Sitting in the quiet hall at night watching the Jade Spring, I couldn't hear every drop of a drop. At this time, the Luo Mansion was dark and silent, and only a few people were alone in this quiet hall. Accompanying this old house that has gone through a hundred years of ups and downs, whether it is the predecessor's hairpin family or the wealthy people who are now entrenched in the world, they have spent many sighing memories in this mansion, and they are also witnessed here. Time is like the rise and fall of duckweed.
"The three of you are so kind. It's natural for Jiang to refuse but refuse to accept. I'm just sorry that there are some things that I dare not promise lightly..."
Just what? Rebellion is a matter of beheading!
Rebellion with people who don't know the details is a matter of using your head as a ball. Not everyone in the world has a scapegoat that can avoid death and escape the wrath of the prince. It's terrible. Even if you don't avoid someone's death, you will cause trouble to the world.
Ever since he met Zhao Wuji on a narrow road, Jiang Wen felt that the shadow of Zhao Wuki was everywhere in the world.
A lunatic who treats the world as a chessboard, treats fallen heroes as pawns, and regards the common people as trivial matters. His plan ten years ago created countless mountains of corpses, seas of blood, and empty cities and ghost lands. Now that he has broken through again and is born, his methods may become even more crazy and evil. With Jiang Wen's personality, he was determined not to get along with him peacefully.
Jiang Wen knew that the troubled world was suffering, but the people were suffering especially. It was a good thing but not worthy of letting him draw his sword. Jiang Wen's sword is now as heavy as a thousand pieces. The more suddenly something falls, the tighter it becomes. He doesn't expect the sword in his palm to be so cold as to chill thousands of mountains, but he hopes it will be a lifesaver. A man's sword is like the force that drove him to set out from the Fuzhou government office and break through many puzzles...
Jiang Wen thought about the intentions of several people, while guarding against possible conspiracy from Zhao Wuji.
Although Wu Liuqi is the commander-in-chief of Raozhen, he has a humble background and has been frustrated by others for a long time. Once he finds an opportunity to overthrow his former favor, he will naturally be willing to take risks and fight hard.
As the leader of Lingnan Green Forest, Luo Yuantong has always been very arrogant. Now he is being forced to take action by many people. But these two bitter and resentful people did not accept themselves. On the contrary, judging from the situation at hand, the only person who really advocated for him to join the gang was the old Taoist man in front of him.
Who is Ying Laodao?
Jiang Wen didn't know much about the grudge between their master and apprentice, but Ying Laodao's attitude was really weird. Now that he thought about it, he seemed to have transferred his hatred for his apprentice to Pingnan Prince's Palace too smoothly and freely, and Take the initiative to recruit people to strengthen the team...
In the vast side hall, the complex patterns of the dark stone tablet flashed. Jiang Wen glanced at it from the corner of his eye and found a structure similar to the obituary text of the "Nine Nether Scriptures" on the tablet. When he was about to focus on identifying it, he realized that it was above The traces of the actor are like the mute moment of the silk string, and he quietly retreats, covering his face with water sleeves and colorful clothes.
"I didn't expect that Southern Shaolin would be so bloody just because of this ancient monument..."
Jiang Wen's eyes flashed past the ruins of the Xilu Kingdom, the old monks of the Songshan Pagoda Forest, the blood-stained wooden alleys of the Southern Shaolin, and the strange martial arts that once entangled the bodies of monks Hong Wending and Yankong, like ghosts that were constantly being dispelled. , he sighed quietly and noticed that the earth suddenly shook again.
At first, the ground shook relatively smoothly, with only enough amplitude to create a ripple on the water. So Jiang Wen soon focused his attention on the three people with different shapes and stern faces in front of him.
"It's okay if you want me to join, but Jiang has a condition."
Jiang Wen promised proudly and pointed at the old Taoist beside him, "I still don't understand many things. During this trip, I have to ask the old man to help me clarify my doubts and accompany me for a while."
As soon as these words came out, Jiang Wen found that the expressions of the three people were different, and it was obvious that their thoughts were not consistent.
