Chapter 208, The Broken Palace
The four of them approached the half-collapsed palace and saw that its bottom floor was made of huge black boulders, tall and solid.
The dome on the bottom floor is also made of black boulders, so there is no sign of collapse on the entire bottom floor.
The upper six floors are mainly brick and wood structures. After countless years of wind and rain, most of the huge wooden beams and columns have turned into rotten wood residues and naturally collapsed, leaving only stone bricks, tile roofs and ceramics. The cornices are mixed together and piled one upon another on top of the ground floor.
The ground floor is ten feet high, and there is a large door opening six feet high in the front, but there is no door leaf.
The four people walked into the door and entered the main hall. In the middle of the spacious main hall, stood a tall and majestic black statue. He was sitting on a huge throne, with his head less than six feet from the top of the ten-foot-high hall. , the back of the throne was connected to the roof of the palace and became a giant pillar supporting the dome. This was one of the reasons why the bottom layer was not crushed by the collapsed layers above.
In addition, the entire hall, which is nearly twenty feet long and wide, does not have a single pillar.
The statue is also carved from a black boulder. It looks like a man with a beard on his face, a strong figure and a majestic expression. This should be the so-called Poseidon.
The altar table before the statue was still there, but it had long since lost the tributes and was covered with dust. Apart from that, there were no other items in the spacious hall.
The four of them patrolled the hall and found many relief stone carvings and ancient writings on the walls. The reliefs all show scenes of Poseidon slaying sea monsters, conquering foreign races, establishing political power, and declaring himself sacred. The age cannot be determined. Xiang An has neither the interest nor the ability to decipher those vague ancient texts one by one.
Qingshi was more interested in the reliefs, and looked at each one carefully, and finally found a picture depicting the entire sea area conquered by Poseidon. From the picture, in the southeast of the island used as a cemetery by Poseidon, there is a large area similar to The sea area of the Seven Evil Seas is where Poseidon established his political power.
There are many relief images in this hall, but very few words. And next to this sea map, there are actually some patterns similar to words. Qingshi called Xiang An and asked him to identify it carefully.
Xiang An looked at it for a while and said: "Yes, this is also writing. It should be the same as the writing on the stone tablet outside. I can't recognize it completely. It probably marks the name of this sea area. It seems to be Wuyun Sea Area and Wuhai Kingdom. .”
Judging from the current situation of the Island God Tomb, the Wuhai Kingdom has probably perished long ago, and the people guarding the tomb have long since dispersed. And this so-called Poseidon is probably a self-proclaimed honorific or a title given by his descendants. He himself should be a powerful hero in troubled times, not a real god.
Qingshi and Xiang An studied the chart carefully. What made them happy was that they finally had a chart showing the direction of travel, so they would no longer blindly advance.
If the chart is accurate, islands will begin to appear within less than a thousand miles to the southeast. In that sea area called Wuyun Sea, there are several large islands. The largest one is Wuyun Island, the main island of Wuhai Kingdom.
Qingshi Xiang An tried hard to remember the contents on the map, but Duan and Chen searched everywhere for the treasure, but found nothing.
Duan Wutian was disappointed and asked Xiang An: "Lao Xiang, didn't you say there is an underground palace? Where is it?"
"The underground palace is naturally underground." Xiang An said.
"Just down here?" Duan Wutian said, "Then dig it out!"
"Since the diagram in the defense control room marks the underground palace," Xiang An said, "then it shouldn't be hidden. There must be a doorway to enter it."
"Yes!" Chen Tianye said, "I've been looking for it, but maybe it's a secret door. I haven't found any clues. Qingshi! Stop reading comic books and look for the entrance to the underground palace."
Qingshi remembered the sea map firmly and came over and said, "Is it so difficult to find the entrance to the underground palace? You can't find it, Lao Xiang?"
"Can't find it," Xiang An frowned, "It doesn't make sense!"
Qingshi walked around the hall and said, "It seems that I didn't see any secret door."
"That's right," Chen Tianye said, "I knocked every floor tile and checked every relief around it. There is none."
"Where are the statues and the altar table?" Qingshi asked.
"I've seen it," Xiang An said, "No."
"These are the only things left in this hall," Duan Wutian said, "I really can't think of where else this secret door could be hidden."
Qingshi once again turned his attention to the statue in the middle.
This statue is built on a pedestal more than two feet high. The entire pedestal is square and made of huge black stones. Each stone is at least six feet long and wide. The stones are very tight, with no gaps at all.
The bluestone walked around the base of the statue again, and finally stopped in front of the largest square stone on the back of the base. This stone was exactly in the middle of the back of the base of the statue.
Qingshi stretched out his hand and knocked on the stone, but there was no hollow sound. Xiang An said, "I've seen it. The gaps around this stone are also plastered tightly with plaster. It shouldn't be a secret door."
"It was plastered tightly with plaster," Qingshi said. "It was plastered very tightly, tighter than other stone cracks."
