Strange events in the imperial capital

They passed the long corridor towards the Wenhua Gate in the southeast. Chu Han accidentally raised his head and looked at a majestic and majestic hall on the Royal Road of the Forbidden Palace from a distance.This should be the highest-level and grandest building in the inner city.

The main hall has a double eaves and hipped roof, and the base of the steps is covered with exquisite and gorgeous reliefs of dragons and phoenixes.

In front of the main hall, there is a wide Danbi platform, with sundials and Jialiang standing on the left and right according to the regulations.

Chu Han has far-sighted eyes.He stopped suddenly and stared at the sundial in the distance: "Why is the time wrong?!"

A sundial is the shadow of the sun, and the time is determined entirely by the change of the shadow cast by the sun on the surface of the sundial through the sundial needle.Wherever the projection of the sun goes, it indicates which time scale it is on, and it is impossible for others to mess up the pointer.How could it be wrong?

Fang Qiantui said: "I thought we were at Xu time, seven o'clock in the evening. But the Chen time pointed by the sundial is seven o'clock in the morning."

Shen Chenghe exclaimed: "When we came, it was just getting dark, so it must be seven or eight o'clock in the evening! That big clock turned directly to seven o'clock in the morning?!"

"So..." Master Feng said, "The sundial in front of the main hall must not indicate the time of the shadow of the sun."

"It doesn't indicate the solar time." Chu Han woke up suddenly, "It indicates how much time we have left! Chenshi is our initial southeast position, and the projection of the sundial is turning counterclockwise. Let's go!"

Shen Chenghe's voice echoed in the wilderness: "Bad food, run away, brothers, there must be a mechanism in this place! We can't let that benchmark run faster than us!"

Among the positions of the five elements and eight trigrams, the "Xun" position they are in corresponds to the time of the day.The projection of the sundial pin starts from the time of the day and keeps pointing to the direction they are running.The sundial seems to be chasing their footsteps, moving the clock backwards, and the projections go fast.

Chu Han originally thought that they would have enough time to visit the Forbidden Palace, so he made an appointment with someone under the city for the second half of the month.They didn't expect that when they stepped into this inner city, a huge time gear was slowly activated.

The sundial will complete a circle in twelve hours.If they can't complete the nine grids within the twelve hours, if the sundial always runs ahead of them, they may really be in trouble, whether the earth will collapse or the land will crack.

On the other side of Danbi in the main hall, opposite to the sundial is a copper measuring vessel called "Jialiang"; it stands on a tall Xumizuo with a waist, and beautiful landscapes, clouds and thunder patterns float on the Xumizuo.

Jialiang, which symbolizes the lifeline of Shenzhou Sheji, marks the coming of the black tide.The jet-black undercurrent climbed up on the Douhu scale, gradually filling the measuring vessel.

……

Their time is running out.

If this is a journey that the four of them have spent together and must complete, then the end of this journey will be the dawn that all creatures in the God Realm are looking forward to.

The southeast sunny side of the Xinggong is the location of Wenhua Hall and Wenyuan Pavilion.

According to the theory of the five elements, the east belongs to wood, which represents the growth and vitality of all things.

Fang Qiansui and Mr. Shen joined forces to push open the palace door and enter.The main hall is roofed with yellow tiles and verandas. The zenith is vast, with lights and shadows flickering, and the surrounding windows of water chestnut flowers reveal bright or dark light.

The four of them went together to find the way forward, and they didn't feel the slightest bit of fear or timidity at that time.

Feng Feiluan reminded in a low voice: "Don't worry about those swaying shadows, let's go quickly."

He pulled Cheng He and ran wildly all the way.

They headed straight for the apse passage, looking for the next gate.There was a strange sound from the zenith, and the guards descended from the sky!

The palace guards mentioned by Lord Feng are probably these people.