Luo Yuantong had a look of understanding on his face, his eyes fixed on Ying Laodao, as if he wanted to ask him if this was his arrangement; Wu Liuqi held his sword and pondered, as if thinking about Jiang Wen's intentions, determined to ignore other people's thoughts; and only being Ying Laodao, who was rashly named, looked surprised and speechless.
Following the case of Li Xinghe, Jiang Wen also had some doubts about Ying Laodao, who had a strange background.
He could barely believe that what happened to Yan Yongchun was a coincidence, but he never believed that this veteran Taoist possessed some miraculous energy-seeking skills. He could see at a glance that Miss Yan Yongchun had extraordinary talents just like himself!
"...Forget it, I agreed."
At this moment, the shaking and shaking in the hall suddenly intensified. Jiang Wenzai suddenly felt that his body was pulled by some force, and his body bumped up and down uncontrollably. The shock wave that could only ripple through the water surface was now already It came towards us like a torrent of waves, breaking through the swamp and blocking the swamp, and submerging the solid land under our feet.
"The copper boat was born, the town was removed from its position, quickly lead people out of the city through the secret passage!"
For some reason, Luo Yuantong's eyes widened, and he suddenly mentioned the legendary huge copper ship in Xijiang, Guangzhou, that strange thing covered in copper rust with no sails or oars.
Luo Yuantong opened the door and left after speaking. Wu Liuqi moved the wooden pillars in the back hall without saying anything, revealing a dark cave underground, and jumped down.
As soon as Wu Liuqi left, the martial arts people had already entered the hall and saw the huge, thick, heroic and strange ink dragon stone tablet. However, everyone looked straight at it without any scruples, and did not express any concern about seeing the inscription on the tablet. The discomfort is very different from the rumored origin of the secret Dragon-shaped Fist.
"Miss Yan, Miss Yuan, Miss Luo, you three are here too."
The martial arts people jumped in from the secret passage and disappeared, but when Jiang Wen turned around, he found three female heroes standing behind Jiang Wen, "You guys should also leave quickly. The soldiers of Pingnan Palace may invade the palace at any time. This place is controlled by I'll break it off."
The situation is becoming more and more critical. Shang Kexi obviously has the intention to drive them to one place and catch them all. Therefore, he sent troops to trap the Luo Mansion but did not attack. I don't know how long this secret passage can be hidden for.
Yuan Ziyi seemed to want to say something else, but Yan Yongchun beat him to it and said, "Master Jiang, don't worry, Hei Yi has been led here. Prince Pingnan will pay a price if he wants to invade Luo Mansion."
"What? Hei Yi is here?"
Jiang Wen looked up in surprise, and found that in addition to the dark clouds and the fading sun, the top of the Luo Mansion was also covered with a specious mist, soaring uncertainly above it, seeming to be a little afraid of the people in the mansion, so It has not been settled like Zhangqiugang Village for a long time.
Jiang Wen didn't even need to think, he knew that this matter was Ying Laodao's handiwork, and only someone like him who knew the basics and was well-read could do this.
They slowly heard the noisy footsteps of the martial arts people in the distance, and saw the bright fire and the sound of armor outside the Luo Mansion on the rainy night. They finally stopped chatting about other things, turned over and jumped into the secret passage, while the soldiers outside the mansion looked like crazy. The pitiful roars and sounds of fighting out of thin air slowly came.
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You could hear a needle drop in the dark tunnel, and no one dared to speak more to waste precious oxygen. There were only countless footsteps, light or heavy, one after another, and countless figures walking forward one after another, heading towards the dark and indistinguishable underground world. Go deep.
Jiang Wen protected several women and walked slowly to the end. In a hurry, he met Zhou Long who was helping Wen Tailai go forward. Both of them limped and gritted their teeth and persisted. They only nodded silently and looked at each other before continuing to move forward. okay.
