Chapter 217 Survive the fire?

The mountain wall with the stone gate embedded in it is completely natural and has been completely maintained in its natural state. No symbolic polishing or repair has been done. In many places, there are still traces of hammers, shovels and picks left during the excavation, and the pits are deeper and shallower.

Hanging on the stone wall, it looks like the construction is still in progress and the workers are just taking a break.

The stone door on the stone wall is very finely carved, with dragons and phoenixes carved on it, flowing clouds covering the sun like landscape paintings, and lifelike cranes and unicorns.

Xiao Ran used his flashlight to carefully shine on the edges and gaps of the stone door, trying to find the switch. But the door looked more like a small painting carved on the mountain wall, and it didn't look like it could be opened from the left or right or upward.

The way it looks.

Xiao Ran took a few steps back and looked at the natural stone wall. No matter how he looked, he couldn't see any other hidden doors.

Each of the ten doors in the main hall has its own purpose, and they are also part of various immortality plans carried out by Tianling Sanren. There is no reason for him to carve only one painting behind one of the doors, or to say just one.

Build a passage to the medicine field.

Could it be that before the construction of the tenth door was completed, there was a war in the late Yuan Dynasty, so the Tianling scattered people left in a hurry?

But this doesn't make sense. Since the repairs can't be completed, why is there any need to leave only a stone carving on the stone wall?

Xiao Ran looked at Liu Shengli and Xu Er beside him. They both looked at him firmly, placing all their hopes of escape on the tenth door.

Although Xiao Ran still has a backup plan in his mind, this plan is too risky. Unless it is absolutely necessary, he should give priority to finding other ways out. In this case, let's work hard to find it.

"There is such a stone carving on this rough stone wall, and the edges are very clear, indicating that this is probably a door. Let's look around carefully. There should be a mechanism that can open the door."

The stone wall was more than ten meters wide. Xiao Ran asked Liu Shengli and Xu Er to move. He held up a torch and carefully shined a light on the stone wall to see if there was anything that looked like a mechanism or something that looked awkward.

, all have to report to him.

Liu Shengli and Xu Er walked around and looked carefully according to Xiao Ran's request. Their eyes nearly popped out, but they couldn't find any switch that looked like they could be flipped or pulled.

Xu Er did not give up and also took a closer look at the other three walls. After so many things this day, Liu Shengli also learned to use his brain before speaking. Seeing Xu Er looking at the other walls, he simply looked at the ground carefully.

Xiao Ran was still looking carefully at the mural, which was engraved with the four auspicious signs of dragon, phoenix, turtle and turtle. In the sky, the sun and moon glowed together, clouds and mountains were shrouded in mist, stars hung under the sun and moon, and there were rushing rivers on the ground.

He remembered the training room hidden under the steps of the storage room. There were stone carvings on the screen wall there, which were the key to opening the stone door. He carefully searched for patterns in the stone carvings, but no matter how many hooves and heads he counted, he couldn't figure it out.

After a while, Liu Shengli and Xu Er came back. They were both chattering anxiously to report their findings to Xiao Ran. Xiao Ran pointed at Liu Shengli and said, "You come first!"

"Manager, I couldn't find the agency, but I just scanned the flat ground where we were sitting before and found a pattern on the ground, which I think I've seen before."

Xiao Ran and Xu Er followed Liu Shengli to the flat ground where they were sitting before, and sure enough they found that under a layer of finely crushed lime soil, there seemed to be a pattern composed of squares and circles.

He quickly asked Xu Er, who had faster legs and feet, to get three brooms from the corner of the execution room. The three of them swept the ground, causing dust to fly throughout the cave, making the three of them cough and sneeze.

But when the ground was cleaned up, Xiao Ran took a look with his flashlight and found that there was indeed a huge stone slab on the ground, about two meters wide and three meters long, with the six-handed and four-legged figure carved on it like an ant.

Less than every half meter on the stone slab, there is a thin slit parallel to the two wide sides of the stone slab.

There are obvious gaps on the edge of this huge stone slab, which at first glance indicate that it is separated from the surrounding ground. It is not just a slate painting carved on the ground.

He asked Xu Er and Liu Shengli to clean the ground around the stone slabs, and found that although the walls and roof of the cave were not repaired, the ground was obviously laid carefully.

It was covered by centimeters of gravel and soil, so no clues could be found underneath.

There is a stone sculpture on the wall and another stone sculpture on the ground. Which one is the door that can be opened?

Seeing Xiao Ran frowning at the ground, Xu Er came up and said, "Xiao Gang, is it time to listen to me..."

Xiao Ran used his flashlight to carefully observe the human-shaped stone carving, and nodded in response: "Well... you tell me."

Xu Er pointed to the top of the iron gate behind him and said, "Xiao Gang, there are many holes on it. It looks a bit like the stars on the stone painting."

Xiao Ran moved his flashlight to the top of the iron door, and indeed saw several small holes on the top of the door. But when he took a closer look, he found that those were not small holes, but a few glass inlays on the wall.

The Yin-Yang fish is the same as the one in Tianling Sanren's bedroom, the top half is filled with black shark oil.

Xiao Ran remembered the previous encounter, couldn't help but take a breath, and quickly asked Xu Er if he had used a torch to approach.

When Xu Er heard Xiao Ran say that these things were of the same type as the mechanism that almost killed three people in the bedroom before, he also had lingering fear on his face and shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, no! If I hadn't been close to you, I wouldn't have taken it seriously.

Dongdong…”

Xiao Ran shined his flashlight on the Yin-Yang fish, and always felt that the arrangement was strange. It seemed that it was a fixed star map like the Big Dipper and the Southern Dipper.

But just now he looked at the stone door for a long time. Although the stars on it had their own order, they were completely different from the arrangement of the yin and yang fish on the head of the entrance door. Of course, they were also not the North Dipper and the North Dipper.

"Good man, the things on this door should be the seven constellations in the south, with each yin and yang fish representing one constellation." The yin and yang mirror said.

Southern Qisu? According to that...

Xiao Ran hurriedly ran to the stone wall in front of the carvings. Liu Shengli and Xu Er didn't know why Xiao Ran suddenly got windy, so they hurriedly followed behind.

"Taoist Priest, take the stars on this stone carving, it's..."

"Northern Qisu, a poor Taoist will not miss this point." Yin Yang Jing replied quickly.

Xiao Ran quickly used a flashlight and ran to the left and right walls to take a closer look. Sure enough, there were several thick nails embedded in the walls. The shapes on the left and right sides were West and East Qisu respectively.

Xiao Ran returned to the iron gate again, looking at the Southern Seven-Sustained Yin-Yang Fish on the gate, thinking rapidly in his mind.

The yin and yang fish contains shark oil, which melts when exposed to fire. The southern Qisu is the Suzaku God, and the five elements belong to fire. Could it be said that this place is different from the bedroom, and it needs to be exposed to fire to survive?

After thinking about it, Xiao Ran decided to give it a try. He asked Liu Shengli and Xu Er to wait outside the door, while he found a few stones to stand on and held a torch to grill the glazed yin and yang fish.

As soon as the shark oil in the Yin-Yang fish melted, it turned over and sank, just like the device in the bedroom. When all the shark oil in the seven Yin-Yang fish melted and sank one after another, a series of sounds suddenly sounded in the cave.

The "click" sound spread all the way from the iron gate to the stone carvings on the stone wall inside the cave.
Chapter completed!