Vol 16 Chapter 35: Empress Dowager

Sitting on the top of the mountain with a bunch of magic pets, I meditated for a long time, and Xiao Feng, who was more irritable, jumped first. "No, this is not the way to think. We should have reached the target location because the system is deliberately playing with us."
Ling held Xiaofeng and said, "The system won't play us for no reason. It should be something we didn't expect."
Xiaochun nodded in agreement. "It's not a waste of time to complain about the Seal of the Throne, and we still have to think about what went wrong."
"Why do we have to think about it?" Xiaolong said: "Assuming the system is not wrong, it means that we did not reach the goal."
"But this is the place shown on the map!" The princess whispered.
"I see." Yeyue suddenly cried: "Master, your map may be a three-dimensional view. We just reached the target in the horizontal direction, not the height."
This is actually a small thinking trap, and when Yeyue said it, we all reacted. I am grateful to open the map again and lay it on the ground, and then touch it with my hand. "Convert the display mode to stereo projection." All areas on the map immediately became a stereo display like a miniature sandbox. I circled where we were again. "Zoom this area to full map mode."
The place where we are on the map is suddenly enlarged to the area of ​​the entire map, and this shows an ordinary mountain peak. The problem is that we have always thought that the red point of the ground target is not on the peak. If you look down from the top, this red dot is indeed the same as the latitude and longitude coordinates of the mountain. But from the side, you can clearly see that after the road map reached the peak, a bifurcation suddenly occurred, one straight up, and the other straight down.
"How come there are two coordinates?" Yeyue asked first.
"This is not a problem." Ling looked up at the sky. "According to the current situation, we have two target points, and one above our head and one under our feet. Although two points appear more troublesome, at least we know where the problem lies."
Xiaofeng also said: "These two places are not far away from here, will we know if we go and see?"
I said to Xiaofeng: "The system restricts me to fly. You help me go up to see what is in the target position. Then I decide how to go up. Pioneer and rose vine, you two now start digging down, wait for Xiaofeng to come down The edge should also be able to dig into position. "
The pets immediately started to separate. There were several other flying pets going up with Xiaofeng, but they soon came down again. Xiaofeng rubbed her head and said angrily, "It's really mad at me. The floating island more than 100 meters high above our heads is completely invisible, and it hit me. It really hurt me. Yes, it hurts me! "
"The floating island dragon girl nodded:" We all saw it. After Xiaofeng hit, the floating island became apparent, alas, that's not right! It's only over a hundred meters away from here. Didn't you see it manifest below? "
"We didn't see anything!" Yeyue asked puzzledly, "Did you guys get it wrong?"
Xiaochun said: "How long have we gotten to the throne of the Seal of God? Even if we get it wrong, it won't be possible to fly beyond the distance you can't see?"
We were talking, and suddenly Emmenis shouted from the burrow around me. "Hurry up, we've dug the slate."
"Slate? Is there an artificial building?" I immediately shouted to the bottom: "You need to dig out the nearby soil and see if you can get around."
"No, the earth and rock on the top of the mountain is not strong enough, so the top of the mountain will collapse."
"Then just lift it off," I said to Amenis below. "You come up first."
"Oh."
After Amenis climbed up with two punching pets, I let the unrelated pets return to Fenglong Space first. Only the magic pet that can turn into a human form stays aside temporarily. According to the depth of the digging by Aimeness, we found the corresponding position on the side of the mountain, and then I let Lucky, Plague and Xiaosan go up to dig. The huge dragon claw is no worse than an excavator. It was dug more than ten meters deep after three or two hits. Then we saw some densely arranged slabs forming a wall. I didn't let the lucky ones destroy the slate, but let them dig along the slab to the sides and up. After a short while, the entire mountain was almost overthrown. The original peak had been shortened by more than 200 meters, and a giant palace-like stone building stood on the upper end of the excavated mountain.
The style of this building looks a lot like Tiantingdi Lingxiao Baodian, but it doesn't have such complicated materials. It's all made up of slate. It is a little strange that this building has no entrance. Not to mention the door, this thing doesn't even have a window. Around the building are indeed some carved structures like doors and windows, but they are actually still monolithic slabs, and they have no practical function at all. It just looks like doors and windows.
"Is this thing our goal?" Amenis asked.
"No, the display on the map is much lower than here." Ling said looking at the map.
"Then dig it up. Maybe this thing is just the seal of the entrance to the passage."
Yeyue asked jokingly: "You mean this thing is equivalent to a sewer manhole on the side of the road?"
"Almost." I said to the lucky ones: "Did you move?"
Fortunately, they leaned forward and tried it, then shook their heads. "No, this thing is too heavy."
