Ying Zheng and the other craftsmen were startled by the sudden noise and stepped back one after another. The two at the end were squeezed to the ground.
Although the torches in everyone's hands stopped beating, they were blown towards their faces, as if a strong air flow was blowing from the stone gate.
However, everyone did not move and kept their original postures. They just held the torches away to keep the flames as far away from the crowd as possible.
At this time, a bang was heard, and the stone door in front was closed again.
The white flames stopped fluttering and settled down.
what's the situation?
All the craftsmen looked at Ying Zheng, waiting for Ying Zheng to make up his mind.
Ying Zheng looked at Li Si for help.
"You should retreat to the stone gate where you came from." Li Si said, "Your Majesty, follow me."
Ying Zheng nodded and signaled the craftsmen to return to the stone gate where they came from.
"Your Majesty, if it goes as expected, inside this stone door should be the final secret room." Li Si said in a low voice.
"No wonder it's different." Ying Zheng said, "How can I turn it on normally?"
Li Si frowned slightly and said, "Your Majesty, do you still remember the stone door through which we first entered the fourth floor?"
"Remember." Ying Zheng nodded and said, "That big stone door also emitted a lot of poisonous smoke. This door in front of you won't emit any poisonous smoke, right?"
"This should not happen." Li Si said, "After all, those who can reach here are definitely not mortals. Presumably the seniors will not poison their successors."
"That's right." Ying Zheng nodded and asked, "Then how should we get in?"
"Weichen thinks that the way to enter should be similar to the first big stone gate." Li Si said.
"Sir, are you saying that I still need to press a bloody fingerprint?" Ying Zheng lowered his head and looked at his thumb, and couldn't help but feel a slight pain.
Li Si looked at the stone door and said, "Maybe, let's look for it first."
Ying Zheng nodded firmly and followed Li Si to the stone gate.
However, after searching for a long time, the two of them could not find a place similar to a crystal surface where blood fingerprints could be pressed, and they could not even find a small stone that could be moved.
"Isn't this the method?" Ying Zheng murmured.
"It should be this method." Li Si said with certainty, "Maybe the mechanism is not on the stone gate."
The previous crystal face mechanism is not on the stone door, but behind the stone lion.
In addition to this stone gate, there are three more stone gates.
Ying Zheng and Li Si investigated the other three stone gates with great concentration.
However, still nothing was found.
Ying Zheng was a little discouraged, breathed a sigh of relief, and wiped the sweat on his forehead.
"Your Majesty, please sit down and take a rest by the stone platform." Li Si pointed to the stone platform in the middle.
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Stone platform?
Ying Zheng and Li Si looked at the stone platform in the center at the same time.
There was nothing in the stone platform in this secret room, so Li Si didn't check it carefully.
Ying Zheng and Li Si walked to the stone platform together, squatted down, held the stone edge with their hands, and looked inside.
The light was a little dim, so Li Si lit his torch. The white firelight reflected on the inside of the stone platform, and he could see clearly inside.
Sure enough, there is a circular bulge in the center of the bottom of the stone platform. The surface is smoother than other places. Because the light is dark, you can't see it at all if you don't look carefully.
"Your Majesty, this should be here." Li Si said happily.
Ying Zheng also thought it should be here, but he still joked: "Is it really here? Sir, you have to confirm it. If my blood is drained and not found, we will all be trapped here."
Li Si: "..."
Ying Zheng took out his dagger
First, cut his finger, and then press his thumb on the slightly raised crystal surface.
Although he couldn't feel any pain, Ying Zheng felt that the blood on his fingers, as if being sucked, flowed out of his fingers until it completely covered the raised crystal surface.
What's even more amazing is that after covering the crystal surface, not a drop of excess blood flowed to the stone platform next to it. And Ying Zheng's fingers no longer bleed.
Ying Zheng didn't move. After waiting for a few breaths, he picked up his finger.
Looking at the crystal surface covered with blood, a bloody fingerprint of Ying Zheng was clearly imprinted on the surface of the blood. The blood had dried and seemed to have been absorbed by the crystal surface.
At this moment, there was a creaking sound, and the stone door in front opened again.
But this time, in the gap of the stone door that gradually opened, there was no longer darkness, but a light blue brilliance that was different from other secret rooms. In this sealed space, it was like an illusion.
"It's done!" Jing Fan shouted excitedly.
"Yes, it seems that the secret room in front is different from before." Tian Yi also said.
Ying Zheng also breathed a long sigh of relief, wiped the blood stains on his hands with the cotton he brought with him, and then wrapped his fingers to prevent further bleeding.
Li Si did not extinguish the torch, but held it high and approached the stone door, and then extended the torch into the stone door.
The torch jumped a few times and then returned to normal, no longer beating violently.
But the color of the flame turned pink little by little, then became darker and darker, and then turned red.
It seems that the color of the fire has returned to normal, but in fact, the color of the flame is now richer than normal, a pure red color similar to blood.
The craftsmen also gathered around and performed the same operation.
All the torches turned pure red, like burning blood quietly releasing its brilliance.
The stone door was fully opened, and the scene in front of him was finally fully revealed.
In front of it seems to be a corridor the same size as the secret room.
