Movie variety show soul travels between two worlds to become a rich man

Chapter 527 Gold for the Palace, Jade for the Mountain

A large cloud of water vapor was gathered in the center of the pool, with shadowy figures inside. It was unclear what was inside. Gao Dongxu, with his superhuman eyesight, looked at the bottom of the pool and said, "There is a stone tablet in the middle of the bottom of the pool."

Following his pointing finger, everyone looked down and could only see an outline. The fat man said, "If we go down these stone steps like this, we don't know where they lead. Maybe there are other passages below. Let's go down and take a look!" With that, he jumped onto the stone steps.

This ancient tomb is extremely strange, and Wu Xie does not approve of going down rashly. He called out, "Don't rush, it's too dangerous to go down like this. At least wait until the water mist below has dissipated."

The fat man had already taken several steps down the path and said, "It's alright, I'm just going down to take a look. If it's difficult to walk, I'll come back."

Wu Xie smiled wryly, knowing his temper, and didn't stop him anymore. He watched him walk down about two laps, then seemed to encounter something, squatted down to look at it, and after only a few seconds, looked up and shouted at them: "Holy crap, there's English here!"

Everyone was stunned by this statement. How could this be? Foreign language found in a Ming Dynasty tomb? What kind of nonsense is this? Jiang Zisuan shouted, "What the hell are you talking about? How could there be English in an ancient tomb? Did you misread the patterns?"

The fat man angrily cursed, "Even though your English isn't great, I still know the ABCs! You're really underestimating me! If you don't believe me, come down and see for yourself!"

Wu Xie shouted, "Read to me what's engraved on it."

The fat man was absolutely furious and cursed, "If I could understand this, I wouldn't need to call you down here!"

“It was probably left by Wu Sansheng and his group. Don’t worry about it. Let’s go down to the bottom of the pool and take a look.” Gao Dongxu interrupted everyone’s suspicions and led A Ning and Jiang Zisuan down the stone steps to the bottom of the pool.

Wu Xie looked down and felt a little scared, but when he thought that Chen Wenjin and Huo Ling might be there, he stopped hesitating.

Previously, when Old Mrs. Huo in Beijing came to him, she not only told him about some things that happened during the Xisha archaeological excavation years ago, but also entrusted him to find Huo Ling's whereabouts.

As Wu Xie was recalling what Old Madam Huo had said, he suddenly heard Zhang Qiling beside him say, "I think I've been to this place before!"

After saying this, Zhang Qiling ignored Wu Xie's questions and ran downstairs quickly. Wu Xie's eyes lit up, as if he had seen a glimmer of the truth. Naturally, he was unwilling to let it go and hurriedly chased after him.

The mist at the bottom of the pool kept rising. After only ten steps, we entered a thick fog, and visibility dropped sharply.

"Stay close to me—" Gao Dongxu, with his extraordinary eyesight, said, then reached out and grabbed A Ning's delicate hand, and quickly walked towards the center of the pool.

"Holy crap, what the hell is that?!" Fatty Wang exclaimed again, shining his powerful flashlight on a hideous stone statue.

The group saw four stone monkeys, each more than half a person tall, squatting on stone seats, facing in all directions, seemingly praying for something. Wu Xie complained to Fatty, "These are called Sea-Stabilizing Stone Monkeys. They're usually found at the bottom of ponds, used to ward off evil spirits. It's normal for them to appear here. Can you stop being so jumpy? You always scare me half to death."

"Haha... Naive, you're such a coward," Fatty Wang teased with a laugh.

"Get lost—" Wu Xie cursed irritably, then relaxed and took a few more steps inside. He saw a large oak stele more than two meters tall standing between the four stone monkeys. Zhang Qiling, who had run down earlier, was shining a flashlight on the stele to examine it carefully.

Wu Xie frowned slightly, walked over and asked him, "So, did seeing these remind you of anything?"

He pointed to the base stone in front of the monument. Wu Xie looked at it and saw that several lines of small regular script were engraved on it. Wang Pangzi also went up to take a look, but he couldn't understand it and asked Wu Xie what it meant.

Wu Xie glanced at Gao Dongxu, who was standing in front of the stone tablet and deep in thought, and A Ning beside him, and said, "These few words tell us that the owner of the tomb built a heavenly palace, and the door to the heavenly palace is inside this stone tablet. If you are destined to be there, the door will open, and you can go through the door and go to heaven."

