At the end of the palace complex is a narrow tomb passage.
When the three of them landed from the stone beam, they were almost startled by the two rows of white figures in the tomb passage.
This is an underground palace, a tomb where dead people are buried. If you see a white figure in the tomb, you will subconsciously feel nervous.
"Is it a living person or a dead person?"
The old Taoist priest bravely shouted to the two rows of people.
But the tomb passage was deserted.
No one answered.
Jin An was still brave. When he saw the two rows of white figures, he kept silent and took a few steps forward holding a torch. Only then did he see that the so-called white figures were actually lifelike human-shaped lamp holders carved from white marble.
Even after so many years, these white marble human-shaped lamp holders are still as white as snow. If you suddenly see them, you will subconsciously think of them as ghosts in the cemetery.
The human-shaped lamp holders are shaped like hands holding lamps. If these lamp holders were still on, the tomb passage should be brightly lit and as magnificent as a fairy palace.
But now all these lamp holders are extinguished, leaving only a long and narrow passage to the tomb, dark and spooky, like a ghost passage.
With Prince Xiao Ling and the others walking in front, even if there were any cold arrows or kerosene traps in this tomb passage, they would have been destroyed long ago. Besides, the immortals buried in the immortal palace would not bother to use such secrets. The three men held torches and bravely walked into the dark tomb passage.
This tomb passage is quite strange, it is actually red.
The old Taoist priest curiously came closer to look at the red wall and said: "Little brother, look at these walls, you can still vaguely see some outlines of paint. The two sides of the tomb passage should have been covered with murals... It looks like the murals were completely destroyed. , the pigment and the stone dissolved together, so the red walls were formed?"
Jin An was not interested in this. The three-person team passed through the tomb passage safely, and a stone staircase leading up appeared in front of them.
"If this underground palace is really buried twenty feet deep, it seems that this underground palace has more than just one or two floors." The old Taoist priest looked up and felt worried. The stone stairs were black and clunking, and they looked quite long.
Jin An asked the old Taoist priest and Xiejian to wait for him below, while he went up first to see what was going on.
The environment in the underground palace is narrow, and it is no longer suitable to use the stone bow as a weapon. Since entering the underground palace, Jin An has carried the stone bow behind his back. After he finished speaking, he always paid attention to the air conditions with a torch in one hand, and held the red Kunwu knife in the other hand, stepping on it. Go up the cold stone stairs carefully, step by step.
Snap.
Snap.
The sound of footsteps in this empty, quiet dark environment, each step is like stepping on the heart of the person, so quiet that you can hear your own heartbeat. Under the worried eyes of the old Taoist priest, Jin'an gradually disappeared from the old Taoist priest's field of vision.
They say time flies very long in the dark.
Without the sun, moon and stars as a reference, I don’t know how long it has been since Jin An was here. Maybe it has been the time of a stick of incense? Or is it a moment? The old Taoist priest wanted to call Jin An several times, but he was worried that it would bring danger to Jin An, so he suppressed it every time.
"Old Taoist, sharpen your sword, come up. There is no danger up here." Jin An's voice finally came from the upper level. The old Taoist priest, who was concerned about Jin An's comfort, immediately ran up the stone ladder to the upper level.
"Little brother, why have you been gone for so long without any movement? I am worried about your safety. I want to call you to find out what is going on, but I am also worried that you will be put in danger, but I am worried about you." The old Taoist said. When he saw Jin An, he just complained.
Jin An, who knew he was in the wrong, apologized profusely to the old Taoist priest, saying that he had just explored the terrain and saw that there was no danger before calling you up. I also wanted to save some firepower for the Five Zang Taoist Temple to avoid being dumped in the same pot.
The old Taoist priest hurriedly said, "This is the underground palace. Little brother, can't you say some auspicious words? If you insist on saying these unlucky words in the underground palace, be careful that the retribution will come quickly."
"Yes, yes, you are right, old Taoist. I won't let you and Xiejian worry about it next time." Jin An did not dwell on these trivial matters. He then talked about the situation in the underground palace in front of him. .
Jin An: "There is no danger in this underground palace. There is also a sarcophagus and a human-shaped lamp holder. The sarcophagus is also opened, leaving only an empty coffin and the human-shaped lamp holders are also extinguished."
