Chapter 35: Emperor Tianhou

I sat on the top of the mountain with a bunch of demon pets and thought for a long time. Xiaofeng, who was in a hurry, jumped up first. "No, thinking like this is not a solution. We should have reached the target location, and the system is deliberately trying to trick us."

Ling pressed Xiaofeng and said, "The system will not fool us for no reason. It should be that we didn't expect it."

Xiaochun nodded in agreement. "It is not a solution to waste time and complain like this. We still have to think about what went wrong."

"Why don't we think about it?" Xiaolongnu said: "First assume that the system has not made any mistakes, that means we have not reached the target."

"But this is what is displayed on the map!" the princess said in a low voice.

"I understand." Ye Yue suddenly shouted: "Master, your map may be a stereoscopic map. We just reached the target horizontally, not the height position."

This is actually a small mind trap. As soon as Ye Yue said it, we all reacted. I was grateful to open the map again and spread it on the ground, and then click it on it with my hands. "Convert the display method to three-dimensional projection." All areas on the map immediately became a three-dimensional display method like a miniature sand table. I circled our location again. "Enlarge this area into the full map mode."

The place we are on the map was suddenly enlarged into the area of ​​the entire map, and the above is an ordinary mountain. The problem is that the red dot we had always thought before was not at the peak. If we look down from above, the red dot is indeed the same as the longitude and latitude coordinates of the peak, but you can clearly see from the side that a fork suddenly occurred after the road map reached the peak, one straight up, while the other vertically down.

"How come there are two coordinates?" Ye Yue asked first.

"This is not a problem." Ling looked up at Tian. "From the current situation, we have two target points, one above our heads and the other under our feet. Although it is more troublesome to have two points. But at least we know what the problem is."

Xiaofeng also said: "These two places are not far from here. Wouldn't we know if we go and take a look?"

I said to Xiaofeng: "The system restricts me from flying. Please help me get up and see what the target position is. I will decide how to get up. Trail Blazers and Rose Vine, you two will start digging down now. When Xiaofeng comes down, you should be able to dig up the position."

The demon pets immediately began to act separately. There were several other demon pets who could fly up with Xiaofeng, but they soon came down together. Xiaofeng rubbed his head and said angrily: "I'm so angry. More than 100 meters above our heads is a floating island, and it's completely invisible, which makes me bump into it. It's really hurting me!"

“Floating Island?”

Xiaolongnu nodded: "We have all seen it too. After Xiaofeng hit it, the floating island appeared. Oh, it's not right! It's only more than one hundred meters above. Haven't you seen it appear below?"

"We didn't see anything!" Ye Yue asked in confusion: "Did you make the altitude wrong?"

Xiaochun said: "How long have we been going up now? Even if we make a mistake, we cannot fly beyond the distance that you can't see, right?"

As we were talking, the cry of Emmenis suddenly came from the hole beside us. "Come down quickly, we have dug up the stone slabs."

"Slate? That's artificial construction?" I immediately shouted to the lower body: "You can dig up the nearby soil first and see if you can bypass it."

"No. The soil and rocks on the top of the mountain are not strong enough, so digging the top of the mountain will collapse."

"Then just lift it off." I said to Emmenis below: "You guys come up first."

"oh."

After Emmenis climbed up with two hole-punched earth demon pets, I asked the irrelevant earth demon pets to return to the Phoenix Dragon Space first, leaving only the magic pets that could turn into human form to stay aside for the time being. According to the depth of the digging down of Emmenis, we found the corresponding position on the side of the mountain, and then I asked Lucky, Plague and Mission to dig up together. The huge earth dragon claws were no worse than the excavator. They dug more than ten meters deep in just a few seconds, and then we saw some densely arranged stone slabs forming a wall.

I didn't let Lucky destroy the stone slabs, but asked them to dig along the stone slabs to the sides and above. In a short while, the entire mountain was almost knocked down, and the original peak became more than 200 meters short. Now there is a giant palace-style stone building on the upper end of the excavated mountain.