Li Si held the torch high and walked into the corridor first.
Ying Zheng also followed in, and the craftsmen were still surrounding Ying Zheng.
After entering the corridor, the temperature seemed to have dropped a bit and the air seemed to be much drier. Everyone could not help but feel refreshed.
When we came to the end of the corridor, there was a row of stone steps going down in front of us. We couldn't see how deep they were.
Li Si was still walking in front, but his demeanor and movements were much more alert than before.
The stone steps under your feet seemed to be made of dense stone, emitting a faint blue light, like jade. Although it was very old, there was not a trace of dust in sight, making it feel like you were in an illusion.
After walking down about forty stone steps, we finally reached the ground at the bottom.
Li Si did not move forward in a hurry, but held up the torch and carefully checked both sides of the wall.
"Your Majesty, look at both sides of this wall. There should be a stone door here, and it has just been opened." Li Si said while touching the tiny gap in the wall.
"Could it be opened together with the stone gate just now?" Ying Zheng asked in a low voice.
"Maybe." Li Si walked back to Ying Zheng and said, "If we had entered the stone gate directly just now, we would have been blocked here."
Ying Zheng nodded and asked, "Any other discoveries?"
Li Si looked at the stone wall above again and said, "I haven't found anything else yet, but this should be the entrance to the last secret stone."
"Then keep moving forward." Ying Zheng pointed to the front and said.
Everyone looked forward. It seemed that there was a corner in front of them, and some richer blue light was reflected on the right side.
Li Si nodded and said to Jing Fan: "Protect the king." Then he held the torch high and walked forward.
Jing Fan stood in front of Ying Zheng, and the craftsmen of the Jing family class also surrounded Ying Zheng and moved forward.
Enter.
At that corner, a larger dense stone finally appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and the blue light reflected on the wall was indeed more intense.
The flames on the torch started to stir again, but what was different from before was that this time it was more like dancing happily.
Perhaps driven by these flames, everyone relaxed and the atmosphere became less tense.
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Li Si continued to walk forward, and a stone tripod half a man's height appeared in front of him. It was placed in the middle of the dense stone room.
It seems that this stone tripod has replaced the previous stone platforms.
Li Si walked slowly to the front of the stone tripod and looked inside.
Inside is a larger bronze box and three small stone tripods.
Li Si looked around, then extinguished the torch he was holding, and then reached out and took out the bronze box.
Ying Zheng stepped forward, took the bronze box, and placed it gently on the ground.
But just when Ying Zheng reached for Xuan Tie Luo, he heard a muffled sound behind him.
Click, boom...
Li Si quickly stood in front of Ying Zheng, grabbed Ying Zheng and squatted down.
The craftsmen also bent down and walked quickly to Ying Zheng's side in a half-crouched position.
Everyone looked towards the place where the sound came from, only to see that there seemed to be a gap there.
"It seems that Wei Chen took out the bronze box and touched some mechanism." Li Si said.
"It shouldn't be a defense mechanism." Ying Zheng looked at the gap and said, "But what's going on with this gap?"
"It must be the passage to the next level." Li Si whispered, "It is said that there is only one entrance to the fifth-level royal tomb, which is inside the ultimate secret stone on the fourth level."
"So that's it." After listening to Li Si's explanation, Ying Zheng relaxed.
Li Si stood up and went to check the mechanism in the stone tripod, but saw a letter at the bottom of the stone tripod. Li Si took out the letter and three small stone tripods, and checked again, but found no mechanism.
Ying Zheng took out the black iron snail and opened the bronze box.
There is another bronze book in the bronze box, but the difference is that this bronze book is bright red, which is very similar to the color of the torch.
Ying Zheng turned the red bronze book over and opened it with a black iron snail.
There are only two oracle bone inscriptions on the inside pages of the red cover - "Jiuding".
Ying Zheng rubbed these two words that only he could understand with his fingers. He breathed a long sigh of relief unconsciously and said sadly: "This is the secret book of Jiuding."
Although the craftsmen had already guessed it, everyone's face was full of joy.
"Your Majesty, there is another letter here." Li Si came to Ying Zheng's side with the letter and the small stone tripod.
Ying Zheng took the letter and three small stone tripods.
Nine small stone tripods were also gathered together. Ying Zheng handed the three he just found to Jing Fan, and then opened the letter to read.
It was still a message from the old man in white. Although it was brief, the content was very clear.
The gap that caused the noise just now is really the only entrance to the fifth floor.
This red bronze book not only records the making method of Jiuding, but also indicates the shape and use of the Third Eye, as well as the information and patterns of the nine guardian beasts.
The stone cauldron in the middle is indeed made of dense stone, and its real purpose is to refine the Ancient Spiritual Pill!
The single recipe for the ordinary Linggu Pill is contained in this letter.
The harvest this time is really quite big.
Seeing that Ying Zheng had finished reading the letter, Li Si wanted to go to the gap to check what was going on, but the moment he stood up.
Suddenly a red light appeared on the surrounding walls.
The appearance of the Nine Cauldrons appeared on the wall. Although it was made of red light, it looked like a real Nine Cauldrons embedded in the stone walls on all sides.