In fact, Jin An didn't need to say that the underground palace in front of him was dark, and there were many human-shaped lamp holders placed against the wall in the darkness.
However, the human-shaped lamp holder on this floor is not made of white marble, but a gold figure.
After so many years, these golden figures have been covered with dust and looked dim. At first, the old Taoist priest mistakenly thought they were bronze figures. It was not until Jin An reminded them that they were surprised to find that these were golden figures.
The old Taoist priest breathed a sigh of relief at the golden man who fell to the ground and broke into several pieces. He wiped it hard with the corner of his clothes, and it turned out that it was made of gold.
But the next moment, the old Taoist priest discovered that the fracture of the golden man was not made of gold, but of stone heart.
"There are more than dozens of golden figures here. These golden figures are not pure gold, but a layer of gold paint sprayed on the surface of the stone figures." Jin An explained.
And continued: "Where we are now, on the edge of the wall, the stone ladder leading up to one level is on the opposite wall. To get to the stone ladder on the opposite side, we must first pass through the middle sarcophagus stacking area."
The old Taoist priest didn't try to scrape some gold paint and take it out to make a fortune. It was probably because this was a Taoist palace. As a Taoist disciple, he was afraid of offending his ancestors and giving him a bad old age.
Next, the three of them held torches and walked towards the stone staircase on the opposite side.
Sure enough, as Jin An said, the sarcophagi on this floor were all open. There were no corpses buried inside, only empty coffins.
The placement of the sarcophagi on this floor is a bit strange. They look messy but also seem to follow a certain regular order. Some have three sarcophagi side by side, some have two sarcophagi side by side, and there are also many messy and overturned sarcophagi.
As they were walking, the old Taoist priest suddenly let out a light sigh and his brows wrinkled involuntarily.
Jin An asked what happened?
The old Taoist priest still frowned and replied: "Nothing, maybe I am overthinking it..."
After giving the old Taoist priest a strange look, Jin An continued to walk in front, leading the two of them towards the opposite stone staircase.
At this time, when I passed through the sarcophagus area, my eyes suddenly opened up. In the central area of the sarcophagus, there were several golden lamp holders upside down, and there were actually two ancient pools.
The ancient pool has been buried by collapsed rocks and turned into ruins. Even though there was a spring of living water here, it has now dried up and turned into a lifeless stagnant pool.
When he saw the ruins of the two pools of water, the old Taoist suddenly realized and said: "Qiannan, Kunbei, Lidong, Kanxi, Duitongnan, Zhendongbei, southwest Xunda and northwest Gen, wood produces fire, fire produces earth, soil produces gold, and metal produces Water and water produce wood, and metal overcomes wood, wood overcomes earth, earth overcomes water, water overcomes fire, and fire overcomes metal. Little brother, these sarcophagi are not arranged in a haphazard manner, they are all arranged according to the Nine Palaces and Bagua in Qimen Dunjia Technique. of."
The old Taoist priest became curious. He wrote down the arrangement of each sarcophagus in this underground palace, and then arranged them according to the order of Qian (☰), Kan (☵), Gen (☶), Zhen (☳), Xun (☴), Li (☲), Kun (☷), and Dui (☱) draw the directions of the Nine Palaces and Bagua in the central space.
The more he painted, the more he was amazed at the exquisiteness of the Qimen Dunjia technique, but in the eyes of Jin An, who had not studied this aspect deeply, he was completely confused.
The old Taoist priest was on the ground deducing the Nine Palaces Bagua. The more he deduced, the more surprised he became: "Use the corpse of the immortal as a large formation, and set up the Qimen Dunjia here. How wonderful! How wonderful!"
Jin An was confused and looked at the old Taoist priest who was drawing on the ground: "Old Taoist, I have always heard you marvel at the exquisiteness of the Jiugong Bagua here. Why do I feel that the Jiugong Bagua here is different from the Jiugong Bagua seen at fortune-telling stalls on the street? There is no difference between the pictures, they are all Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun and Dui.”
The old Taoist priest shook his head seriously and said solemnly: "Little brother, the same Nine Palaces Bagua, in the hands of different experts, no longer adheres to the conventional rules, but has countless modifications."
