“It’s understandable that the ancestors of the Wu tribe are hiding here, but how do you explain this meadow?”
Above the snow line, a meadow with lush flowers and grass appeared. If everyone hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would never have imagined that there would be such a wonderland.
Song Siyuan recalled Zhipandianzi on Lianhua Peak, looked at the crowd and explained: "This place is indeed strange, but it is not due to ghosts and gods. The Wanyan Cave was originally located in the lush vegetation area at the southern foot, but the altitude was too high and close to the snow line. There are so few snowflakes that fall to the ground, which are almost negligible. It is normal for the southern foothills to be evergreen."
"Now, at least we have a new direction. Where is the palace you mentioned?"
Yue Guanchao picked up the engineering shovel and pointed in the distance to the north. The palace was half hidden in the clouds and mist, and only the simple eaves of the palace could be seen. At this moment, the sun was setting, and the golden light reflected the mist, giving off layers of golden color, as if the palace was sitting on the clouds. From time to time, in the rippling mist, fireflies appear and disappear, which makes people excited.
They walked through the mist in front of the meadow. When they reached the mysterious palace, they could already see the outline of the entire palace in the mist.
Compared with the splendid tomb palace, this palace looks much simpler, even rough.
The entire palace complex is a three-story staggered stone-made earth mountain, which is similar to the shape of the word "earth". Each floor has a palace wall with rammed earth fans and tiles. The gray eaves can be seen exposing the palace wall, and hundreds of stone steps are built on the front. It just connects the three-level soil platform to form a "recess". The depression is the stone steps that go straight up and down!
From their position, they can directly see the highest "temple". Since it is too high from the ground, after putting aside the interference of the fog, they can clearly see the high scene - the palace, as if there is a bloody bull's head high up. !
The first time Yue Guanchao saw the temple, he realized that the things here were very similar to the temple in Wu Coffin Town. Perhaps Song Siyuan was right, and the shamans here were indeed of the same origin as the Sushen tribe.
Zhang realized that he had stopped, and frowned tightly. She was afraid that Yue Guanchao was cheating, so she asked with a cold face, "Why don't you leave?"
"Mrs. Zhang, this place is so strange. Is it inevitable that there is a mechanism inside? If we die because the mechanism is triggered when we go up there, who will find the Soul Palace for you? At this time, only your engineers can explore the way for us first."
These words made the old witch very unhappy, but they also faced the current situation. They had not even found the Soul Palace. If something went wrong with these people at this time, the gain would outweigh the loss. It would be better to let the engineering bandits explore the way first.
With this in mind, the old woman looked at her brother, Mr. Zhang. The warlord leader signaled to the people around him, and the bandit team consisting of five people picked up their long guns and walked up tentatively.
Yue Guanchao picked his teeth with a wooden stick in his pocket and looked ahead with a flashlight. The fog became lighter as he went up. The soldiers and bandits were also very scared when they thought about it. They walked with their legs swinging. When they stood at a high place, After poking and poking around to make sure there were no traps, he yelled and waved to them.
Everyone understood, and walked into the mist and disappeared up the stairs. Black shadows shimmered in the golden mist, getting closer and closer to the temple.
This staircase was just like the Dragon's Tail Stairs used to ascend the imperial palace in ancient times. Three platforms connected hundreds of straight stone steps. Looking up, the palace wall was originally a hundred meters high and gradually became shorter as they went up. , the field of vision also becomes wider.
Under the palace wall, there stands a tall stone man like a soldier!
These stone figures have only just begun to take on human form, and the carvings are very rough. They can only be seen as warriors and generals wearing armor, holding primitive bronze halberds in their hands. There are no facial features carved on their faces, only the undulations of their facial features, and they wear bifurcated helmets on their heads. Iron crowns with horns. These horns were wrapped in red and covered with thorns. There were also small bronze bells hanging in the gaps. They swayed with every step, echoing the trills on the spacious stairs.
If you look closely, you will see that these stone figures are taller than their bodies. Their armors are carved with various pictographic totems of hunting, gathering, production, sacrifice, construction, and war. They are densely covered with colorful mysterious patterns. As the stairs go up, the stone statues continue to grow. Big, like many faceless ancient gods, standing on the steps to guard the temple.
When he looked back, he could easily see that the faceless stone man was also staring at the sinkhole they entered and exited, which had turned into the size of a granary, like a black hole constantly swallowing fog.
Within a moment, everyone was standing in front of the temple!
This temple is smaller in size than larger in size. Its current area is the same as that of a courtyard. With the surrounding stone poles carved with tiger heads and lion heads, and the towers on both sides, it can accommodate at least two sets of courtyards.
The walls of the entire temple are made of rammed earth, stone pillars are used as frames, bronze tiles are used as tiles, and black iron is used as windows. The walls of the temple are all painted mineral red, and white and blue stones are used to outline original and strange patterns. The horn-shaped stone corridors on both sides are all painted. White, bronze bells and red and white silk ribbons fell from the corridor.
The main body of the palace is a "sun" trapezoid with a narrow top and a wide bottom. The eaves of the palace have a very simple double eaves structure. The ox-horned stone corridor spreads out on both sides and is connected to the side hall tower next to it, forming a cloister and a flying pavilion. On both sides are stone beasts. Standing tall with flags flying, it looks more like a serious sacrificial hall than a palace!
In front of the temple, there are huge faceless stone statues that are four or five times taller than them. They are both stone statues and towers. They have stood for thousands of years and watched the entire meadow.
In the temple behind them, it can be seen that the door is locked with a copper lock, and the door is covered with purple paper and gold symbols!