"Ah! I understand!" Chen Tianye said, "This shows that this big stone was not built at the same time as other stones. This was originally a doorway, but it was later blocked with big stones."
Chen Tianye walked over as he spoke, flipped his wrist and took out a dagger with a very thin blade, carefully inserted it into the gap in the stone, and then cut along the gap. As the stone powder fell one after another, the gaps around the stone were quickly opened.
Chen Tianye put away the dagger, put his hands on the stone and used his Qi to suck the stone, and then pulled it back with all his strength. However, the surface of the big stone was hard and smooth and had no point of contact. Chen Tianye had no strength to use it, so he pulled it back. He didn't pull it out for a long time.
"Let me do it!" Duan Wutian came over and put his hands together to exert force. But it still didn't work.
Xiang An said: "We can cut a hole like a door handle in this big stone, and then it will be easier to use."
"I'll do it," Qingshi came over, turned his right hand and took out a black sledgehammer the size of a washbasin and said, "Get out of the way!"
Chen Tianye and Duan Wutian stepped aside. Qingshi hit the middle of the big stone with a sledgehammer. With a dull impact, several cracks immediately appeared on the big stone, centering on the stress point. Drive away.
Without saying a word, Qingshi hammered down twice more. The big stone was smashed into a hole larger than the sledgehammer. A trace of golden light came out of the hole. Qingshi hit it again, and the big stone collapsed completely and turned into a pile of rubble.
It turns out that this is not a whole square of big stone, but a stone slab more than a foot thick. The stone slab is extremely thick, so no hollow sound can be made. The blade of Chen Tianye's dagger was only half a foot long, so naturally it was not actually cut apart.
A few people moved away the broken stone slab, revealing a doorway eight feet high and five feet wide. Inside the doorway was a stone stairway sloping downwards. The cave was not dark, but had a faint golden light shining through it. .
Qingshi put away the sledgehammer, took out a humanoid puppet and let it walk in along the stone stairs, while he followed it about a foot away. Duan, Chenxiang and the other two filed in.
There are about fifty steps in the stone staircase, and at the end is an underground palace about twenty feet long and wide, and about three feet high. The entire underground palace is filled with brilliant golden light. Except for dozens of lighting devices that emit yellow light on the four walls, these golden lights Most of them are the light reflected from the items stacked inside.
The entire underground palace was littered with all kinds of treasures, including dozens of golden statues as tall as two people, golden lampstands as big as trees, a row of golden chimes several feet long, and boxes of pearls with their lids opened. Gemstones, gold shelves filled with all kinds of dazzling golden weapons, piles of gold cups, plates, bowls, and jade articles. The walls are also covered with gold silk thread weaving, embroidery, tapestries studded with gold beads and jade leaves, etc.
The four of them stared at each other dumbfounded for a while, then Duan Wutian said, "That's it? Just this rubbish?"
Yes, the four people were stunned by these so-called treasures, but they were not overjoyed but disappointed. These treasures can be considered rare treasures to ordinary people, but in the eyes of monks like them, they are really just garbage.
Qingshi walked into the pile of garbage-like treasures, grabbed a handful of pearls and gems from a box of jewelry, looked at them casually, shook his head and threw them away. Then he reached out and patted the golden statue, and said thoughtfully: "These things were originally supposed to be placed in the sacrificial hall. Most of them were moved into this underground palace and sealed up when the guardian left."
"Yes, these things are not underworld weapons." Duan Wutian quickly walked around the underground palace and cursed: "These guys took away all the funerary objects of Poseidon, even Poseidon's coffin!"
"No!" Qingshi said, "This is not the tomb of Poseidon. This is just an underground warehouse used to store sacrificial items."
"Yes!" Xiang An also said, "Let me tell you, there is no schematic diagram with the location of the tomb clearly marked."
"That's it!" Duan Wutian breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, I thought the overseas god's tomb was also stolen."
"Then where is the tomb of God?" Chen Tianye said, "I think it should be deeper underground!"
"The tombs are naturally underground," Xiang An said, "but it's not easy to find the tomb passage that leads directly to the tomb underground palace."
"Of course," Duan Wutian said while groping on the surrounding walls, "It's so difficult to find a warehouse to hold garbage, but it's naturally even harder to find a tomb passage."
"It's not difficult!" Qingshi saw that this so-called underground palace was just a storage room. In a flash of his mind, he already understood where the tomb passage of the God's Tomb should be. He immediately said with a smile, "The location of this tomb passage couldn't be more obvious, and it also requires a bucket." The big characters are clearly written, it means there are no three hundred taels of silver here!"
"Ah!" Xiang An suddenly realized, "I understand."
"Could it be under that monument?" Chen Tianye also understood.
Duan Wutian said, "What does it mean that there are no three hundred taels of silver here?"
Qingshi told the story to the three of them, and everyone laughed and exited the storage room, walked out of the sacrificial hall, and came to the huge black stone tablet.