"Let me try." The little dragon girl shot a gravity reversal at the building. As a result, he was surprised to see that the reversal of heavy profits was bounced back.
"Loss is not attacking magic." I walked over and stroked the rocks on the surface of the building, and then said lucky: "Try to pry the slate off. Maybe there is something else in this thing."
"Okay." Luckily greeted the plague and Xiaosan went up and dug hard. It really made them drag down. But as soon as the first slab fell, we were all shocked and can't stand still.
jade. We see that the land is a piece of jade. The exterior of this building is wrapped in a layer of ordinary slate, but the interior is actually carved entirely from jade. We were fortunate that they had plucked the entire shell down. We found that this hall was not without doors and windows, but that there were no doors and windows on the slate outside. This jade hall itself has complete jade doors and windows, and they are all real doors and windows that can be opened small enough.
Although I knew this was not the goal of the mission, I decided to take a look. Of course, I did not forget to let the Blazers and Rose Vine continue to dig down.
Pushing open the jade gate, which is more than 30 meters high, we walked into the hall together. After entering, we found that the hall is not entirely composed of jade, and there are other materials in it. The interior style of the main hall belongs to a typical Chinese-style building. Several huge white jade panlong beams and pillars support the top beams to set up a rather large hall. On each side of the hall are also two giant jade terraces more than five meters high, and each stone platform has a statue. What surprised us most was that the content of the statue was actually our acquaintance, the Four Holy Beasts.
In addition to the four holy beasts on both sides of the hall, there are also statues facing the door, but unlike the statues on both sides, these three statues share a long base for the table. The base itself is carved in black jade, and its front has a huge panel framed by a dragon carved by gold. The inside of the panel is densely packed with colorful stones, but the font is all in Dingwen, which is a bit laborious to identify. As for the three on the base, they are white jade unicorn, gold dragon, and biling.
Although the three statues on the front are one circle larger than the four holy beasts on the side, they are not really the main position. There are two rows of higher bases behind them, forming a stepped shape with the front base structure. The only problem was that there was nothing on the bottom two rows of pedestals.
With great curiosity, we carefully observed the statue of the Four Holy Beasts. The sculptures are all in the form of the body. Of course, the body shape will not be as large as the real body, otherwise this house will not be ten times as large as any of them. Judging from the left and right positions, the statues of Qinglong and Suzaku are located on the right hand side of the entrance gate, while Baihu and Xuanwu are on the other side. In terms of depth. The positions of Qinglong and White Tiger are close to the positions of the three guardian beasts, while those of Suzaku and Xuanwu are close to the gate. From this position we can see the difference in status of the four holy beasts. In ancient China, the left was generally respected, and the position facing the main entrance belonged to the theme. Now it seems that the position of the three beasts is the theme. From their perspective, the blue dragon belongs to the left side of the hall, and is closer to the theme. It should be the highest position among the four holy beasts. Although White Tiger is on the right, it is near the main stage and should be ranked second. Suzaku is obviously third. Xuanwu last.
It can be seen from close observation that the materials of the four statues of the holy beast are also different. Although the four statues are all jade, they are different in color. Qinglong uses purple green thunder and white tiger uses Xuerun white jade. Suzaku uses red blood jade, and basalt is Tian Huangyu. Each has its own attributes. But the value is all the same, not to mention such a large piece of jade.
Unlike the four sacred beasts, the statues of the three major protector beasts are obviously not expensive high-grade jade. What makes us very strange is that the materials used for the statues of the three more noble beasts are actually cheap. The white jade unicorn and silver snow sculpture is actually frozen with the most common water. The only special thing is that it has been thermostated, so it can not be changed all year round. On the other side, Bi Ling's statue is actually made of wood, and it is not a whole piece of wood. Although the level of production is quite high, we can still see the seams between the wood. The golden dragon in the middle is the worst, the ice of silver snow is pure, and the wood of Bi Ling can be regarded as the representative of life, but the sculpture of golden dragon is actually made of yellow mud. Although the color of this yellow mud is very pure, anyway, mud is mud, and no matter how it looks, it is noble.
As far as the material itself is concerned, the total value of the statues of the three big three guardian beasts is less than the value of a corner of the base under their feet, but I believe that using such materials is definitely of special significance, The sculptures themselves will not be so simple, they should have more important meanings.
After a few rounds in the hall, in addition to the more ornate decoration, a lot of sculptures of gods and beasts were found on the pillars and beams in various places. Speaking of carving beasts I can understand. But I don't understand what it means to sculpt so many demon ghosts.
I was carefully observing a snake-like monster in the corner of the hall, and Chili suddenly beckoned and shouted, "Come and come and see here."
