The entrance outside the side hall is quite special.
They were two huge stone doors cut from intact white marble. Each door was as tall as three people, thick and heavy.
A door collapsed and was covered in dust.
One door is still intact.
I don’t know how many years this underground palace has been buried deep in the ground. It must have been thousands of years. These huge white marble doors are still as crystal clear as jade and as white as snow. Each white marble door is inlaid with two barefoot gold pavements.
The head of the shop is the animal head ring decorated on the door leaf.
According to the different materials, the names of this shop are also different. Those made of copper are called copper shops, those made of silver are called silver shops, and those made of gold are naturally called gold shops.
And pasuou also has another role.
It appears on temples to ward off evil spirits; now it is used on folk doors to ward off misfortunes and pray for blessings, praying to mythical beasts to protect a family's house.
"After such a long time, these two gold shop heads are still as new as new, which means that they are real barefoot gold." The old Taoist priest couldn't help but admire and study the two shop heads, which were about the same size as his head.
Unlike bronze and silver, gold remains highly pure and rarely oxidizes in the natural environment.
Inside the white marble gate, there is another heavy white marble bar used to hold up the door. The stone bar is covered with scriptures used to ward off evil spirits, and the two ends are firmly stuck in the grooves of the stone wall.
This white marble stone bar tops the inside of the gate, which shows that it was specially prepared to prevent anyone from opening the door from the outside, and it was planned to seal off this side hall from the beginning.
It's just that the people who built the underground palace didn't expect that the underground palace was destroyed not from the inside, but from the external earthquakes. The ground cracked open the Grand Canyon, revealing a corner of the side hall buried deep underground, and the sealed palace door was shaken. collapse.
Jin An studied the stone strips and the grooves in the stone wall for a while, and he roughly figured out how the stone strips sealed the door from the inside.
This stone bar should be placed into the groove at an angle. As the door slowly closes, the stone bar will slide down. When the door is closed, the stone bar will also fall to the bottom, completely resisting the white marble door.
Stepping on the door that fell to the ground, there was a larger palace complex outside the door. It turned out that the side hall just now was a corner of this magnificent palace complex in front of me.
The palace complex is inlaid with gold and jade, and has carved beams and painted buildings. It does not look like the gloomy style of a ghost house at all. Instead, it is as magnificent as an underground palace.
However, now this magnificent palace complex has collapsed badly, almost half of it has collapsed, just like the ruins outside.
I don’t know what kind of chaos happened here, which led to the collapse of such a large area.
Jin An speculated that it might be related to a serious geological disaster in which the earth collapsed and a large earthquake opened a grand canyon?
Perhaps due to the dry environment of the underground palace and improper maintenance, the dusty jade railings and jade stones originally used to decorate the palace complex have lost water and turned gray and dull. These jade stones are considered useless.
"There are so many gold and jade. If this underground palace had not been destroyed, it should be as magnificent as the imperial palace. This is not an underground palace, it is clearly a fairy palace." The old Taoist priest said in surprise.
Jin'an was amused by the old Taoist priest's words and said: "Old Taoist, have you forgotten where this is? This is an underground palace buried deep under the five-color soil. Isn't it the fairy palace of the immortals thousands of years ago? Naturally, it must be built magnificently. It’s like a paradise on earth.”
"Since ancient times, people have been pursuing death as they were born. They are all pursuing what they want in life and what they want after death. They spend all their days in seclusion in a Taoist temple that is like a fairyland and ask about immortality. They certainly don't want to sleep in a monastery after death. In a gloomy tomb.”
Who would want to live next to a mountain of corpses, hanging coffins, mass graves, scriptures of the dead, and other messy and dirty things like hanged people all day long as a neighbor if they could live well?
Anyway, Jin An felt that if he died, he would definitely not want to be as miserable as the leader of Teng Kingdom, hiding in a gloomy tomb all day long to practice.
As the saying goes, how can one return empty-handed from a treasure mountain? The old Taoist priest felt a little itchy at this moment. Looking at the gold and jade in the palace in front of him, he always wanted to take a few pieces away. He began to carefully look at the palace complex in front of him and thought. Where is the easiest place to start?
But as he watched, the old Taoist priest realized that something was wrong.
"Little brother, have you noticed that there are no footprints in the palace complex, and no one has stepped into the palace complex..." the old Taoist priest said.
Jin An took a closer look and saw that there were indeed no footprints outside. This was strange. There were so many people from Tianshi Mansion, Yujing Golden Tower, Zhenguo Temple, and several other forces going to the underground palace together. It was impossible not to leave a footprint.
There must be something weird in this palace complex.
With this thought in mind, he looked around and found something strange. It was a stone beast pillar, as thick as several people could hug it. There were distinct shoe prints on the pillar.
Jin An looked at the cave roof above his head along the stone pillar. This stone pillar was one of the pillars in the huge space where the palace complex was located. The ground was hollowed out, so support pillars must be needed to prevent the earth and stone from collapsing.
Looking up along the stone pillars, there are criss-crossing beams above the stone pillars, leading to somewhere dark.
Because the cave ceiling is too high from the ground, and the palace complex is dark and cold, with no light source, people cannot see very far in the darkness.
"It seems that Prince Xiao Ling and the others left the palace complex along the stone pillars and beams. They probably discovered something strange in this dark and cold palace complex." Jin An guessed.
Since someone took the initiative to lead them, there was no reason to go through more detours. After some discussion, the three decided to go up to the rafters and walk over them.
This underground palace has a large space. Even the supporting stone pillars and beams are made tall and spacious. The beams are very wide, and a person can easily walk through it.
There are a lot of messy footprints on the beams, but fortunately they all go in the same direction, so Jin An and the other two people only need to follow the footprints.