The style of this building looks very similar to the Lingxiao Temple in the Heavenly Court, but it does not have such complex materials, but consists of stone slabs. What is a little strange is that the building has no entrance. Not to mention doors, this thing does not even have windows. There are indeed some carved structures like doors and windows around the building, but they are actually still whole stone slabs, and they have no actual function of doors and windows at all, and they just look like doors and windows.

"Is this thing our goal?" asked Emmenis.

"No, the display on the map is much more reliable than here." Ling said looking at the map.

"Then dig it out too. Maybe this thing is just a seal at the entrance of the passage."

Yeyue asked jokingly: "Are you saying that this thing is equivalent to a sewer manhole cover on the side of the road?"

"Absolutely." I said to Lucky and they said, "Do you move the earth?"

Luckily they leaned up and tried it, then shook their heads. "No, this thing is too heavy."

"Let me try." Xiaolongnu fired a gravity reversal technique at the building, but was surprised to see that the Chongli reversal technique was bounced back.

"It's not an attack magic." I walked over and stroked the rocks on the surface of the building, and said to Lucky: "Try to pry the slab off. Maybe there's something else in this thing."

"Okay." Lucky greeted the plague and the mistress to dig hard together, but they really pulled them down. But as the first stone fell down, we were all shocked and couldn't stop.

Jade. What we see is a piece of jade. The outside of the building is just a layer of ordinary stone slabs, but the inside is completely carved from jade. Fortunately, they took off the entire shell and found that the main hall is not without doors and windows, but without doors and windows on the outside stone slabs. The jade hall itself has complete jade doors and windows. And they are all real doors and windows that can be opened.

Although I knew this was not the mission target point, I decided to go in and take a look first. Of course, I did not forget to let the Trail Blazers and Rose Vine continue to dig downwards.

Pushing open the jade door that was more than 30 meters high, we walked into the hall together. After entering, we found that the hall was not entirely made of jade, and there were other materials inside it. The interior style of the hall was a typical Chinese-style building, with several huge white jade plates and dragon beams supporting the beams to build a large hall with a large area. There are two giant jade platforms more than five meters high on both sides of the hall, and a statue stands on each stone platform. What surprised us the most was that the content of the statue was actually our acquaintance - the Four Holy Beasts.

In addition to the four sacred beasts on both sides of the hall, there are also statues in the direction of the gate. However, unlike the statues on both sides, these three statues share a long base like an altar. The base itself is carved with black jade, and the front has a huge panel with a gold-carved divine dragon as a border. The inside of the panel is densely covered with colorful divine stones, but the fonts are all in tripod text, which is a bit difficult to identify. As for the three on the base, they are white jade kirin, golden dragon and biling.

Although the three statues on the front are one circle larger than the four sacred beasts on the side, they are not real landlords. There are two rows of higher pedestals behind them, which form a stepped structure with the pedestal in front. The only problem is that there is nothing on the two rows of pedestals in the back.

With great curiosity, we carefully observed the statues of the four sacred beasts. The carvings are all in the body shape, and of course the body shape will not be as big as the real body, otherwise this house will not be as big as ten times larger than that of them. From the left and right position, the Qinglong and Zhuque Di Cave statues are located in the right hand direction as soon as they enter the gate, while the White Tiger and Xuanwu are on the other side. From the depth direction, the Qinglong and Baihu are close to the three major national protection beasts, while the Zhuque and Xuanwu are close to the gate. From this position, we can see the difference in the status of the four sacred beasts. In ancient China, the left was generally respected, while the position facing the main gate belonged to the main position. Now it seems that the position of the three divine beasts is the main position. From their direction, the Qinglong belongs to the left side of the hall and is closer to the main position, which should be the highest position among the four sacred beasts. Although the White Tiger is on the right, it is close to the main position. It should rank second, Zhuque is obviously third, and Xuanwu is the last.

As you can see from closer inspection, the materials used in the four sacred beast statues are also different. Although the four statues are all jade, the colors are different. The Qinglong uses purple-green thunder jade, the White Tiger uses snow-moist white jade, the Vermilion Bird uses red blood jade, and the Xuanwu is Tianhuang jade. The four types have their own attributes. But the value is equally expensive, let alone such a large piece of jade.

