Bai Qianmo stood outside the revolving door, holding up her phone as a flashlight and looking around.
"There don't seem to be any other hidden doors here. This door in front of us is the only way forward. We have no other choice."
Gu Jueye nodded in agreement: "So the three of us can't easily separate. We need to go in, but the three of us need to go in together."
“Indeed, this place is full of traps, and the Mo family’s traps are ever-changing. The three of us must not be separated easily.”
Feng Yi said, "Then let's go in together. I'll go first, and you all follow closely behind me."
The three of them exchanged glances, and that was their decision.
Feng Yi entered the secret chamber first, Bai Qianmo walked in the middle, and Gu Jueye followed closely behind.
However, just as Bai Qianmo entered the revolving door, she heard a very faint sound, which sounded like someone closing a door.
The creaking sound was very faint, but the surrounding environment was so quiet that it was heard exceptionally clearly.
She was certain that there was nothing wrong with her ears.
Just as the sound rang out, Bai Qianmo suddenly sensed something strange.
Quiet, deathly quiet.
Suddenly, Gu Jueye's footsteps disappeared behind her.
Bai Qianmo suddenly turned around and saw that Gu Jueye behind her had disappeared.
"Ah Ye?"
Bai Qianmo called out, but there was no sound from the still half-open revolving door behind her.
She turned around and looked ahead, but even Feng Yi was nowhere to be seen.
Bai Qianmo stood there in thought for a moment, her brows gradually furrowing.
There must be something wrong with the sound of the door closing.
Bai Qianmo suddenly realized that the mechanism wasn't inside the room, but rather on the revolving door.
As she walked through the door, the sound that resembled "closing the door" was actually the sound of a mechanism being activated.
This means that the door she passed through was not the same door Feng Yi had gone through.
In the blink of an eye, the door was changed?
Bai Qianmo couldn't help but marvel at how unpredictable and ingenious the Mo family's mechanical arts were.
Bai Qianmo raised her flashlight and looked ahead. There was still a dark passage ahead, but compared to the narrow passage that could only accommodate one person before, this passage was now five times wider.
The passage is flanked by man-made stone walls, and given its length, it was a massive undertaking.
Feng Yi was right; Yin Chi seemed to have a particular fondness for carving caves deep in the mountains.
Damn it, she could pass through walls, but the area around the cave was full of very hard rock, making it unrealistic to try and get through.
Putting the thought aside, Bai Qianmo dashed forward like a gust of wind.
We arrived at the end of the passage, where a second revolving door appeared.
Bai Qianmo raised her hand and gently pushed, and the revolving door immediately opened.
It was still pitch black inside, but this time it wasn't a passageway, but a secret room.
The secret room was estimated to be over a hundred square meters in size. In the very center of the room was a circular platform with a strangely shaped bronze vessel on it.
The vessel resembled a bronze tripod, but its overall shape was quite different.
Bai Qianmo walked towards the platform, raised her flashlight, and took a closer look.
This vessel is openwork, with many strange patterns carved on it, including eight bronze dragons that cling to the vessel.
Each dragon's posture is similar, with slight variations, but all are head-up.
Bai Qianmo noticed a detail: each dragon had a small bead of a different color in its mouth.
The fact that this is the only bronze vessel in the entire secret chamber must mean something special.
Just as I was thinking, I suddenly heard footsteps outside the secret room.
Bai Qianmo looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the door she had come in through had been pushed open from the outside.
Then, a familiar figure walked in.
The two locked eyes, and when he saw Bai Qianmo, a look of joy appeared on his face. He quickly rushed to the platform and hugged Bai Qianmo tightly.
"I've finally found you."
Bai Qianmo raised her head and looked at the man in front of her: "Where did you go just now? Where is Feng Yi?"
Gu Jueye explained, "The three of us entered that revolving door one after another, but we were actually separated into three different passages. We haven't found any trace of Feng Yi yet."
Bai Qianmo was silent for a moment, then carefully analyzed, "It's roughly the same as what I guessed. The revolving door appears to be stationary to the naked eye, but in reality, the mechanism was triggered the moment we pushed it open, and it was actually rotating. So, although the three of us seemed to have entered the same door, we actually entered different passages."
"Indeed, the Mo family's mechanical arts excel at illusions. We must be careful from now on."
Bai Qianmo took Gu Jueye's hand, her gaze suddenly narrowing as she gave him a deep look.
"What's wrong?" Gu Jueye asked, puzzled.
After a moment's thought, Bai Qianmo shook her head: "It's nothing, come and take a look at this."
Bai Qianmo led Gu Jueye to the bronze vessel, and Gu Jueye stared intently at it as he observed it.
"This seems to be the legendary Eight Dragons Offering to the Moon."
"Eight dragons surrounding the moon?"
"Yes, this bronze vessel is round, which is similar to the full moon on the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar. There are eight dragons on each of the eight sides. From the shape, it looks like eight giant dragons are holding up the moon. That's where the name 'Eight Dragons Surrounding the Moon' comes from."
"Then what is the significance of this vessel appearing here?"
Gu Jueye looked around and said, "There should be eight hidden doors in this secret room. They are still the doors of life and death. This vessel is the key to opening the doors of life and death. The beads in the mouths of each dragon are different colors, and these colors correspond to the directions of the eight doors. So I guess that the beads in the mouths of these eight dragons can be removed."
As he spoke, Gu Jueye reached out and took the pearl out of the mouth of one of the dragons.
"If the mechanism is truly a pearl in the dragon's mouth, then how do we determine which path leads to life?"
"Each colored bead must have a meaning."
Bai Qianmo's eyes lit up: "There are exactly eight beads here. Do they correspond to the eight gates in the secret chamber?"
Gu Jueye looked around: "If that's the case, we can only leave safely if we find the corresponding bead and place it at the location of the Gate of Life."
“I once read a book on Qimen Dunjia, which mentioned that the eight gates correspond to the eight trigrams. Among them, the Qian trigram is blue, the Kan trigram is black, the Gen trigram is blackish-yellow, the Zhen trigram is green, the Xun trigram is colorful, the Li trigram is red, the Kun trigram is yellow, and the Dui trigram is white.”
Bai Qianmo circled the bronze vessel: "These colors correspond exactly to the beads in the mouths of these eight bronze dragons. Therefore, the Qian trigram corresponds to the Open Gate in the northwest, the Kan trigram corresponds to the Rest Gate in the north, the Gen trigram corresponds to the Life Gate in the northeast, the Zhen trigram corresponds to the Wound Gate in the east, the Xun trigram corresponds to the Block Gate in the east, the Li trigram corresponds to the View Gate in the south, the Kun trigram corresponds to the Death Gate in the southwest, and the Dui trigram corresponds to the Capital Gate in the west."
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