When I turned around, I saw that Pepper and Princess actually climbed to the two-level pedestal behind the three beasts protecting the country. "How do you climb up there?"
"Aren't we looking for clues!" The princess beckoned to me: "Come up, there is something to see."
I and the other humanoid pets ran over, but I didn't go up directly, but first bowed to the three great beasts before jumping up. I didn't show up until I climbed on it. It turned out that there were two grooves on the second-level base behind the three big beasts. From the direction we came up, the groove on the left is square, and the groove on the right is round. The depth of the groove is about a foot or so. Under the square groove on the left, there is a huge "ground" character placed by soil, and under the round groove on the other side is the word "sky" written in a carved way. The two words are exactly the same size, both written in a very grand Lishu, which looks like a very majestic steel.
After seeing the two slots, Ling immediately said, "Looking like this, there should have been two sculptures on this."
"The problem is that they are not here right now," Xiao Chun said.
Yeyue said to himself: "The three big beasts protecting the country are so powerful that they are still in front of them. Who should be behind them?"
"Isn't it Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun?" Ling asked.
The little dragon girl shook her head and said, "It's impossible. You don't know much about the Eastern protoss system. Although Yuanshi Tianzun and Lao Tzu are strong enough, they are only gods after all. In Chinese Taoism, there is something that even God must worship . "
"What is it?" The princess asked quickly.
Yeyue pointed at those two grooves. "It's these two puppets."
"world?"
I finally concluded: "Yes. In Chinese mythology, heaven and earth are the largest. Even God walks between heaven and earth, so no one dares to disrespect heaven and earth. There are heaven and earth written in these two slots. Who else dares to stand on it? Isn't this looking for death? "
"Heaven and earth are already the biggest, then what else is there to cross the earth?" The princess pointed and pointed to the back of the base.
Even now I started to think about it. Although the two words "Tiandi" are written in these two slots, if there is a stone sculpture carved with the word "Tiandi" or a three-dimensional sculpture of the word "Tiandi", then it is still a thing of the past. But what should we put here later? According to the ritual of Chinese sacrifices, those who are placed at the back and higher should be higher status beings, but this second level has reached the world. What else is higher behind?
The fast-moving kitten jumped up to the last stone platform and said, "What is it? Just go up and see it. Oops ..."
"What's the matter with you?" Because these pedestals are so tall, you can't see the top pedestal plane standing on the lower level. We saw the kitten jump up and disappeared. It seemed as if we heard a plop in the middle, as if it were falling into the water.
Sure enough, after a while the kitten emerged from the edge of the platform. "What a bad luck, it's all water!"
"It's all water?" I thought about it and climbed up, but I was not as reckless as a kitten, but only stood on the edge of the base. It turns out that the base above is just like a large bathtub. It's not solid, and it doesn't have a top. Inside this pedestal are five spheres suspended there, but not touching the pedestal itself. These five are all the same size and are slowly spinning. As for their materials, they are exactly five shapes of gold, wood, water, fire and earth. The kitten takes off right in the middle of the ball. As a result, it fell into it. Fortunately, the water polo is not grounded, and after the kitten fell in, it leaked out from below.
"It turned out to be the Five Elements. No wonder it should be placed behind the heavens and the earth. This is already a basic law-level existence." The little dragon girl understood the reason immediately after seeing what was here.
"Is this a gossip mirror?" Xiao Chunxian has an octagonal mirror on the left and right inner walls of the base, and the five spheres are just on the straight line between the two mirrors.
The little dragon girl ran to study one of the mirrors. Then he said, "This is not a gossip mirror. It is a two-mirror mirror."
Yeyue suddenly said: "Wait. You say this is a mirror?"
"what's wrong?"
"Five elements together is chaos. Opening up the earth means separating the heavens and the earth. So-called heaven and earth are born of two instruments, and two instruments produce four phases. Take a look at the four corners of the base."
My four pets ran to each of the four corners, and each found a round bead.
The little dragon girl also understood the meaning of Yeyuedi. "Liangyisheng has four phases. Four phases give birth to gossip. These four beads are four phase beads. There must be a gossip array nearby."
"Here." The kitten suddenly pointed at our feet. As soon as we lowered our heads, it was a huge gossip array.
"I finally understand." Xiaolong Nudao said: "On this last pedestal is enshrined the laws of nature, the standard for measuring everything.
"It worked." Aimeness's voice suddenly came from outside the temple. "Well? What are you all going to do?"
"What's the matter?" Xiaochun asked, crawling out from below.
"The burrow was opened. I saw the mission goal."
"That's great. I'll finish the task first, and then come back to study this thing." I said, turned over and jumped out, and then ran outside the hall, my magic pets naturally followed.
