Both worlds are like dreams

Three days later, on the fifteenth day of the lunar month, when the moon was full and the light was just right, Xue Huang came to the Taiji Palace.

Also coming together were Mo Ruilin, Gu Qinglan, Wei Yunzhou, Xu Yao, and Mo Yunchen.

When several people met, the atmosphere immediately became tense.

Xue Huang looked at the newly renovated palace and was worried that if they started fighting, it would affect this place.

So he said, "If you want to fight, find another place to fight."

Fortunately, they were not irrational people.

Xue Huang raised her eyebrows and said, "Let's get down to business." After that, she brought a few people to a wide square. This was a circular area, which was originally an altar used by Bei Yuan to pray to the gods. There were huge stone pillars standing around it.

These pillars are as thick as a person can hug, more than ten feet long, and there are twenty of them. Each one is engraved with intricate patterns.

Phoenix trees were planted on the open spaces on both sides of the palace walls, but it was a pity that the place had been abandoned for too long and the trees had all died.

"This place is very similar to Xuanyuan Terrace," said Mo Ruilin, "I guess Xuanyuan Terrace was built based on this place, right?"

Xue Huang took the necklace off her neck, put it together with the other two, and walked towards the circular altar.

She kept adjusting the angle, and finally, under the moonlight, three dots flashed in the pattern formed by the gem.

Xue Huang stood in the center of the altar and held the gem upright, and the three dots shone on the three stone pillars.

"Remember their locations." Xue Huang then handed the two gems to Wei Yunzhou and Xu Yao respectively, and walked towards one of the stone pillars.

Wei Yunzhou and Xu Yao probably guessed what she meant, and they each stood under a stone pillar.

"The place where the light just flashed is where the mechanism is." After Xue Huang said this, she put her own gem on it.

Sure enough, the hidden groove in the pattern was the mechanism.

Wei Yunzhou and Xu Yao also pressed the gems one by one, and then they heard a heavy sound coming from under the altar, like the roar of a giant beast, or like some kind of mechanism was operating.

After a while, a stone slab supported by bronze rose up from the altar. It rose to a height of about one person, and then a downward passage was revealed.

The passage is wide enough for four people to enter side by side.

The stairs also looked very old, leading all the way into the darkness.

I couldn't see what was inside, but there was an inexplicable attraction to it.

Xue Huang opened the fire stick and walked in first. Although she was shocked, she was not afraid at all.

Because Mu Guang had already told her that there was no trap inside, so she could just go in without worrying.

It’s just that the road is a little dark. Xue Huang had injured her eyes before, so she would feel uncomfortable if the light was too strong or too dark.

She pinched her brows and was about to continue walking when Gu Qinglan handed her a night pearl.

The soft light immediately illuminated the road under her feet and made her eyes feel less uncomfortable.

She didn't say anything, just took it and continued walking forward, because she felt that it was not the right time to speak.

Soon everyone walked along the stairs towards the depths of the ground. It was estimated that they walked down at least ten feet.

At the end of the steps are two heavy stone doors with phoenix statues on either side.

Xue Huang took a look and found the mechanism on one of the stone statues.

It can only be opened by putting three gems together.

As the mechanism was activated, the stone door made a dull sound and slowly retreated to the sides of the rock, revealing the entrance.

Xue Huang walked in with the night pearl, and the light illuminated the darkness.

The others also found the eternal lamps on the surrounding walls and lit the candles.

Suddenly the entire underground was brightly lit, and everyone could see clearly what the underground space was.

This is actually just an ordinary round stone chamber with a stone table inside and a strange thing on it.

There are stone-carved bookshelves around, with many bamboo slips on them.

On one of the walls, a simple mural is carved.

The murals are extremely detailed and lifelike, showing the profound carving skills.

The content of the mural is also very clear, recording that hundreds of years ago, a man in strange clothes walked out of the snow-capped mountains and came to the Phoenix tribe at the foot of the mountains to teach knowledge and ways of survival.

Everything is basically the same as the legends told by the world.

Beiyuan was able to establish a country and become one of the nine countries because of the man who walked out of the snowy mountains.