"It's like the Qimen Dunjia in front of you, which is covered with a sarcophagus. The corpses are divided into men and women, parents, children, husbands and wives, monarchs and ministers, twelve zodiac animals, limbs, five internal organs and seven orifices..."
"For example, Qian is the father, Kun is the mother, and Zhen is the eldest boy. Kan is the middle boy, and Gen is the young boy, which is the yang hexagram; Xun is the eldest daughter, Li is the middle girl, and Dui is the maiden, which is the yin hexagram."
"Also for example, Qian is a horse, Kun is an ox, Zhen is a dragon, Xun is a chicken, Kan is a hog, Li is a pheasant, Gen is a dog, and Dui is a sheep."
"For another example, Qian is the head, Kun is the abdomen, Zhen is the foot, Xun is the stock, Kan is the ear, Li is the eye, Gen is the hand, and Dui is the mouth."
"Qian is the king, Kun is the minister."
The old Taoist priest solemnly said: "Little brother, tell me, if the corpses of these immortals are buried here, what changes will they use to deduce the Nine Palaces Bagua? Is it based on male and female monarchs and ministers? Or is it based on the twelve zodiac signs or the body, hands and feet? If between men and women, If we combine several of them and deduce them together, then the evolution of Qimen Dunjia here will be more complicated and changeable, impossible to find, and it will be even more impossible to pass through this Corpse Immortal Bagua Formation."
When he said this, the old Taoist priest showed a look of regret: "It's a pity. I'm afraid the people who built the underground palace didn't think that this underground palace was not destroyed from the outside, but from the inside. First, the sky collapsed, the sarcophagus was overturned, and the formation was destroyed." Discourage, and internal destruction from the lower level to the upper level, caused such an ingenious design of the Corpse Immortal Bagua Array to disintegrate from the inside, and it is estimated that even one thousandth of its power has not been exerted."
The old Taoist priest said it more and more regretfully.
Afterwards, the group of people continued walking to the upper level.
Also follow the stone stairs to enter the underground palace on the upper level. This level also has a human-shaped lamp holder with the lights out, this time it is an iron man.
There were also a large number of sarcophagi placed there. The sarcophagi were opened, leaving only empty coffins.
This time the sarcophagus was also arranged using the Qimen Dunjia technique, this time it was a formation of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.
The formation diagram here was also destroyed in ruins, so the three of them easily found the Shengmen and followed the stone stairs to the upper level.
This floor is an array of bronze lamp holders, empty sarcophagi, and iron chain silhouette sarcophagi. The iron chains were broken in pieces, and a large number of sarcophagi hanging overhead were smashed to the ground.
According to the old Taoist priest, this iron chain silhouette array and sarcophagus array can suppress a person's shadow and make them unable to move, just like copper water pouring over the body, making it too heavy to move.
Speaking of this, Jin An remembered that Mr. Yi had used this trick when he was in the Dragon King's tomb, stepping on the monkey's shadow to immobilize the monkey's body.
The three of them continued walking upstairs.
This floor is a stone lamp holder and an empty sarcophagus. The top of the head and the walls are densely packed with hanging coffins, which is as complex as a maze.
A large number of hanging coffins here also fell to the ground, and the maze was broken.
Continue to the upper level. This level is a wooden lamp holder, an empty sarcophagus, and a wooden pile array.
After finding the stone stairs and going up, this floor is not so particular. There are just densely arranged sarcophagi in a neat and orderly manner, and there are no Qimen Dunjia variables.
Of course, these sarcophagi were also opened, leaving only empty coffins.
So many coffins are empty. I don’t know if they are empty coffins to create suspicion, or if the people who were originally buried have been dug up and robbed.
This time there was no more stone stairs, and they finally reached the first floor.
"Why do I feel like this is more like a morgue? Yizhuang? There are seven floors of morgues in total?" Finally reaching the end and reaching the first floor, Jin An breathed a sigh of relief. He thought they were going to keep walking forever. .
Unexpectedly, the old Taoist priest said: "Little brother, it is not appropriate to call it a morgue. It should be called a morgue."
"I have measured every floor and found that every wall here has exactly eight walls. It is built according to the octagonal tower."
An octagonal tower buried deep underground?
Jin An was startled.
"It smells of blood!" He sharpened his sword in silence all the way and said suddenly.
