Chapter 936: The Palace of Inversion and Intersection
What appeared in front of Lei Xiao and his party was a giant prayer hall of the dwarves.
The solid and heavy stone pillars hold up this long and ancient hall, giving rise to a thick but solemn sacred atmosphere.
The flower window ceiling of the palace is not the round arch that is common in human countries, but is the characteristic of the dwarves. It is a simple and direct square plane without any rounded corners or arcs.
These colorful windows in the palace, made of special ores, are still as clean as new even after a long time. They depict the images of dwarves holding battle axes or forging hammers.
The rough yet delicate lines make people feel relaxed and happy just by looking at it. It can be called a perfect painted work of art.
In sharp contrast to the dwarf roof windows, there are two rows of giant statues of dwarf guardian warriors standing in the central aisle of the hall.
The statues of these devout dwarf warriors are lifelike, and their movements are uniform. They hold a long-handled battle ax in one hand and a giant shield in the other, all kneeling on one knee.
Over time, they are made of metal and have become severely rusted, and are covered with thick floating dust, making them look mottled.
The most critical thing is that compared to the ceiling of Chi Chi, these giant mottled statues standing on the ground are very far away from Lei Xiao and his party, making the whole scene very disharmonious and extremely weird.
In fact, as soon as Lei Xiao and his party walked out of the gate of the dungeon corridor, they stepped on the roof of the artistically decorated palace window shed, not on the ground of the palace.
In other words, what Lei Xiao and his party were walking into was a dwarf prayer hall that was completely upside down.
This unexpected and magnificent ancient scene was completely contrary to common sense, which made Lei Xiao and others stunned, creating an unreal feeling as if they were in another world.
"An upside-down temple? What a strange sight."
In surprise, Ariel raised her head and waved her staff to guide the ball of light to wander among the statues of dwarf warriors hanging upside down from the ceiling, just like lighting up lamps in a dark temple, illuminating them.
The road ahead for a group of people.
"It's really weird, and there's something extremely disharmonious about it."
Lei Xiao's eyes moved, and while walking around the upside-down temple, he nodded thoughtfully: "The prayer hall is the most pious place, and the upside-down temple cannot be intentional by the dwarves.
Add in that dissonance and it becomes very clear."
"What the lord said is absolutely true. In that case, there is only one possibility for the strange and upside-down scene here."
Hongye's slender fingers gently stroked her white chin, and she immediately understood the meaning of Lei Xiao's words.
"Lord, what is going on?"
Ariel came forward, her delicate face full of confusion, and she obviously hadn't reacted yet.
"Let's talk about the disharmony first. In fact, this is the most obvious point."
Lei Xiao gently waved his hand forward, signaling for the team to start moving forward, while nodding to Ariel and saying: "The last step we took was in the gloomy dungeon, and the next step is to enter this upside-down place."
Temple, the answer is self-evident."
"So that's it!"
After hearing Lei Xiao's prompt, Ariel's starry eyes lit up and she suddenly said: "The dwarves have always been known for their uprightness and stubbornness. How could they build a sacred temple and a dungeon filled with death together?"
It’s as if they were forcibly pieced together, and this is where the disharmony lies!”
"That's right."
Lei Xiao nodded slightly and continued to guide Ariel's thoughts: "We have explored so many ruins along the way, and have also mastered some mysterious effects left over from the blank era. One of them can perfectly explain all of this."
"It's the "displaced object" effect!"
Ariel had fully reacted and immediately took over the conversation: "The reason why these two dwarf ruins that I don't want to do anything about appear under the castle is because they didn't exist here in the first place!"
"In this way, this upside-down temple can be explained clearly."
Lei Xiao stepped through a flower window on the roof of the palace and lightly snapped his fingers.
"Since the "dislocated object" can appear in a place that does not belong to it originally, then it is a reasonable thing for it to be turned upside down during the process of being moved by some mysterious force."
After hearing Lei Xiao's summary, all the subordinates nodded, obviously fully understanding everything before them.
