Chapter Seventy-Three: The Jade Statue of the Eastern Emperor
"No, you can't pry. Wu Ningshuang shook her head resolutely.
Yun Xuan looked at Wu Ningshuang and didn't understand what was wrong with her.
Before she entered the Black Stone Mountain, she found that the material of the mountain was black iron stone, and she thought that she would ask Qing Li to help get out a little, and the value of these spirit stones should not be much worse than the black iron stone.
"Why don't you pry, the monks of Yuxuanzong must be rare These spirit stones, we can take them out in exchange for resources to improve our martial arts cultivation, Xiaobai It also needs to eat spirit stones. Yun Xuan said.
Wu Ningshuang shook his head and said, "If there is no formation, I won't stop you, but I heard that the formation is usually one, what if these spirit stones are dug up, destroy the formation pattern, and cause a chain reaction, what if it causes a collapse?"
Wu Ningshuang turned to Qingli and said, "Qingli, what do you think?"
Qing Li smiled, comforted Yun Xuan and said: "Ning Shuang's worry is not unreasonable, brother, we don't know about this place at the moment, we don't even know how to get out, so don't dig it yet, don't worry, if you find it later, it won't have a big impact, I'll help you dig." β
Yun Xuan touched the slate of the spirit stone, looked at Xiao Bai, and resisted the temptation: Don't rush first, find a way out.
The three of them looked at the light of the sky and walked forward, I don't know how long they walked, Yun Xuan felt that he was a little tired and a little hungry, but he hadn't walked out of the dark spirit stone land in front of him.
In the dirt outside the purple-black earth, the baby medicine slowly emerged from the ground, looking at Yun Xuan's departing figures, stunned.
Countless years ago it had nine green leaves, and then when there were five green leaves left, it was brought here, and it doesn't remember how many years, and the creatures in this deserted garden became fewer and fewer, almost extinct, and even the people inside did not come out.
The former forbidden land is full of life, there are some creatures transformed from plants and trees, and there are many wonderful flowers and plants, you can play with it, beautiful and lively.
But now it had all withered into the dirt, and it was left alone, surviving by some remaining miraculous soil, and the two leaves on its head had withered due to lack of nutrition, and now it had only three yellow-green leaves left.
It was a little lonely, a little lost, and its eyes were aggrieved: "Why am I so miserable, no, I want to take back the leaves and put them on." β
It thought of the people in it again, they would pull out its roots and small hands and legs like a demon, and its body was excited, and it looked at Yun Xuan's disappearing back hesitantly.
Wu Ningshuang's face showed exhaustion and anxiety, and the silence and darkness had been testing their hearts.
Yun Xuan found a figure in the distance in front of him: "Do you see if there is a person in front?"
Wu Ningshuang looked forward: "It's a person, we have been saved!"
She rejoiced in her heart and hastened her pace.
"Frost. Qing Li grabbed Wu Ningshuang's hand behind him and said, "That's not a person." β
Wu Ningshuang turned her head to look at Qing Li, and it was obviously a person in the distance when she looked over.
"Think about it, is a person's body so tall from such a distance?" Qing Li continued: "We slowly leaned over, it was really not a person, I think it should be a statue." β
Yun Xuan and Wu Ningshuang looked at it carefully, it was really a little abnormal, at such a distance, it shouldn't look so tall.
The three of them gradually approached the front, there were three green jade statues dressed in lifelike clothes, the statues were about six meters high, and the jade people in front of them stood on the ground with a sword in one hand and a ruler in the other, with long sleeves and wide faces, and their faces were blurred, facing into the distance, as if smiling.
The faces of the two jade figures behind the side are clear, one is majestic, holding the jade tripod in his hand, and the other is handsome and elegant, holding the jade saucer.
Three jade statues stand on a jade platform, and words are written in front of the jade platform.
"Qingli, you read these words to us. Yun Xuan said.
Qing Li looked at it for a while, and slowly recited: "Tian Jump, the Eastern Emperor migrated to the south, and established the South Zhao Kingdom." Tell the descendants, get the big order, and it should be attributed to Jiuding. The people have been taught for thousands of years, and the people feel their virtues. The remnants of Wu Nanzhao, see like three worships, and those who do not worship... Extinguish. β
Qing Li finally paused for a while before pronouncing the word extinguish, looking at Yun Xuan and Wu Ningshuang.
After listening to Qing Li's words, Wu Ningshuang said with a little horror: "Do you think this is the tomb of the Eastern Emperor?"
Yun Xuan looked at Wu Ningshuang strangely and said, "This place is so big, how can it be a tomb?"
Wu Ningshuang still said with fear: "I once read the wild history handed down in ancient times, and said: The emperor collapsed, and 100,000 people in Nanzhao did not return. Nine times out of ten, this is a grave. β
Yun Xuan heard Wu Ningshuang say this, and suddenly felt terrified, he looked around and said, "Do you think this place looks like a tomb? β
Qing Li looked at Yun Xuan and Wu Ningshuang nervously, and said, "Don't guess, you can't tell what kind of place this is yet." First think about whether you are the descendants of Nanzhao Kingdom, but it is written: All the remnants of Nanzhao, see like three worships, and those who do not worship will be destroyed. It means that the descendants of the Southern Zhao Kingdom will bow three times here, and if they don't worship, they will be destroyed. β
"Are you a descendant of Nanzhao Kingdom?" Wu Ningshuang asked Yun Xuan.
Yun Xuan shook his head: "I don't know myself, do I?"