Unlike the four sacred beasts, the statues of the three major national guardian beasts are obviously not expensive high-end divine jade. What makes us very strange is that the materials used for the statues of the three major national guardian beasts that should have been more noble are very cheap. The sculpture of the white jade Qilin Yinxue is actually made of ice frozen by the most ordinary water. The only special thing is that it is subjected to constant temperature, so it can not melt all year round. On the other hand, the statue of Biling is actually made of wood, and it is not a whole piece of wood. Although the production level is quite high, we can still see the joints between the wood. The Golden Dragon in the middle is the worst, and the Silver Snow ice represents purity at least. Biling's wood can also be regarded as a representative of life. But the sculpture of the Golden Dragon actually uses yellow mud. Although the color of this yellow mud is very pure, no matter how you say it is mud. It has nothing to do with nobility.

As for the material itself, the total value of these three statues of the three great national guardian beasts is less than the value of the corner of the base under their feet. But I believe that using such materials will definitely have special significance, and the sculptures themselves will not be so simple there. They should have more important significance.

After walking around the hall for a few times, in addition to the gorgeous decoration, I also found a large number of sculptures of divine beasts and demons on the pillars and beams everywhere. Speaking of which, I can understand the carved divine beasts, but I don’t understand what it means to carve so many demons and monsters.

I was carefully observing a snake demon-shaped lampstand placed at the corner of the hall. Kazuki suddenly waved and shouted: "Come here quickly."

When I turned around, I saw that La Jiao and Princess actually climbed to the two-level pedestal behind the three major national guardian beasts. "Why are you climbing up there?"

"Aren't we looking for clues?" the princess waved to me: "Come up, there's something here to see."

I and other human-shaped demon pets ran over, but I didn't go up directly, but gave a bow to the three divine beasts before jumping up. After climbing up, I found that there were two grooves on the second-level base behind the three national-protecting beasts. From the direction we came up, the groove on the left is square, while the one on the right is round. The depth of the groove is about one foot. There is a huge "earth" character placed with soil under the square groove on the left, and the word "heaven" is written in a dark way under the round groove on the other side. The two characters are exactly the same size, both written in very atmospheric official script, which looks like a very majestic steel.

After seeing these two grooves, Ling immediately said, "It seems that there should be two sculptures on it."

"The problem is that they are not here now," Xiao Chun continued.

Ye Yue said to herself: "The three major national-protecting beasts are so powerful, but they are still in front of them. Who should be the one who can stand behind them?"

"Can they be me and Yuanshi Tianzun?" Ling asked.

Xiaolongnu shook her head and said, "Impossible. You don't know much about the Eastern God system. Although Yuanshi Tianzun and I are powerful enough, they are still just gods after all. Among Chinese Taoism, there is something that even gods have to worship."

"What's it?" the princess asked quickly.

Ye Yue pointed to the two grooves. "That's these two."

"world?"

I finally concluded: "Yes. In Chinese mythology, heaven and earth are the greatest, and even gods walk between heaven and earth, so no one dares to be disrespectful to heaven and earth. These two troughs contain heaven and earth, so who dares to stand on it? Isn't this seeking death?"

"The world is already the largest, so what else can you do to overcome the world?" The princess said as she pointed to the base behind.

Now even I began to think about it. Although the two words "Heaven and Earth" are written in these two grooves, if the three-dimensional sculptures with the words "Heaven and Earth" or simply the three-dimensional sculptures, then it is still the same. But what should I put here later? According to the Chinese people's habit of sacrificial sacrifices, it should be a relatively high-level existence. However, this second level has reached the Heaven and Earth, so what is there higher one behind?

The quick-moving kitten jumped onto the last stone platform and said, "What is it? Just go up and take a look. Oh..."

"What's wrong with you?" Because these pedestals are very high, you can't see the pedestal plane above when standing on the lower level. We saw the kitten jumping up and disappear. There seemed to be a plop in the middle, as if it was a sound of falling from the water.