Jiang Wen was lucky enough to walk through a similar underground tunnel in Fuzhou City. Both walls were covered with man-made traces of chiseling and shoveling, and the tunnel had been deliberately widened. It was obvious that he had been prepared for this day, but he slowly walked out without knowing it. A few miles away, Jiang Wen discovered some unknown debris on the ground beneath his feet, which seemed to be some scattered corded tiles, clay pottery pieces, and many hard wooden cores that had been polished into fine edges.
Jiang Wenzheng was confused, thinking that there really was such a secret passage under the Luo Mansion that led directly to the outside of the city. He felt a damp and cold water vapor rushing towards his face, irritating his face and making his whole body tremble. He felt that this water vapor It's a bit colder than winter ice crystals.
Before people could stop their steps, a cold light suddenly lit up in front of their dim eyes. They felt that their feet were stepping into muddy water, and some people fell one after another. However, the thin air suddenly became fresh. It was obvious that this was hidden in the water. The underground space is connected to the outside world, but when I look around in the dim light, I can only see a calm lake with many ancient wooden pillars and stone foundations scattered on the lake.
While people in the martial arts world were amazed that there could be such a vast and gloomy world in such a deep underground, Jiang Wen decisively asked the question to Ying Laodao, who was accompanying the team.
"Senior Ying, what is this place?"
Ying Laodao's old and thin face was also full of surprise, but his old tone was somewhat understanding, and he sighed as he stroked his beard towards Jiang Wen.
"If I guess correctly, you are only a mile away from Luo Mansion, and you are now under the Imperial Temple of the Capital City of Guangzhou Mansion."
"Capital Imperial Temple?"
Jiang Wen felt that the name was familiar, and then suddenly remembered that the beggars of the Guandi Society once told him that Wu Liuqi had appeared outside the Imperial Temple in the capital before he disappeared. Could it be that he entered here through a secret passage somewhere, and then hid secretly? Since entering the Luo family?
There is a lake quietly existing in such a vast underground world. The remaining shallow water surface is still covered with wooden ruins and a large number of residual tiles. There are countless wooden piers and column foundations. There are no less than a thousand fragmentary ruins, large and small, and there are just tiles. There are three types: slab tiles, tube tiles, and tiles. Therefore, after countless years, I can still imagine the scene of its prosperity, but for some reason it has been hidden deep in underground caves until now.
The martial arts practitioners could not find any other way along the underground lake, let alone how to leave this quiet place like the underworld. Jiang Wen found that a group of people were unusually silent, while the remaining people began to search in twos and threes until a cry of surprise reverberated through the cave wonders.
"There's a ghost! There's a ghost here!"
The oppressive environment amplified their fear. The sudden rapid breathing and the sound of weapons being unsheathed came one after another, and they all walked towards the place where the screams came from, causing them to also make sounds of panic.
Because in the dark cave, on the slippery gray wall, there is a huge monster lurking like a mountain!
Its whole body was as pale and bloated as stalactites, and it had the head of a sharp, strange fish, but it had a human face full of wrinkles, grinning ferociously at people. The remaining body of the monster stretching in the cave is still very long. It is as flat and curved as a catfish, but its tail is raised high like a snake. It is covered with thick tumors and fat, and its posture is very scary.
What's even more frightening is that behind the gills and under the two fins of the catfish's body, a series of arms of uneven sizes and slenderness grow without any warning. Although they are all shaped like human arms, there is nothing human about them. The proper bones and joints of the body are pointing in all directions like a halberd. At the same time, the skin on the back is stretched out into a pair of huge fleshy wings, like a kite flying in the sky. The ferocious power overwhelmed a large group of rusty bronze figures with nowhere beaks, long ears, and short necks and ridged hair at their feet.
Jiang Wen jumped over the crowd, and the awe-inspiring sword intent came out of his body. Before the long sword in his hand was unsheathed, people could already feel the sharp stinging pain. However, this illusion was fleeting, because Jiang Wen's next second He came to the giant monster without any scruples, and put his palms on the pale and slimy body.
"Don't panic, everyone. This is just a withered stone statue of an unknown age. It was covered with stalactites over the years and has transformed into such a terrifying appearance."
