Eternal Tranquility

This is a passage only about a foot wide. One side is the same bronze wall as the outside, but the other side is uneven. Countless square green bricks of different lengths protrude from the wall, forming extremely complex patterns, black and red. The lava trickles down from these gullies until it flows into the deep trench below.

Liu Qinghuan crawled out of the ditch, covered in smoke, her hair almost burned, and her feet shrank from the hot ground.

He released his spiritual consciousness, but could only see the passages extending infinitely to the left and right: "Is this the inside of the immortal coffin?"

Mu Yinyin landed next to him lightly and said with concern: "Fellow Daoist Liu, why don't you heal your injury first?"

Liu Qinghuan shook off the remaining magma from his body, raised his arm and looked at it. There were red marks on it after burning: "It's okay, it will be fine in a while."

Thanks to the Holy Body of Aoki, even if he is injured now, he will heal quickly. Pure cyan spiritual power surged out, and the redness faded quickly.

Mu Yinyin took a curious look and didn't ask any more questions.

It was not dark in the passage. The fire of the lava reflected the surrounding black and red, and the high temperature made the black and red seem to be distorted.

Liu Qinghuan had changed into a green suit and squatted down to look at the direction of the lava flow in the ditch. He found that it was neither flowing to the left nor to the right, but towards the inner wall.

Mu Yinyin tried to find some direction in the patterns made of blue bricks of different lengths, but to no avail. She asked Liu Qinghuan who stood up again: "Which way are we going?"

"Can't find a clue." Liu Qinghuan shook his head and turned to the left: "Let's take a walk first. You follow me. I always feel that this passage is a bit weird."

The passage looked extremely long, with both ends hidden in darkness. Soon, apart from their footsteps in the silent passage, there was only the sound of flowing lava and the occasional popping of bubbles.

I just didn't expect that after walking for a while, a lava waterfall suddenly appeared in front of me, blocking the way forward.

The two of them stopped in unison, and both saw surprise in each other's eyes.

This waterfall came suddenly and flowed almost silently. The vast expanse of lava completely blocked the scene on the other side. When the consciousness passed through, the other end was still the same passage.

"I'll try." Mu Yinyin said. As he raised his hand, a ball of flame turned into a vivid bird, which flapped its wings and rushed into the waterfall, but disappeared as it passed through.

She pinched the magic twice and said, "The spell has lost contact."

Liu Qinghuan thought for a while, took out an unused spiritual sword from the ring, stretched it to the other end of the waterfall, danced and took it back.

The sword was unscathed, and he muttered: "It seems there is something wrong with the space here."

After trying a few more times and reaching no avail, the two looked at each other and stepped across the waterfall at the same time.

On the other side of the waterfall is a small, square hall. The hall is extremely empty, and the walls are covered with lava flowing straight down.

The two searched for a long time and found a door on each of the four walls.

Liu Qinghuan looked at the long sword that had been melted to only half of its length, with a solemn expression on his face: "I'm afraid the temperature on the other side is extremely high. It can directly burn the spiritual weapon, and I'm afraid we won't be able to withstand it."

Except for the place where they entered, there seemed to be nothing unusual about the other two doors. However, after they entered one of the doors, they felt a shadow cast above their heads. When they looked up, they could not see the boulders falling rapidly from the edge!

The two men flashed and exited immediately, as if they heard the sound of boulders hitting the ground.

Liu Qinghuan broke out in a cold sweat. When she waited in front of the other door, she asked Mu Yinyin to stand behind her: "I'll go in first, and you can come in when everything is fine."

Mu Yinyin pursed her lips and nodded slightly under Liu Qinghuan's insistent gaze.

Fortunately, there was no problem with this one, and the two of them successfully reached another passage.

But after walking a short distance, a fat and strong stone horse pulled a chariot. There was also a stone figurine standing on the chariot. When the reins shook, the stone horse neighed, raised its hooves and headed towards Two people came running.

The passage will be narrow enough to accommodate a chariot, and there will be no place for people to hide.

The two of them flew back, and Liu Qinghuan's sword of life and death flew out, flashing in the air, and slashed towards the horse's hoof in an instant, but only stone fragments flew away, and the horse's hoof was completely unharmed.

