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Under everyone's attention, holding his breath, Cheng Ling stepped onto the first step.

The hall was quiet and nothing happened.

Zhong Zhe's judgment was right, it was left up and right down.

Cheng Ling turned sideways, took the second step steadily, turned around, and took the third step.

the fourth step.

The ever-burning lamp on the fourth step suddenly dimly shook twice and went out!

Zhong Zhe's heart beat suddenly and missed a beat.

Someone behind me shouted, "No, go back!"

Cheng Ling did not retreat.

Zhong Zhe didn't retreat either, he even ran down the narrow ladder on the left in a few steps, relying on the fact that he was in front of the altar.

"What's wrong?" He anxiously turned towards Cheng Ling who was on the stairs, just wanting to know what went wrong.

Uncle Gao shouted from behind: "Come back quickly!"

Everyone is on alert, for fear that they will run out of the mechanism again from the top or any unknown place.

Amidst the tension, Cheng Ling squatted down without haste, and leaned towards the ever-burning lamp at his feet.

After a while, he calmly turned his head and said to Zhong Zhe: "It should be distorted by the previous stone cone. After the wick was barely ignited, the fat melted and flowed out, so it burned out quickly."

Zhong Zhe nodded with a relaxed expression, and everyone below also exhaled.

Cheng Ling quickly finished the first nine steps, and then the second one. From the moment he stepped on the eighth high step, the people below began to get nervous again.Cheng Ling's figure was already far away, and his movements could not be seen clearly with the naked eye, only his back was moving, and after a few steps, the top of the altar was in sight.

The empty main hall was quiet and silent, only the dusty ancient relics exuded a cold and stale air and the lights without warmth.

It wasn't until Cheng Ling lifted his foot to the top that Zhong Zhe felt that he was almost out of breath. He didn't even realize that he had been holding his breath since the eighth high step.

Cheng Ling's figure continued to move forward, and quickly disappeared from everyone's sight. After a while, when he reappeared, he was already facing the main hall. Obviously, the top part of the altar was much deeper than the bottom part. Out of sight.

When Cheng Ling spoke, his voice sounded distant and had a long echo: "On the top is a platform the size of a stage, with an altar and sacrificial supplies, a huge mirror, and two gauze curtains to separate the altar from the space below. .”

Everyone suddenly realized that the highest altar could not be seen clearly before, and it was probably blocked by these two gauze curtains.

Li Cha Yi pointed to Uncle Gao and Younger Sister, and ordered to his subordinates: "You two stay and watch them." He then turned to the other two, "Follow me up."

Zhong Zhe immediately made a plan. With Cheng Ling on top, at most Richard Yi would only allow two more people from their side to follow.

He exchanged glances with Zhang Yu calmly, and Zhang Yu glanced at Shi Shi.

Zhong Zhe understood.

Li Cha Yi really said: "Mr. Zhong, please, pick two more to open the way."

Zhong Zhe ordered Zhang Yu's stone, but Li Cha Yi replaced the stone with Xiao Na.

Zhong Zhe had no choice but to take Xiao Na to the front, followed by Li Cha Yi and one of his subordinates, then Zhang Yu, and finally Li Cha Yi's people took precautions.

With the route map marked by Cheng Ling in advance, and the stone Zhang Yu who also didn't know how to walk, walking in front and back as a guarantee, Li Cha Yi was very relieved to step on the stairs.

Zhong Zhe carefully mentioned that although the group of people walked a bit slower, the tense atmosphere in the hall where the needles could be heard before had eased a lot.

It wasn't until Zhong Zhe started to climb up the narrow ladder that Zhong Zhe saw clearly what was inside the huge bronze tripod placed in the middle.

Snow-white snake bones of different sizes are soaked in the dark and viscous unknown liquid. Inside the countless narrow snake heads, there are densely packed huge eye sockets, like countless black whirlpools, and the layered snake heads are exposed near the surface of the liquid. The place seems to be able to drag people into the tripod at any time.

Zhong Zhe quickly looked away, restrained his mind, and concentrated on leading the people behind to the third high level.