Fatty Wang looked at the stone tablet and said, "What kind of door is this?"

Wu Xie said to him, "This sentence is a bit like a Zen riddle. Everyone has a different understanding of this kind of sentence. Its original meaning is not that there is really a door in this stone tablet. It may mean that the contents of the tablet may be hiding something."

Fatty Wang cursed irritably, "Damn it, is there any 'content' on this stele? I can't see a single word!"

Wu Xie looked up and saw that the front of the stone tablet was bare, polished to an exceptionally high shine, almost like a piece of jade, yet there wasn't a single word on it. He said somewhat helplessly, "It says here that only those with affinity will open it. You have no affinity with the Heavenly Palace, so of course it won't."

"Pah—" Fatty Wang spat angrily, sighed, and bent down to feel around in the water, muttering to himself as he did so, "It doesn't matter if I'm not destined for the Heavenly Palace, as long as I'm destined for the Ming artifacts."

Wu Xie's lips twitched a few times. He turned to look at Zhang Qiling, whose face looked terrible. He asked Zhang Qiling a few questions, but Zhang Qiling ignored him and just stared intently at the stone tablet, as if he was looking for something.

At this moment, Fatty Wang seemed to have noticed something, which drew Wu Xie's attention away. Zhang Qiling then suddenly stood up and strode quickly in one direction.

Gao Dongxu stood in front of the stone tablet, looking down at Zhang Qiling, who seemed to have found some of his memories.

"Is there something wrong with him?" Ah Ning frowned as she looked at Zhang Qiling and asked softly.

"Hehe, he has more than just problems." Gao Dongxu smiled slightly, then turned to look at A Ning's slightly pale face, and gently stroked it, saying, "Are you cold?"

Ah Ning blushed slightly, looked at Gao Dongxu with tender and sweet eyes, and said softly, "A little. The wetsuit is not breathable, and it's damp and stuffy here. I'm covered in sweat, and it's cold and uncomfortable."

"Once we get to the main hall, I'll get you a new set to change into. Just bear with it a little longer," Gao Dongxu said softly with a smile.

"Mmm." Ah Ning nodded gently and smiled.

At this moment, Wu Xie noticed Zhang Qiling sitting in the corner of the pool, staring blankly ahead. His eyes no longer held the composure he usually had, but instead a look of almost deathly despair. He looked like a dead man.

Wu Xie and Fatty Wang hurriedly asked what had happened. He looked up at the two of them and said in an almost inaudible voice, "I remember what happened twenty years ago—"

Then, Zhang Qiling began to recount his experiences of coming here with Wu Sansheng, Chen Wenjin, and Huo Ling in a calm and emotionless tone. Through his narration, the group gradually glimpsed a corner of this huge mystery.

Knowing the plot, Gao Dongxu naturally had no interest in listening to Zhang Qiling, an amnesiac, reminisce about the past, especially since much of that information was only partially true. He and A Ning, armed with powerful flashlights, began searching the surrounding pool walls for something.

"What are you looking for?" Ah Ning asked, frowning slightly.

“Hidden door—” Gao Dongxu quickly found one, and then used it as a reference point to take out an emergency light and turn it on. Using the Bagua diagram as a reference, he quickly found the other seven hidden doors and lit an emergency light for each one.

"Qimen Dunjia?!" Wu Xie exclaimed in surprise.

"Yes, I found a total of eight hidden doors..."

As soon as Zhang Qiling finished speaking, they saw eight emergency lights illuminate the surroundings. Wu Xie, Fatty Wang, and Jiang Zisuan, who had been curiously listening to the story, stared in disbelief as Gao Dongxu led A Ning back to the stone tablet.

"..."

"Young Master Gao, have you found a solution?" Fatty Wang asked Gao Dongxu with a face full of excitement.

Zhang Qiling looked at Gao Dongxu, who had a faint smile on his face, with an extremely complicated expression, and was shocked.

Ever since he first met Gao Dongxu, who seemed to know everything and had regained a lot of his memories, Gao Dongxu became even more wary of him. He even suspected that Gao Dongxu was the Zhang family's nemesis, a member of the Wang family, or one of his people.

That's why he left without saying goodbye when he was at the Lu Palace; he was worried that Gao Dongxu would catch him.

