Chapter 143 Trench Exploration (2) She thought that the eaves corner was a bit eye-catching...
Si Ling looked carefully at the open space in front of the hall and soon saw an arc at the edge. The ground inside and outside the arc was divided into two colors.
This was probably what had interfered with Xuan Chi's judgment—he had been executed before Cangming Palace, yet there was no trace of it near the grotto. It now appeared that an external force had severed the two, leaving the square where Xuan Chi had been sealed on the land of what is now Hans, while Cangming Palace, along with the heavenly soldiers, had sunk into the sea.
But this kind of operation must require powerful magical support. Si Ling didn't know who did it, nor what the purpose was, so he became more vigilant.
She started to swim towards Cangming Palace, carefully passing over the countless heavenly soldiers below, for fear of alarming them.
A few minutes later, she landed in the circular clearing.
...It was indeed cut. She walked to the edge and took a closer look. The height difference was clearly visible.
She turned around and looked at the Cangming Palace behind her. Just now, she was hanging high above and looking down at it, without feeling much. But now she was standing in the open space in front of the palace. The Cangming Palace looked like an ancient giant beast lurking deep in the sea, so magnificent that it was shocking.
Si Ling calmed himself down and walked towards the palace gate.
There were nine steps in front of the hall, which had long been covered with mud and algae. When she stepped on them, the waves of the water washed away some of the dirt, revealing a bit of the whiteness of the jade.
When Si Ling saw the white color, he belatedly realized that there was light here - although this space was also dim, it was much brighter than outside, just like the difference between late night and dusk.
She then looked around and discovered that the light came from under the eaves of the palace. There seemed to be something embedded there, and the faint white light spread softly in all directions, and it had not gone out for tens of thousands of years.
She continued to walk up in amazement, and when there were still two steps left, she stopped.
——She saw a complete skeleton on the two-meter-wide platform in front of the temple gate, which was so dirty that the color could not be seen. At first glance, it looked no different from the skeleton of an mortal, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that it is too complete.
Although this place effectively isolates most marine life, algae still grow there, and the seawater is no different from the outside world. Ordinary bones should be quickly eroded in such an environment. It is unlikely that they will be preserved like this, let alone disappear completely.
"Now her splendid skeleton lies before the otten Abyssal Palace,"
"Now only its beautiful remains remain, resting on the forgotten steps of the Cangming Palace."
When Si Ling thought of that record, he felt a pang of fear in his heart.
She climbed the last two stone steps, squatted down beside the skeleton, pondered for a moment, and raised her hand to stroke the skeleton's forehead.
The silt was wiped away, and the color of the skeleton itself was revealed, a translucent white between white jade and diamond, with a crystal luster.
Si Ling almost instantly determined that this was Xin Bi, but he didn't understand why she died here.
She turned her head in a daze to look at the divine soldiers in front of the temple. The dark mass of soldiers and horses was intimidating. They were still here, but the Emperor who built them was dead.
Why didn't she use the heavenly soldiers to kill the rebels, or at least protect herself?
Si Ling couldn't figure it out, so he withdrew his gaze and looked towards the gate of Cangming Palace in front of him.
The temple door was not closed, and it looked dark and deep from here, but not completely black. There was a half-person-high lamp on each side, which was still lit, dimly illuminating an area.
With the help of this light, Si Ling vaguely saw the wide chair at the end of the hall. Between her and the chair, there was a stone platform shrouded by the two halos. Even though the seal placed in the center of the stone platform was covered with thick dirt, it still emitted strands of golden light.
That's it.
Si Ling felt a little excited and inexplicably wanted to cry.
She stood up, walked around the remains, and entered the main door. But after entering the palace, her gaze fixed on the military seal was distracted by something in her peripheral vision.
She noticed the marks on the ground, scattered here and there, many of them in the shape of a human, spreading patches of darker color across the dirt ground.
These colors are not obvious originally, but because of the light, they appear clearly.
Based on his experience, Si Ling judged that this was the mark left by the destruction of ghosts.
Any ghost that can appear in Cangming Palace should not be an ordinary creature, right?
She became more and more curious about what happened that year, so she straightened her face and continued walking towards the stone platform where the military seal was placed.
She quickly walked to the stone platform, and the military seal still shone with a faint golden light through the mud.
Si Ling couldn't help but admire it, seeming a little naive.
...Although this theoretically belongs to her, she has no impression of it at all, and she has never seen any divine artifact from heaven in the past 30,000 years. No one can laugh at her character.
She then walked around the stone platform with reverence, admiring it to her heart's content, and finally reached out to it, but did not want to put it away directly. She planned to wipe it clean carefully first.
But just as her body touched the military seal——
A blinding golden light suddenly burst forth, instantly enveloping Si Ling. The burning sensation of the golden light assaulted every part of Si Ling's body, instantly inflicting excruciating, bone-searing pain. The skeletons lying quietly outside the hall seemed to be inspired, shaking violently. The dirt quickly faded away as they moved, and the bones gradually lifted off the ground, striking Si Ling like sharp swords.