Sure enough, the wet kitten popped out from the edge of the platform again after a while. "It's so unlucky, it's all full of water!"

"It's all water?" I thought about it and climbed up. But I was not as reckless as the kitten, but just stood at the edge of the base. It turned out that the base above was like a large bathtub, and it was not solid inside and there was no top on it. There were five balls suspended there inside the base, but they did not touch the base itself. The five balls were all the same size and were rotating slowly. As for their material, they happened to be in five shapes of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. The kitten jumped just at the position of the ball in the middle, and it fell in one go. Fortunately, the water ball was not grounded, and the kitten leaked out from the bottom after it fell in.

"It turned out to be the five elements. No wonder it was put after the heaven and earth. This is already a basic legal existence." Xiaolongnu immediately understood the reason after seeing what was here.

"Is this a gossip mirror?" Xiao Chun found that there was an octagonal mirror on the inner walls of the left and right ends of the base, and these five spheres were just in a straight line between the two mirrors.

Xiaolongnu ran over to study one of the mirrors, and then said, "This is not a Bagua mirror, but a Liangyi mirror."

Ye Yue suddenly said, "Wait. Do you think this is a Liangyi Mirror?"

"What's the matter?"

"The five elements are combined together to be chaos. The meaning of opening up the heaven and earth is to separate the heaven and earth. The so-called dividing the heaven and earth gives birth to two qualities, and the two qualities give birth to four phases. Look at the four corners of the base."

My four magic pets ran to four corners and found a round bead each.

Xiaolongnu now understood what Ye Yue meant. "The two qualities gave birth to four phases, and the four phases gave birth to eight trigrams. These four beads are four phase beads. There must be an Eight Trigram array nearby."

"Here." The kitten suddenly pointed at our feet. When we lowered our heads, we found that the ground was just a huge Bagua formation.

"I finally understand." Xiaolongnu said: "The last pedestal worships the laws of nature. It is the standard for measuring everything. Even heaven and earth must operate according to the laws. Therefore, the laws are higher than heaven and earth."

"It's connected." Emmenis's voice suddenly came from outside the hall. "Huh? Why are you all running up there?"

"What's the point?" Xiaochun crawled out from below and asked.

"The hole was opened. I saw the mission goal."

"That's great. I'll finish the task first, and then come back to study this thing." As I said, I turned over and jumped out, and then ran outside the hall. My demon pets naturally followed them together.

Following the passage dug by the Trail Blazers and Rose Vines, the depth of the descending ground was significantly lower than that of the ground at the foot of the mountain. We were drilling until we finally reached the end. The mission goal of the Emmenis and others was to be found was a natural cave, and we were in the cave now.

This cave is not too spacious, but it is quite high. The cave is very empty, with only a stone platform similar to the Temple of Heaven in the middle of the cave, and a huge monument with amazing height stands in the center of the platform. Since the place we entered happened to be on the side of the monument, we couldn't see what was written on the bottom monument, but when we walked around the front, we were all stunned. The huge monument was arranged vertically in vigorous official script.

In addition to the vigorous font, the stele itself is also quite strange. It seems to be made of a mixture of gold, silver, copper, iron, soil, rock and uncensored jade. The surface color is uncertain, but the overall feeling is quite harmonious.

Xiaolongnu walked over and touched the body of the stele, and then said: "Gold, silver, copper and iron are both metal, and the five-shaped ones belong to metal; soil, rock and uncensored jade are all earth. It is also appropriate to mix the Houtu stele with two elements of gold and earth."

Ling suddenly asked, "Are you guessing this the things offered on the second-level pedestal in the building above?"

I looked at the base of the monument and said, "This base is indeed square, and it should be very consistent depending on the size."

"Then let's just move it back and try it?"

"OK!"

With everyone's unanimous opinion, we started to move this monument, but in the end I sent all the people who could send them, but the thing didn't move at all. Xiaolongnu suddenly said, "By the way. Houtu is the earth, and this thing represents the earth. How could it be moved?"

"What should I do?"
To be continued...