The Song Dynasty was the king for thirteen years before he knew that he was Tianlong.

Chapter 213 Discovery
This hall made of ice is magnificent, but it is empty and has no exhibits or displays. It looks cold and deserted.

Jiumozhi, Huo Linglong and others walked around the hall to check for any traces.

Coming back after a while, Jiumozhi shook his head and said, "No one has been here for a long time. The ground around is covered with thick frost, which has been there for tens or hundreds of years and has never been cleaned."

Zhao Ti thought for a moment and walked towards the back door of the Ice Palace: "Let's go over there and take a look."

Several people walked out from the back of the ice palace. There was a place similar to a small square. There was another palace in front. They went in, but there was still no one inside.

We walked through three or four halls in a row until we entered the last hall. We found that this was the largest and widest of all the halls. There was a shrine at the innermost part, as well as various items.

Above the shrine is a statue of a god, standing quietly, neither Taoist nor secular, wearing a snow-white robe with star patterns painted on it, with wide sleeves and an extraordinary temperament.

This deity has an outstanding appearance. His silver hair is tied up with an ancient hairpin inserted horizontally in it. A few strands of hair fall on both sides of his cheeks. He has a handsome face and a beard. His skin is as white as jade. His eyes are slightly closed, his nose is tall and straight, his thin lips are slightly pursed, and his expression is serene and peaceful.

There were countless halos behind him, with faint silk threads visible. One hand was hanging naturally with the palm facing down, and the other hand was slightly raised. In the palm of his hand was a small snow-white silkworm. The silkworm actually had two wings, as if it was about to flap its wings and fly away into the distance.

"What kind of god is this?" Huo Linglong wondered.

Jiumozhi shook his head: "I have never seen a god with this appearance."

Wu Xiong also said: "I have traveled all over the world and visited many temples, but I have never seen this god."

The girl's eyes fell on the lifelike little silkworm in the statue's palm: "This place is called the Ice Silkworm Palace, and this statue is holding an ice silkworm in its hand. Could it be the Silkworm God?"

Zhao Ti frowned slightly. "Silkworm God? There is indeed a Silkworm God in folklore, but she is a woman, Leizu, the wife of the ancient Yellow Emperor. She was born in the ancient Xiling Kingdom. She dreamed that the Queen Mother of the West taught her how to spin silk and weave brocade. After waking up, she raised silkworms and made silk. People call her the Silkworm God or the Goddess of the Silkworm."

"This statue is not a goddess, it's a man," said the girl.

Zhao Ti was silent for a moment, and then he and everyone else looked at other items in the hall. They were all things for worship, as well as some strangely shaped, exquisitely carved stones and jade, similar to magical instruments.

He walked around and said, "Let's take a look at the surrounding houses."

Afterwards, a few people went out and looked into the surrounding buildings. They saw a lot of things, but most of them were old and worn-out daily necessities, and there were no special discoveries.

Finally, we came to the back of the Divine Silkworm Palace, where there were many small ice houses. They were not as big as those palaces and were similar to normal houses.

Several people walked in one by one, only to see that the layout inside was strange, with rooms of varying sizes, ice beds, ice tables, and ice cubes, but nothing else special.

Until we reached the last ice house, we found it was a large room. It was freezing cold and there was a layer of white mist in the air.

The girl blinked and said, "Is there any treasure? Otherwise, even if it was built with ice, it is unlikely to have so much cold air."

Jiumozhi shook his head: "Maybe it was built on a cold spring. There are many such places in the snowy mountains on the plateau. There are cold springs hidden underneath. They are colder than other places and are filled with cool air."

Several people looked carefully at this time. There were also ice beds and table stools here, but there were nothing too strange.

Just as they were about to leave, a beam of white light suddenly shot out from the thickest part of the house, as fast as lightning, and rushed directly towards Zhao Ti. Everyone was shocked, the speed was so fast that they had no time to react and block it, and the white light had already reached in front of Zhao Ti.

