A comprehensive overview of tombs: starting with the Yellow Weasel's Tomb

This also illustrates the importance of eyes in the Jingjue culture from another perspective.

After all, the black serpent saw that the black growth on Ahan's head looked like an eye at first glance.

Finally, everyone arrived at the innermost row of stone pillars. This row of stone pillars consisted of only one base, with nothing on top of it.

Seeing this, the fat man couldn't help but ask in confusion, "Why are there only piers and no pillars? Could it be that this place wasn't finished when the Jingjue Kingdom was destroyed?"

Professor Chen looked at the scene inside and confirmed that the place must have been put into use before. In other words, it had been in operation for at least a period of time, so there was no possibility that it was not completed.

Therefore, Professor Chen immediately rejected this possibility. So, why is there nothing on this row of stone pillars?

Immediately afterward, Bai Jing suddenly spoke up.

"Do you think this might represent the power of the Queen of Jingjue?"

Upon hearing this, Hu Bayi was taken aback for a moment, then quickly realized what he meant and looked at Bai Jing, saying, "Old Bai, you mean imaginary space?!"

Chapter 169 Jade Eyes

Upon hearing Hu Bayi's words, Bai Jing immediately snapped his fingers and confirmed, "That's right, it's imaginary space!"

Upon hearing Bai Jing's words, the others were initially taken aback, but once they did, they suddenly understood.

Immediately afterwards, Bai Jing said, "Think about it. Back then, on that mural, Prince Gu Mo discovered the secret hidden by Queen Jingjue. Queen Jingjue's eyes have a magical ability that can make a person disappear directly."

At the time, we named the Queen of Jingjue's ability to make people disappear "imaginary space," so I believe that this empty pillar very likely represents imaginary space, which is the Queen of Jingjue's ability.

Hu Bayi added, "I think Lao Bai is right. Do you remember Miss Yang mentioning a little boy from the United States who could make objects disappear by staring at them?"

The legendary Queen of Jingjue also possessed this ability. Since the fourth row of this temple represents guardians or noble warriors, the fifth row representing the power of the gods—the imaginary space—can be explained.

After listening to Bai Jing and Hu Bayi's words, Professor Chen agreed, saying, "Bai, Hu, you're absolutely right. Above the warriors or guardians in the fourth row lies an unknown imaginary space."

The most revered power within the entire Jingjue culture transcends this imaginary space and controls it. This explains everything, and also explains why the empty space remains vacant.

Suddenly, Hu Bayi's flashlight shone on the distant altar.

Immediately afterwards, everyone noticed that on the altar in the distance, there was a stone pillar. The pillar didn't look very tall, only a little over a meter. However, on this stone pillar, there was a jade eyeball that looked quite eerie.

Hu Bayi stared at the eyeball, his brows furrowing deeply. He murmured, "Could this Queen Jingjue really be a female demon?"

Upon hearing this, Sadi Peng couldn't help but sigh, "Fortunately, the Queen of Jingjue has long since died."

The fat man looked at the jade eyeball and said, "Look at that stone, it feels like an eye, like it's looking at us!"

Bai Jing walked forward, saying as he went, "Let's go take a look."

Seeing Bai Jing walking forward, everyone quickly followed.

Before long, everyone was standing on the altar.

Upon seeing the jade eyeball on the altar, the fat man couldn't help but reach out to touch it.

But Bai Jing grabbed him directly, and said seriously, "Have you forgotten what I told you before? Don't you want to die?"

Upon hearing this, the fat man quickly withdrew his hand.

However, the fat man couldn't help but ask, "How much is such a big piece of jade worth?"

Upon hearing the fat man's words, Professor Chen immediately expressed his displeasure, saying, "Xiao Wang, this is a priceless treasure. How can you measure it with money?"

Seeing this, Hu Bayi couldn't help but feign seriousness and said, "Comrade Xiao Wang, it seems your thinking is very dangerous. Such a country..."

"How can you measure a treasure with money? You're too vulgar."

Perhaps because of Hu Bayi's words, Professor Hao originally wanted to say a few words, but at this moment he didn't know what to say.

Although the fat man was speechless, he quickly said, "Yes, yes, this is priceless. Talking about money is vulgar."

Immediately, everyone began to wander around the altar. Bai Jing looked up at the top of the jade eyeball and indeed saw a heptagonal groove.

Bai Jing recalled for a moment, and sure enough, it matched the shape of the jade that the fat man had.

Bai Jing immediately said, "Fatty, let me see your jade!"

Although the fat man was a little confused, he did not hesitate and immediately handed the jade from his neck to Bai Jing.

Bai Jing glanced at the groove and the shape of the jade, and sure enough, they were the same size.

Bai Jing did not immediately place the jade pendant on the table. Instead, he looked at Shirley Yang and said, "Fatty, according to the inscription on this jade, it should be a key. I just looked around, and this temple does not lead to the underground palace."

This situation is illogical. First of all, this temple is built quite high, so there must be an underground palace. However, when I looked at it just now, there were no passages in the surrounding walls.