Jiang Wen tapped the corners of the stone statue, and sure enough, it made a clear sound like the impact of gold and stone, which also proved that this statue had been hidden deep in the cave for an unknown number of years, and its terrifying appearance was covered by the stone wall with stalactites.
"It's a terrible omen for a copper boat to break out of water. Now this is the only place where we can be safe."
Ying Laodao also came to the front of the crowd and spoke to comfort everyone, "Just as Taoist Master Jiang said, don't panic, this is just a statue of the Bingyi God from the Qin Dynasty. It has been enshrined in front of the Qin Dynasty slipway for more than a thousand years. The people of Tongshan below have not been harmed by monsters."
In order to prove his statement, Ying Laodao also pointed to the eyes of the monster-like statue and said, "It is said in the Pre-Qin Dynasty that the statue of Hebo was ferocious and had a violent temper. It was said that Yi once shot his left eye with an arrow, and his power was unpredictable. And this Bingyi statue Just like a blink of an eye is a clear proof."
Bingyi's original name was "Feng Yi" and he was the legendary water god of the Yellow River. According to Ge Hong's "Baopuzi·Shigui Pian", he drowned while crossing the river and was appointed by the Emperor of Heaven as Hebo to manage the river. "Han Feizi Nei Chu Shuo 1" says that a man from the Qi State wanted to invite the King of Qi to see He Bo, so he built an altar on the water and performed the ritual. Soon a big fish emerged from the water, which was He Bo. It can be seen that the shape of He Bo has a human face and a fish body, so Duan Chengshi directly said in "Youyang Zazu" that He Bo has a human face and a fish body and travels on two dragons.
But the question is, in such a deep and difficult underground cave, why would someone spend so much effort and ingenuity to carve such a huge statue of Frozen End?
"Master Jiang, this matter has some twists and turns. Let me tell you slowly. Do you know the "General Chronicles of Guangdong" compiled by Huang Zuo, the sage of the Ming Dynasty?"
Ying Laodao may have noticed Jiang Wen's doubts, so he slowly explained the reason.
"The book records a strange incident. In the eleventh month of the Wuwu period of Jiajing, there was a big banyan tree five feet behind the Chenghuang Temple in Guangzhou, which had been decayed for a long time. The soil under its roots was more than ten feet long, and there was a hole. The Taoist priest dug it, and the The sound was clear and he said: There must be something hidden in it."
"When I found out, I got dozens of wooden planks, all facing each other in pairs, too many to count, and they were close to the statue of the god, so I sealed them. This is the complete repair of the planks since the Tang and Song Dynasties."
Ying Laodao spoke in great detail, almost knowing the content of the book by heart, and then added, "The 'wooden boards' recorded for the first time in ancient books were arranged in pairs facing each other, and the number was 'uncountable', so Huang Zuo inferred that this There is nothing wrong with the "oar board stem". People at that time thought it was magical and did not continue to explore, but they made mistakes in the most important place..."
Ying Laodao paused for a moment and finally spoke out the answer he had been holding in his heart for a long time.
"This place is not a legacy of the Tang and Song Dynasties. Since the Tang Dynasty, sea sand has accumulated and the sea has changed. The South China Sea has long retreated to the position of the Fuxu Ancient Ferry. Even the Zhangqiugang Village, which has been living in seclusion for a long time, will not stop here anyway. This place should be the remains of a slipway between the Qin and Han Dynasties!"
Ying Laodao's words spread endlessly, and the people in the martial arts world began to whisper. No matter what, it was hard to believe that what they saw in front of them was a pre-Qin monument from a thousand years ago!
But of course Jiang Wen knew about this. He also knew that later generations would excavate the remains of a Qin Dynasty slipway of unprecedented scale under the Imperial Temple in the capital of Guangzhou. It was eventually considered to be a huge shipyard. The parts that had been excavated were east and west. A rectangle about 30 meters long and 11 meters wide from north to south, there are three parallel shipbuilding platforms and even a wood processing site in this area.
