Chapter 112: Lingyun Palace, Immortal Gathering Hall, Jade Dragon Summons Immortals
Looking out from Gourd Cave, the surrounding mountain ridges resembled a huge water vat, while the pool at the bottom was pitch black and bottomless.
In the pool, there seemed to be a huge black vortex, and above the vortex, the wreckage of an airplane could be seen, its outline faintly discernible.
Su Mo glanced at the pool and shook his head:
“Two airplanes, one broke Xian Wang’s Husband and Wife Banyan Tree acupuncture point, the other broke the Water Dragon Swirl, it’s heaven that wants to destroy Xian Wang!”
Hu Ba Yi and the others couldn’t help nodding:
“This old bastard Xian Wang acted against heaven and reason, treating human lives like weeds, if such a person can truly ascend to immortality, is there any justice in heaven!”
“Exactly, when the Husband and Wife Banyan Tree acupuncture point was broken, thunder rumbled incessantly, that’s the old heavens wanting this old bastard Xian Wang to have no bones left!”
“Later when we topple Xian Wang’s coffin, Fat Master I must drag his corpse out and whip it!”
The group rested briefly at the Gourd Cave entrance, looked at the nearby mountain shapes and terrain, then climbed toward the opposite plank road along the vines on the stone wall, using the ropes grabbed while coiling up the mountain.
Soon they arrived at the plank road carved into the opposite rock wall by the Ancient Dian Kingdom people.
These plank roads were all long neglected and dilapidated, with some sections completely missing.
Su Mo walked directly in front, having Hu Ba Yi and the others follow closely behind him to avoid accidents if the plank road collapsed.
Fortunately, the journey went smoothly, and the group soon reached the stone platform above along the plank road.
Standing below the magnificent palace resembling a heavenly palace, between the mountains and the Water Dragon Swirl, the figures of the five people seemed extremely small.
Hu Ba Yi and Xue Li Yang couldn’t help but sigh in admiration.
They marveled at the wondrous craftsmanship of nature, and also at how Xian Wang, though brutal and foolish, still had some talent.
What ordinary person could build such a palace resembling a heavenly palace atop these mountains and rivers!
Although Xue Li Yang was furious about Xian Wang poisoning women to make Gu People, she couldn’t help shaking her head and sighing:
“This old thing actually built the tomb in such a place, not to mention the mountain ridges on both sides stretching like coiling dragons, with Insect Valley deeply sunken like a treasure land, even this palace is like a heavenly palace, ordinary people really couldn’t do it!”
Hu Ba Yi sneered upon hearing this:
“Even if the old bastard has some skills, his brain is completely twisted, obsessed only with his own path to becoming an immortal, treating others’ lives like weeds, if such a person can cultivate immortality, I’ll go back and burn that book of the Sixteen-Character Yin Yang Secret Art!”
“No need, no need!”
Wang Pang Zi laughed:
“We don’t need to get angry over an old bastard from thousands of years ago, once we topple his coffin, we’ll grab lots of grave goods, that counts as eliminating harm for the people!”
The group rested on the stone platform, then walked up the white marble stone steps below the Great Hall.
These white marble stone steps were extremely steep, and with mist flying from the nearby Water Dragon Swirl, the steps were covered in moisture, making them very slippery. Fatty, who had a natural fear of heights, felt his legs go weak on the steps, but fortunately Hu Ba Yi and Zhang Qiling supported him on the side, and they finally completed the whole climb.
Soon the group arrived at the hall door, only to see a stone tablet standing beside it, with a giant beast below the tablet, and on the tablet several ancient seal script characters in complex murals that were very hard to discern.
Hu Ba Yi, Wang Pang Zi, and the others weren’t highly educated and naturally couldn’t recognize them, but fortunately Xue Li Yang was proficient in archaeology and ancient scripts, so she read out a few words:
“The mysterious and profound, the gate of all wonders, Soaring Cloud Heavenly Palace, Immortal Gathering Hall!”
