The lower you go, the colder you feel, giving you a creepy feeling, as if you have entered a cemetery full of ghosts.
Fortunately, the surroundings are just the walls that an ordinary underground palace would have, and there are no mechanisms or formations, which makes people feel relieved.
After descending for several hundred meters, the sky was clear beneath our feet, and we arrived at a wide underground palace.
Xing Yuan took out the luminous pearl again and gently popped it out.
Hooray!
The pearl rolled down all around, and a slightly dim light appeared throughout the room.
The light was not strong, but everyone was strong enough to see the scene in front of them clearly.
Not far from the stone steps is a small bridge, with gurgling water and steam blowing against your face. The underground palace has been closed for many years. Instead of feeling suffocating, the air is as fresh as outside.
This kind of situation was not expected even if I had made enough preparations in advance.
Before coming down, everyone thought that this was an underground palace that had been closed for an unknown period of time. There must be countless unpleasant smells in it, as well as lingering miasma. Who would have thought that such a deep underground palace would be no different from the one above.
"Everyone, be careful. This underground palace should be built for many people to live in, otherwise it would be impossible to have such good ventilation!" Wu Zhendao.
"live?"
Everyone frowned.
"Yes, if there are few people, there is no need to spend a lot of effort to introduce the river, and there is no need to make a cave so comfortable. There must be many people living in it. Without good ventilation, it cannot bear the breathing of so many people!" Wu Zhen explained.
He is proficient in mechanisms and knows the trouble of drawing rivers underground. He also knows how much it costs to have such good ventilation.
If it is just a place where a few people live temporarily, such an open place is no longer suffocating, so there is no need to waste any more effort. However, if there are more people living there, without good ventilation, it will be easy to suffocate.
After hearing his explanation, Zhang Xuan nodded.
The Tomb of Shaman Souls I went to last time was obviously a bit stuffy, and the air circulation was far inferior to that here.
"Is it possible that the person who kidnapped Grand Master Wu Yangzi was not just one person, but many people?"
Luo Qiqi blinked.
According to her investigation, this underground palace is related to Wu Yangzi. It is even very possible that the great master was kidnapped here... an environment where many people live, not just one or two...
Is it possible that this great master was not kidnapped by one person, but by a group of people?
"Then I don't know..."
Wu Zhen shook his head: "There is a stone monument over there, go and take a look."
There is a small stone tablet in front of the bridge. Under the dim light, you can vaguely see what is marked on it.
When I came to the front, three big characters came into view.
"Wangxiangju?"
Luo Qiqi frowned.
An underground palace is usually either a tomb, or a secret base of power or a secluded place. What do these three words mean?
“There’s something weird about these fonts!”
Ye Qian frowned.
"Oh?" Hearing him interrupt, everyone looked over.
Although this prince is only half a five-star famous teacher, he has reached the five-star level in calligraphy and painting, and he is naturally sensitive to these things.
"Words can sometimes represent a person's mental state and thoughts. These three characters have reached the third level [intentional storage], and you can clearly feel the mental state of the person who left the words! There is a feeling of being incompatible with this place and wanting to stay away from the hustle and bustle.
Charm!”
Ye Qiandao.
Zhang Xuan nodded, he felt what he said.
Wangxiangju, three words, not only the meaning of the word gives people a feeling of being far away from their hometown and wanting to go home, but the artistic conception of the word can also be felt.
He has done a lot of research on calligraphy and painting, and can see it with the naked eye even without the use of a library.
"Missing my hometown? It seems...this is indeed the underground palace where Grandmaster Wu Yangzi lives!"
Luo Qiqi's eyes lit up: "It should be that he was kidnapped and missed the Hongyuan Empire, so he left the writing, but he didn't go back until he died!"
"That's possible!" Xing Yuan and others nodded.
There is an underground palace called Wangxiangju, which is very weird in itself. If someone was abducted here, it would make sense.
It is very likely that these words were left by Wu Yangzi to express his longing for his hometown.
"I don't think it's right. These words not only have the meaning of homesickness, but also contain the aura of killing, giving people a feeling of fighting and fighting..." Ye Qian frowned: "Master Wu, who has been kind to others all his life, should not be like this
Such a violent killing intention!"
Wu Yangzi, the great weapon refiner, has been with weapons all his life. Although he forged murderous blades, he himself had no murderous intention.
But with these three words in front of me, a sense of killing came to my face, making people suspicious.
"Haha, I actually feel that the murderous spirit is what he left behind!"
Xing Yuan smiled: "A dignified six-star weapon refiner, a great master, was kidnapped and locked up in such a dark place. It would be strange if he didn't have the intention to kill!"
"That's true..."
Ye Qian was stunned.
That's right. If a person of such status was caught in a dark place and couldn't walk away, no one else would be willing to accept it. It's natural for him to have the intention to kill.
