Chapter 241

Once the thick stone door was opened, it revealed the familiar white staircase, leading directly to somewhere above.

After Wang Yu and Ximen Mei looked at each other, they walked onto the stone steps one after another and headed straight for the top.

After walking for about a hundred meters, an iron plate like a lid appeared in front of the passage, sealing the exit.

Seeing this, Wang Yu's eyes flashed with crystal light, he walked over quietly for a few steps, and gently pressed his ear against the iron plate.

In a situation where he didn't know if there was anyone outside, he didn't dare to release his divine sense easily, so as not to startle the snake and alert something.

At this moment, he held his breath, relying solely on his super hearing in overclocking mode, and carefully listened to see if there was any movement outside the iron plate.

Seeing this, Ximen Mei's expression was vaguely strange, but she had no intention of stopping him at all.

After a full dozen breaths, Wang Yu's expression relaxed. After making a careful gesture to Ximen Mei, he grabbed the handle on the iron plate with one hand and moved it away silently.

He looked at the wide-open exit, waited quietly on the staircase for a moment, and then, feeling relieved, his figure flickered and he jumped out directly.

Ximen Mei followed closely behind.

"Cough, cough... Where is this..."

As soon as the two came out, their feet stepped onto a thick layer of dust. Caught off guard, they were made to cough repeatedly by the raised dust, and then hurriedly held their breath.

Only then did they have time to examine the scene in front of them, and couldn't help but show expressions of surprise.

They saw that the place they were in now was surprisingly a very ordinary side room.

There were beds, tables, and chairs, and even a bookcase placed on one side. The passage entrance they came out of was at the head of the bed against the wall.

The only abnormal thing was that the floor, tables, chairs, and beds here were all covered with a thick layer of dust, looking desolate as if no one had been here for who knows how many years.

Wang Yu lowered his head again and looked at the iron plate lid that had been moved away. He saw that after some dust had been sprinkled on the iron lid, it vaguely revealed a color similar to the ground, clearly having been specially camouflaged by someone.

The scene in front of them also made the two feel relieved; there didn't seem to be anyone else nearby.

However, Wang Yu's gaze swept over and fell on something hanging on the opposite wall. It was a string of pale yellow beads.

He walked over on tiptoe and reached out to take the string of beads down, but as soon as his fingers touched it, the whole string of beads made a "puff" sound and turned directly into a wisp of fly ash.

Only one round bead fell out of the ashes, which he caught with quick eyes and fast hands and placed in front of his eyes to examine carefully.

The surface of the round bead was smooth and round, pale yellow, as if it were bone material. At the same time, on one side of the round bead, a pale golden "Buddha" character was inscribed.

On the other side, Ximen Mei also walked to the bookshelf. Before she had time to check anything, the bookshelf suddenly collapsed and turned into fly ash.

As if infected, the next moment, whether it was the table or the bed, they collapsed and dissipated one after another, turning into dust.

Even the tightly closed door of the side room dissipated into ash, revealing a quiet little courtyard outside.

Seeing this, Ximen Mei was stunned, but immediately understood something. She hurriedly covered her mouth and nose with her hands, flickered her figure, and went directly out of the side room, coming to the courtyard.

Wang Yu didn't rush to walk out, but his eyes flashed, seemingly seeing something else again. He immediately ignored the dust all over the sky, walked to the previous bookshelf, groped on the ground for a while, and picked up another thing before walking out of the side room.

He came outside and saw clearly that this side room not only had an independent courtyard, but there were vaguely houses of the same style on both sides.

In the courtyard, Ximen Mei was looking around. As soon as she saw Wang Yu come out, she hurriedly pointed in a certain direction and said:

"Shidi, look over there?"

Wang Yu's gaze followed her finger and saw that in the distance, there was vaguely a towering white stone tower, more than twenty feet high, divided into seven or eight floors, and it looked only two or three miles away from here.

Besides that, Wang Yu also vaguely saw some surrounding walls and tall pavilions and halls near the stone tower.

Wang Yu suddenly thought of something, his expression changed slightly, and he picked up the thing he had picked up earlier and looked at it.

This thing was black, round, seemingly hollow, looking very light, but one side was flat and one side was round and bulging.

"What is this?" Ximen Mei also saw the thing in Wang Yu's hand at a glance and asked curiously.

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be a wooden fish, but it seems to be made of refined iron." Wang Yu touched the thing in his hand and said slowly.

"A wooden fish! Are we in a temple?" Ximen Mei was also extremely intelligent and couldn't help but be shocked.

"Ten to nine, it's about the same."

Wang Yu said with his eyes narrowed slightly, and handed the round bead in his hand over.

"This is a Buddhist bead, and it was carved from the sarira of a high monk." After Ximen Mei took the bead and looked at it, her expression changed again.

"It's mostly not wrong. We are in a temple, and it's a temple that covers a large area. I'm afraid that a radius of more than ten miles belongs to this temple." Wang Yu looked at the tall tower in the distance, then looked at the side room behind him, and said thoughtfully.

"Logically speaking, we should still be in the Jialan Secret Realm. Where is such a large temple hidden in the secret realm? How could it not have been discovered yet?

Could it be that this is Jialan Venerable's treasure-hiding place, and we stumbled into here by mistake?" Ximen Mei seemed to have thought of something and was pleasantly surprised.

"If there are restrictions or even Dharma arrays to cover it up, it's not impossible for such a large place to remain undiscovered. Moreover, Jialan Venerable was born in the Buddhist sect, so it's understandable to build a temple in the secret realm.

As for whether it's a treasure-hiding place, it's hard to say, but it's true that this is not a good place." After Wang Yu pondered, he said slowly.

"Not a good place? What does Shidi mean by this?" Ximen Mei, who was originally a bit excited, had her joy fade a bit after being told this by Wang Yu.

"Hasn't Shijie discovered the thing in the sky yet?" Wang Yu sighed.

"In the sky?"

Hearing this, Ximen Mei couldn't help but look at the high sky, and her expression suddenly became very ugly.

He saw that in the gray, misty high sky, there was surprisingly a silver crescent moon hanging, but there were vaguely a few blood-colored patches on the surface of the crescent moon, as if it had been stained red by fresh blood, looking very strange.

"When did the moon appear in the secret realm? Is this not the Jialan Secret Realm? Were we teleported outside?" Ximen Mei looked at the strange crescent moon in the sky and muttered.

"It's not the outside world; we must still be in the Jialan Secret Realm. We should be in some larger Dharma array restriction." Wang Yu looked at the crescent moon in the high sky and said slowly.

"Correct. That teleportation Dharma array definitely doesn't have such great power to teleport us outside the secret realm. This moon in the sky should be transformed by some kind of restriction." After being awakened by Wang Yu, Ximen Mei also suddenly realized.