Without thinking, Lan Yu jumped into it on her tiptoes.
Since the empire changed hands, Resa was also afraid that others would use the same tactics against him, so he ordered the underground tunnel network under Saluhi City to be buried very early.
It can be seen that the secret passage under the Shengkuang Church was made secretly by the Guangzheng Sect without telling Resa.
"I want to see what the Guangzheng Sect is up to." Lan Yu frowned and walked quietly in the tunnel. Fortunately, there are no forks in the road, she can just go all the way to the bottom.
It turns out that the tunnels in the east part of Saliuxi City were winding and complicated, making it difficult to distinguish.
But the one under the church is flat, long and straight, with square walls. It can be seen that it has been carefully arranged. Moreover, the walls and top are paved with neat Sanin stone slabs, and the emerald green sandstone floor tiles are under the feet. Even Lan Marriage couldn't help but sigh to herself when she saw it: "Herod is such a big hand."
Walking along the tunnel, within a short while, a magnificent underground temple appeared in front of Lan Yu, which made her take a breath of air.
Dozens of coiled dragon-patterned pillars are neatly distributed on both sides of the temple as supports. The canopy is actually made of light-transmitting glass. Sunlight shines through, but for some reason, after passing through the glass, the light is much dimmed. The entire temple seemed to be immersed under the deep sea, covered with a rich cyan color, strange and mysterious.
With the help of the skylight, Lan Yu finally saw Brad and the palace guards. They were standing in the shadows on the side of the altar in the main hall. They could vaguely see the dozen or so people who had been unloaded from the car. The tin box was behind them.
Lan Yu thought about it carefully and realized that the curtain couldn't really be made of glass, otherwise it would have collapsed long ago. Lan You looked carefully at the top of the sky, and found that there were many scattered large and small gravels on it. Then she recalled the structure and orientation of the tunnel, and deduced that the temple should be right under the ruins of the palace.
To be precise, it was under the Tingyue Pond next to the Fuxing Tower in the Imperial Palace.
The night Alvin escaped from Saluhi, the Kelman family's palace was annihilated by Onian's golden dragon. The Fuxing Tower area was naturally unavoidable, and most of Tingyue Pond was destroyed. Lan You inspected the site afterwards, and she remembered that among the ruins of the palace, the only place where light could penetrate into the ground was Tingyue Pond.
Then she looked around the temple carefully and determined that such a huge project could never be completed in the near future.
"This temple should have been in existence many years ago. If it is said to have been completed recently, at most it is just the tunnel where it came from."
"But this is strange. There is such a temple under Kelman's nose. Doesn't he know? Every time he passes by the Tingyue Pond and looks down, he should be able to see something strange at the bottom of the pond. ." Lan Yu said strangely in her heart.
"So that curtain can't be made of glass." She was even more certain, "And maybe this thing can't be seen clearly when looking down from above."
Lan Yu thought that the light dimmed so much when it reached the bottom of the sky, so she came up with this speculation.
Then a voice came from the altar in the center of the temple, pulling Lan Yu, who was full of doubts, out of her thoughts.
"May the Lord bless you." More than a dozen Guangzheng Temple guards and their boss Brad walked under the sacrificial altar and bowed to the visitor and said in unison. Naturally, they did not forget the words on their hands. That strange thing
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Incomparably absurd posture.
The person who came was none other than Pope Herod of the Orthodox Church. It was too far away, so Lan Yu couldn't see clearly from which direction Herod came out of the temple, but she guessed that there must be more than one entrance to the temple.
In this extremely empty temple, no matter where you are in the corner, you can clearly hear the sound of a pin dropping on the ground.
Therefore, Lan Yu could clearly hear what Herod, Brad and the others were saying.
"Your Majesty the Pope, these are the newly arrived crystals." Brad pointed to the iron boxes not far away.
When Lan Yu heard this, she couldn't help but sneer and thought to herself: "Okay, I have called you 'Your Majesty'. It seems that the Guangzheng Sect has quite a lot of ambitions." She now understood that her father's worries were indeed justified. Things like religious authority really cannot be allowed to be too unrestrained.
"Falled crystals? So these are fallen crystals." Hearing Brad's words, Lan Yu now knew what was in the box, "What do they want with these fallen crystals?"
"At first Herod told my father that the purpose of mining those fallen crystals was to tame those two-legged flying dragons, but now it seems that this is definitely not the case." Lan Yu thought with a frown.
Herod glanced around the iron boxes and nodded. The colorful gilded scepter in his hand suddenly fell down and made a "ding" sound on the ink-grained jade bricks of the sacrificial altar.
In this huge temple, echoes resounded, and dozens of silver-white magical energy burst out from the scepter, heading towards the dozen boxes. The seal on the box was instantly dissolved when it encountered the silver-white light, and then the lid of the box popped open several times, revealing the dull, fallen crystal stones.
