A few minutes later, several craftsmen cleared out two more stone steps. The stone steps descended step by step, and the prototype of a dark passage appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

The secret passage is about one meter wide and about 1.5 meters high, and the upper edge of the dark passage is forty centimeters below the base of the west wall, and the top of the secret passage is all about thirty centimeters wide and ten centimeters thick. The two sides of the tunnel are made of stone. Judging from the design of the secret passage alone, we know that the secret room of the underground palace under the secret passage is extraordinary.

Undoubtedly, the secret passage is below the mountain, and the secret chamber is likely to be under the mountain.

The entrance to the secret passage is hidden under the meditation bed, and the secret room of the secret passage is built in the middle of the mountain, which is a very ingenious design. The entrance is topped with a layer of green bricks, which is particularly ingenious. If it weren't for the comrades suspecting that there was something wrong in the meditation room, if it weren't for Master Chen hearing a voice that shouldn't be heard, if it weren't for Ouyang Ping insisting on his own judgment, it would have been really difficult to find the secret passage.

The two young nuns who disappeared in this meditation room must have something to do with this secret passage, so are the three missing nuns in Jingping related to this secret passage? Is there a connection between the meditation room in the West Zen Monastery where the three nuns lived and this secret passage?

When the fifth stone staircase was revealed, the earth was gone, and in its place were stone walls, which were actually made of stacked stones, and the stones were covered with black soil. The stones were relatively large, each stone was about seventy or eighty pounds—the size and shape of these stones were about the same as the stones on the stone walls on both sides of the tunnel. With Abbot Huijue's current age and health, she alone would not be able to complete such a large project—it was not a small project in terms of the amount of earthwork alone.

The second pillar found a rattan frame and a flat pole, and Master Chen used a brick knife to pry out a gap in the east frame of the meditation bed for easy entry and exit. Several craftsmen work together to put the stone into the basket, and two craftsmen carry the stone out of the meditation room, one after the other. Now, the craftsmen have no worries.

Each stone was wet, both from the humidity of the stone and from the black dirt on the stone, which came from a dark and damp place, and no doubt the stone came from a secret tunnel—or chamber.

Master Chen's words also confirmed Ouyang Ping's judgment: "There are no such stones on our construction site. "The construction site that Master Chen is talking about is the Tibetan Scripture Hall that is being renovated.

When Master Chen pried off a stone from the top of the second layer of stone, a flat stone slab stood behind the second layer of stone wall, and this stone slab should be used to block the dark passage.

After the second layer of stones was cleared, a large stone slab was erected in front of everyone's eyes.

The large stone slabs are stuck in the stone walls on both sides.

Erzhu took two crowbars, one for each of Master Chen's apprentices, and inserted the crowbars into the gap under the slate—the only gap around the slate.

The master and apprentice worked together, but unfortunately, the slate did not move at all - something should have been held up behind the slate.

"Captain Ouyang, what should I do?" Master Chen pulled out the crowbar, straightened up, and looked at Ouyang Pingdao.

"Do you have sledgehammers?"

"Yes."

"Smash the slate with a sledgehammer."

A craftsman rushed out of the meditation room.

After a while, the craftsman walked into the meditation room with a sledgehammer on his shoulder.