Chapter 2518 2520【Empty Joy】


    According to the records in the book "The Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", Xiang Nan searched carefully in the Qingfeng Pavilion and finally found a secret passage in the northeast corner.


    The secret passage extends gently and continuously. I don’t know how long or deep it is.


    Seeing this, Xiang Nan lit the candle and walked in.


    ?After walking about forty feet, two large stone doors appeared in front. According to the book, as long as you tap a metal piece on the stone door a few times, the stone door can be opened wide.


    Xiang Nan immediately took out his dagger and knocked on the stone door a few times, but the stone door did not move at all.


    Xiang Nan was stunned for a moment, then changed the number of taps. But from two to twenty attempts, the stone door was still tightly closed, with no sign of opening at all.


    Xiang Nan frowned and suddenly laughed,


    ?The book records that the palace maid knocked a few times with a metal piece, and the stone door slowly opened.


    He originally thought that the stone gate was voice-activated. Although it seems like black technology, with the technology of Xiaoyao Pai, this may not be possible.


    ??But now that I think about it, when the palace maid knocked on the metal plate, she was actually communicating with the person inside the door as a secret signal. Once the code is matched, someone inside the door will be responsible for opening the door.


    ?But now a hundred years have passed, and the people inside the door have long turned into withered bones. Who will he find to open the door for him?


    After Xiang Nan laughed, he immediately tried to open the door violently.


    He struck the stone door several times with his palms. Although the blows caused stone fragments to fly, it did not help. Because this stone gate is very thick, it may not weigh more than 10,000 kilograms.


    ?Although Xiang Nan’s martial arts was high, he was not capable of moving mountains and reclaiming seas. He couldn’t open the stone gate with his own strength, which made him feel a little disappointed.


    …


    Xiang Nan stood at the stone gate, thinking carefully about the solution, and suddenly an idea came to him.


    He remembered the record in the book "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" that the heroes, led by the palace maids, first passed through three stone gates, then crossed a deep stream, and finally passed through a large pine forest and came to a cave. After entering the cave, he walked through another corridor before arriving at Li Qinglu''s inner study, which is where the stone carvings of the Xiaoyao Sect are located.


    He began to think that the inner study room was built underground. But since there is a large pine forest, it must be on the ground. Otherwise, how could pine forests grow underground.


    Xiang Nan immediately exited the secret passage and headed north according to the direction of the secret passage. I saw a small hill behind Qingfeng Pavilion with lush green trees, stone steps and pavilions. It must have been a place for palace people to play and repair.


    Xiang Nan crossed the hill and walked north, where he saw the towering palace walls and the sound of gurgling water coming from outside the walls, which echoed the "deep stream" recorded in the book.


    Xiang Nan was so happy that he immediately jumped out of the palace wall and saw that the sound of water was coming from the moat.


    ?He searched upstream along the moat, and after a while, he found a spring upstream. I saw the river gurgling out of the spring. The water flow was quite large, and it was obvious that there was an underground vein underneath.


    Xiang Nan searched around again and found no pine forest, but he found the dilapidated Xixia Royal Garden. The location relationship between the Xixia Palace and the Royal Garden is like the Forbidden City and Jingshan Park, not far apart.


    I saw that this imperial garden was lined with rocks and majestic houses. However, no one had cleaned or repaired it for many years, so it was already in a dilapidated state. Even the trees in the garden were secretly cut down by the people, leaving only the grass, fallen leaves and broken walls all over the garden. Ruins.


    Xiang Nan guessed that this imperial garden should be Li Qinglu''s inner study room, which is also where Li Qiushui''s practice room is located.


    ?Li Qiushui wants to practice martial arts. In order to avoid being disturbed, he must find a secluded place. In the palace, there were so many people and it was impossible to have a moment of peace, so she set up her practice room in the imperial garden. So quiet and elegant, no one will disturb you.


    ??And as a person in the world, she has to go out to do things from time to time. Going out from the Imperial Garden is naturally much more convenient than the Imperial Palace.


    ?It''s just that a hundred years later, the Xixia Kingdom, which was once prosperous at that time, has long since declined after internal power struggles and foreign invasions. Xia Xianzong, the penultimate emperor of Xixia, was even scared to death by Genghis Khan.


    Even the emperor lived such a humble life, how could the imperial garden be spared????…


    “It’s dilapidated, but I hope the stone carvings are still there.” Xiang Nan immediately started searching in the imperial garden.


    At this time, the imperial garden was already in ruins and there was no one to guard it, so Xiang Nan had no worries.


    After searching for a long time, I finally found the stone cave door.


    Probably no one has opened it in the past hundred years. The stone cave door was covered with dust and overgrown with weeds and thorns, so Xiang Nan couldn''t find it at first.


    After he removed the weeds, thorns, and swept away the dust, the stone cave door finally appeared.


    Xiang Nan looked around and found the activation mechanism in the corner.


    ?He immediately opened the keyboard and heard a few creaks. The stone cave door opened to both sides with a heart-breaking noise. However, this door has not been opened for nearly a hundred years, and the mechanism is no longer as smooth as it used to be.


    ?The stone cave door only opened a small crack and could no longer be moved.


    Upon seeing this, Xiang Nan came to the door, inserted his hands into the slit, and then used the Great Shift of Heaven and Earth to push the door open with all his potential.


    ?He was already extremely powerful, and now he is fully engaged in the Great Shift of Heaven and Earth, maximizing his potential. In this way, the strength can reach more than 10,000 kilograms.


    ?Under such tremendous force, the stone door finally opened with a creak. When the gap was about **** wide, Xiang Nan stopped exercising, and then used the Bone Shrinking Fa to drill into the cave.


    ?After passing through another thin corridor in the cave, a huge stone chamber suddenly opened up in front of me. It was originally a natural cave in the mountain peak, which was then modified artificially.


    There are only some stone benches and tables in the stone room, and there are no other furnishings, so it looks extremely empty. Xiang Nan didn''t have the heart to care about this and immediately came to the stone wall.


    However, we saw that the stone wall was full of holes and pits, and there seemed to be signs of damage.


    Xiang Nan was shocked and looked around quickly, but found no stone carvings.


    ?However, he could also tell that the stone carvings were not smashed, but pried away in pieces.


    “Who on earth pried away these stone carvings? Not a single one was left.” Xiang Nan was disappointed.


    ?He got in with great difficulty. Originally, he saw that the Shimen Cave was overgrown with weeds, and he was very happy because he felt that there was no sign of intruders in the Shimen Cave and the stone carvings inside should be well preserved.


    Unexpectedly, it had been moved away long ago.


    “There are many people who know the stone carvings of the palace, how can we find them now?” Xiang Nan asked worriedly.


    When Li Qinglu was planning to marry, many heroes and young talents had been here. They knew that the stone carvings on the wall represented profound martial arts, and they might come and steal them afterwards.


    ?As a result, there were too many suspects and it was impossible to find them, which made Xiang Nan scratch his head.


    “I’ll go to the Piaomiao Peak of Tianshan Mountain to have a look. There may be a Vulture Palace there.” He then thought.


    ?Although a hundred years have passed, whether Xiaoyao Sect still exists or not is still a question, but after all, there is an idea. Xiang Nan immediately set off for Tianshan.


    (End of this chapter)