Cheng Ling waited on the edge of the high platform, and when Zhong Zhe took the lead to climb up, he stretched out his hand to pull him. Zhong Zhe borrowed his strength, and the two got close to each other by inertia. Cheng Ling asked in his ear: "Climbing so fast Gao, how does the injury feel?"

Zhong Zhe listened, a smile appeared on his originally tense face, and he pursed his lips, "It hurts—" and couldn't help but said narrowly: "If you can't hold on later, you will carry me down?"

He knew that it was far from the time to joke, but seeing Cheng Ling climbed all the way to the altar alone before, and went through the moment when the lamp went out, Zhong Zhe couldn't help but want to say something at this moment.

He didn't care how Cheng Ling would reply to him at all, but no matter which one, he never thought that Cheng Ling would think seriously: "Carrying on your back will stretch your abdominal muscles, and it will only make the injury worse. I won’t use force. I’ll hold you down later.”

From his words to his tone of voice, he's telling the truth.Zhong Zhe shook his head hastily.

Xiao Na from behind has already followed closely, because she only listened to the second half of the sentence, she looked at the two in a daze, and thought she had misheard, but before she could figure out the situation, the enemies from behind came up one after another.

When a group of six people reached the top, the entire top of the altar finally showed its true face in the eyes of everyone.

Passing through the front and back two layers of veils as thin as cicada wings, there is a huge silver-white round mirror at the bottom of the center of the altar, and everyone's eyes are first attracted to this mirror.

Richard Yi looked at Zhong Zhe, "Is this a silver mirror?"

Zhong Zhe didn't answer immediately.

Even though the main hall is closed all the year round, the space is huge, and the original air and matter in the space alone are enough to make the mirror lose its luster. It is hard to imagine that it can keep the silver light that everyone sees shining and shining.

Based on this inference, Zhong Zhe approached cautiously, carefully inspected the front and back of the mirror, and concluded: "This is a bronze mirror, using the ancient method of 'mercury water'.

The mirror surface is made of silver because of the use of 'Xuanxi', which the ancients called 'mirror grinding medicine', which is a powder made of tin mercury and other minerals.Use this kind of powdered 'mirror grinding medicine' to finely polish the surface of the smooth copper mirror layer by layer, which will act like today's metal plating, which will prevent oxidation and reflection, and the mirror surface will finally look like it is now . "

What surprised Zhong Zhe was that most of the bronze mirrors that the ancients dealt with in this way were palm-sized bronze mirrors. Such a bronze mirror with a diameter of more than one meter has doubled the requirements for craftsmanship. made.

Li Cha Yi frowned and asked, "What's the use of this?"

Zhong Zhe looked at a group of altar-like decorations facing the bronze mirror not far away, and said as he walked, "We have to see what's there."

The silver mirror is supported by a copper frame and is located near the top of the main hall, sloping slightly downward at an angle of about fifteen degrees.Below its irradiated route, there is an enclosed altar, which is square in shape, and the inside is carved with various jade and multicolored gemstones to form mountains and rivers, simulating a vivid map of mountains and rivers in Kyushu.

Especially the Five Sacred Mountains and the Four Dus. For example, Mount Tai is carved with blue jade, Mount Hua is carved with flawless white jade, and Mount Song of Zhongyue is carved with topaz... and the Sidus have excavated exquisite river channels. It seems that there used to be running water that could flow through the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.

Everyone stared intently at the ancient sand table model made of this gemstone, and was shocked by its brilliance and fineness.

In the east of the entire Sifang altar, near Mount Tai, stands a round white marble pillar.

There is a circular groove in the center of the stone pillar, and the base is embedded with exquisite black and white double fish. The fish body pattern is exactly the same as what Zhong Zhe saw when he entered Xiangdian earlier, but the carving is more exquisite and gorgeous, with fish scales and fish fibrous roots. The roots are all slender.

Li Cha Yi suppressed his excitement and said, "I found it." He turned around and ordered his two subordinates sharply, "Keep an eye on them."

Afterwards, Cheng Ling saw Li Cha Yi happily taking out an oblong leather box from his arms.

Opening the leather box, inside was a jasper-like cylinder that looked like glass. Zhong Zhe said softly next to Cheng Ling: "It's Hetu."