"'A misplaced thing'? He's just a despicable alien, but I didn't expect he knows a lot!"
Han Shui's voice of contempt followed with interest: "This is something that our Shangluc family has not figured out for more than six hundred years. It can be considered an unexpected gain."
"Before this, I have been wondering about a question."
Lei Xiao ignored Han Shui's words and continued to speak to his subordinates: "That is, we have explored so many ancient ruins of different races in the land of Cold Flame Kingdom, and they are too close to each other. This is obviously not true.
It’s in line with common sense.”
"That's true. Especially the dwarf building complexes. Although they have been found in various parts of the Cold Flame Kingdom, their scale is often extremely limited, which has always puzzled the archaeologists of the royal family."
Ariel followed Lei Xiao closely and echoed: "It seems that there must be a lot of "dislocations" in this."
At this point, a trace of doubt appeared on Ariel's fair face, and she wondered: "Who caused all this? What's the point of doing this? To be more precise, this is not the case at all.
It’s just not something human beings can do.”
"It's still unknown. The only thing we can confirm is that the 'displaced objects' and the 'lost ruins' are both mysterious effects left over from the blank era."
Lei Xiao slowly took a deep breath, nodded to Ariel and the subordinates around him and said: "Although we have figured out the reason for this upside down palace, the magic traps in it still exist, so you must explore carefully.
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"Haha, he is really a cautious guy."
Han Shui's disdainful and cunning voice began to echo in the huge temple again.
"I might as well tell you that this temple of the dwarves is a treasure. Naturally, our merchant family will not destroy it at will, so this is the safest place in this trial ground. All traps have been lifted. You can
Walk with confidence.”
Han Shui's words were a bit more solemn and playful: "But when you get to the end of the temple, your death will really come, and there will be another interesting scene that no one expected."
"Although there is no one else in this temple, there are always flies hovering around my ears."
Lei Xiao naturally would not listen to the other party's words, and nodded to indicate to his subordinates to continue moving forward cautiously.
The even footsteps of a group of six people rippled back and forth in the upside-down dwarf prayer hall, bringing a long-lost vitality to this lost ancient temple.
While moving forward, Lei Xiao noticed further.
This hall is extremely majestic. It can probably gather at least 100,000 dwarves to pray and sing at the same time. This is evident from this.
But one cannot help but sigh that such an amazing and huge building was eventually buried in the torrent of time and space, losing its original role.
And its former owners, the dwarves who built this temple, may have been annihilated in the blank era and ceased to exist three thousand years ago.
Apart from this, just as Han Shui said, there are indeed no other magic traps found here, only the majestic and topsy-turvy scenes that constantly stimulate the senses and nerves of the group.
"I'm afraid the real reason why there are no magic traps here is just because the magic traps are concentrated on the real ground on the high ceiling. Even the Phytolacca clan cannot hang them upside down and transform them."
Lei Xiao raised his eyebrows and thought in his heart.
Not long after, Lei Xiao and his party finally arrived at the end of the lost temple of the dwarves through the dust and emotion.
Accompanied by the dazzling light ball commanded by Ariel, it flew past the front at extremely high speed. The scene in front once again made Lei Xiao and others look surprised.
At the end of the temple where light and shadow meet, there is a giant dwarf statue hanging upside down. Its thick and burly body and dense wire beard are extremely conspicuous. The calm expression and the forging hammer in its hand illustrate the statue.
A god who is good at forging.
Under the guidance of the light ball, the dwarves have thick and thin carved lines, making the sharp-edged statues of gods come to life, as if they will turn over at any time and stand on the earth again.
None of this is the most surprising.
Beneath the hanging dwarf god statue, there is actually another goddess statue of equally impressive size standing tilted upward.
The figure of this goddess statue is slender, and the carving techniques used are obviously much more delicate than the dwarf statues. Although you can only see half of the profile, you can already see that it is flawless.