This archaeological discovery shocked the country. The "Shipyard Site" excavated is located 5 meters below the surface. The shipyard is covered with accumulation layers since the early Western Han Dynasty, and underneath is gray-black sedimentary clay. Sampling analysis shows that it contains a large number of marine life, and it is initially inferred that it belongs to marine strata, indicating that this place was once a shallow sea, so it became a sedimentary mudflat when the shipyard was built here in the Qin Dynasty.
The three slipways that have been discovered are arranged horizontally and parallelly, and a possible slope-type water slide has been found in the west. Regarding the construction method of the shipbuilding platform, based on the unclear understanding of the shipbuilding technology of the Pre-Qin Dynasty, the excavators speculated that the shipbuilding platform was combined with the slideway, which was shaped like a modern railway track and was composed of sleepers, sliding plates and wooden piers.
During the excavation work that I know, copper coins from the Qin to Han dynasties were found in the slipway ruins. The latest one is the four and a half baht coins of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty. The conclusion is that the dockyard was finally abandoned and filled up in the Wenjing period of the early Han Dynasty. The possibility that the shipyard was built in the early Han Dynasty cannot be ruled out.
However, Jiang Wen remembered clearly that the age of the shipbuilding factory was still an unknown matter. However, no absolute dating data was found during the test excavation. He only relied on the radioactive carbon dating of No. 1 slipway to determine the age as BC. 240±90 years.
Furthermore, based on the superimposition relationship of the strata and the age characteristics of the unearthed artifacts, as well as relevant historical documents, the excavators analyzed the origin of the shipyard, the age of its abandonment and filling, and the relationship between the construction of the shipyard and the major historical events that occurred in the Guangzhou area at that time. correlation and made preliminary inferences.
But the biggest doubt about this ruins appears here.
You must know that if it is assumed that the shipyard was built in the early Han Dynasty, this was the time when Zhao Tuo separatized Lingnan. But during Zhao Tuo's reign, there were no records of water activities. From the archaeological findings, it can be seen that in the early Han Dynasty, someone also built a large palace near the shipyard. It was large in scale and very elaborate in its construction. The shipyard site was also filled in because it was within the construction land.
Therefore, the function of this slipway is somewhat ambiguous. It can also be considered that the excavated section of the walkway is an accessory part of the large palace built by Zhao Tuo after he became emperor.
To put it another way, assuming that Zhao Tuo created such a large-scale shipbuilding workshop for the needs of military or water transportation and trade, it would be unreasonable and impossible to abandon it and fill it up before Wenjing arrived. However, there were no fierce and cruel water wars in South Vietnam at that time, nor did they build such an "arsenal" near the palace.
Therefore, judging from this perspective, some people believe that this slipway was originally built as a shipbuilding base for the Qin army that arrived in Panyu, mainly to build urgently needed ships for the unification war that lasted for many years. This is a natural thing. Therefore, this shipbuilding workshop was first built during the Qin Dynasty's unification of Lingnan; by the Wenjing period in the early Western Han Dynasty, after Zhao Tuo of South Vietnam was separated and proclaimed emperor, it was no longer needed and was gradually abandoned and filled up.
However, the above conclusion that the ruins were built in the Qin Dynasty is mostly based on conjecture. No more precise clues have been found, nor can it prove the necessity of building a slipway on land that can be used to build a palace. This paved the way for subsequent speculation and debate. It seems that one day, for some unknown reason, the original discoverers began to spare no effort to overturn the previous research conclusions, and the more senior and professional archaeological experts will come up with surprisingly unified refutations after in-depth research!
According to later accounts, at the site appraisal meeting held at the excavation site in March 1976, an old professor from the South China Institute of Technology who was responsible for the excavation made a speech on behalf of the people, strongly stating that this was an architectural site of the Nanyue Kingdom and should be the Nanyue King's Terrace or Nanyue Wangtai. Leaving the palace, and asking geologists to confirm whether this is Panyu Mountain or a beach, to avoid deep damage to the five-meter-underground ruins and try to ensure the integrity of the ancient ruins.
The direction of public opinion changed very quickly, and the uproarous archeology of the slipway gradually turned into a dispute between the slipway and the palace, and the archaeological work was forced to stop.