Along the path dug by the trailblazers and rose vines, the descending depth has been significantly lower than the ground at the foot of the mountain. It was finally drilled to a depth about the same height as the peak below the ground level. The goal of the mission they found at Emmenis was a natural cave, and we are now in the cave.
This burrow is not too spacious, but it is quite high. The cave is very empty, only in the center of the cave is a stone platform similar to the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, and in the center of the platform stands an amazing monument. Since the place we entered happened to be on the side of the monument, we couldn't see exactly what was written on the monument, but when we went to the front, we all froze. I saw the word "Houtu" lined up vigorously on the huge monument.
In addition to the vigorous font of this monument, the monument itself is also quite strange. It seems to be made of gold, silver, copper, iron and a mixture of clay, rock, and jade, and the surface color varies. But overall it feels pretty harmonious.
The little dragon girl walked over and touched the tablet body, and then said: "Gold, silver, copper and iron belong to metal, and the pentagonal form belongs to gold; earth, rock, and jade are all belong to the earth. It is also appropriate to mix the two elements of the golden earth with the latter. "
Suddenly Ling asked, "Do you guess this is what is worshipped on the second-level pedestal in the building above?"
I looked at the base of the monument, and then said, "This base is indeed square, and it should match the size."
"So how about we just move it back and try?"
"Okay!"
With the consensus of everyone, we started to carry this monument, but in the end I sent everyone who can send it, but this thing is intact. The little dragon girl suddenly said: "Yes, the earth behind is the earth. This thing represents the earth. How can it be moved?"
"What then?"
"Use wood." Yeyue said: "Wood and soil are relatively high-affinity properties. Using wood can pull soil."
I thought about it and finally summoned her guild guardian tree demon, and then turned her into a humanoid to lift the monument. Not to mention, this is really one thing at a time. Seeing that she didn't make much effort, she carried away the monument that could not move the dragon like a balloon.
Looking at the earthen stele after my Shuji moved it. Suddenly Ling came over and asked, "Did you receive a task reminder?"
I shook my head. "It may be wrong here, the mission target is above. The two coordinates given by the system are probably the intention to delay my time.
Ling nodded: "Then we will put this monument in place and look at the coordinates above our heads."
Due to the large volume of this monument, we had to enlarge the hole a little before we got out of the ground. And this process has delayed a lot of time. Finally, when we went out, there were only two hours left until the end of the mission. However, although there is not much time for the Seal of God, I am not in a hurry. Anyway, the floating island is on the top of the head. There is no need to punch holes there, just let lucky take a rope to fly up and pull me up.
After the earthen stele was moved into the jade hall, a layer of yellow light suddenly appeared on the surface, which made us more certain. This thing must be the offering on that base.
According to the Tianyuan place, we put the back earthen monument into the square groove on which the ground was written. Not to mention, the groove and the monument stand just right. Almost as soon as the monument was put in, the entire thick stele lit up fiercely, the previous faint light transformed into a layer of golden light curtain, and there were a lot of small golden spots flashing around the body Slowly floats and looks very beautiful.
After putting this monument in place, I was going to visit the floating island above. Who knows that the system notification suddenly sounded. "Back to the soil, congratulations to the player Ziri mission 50% complete."
"Fuck, it turns out that this thing is the goal of the mission. Come on, follow me. There must be a monument on the floating island above my head, and my mission is complete when the two are in place."
"Come on, boss, give me your rope, and I'll bring it for you." Fortunately, he stretched out a paw.
I handed the cable to Lucky ~ EbookFREE.me ~ and let the other magic pets fly up with Lucky. After receiving the notification from Lucky Mind, I started to activate the automatic take-up function of Long Jinsuo. The scroll motive automatically took me to the floating island above. Speaking of which, this floating island is actually not large, and it is not high flying, but this thing has a very strange characteristic, that is, when you are five meters away from it, you ca n’t see it no matter what your anti-stealth ability, That's why we didn't see it below until Xiaofeng ran into it before there was a floating island here.
By the time I climbed the floating island, my magic pets had gathered under the monument in the middle of the floating island. This thing is exactly the same as the shape of the back earthen monument, but the material is much worse. This thing is actually made of water, and the surface is still burning with flames. The front of the body is also written with two characters, but the content is replaced by "Huangtian".
No need to hesitate this time, we started to move the emperor's stele directly, and this monument is light and fatal, much better than the later earthen stele. It didn't take long for the Seal of the Seal of God to enter the hall into the hall, and then inserted into the circular groove.
Almost immediately after the emperor's monument was in place, a sharp metal chirping sounded suddenly in the hall, and the whole hall began to shake.
"What's wrong?"