Tomb Raider: Evolution of the Red Dragon, Starting from the Ancient City of Jingjue

Chapter 131: The Dust Pearl, the Red-robed Evil

A palace with layers of Qin bricks and Han tiles and lines of purple buildings and golden beams stands on the top of the mountain.

The luxury of this Lingyun Palace is truly jaw-dropping. It is hard to imagine that this is the tomb of a small king from the border.

Jiang Hua looked towards the palace door.

The palace door is magnificent, with a layer of gold paint on the surface. There are two door knockers in the middle. The two door knockers look like two strange beasts, a dragon and a tiger.

There are two keyholes between the two door knockers.

Jiang Hua pulled it, but couldn't pull it at all.

It seems that you need to insert the key to open it.

Shirley Yang frowned and said, "Do we need to insert the key? But where do we have the key?"

The fat man was eager to try and said, "How about we blow it up?"

Jiang Hua shook his head. "It can't be blown up. Since King Xian is a top Feng Shui master, he will naturally have corresponding anti-theft measures."

"If we break it open violently, the mechanism in Lingyun Palace might be triggered and it will collapse completely. Then we will get nothing."

The fat man asked anxiously: "What should we do now?"

"I don't have the key, so I can't go looking for it again, right?"

"And we don't know what the key is?"

Jiang Hua carefully observed the keyhole on the door knocker. Suddenly, an idea came into his mind and something appeared in his hand.

It was the dragon-tiger short staff obtained from the jade coffin.

Jiang Hua took a look and found that the dragon-tiger short staff could just fit in.

He was immediately surprised and said: "I found the key."

"found it?"

"Yes." Jiang Hua nodded, "The key to this fairy palace is the dragon-tiger short staff we found in the jade coffin. Look at this keyhole, it's exactly the shape of the two ends of the dragon-tiger short staff."

Everyone watched carefully for a while.

Shirley Yang said: "Hey, it really is true!"

"I didn't expect that the dragon-tiger short staff we accidentally obtained would actually be the key to open the Huixian Palace. This also proves that the jade coffin must be one of the accompanying tombs of King Xian."

The fat man asked, "But there are two keyholes here, and this dragon-tiger short staff only has one. How can we open the palace door?"

Jiang Hua smiled, picked up the dragon-tiger short staff, and then gently broke it into two halves.

He inserted the dragon-tiger short staff into the two door knockers respectively.

click-
There was a soft sound.

The palace door burst open.

A long-forgotten atmosphere emanated from Huixian Palace, causing everyone to frown.

Jiang Hua raised his head and looked inside.

In this Huixian Temple, there are many statues placed around, with strange shapes, like some ancient gods.

In the middle is a bronze incense burner.

The fat man's eyes lit up slightly.

It was as if he had seen a treasure.

He hurried over and looked at the bronze incense burner.

Hu Bayi said helplessly: "Fatty, please don't touch anything for me."

"Do not worry."

The fat man said confidently without even looking up: "I will definitely keep my word."

The fat man answered in the affirmative.

Hu Bayi then breathed a sigh of relief.

Deep inside the palace is a chair carved with a dragon.

Shirley Yang said: "This King Xian probably really thinks he is the Son of Heaven. Even his chair is cast in the shape of a dragon."

Jiang Hua smiled and said, "What's the point of being an emperor? He wants to become an immortal and become the legendary emperor of heaven!"

There are numerous murals carved all around this palace.

Most of these murals are very vivid.

Describing one picture after another.

Many murals depict scenes of King Xian suppressing local barbarians.

There are also some scenes showing a group of slaves in shackles building this huge heavenly palace.

See these murals.

Shirley Yang sighed, "To build such a large palace, I don't know how much manpower it will take, and I don't know how many people will die here."

Jiang Hua said: "It took several decades to build this palace to such a scale. I'm afraid most of the slaves at that time are dead now."

The ancient times were so cruel.

Once you become a slave, your life is like that of an ant, and anyone can crush you to death at will.

"The grandeur of this Lingyun Palace is absolutely comparable to ancient monuments such as the Great Wall and the Terracotta Warriors. If this palace were to be exposed, I'm afraid archaeologists all over the world would be shocked by it."

Shirley Yang looked at the scene in Huixian Palace and couldn't help but marvel.

