Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Not long after walking out of the hole in the wall of the burial pit, Jiang Xinxin and Zhang Jiuri came to the edge of a cliff. It seemed that the only way was to go up, so the two of them didn't hesitate and climbed up after a little preparation. After climbing for a while, they stood on a stone platform and looked around to check the environment.

Zhang Jiuri threw a torch down, and the torch hit the cliff several times before disappearing. Jiang Xinxin used her spiritual sense to carry Mingzhu forward three meters. Everyone looked down and saw that this place was actually a large crater. Unfortunately, Mingzhu's lighting range was limited, and it was only slightly larger than a torch, so they could not see the entire picture of the crater.

But even so, it is enough to assess the current situation.

Zhang Jiuri climbed while muttering to himself. The two of them climbed up for a while, pulled the rope down, and finally found the real Yunding Palace. However, there was a pool of stagnant water in front of the Yunding Palace, which did not allow people to stay there for too long, otherwise they would easily be poisoned if they inhaled too much poisonous gas.

After climbing over many dead trees that had fallen on the sacred road, Zhang Jiuri was in a state of excitement. "It would have been great if I could have come here when I was training!"

After passing the Heavenly Gate, we officially entered the Shinto Road. Zhang Jiuri specifically reminded them, "Remember to walk backwards when we come out. There is a beheading gate here. Before this gate is where coffin bearers and funeral processions were slaughtered. We must go in forward and out backwards to save our lives."

This sacred road is quite short. After passing through the six stone gates symbolizing the six paths of reincarnation, you can finally see the altar at the end of the sacred road. Behind the altar and on the stone steps is the main entrance of the Yunding Palace.

Zhang Jiuri was in high spirits and had to explain to Jiang Xinxin: "People often talk about mausoleums and tombs, but in fact, mausoleums and tombs have always been separate. The place where sacrifices and burial ceremonies are held on the ground is called a mausoleum, and the underground palace where the coffin and corpse are placed is a tomb."

Jiang Xinxin felt that the place in front of her was not as famous as it was in sight. "When I looked down from above, I saw only black and red, which was very solemn and majestic. But when I came in, I found that this place was really dilapidated and there was nothing to see."

Zhang Jiuri was not disappointed at all. He held the pearl and looked at the tall white stone horse in front of him. He was just a little surprised that in Dongxia, a country that believed in shamanism, the royal tombs had such a strong Han flavor.

Suddenly, Zhang Jiuri pointed to the top and asked Jiang Xinxin to look, "Look at those people. There is obviously no mechanism to pull them up here. Why are those people hanging on the top?"

Jiang Xinxin heard the sound of flapping wings again and guessed, "Maybe it was the human-faced bird we encountered earlier?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a human-faced bird rushed straight to Zhang Jiuri's face. Zhang Jiuri drew his sword and stabbed it, then chopped it horizontally. The human-faced bird and the monkey in its mouth were killed together.

But Zhang Jiuri couldn't help but complain: "Why does this human-faced bird always come for me first?"

Neither of them intended to kill all the human-faced birds. They killed them while retreating into the corridor. However, they did not expect that these human-faced birds were too vindictive. Jiang Xinxin gritted her teeth and rushed out again. Since these beasts did not want to seize this only chance of survival, she had nothing to regret.

When Zhang Jiuri saw Jiang Xinxin go out, he had no choice but to follow her. He couldn't leave first or just stand by and watch Jiang Xinxin's fun.

The area around the altar was soon covered with dead human-faced bird corpses, and the smell of blood was very strong. Zhang Jiuri hurriedly told Jiang Xinxin to leave quickly, "The smell of blood is too strong, who knows what it might attract, let's go!"

After walking in the corridor for a while, a cliff appeared in front of them again, but this time there were many chains connecting the two sides of the cliff that were thicker than Jiang Xinxin's thighs.

Jiang Xinxin held the pearl and looked at it for a while, then turned to ask Zhang Jiuri, "How do you feel? Can you keep going?"

Zhang Jiuri then remembered that he hadn't had time to tell Jiang Xinxin some things, so he immediately suggested, "Let me see whether to go over or down, and then we should leave quickly and stay away from the altar outside."

Jiang Xinxin carefully scanned the opposite side, which was just a stone wall. Although there were a few caves here and there, her intuition told her that she should go down, so Jiang Xinxin said, "Why don't we put on the chain first? There are a few caves on the stone wall opposite, and we can just look at them one by one."

Zhang Jiuri also agreed. Just standing here was useless. It was always a good idea to take action. No matter whether going to the opposite side or going down, one had to go up the chain first.

Zhang Jiuri moved quickly and quickly checked the cave on the opposite mountain wall. Although it was not deep, it was not qualified to be an underground palace, so the two of them slid down directly. After landing and looking at the stone bricks on the ground, Zhang Jiuri realized that the real underground palace was underneath.

Zhang Jiuri continued walking without any hurry. While preparing food and a bonfire, he took the time to tell Jiang Xinxin about his previous adventure in the spiritual world: "Before, when you asked me to chant the sutras for salvation, I suddenly felt that I had entered a very extraordinary realm while chanting."

"How should I put it? To put it bluntly, I felt my body getting lighter and lighter, and then I was actually floating!"

Jiang Xinxin replied: "It floated up? Where did it float to?"

Zhang Jiuri became more and more excited: "You won't believe it if I tell you, but the place where we live is actually a ball!"

"A blue ball with a little black in it!"

"I saw it clearly, I couldn't be wrong!"

"The ancients said that the sky is round and the earth is square. I don't know what shape the sky is, but the earth is definitely round."

Jiang Xinxin continued to make a joke: "Foreigners have long understood that the earth is round. Some of them went out to sea on a boat and ended up going around in a circle and returning to the same place."

"Those Europeans who came after them started to explore everywhere. Today's America is a country that was established by those Europeans who crossed the ocean when they could no longer make a living."

Zhang Jiuri really felt a little regretful. "If there had been no unrest in our Zhang family, we should be no worse than those Europeans. At least our Zhang family members would be indispensable in India and Luzon."

After eating, Zhang Jiuri suddenly remembered something else and quickly said to Jiang Xinxin: "I forgot about it when you interrupted me earlier. Now I just feel full of energy. I don't feel hungry or tired. I don't know how much better my skills have been!"

Jiang Xinxin then calmly explained to Zhang Jiuri: "It seems that we have only saved the souls of one person in the burial pit, but in fact, we have sent away all the dead within a hundred miles. This is a great merit. When you were in Pingshan before, you accidentally refined spiritual energy, so these merits support you to officially enter the sect."

"Entrance?" Zhang Jiuri still didn't quite understand, "Entrance to what? It can't be the door to immortality you mentioned!"

Jiang Xinxin smiled and said, "Why can't it be true?"