"Come, boy, come here." Guo Huaxing, who was sitting on the base of the statue, waved his hand to Chen Ziyang.

Knowing that this was Guo Huaxing's last words, Chen Ziyang, who came closer, endured his tears and did not let his tears fall. Although he has not been in contact with Guo Huaxing for a long time, the two of them get along very happily, and with the rendering of the atmosphere at this time, Chen Ziyang is really moved.

"I've always wanted to accept you as an apprentice, but you don't agree, now it's all at this time, can you fulfill my wish."

Chen Ziyang nodded and called the master. A smile appeared on Guo Huaxing's face, and then said: "It's a pity, I don't have a chance to teach you anything anymore, you hold this astrolabe, this is my most precious thing, I will give it to you, you can keep it as a thought." ”

Seeing Chen Ziyang stretch out his hand to wipe away the tears flowing from the corners of his eyes, Guo Huaxing still said with a smile: "Don't cry, I'm very happy, this is my fate, just look away." ”

After waving his hand to let Chen Ziyang walk away, Guo Huaxing looked at Zhang Linfu who was sitting at his feet and crying bitterly from the corner of his eye.

"Old thing, don't cry, you're so old, crying, and you're not afraid of these young people's jokes. You can take them and go down, and tell Old Man Chen that I have done my best, and I am worthy of his care for me all these years. I have found so many ancient Taoist books, and I am worthy of my ancestors.

I...... Let's go. ”

After saying this, Guo Huaxing slowly closed his eyes. Chen Ziyang, who opened his yin and yang eyes, saw a faint trace of soul silk appear above Guo Huaxing's head.

These soul threads slowly floated out from the top of Guo Huaxing's head and were sucked into the stone lotus above his head, and with the influx of these souls, a little light appeared on the stone lotus, and a flame the size of a mung bean appeared in the center of the stone lotus.

Guo Huaxing's face became more and more pale, until the last wisp of soul floated out of his body, his whole body went limp, slid under the base of the sculpture, and was caught by Zhang Linfu, who had been standing aside for a long time. At this time, the flames that emerged from the lotus had grown to the length of a finger.

The flame was so peculiar that it was green. Moreover, the finger-thick flame did not shake in the slightest when it burned, and the flame always went straight up.

As the soul lamp was ignited, the shaking light star directly above the soul lamp slowly lit up. Then the flame in the soul lamp slowly became smaller, and by the time Guo Huaxing's soul was completely burned and the flame in the soul lamp was extinguished, Yaoguangxing had already emitted a dazzling light.

Not only Yaoguang Star, but the remaining six stars shone together with Yaoguang Star, and now the pattern of the Big Dipper is so conspicuous in this dark space.

The dull sound of "booming ......" came from the stone wall, and the stone wall in front of everyone slowly moved to the left and right, opening a gap, and a gust of wind instantly poured in from this gap.

This gust of wind was mixed with a large amount of dust, and all the people in the room couldn't open their eyes, and the whole room was instantly filled with the smell of dust, and a large amount of sand and dust filled the room.

After a long while, the gust of wind was a little lessened, but it did not stop. Chen Ziyang rubbed the sand in his eyes, and suddenly realized that something was very wrong. Although the wind was very strong, the wind was very warm.

Since everyone entered this underground imperial tomb city, low temperature has always been a big problem for everyone, and every night when they sleep, they need to build a bonfire to keep warm. The reason for the low temperature is that it is underground and does not see sunlight all year round.

But why is the wind blowing in warm? Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang raised his nose and sniffed it carefully. In addition to the strong smell of dust, there was a hint of grass in this warm breeze.

"Here...... Connected to the outside world! Chen Ziyang, who came up with this idea, felt a tight heart, and he was a little worried.

The opening of this gate was at the cost of Guo Huaxing's life, and if this place was really connected to the outside world, it would mean that the underground imperial tomb city had come to an end. But so far, there has been no trace of the iron book, could it be that Guo Huaxing died in vain.