Zhao Ti suddenly stretched out two fingers and clamped them towards the white light like an eagle's claws and thunder. Then two clear and pleasant "chirp" sounds were heard, and the white light disappeared in the blink of an eye, and there was an object between Zhao Ti's fingers.

It was a snow-white, crystal-clear, seemingly fragile little silkworm, with bright black eyes like dots of lacquer, and its body twisted between Zhao Ti's fingers.

This is... Zhao Ti raised his eyebrows. Is this an ice silkworm?
The ice silkworm in his mansion was very similar to the one in front of him, but it was not as snow-white and translucent as this one. It became much smaller after shedding its shell, but it was still slightly larger than the one in his hand.

Although the silkworm in my hand looked weaker than the other one, I could feel the chill invading my skin, which was much colder than the other one.

The ice silkworm came from Kunlun. It was brought back to the Central Plains by the Shaolin monk Hui Jing from Kunlun Mountain and raised in Minzhong Temple. It was discovered and stolen by You Tanzhi, who later obtained the Shenzu Sutra by chance and practiced the Ice Palm based on it.

Zhao Ti thought to himself, could it be that this monk Hui Jing had been to the Ice Silkworm Palace? Did he get the ice silkworm from here? But this place is extremely secretive, even Jiumozhi doesn't know about it, and the local residents of the Western Regions don't know about it either. How did Hui Jing, a monk from Shaolin Temple, know about it?

Moreover, after Hui Jing obtained the ice silkworm, he did not return to Shaolin, but went to Minzhong Temple to register. This may raise questions. As for why he went to Kunlun to get the ice silkworm, whether he wanted to practice martial arts or study and collect it, it is unknown.

If you want to practice martial arts, Shaolin has no Yin-Cold Kung Fu that can benefit from the ice silkworm, and researching and collecting it is not worth taking such a huge risk. You must know that the ice silkworm is extremely cold and poisonous. If you come into contact with it rashly, it will be tantamount to seeking death.

Zhao Ti shook his head slightly. How did Monk Hui Jing know about the existence of ice silkworms in Kunlun? Where did he get the ice silkworms in Kunlun? What did he want to do with the ice silkworms? All these have become mysteries due to his death.

At this time, several people gathered around to look at the ice silkworm that Zhao Ti was holding.

Huo Linglong was surprised and asked, "What is this? It looks like Miss Ah Zhu's little silkworm. Could it be the ice silkworm that gave this Ice Silkworm Palace its name?"

Jiumozhi looked at it for a while and said, "It is indeed very similar, but there are also differences. I didn't expect that this thing would be produced in Kunlun. I have never seen it in the Great Snow Mountain in the south."

The girl said, "Don't silkworms spin silk and make cocoons? This Ice Silkworm Palace looks cold, and these silkworms are bigger than normal silkworms. I wonder what kind of silk they are spinning? Could it be the legendary Heavenly Silk?"

Zhao Ti looked at the little silkworm twisting between his fingers and shook his head: "It must be an ice silkworm, but it seems that this thing can't spin silk."

"Can't spin silk?" The girl asked in confusion, "What's the point of calling a silkworm if it can't spin silk?"

Zhao Ti shook his head and said, "I have one at home. I have raised it for a long time. It is usually very lazy and only knows how to play. How can it spit out silk?"

"You have one at home?" The girl was puzzled. "I don't believe it. It looks like a foreign creature. Who would raise one at home? Moreover, if it is produced here, you have never been here. Where did you get it?"

Zhao Ti said, "Why don't you come home with me to see it?"

The girl took a step back after hearing that, her dark eyes blinking: "I won't go, I won't go anywhere. If I leave Tianshan, will I still be Tonglao..."

Zhao Ti smiled and loosened his grip slightly. The little silkworm was about to break free and escape. He squeezed it again and said, "Since you are here, don't leave. I will take you back to keep the other one company."

He then searched the room, but there was no second one. After thinking for a while, he led a few people out of the room.

(End of this chapter)