Beneath the crater, the only thing left was a mess.
The tombstones had all been burnt black, but outside of the vines' package, there was a square secret room. Each corner of the room had a familiar bell pattern on it, and Gu Liuyan pretended not to be able to see it, allowing Yue Qing to continue reciting next to his ear: "The words on this tombstone can no longer be seen clearly, but on the other side there seems to be a door. There seems to be quite a lot of charred black stuff inside, and the ceiling of that hole over there is rather sticky."
Yue Qing brought her around the room.
"Send someone to clean this place up a little and see what's on the ceiling and in the place where it's charred. Take me to the tombstone to see what's there."
"Alright." Yue Qing nodded, feeling that she was somewhat familiar with the place.
He brought Gu Daiyan to the tombstone. She knelt down in front of it and apologized in a low voice. Then, she touched the tombstone and was stopped by the porcelain man. "This tombstone is charred black …"
"Since I'm the one who asked them for the truth, I should be devout." As Gu Liuyan said this, he used his fingertips to wipe it away. When he touched the name on it, he would apologize in a low voice.
He carefully looked down and found that at the very bottom of the tombstone, there was actually a string of small words. He couldn't see them clearly, but he could feel them clearly — Life Gate destroyed. Death sect disciple. Extremely vicious.
In this world, there was no Mysterious Gate of Escape Armor, so the meaning of the Gate of Life and the Gate of Death should be the simplest.
"Is there another door or another exit?" Gu Danyan asked in a low voice as she wiped the burnt marks on her hands clean.
"Nope." Mu Qing replied to Gu Danyan first.
Gu Liuyan could clearly see Mu Qing standing behind a wall. If she remembered correctly, that was the place she and Duan Chengxuan entered earlier, but now, there was only a wall left.
In that case, this was a trap.
Although he didn't know how she and Duan Chengxuan had coincidentally walked in here at that time, if that was the case, then the real crux was another tightly shut door.
"These charred bones are all human bones. There are at least a dozen human bones here." Some soldiers took a small step back. Su Yu Wan exclaimed and walked to Mu Qing's side with a pale face. She looked at him and asked, "How could this …"
Gu Daiyan was puzzled.
If it was said that this Navy Tide's emperor and his lover died here while the corpses and skeletons died in front of that door, then just what did the Gate of Life and the door of death mean?
"Take me to the door and see if there's any way to open it." Gu Panyan gripped Yue Qing's wrist tightly.
Yue Qing led the way to the door. There were no keyholes, only a flat crack.
Gu Liuyan raised his head: "What's that on top of your head?"
It gave off a strange smell.
Yue Qing raised her head and sized him up. "The fire has made it difficult to distinguish him. He seems to be a part of some vine?"
Maybe it was some kind of herb.
The soldiers behind him were all on guard, but the door was easily pushed open, and an ear-piercing scraping sound came from the deep pit. In front of him was the same destroyed temple, with eight pillars that were as tall as two people falling to the ground, and there was also a destroyed stone statue on the high platform in the middle. The original appearance could not be seen, the thick smell caused all the smells to take a step back.
"What is it?" Yue Qing pulled Gu Liuyan back two steps.
"It seems to be poisonous grass, it's been stored inside for too long." Mu Qing covered his and Su Yu Wan's noses, pulling them over: "Quickly close the door."
As soon as he said that, two of the soldiers had already covered their mouths and noses, wanting to close the door.
Gu Daiyan waved away Yue Qing's hand, saying in a low voice, "You guys wait for me outside."
The smell was not pungent to her, but she knew what it was.
There were many of these fruits, and there was also a custom of crushing the red fruit and wrapping it around the walls of the graveyard of the dead to ensure that he could die in peace. The reason for the poison was that the color of the fruit would change after it had rotted, and it would become poisonous in the graveyard over time to prevent the tomb robbers.
At the same time, once this place was ventilated for a period of time, the poison gas would dissipate.
"These are just the normal fruits of a pill. It took too long for them to taste like this. The antidote is very simple. Mu Qing, you should be able to concoct them by now. I'll go in and take a look. This thing is useless to me." She could feel his cold hands become warmer, and the veins on his wrists gradually disappeared.
She had already walked step by step towards the center of the shrine, but she was still tripped over some rocks that couldn't be seen on the ground. There was only the Night Pearl still emitting a faint light around her, and she was lying on the pillar looking at the broken stone sculpture inside.
And above her, in the darkness, there was a stone carved guillotine. The temple's stage just happened to have a slight dent in it, and the chain with the guillotine was as thick as an arm and completely safe. Just as she was able to find nothing, the lines of the pillar next to her startled her.
"This place is a treasure land of Feng Shui, but someone hid thirty-nine corpses here. Feng Shui has changed, and a stone room has been sealed. Beneath the stage is the tomb of the deceased, and it is time for them to die."
This was completely her world's language, proving that her first generation ancestors had come here.
That didn't mean they were supposed to be looking for these places.
He then touched the next pillar. It was also a simple modern script. The carving was not even a little bit uneven.
"The Guillotine at the entrance of the market slashes down the evil spirits, allowing the pure and honest officials to come here to suppress the soul."
When he reached the last pillar, which was clockwise, the words were already written on it: "Luo Shui is dried up, Fearless." Blood for blood, you cannot live forever, do not believe in false words by your descendants. "
"Seal off this place and let's go." As they left, they did not forget to take a look at the skeletons at the entrance. Even though the smell was strong, they had probably only passed through the entrance many times. These people must have died before they could even get in.
The two ancestors must have known that there was a trick to this, as well as some of its secrets. That was why they were here messing up the vines and covering up the door with vines.
All in all, she had mistook these two for someone who had come for immortality.
Mu Qing had already hastily passed the simple antidote over to everyone as he asked, "What exactly happened?"
"I entered with Duan Chengxuan once, but there were many vines inside, so we didn't notice this door. However, the door we came in from is already closed, so we calculated the distance to the river in detail. We'll blow up this place later and let the water flow in." Gu Liuyan continued to pretend that he couldn't see it as he groped his way to the side.
"If we let the water flow in, then this place …"
"If we count the souls of the wrongdoers that have lived here for over fifty years, then this is no longer a Blessed Paradise."