This cave hall is sunken. The top of the hall is level with where Yang Jing is standing now, but the bottom of the hall is seven or eight meters deep under his feet.

Obviously, from the location and depth, it can be clearly judged that this cave hall is the core area of ​​the entire cave. This cave hall, together with the four sections of caves outside, form a "U"-shaped structure. The four sections of caves outside that are full of traps are the outer circle of the "U", and this cave hall is the "mouth" inside the "U".

Yang Jing approached the rock wall at the entrance of the cave hall, looked at it for a while, then reached out and touched the rock wall, then shook his head in surprise.

If I'm not mistaken, this cave hall was actually carved out of the mountain!

In other words, if the four sections of caves outside were formed naturally and then slightly modified by humans, then this cave hall was most likely completely carved out of the mountain!

At this point, Yang Jing was almost certain that this cave was not built by Yue Chengzi at all. He just found this place and took it for himself.

But, who was the great person who accomplished such a huge project?

Combined with what he had just guessed in the cave hall outside, Yang Jing estimated that this cave was most likely built by an emperor of the Tang Dynasty!

The ancient Chinese emperors usually began to prepare for their afterlife as soon as they ascended the throne. Along with the glorious ascension of an emperor, on the other hand, there was the construction of a huge imperial mausoleum.

It often takes several years or even decades to build an imperial mausoleum. Many short-lived emperors began to build their own mausoleums after they ascended the throne, but most of them were not completed until their death...

If this cave is really an imperial tomb, considering the construction level at that time, it would take at least ten years just to build this tomb!

After letting out a slight breath, Yang Jing slowly stepped onto the stairs extending downward from the entrance and walked to the bottom of the cave hall.

This staircase was close to the rock wall on one side. After walking down and taking out the battery lights, the bottom that seemed a little blurry just now was now suddenly bright.

The entire hall was more than ten meters long and wide, about the same size as the first cave hall. In the center of the bottom of the hall, there was a raised square stone platform. Next to the platform was a stone tablet more than one meter high. On the platform sat a completely decayed skeleton. Between the two thigh bones of the skeleton, there was a jade box less than one foot in diameter...

This jade box should have been held in the abdomen of this skeleton when he was alive, but when the body rotted, the jade box naturally fell between his legs.

A complete skeleton holding a jade box in its hands, what does this mean?

It goes without saying! This jade box definitely has extraordinary significance for this skeleton.

This situation made Yang Jing extremely excited. The scene before him clearly showed one thing, that is, the thing contained in the jade box was most likely the imperial seal!

Yang Jingqiang suppressed his excitement and walked quickly to the skeleton. Only then did he discover that the skeleton was not only holding the jade box, but also contained some other things.

A jade hairpin fell on the stone platform behind the skeleton. On one side of the hairpin was engraved the Tai Chi Yin-Yang fish. It was obviously not a hairpin used by ordinary women, but rather a hairpin worn by a Taoist priest.

In addition to the jade hairpin, there is also a jade handle of a whisk on the arm bones of the skeleton. The animal hair on the whisk has long since rotted away, leaving only the handle of the whisk. Since the handle of the whisk is also made of jade, it has not rotted.

There is a yin-yang ring made of jade on the left arm bone of the skeleton.

Obviously, these remains all indicate the identity of this skeleton - he was a Taoist priest during his lifetime.

Because whether it is the jade hairpin with the yin-yang fish pattern engraved on it, the whisk without animal hair, or the yin-yang ring with two circles connected together, they are all ornaments worn by Taoists.

In other words, the identity of this skeleton in his lifetime is already clear - Yue Chengzi.

If this skeleton was indeed Yuechengzi during his lifetime, then the jade box between the skeleton's hands must contain the legendary imperial seal.

Although Yang Jing was very excited, he did not rush to take the jade box. Instead, he calmed himself down and carefully looked at the stone tablet next to the stone platform.

This stone tablet, like the one outside, is carved with extinct characters. Yang Jing spent a long time to translate the content carved on the stone tablet.

These contents surprised Yang Jing greatly.

The content on the stone tablet is roughly as follows.

In the first year of You, that is, in 904 AD, Yuechengzi traveled after leaving Shangqing Temple on Wangwu Mountain. As a result, he accidentally obtained a secret scroll, which showed him the approximate location of a tomb built by Emperor Wu Ze of the Zhou Dynasty more than 200 years ago. So he followed the map and spent six years to find the tomb, which was suspected to have been built by Empress Wu Ze of the Zhou Dynasty, in the third year of Cheng, that is, in 910 AD.

This time point is consistent with the time on the previous stone tablet, but the previous stone tablet was not so detailed, while this stone tablet detailed how Yuechengzi discovered the tomb of Wu Zetian.

Seeing this, Yang Jing smiled. This cave was indeed a mausoleum of an emperor from the Tang Dynasty, and it was actually the mausoleum that Wu Zetian built for herself.

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