si-mexico Chapter 594 The Path to the Throne of Glory
Chapter 594 The Path to the Throne of Glory
Samel showed no fear that Xu Ning would use him as cannon fodder, and sneered, "Don't forget what you said then!"
Samel led the group to a tent and gestured with his chin, "That thing is inside."
Jade rushed in and rescued Benben from the wooden cage.
"Thank goodness Benben is alright, otherwise you can forget about finding some golden dreamland."
Xu Ning watched as Jie De happily wiped the sand off Benben's body. Benben, having been locked up for a while, seemed rather listless.
"Haha, you call it Benben, oh, what a cute name! Zheberlele, did you come up with that name?"
Ignoring Samel's taunts, Jeberlele advised Xu Ning, "Samel is an absolute madman and a lunatic. He will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. If he really finds the Golden Dreamland, who knows what dangerous things he might do."
Xu Ning ignored Zheberlele's advice. "Zheberlele, you know how to find the Golden Dreamland, right? It's okay if you don't answer me. I have a feeling that we've always been on the right path. Perhaps there really is some kind of force pushing us in the dark. We usually call this destiny."
Xu Ning took a sip of wine and smiled.
"Although I still don't know why you brought Jade back to the desert, there's something I need to find ahead of me. Someone who seems to be a friend said he left me something to take, and although I don't know what it is, I feel like I'm about to find it."
Samel chimed in sarcastically, "Hopefully, what that supposedly friend left you isn't the golden dreamland we're looking for!"
"Watch your words, silly girl!"
Xu Ning glanced at Samel sideways and said, "A useful person may not die, but they are very likely to get beaten up."
Samel's expression changed slightly, he snorted coldly, and said no more.
"Alright, there's no need to be upset. You've been holed up in this cave for quite some time now, so you should know a thing or two about its secrets by now. Tell me, which way do we go?"
Upon hearing Xu Ning's question, Samel simply pointed straight ahead.
“Go up that way, and you'll find the prayer hall.”
"We have discovered that the most crucial information about the Golden Dreamland is hidden there, but we still can't get through that door."
"Our initial idea was to dig beneath the door and then enter from underground..."
Xu Ning laughed, "Such a grand gesture, so what was the result?"
Samel said with a sullen face and some frustration, "Then we dug out another door, but we still couldn't get in..."
"Then the Fools came up to us, saying they could pass directly through the portal, and that's how we formed a cooperative relationship with them. But I didn't trust them, because they probably wanted more. Just then, my men discovered that you had entered the tomb with a strange machine, moving freely wherever you went. I knew then that Zeberlele had returned with my key..."
Jade, who had been listening intently, suddenly realized, "That's why you took Benben away, wanting it to open the door for you? Is Benben refusing to do it? What a good Benben."
Samel sneered, "It can't be opened at all. The main entrance to the Hall of Blessings requires the activation of the Elemental Flame, and according to the investigations of those Fools, the Elemental Flame seems to be locked in a room inside the Hall of Blessings. This is an intractable problem. Unless..."
"...Unless we have this stone tablet, right?"
The group stopped in front of the door dug out by Samel and the others. Xu Ning shook the stone slab in his hand on the mechanism of the book in front of the door, and the small door slid open smoothly.
Next comes the time to search for the source of primordial energy.
Samel, as a prisoner who was not qualified to participate, witnessed the terrifying efficiency of the Geo clones under the watchful eye of the dog.
"Hmph, you outsiders, you do have some crooked ways, those strange women too, and your doll too..."
The main entrance to the prayer hall was opened without any surprise.
The contents inside the door were simple and monotonous.
Just like at the top of the Red King's Tomb last time, strange stone pillars stood in the center of the room.
The only difference was a huge square stone slab laid flat on the ground in front of the stone pillar.
Jade asked curiously, "What's the purpose of this new stone slab?"
Samel sneered, "Since it's a sacrificial hall, it's naturally used as a platform for sacrifices. Perhaps enough offerings are needed to receive the Red King's reward..."
"If that's the case, your current identity will come in handy."
Xu Ning impatiently interrupted him, "Alright, stop talking nonsense. Same as always, let's improve his powers first."
Xu Ning held the stone slab in his arms up to the square column-shaped stone platform. A transparent crystal immediately appeared on the platform, and as the blue light gathered, a square symbol in the center of the stone slab slowly lit up.
Meanwhile, on the square stone platform on the ground, streaks of blue light flashed, weaving together an image.
"Wow, it's a 3D image! High-tech!"
Within the cone-shaped structure created by the blue light, a three-dimensional image of the Crimson King's Tomb appears in the lower left corner, while the building in the upper right corner resembles a tall, square-column tower.
"We're at the Crimson King's Mausoleum now, so that tall tower over there should be our next destination?"
Xu Ning stroked his chin and asked, "Does anyone know where this building is from?"
Jade stepped onto the stone slab and kicked away the sand and dust with her little feet.
“Xu Ning, look, the indentation on this stone slab is actually a map. This is the Red King's Mausoleum, this road is the way we came in, this indentation is our resting oasis, follow this road northeast, there is a huge pit, that is the location of this tower…”
"That's the Hall of Divine Manifestation! Haha, I should have realized it was there! The sacred realm that all the people of the Crimson King yearn to enter—where else could it be but there? Hahaha!"
Sammer burst into loud, shrill laughter, his words filled with unspeakable glee.
Even Jade and her father couldn't help but show the relief of their hard work finally paying off.
Only Xu Ning was deep in thought, stroking the symbols on the red sandstone slab.
Just now, after he touched the symbols on the stone slab again, new information surfaced in his mind once more.
"The Red King left behind a golden body here, but his wisdom is elsewhere."
The devout gain access to the throne here; only those who are recognized can attain it.
Only then may one set foot in the palace of the Red King.
Xu Ning turned to look at everyone's faces. Among them, who was the one who had gained recognition?
As everyone walked out of the Red King's tomb and headed north towards the Hall of Manifestations, Xu Ning looked back once more at the enormous tomb that stood tall in the center of the desert.
According to the information transmitted from his own Geo clone, although this enormous tomb already appears extremely complex, what is revealed is still only the tip of the iceberg.
Deep within this mausoleum lie even more secrets.
However, I don't have time to explore them all right now. I'll wait until things are settled with Tirzad and Jeberlele before I go back and see how many secrets the Red King is still hiding.
The road to the Hall of Divine Manifestation was not nearly as short as depicted on the stone slab, and the journey across the desert was far more difficult than anticipated.
Although all of them were highly skilled, and with Xu Ning's provisions, they had no shortage of food and water, Samel still frequently made sarcastic remarks towards Jeberle, the man who had betrayed him.
From their conversation, Xu Ning learned that Zheberle and his wife Youfei had both spent a long time in Thutmose, researching with Shamei how to find the Red King's secret treasure—the Golden Dreamland—and even had a daughter named Xiaojiede.
Unfortunately, after encountering a bottleneck, both Jeberlele and Yufi had the idea of retiring.
Useless scholars can die, but useful scholars must stay. The silly girl's idea is simple and crude, and the consequences are predictable.
"With the way you play, how come there are still so many idiots willing to join your Phantom Troupe?"
Xu Ning strongly disagreed with Sammer's logic.
Samel said coldly, "Because they are not following me, but their devotion to the Red King and their vision of returning to the golden dreamland... Be careful of the people ahead, we'd better hide for a while."