Hearing the meaning of the inscription, Hu Ba Yi sneered:
“This old bastard Xian Wang was mad with desire to ascend to immortality, he actually built an Immortal Gathering Hall here, really thinking he’d ascend to immortality after death and meet immortals here to guide him!”
Wang Pang Zi chuckled:
“Who cares, since it’s the Immortal Gathering Hall, there must be plenty of treasures inside!”
With that, he walked straight to the hall door, intending to push it open.
But upon pushing, he found the hall door incredibly heavy, at least several thousand jin in weight; even exerting all his strength, he only opened a crack.
Su Mo then walked over, sank his qi into his dantian, and pushed hard with both hands.
The hall door issued a muffled sound and was pushed open half by Su Mo.
Wang Pang Zi couldn’t help sticking out his tongue:
“Master, your strength is really huge, this door is at least several thousand jin, and you opened it with one push!”
Hu Ba Yi laughed:
“That’s why he’s our master!”
Su Mo just smiled calmly and turned to enter the Great Hall.
Inside the Great Hall stood countless huge bronze statues; at the very front were two majestic huge pixie lions, behind them xie, yuan, elephants, kirin, camels, horses, and various other mythical beasts, followed by bronze men in the forms of various civil and martial officials.
The large group of bronze mythical beasts and bronze statues of officials surrounded the jade throne in the center of the Great Hall like stars arching the moon.
In the center of this jade throne coiled a red jade dragon; shining the wolf-eye flashlight on it, the jade dragon glowed with flowing lights, its body as red as fresh blood.
Xue Li Yang exclaimed in surprise:
“It’s hollow, filled with mercury inside!”
Hu Ba Yi nodded:
“It’s really a hollow mercury dragon!”
The group looked up along the dragon’s body and saw the jade dragon plunging headfirst into the stone wall from behind the throne, its body shrouded in clouds and mist.
Amid the sea of clouds, the continuous mountain peaks and palaces appeared faintly, full of ethereal immortal aura.
And above the mountain peaks and palaces, half the body of the jade dragon—which had a head but no tail—appeared, with a king stepping slowly toward the sky along the dragon’s body, surrounded by his officials.
Seeing this kingly figure, Wang Pang Zi couldn’t help spitting viciously:
“This old thing should be Xian Wang, having the craftsmen paint himself so immortal-like, if I hadn’t seen those sacrificial burial pits and Gu People, I’d almost believe his nonsense!”
His personality was somewhat reckless and he hated evil vehemently; seeing Xian Wang stepping on the dragon body to become an immortal made him furious, so he raised his entrenching tool to destroy Xian Wang’s mural and dig out this jade dragon to take back to the capital city.
Hu Ba Yi quickly stopped him:
“Don’t mess around! This dragon’s belly is full of mercury; if it flows out, it will produce poison gas, do you want us all to die here?”
While the two bickered, Xue Li Yang frowned:
“This Great Hall doesn’t look like a Nether Hall, more like a sacrifice hall, could Xian Wang’s coffin not be here?”
Su Mo shook his head:
“Xian Wang’s coffin is elsewhere, this is indeed just a sacrifice hall, but since we’re here, let’s go in and see if there’s anything valuable!”
Having gone through so much hardship to get here, even if Su Mo knew it was just a sacrifice hall, he couldn’t possibly not check it out.
So the group turned and walked toward the back, seeing the side hall behind full of inscription murals, all praising Xian Wang’s merits.
Between the inscription murals stood a six-legged large bronze cauldron, its form very ancient and vigorous, with its six legs being six half-kneeling mythical beasts that looked like six kirin.
Su Mo frowned upon seeing it, and Wang Pang Zi cursed angrily:
“Old bastard, we’re kirin blood, and he actually made six kirin kneel on the ground to carry his cauldron for him! Watch me smash it to pieces and trample it ten thousand times!”
