According to Chen Yulou and Partridge Whistle's conjecture, the floating heavenly palace should be in the belly of Mount Li. It might even have extended to the belly of Mount Qinling. Xiao Lin, who entered later, confirmed their conjecture. Xiao Lin found a clue in the fake tomb and found a majestic waterfall in Mount Li. After experiencing many dangers, he entered through the passage behind the waterfall.
Partridge Whistle and Chen Yulou had come from the south, but Xiao Lin had come from the east. This also confirmed their conjecture that there was more than one exit in the First Emperor's mausoleum.
They had searched bitterly for a way to escape, and they finally had an idea.
But no matter if it was Partridge Whistle or Chen Yulou, they had no reason to give up now that they had come this far. Partridge Whistle couldn't escape the curse that his entire clan had to bear. For the ambition to unify China, for the shocking wealth in the mausoleum of the First Emperor, and even for the elixir of immortality, Chen Yulou would never give up. And Xiao Lin saw the opportunity to end her fate.
As long as she pierced the cursed dagger into the heart of the Dragon Emperor, then the mission of torturing her and her mother for two thousand years would finally end.
Partridge Whistle turned to Chen Yulou and Xiao Lin, saying, "We must leave a way out for the others. Even if we all die here, the remaining people should live. So, Xiao Lin, you must draw the way you came in and leave the map here. When the others come to find us, they will pick up this map. "
Partridge Whistle looked at Xiao Lin with bright eyes. Xiao Lin had no doubt that if he dared to do anything to the map, this man would turn on him without hesitation. Chen Yulou also knew very well who Partridge Whistle was doing this for!
Although he wanted those foreigners to die here, Chen Yulou also wanted Molle, Commander Bai, and Miss Hong, who were loyal to him, to escape safely. If he died here, they must bring information about this miraculous floating heavenly palace and the supreme treasures inside to his father, leaving behind hope for the Xieling Hercules.
"The way I came in might not be safer than the one you know!" Xiao Lin took the book handed over by Partridge Whistle and began to draw the map he came in. At the same time, he said in a low voice, "Even if I had to go through it again, I don't have the confidence to come out unscathed. There is a man-eating tree there. I suspect that it may be the Immortal Tree of Kunlun that the Dragon Emperor dug out from Kunlun in order to live forever. "
"That tree was already dead when it was dug out! But the Dragon Emperor resurrected it and turned it into a demonic tree. "
"The Dragon Emperor raised many strange beasts and birds that only existed in the Classic of Mountains and Seas Era. There were Chong Diao, Zhe, Li, and Chi Yan. These man-eating ferocious beasts and strange beasts were used to nourish the Immortal Tree. The elixir water that flowed under the Immortal Tree turned into blood water and flowed into the ancient city of Xianyang below us."
"This should also be a kind of immortal Fengshui formation set up by the Qin First Emperor." Chen Yulou said in horror, "Where we came from, there are Yin Corpses passing Qi to the Yellow Spring. There are Celestials burning mermaid's ointment to renew their vitality. Along the meridian of the Eternal Light Path, they instilled it into this floating palace. It's very likely that it's poured into the main hall in front of us!"
Partridge Whistle and Xiao Lin looked at the burning mermaid's ointment lamps on both sides and could not help but fall silent. The brightness of these lamps was not dazzling. Even if one looked directly at them, it would not hurt their eyes. They maintained a soft light like at dawn. However, this kind of dim light made them not feel dark all the way, as if the space they were in was full of light.
It even made them forget this strange … The secret behind it could scare people to death if it was revealed.
"In order to seek immortality, the Qin First Emperor mobilized countless manpower and resources in his entire empire. As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were records of the Immortal Herb in the Kunlun Ruins. Of course, he wouldn't let it go." Partridge Whistle said in a deep voice, "From the direction we came in, we found out that he found the legendary Netherworld and obtained some of the secrets of the River Styx. He dug up the corpses of the ancient Celestials in an attempt to unravel the truth behind their ascension to immortality …"
"But all of them failed!" Chen Yulou confirmed.
"The path from the Netherworld to the world of the living is too dangerous. The corpses that came back to life have all become evil! The corpses of the ancestors of the Chu people did not become immortals at all. Instead, they transformed into a brand new existence from the body of the dead corpse. It was also a parasitic monster. "
"The divine medicine of the Kunlun Ruins, the Immortal Tree, has also withered!" Xiao Lin continued Chen Yulou's words, "The Dragon Emperor only dug out a piece of rotten wood. He tried his best to revive it and obtained a man-eating demonic tree!"
"And all of these were buried in his mausoleum as the accumulation of his rebirth …" Partridge Whistle's entire body trembled as he said in a trembling voice, "No, it shouldn't be just that. Other than the south where we came in and the east where Xiao Lin came in, there should be such things in the west and north as well. These things are related to the secret of immortality. The Immortal Tree turned into demonic arts, the evil creatures brought back from the Netherworld, and even the immortals who ascended are only demons transformed from human corpses … "
"What about the Qin First Emperor who tried to be reborn to obtain immortality?"