In 1980, a senior professor from the Geography Department of South China Normal University further raised strong doubts in an article on the historical geography of Guangzhou.
He pointed out that the terrain around the "Shipbuilding Yard" was relatively high. "The question of how it later changed from a 'Shipbuilding Yard' to a corner of the 'Yue King's Palace' has not yet been answered." Furthermore, "it is suspected that it is not a shipbuilding workshop site, but more likely a building site related to ancient Panyu City or ancient Guangzhou City."
In 1997, a researcher from the Guangdong Provincial Museum published an article "Guangzhou's "Shipbuilding Workshop" Is Actually an Architectural Relic" after many years of research. He believed that the "slipway theory" was not consistent with historical facts and should be a building with gantry buildings. Further excavations revealed that there was no trace of it. Meaning, it will only destroy the original precious relics.
But the slipway theory persisted, and excavation applications snowed into the hands of the cultural heritage department. From April to May 2000, a researcher and architectural archaeologist from the Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences serialized the article "Identification of the Palace of the King of Nanyue—Discussing the "Slipway Theory"" in the "China Cultural Relics News", listing 22 reasons in detail. The "slipway theory" was used to argue that this site could not be a slipway, but the wooden building foundation of the palace site.
In response to the opponents' refuting article, Professor Yang published another reply article in August, arguing that the Nanyue Palace Site should be named the Palace Site, and that the slipway site is actually the remains of a large palace with both viewing and living functions. All objections were raised Anyone who intends to damage cultural relics “should bear all responsibilities!”
A series of weird clues took shape in Jiang Wen's mind, and his heartbeat that was pounding because he was close to the truth finally slowed down. He felt that what Ying Laodao said was not the truth that Kuang Gu Shuojin had never discovered. It's just a fact that many people tried their best to hide. What's missing is a child who doesn't know the heights of the world and dares to say that the emperor has no clothes.
"Senior Ying, you said this is a pre-Qin monument...is there any other evidence?"
Jiang Wen didn't know whether to refute or appreciate his truth-seeking. He had no choice but to suppress the thoughts swirling in his mind and wait for the other party to give an answer.
Ying Laodao, who had a slim face, was unwavering and told Jiang Wen about a little-known history.
"Master Jiang, in the past, Emperor Qin Shihuang sent the state captain Tu Sui to form five armies with 500,000 soldiers. One army blocked the ridge of Tancheng, the other guarded the fortress of Jiuyi, the other guarded the capital of Panyu, and the other guarded the border of Nanye. The first army had a surplus of water. The other four armies were all fighting on foot. The capital of Panyu was the water capital of Yue people. Its people had broken hair and tattoos, and their boats were as dense as rain. They gathered and dispersed suddenly and elusively, and the people of Qin were unpredictable. He is good at building ships, but he has not made any achievements in three years, so he was trapped in the water city of Panyu, unable to move."
"Tu Sui was a good warrior. For three years he did not disarm his armor and gallop his crossbow, so that his prison salary could not be transferred to pay. He also used his soldiers to dig canals to open up grain roads. He then used a strange plan to build a water boat and rushed out of the city. He fought with the Yue people and then killed the Westerners. Ou Jun translated it into the Song Dynasty. But the Yue people were all put into the books, among the beasts, and no one was willing to become a Qin prisoner."
Ying Laodao pointed to the desolate and broken caves and lakes in front of him, as well as the desolate scene full of piles and excavations, and said with emotion, "Tu Sui's wonderful plan is to build a ship underground here, waiting for an opportunity to attack the Yue people. , so long before the Chenghuang Temple was built, long before there was no trace in Guangzhou Prefecture, long before this was still called Tusui City, there was already this ancient Qin boat platform!"
This period of history is unheard of, but Jiang Wen, the man who slaughtered Sui, has heard of it. When he was a lieutenant, Zhao Tuo, the later king of South Vietnam, was only a deputy general. Unfortunately, he was killed because he neglected to guard against Vietnamese attacks. This earth-shattering battle is recorded in "Huainanzi". The Yue people "attacked the Qin people at night, defeated them greatly, killed the generals and slaughtered Sui, and lay down hundreds of thousands of people with blood."