Immediately afterwards, a burst of flames flew towards the stone figurine on the chariot, and exploded upon contact. White sparks flew everywhere, but only the ear on one side of the stone figurine was blown off.

However, he saw that the stone figurine felt no pain and was naturally unmoved. Fiery red lava flowed from its missing ears, and its heavy arms raised a wide stone sword.

Both of them were shocked. They didn't expect that the stone horses and stone figurines alone were so difficult to deal with.

Liu Qinghuan no longer hesitated, and the magic formula in his hand changed. The long gray sword made a circle of ripples in the air. With the breaking formula, he finally chopped off the two front hooves of the stone horse in one fell swoop.

The stone horse fell forward, and the stone figurine behind it turned over from the chariot with a vigorous and flexible posture. The stone sword in his hand made a dull and heavy sound, and slashed directly at Liu Qinghuan without any fancy.

Liu Qinghuan stepped aside and the stone sword hit the ground, making a big hole in the ground!

Before it could raise its sword again, a flame turned into a huge mouth with sharp teeth, biting into the stone figurine's head. Amidst the clicking sound, lava spurted out like blood from where its neck was broken. The stone figurine twitched twice and stood motionless.

Both of them couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Mu Yinyin stepped forward and looked at the fracture curiously: "This thing is really strange, the joints are so flexible."

Liu Qinghuan also gathered around: "It should be a stone puppet with a formation carved into its body, or a stone puppet refined like a mechanism."

The two of them studied for a long time and took apart the entire stone figurine. They found that there were only small blood vessels inside that were like meridians but flowing with magma.

Mu Yinyin marveled: "It's very exquisite."

However, neither of them knew the art of mechanism, and they seemed to be unable to understand it, so they continued to move forward.

In the next few hours, they wandered around in a maze-like space, not to mention the dangers involved. They also tried to use the Five Elements Bagua or other methods to find out the rules of the passage, but they all ended in failure.

The entire inner coffin seems to be filled with chaotic spaces, and various strange mechanisms and stone figures, like guards guarding the tomb, prevent outsiders from entering the resting place of its owner.

During a short rest, Liu Qinghuan said: "The owner here should be a monk who is extremely good at mechanism and puppet arts. Along our journey, the mechanisms or stone puppets we encountered are all powered by the power of lava." Drive, on the contrary, there are basically no means commonly used by monks such as restraint."

Mu Yinyin nodded: "It's a pity that we don't know the mechanism technique. If we did, this trip would have been worthwhile."

The two of them cautiously entered another door, and their eyes suddenly brightened, revealing a huge hall. Climbing down the stone steps, you will find a lava pool that fills the entire hall. There is also a black statue standing in the pool.

Only the part below the chest is left of the statue. Judging from the clothing and posture, you can tell that it is a man. A black dragon surrounds its feet, bowing its head.

"Eh? My consciousness can't scan the bottom of the pool?" Mu Yinyin said, "Fellow Daoist Liu, what about you?"

"Well, this pool is very deep. I can only touch the bottom and see no danger."

After confirming that there was no danger, the two flew across the pool and arrived in front of the statue.

"Isn't this carving the owner of this place?" Mu Yinyin said. She carefully looked at the five claws of the black dragon and the horns on the dragon's head: "It is indeed a dragon, but the carving depicts the black dragon surrendering under this person's feet. It seems that Improbable?"

The dragon has been a divine beast among divine beasts since ancient times. It is arrogant, noble and powerful, and it is impossible for it to surrender to human cultivation.

Liu Qinghuan said: "Perhaps he is just like the emperor in the world, claiming to be a real dragon. Do you think the clothes on this man look like an emperor's robe?"

"It really is."

"Think again about the shape of the coffin we saw here outside. Generally, monks choose to be disbanded after they die, and they rarely make a coffin to store the body. Judging from what we have seen along the way, although it is majestic and majestic , and it has some wonderful features, but it is not qualified to be called a fairy palace or a fairy coffin. It should be just a cave or a burial ground built by a monk who is proficient in mechanism skills and has a somewhat wild and arrogant temperament. "

Regarding Liu Qinghuan's wild speculation, Mu Yinyin couldn't help but laugh: "Is that why his statue had its upper body chopped off?"