"Will he become an evil being too, or even the most powerful one among them? It's not like there's no precedent for this. According to those foreigners, the greatest high priest of ancient Egypt killed the Egyptian god of death soon after he was resurrected from the Underworld. Now, he has almost destroyed the civilization in the west. "
"A group of Easterners even brought back half of the divinity of the god of death and prepared to use him to resurrect the First Emperor!"
Xiao Lin was almost stunned. She said in horror, "Rebirth from the dead is a taboo. They won't be the ones who will return in the end!" Chen Yulou added, "Immortality is also a taboo. Since the Pre-Qin Dynasty, no one has been able to live forever. Even the immortal medicine of Kunlun has withered and died!"
"No!" Xiao Lin could not help but blurt out, "Some people can live forever!"
Partridge Whistle and Chen Yulou looked up at her in surprise. Xiao Lin hesitated for a long time before she made up her mind and said, "There's a spring in Shangri-la that has the power to make people live forever. Our mother relied on the spring of immortality and lived from the Pre-Qin Dynasty until now! Although I was born during the second reign of the Qin Dynasty, I have lived for two thousand years! "
"Immortality is not a taboo!"
Xiao Lin briefly described the grudges between Ziyuan, Guo Ming, and the Dragon Emperor for two thousand years. She warned them that after the Dragon Emperor was resurrected, he would bring an unprecedented disaster to the world. Only she had the chance to kill the Dragon Emperor and stop it in its infancy. She asked them to help her complete this mission to save the world.
"Whether it's a taboo or not, we can now be sure that the Qin First Emperor is likely to be resurrected, and his arrangements before he died were not just for resurrection! I don't believe that the talented and bold First Emperor would put himself in a cursed situation just for a woman. Even if your mother, Ziyuan Fairy, is as beautiful as She Gu Fairy, it is impossible. I also don't believe that the Qin First Emperor would be cursed before getting the spring of immortality. "
Chen Yulou said flatly, "Unless everything is under the control of the First Emperor, including the curse and the spring of immortality. I believe that all this is a big plan of the Qin First Emperor for two thousand years. Everything is for the sake of becoming an immortal!"
"In addition to the Netherworld Yellow Spring, Becoming an Immortal, and the Immortal Medicine of Kunlun that we found in the First Emperor's mausoleum, the First Emperor sent Xu Fu out to the sea to find the Three-Immortal Island, ordered a necromancer to refine the Immortal Medicine, and ordered Lu to go to Jieshi Mountain to find immortals. Now we know that he also ordered Ziyuan Fairy in Shangri-la to offer the spring of immortality. The other two directions should have something to do with these legends. "
Chen Yulou pondered for a moment, then wrote some of his conjectures on the back of the map. In order to prevent those foreigners from getting this information, he even used big seal characters. He believed that no matter if Laura used Chinese characters or not, she would not be able to recognize this kind of ancient characters, but Commander Bai would definitely be able to. In the message, Chen Yulou instructed Commander Bai to beware of the three foreigners, and it would be best to find a way to kill them.
Finally, he left a message that if he entered the First Emperor's mausoleum and did not come back, he should take this map out and give it to his father.
After leaving the map at a conspicuous place at the entrance of the main hall, they finally pushed the door open and entered the main hall. Crossing the threshold wrapped in purple copper, they saw a large hall that was more than ten feet wide and more than a thousand feet deep. There were dozens of huge pillars in the hall that needed two people to wrap their arms around. There were three hundred and sixty bronze figures of generals, civil officials, and officials bowing their heads to the throne in front of them in the posture of paying respect to the First Emperor.
These bronze figures had lifelike faces and were dressed in the clothes of the Early Qin Dynasty, serving the deceased First Emperor. These hundreds of bronze figures were like stars surrounding and protecting the north star, worshiping the throne at the highest point of the hall. On the throne, a tall and mighty shadow could be vaguely seen.
Seeing that shadow, Xiao Lin's whole body trembled. He stood stiffly on the spot, sweating profusely, and the hand holding the dagger trembled slightly.
Partridge Whistle could not stand it anymore. He pulled her and said in a low voice, "Let's go there first!" As he said this, he took the lead to step into the main hall of the main hall. From the left and right sides of the hall surrounded by bronze figures and bronze statues, they walked toward the throne. The surrounding curtains were still intact after two thousand years. In the low-gravity environment, they fluttered like fairies. Through the silk, they saw huge murals carved on the walls of the main hall.
In the Early Qin Dynasty, the palace was the core building for large-scale sacrificial activities and political activities. The main hall where the coffin of the Qin First Emperor rested should be a replica of the front hall when he was ruling the world, where he held meetings with the court officials about the world's major events. Among the large buildings near the nine-storey palace, there were also buildings like the rooftop, the altar for offering sacrifices to the earth, and the Orchid Lake Palace that looked like a celestial island.
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