can climb up." The palace lord shook his head. "But there should be other reasons for keeping the top unsealed."
"I want to know more, why there is a feathered dragon symbol of the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace here." I said as I walked back and stopped under the giant feathered dragon pattern. "Could it be that there were rumors about the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace thousands of years ago, and the Yellow Emperor is still convinced?"
"Why not change the way of thinking, from the pattern of the ice sculpture outside, the Yellow Emperor knelt down here to worship the dragon, at that time there was no reasonable explanation for some natural phenomena, plus at that time I believed in the theory of ghosts and gods, since there are rumors that the Yellow Emperor ascended by the dragon, why can't there be a Moon Palace Nine Dragons." The palace lord bowed his head thoughtfully.
"You're saying that all the rumors are rooted here?" I also somewhat agree with the idea of the palace lord.
Gong Jue nodded and said thoughtfully, Kunlun has always been the origin of Chinese mythology, from the totem of the Yellow Emperor, the four-legged snake is likely to be the prototype of the dragon in later generations, that is, there was a dragon worship thousands of years ago, which may also be the root of the legend of the Yellow Emperor flying on the dragon.
However, people at that time could not explain why the dragon could fly, so the envisioned dragon added wings, which should be the most primitive worship of the sky, and the people at that time thought that there was a god living in the sky that they could not reach, and out of the yearning for the god, the Yellow Emperor wanted to fly to the sky, so he conceived a horse-drawn carriage like a tool that could ride people.
"Moon Palace Nine Dragon Boat!" I nodded subconsciously, although the palace lord's statement is very novel, it is not unreasonable. "A boat that carries the Yellow Emperor's ascension, and is pulled by a dragon with wings, the Yellow Emperor is the emperor, and the Nine is honored in the Book of Hetuluo, so nine feathered dragons are needed...... This is the root of the rumors about the Nine Dragons Boat in the Moon Palace. ”
"In this way, it seems that the Moon Palace Nine Dragons Boat does not really exist." The palace lord nodded.
The jingling sound interrupted me and the palace lord, and we looked up to see the field chicken holding a probe shovel, grinning as if he was using all the strength of milk, digging something in the ground.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"This is too extravagant, such a good jade is used to pave the ground, I have to dig a few pieces and bring it back, this thing is not heavy and will not lose its head, don't stand stupidly and hurry over to help." Tian Ji's expression was very serious, and he was sweaty and pointed to the depths of the ice room. "Don't think about what dragons pull the boats, let's see what the wood is for."
Tian Ji is talking about two vertical rows of bronze wrapped wood distributed in the ice room, the wood is about the thickness of the mouth of the bowl, arc-shaped but not the arc, a bit like the first quarter of the moon, in the ice room from the beginning to the end of the interval evenly symmetrical and neat.
The outer bronze wrap makes the wood stronger, and in the middle of the wood is an abutment with a wide groove inside, and for a while I don't know what it is for.
The falling ice and snow covered it, a white expanse, looking like a skeleton from the side, the palace lord looked at it for a long time and was still a fog: "How strange is this, it stands to reason that this is the core area of Kunlun Jinque, and it is also the most important place from the perspective of concealment, why only these woods are placed." ”
"The specifications here are obviously higher than the place where the ice coffin is placed, the ancient tombs of the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods all pursue the only jade for burial, which means that there must be jade in the mausoleum, which is the embodiment of identity and status, and only some scattered jade can be seen in the ice coffin of the grand Chinese co-owner." I looked around and wondered. "But this ice room is actually paved with jade, which shows that grade and specifications are quite important."
"If it's the most important place, why are there so many curved pieces of wood?" Tian Ji was out of breath and knocked for a long time without success. "I just saw that there were traces of friction on the bronze wrapped around the wood.
Hearing what the field chicken said, I hurriedly went to check, and found that it was indeed the case, and it was not one or two, but each of them had traces of such friction, and at the same time, these marks were quite profound, as if they were squeezed by some kind of heavy object.
"There's a four-legged snake totem here, come and have a look." Gong Jue was about to shout next to him.
The four-legged serpent on the ice wall was cast in bronze, and its head was the opposite of what we had seen on the banner before, and I touched it with my hand and found that it could be turned, and after a moment of hesitation, I turned the head of the four-legged serpent to it.
Rumble!
A neat sound came from the ice room, and the moon-like wood suddenly and slowly closed upwards until it formed a shape in front of us with hands folded.
The more I stepped back, the more surprised I became, looking at the wood that had changed shape, I was suddenly startled, and the corners of my mouth squirmed a few times: "What do you think these woods look like when they are held together?" ”
"Like ...... Skeleton. Tian Ji pointed to the bronze four-legged snake on the wall and said. Think of the skeleton of a big snake, but if you put it in reverse, the opening of the skeleton should be downward, and the wood should start upward. ”
"Look at your imagination, the skeleton of the big snake, you think about it, you just say how appropriate the keel is." The palace lord laughed and mocked him.
"Keel...... "I continued to retreat in shock until I stopped at the front of the woods." Yes, it's keels, and I know what they're for! ”
"A keel for stuff?" Gongjue and Tian Ji looked at me in surprise.
I had thought of what heavy weight should have been placed on these pieces of wood to cause such deep friction marks on the bronze, and when the wood was closed, I could clearly see the neat keel from the angle from which I was standing.
This is the keel of the ship!
The purpose of this ice chamber is to dock a large ship, and when the ship is docked in the ice chamber, these wooden keels will support the ship, which should be an extremely heavy ship, as can be seen by the length and size of the keel, and when the ship leaves, these keels will separate.
I looked up at the sky with snow and ice, which is why this ice chamber at the highest point in the Kunlun Golden Gate did not have a closed roof, because this is where the huge ship came in and out.
I rubbed my face vigorously with both hands, trying to calm myself down, and told Gongjue and Tian Ji in a trembling voice.
"The Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace is not a fabricated rumor, but a real existence, which once stayed in the ice room in front of us, and the real purpose of building the Kunlun Golden Gate is not the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, but ...... The dock where the Moon Palace Kowloon Boat docks! ”