Under the Great Xia Palace, there is an unknown underground palace.
That underground palace is extremely secretive.
Except for the Xia Emperors of the past dynasties, few people know about it.
Before the emperors of Xia died, they would tell the next emperor of Xia not to open the underground palace unless it was absolutely necessary.
Under the underground palace, there is an existence related to the rise and fall of Great Xia.
This secret should have been told to Xia Houqi by the first emperor, but the first emperor died suddenly while out hunting, and it was too late to tell Xia Houqi at that time, so the first emperor could only tell the secret to the queen at that time, who was later the queen mother.
After the Queen Mother learned of this secret, she didn't tell Emperor Xia immediately.
Out of instinct to protect her son, before telling Emperor Xia about this, the Empress Dowager secretly went to the underground palace, trying to find out what was in the underground palace.
But no matter how hard the queen mother searched, she couldn't find the entrance to the underground palace.
Only then did the queen mother know what the late emperor said before he died.
This underground palace can only be opened by Emperor Xia at the time of Da Xia's life and death.
So the queen mother temporarily kept the secret.
It wasn't until Gu Yuehai took control of Qingzhou Continent that the Queen Mother realized that if Xia Houqi wanted to keep Da Xia, he had to open the underground palace.
"After I learned this secret from my mother, I went to the entrance of the underground palace that my mother said."
In order to keep this secret, Xia Houqi went there alone, not even bringing a guard with him.
He walked down from the dragon couch in Xiayang Palace and passed a long underground staircase.
At the place where the Queen Mother had come to a dead end, he found a door.
It was an ancient bronze door, engraved with ancient patterns.
Those lines looked like some kind of ancient beast. When Xia Houqi came to the door, the eyes of the ancient beast above had a gloomy light.
When Xia Houqi's eyes met the eyes of the beast, Xia Houqi subconsciously walked forward, and his hand touched the ancient bronze door.
"I pushed hard, but unexpectedly the ancient bronze door opened. It was a closed stone room, and I saw a huge coffin suspended in mid-air."
Xia Houqi paused when he said this.
"You opened that ancient coffin, what's inside?"
When Ye Lingyue heard this, her heart arose. She also knew that the ancient coffin was the real reason why Xia Houqi became like this.
"I didn't open that ancient coffin at first. To be precise, I couldn't open that ancient coffin."
Xia Houqi shook his head.
Opening the ancient coffin is not as simple as opening the door of the underground palace.
The ancient coffin was suspended in mid-air by several iron cables. Xia Houqi's first reaction was to open the coffin.
But when he put down the ancient coffin, he found that there was no gap at all in the ancient coffin.
"No gaps?"
Ye Lingyue wondered.
"It's just that there is no coffin lid, the ancient coffin is like a piece of natural cut stone.
It is shaped like a coffin, but without a lid.
Even Xia Houqi couldn't tell whether it was a coffin or a natural cut stone.
"I tried to open it, but no matter what method I used, the weapon and mental power couldn't open it."
After Xia Houqi tried several times, he finally decided to give up.
Although the ancient coffin could not be opened, Xia Houqi still moved the sarcophagus out of the underground palace.
"Since the ancient coffin can't be opened, what's going on with those dark patterns?"
Ye Lingyue thought earlier that those dark patterns came from the ancient coffin.
But hearing what Xia Houqi said, Ye Lingyue didn't understand again.
"I have to talk about this later. After I got the ancient coffin, I placed it in the king's temple and worshiped it day and night."
Xia Houqi originally thought that this matter would be understood.
In the next few days, everything in the ancient coffin was indeed as usual.
Until Qin Xiaochuan sent Zhu Nianyu, Zhu Nianyu established the Bagua Tianmen in Daxia.
Xia Houqi was forced to abdicate more than once, and even his basic power was emptied.
For this reason, Xia Houqi was worried day and night and could not sleep at night.
That night, he went to the temple to pray for blessings.
"When I went to Wangci, I saw the ancient coffin again. After many days, the ancient coffin was still the same without any changes. I didn't pay much attention to it. I knelt in front of the great Xia emperors to pray for blessings. In the middle of the night, I suddenly felt tired and fell asleep."
Xia Houqi recalled the scene of that night.
Daxia's King's Ancestral Hall is located in the Summer Palace, and there are spiritual cards of Daxia's previous emperors on display.
In his sleep, Xia Houqi had a dream.
He dreamed that he was in the palace of the king.
The ancient coffin was not far from him, and there was a sudden sound from the ancient coffin.
There was something in the ancient coffin, and there was a bang bang bang sound.
Xia Houqi felt it was very strange, so he walked to the ancient coffin, put his ear on the ancient coffin, and listened attentively.
He seemed to hear a voice.
"Xia Houqi..."
Xia Houqi heard someone calling his name.
He was taken aback, and subconsciously asked who that voice was.
"I am Xia Houke, the ancestor of the Great Xia. You are an unworthy son, and you actually let the Great Xia fall into the hands of foreigners. You can be convicted."
The voice in the ancient coffin reprimanded Xia Houqi.
Hearing that it was the ancestor, and even the founding ancestor of Da Xia, Xia Hou Qi was ashamed for a while.
He knelt in front of the ancient coffin and kowtowed a few times.
"Let me ask you, do you want to save the country of Great Xia?"
Seeing that Xia Houqi's forehead was blushing, the voice of the ancient coffin softened a little.
Xia Houqi knew in his heart that the ancient coffin must have a way to suppress Tianmen and save Daxia who was about to fall.
He was busy asking for advice, but the ancient coffin said.
"If you want to save Daxia, you can only ask the leader of darkness for help. You need to prepare enough sacrifices to summon the god of darkness from the leader of darkness to save Daxia."
Xia Houqi seems to understand what the ancient coffin said.
At that time, Xia Houqi was already obsessed with ghosts.
He quickly asked how to prepare the sacrifice.
But the ancient coffin said that as long as Xia Houqi took blood and opened the ancient coffin, the gods of the Dark Lord would come to look for sacrifices.
Xia Houqi wanted to deal with Bagua Tianmen wholeheartedly, but after hesitating for a while, he dripped blood on the ancient coffin.
"When my blood dripped on the ancient coffin, a strange scene happened. The ancient coffin, which was originally as smooth as a mirror, suddenly changed. A strange pattern appeared on its surface. It grew from small to large, and soon covered the entire ancient coffin. I didn’t know until later that the lines were dark lines, and it was so terrifying that I, at the time, didn’t expect it at all.”
Xia Houqi was also surprised when he saw the changes in the ancient coffin.
When he was about to ask Xiahouke again, a cock crowed in his ear.
Xia Houqi suddenly woke up from his sleep.
He found himself lying on the ancient coffin, and in the king's temple, the spirit tablet of the first Xiadi Xiahouke was beside him.