"Ah——" With a shrill scream, Si Ling was knocked unconscious without any room to struggle.
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Hohenzollernburg.
Xuan Chi sat on the sofa in the living room in a daze. Ever since Si Ling set out to look for the military seal, he had been in a daze most of the time.
With drastic changes coming, it was hard for him not to have wild thoughts.
He hoped that Xin Bi would return to the outside of the Emperor of Heaven, so he was worried that she would lose; he hoped to find his tribesmen, but he was also afraid that there was some hidden reason for their disappearance.
Confused thoughts churned in his mind, giving him a splitting headache at one point. He couldn't help but start to doubt that he had really betrayed Xin Bi - if that was really the case, what would happen after Si Ling remembered those things?
Hyun Chi was upset by these suspicious emotions. He shook his head, walked to the refrigerator on the wall, opened the refrigerator door, and took out a bottle of 96-proof vodka.
Even in its freezing country of origin, this wine is usually mixed with other beverages. Drinking it directly can easily burn a mortal's mouth and does not taste good.
But for evil spirits who rarely get drunk, it is a rare thing that can temporarily numb their thoughts. They don't worry about burns, so it doesn't matter whether it tastes good or not.
Xuan Chi unscrewed the bottle cap expressionlessly, tilted his head back and drank half of it in one breath.
Refrigeration greatly reduced the spiciness of the taste, so Xuan Chi only felt that most of his confused thoughts were washed away, and the experience was good.
But this calmness was only temporary, and the disturbing emotions soon surfaced in his heart again. Only with the remaining effect of alcohol, Xuan Chi could temporarily suppress it.
When the effects of the alcohol wore off a little, Xuan Chi felt a subtle pain on his left side.
He subconsciously raised his hand to cover his back, then realized that the pain was not coming from his back. He froze for a moment, then suddenly transformed into wings.
A bad premonition made him hold his breath and turn his head to look at the left wing, but the black feathers were too dark, making it difficult for him to tell what was unusual.
Xuan Chi calmed down and reached out to where the pain came from.
When he turned his palm over, he saw black blood on it.
A few seconds later, the door of the principal's office was kicked open. Xuan Chi looked up and saw that there was no one in the room, so he immediately turned around and rushed to the teaching area.
During the break, he rushed through the corridor, scaring the ghosts and monsters to give way. After passing several classrooms, Xuan Chi finally found Lucifer.
Lucifer was standing in front of the podium, chatting amiably with the students in the beginner class, when he suddenly saw a dark shadow coming towards him. Before he could react, the shadow grabbed his collar and pressed him against the wall.
"Ah!" The little ghosts in the classroom exclaimed.
"Where is Si Ling?!" Xuan Chi roared.
Lucifer hadn't recovered from his shock to begin with, and was even more stunned when he heard this: "Huh?"
Xuan Chi repeated: "Where is Si Ling?"
Lucifer was speechless.
For two seconds, he suspected that his memory was confused - in his impression, it was Xuan Chi who was unwilling to go with Si Ling to find the military seal in the ancient book, but now it seems that this is not the case.
But now was clearly not the time to delve into such matters. He glanced at Xuan Chi's ferocious face and, bewildered, uttered the name of the place: "Puerto Rico Trench."
In the blink of an eye, Xuan Chi's figure disappeared from sight, followed by the sound of glass breaking.
"..." Lucifer silently looked at the stained glass with a big hole in it a few steps away, and watched the black figure flying far away. He was only thankful for one thing in his heart: fortunately, the "castle" where the students were was a parallel space constructed by him with magic.
Otherwise, stained glass is very expensive.
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In Cangming Palace, Si Ling felt like he had spent several centuries in the scorching heat.
When the burning sensation finally dissipated and was followed by a comfortable coolness, she relaxed her nerves in the darkness and gradually realized that the coolness seemed to be brought by the breeze. She smiled unconsciously and slowly opened her eyes.
What she saw seemed to be a forest. She sat up in confusion, not understanding why she was there and unable to remember what had happened before she arrived here.
Then, a noise not far away caught her attention.
It was a woman's voice: "If we use Xuan Chi's troops to fight back, what are our chances of winning?" The voice was solemn and majestic.
The voice that replied next sounded much weaker, soft and thin: "At most 40%... Lord, you are seriously injured."
Si Ling's eyes shone, and he immediately followed the sound and saw two figures flying across the forest.
She quickly made a gesture and chased after them, but she was afraid of disturbing them, so she carefully kept a distance from them.
She followed them all the way to the depths of the forest until they saw the eaves of a Chinese-style building. They retracted their magic and landed on the ground, and Si Ling followed them down.
For some reason, she felt that the eaves looked familiar.
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