Since the palace was built, no one has come for at least ten thousand years. Xia Xiao and Azhu are rare visitors, but they cannot see its original appearance and don’t know how to get in.

Xia Xiao stared at it for a long time, and finally overcame the dizziness and had a rough idea of ​​what was in front of him. What he saw was not a palace, but a strange room, like a shrine.

This metaphor is quite appropriate, but it is empty, floating on the empty sea, guiding Xia Xiao and the others to come in.

Xia Xiao was very alert and did not walk in directly, but just stepped on the ripples, trying to see what was behind the shrine. But in the distance was the shadow of the temple, and the shrines in the other two directions looked extremely small. Apart from that, there was nothing.

This is the south of the South China Sea, with only a layer of sea surface between the sea and the sky. Xia Xiao and A Zhu looked at each other and stepped into the shrine carefully. It was obviously very large, but Xia Xiao and A Zhu felt a sense of crowding and suffocation, as if they were in a small space, and the oxygen around them was consumed in two breaths.

"Why aren't you moving?"

Ah Zhu was prepared for the shrine to shake violently, but it made no sound and seemed to be motionless. Xia Xiao observed it carefully and found that the dilapidated shrine seemed to be about to collapse into pieces at any time. There was no clever mechanism to speak of. But before leaving, Xia Xiao still held Ah Zhu's hand to prevent her from being pulled away after he left.

After crossing the stone threshold, Xia Xiao and Azhu looked behind the shrine again, but they were both shocked, because the palace that was far away before had appeared in their pupils silently, and was very close.

“It’s amazing.”

Ah Zhu's little mouth couldn't stop talking, but when you come to a sacred place, you should show piety. Xia Xiao kept silent. Before confirming the true appearance of the ancestor of the spiritual contract, he couldn't keep denying it. After all, now was not the time to be impulsive, and he needed to deal with everything very calmly.

The shrine is a guide, bringing people to another world. After passing it, Xia Xiao and A Zhu saw a bridge, which was precarious and frighteningly thin. Xia Xiao and A Zhu did not step on it immediately. If this shoddy construction was not the only option, they did not want to take the risk. In this world, their vitality was suppressed, and they could not fly or jump at all.

The sea area where the ancient temple was located was extremely strange. Before, one could walk on it as if walking on flat ground, without any ups and downs, and it was incredibly soft. Now there was a circular and extremely deep cliff, and no one knew where it led to, and it was so deep that one could not see the bottom.

Ah Zhu saw it and stepped back quickly, saying in surprise:

"The sea water here is flowing down!"

Looking at the hall, it has a bronze color under the clear sky. Some of it can be seen from the outside, but most of it is just thick moss accumulated over time.

"Let's go."

Xia Xiao took Azhu's little hand and ran over very quickly. Every step they took felt like they were falling, which was extremely creepy. The first thing they did after crossing the bridge was to look back.

The stone bridge did not fall apart, nor did it fall into the abyss. The palace, which was supported by the seawater, did not shake at all. How could the palace, which had existed for tens of thousands of years, collapse because of the arrival of two people? No matter how special Xia Xiao was, he did not have that kind of strength. To the palace, Xia Xiao was not even one-tenth of the master.

The first thing you see when you cross the bridge is a passage that leads deep into the darkness. A fire flashed in Xia Xiao's arm, but because of some kind of suppression, it was not very strong, but extremely weak, like a candle, which could only illuminate things a few meters in front of him.

"Where does it lead to?"

"The main hall."

Even though the academy records everything in the world, no matter how rare it is, there are some detailed or vague records, but about this hall, there is only the word "ancient". As for what is in it, Xia Xiao doesn't know, and has no clue. But since it was left by the ancestor of the spiritual contract to guard Quedan, is there any spiritual wisdom in it? And this must be something extremely magnificent.

Xia Xiao was a little curious about what the huge stone statue holding a lamp in the dream looked like. Everything in the hall could become a clue. Xia Xiao didn't want to miss it, but his steps were still very slow, because he didn't know what would pop up around him, which might chew him into a corpse.

Ancient things, no matter how ordinary they are, can give people endless fantasy. Xia Xiao was groping carefully in a mine, but Ah Zhu beside him was emitting a faint glow unconsciously, making the dark passage lose its mystery in an instant, like a map illuminated by light, instantly becoming a God's perspective. This way, there is no fear, but Xia Xiao narrowed his eyes and looked at Ah Zhu, who shrugged his shoulders as if he didn't know what happened.

"Sometimes the power in my body is out of control and I don't know what's wrong."