But this ancient slipway buried in an underground cave still seems to be telling a story unique to him. The huge Bingyi statue in front of him also carries the Qin people who grew up in the Yellow River Basin and relied on the power of the Yellow River water god to defeat the enemy. Infinite expectations, forever rooted in this land.
"Senior Ying, I still don't quite understand what you mean. Even if we can build a giant boat that can crush a canoe, how can we transport the boat out of the ground?"
Jiang Wen expressed his doubts, but suddenly found that some of the martial arts people in front of him seemed to be missing, as if they had evaporated silently from the underground with nowhere to escape. Even Yuan Ziyi, Yan Yongchun, and Luo Shuang'er didn't know when. Gone.
Jiang Wen opened his mouth to ask, but Ying Laodao's expression was particularly mysterious, and his wrinkled face revealed an indescribable expression.
"Headmaster Jiang, Shang Kexi has coveted this secret passage of the Luo family for many years. The mystery within it cannot be explained clearly in a few words, nor can it be seen through at a glance."
After saying that, he pointed to the dark stone wall above his head, "In three more moments, look there..."
As the words slowly dissipated, everyone was surprised to find that the originally dark cave dome was emitting a trace of crystal light, as if the stone walls were being melted by the warm sun, turning into pieces of translucent jade, with countless raindrops dripping from the top. , also scattered on people's faces.
The light became clearer and clearer, and the cave dome became more unfathomable. Everyone was finally surprised to find that the top of their heads had not turned into any jade, but had turned into a large water curtain connecting the sky and the earth, and their shadows fluttered like green cattails swaying under the water. , staggered.
"Isn't this under the Imperial Temple of the Capital City? Why do you see the underground river hanging upside down?!"
Some people exclaimed, fearing that tens of thousands of tons of seawater would break through the fragile zenith at some point and pour into the cave, turning it into an inescapable lake.
However, Ying Laodao reminded him at the right time, "There is a secret passage ahead that has been opened. Leave it quickly. If it is too late, you will be completely trapped underground and will never be able to stand up!"
Needless to say, Jiang Wen saw the martial arts people hurriedly followed the instructions, filed in through the belly of the huge Fengyi stone statue, pushed aside the bronze figures on the ground, and broke into a cave where they had no idea where to go.
"Senior Ying, why don't you leave?"
Jiang Wen looked at Ying Laodao and noticed something was wrong in his expression.
After Ying Laodao watched the martial arts people leave one after another, he mysteriously said to Jiang Wen: "Don't worry, this is not where we are going. Since Master Jiang, you want to go with me, then follow me to another place." Let’s go…”
"Aren't you going with them?" Jiang Wen asked deliberately.
Ying Laodao replied ominously: "If we really want to join forces, why bother getting together?"
The Qin Dynasty slipway was illuminated by the swaying light in the water, but in the light there was a particularly conspicuous shadow slowly coming in, projecting into the vague and uncertain cave, like a dark cloud that made people feel particularly uneasy. Symbolizes an ominous arrival.
At this time, there were only two of them left in the slipway cave, and the sound of water from the lake, sea, and river above them became clearer and clearer, and it seemed that it would turn into a disaster at any time. Ying Laodao pulled Jiang Wen towards the Bingyi Stone Statue and walked towards where they should go, but Jiang Wen couldn't help but look back at the sky one last time.
It was an indescribably huge copper boat, floating wantonly in the dark and cold water. The intertwined rust and patterns, the shape of water plants and calcium carbonate, had made it lose its original identity over the long years. It looks like water flowing slowly in the upside-down river, like a pale old man who is silent.
But at the moment before his sight disappeared, Jiang Wencai discovered from an angle that he should not have observed originally that the copper ship did not seem to be walking alone, but was attached to a darker, more mottled, and more indescribable world. The shadow is about to be slowly dragged into a truly dark world...