The man taught them farming techniques, taught the people how to do business, built water conservancy projects, spread medical skills, taught them military tactics and weapon forging, and taught them how to govern the tribe and the country.

Therefore, that person was regarded as a god who came to the world.

But after Beiyuan was founded, this god had all traces of his existence erased and he completely disappeared from the world.

Everything he left behind was also sealed in this underground stone chamber, with only three gems passed down to the Beiyuan royal family.

"He is indeed a remarkable man." Mo Ruilin sighed. "The prosperity of the Nine Kingdoms today is also due to the skills that were passed down from Beiyuan in the past. But why did this person disappear later?"

"When you have accomplished your mission, you should retire and hide among the common people." Gu Qinglan said.

"Just this one secret has caused the destruction of Beiyuan country and the ruin of the family." Xu Yao's eyes flashed with irony and sadness.

"His appearance changed the Phoenix people's fate of being bullied, but hundreds of years later, their country was destroyed because of this change. It can be seen that blessings and disasters are interdependent in the world." Gu Qinglan said.

Wei Yunzhou said, "These skills far surpassed everything that existed at the time and could indeed change the fate of many people, but we forgot whether they could bear the consequences."

Xue Huang pinched the gem, and Mu Guang understood.

"I remember everything. Don't worry. Those scrolls record the past when I built Beiyuan with your ancestors. Let them read them for themselves. As for the books on the stone table, they can't understand them, so just let them do whatever they want."

Xue Huang asked them to look for clues at random, and then came to the stone table to look at the strange box on it.

They were two flat, square boxes, one large and one small. After wiping off the dust, their original appearance was revealed. The material was very strange and felt smooth.

The smaller one seems to be able to reflect a person’s shadow, and it feels like crystal to the touch.

Xue Huang had never seen it before and stared at it for a long time.

Mu Guang sighed: "I haven't seen this thing for many years. It really makes me miss it. It's a pity that it has no power."

Xue Huang's mind was full of questions, but she couldn't ask them out loud, so she could only hold them in and look through those books.

There were some strange words in it, and Xue Huang couldn't understand a single word. They should be the words from Mu Guang's world.

She pinched the gem again, meaning for Mu Guang to explain.

"This is my essay. Building a country is not that easy. I have to study hard and take notes before I can implement it."

Xue Huang flipped through a few more manuscripts. The pictures on them were also very strange, and seemed to be sketches for forging weapons.

There was also a book with many pictures of herbs, also marked with words that Xue Huang could not understand. It seemed to be a medical book.

Mu Guang added: "In fact, I don't really know how to govern a country, but I think that if a country wants to prosper, it must have enough food, money, soldiers, and live well, so I taught them to improve farming and water conservancy, teach them to do business, teach them to forge weapons, and then teach them medical skills. But even these things were too far ahead of this era, and they still brought them disaster hundreds of years later."

The rest of the people were looking through the bamboo slips, most of which were about what happened between the mysterious man and Bei Yuan.

However, after reading through all the documents, we still couldn't find out where the mysterious man came from or where he ended up.

The documents only record that a mysterious man suddenly walked out of the snow-capped mountains one day. He was seriously injured and was rescued by people from the Phoenix tribe. At that time, they used the most precious herbs in the tribe.

The mysterious man was grateful for their kindness and helped them selflessly, but finally left alone.

He did not even leave his name, and told them never to reveal his existence to the world.

After he leaves, I have to erase all traces of my existence.

Therefore, the Beiyuan royal family built such a secret underground place to seal up all the things related to the mysterious person.

However, in the hundreds of years that followed, this person never appeared again, as if he had never come into this world.

"There is a stone tablet here." Wei Yunzhou said.

A few people walked over to check, and saw a few lines of words engraved on the stone tablet: God bless Beiyuan, the gods came to the world and taught my tribe the way to survive. We are grateful, but the gods have a decree that we cannot trace their whereabouts, so we built this place to seal the past. If there is a chance in the future, I hope the gods will return.

Those who see this stele must be our Beiyuan descendants. I hope you will follow the will of the gods and not reveal the secrets of the past to the world.

Things given by the gods cannot be taken out of this place.

Remember to remember!