Wu Ningshuang said: "I don't know either. β
Yun Xuan looked up at the six-meter-tall green jade statue, the facial outline of the statue standing in front of him was blurred, but it gave people a smile and a transcendent aura of independence from the world.
He glanced at the text on the front of the jade platform below.
"Do we still worship?" Wu Ningshuang asked.
Yun Xuan looked at Wu Ningshuang and Qing Li and said, "Although I don't know if I am a descendant of the Nanzhao Kingdom, this Eastern Emperor has taught the human race of the Nanzhao Kingdom for thousands of years, and it is also worth us to give him three worships." If we are the descendants of the Southern Zhao Kingdom, it will be just right, and even if we are not, we will not lose. β
"Does this Eastern Emperor really have the merits of teaching the people for thousands of years?" Yun Xuan asked.
"The ancient history of 5,000 years ago is recorded like this, the legend is that the Nanzhao Kingdom is in the south of the Yuanmu River, a total of 3,000 years of existence, there are three emperors, the first is the East Emperor, the last two are the Southern Emperor and the Zhao Emperor, after the three emperors, the Nanzhao Dynasty suddenly disappeared, and its civil land was merged into the Tang Kingdom and the Crescent Kingdom respectively. I think the two jade statues behind this are probably the Southern Emperor and the Zhao Emperor. Wu Ningshuang said.
Yun Xuan took the lead in kneeling, Wu Ningshuang saw Yun Xuan kneeling, and also knelt down, and Qing Li on one side also knelt down.
When the three of them stood up after worshipping, suddenly the square spirit stone on the ground where they knelt on their knees lit up with purple lines, and the lines extended to the jade platform, and three golden words lit up on the side of the jade platform.
"Zhao... Ceremony... Temple"
Qing Li read out loud.
"Why did the three golden characters of Zhaoyi Hall appear?" Wu Ningshuang asked.
"Could it be a clue?" Yun Xuan said.
Wu Ningshuang's eyes widened: "It's a clue, it's definitely a clue!" Yutai will never show these three words for no reason. β
She happily grabbed Qingli's hand and said, a little uncontrollable for a while.
The three golden words lit up and disappeared, leaving no trace.
Yun Xuan said, "Zhaoyi Hall should be the name of a palace, let's go to the palace group over there." β
The three of them walked in the direction of the moon-white glow on the ground in the distance, and the light became brighter and brighter.
In front of a purple carved railing bridge, more than ten meters below the bridge is a calm river, more than forty meters wide river surface without a little ripple, like a stagnant water, half a moon reflected on the river surface, a small area of the river surface has some gray light, most of the rest is dark and dull, the river faces both ends until it is hidden in the endless darkness.
Yun Xuan and the others stood at the head of the bridge, looking at the too calm water below, and did not dare to step on the bridge for a while: Is it really a river down here, could it be made of something else, without the slightest ripple, without flowing water lines.
The Purple Bridge crosses the huge blue square on the opposite side, in which there are shadows standing still figures, on both sides and in front of them are white stretches of palaces, and the moon-white light spreads above the palace.
Yun Xuan stepped forward onto the purple bridge, Qing Li and Wu Ningshuang followed, only their footsteps echoed gently on the purple bridge.
Yun Xuan's head was facing forward, his eyes swept to both sides, but instead of looking at the square in front of him, he scanned the river below, he was worried that something would suddenly come up, and it felt as if something was watching them.
Under the calm water, in the water a few meters above the surface, a pair of huge purple eyes were looking at the three creatures walking on the bridge.
Its head is like a lion, its mouth is three meters wide, and the top two are two two-meter-long horns that have been separated from three forks, and its mane is like a needle, floating in the water, its body is more than ten meters long, its scales are blue, and four giant feet more than three meters long are stepping on the water, like the tail of a dragon's tail hanging quietly.
The purple eyes under the water kept staring at Yun Xuan and they walked to the middle of the bridge, and after a while, the giant beast like a scaly lion sank down, it only dealt with the intruders who dared to fly into the hall, as for those creatures that it didn't look at, it naturally had a killing weapon to deal with them.
The three of them walked cautiously forward, and there was no danger, and the water under the bridge did not ripple a little.
Yun Xuan's tense heart gradually relaxed, just now he looked at the water, and he didn't dare to come out of the atmosphere.
He walked ahead and left the bridge, stepping on the purple floor, in front of which was an open blue ground more than twenty meters wide, until fifty meters away, there was a vague scene.
More than twenty meters wide on both sides of the ground is still a dark blue stone floor, standing still black figures, each black shadow holding a black sword in both hands to stand on the ground, the figures on the same side are facing the other side, there are twenty columns on each side, until fifty meters away.
Yun Xuan stopped, looking at the figures standing on both sides, the array of black shadows invisibly made people feel the solemnity, he remembered that before entering the Black Stone Mountain, the stone tablet was written on it, "Take the black iron stone of the Southern Wilderness and cast three thousand old parts." β
"Could these be the three thousand old parts made of black iron and stone, and the figures we saw before are them?" Wu Ningshuang asked.
Yun Xuan said: "It's a pity that they are all statues, they can't move, they have been guarding here for thousands of years"
Yun Xuan walked forward, his footsteps just stepping into the blue floor of the square.
"Columnβ"
There was a clear sound in the air.
The statues on either side, which had been standing quietly, held their swords in one arm and faced the sky, and stepped forward.
"Boom... Rumble... Boom..."
Neat footsteps sounded, and the black statues advanced from both sides to the open square in the middle, and when they met in the middle, with a bang, they all turned towards Yun Xuan and them, and a phalanx with a length and width of fifty meters was formed.
"Attackβ"