The two watched as Li Cha Yi solemnly put it into the groove, and saw that the cylinder was inserted into the base tightly.

Immediately afterwards, there was a bang, and fire erupted directly around the stone pillar.

Everyone was forced to step back suddenly.

When I looked again, the flames sprang up and wrapped the entire white marble pillar, and Hetu had completely fallen into the flames.

Li Cha Yi's complexion changed suddenly. Just as he was about to rush forward to grab the river map, he found that the jasper-like glass cylinder was burning brighter and brighter, making it clear and transparent to the naked eye.

He slowed his hands and stared at Hetu in flames.

I saw two swimming fish connecting head to tail gradually emerged in the green cylinder.

Against the backdrop of the flames, the two fish swayed and swayed their tails, like two koi swimming freely in the blue cylindrical fish tank. Everyone watched this spectacle through the flames, and for a moment they couldn't tell where the two fishes swimming in the fire were. Is it true or false.

Before everyone recovered from the scene in front of them, on the other side of the Sifang Altar, there was a crackling sound on the ground, and there was quite a lot of movement.Everyone was on guard as if they were facing a formidable enemy. At this time, the ground in the south was cracked, and a white marble turtle slowly rose up. The back of the turtle was deliberately hollowed out, leaving a depression where the shell should have been.

Li Cha Yi looked at Zhong Zhe, his voice was too tight to be true, "Hand over Luo Shu."

Zhong Zhe shook his head, "Didn't you search twice just now?"

Li Cha Yi sneered twice, looked at the four people standing with Zhong Zhe, "Luo Shu was not found during the body search, I thought I was wrong, until those tails you left behind slipped in.

Zhong Zhe, when you come down to inspect Xiangdian, you will definitely bring Luo Shu with you. You left Luo Shu to those tails!Now, Luo Shu is either on the four of you, or on those people below.

Hand it over!I don't have the patience to search again, if you don't hand it in, I'll start with your sister first! "

Zhong Zhe had no choice but to look at Xiao Na, but Xiao Na was a little confused about the conversation between the two, she turned her head to look at Cheng Ling, Cheng Ling nodded, and explained: "It is the thing that Zhong Zhe gave you."

Xiao Na was stunned for a moment, and when she came back to her senses, she carefully took out the tortoise shell from her bosom. Li Cha Yi snatched it and put it into the depression on the turtle's back.

As soon as the tortoise shell was carved into the stone tortoise, the sound of the mechanism turning began to be heard endlessly. The stone tortoise began to move along the river. After turning into the Yellow River, everyone saw a rock blocking the river.

Li Cha Yi said anxiously: "Go and move that thing away, let the stone turtle pass by!"

"Don't move!" Zhong Zhe pointed to the faintly carved dragon pattern on the rock, "This is the dragon gate, wait for it to hit."

After Shi Gui entered this section, he actually accelerated his speed. As expected, he raised his head and slammed into the rock. The rock called Longmen split along the set gap and fell to both sides.

Everything has been carefully calculated.

At this moment, the ever-burning lamps in the main hall were extinguished, more than half of them were extinguished in the blink of an eye, and in the dim light of the fire, a black curtain fell over the altar.

Everyone was taken aback.

"No!" Someone shouted, and the seven jumped out of the curtain one after another regardless of whether they were enemies or friends, avoiding the hidden crisis.

After jumping out of the backstage, I saw two huge dragon fishes with pendulous tails appearing on the two layers of gauze curtains before. On the huge white curtain, two big fishes were swimming back and forth as if in a movie animation. It is the split dragon gate and the reflected mountains and rivers.

The people under the altar also saw this astonishing scene. Because they suddenly appeared in the space above the high platform, it was like a dream. Everyone looked up blankly, even more surprised than the people on the top.

"This is, Yu Leaping over the Dragon's Gate?!" Zhong Zhe quickly connected the silver round mirror, the burning picture of the river in the fire, the stone turtle carrying Luoshu, and the last black curtain in his mind.

He turned his head to look at the dark curtain, and sure enough there was a glowing hole in the center of the curtain. Zhong Zhe suddenly woke up, turned around and ran into the dark curtain.

The author has something to say: The little angels are silent, is it because the plot is completely out of order?