Every grid in the Nine Palaces is guarded by divine beasts in human form.The Commander's golden staff with a crested head no longer works, and the guards don't listen to him.The eyes of the guards of the Forbidden Palace are full of muddiness and confusion after being infected by the dark tide. It is unbearable to hurt, but they are unable to communicate, like chickens talking to ducks.

The guard man in a golden helmet and iron armor, with leopard beards around his eyes, and a bronze horn on his forehead, was born with mighty supernatural power, brandishing a bronze dagger, chasing them all over the room.

The four of them coincidentally, Hulala spread out, and flew around the pillar, just like a scene of an eagle catching a chick.

Mr. Shen couldn't climb the pillar, so he had to run wildly with his arms in his arms: "Hey, huh? Don't hit me, don't hit my ass, do you know me, do you have any grudge against me?!"

The unicorn spirit beast roared: "The intruder is the enemy!"

Fang Qiantui said sharply, "I don't want to hurt anyone, let us go."

The unicorn spirit beast roared: "Get over me first, or forget about it!"

Chu Han jumped out of the opponent's sphere of influence wielding the bronze dagger, hid behind the pillars of the main hall and watched from a distance, and reminded Fang Qiantui behind the other pillar: "If you grab his horn, his gate of life must be the single one on his forehead. horn!"

He later recalled that what they met was probably the legendary one-horned spirit beast Xiezhi, the guardian of the Nine Palaces Xun.

Fang Qiantui was hanging from the beam on the zenith, hanging upside down, and suddenly a shiny silver rope was thrown out of his sleeve.

With aura of aura, the silver rope wrapped around the bronze horn on the forehead of the general, and skillfully tied it in a knot.Fang Qiantui called out "Lord Feng".Feng Feiluan understood and jumped out from behind another pillar, just in time to catch the other end of the rope.

The two of them, one on the left and one on the right, struggled to hold on to the silver long rope, with equal strength on both sides, and firmly held the one-horned general in the middle.

Chu Han came out from behind the pillar: "I won't hurt you, just let us pass."

"Have you been subdued?! Hey!" Mr. Shen came out for a stroll, took out a grenade from Chu Han's backpack, and without losing the opportunity, he posed sideways in a horse stance, "Surrender or not? No surrender!" If so, I will throw this big black lump in your crotch!"

While Shen Chenghe was still threatening to pester him with "surrender or not" and "explode your eggs", Chu Han left everyone behind, passed the one-horned guard, and went straight to the gate of the apse.He struggled to open the heavy and thick door bolt...

The one-horned guard was unable to stop him, and roared: "Ah——"

The four of them rushed out of Xunwei's palace one by one, jumped down the steps one by one, and went to the next palace.

Fang Qiansui stroked Chu Han's hair from behind, without saying anything.

Chu Han suddenly asked: "What kind of rope did you use just now? I don't think I've seen it before."

Fang Qiansui's eyebrows were very bright, and he said arrogantly: "An inexhaustible rope can be taken as you use it."

Chu Han quietly rubbed the man's earlobe, and teased in a low voice: "The silver one looks so pretty, isn't it made by a dragon's beard?"

He definitely guessed right.

Complacent in his chest, Xiao Chitose laughed and pulled him to run happily.

They passed through the "Zhen" position in the east and the "Gen" position in the northeast successively, racing against the projection of the sundial all the way.

The guard of Zhenwei Gongge was actually Fei Yi.Feiyi is the legendary drought beast. With a wave of his hand, a piece of scorched earth hits him. In the courtyard and on the corners of the hall, there are stone and wood debris that have been peeled off after being burned.

Fang Qiantui defended against the enemy with water, a waterspout swung over and smashed the buddy onto the hall.Sure enough, the fake little dragon immediately revealed its original shape when it met the real dragon. It turned out to be a six-legged monster snake.

