Chapter 66 Underground Palace (2)
Though nestled underground, the underground palace was every bit as opulent as the Zhaojian Palace. There were no signs of fighting, no bodies left behind, and it was exceptionally clean. Sadly, all the rooms were empty. At least the arrays and traps had been destroyed, so there was no danger. Luo Xuanyi entered the final room with a gloomy heart.
This room seemed to be the ancient alchemist's own place of practice and meditation. It was large and spacious, with inscriptions carved into the ceiling, all painted with gold powder, but still roughly smudged, making it impossible to discern the original writing. Carved on the floor was a picture of six Dinglin playing and playing, quite naive.
But the five walls were completely different from the luxurious style of the underground palace; they were actually five rough earthen walls. Luo Xuanyi approached and saw the clue at the base of the wall: a gap three feet deep and one foot wide. A little thought made it clear that someone must have pried up the entire wall and taken it away.
This ancient alchemist must be of extraordinary status, with many secrets that the Tiandao group would rather die than reveal. Even now, Luo Xuanyi didn't know the name of this old demon master.
After wandering around, she found nothing. Even if she tried to find the secret room, Luo Xuanyi could only sigh after seeing the five walls that had been pried away. It was so clean. She now felt lucky to have found the Mermaid's Tears and the stone slab.
Just as she was about to leave, Luo Xuanyi suddenly realized something. Given the demonic nature of not wanting to do anything without profit, why would they go to such great lengths to conquer this empty, unprofitable ruin?
Even though the furnace mist ahead could cause amnesia, the Qiming people were still able to uncover many clues about the ruins, even directly reading memories through soul fragments. Why did some have sound and others didn't? It was like dealing with red light, obscuring important information.
Luo Xuanyi was now certain that the group of old demons must have seen some treasure that was worth exchanging the lives of tens of thousands of people for.
Compared to just checking for treasures just now, Luo Xuanyi went back and began to observe more carefully.
There is a long staircase leading down to the underground palace, and then a parallel corridor leading to the outer perimeter of the palace. After passing the medicine garden, you enter the inner courtyard, and then there is the room where the ancient alchemist practices.
Luo Xuanyi walked up and down the stairs several times, trying to calculate the height of the underground palace, but failed. It seemed as if some kind of barrier had been placed on the stairs, preventing the spread of light and obliterating the sense of the outside world. This was the only intact barrier Luo Xuanyi had discovered in the underground palace.
I didn't notice it when I was walking, maybe it was intentional during construction. Starting from the corridor, all the spaces gradually became larger and higher, giving people the illusion of gradually ascending. But when Luo Xuanyi walked again, she found that the underground palace was getting lower the further inward.
But if we calculate this way, there is still a huge space above the underground palace that has not been used, and it is even feasible to build another underground palace at this height.
Luo Xuanyi looked up and looked at the layer of fog on the dome of the underground palace.
Except for the stairs that cannot be illuminated by the darkness, the corridors with low roofs, and the training rooms with roofs, all you can see in other places is the accumulation of dark gray fog and the flickering light shining through the fog.
These lights shine through the fog in beams, and from the light, it can be seen that these are ordinary lighting minerals. Perhaps because they are too common, they have not been looted.
Luo Xuanyi thought out of habit, thinking that the object illuminated from above must be embedded or hanging in the dome. But what if it wasn't?
After looking around, Luo Xuanyi picked up an empty flowerpot placed under the pillar, injected spiritual energy into it, and threw it upwards!
The flowerpot shot swiftly into the mist, and immediately a shattering sound echoed through the air. Her eyesight was more powerful than that of an average cultivator, so she could see clearly. The flickering light burst forth into tiny strands the moment the flowerpot entered, weaving a fine net to intercept it, creating the illusion of it crashing into the dome.
There must be something up there, that's why it's covered up like this. It's just that these lights are a bit difficult to deal with, but there must be a correct entrance, no need to force your way in. Luo Xuanyi thought of the three places without fog.
She had walked up and down the stairs many times, but even if there was something, she couldn't break through the restriction with her current level of cultivation. She returned to the corridor and carefully checked again, and found a secret compartment on the wall.
This secret compartment was placed directly beneath the glass lamp, evidently a person who had arranged it well aware of the principle that the darkest part of the lamp is hidden. Luo Xuanyi carefully sealed her pores to prevent inhalation of the hidden poison. She gently pressed the button, and with a click on the wall, the compartment slowly slid open, revealing only a thin sheet of human skin.
Luo Xuanyi deliberately touched it with her palm first, and only picked it up to check after confirming that Xiandan Fuyuan had no reaction.
The human skin paper felt warm to the touch, delicate as if it were alive. A simple architectural pattern was painted on it with red cinnabar. It was truly a pillow for when you want to sleep! This was a diagram of the underground palace's architecture and hidden weapon layout, perhaps left by the owner for future generations. However, with this architectural diagram, Luo Xuanyi immediately spotted a flaw.
Luo Xuanyi's senses suggested that the entire underground palace resembled an inverted Chinese character "Lü" (Lü), with half of the characters overlapping. However, the architectural drawings revealed that this inverted Lü was missing a small corner at the large opening, where the ordinary disciples' training rooms were located. This meant that the left row of training rooms had the same number of rooms as the right, but all the rooms on the left were generally a finger's width narrower. Otherwise, the buildings were symmetrical.
After pushing the secret compartment back to its original place, Luo Xuanyi immediately ran to the last training room on the left according to the blueprint. After pushing open the door, she almost lay on the wall to search carefully, and found a slight misconnection in the gap between the wall and the bed.
Luo Xuanyi sealed off her other senses and used only her eyes to capture the spiritual energy in the air. With her full concentration, a tiny line guided Luo Xuanyi's hand to the lower left side of a small stain near the end of the bed.
Out of her sight, the stone slab behind her suddenly lit up.
The whole wall was shaking, dust piled up on the bed, and only a clicking sound like a mechanism turning was heard, and a staircase appeared in front of Luo Xuanyi.
Luo Xuanyi was about to go in, but her eyes were still fixed on the dust. This would be too obvious and would be discovered by those who came later. Even if they couldn't find the entrance, she would be in danger as long as she stayed here.
She patiently gathered up all the dust, leaving only a few scattered footprints that were the same as in the other rooms. After confirming that there was no difference between the rooms and the others, she immediately went up the stairs.
As soon as she entered, the wall closed immediately.
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