They continued to pull out, and all eight canoes were seen to be pulled out of the lotus platform. The appearance of these boats made everyone ecstatic, and they were finally a little closer to the Soul Palace.
"If our guess is correct, these canoes were used to cross underground waterways. This kind of canoe-like shedless boat was also called a gull boat in the Tang Dynasty. It refers to a light and fast boat that travels in The sea is like seagulls flying against the water, so we will drive two boats in first to have a look, and it will not be too late to send people in after it is still safe inside."
Madam Zhang had no objection to this. Yue Guanchao and the others took out the gull boat and took the first step with their companions. The Zhang brothers and sisters chose another gull boat to follow them and disappeared into the arch hole.
The drifting speed of the gull ship was faster than they expected. People could see it sliding forward without applying any external force. Song Siyuan looked at the bow of the gull ship and explained: "The tunnel in front of us is slightly tilted downwards. , it may not be obvious visually, but the flow direction of the water and the force direction of the gull boat cannot deceive people. It can save manpower as much as possible, but there are also shortcomings!"
She paused and continued in a mysterious tone: "The disadvantage is that the canoe is too fast and can easily slip into a trap. If we can control our own destiny with human control, we can only leave this kind of inclined channel to fate and only see what is ahead. thing."
The tunnel was about a few hundred meters long. As the canoe slid downward slowly, they could already feel the tunnel gradually widening. When the gull boat slid deeper, it slowly stopped on the water's surface as the underground river returned to normal.
"Why is there nothing?"
Yue Guanchao turned on the flashlight. They seemed to have fallen into a completely black ocean. Although there was an underground river behind them, there was nothing but rugged caves in front of them.
As far as the eye can see, there is a calm and flowing underground sea. Without knowing what is ahead, a few people dare not slide forward.
Yue Qingshan looked around. When he raised his head, he seemed to have noticed something strange. His old eyes were fixed on the North Pole. Song Siyuan saw that the old Yue Tou had noticed the new situation and asked: "Second Uncle Yue, did you notice something?"
"Daughter, look at the stars in the north."
Everyone looked to the north. There was no lighting at all in the huge cave, as if a dark sky was covering their heads. Seven white stars could be seen arranged in a row, looking like a spoon.
"That's the Ziwei Emperor Star."
Yue Qingshan's tone and Chen Jing explained: "Ziweixing, the yin and yang of the five elements, belongs to the yin earth. It is the emperor star of the Beidou. It is also the most noble star in the Beidou. In ancient times, it corresponded to the emperor, which indeed refers to the country, the country, and the country. These seven stars are all round holes, so it is likely that the Ancestral Vein Palace is in the direction of the stars."
Song Siyuan took Yue Laitou's words seriously, and nodded: "I think so too. These stars don't show up at all when it gets dark, and you can only see them when the weather turns brighter during the day. They are exactly the instructions for going to the Soul Palace. We follow the emperor's instructions." The direction of the star slips.”
As soon as they finished speaking, they picked up the oars in the boat and moved the ocean towards the stars in the north. I don't know how much time passed, but when their arms ached, they could see that the stars were right in front of them, turning into the size of a basin and hanging above their heads.
With the illumination of these seven caves, they could see clearly the scene ahead without the need for a flashlight: in the distance, they could see a huge and wide platform extending in front of them, and at the end of the river bank were the wide steps.
With a rush of energy, they picked up the paddle in the gull boat and slid to the steps. They tied the boat to the animal-headed stone pillar on the platform and walked out of the large platform.
When everyone reached the end of the platform, they could see the Ancestral Soul Soul Palace in front of them from a distance!
"An emperor emerges from under the Ziwei wall!"
The Sui and Tang Dynasties were the Middle Ages, when tall and rough woods were mostly produced, and masonry technology was not yet mature. Building walls were mostly made of rammed earth. All buildings in the Sui and Tang Dynasties were bound to have white walls and red columns, rammed earth platform bases, green eaves, and mullioned windows. These five characteristics are coffins, towers and flying pavilions.
If we compare according to the characteristics of the palaces of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Ancestral Soul Palace in front of us has a very strong style of the Sui and Tang Dynasties!
Whenever it is called a palace, it must not be a single building. The layout of the Palace of Souls follows the standard structure of palaces in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and is divided into four parts: the front door, the middle courtyard, the atrium, and the backyard. Because it has the priesthood of the ancestral palace and the Taimiao, it is made Extraordinarily tall and majestic.
The entire building complex is built on a high rammed earth platform about ten meters above the ground. This high platform is flat and open, with green bricks on the surface and white marble dragon head stone railings surrounding the platform base to form a square. From their position to walk to the Soul Palace, they have to pass by There are three steps that go straight up and down.
Seen from a distance, the white marble steps are straight and straight, like a ladder to heaven. The huge bronze halberd flags on both sides stand on the steps, extending the view to high places like soldiers.
As he walked up the thousand steps, Yue Guanchao felt like a minister in ancient times. The more he went up, the more nervous he became. This kind of steep and upward steps is really a good thing to naturally show the authority of the emperor. As long as it is a building Climbing a hundred steps, you immediately become majestic.
When they reached the end of the white marble steps, the first thing they saw were two huge statues of Tubo.