Put together with the dwarf statue hanging upside down above the head, it looks like Beauty and the Beast.
In the hand of the goddess statue, there is a gorgeous oil lamp, which seems to be lighting up everything around it.
However, the huge body of the goddess statue tilted upward at 45 degrees gave people an extremely weird feeling, as if it would lie down on the ground at any time and fall to pieces.
All in all, this sudden leaning goddess statue is completely different from the dwarf statue that originally existed here, and it is obviously not made by the same style of craftsmen.
“It’s such an abrupt and obtrusive statue of a goddess standing at an angle, and her posture is extremely weird.”
Ariel opened her starry eyes wide, with a look of surprise on her face, and blurted out: "This goddess statue should obviously not appear in this dwarf temple!"
"It's true. No matter the carving technique or the characters depicted, they are not dwarves, but more like a humanoid race."
Jiang Li's eyes moved, wandering back and forth on the possible racial characteristics of the goddess statue.
But because the hood of the goddess statue covers her ears, it is impossible to tell.
"Lord, look quickly!"
A rough voice sounded, and I saw that the knotweed had arrived under the goddess statue, and raised its hand to point directly in front of the goddess statue.
Hearing the sound of the knotweed, Ariel's guiding light ball flew in that direction and illuminated another vast space.
At this point, Lei Xiao and his party discovered.
Although this is the end of the Dwarf's Upside Down Temple, it is not the end of the road.
Directly in front of the strange goddess statue, there is actually a 45-degree slope that goes upwards, leading to an unknown dark area.
"This seems to be another temple."
As the ball of light flew into the darkness, Ariel's fair face showed a look of sudden realization.
"It turns out that the "displaced things" here are not just the dwarfs' upside-down temple and the dungeon just now, but also this temple of an unknown race!"
"Moreover, the front ends of the two temples overlapped, and the directions were also deviated. This resulted in a strange scene of one standing upside down and the other standing up!"
After Ariel finished speaking, everyone else, including Lei Xiao, suddenly became enlightened.
"Did the two temples that were not originally connected finally become connected in this way due to the "dislocated object" effect?"
Lei Xiao raised his eyebrows with a look of surprise on his face: "It's really an unexpected sight. Who would have thought that there are actually two temples of different races hidden under the castle of the head of the Shanglu family."
It is conceivable that there must be some extremely impressive secret treasures hidden in it from the beginning.
I am afraid this is the reason why the Shanglu family was able to rise quickly in the Lengyan Kingdom in the early days and eventually became one of the three wealthy families in Lengyan. This was simply a God-given start-up capital.
"I'm not interested in those ordinary treasures. If there are items similar to the "Key of Truth" in these two temples, they should still be treasured in the treasure house of the Phytophthora family."
"At that time, as long as Lin successfully ascends to the throne of the family head, everything will be mine."
Lei Xiao raised his eyebrows and thought in his heart.
"But which race's goddess statue is this?"
Ariel looked up at the huge upright statue and couldn't help but frown.
Ariel clearly understands that only by understanding the owner of this new temple can he use his racial characteristics to better solve the upcoming magic traps.
After all, it is inferred from what Han Shui just said that this sudden unknown temple is where the real murderous intention lies.
"This goddess statue does not show any racial characteristics, so it is difficult to speculate at this time."
Jiang Lei and Hong Ye looked at each other, and after seeing a hint of confusion in each other's starry eyes, they shook their heads helplessly.
"Since there is no way to figure out the owner of the temple, the only way before us is to continue moving forward. There must be more clues in this unknown temple."
Lei Xiao nodded to his subordinates, waved his hand and said: "Under Han Shui's conspiracy, Keen and others outside will not be able to hold on for long. We must race against time."
After Lei Xiao finished speaking, the subordinates all cheered up and started thinking about moving towards a new temple.
Although the slope here is all the way up, to Lei Xiao and other powerful people, it is no different from walking on flat ground.
However, not long after Lei Xiao left, he found that the atmosphere around him seemed to have become strange.