"The wall from the Han Dynasty?" Baili Pangpang wandered around the ghost palace. After hearing this, he came to An Qingyu's side and said, "Let me see which ancient person is so idle?"
An Qingyu: ...
"Tell me about it." Cao Yuan and Li Deyang also walked to An Qingyu's side.
An Qingyu adjusted his glasses and said slowly: "If I'm not mistaken, this heavenly palace should be used to store files of strange events that happened in the mortal world, and the file in my hand describes a strange event in the Han Dynasty.
During the Han Dynasty, a strange girl suddenly appeared among the people. She had the power to give immortality to any object she touched. The objects given immortality by her would not be affected by any external factors.
The clothes on her body would not be damaged in the slightest no matter how they were cut by a knife or burned by fire. The wooden axe she touched could cut metal and stone. The arrows she shot could easily penetrate heavy armor...
She herself is invulnerable to swords and guns. Fire cannot leave burns on her skin, aqua regia cannot leave any marks on her body, and even time has no effect on her. No matter how many years have passed, her appearance will not age in the slightest.
However, the flaw is that she can only apply the immortality feature to one object at a time. When granting the arrow the power of immortality, she herself will lose the protection of immortality and become vulnerable like an ordinary person... But the strange thing is that even if she loses the protection of immortality, she will not age, as if her own time has been frozen in eternity.
Because of this almost miraculous power, she was worshipped as a messenger of God by the local people, who offered her sacrifices all day long in the hope of receiving her protection and achieving immortality.
When the emperor of the time heard about this, he summoned her into the palace, treated her as an honored guest, asked her for advice on the secret of immortality, and even gave her three hundred bronze warriors who swore to protect her safety to the death.
Suddenly one day, mysterious monsters crawled out of the void like a tide and besieged the strange girl with immortal power. Surprisingly, these monsters actually had the power to break the immortality and easily hurt the girl. Three hundred bronze warriors protected the girl and fought to the death with the monsters. In the end, all the monsters were wiped out, but the monsters also disappeared strangely in the end...
After hearing about this, the emperor thought that the girl was a bloody disaster star, and that she might be attacked by monsters at any time, which was not good for the country. So he sent people to build a coffin with Xuanyin wood that could isolate all auras, sealed the girl in it, and sent people to send the coffin to Fengdu...
After that, the emperor was still worried, so he secretly had a wall built near Fengdu. This way, if the monsters came to kill the girls again one day, even if they broke out of Fengdu, they would be stopped by the wall and could not enter the world of the living and cause harm to the country.
An Qingyu closed the file in his hand, and the people around him fell into deep thought.
"Immortality..." Li Deyang frowned slightly, "Does this kind of power really exist? And listening to this description, why does it feel so similar..."
"Forbidden Ruins." Cao Yuan continued his words.
"Yes, it feels similar to the Forbidden Ruins, but in the Forbidden Ruins sequence that I know of, there doesn't seem to be such a Forbidden Ruins."
"But... didn't the Forbidden Ruins appear after the fog fell?" Baili Pangpang asked doubtfully, "This happened more than 2,000 years ago. How could there be Forbidden Ruins at that time?"
Cao Yuan nodded. "The Forbidden Ruins did appear after the fog fell. This has long been proven by the Night Watch. Either her power is not the Forbidden Ruins, or... she may be the first owner of the Forbidden Ruins in the world."
"It sounds impressive..." Li Deyang nodded, "But it seems to have nothing to do with us."
Baili Pangpang stood up from the ground and grinned, "That's not necessarily true. Isn't she immortal? What if she is still alive today and is still lying in a coffin?"
"Uncle Li is right. The most urgent thing right now is to find a way out." Cao Yuan's eyes swept through the palace, and his brows slightly frowned. "But this hall is completely closed. Apart from the door we came in, there seems to be no other exit."
Baili Pangpang pondered for a moment, "How about I give it a try?"
The other three turned around and looked at Baili Pangpang with some surprise.
"I have a prop that can travel through space... Bah, it's a forbidden item. But this is the Heavenly Palace, and I don't know if it will work." Baili Pangpang shrugged.
"If you have this kind of thing, why didn't you take it out earlier?" Li Deyang asked depressedly.
"This thing is a consumable. It's gone once you use it up. There's only one of this in the world." Baili Pangpang took out a piece of chalk from his pocket and said with some pain.
He walked to a corner of the hall, squatted down, and drew a big circle on the wall with chalk. When the powder met the beginning and the end, the wall inside the circle suddenly rippled, and the wall in the circle disappeared.
"It works!" Baili Pangpang's eyes lit up, "Hurry over, this thing can only last for ten seconds."
When the other three saw this scene, a look of joy appeared on their faces, and they immediately crawled through the chalk circle. After An Qingyu walked out, the circle connecting to the outside world disappeared.
Cao Yuan shone the flashlight around. This was no longer the main entrance of the hall that they had entered before, but right behind the hall. A winding and rugged road extended forward. At the end of the road, a magnificent red palace was suspended in the air.
The volume of this suspended palace is much larger than the six palaces on the ground, and the outer walls and roof are vermilion. It is almost the only non-black building that Baili Pangpang and his four companions have seen since they entered Fengdu.
The six palaces on the ground all had black walls and vermilion gates, but the suspended palace in front of him was just the opposite, with vermilion walls and a pitch-black gate. The dark gate stood in mid-air like an abyss.
"Well, this should be the imperial palace of Emperor Fengdu, right?" An Qingyu also looked up at the magnificent palace and spoke.
"That should be correct." Cao Yuan nodded.
Baili Pangpang looked at the magnificent suspended palace and couldn't help smacking his lips. "Should we go up and take a look?"
"No." Cao Yuan refused decisively, "We are here to find Qiye, not to travel."
"...Okay." Baili Pangpang sighed in frustration.
At this moment, a wave of white paper people suddenly swept across the sky. Cao Yuan and others' faces changed slightly, and they immediately stuck to the edge of the palace wall to hide their figures.
Fortunately, those paper figures did not seem to be coming for the four people. They just flew over the top of the palace and then flew upwards.
Cao Yuan stuck his head out, squinted his eyes and looked ahead at the wave of paper figures, then suddenly froze in place.
At the forefront of the wave of paper people, a giant white ant was crawling rapidly on the ground, following the black stone slab suspended in the air, and rushing straight to the hanging palace!
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