After thinking about it for a while, Chen Ziyang decided to take a look first. Although he hoped that the Iron Book was still ahead, he felt that this possibility was very small, how could the Iron Book be placed outside the tomb.

Maybe the iron book is hidden somewhere else, after all, there are many places that everyone has not searched along the way, such as the countless rooms with hidden mechanisms around the long corridor, or the room with three doors that everyone walked before, and one of the doors has not been opened, there are too many possibilities, and now Chen Ziyang is a little apprehensive in his heart.

"Old immortal, come on, come on, let's go forward together, I want to see what is behind this door you opened." Zhang Linfu carried Guo Huaxing on his back, refused anyone's help, and staggered forward with Guo Huaxing's body on his back, towards the gap between the open stone walls.

The back defense of the stone wall is still dark, seeing this darkness, Chen Ziyang was a little happy, as long as the light can not be seen behind the stone wall, it proves that this is still within the scope of the mausoleum, and there is still a chance to find the iron book, Guo Huaxing's life was not paid in vain.

Behind the stone wall is a short corridor, and there seems to be a room behind the corridor, and when he was about to enter this room, Chen Ziyang shouted "It's over" in his heart.

Although he didn't enter this room, Chen Ziyang already knew that what he was most worried about had happened. The temperature in the corridor is very high, and the air is very fresh, so even if you think about it with your heels, you can know that the space behind the corridor is directly connected to the outside.

And before Chen Ziyang, who had crossed the Yongdao, had time to worry, he looked at the scene in front of him and was stunned. The same was true for the others, and one by one the people in the line walked into the room, one by one, their eyes widened.

The area of this room is very large, and it is surrounded by stone walls, and there are large reliefs carved on the stone walls, which are very ornate and beautifully carved. The patterns on the stone carvings are varied, and most of them are human figures.

On the wall directly opposite the crowd was a large relief carved with more than a hundred life-size fairies flying in a line towards a heavenly palace. Each fairy pulled a silk silk in her hand, and these silk silks were all connected to a sedan chair, and an old dragon bell and a woman with a kind face sat in the sedan chair.

From the content of these drawings and the layout of the entire room, Chen Ziyang judged that this should be the main burial chamber of the entire underground palace, that is, the place where Wu Zetian was buried before.

Although the whole room is grand in scale and magnificent, faintly revealing the aura of the emperor, what really surprised everyone was not the scale of this room, but the things in the room.

Countless human bones filled the room, as if a carpet made of human bones had been placed on the room. The human skeletons were stacked on top of each other, and it was impossible to count how many there were, and even the bones stacked on top of each other in the thickest part of the bones were four or five layers, which looked like a small mountain.

Shocked, Chen Ziyang looked up at the top of the room. A wide crack split the top of the room and a side wall in two, and through this wide crack, Chen Ziyang saw the blue sky that he had not seen for a long time.

In the center of the entire room there is a stone platform more than one meter high. Based on the style of the stone platform and the steps surrounding the edge of the stone platform, Chen Ziyang estimated that the stone platform should have been designed to be the place where the coffin was placed. This stone platform is also the only place in the entire room where there are no bones piled up.

A large box was placed on a stone platform, the lid of the box was open, and the top of the box was covered with a thick layer of dust, which had obviously been placed here for many years. On the side of the box facing the crowd, the pattern of the four dragons converging is carved.

Although the carving is still not very good, it is much better than the one carved on the stone door before. Seeing this pattern, Chen Ziyang first let go of his heart, and then his heart hurt again.

The reason why he was relieved was because this box was supposed to be the place where the iron book was placed, but this box was open, even if he didn't have to walk over, Chen Ziyang knew that the iron book was not in it at all.

Liu Cong, who rushed to the stone platform in a few steps, stared at the open box and was stunned, there was nothing in the box except a thick layer of dust. He lifted the box upside down with both hands, shaking it desperately, letting a large amount of dust fall all over his body, but he didn't care.

"What about the Iron Book? What about the Iron Book? Find out! Find out! At this time, Liu Cong's eyes were bloodshot and his face was angry.