However, after this reunion, Zhang Qiling discovered that Gao Dongxu did not harbor any hostility towards him; it was just that every time he looked at him, his eyes were filled with the feeling of an outsider watching a spectacle.

Gao Dongxu ignored Fatty Wang and said to A Ning, "Stand in front of the stone tablet, treat it as a mirror, and comb your hair in front of it. Your posture should be like that of an ancient woman, like this—you should show a kind of charm."

As everyone watched Gao Dongxu demonstrate with his delicate, effeminate hand gesture, their lips twitched involuntarily. Only Zhang Qiling's pupils constricted, and he exclaimed in surprise, "How did you know?!"

Wu Xie, Wang Pangzi, and Jiang Zisuan stared in astonishment at the shocked Zhang Qiling, then turned to look at Gao Dongxu in front of the stone tablet and A Ning, who was looking in the mirror and combing her hair.

"...Don't look directly at it, look to the side, and focus on your sideburns. Do you notice anything?" Gao Dongxu walked to the stone tablet and asked A Ning.

At first, Ah Ning found it funny, but she still obediently imitated Gao Dongxu, combed her hair, and then gave a very charming and seductive glance. Suddenly, she saw three faint fish with their heads and tails connected at her temples in the reflection of the stone tablet. They were very blurry. She moved her head again and found that as long as the angle was slightly different, they would immediately disappear and not be visible.

"We've found three fish, head to tail..."

"Keep a close eye on those three fish!" Gao Dongxu smiled.

Ah Ning held her breath and stared intently at the fish. She noticed that the mark was also moving slowly. It seemed that there was a mechanism inside the stone tablet that rotated at the same speed as the pool wall. The mark was always pointing towards the so-called Heavenly Gate.

When Aning saw that the mark and the light spot of the emergency light overlapped, she shouted, "That's it!"

A cheer erupted from everyone, even Zhang Qiling couldn't help but clench his fist. Gao Dongxu immediately ran to the hidden door, pushed it open forcefully, and turned back to the crowd with a smile, saying, "What are we waiting for? Let's go!"

Everyone immediately ran to the hidden door. Gao Dongxu was about to be the first to slip in when Zhang Qiling stopped him. The two looked at each other and Zhang Qiling said, "I'll go first."

“Alright.” Gao Dongxu raised an eyebrow slightly and nodded in agreement.

The walkway was made of stacked oak slabs and was only wide enough for one person. Two slightly overweight people couldn't pass through it. So, when Fatty Wang squeezed in, he started complaining, as his stomach and back were chafed and aching.

After walking for about half the time it takes to smoke a cigarette, it was pitch black all around them. They felt as if they were the only few left in the entire universe, and they began to feel uneasy.

Nobody likes a confined environment; they can't stand it after a while.

At this moment, the walkway began to slope upwards, and looking up along this slope, we discovered a light appearing far ahead.

Knowing that they had reached the end, the group quickened their pace, rushing forward as if taking several steps at once, watching the point of light get closer and closer.

Suddenly, the ground leveled out, and the whole world seemed to be enveloped in golden light. Everyone squinted and gasped in surprise, almost kneeling down.

"Holy crap—" Wang Pangzi, shocked by what he saw, stared wide-eyed, opened his mouth wide, and swore out a curse as his face turned red.

Before them appeared a huge, square room. It was not just large; it exuded an extreme sense of dominance. The atmosphere of the entire building could only be described as magnificent, giving one the urge to kneel down.

On each side of the room, there are ten whole golden nanmu pillars, each so thick that three people cannot encircle them, like pillars supporting the sky at the ends of the earth.

The entire room was built of yellow bricks, spanning ten zhang in both directions, with carved beams and painted eaves. There were ten five-clawed golden dragons alone, making it extremely magnificent.

On the nearly ten-meter-high dome, there is a picture of fifty stars. Each star is a bright luminous pearl, probably the size of a goose egg, emitting a faint yellow light.

In each of the four corners of the room, there is a large mirror. The light reflects off each other, and although it is not very bright, it is enough to illuminate the entire space.

What surprised them most was a huge stone slab in the center of the room, upon which sat a magnificent model of a palace. Although it was just a model, it was complete with dragon towers, grand halls, artificial rocks, and flowing water, making it truly spectacular.

What made everyone envious and trembling with excitement was the entire palace model, which was made entirely of gold!
(End of this chapter)