Compared to the light that illuminated the passage, Ah Zhu pulled Xia Xiao's backpack strap and hid behind him, timid and afraid to move. If the light was the power of the Lord Blood God, Ah Zhu would be Ah Zhu. But this light was spreading, allowing Xia Xiao to gradually adapt and enjoy the broad perspective of God.

The warm light shone on the bricks and stones of the inner wall of the passage, and also shone into the narrow brick cracks. Xia Xiao and Ah Zhu shook off the fatigue of walking for a long time before, and soon they suddenly saw the inside of the hall. This place was a little different from what Xia Xiao had imagined, but the scene in front of him made him frown.

"What's wrong?"

Ah Zhu noticed something was wrong with Xia Xiao, but the latter just stared at the stone statue in front of him, and stood there for a long time before saying:

"I saw her in my dreams."

At the end of the passage was a platform with ancient patterns on it. There were stone statues of dragons and beasts around it. They were not very tall, shorter than Xia Xiao and Ah Zhu, but very delicate. Their heads were facing the center, and Xia Xiao walked up with stiff legs, and Ah Zhu followed. The latter looked at the former, and the former looked at the stone statue. Ah Zhu also looked, but he didn't feel anything, but Xia Xiao was so excited that tears welled up in his eyes.

In Xia Xiao's mind, an ancient chime had already sounded. It came from a distant time and went straight into Xia Xiao's heart, disrupting his thoughts. Xia Xiao could no longer think, but was fascinated by the music, and his body staggered.

"Xia Xiao?"

In Ah Zhu's eyes, Xia Xiao started to talk nonsense again. This time, the situation was more serious than before, because he couldn't hear what he said clearly. What five elements, what Qiankun Bagua, what moon and secrets, and what gods. Ah Zhu knew that these were related to the ancestor of the spiritual contract, but it was difficult to know what they meant.

There was no road around the platform, and there was only a large lake in front of him, with grass of unknown name growing everywhere. The stone statue on top was a hundred meters high, and the stone behind it was like a round, and no one knew what it represented, but the lamp in his hand seemed to never go out. But at this moment, under Ah Zhu's gaze, the last bit of fire disappeared.

"No way?"

Ah Zhu felt that he was quite unlucky. In fact, it was nothing to witness such a historic moment, but Xia Xiao's reaction was very strong for a moment. He stared at the candle as if possessed.

"Oh my god, wake up!"

Ah Zhu shook Xia Xiao repeatedly, but he just stared at the stone statue and was about to walk down the platform and wade through the water.

"Are you going to die? You'll be drowned in such deep water!"

Azhu hugged Xia Xiao's waist and dragged him, but the latter staggered like a drunk, but still dragged his body towards that side.

The deep lake is connected to the sea. Azhu used brute force to try to knock Xia Xiao down and then pin him down, but Xia Xiao's forward steps dragged him down, making him feel a little embarrassed.

Ah Zhu usually didn't eat in vain. With a push of her feet, Xia Xiao finally stopped. But when she looked down, she found that she and Xia Xiao were standing on the lake, with both feet in the water. The lake seemed very deep, but it was actually very shallow, like a grass covered with water, but it couldn't seep in completely. But the scene below, like the devil in the deep sea waiting for them, to eat them, the taste of living people must be more delicious than stinky fish.

When she thought of that, Ah Zhu's scalp went numb. She pulled Xia Xiao back. There was no light here, and the only light from the outside came from the top of the stone statue. It looked very sacred, but Xia Xiao and Ah Zhu were extremely embarrassed in the darkness, rolling and stumbling in the water, holding a broken bowl and looking like beggars.

"Xia Xiao, let's go!"

Ah Zhu was a little angry, but Xia Xiao would not listen to him. He rushed forward and ran to the bottom of the huge stone statue. It had a lotus seat like the Guanyin Bodhisattva, but it was just stone, and the moss on it was rubbed off by Xia Xiao's embrace. Xia Xiao seemed to throw himself into the arms of the god, eager to get her power, but Ah Zhu pulled him over and slapped him hard in the face.

At this time, such a simple and rough method is the most effective. Ah Zhu actually didn't want to do it, but the brand on Xia Xiao's back flashed, which made him a little scared.

"Look at you, you're here to find the answer!"

Xia Xiao was like a drug addict for a few moments, going crazy for those fake things. But after Ah Zhu slapped him, he finally understood, the blurriness in front of his eyes gradually disappeared, and he regained some consciousness.