Under Liu Cong's reprimand, the others got busy. A corpse was turned over, a large amount of dust was raised, and this room that had been silent for an unknown number of years instantly jumped up.

"Hahaha......" Zhang Linfu laughed wildly as he slowly put Guo Huaxing's body on the ground, his laughter was full of desolation.

"After preparing for so many years, I folded a square, scrapped a Jin Huang, and caught Zhang Linfu again, but in the end it was a failure, and someone had already taken the lead. You don't have to look for it, the Iron Book is no longer here. ”

After venting the depression in his heart, Zhang Linfu ignored everyone in the room. He rolled up the sleeves of his wide robe with his hand and slowly wiped the dust that fell on Guo Huaxing's face.

"You are an old immortal, I knew this was the case, I had to stop you for what I said just now, what is the pain, why the pain......"

Seven or eight people turned this room upside down, and Chen Ziyang did not join the rummaging team. After looking up at the crack in the mountain that led to the outside world, he estimated that the person who had taken the iron book had come in from this crack.

This is truly providential. Everyone has gone through several hardships and paid a lot of price, step by step, step by step, after a lot of hardships to get here, but they can't go directly to the back door compared to others.

Umbrella Shishuai pursed his lips, found a place to sit down, stared at the hysterical Liu Cong, his mood was also very unbeautiful. At this time, no one will be in a good mood, and all the efforts of so many days have been in vain.

Yang Lei was very diligent in rummaging through the pile of bones. Chen Ziyang knew that this kid was not helping Liu Cong find the iron book, but to see if there was anything valuable that could be taken away.

Chen Ziyang stared at the bones all over the ground carefully, wanting to see if he could find clues to determine the identity of these bones.

All the bones are very weathered, and this is because these bones are directly exposed to the air. The clothes on the skeleton were all in tatters, not even a slightly larger piece of rag, only a narrow strip of cloth that could not provide useful clues.

In addition to the bones, there were many tools scattered on the ground, including worn pickaxes, broken shovel heads, rusty iron crowbars, and other broken tools.

"Why don't these tools look like they were from the Tang Dynasty? It's like a modern thing. Chen Ziyang, who came up with this idea, turned his attention to these bones.

Almost all of the bones were incomplete, especially the ribs of these bones, and the ribs of the bones that Chen Ziyang saw were very broken. After picking up a few broken ribs from the ground, he stared at the broken ribs and scratched his head.

These ribs were obviously broken by a very large external force, could it be that these people were all killed? But looking at the way the bones are piled up, these people don't look like they were used for burial, and the age doesn't seem to be right.

At this moment, something slipped against the ground and landed at Chen Ziyang's feet. As soon as he saw this thing, Chen Ziyang's eyes widened violently, and he quickly stretched out his hand and grabbed this thing and stuffed it into his arms.

Even if this thing only appeared in Chen Ziyang's eyes for a moment, he immediately saw that the thing that was thrown over was a compass of the Du family, but this compass only had a bronze inner disk, and there was no wooden outer disk, I don't know if this compass was like this, or the wood that was used as an outer disk had rotted away.

Seeing Yang Lei, who was nodding slightly to himself not far away, Chen Ziyang knew that he had found this compass. And the reason why Yang Lei quietly kicked the compass over should be that he was afraid of being discovered by Liu Cong.

Chen Ziyang had told Yang Lei and Umbrella Shishuai about the Du family before, so Yang Lei knew that it was better not to be seen by Liu Cong, lest Liu Cong, who was already about to go crazy, really go crazy.

"How can there be a compass of the Du family here?" A series of questions instantly appeared in Chen Ziyang's mind, and his breathing became rapid.

"Is it a coincidence? Maybe this compass is just similar to the Du family's compass. Or was there a Du family who came here and died here? ”

Just when he was thinking wildly, Liu Cong, who was devastated, finally came back to his senses and gave a very correct order.

"Sort through the belongings and bones, and look for clues."

(End of chapter)