Lan Yu hid in the shadows and watched carefully, wanting to see how the Pope planned to deal with these fallen crystal ores.
Herod frowned, and let go of the scepter in his hand, letting it float in the air. His two palms suddenly emitted two blinding lights toward the scepter.
The scepter, baptized by these two groups of magical energy, and the dozens of boxes of fallen crystals seemed to be interacting with each other.
To be precise, the scepter is commanding these fallen crystal ores.
I saw thousands of falling crystals flying out of the box and starting to assemble.
Lan Yu looked at this incredible scene with dumbfounded eyes.
Brad and the temple guards retreated to both sides of the temple, took up the praying posture again, and looked devoutly at the "vast stars" in front of them.
With the dazzling scepter as the center, some of the fallen crystal stones condensed into gleaming nebulae, some decorated them into colorful constellations, and some piled up to form brilliant planets. . .
After a while, the chaotic, disorderly, and boundless "universe of everything" appeared in the temple.
Herod's magic power has been maintaining the operation of these rough crystal stones. I don't know why. It seems that his magic power can continue to increase with this "cosmic magic", and his perception of the surroundings has also improved. building.
I saw him turning his head ferociously, with such a pair of bulging and terrifying eyeballs, which did not look like it came from a living person, but more like what a corpse should have, the kind of corpse that suffered a violent death during its lifetime.
The place where his eyes were staring was actually where Lan Yu was hiding.
"Who?" Herod freed up his hand and directed a magic bombardment at Lan Yu.
Lan Yu's reaction was also very quick, and she dodged with enough peach blossoms. She looked at the huge meteorite next to her
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Pit, secretly frightened by the depth of Herod's magic power. That moment just now was as strong as her master, Master Fei Yue.
"Herod usually doesn't show off his skills, but he didn't expect to have master-level strength?" Lan Yu thought to herself, "But if that's the case, there's no way that his father and teacher wouldn't miss it."
Neither Reza nor Feiyue specifically emphasized the magic power of Herod to Lan Yu, which proved that in the eyes of strong men like them, Herod should be an average person.
"Eh? Who was I at that time? It turned out to be Princess Lanyin who was here." Herod's face immediately changed from a ferocious and gloomy one to a smile.
But this calm smile was mixed with indifference and murderous intent.
Herod didn't even think about it. He glanced directly at Brad and the palace guards and gave the order without hesitation: "Kill her!"
The palace guards couldn't believe their ears for a moment.
Brad also stayed in place, never expecting that Herod planned to kill Princess Lanyin on the spot. He looked at the red-haired woman standing on the lake of his heart. Her beautiful face made him yearn for it day and night, and he could not sleep at night. On the other side was Pope Herod, who favored him very much. Reconstruction, at this time, he didn't know what to choose.
Lan Yu was shocked when she heard Herod's words. She never expected that Herod would be so decisive.
Choosing to assassinate the princess on the spot was so unscrupulous.
"What makes this person so crazy, just because he discovered the secret of the Guangzheng Sect?" Lan Yu thought, "But this is just a religious ceremony, isn't it?"
"It can be seen that this is not just a simple religious ceremony. There must be a lot to say about the usage of these falling crystals." Lan Yu judged in her heart.
Herod's behavior also illustrates another problem. He did not take Ressa seriously at all.
Lan Yu also realized this at a glance.
Even at this moment, Lan Yu suspected that Gafo would be plotted by someone in Zhenjian. Was the Pope Herod in front of him the culprit behind the scenes?
After Resa came to Saluhi, Lan Yu had a discussion with her father. Since the Pillow Sword Club incident was not planned by Yuan Yaang, the situation is much more complicated.
Now Herod's evil intentions suddenly appeared, and Lan Yu immediately connected him with the Pillow Sword Society incident.
"The Pope is so courageous." Lan Yu sneered. The purple-cut stone staff in her palm shone brightly, reflecting her cold face. "Looking at this posture, do you want me to walk out of here alive?"
"What are you doing standing still? Take action!" Herod glared at Brad and the palace guards. The coldness in his eyes seemed to be warning everyone that this was an order that could not be refuted.
Seeing the Pope's expression, the palace guards no longer hesitated. They used all their martial arts skills and strode straight to Lan Yu's place to kill him.
Brad pressed the silver chain dagger in his sleeve and quickly followed the palace guards.
But Herod looked on with a cold face and did not take action against Lan Yu. The main thing is that once his ritual is started, it cannot be terminated at will, otherwise the fallen crystals will be wasted.
These dozen palace guards are all top martial arts in the church and are quite difficult to deal with. Lian Lanyun's strength was also in danger under the siege of more than a dozen people.
Lan Yu herself did not expect that these palace guards of the Guangzheng Sect could be so powerful.
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