Therefore, the entrance to the underground palace is very likely located beneath this altar. If I am not mistaken, placing this jade pendant on this jade eyeball will activate the mechanism, and the underground palace may open.

However, there's a very high chance this jade pendant will never be recovered.

After listening to Bai Jing's long explanation, Shirley Yang, who was quite shrewd, naturally understood the meaning behind Bai Jing's words and immediately asked, "Just say what you want to say."

Bai Jing smiled and said, "This piece of jade is a keepsake left to Fatty by his father. If it can't be taken out after being put in this time, I hope Miss Yang can compensate Fatty as much as possible."

When the fat man heard this, his eyes lit up, and he looked at Shirley Yang and said, "That's right, this is a keepsake that my father left me before he died. I wanted to pass it down as a family heirloom, so there has to be some compensation."

Shirley Yang understood at this point that this was considered price gouging, but she could understand it.

In fact, Bai Jing and his two companions had already completed their mission.

Once they find the Jingjue Ancient City, they've already completed their mission. To put it bluntly, the rest is of little concern to them.

Especially now that the fat man might have to hand over his family heirloom, let's just say it's a family heirloom, it would be reasonable to add some money for him. Besides, didn't Bai Jing say that he would only give it to him if he couldn't get it out?

So, after a moment's thought, Shirley Yang looked at the fat man and said, "Okay, how many do you want?"

The fat man was now in a dilemma; he didn't know how to set a price.

Upon hearing this, Shirley Yang couldn't help but look at Hu Bayi, who nodded and said, "It is indeed three thousand."

However, Hu Bayi added in his mind, "It's just RMB."

Shirley Yang nodded upon seeing this, then held out her hand and said, "Okay, three thousand it is, give it to me!"

Chapter 170 The Jade Eye Finally Shattered

Upon hearing this, Bai Jing handed the jade in his hand to Shirley Yang.

Throughout the entire process, neither Professor Chen nor Professor Hao interrupted.

This matter has little to do with them.

After receiving the jade, Shirley Yang compared it with the groove on the jade eyeball and placed the jade into the eyeball perfectly.

As the jade eye and Wang Pangzi's jade merged together, the entire temple suddenly trembled.

The tremor lasted for several seconds before stopping.

At this point, Professor Chen couldn't help but ask curiously, "Comrade Xiao Wang, where did you get this jade?"

The fat man immediately launched into a eloquent speech: "Back in the day, I was suppressing bandits in the Western Regions."

Upon hearing this, Bai Jing couldn't help but cough twice, and Hu Bayi also spoke up, "Fatty, tell the truth!"

Upon hearing this, the fat man coughed without the slightest embarrassment and continued, "Well, it's like this. One of my dad's old comrades-in-arms, whose unit was among the first to enter the Western Regions, was in charge of suppressing bandits in southern Xinjiang. As a result, he encountered a group of bandits in Niya in the Taklamakan Desert."

A fierce battle broke out between the two sides. After the battle, he seized this from a black-bearded bandit, and later, after I was born, he gave it to me as a wedding gift.

After saying that, the fat man noticed that everyone was looking at him with strange eyes, and realized that he had misspoke. He immediately added, "Oh, no, it's a birth gift. I heard all of this from my dad."

Bai Jing chuckled. Here, the fat man, in order to emphasize the legality of the item's possession, described it as a birth gift.

But considering his previous slip of the tongue and what Fatty had said when he was a sent-down youth, Bai Jing roughly guessed that this thing was probably a wedding gift from Fatty's father's old comrade-in-arms to his father.

It was later passed on to the fat man.

But none of this matters.

From what the fat man said, everyone gleaned some useful information: quite a few people must have actually visited the Jingjue Ancient City before.

This jade piece may have been taken from here by that black-bearded bandit.

Upon hearing this, Professor Chen sighed with some distress, "It seems that we will never know what will happen if we go any further. It's too frivolous to just send such an important cultural relic back and forth like this. It should be handed over to the country."

Upon hearing this, the fat man panicked and, disregarding Bai Jing's previous instructions, immediately grabbed at the jade eyeball.

The fat man managed to snatch the jade eyeball off in one fell swoop.

Immediately afterward, the fat man said, "This jade eye matches my jade pendant, which means it belongs to me. If anyone tries to take it from me, I'll fight them. Don't blame me for being impolite."

Upon hearing this, Sadi Peng immediately said, "This is a cultural relic, how did it become yours?"

The fat man had completely forgotten what Bai Jing had just told him. Hearing Sadi Peng's words, he immediately said, "Isn't that obvious? Could this mechanism be opened without me? According to the rules, this thing is mine."

But at this moment, Shirley Yang spoke up: "However, I already bought your jade for three thousand US dollars, so this thing is not..."

Even if it's jade, it's still yours; the jade eye, however, doesn't belong to you.

Upon hearing this, the fat man was momentarily stunned, only then remembering that he had just sold his jade for three thousand US dollars.

Seeing this, Bai Jing shook his head speechlessly.

This fat man has been through a lot of hardship, and now when he sees something valuable, he wants to take it down.

Bai Jing immediately said, "Fatty, the jade eye can't be moved, put it back first."

The fat man hesitated upon hearing this.