The guard of the palace is a burly man with fluffy clothes, like a bear man.The bear was called "Chaos", and he had a hand-to-hand fight with Mr. Shen, and it was a wrestling method, which lasted for two hundred rounds.In the end, Master Feng got impatient with waiting, or couldn't understand the two people's close-to-ground warfare, so he secretly fired a few hidden weapons from behind the golden throne, helping Cheng He.

Mr. Shen thought he beat Chaos himself until his limbs were cramping and he was foaming at the mouth.

The Forbidden Palace is due north, the "Han" position in the hexagram of the Nine Palaces.

Shen Chenghe looked around: "This place should be the Kunning Palace of the empress, and the imperial garden!"

Of course, there is no building called Kunning Palace in the Forbidden Palace of God City.As soon as you enter the palace grid temple in the kan, you will feel coldness in your four bodies.The walls of the main hall were dripping with water, and the air was filled with mist.

Chu Han thought to himself, the location of the kan is the main water, so could it be that this is the third prince's own territory?

Fang Qiansui protected Young Master Chu one zhang behind him, and walked up the dark and narrow corridor alone, his steps drifting in the water vapor.Fang Chitose's expression was stern, and the moment the palace guard appeared in the water mist, he suddenly grabbed his opponent's throat!

The palace guards were tearing and roaring, their voices were really loud, the sound was like rolling thunder, shaking the roof tiles and beams of the palace trembling.

The palace guard was forced by Fang Qiantui's chest, and retreated step by step. The back of his head smashed obstacles all the way, and was forced to the last gate.

Fang Qiansui resisted the man's gaze: "You came from Liubo Mountain in the East China Sea, don't you know me?!"

God will look in horror: "You?"

Fang Chitose's silver braids were flying behind his head, and it was as if a god descended: "Kneel."

The general has only one leg, so he really knelt down: "Your Highness..."

The one-legged black-hoofed general is Kui among the mythical beasts.Legend has it that there are only three Kui beasts in total, one of which was captured by the Yellow Emperor during the battle between Huangdi and Chiyou, and was slaughtered to be made into a war drum.After the second head died in Shenhun Realm, it was made into a spirit drum in front of the Meridian Gate of Yudao, and when it was struck, the sound shook the sky and reached the heaven.

The last end will be loyally guarded here for the rest of his life.The obsessive spirits in the world may have different purposes, but the methods of attachment are so similar.

Chu Han whispered to his companion: "The ancestral home of this black donkey's hoof is the Liubo Fairy Mountain in the East China Sea."

Shen Chenghe came to a sudden: "They are fellow villagers, no wonder."

Face and connections are also important on the battlefield, and they passed this level with ease.In human form, Kui showed a thin and handsome face, with a pair of translucent slightly pointed ears.

Before Fang Qiansui left, he stopped suddenly, walked back and asked softly, "Have you seen my father in recent years?"

The donkey-hoofed handsome Kui quickly knelt down to the Third Highness and said, "Dragon King has been living under the fairy island in the East China Sea for decades. It's just that...it's said that he came out recently and is going to move to another place in the south. I'm not sure..."

"Oh, I see." Fang Qiansui's eyes flashed a faint thought, but in front of some outsiders, it's inconvenient to say any more.

This person is not the character of a mother-in-law.

Chu Han knew Xiaofang's temper too well, so he would keep things in his heart when he needed something urgent.After he went out of that door, he took the initiative to hold Xiao Chitose's wrist, clenched tightly for comfort.

Chu Han said: "Your father is about to move again, and he went out to chase your mother."

Fang Chitose: "Yes."

Chu Han asked in his heart, you must have a little tenth brother!It is not easy to inherit the great rule.

It was hard to say this, but Fang Qiansui still guessed it, and pinched Chu Han hard, blaming him for knowing too much and thinking too fast.

……

The projection of the sundial slowly slid to Haishi, and they rushed to the "Qian" position in the northwest direction together.

On the long street and royal road, four vigorous figures ran persistently in the lavender night, catching up with the pace of time, but they didn't know how difficult and dangerous the gate was waiting for them.