"Senior Wu Yangzi is a six-star peak weapon refiner, and his strength has already reached the holy level. For such a person, he is unwilling to leave, but he cannot leave... Everyone, be careful, I'm afraid it's not that simple here!"
Luo Qiqi's face was solemn.
"Um!"
Everyone nodded at the same time, each feeling nervous.
How can it be so simple to lock a saint in an underground palace without being able to get out? Although three thousand years have passed, the methods left by such people may not be the same as those of these little guys who only have the Bridge Heaven Realm and the Heling Realm.
Can compete.
"Let's go!"
After looking around the stone tablet and finding nothing else useful, everyone moved forward.
Following the crowd, Zhang Xuan glanced at the font on the stone tablet again, frowned, and then lightly traced it with his finger, seeming to notice something, his eyebrows furrowed.
Pass by the stone monument and come to the bridge.
The bridge is not long, but the water below is very fast, making a turbulent sound, which makes people feel refreshed.
Wu Zhen put the Myriad Manifestation Umbrella in front to explore the path, nodded to everyone, and walked over first, with everyone following closely.
Behind the bridge is a wide hall, inside which still stands a huge stone monument.
Xing Yuan held the luminous pearl and came to it. Under the pale yellow light, he saw three big characters written on it - Wangyouju.
"this……"
Everyone blinked when they saw the words above.
Regardless of whether it’s an underground palace or something, a place can’t have two names!
Just now it was Wangxiangju, and now Wangyouju, which one is the name of this place?
"These three words, peaceful and upright, give people a sense of calmness, forgetting worries, being happy and forgetting worries, indicating that there is what he wants here, and he will be happy..."
Ye Qian looked forward for a while and gave an analysis: "If my guess is correct, this should be left by those who imprisoned Grand Master Wu Yangzi!"
"You are right. They imprisoned Grandmaster Wu and asked him to refine treasures for themselves. Naturally, they will be happy and forget their worries..."
Xing Yuan nodded.
Luo Qiqi and Princess Yu'er hesitated for a moment and nodded at the same time.
This explains it just fine.
I just don’t understand why an underground palace has a name on this side of the bridge and a name on that side.
After walking past the stone monument, everyone came to the main hall. The room was hundreds of square meters, extremely empty, and there was nothing.
"I'll go take a look!"
Wu Zhen knocked around the wall for a while, turned around, and then shook his head: "There... there is no mechanism here!"
"Is it another hidden formation?"
Princess Fei'er held the formation disk and slowly turned around, her face not looking good.
"I looked at it, and there is no formation!"
"Isn't this underground palace just that big?"
Everyone frowned again.
Such a powerful hidden formation was arranged outside, and stairs were built hundreds of meters downward to allow the palace to have smooth air circulation, but only a large hall that was as empty as a field and only a few hundred square meters was built?
If this is really the case, it would be too cheating!
But if this were not the case, there would be nothing around except walls and formation mechanisms. What would happen?
"If it's just an empty hall, we can't tell whether it's the place where Wu Yangzi once was, which means the mission has not been completed..."
Luo Qiqi frowned.
She was very convinced of Wu Zhen and Princess Fei'er's vision.
Since the two of them said there were no such things here, they probably didn't.
But... there is nothing, it is empty, so it is impossible to determine whether Wu Yangzi has stayed here, and how will he explain it when he returns?
What is even more strange is that since it is so empty and there is nothing, why have weapons been scattered outside for three thousand years, and why were they made using the unique techniques of Grandmaster Wu Yangzi?
"Yeah, I ran all the way here and thought I would get something, but I didn't expect it was just an empty hall!"
Xing Yuan also shook his head.
I was still thinking that I could at least find some traces when I entered the underground palace, but in the end, there was nothing except two stone tablets and a small bridge. Could it be that this time I came here in vain?
"Teacher, did you...see something?"
Everyone was feeling depressed when they heard Luo Qiqi's voice. They all looked around and saw that Zhang Xuan had arrived in front of the second stone tablet at some unknown time and reached out to touch it.
This stone tablet says "Wangyouju", and it should have been left by those who trapped Wu Yangzi.
"Oh, if my guess is correct, these two stone tablets are a bit weird!"
Zhang Xuan turned his head.
"eccentric?"
Everyone came forward.
"Well, one is Wangyouju and the other is Wangxiangju... I guessed right. They should be two roads. The writings left on the stone tablets are for those who come after you to choose!"
Zhang Xuan expressed his conclusion.
"That way, it's possible!"
Everyone was stunned.
In the entire underground palace, these two stone tablets are the most conspicuous. Perhaps there is some kind of mechanism hidden under these things.
"Let me take a look!"
After hearing the explanation, Wu Zhen hesitated and came forward.
He also took out a luminous pearl and observed it carefully. He looked at the front, back, left and back of the stone tablet in detail, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
"It seems like...there is indeed a mechanism!"
"Is there a mechanism?"
"If there are mechanisms, there are passages. It seems that this is not an underground palace at all. The real underground palace has not yet appeared!"