When the first trace of consciousness appeared, Xia Xiao would no longer be confused. Like a warrior with arrows all over his back, he stood up while enduring the pain, but the person in his eyes was not the enemy, but Azhu.

Seeing that Xia Xiao was a little scared, Ah Zhu stepped back subconsciously and protected his face. But Xia Xiao raised his arm not to fight back, but to put it on Ah Zhu's shoulder.

"Well done."

No matter what kind of film or TV show it is, there are always slaps in different ways. Now it seems that it is really effective. The slap full of vitality made Xia Xiao feel a little painful.

"Are you okay?"

"Um."

"You scared me to death, are you possessed?"

"This stone statue is a bit weird. Let's go back."

Xia Xiao held Ah Zhu's hand tightly, and when he returned to the platform to look at the stone statue again, he saw only vicissitudes and sadness. The outline of the stone statue has been smoothed by time, but at a glance, there is a shadow of Shu Shuang. Xia Xiao didn't think it was a psychological effect, but Ah Zhu said this first, which made him look carefully and nod heavily.

"Having a Supreme Being is annoying enough, but would the ancestor of the Spiritual Contract also look like this?"

"I hope not, otherwise I'll be pissed to death."

As Ah Zhu muttered, Xia Xiao began to look around. Since this was the temple founded by the ancestor of the Spiritual Contract, there should be something she left behind. Although the talisman array here has been led to the Tanghua Temple, there must be clues. Xia Xiao now wants clues. He wants to know where the ancestor of the Spiritual Contract went, and what the things in the south of the South China Sea are. But after a long time, he found nothing.

"Look again!"

Xia Xiao was a little blind, but he had come all the way here, so he had to know something. Xia Xiao and Ah Zhu used their hands to feel around the hall, but it was just a building, how could there be something he wanted to know?

“This shouldn’t be the case…”

This was different from Xia Xiao's thinking. Even if he had no adventures here, he shouldn't get nothing. He gradually became anxious and frowned. Ah Zhu glanced at him timidly and immediately shut up, not daring to complain about being annoyed. But his hands were black, and he was just about to touch the ceiling. It was okay to work for a few hours without any results. The main thing was that this was the goal for the past two months. If he couldn't find anything, it would be the most heartbreaking.

Xia Xiao was anxious because of this. After all, he had paid so much and implicated four people from the academy. If he still couldn't find the answer, wouldn't what he said before become a joke? Could it be... that he really had to go to the Devil's Plain to ask that woman? Xia Xiao was very resistant to her and didn't want to be led by her, but the countless scenes that flashed through his mind were all caused by her.

"This is a trap. The woman didn't want us to find the answer from the beginning."

"Then we go find her? But we can't get out. There must be a lot of people on the shore."

Xia Xiao sat down on the steps with his back to the statue. He didn't want to listen to anything and felt a little disappointed. No wonder the woman was willing to let them run around. It turned out that she was confident and knew that they would not find anything.

what to do?

Xia Xiao's mind worked very fast, but he had no idea what to do. The exit of the maze he thought he had was actually not there. He was still in the maze, even in the center of it. Their game had just begun.

Ah Zhu didn't know how to comfort him, so he just sat beside him. At worst, he could go back and confess his crime. With the academy, he would definitely not die. As long as he didn't die, there was hope. This deep-rooted thought took root in Ah Zhu's mind, causing him to snuggle up to Xia Xiao, waiting for the latter to make a decision.

Xia Xiao was getting annoyed, but he still touched Ah Zhu's head. In his peripheral vision, he saw light coming out of his back again. It was the light of the brand that had been extinguished before, shining on the stone statue like a beam of light. The latter gradually changed under the light, and soft ripples appeared on its stiff and huge body, like water.

The stone statue seemed to be a living thing, attracting Xia Xiao's attention. Azhu thought Xia Xiao had become the same as before, and his eyes were full of worry, but when he looked beyond his gaze, he was also shocked.

"I want to know something."

Xia Xiao got straight to the point and couldn't wait to ask the statue. He hoped that the statue could speak, and it could, but it was a little dull. However, as long as it could answer questions, it didn't matter.

"I have guarded this place for more than 30,000 years, experienced countless days and nights, absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon, and have acquired human wisdom, but I cannot wake up from a long sleep. You are the breath of the Human Emperor, wake me up. If you have any questions, please tell me."

"I want to know what happened 30,000 years ago. Please tell me from the most objective perspective."

The stone statue was silent for a long time, but finally spoke. However, the first sentence, a sigh, left Xia Xiao puzzled.