At this time, Hu Bayi suddenly said: "Jiang Hua, Shirley, come and take a look. This mural seems to be talking about the Zhuchen Pearl." Hearing his words, both of them were stunned for a moment, and then hurried to Lao Hu's side.

Even Fatty was no longer in the mood to continue studying the bronze incense burner after hearing this.

After all, the Zhuochen Pearl is related to lifting the ghost cave curse on him.

If he cannot find the Zhuochen Pearl, the ghost cave curse on him will follow his descendants forever.

This mural is painted on top.

Everyone can understand the meaning of the mural very intuitively.

In this mural, there is a man wearing a crown. He looks like a fat man and is sitting on a dragon throne. There is also a bead in his hand.

This bead shines with the bright light of the sun.

Like a little sun.

There are also some text descriptions at the bottom of the mural.

These characters are all written in small seal script.

The fat man asked in confusion: "Could that fat man be the legendary King Xian?"

Jiang Hua nodded and said, "That should be the case. In the ancient Dian Kingdom, only King Xian dared to sit on the throne."

"What does the text on it mean?"

Jiang Hua looked at the words at the bottom of the mural.

Then he began to observe carefully.

"This... seems to describe the origin of the Zhuchen Pearl?"

While deciphering the code, Jiang Hua explained to Shirley Yang and others.

"Legend has it that King Xian traveled in the legendary Kunlun Mountain and met people from the Demon Country. King Xian relied on his eloquence to successfully become their disciple and gained their trust."

"However, after a period of time, something seemed to have gone wrong within the Demonic Kingdom. King Xian sensed that something was wrong, so he secretly stole the Zhuchen Pearl."

"And King Xian brought the Zhuchen Pearl back to Lingnan and lived a low-key life. King Xian wanted to use the Zhuchen Pearl to realize his dream of immortality."

Jiang Hua speculated that the people from the Demon Kingdom that King Xian met should be the remnants of the Demon Kingdom.

After all, the Qin Dynasty had already perished at that time.

By the Han Dynasty, the real Demon Kingdom had been destroyed hundreds of years ago, and only the remnants of the Demon Kingdom continued to survive.

Seeing this, Jiang Hua suddenly realized.

"It turns out that King Xian took those remnants of the Demonic Kingdom as his teachers, so he was able to become a great Feng Shui master."

"And the feng shui pattern of this underground palace has been changed to the legendary auspicious spot, the Water Dragon Halo!"

The fat man asked excitedly, "Brother Jiang, hurry up and see if that old man, Prince Xian, has told me where the Zhuchen Pearl is?"

Jiang Hua frowned slightly.

"There is no information about the whereabouts of the Zhuchen Pearl on this stone tablet. It seems that we need to find the real location of King Xian's tomb before we can find the Zhuchen Pearl."

Hu Bayi took a look at the scene in Huixian Palace and asked, "But where is the Tomb of King Xian?"

“I didn’t even see a coffin.”

"Where should we go to find the tomb of King Xian?"

Jiang Hua looked around.

There is indeed no trace of King Xian’s tomb.

He murmured, "Perhaps the tomb of King Xian is not in this Immortal Palace at all. He is somewhere else..."

Shirlev Yang said: "Then where is this place?"

Jiang Hua shook his head. "I don't have any idea at the moment. Let's take a look first to see what good things are in the Immortal Palace, right?"

Suddenly, the fat man was startled.

My whole body started to tremble.

"Lao, Lao Hu, Jiang, Brother Jiang, please look up."

"above?"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, then looked up.

Their sleep holes suddenly shrank.

I felt a chill rising in my heart.

I saw a figure in red hanging on the beam of the fairy palace. His black hair fell to his waist and his face could not be seen clearly.

The Faqiu seal and the Mojin talisman can protect you from ghosts.
The coffin is made of bronze. If the characters are not strong, do not approach it.
Vertical burial pits, box graves, moving mountains and unloading ridges to walk around;
The red clothes are fierce, and the corpse is smiling. It is better to listen to ghosts cry than to laugh.

This is a commandment for the tomb-robbing industry.

Red clothes are evil!
It means that after entering the tomb, the most feared thing is to encounter something wearing red clothes.

Whatever it is.

Just wear red.

That must be a very vicious thing!

The fat man felt a chill in his heart and couldn't help but say, "I, what should we do now?"

(End of this chapter)