It was a huge cave.
Standing there alone, there is no trace of any living beings around.
Looking up, it's like... an eye opened by the earth.
If you look carefully, you will also find that there is a slender staircase at the entrance of the cave, which spirals all the way down. It seems that someone specially set it up just to go inside and take a closer look.
See this scene.
The group of people crowded in the corridor all looked shocked.
Calculate according to the ladder.
The dark cave was at least dozens of feet in diameter.
The ancient city of Jingjue above the head is only big, stretching five or six miles from north to south. It is already a first-rate city in the thirty-six countries of the Western Region.
The city of Luoyang in the Han and Wei dynasties at about the same time had only four kilometers of east-west walls.
Therefore, the scale of Jingjue City is by no means as small as imagined.
And such a magnificent ancient city.
The population is hundreds of thousands.
Raise three thousand soldiers.
But it can only accommodate about six or seven such caves.
You can imagine how amazing this cave is.
It’s no wonder that even the well-informed Yang Fang’s eyes widened at this moment, with disbelief written all over his face.
"Is there really such a big hole?"
"It won't be dug out even if it takes hundreds of years, right?"
Rubbing his face hard, Yang Fang sighed in a low voice .
A few years ago, when he was out of the mountains and entering the rivers and lakes, he went to Luoning Jinbaoshan, where there was an abandoned ancient silver pit, which had been excavated since the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. In hundreds of years, it was dug more than 200 meters deep. .
That day, when he stood on the top of the cliff of the mine and looked down, he only felt a strong sense of dizziness.
My feet are light and airy.
It seems that if the mountain wind blows behind you, people will fall into it.
But even so, compared with the cave in the mural in front of me, the silver pit is like a deep well.
"Brother Yang Fang, do you think this can be dug out by manpower?"
Listening to his sigh, Chen Yulou couldn't help but shake his head and smile.
“It shouldn’t be a sinkhole?”
Yang Fang frowned slightly.
When he traveled around the world, he often traveled between deep mountains and old forests because of his fighting skills. Due to the special geological environment in Sichuan and Guizhou, there were countless sinkholes.
The local people don't know where the sinkhole came from.
Thought it was caused by ghosts and gods.
Since ancient times, there has been a tradition of divine burial in tiankeng.
There are many ancient ruins among them, and he has gone deep into them more than once to open coffins and search for treasures.
In terms of familiarity with the tiankeng, no one present could compare with him.
The cave in the mural goes straight up and down, which is completely different from the structure of the sinkhole.
"Is there a possibility that it was formed naturally?"
Chen Yulou looked calm, "From the murals I have seen before, it is not difficult to see that the Jingjue people call themselves the Guidong tribe. "
"So, could it be the Ghost Cave? "
The Ghost Cave, the Ghost Cave Clan?
Hear the words.
Not only Yang Fang, but also the Partridge Sentinel brothers on the side also looked surprised.
They had seen many similar murals intermittently in the ancient city of Gumo Prefecture before, but they didn’t think much of them and just regarded them as mysteries.
Just like the beliefs of the Turkic tribe shamans.
The gods who live in the sky created the heaven and the earth.
If you hear too much strange news like this, you will subconsciously ignore it.
But now when I look at that ghost cave, I can’t help but feel suspicious.
The main thing is that there are about ten murals in this corridor. Everything they see in front of them is real, and they have seen it more or less with their own eyes.
It seems that ghost caves may be real.
Just...
Shouldn't it be a monster living deep in an underground ghost cave?
Think of the giant-eyed stone man who occupies a very high position in the Jingjue people's faith... and the queen who has never shown her true face.
Yang Fang’s heart suddenly jumped.
“Could the Ghost Cave Clan be underground monsters?”
“Otherwise, how could a small country rule thirty-six countries in just a few years, and according to the murals? According to records, the thirty-six countries send a large number of slaves and livestock every year.”
"Could it be...blood food?"
Yang Fang let his mind wander and kept silent.
"So, the so-called queen is actually the demon king of the Ghost Cave Demon Clan?"
The old foreigner tugged at the corner of his mouth and rubbed his painful eyebrows.
A few months ago, this kid didn't believe in the existence of gods, ghosts and monsters in the world, but since he saw Lu Zu's flying sword in Kuanglu Mountain, his imagination has become so big that they can't even keep up.
Nowadays, order has collapsed, and demons are rampant in troubled times.
But even they have never seen a monster that can transform.
Even the old dragon on the other side of Fuxian Lake who has practiced for thousands of years and is about to walk through the water and transform into a dragon cannot do this.
Old foreigners really can’t believe that such a barren land with little spiritual energy in the Western Region can produce such a shocking monster.
The most important thing is.
The Zagrama clan has never had any record of the ghost cave demon clan.
If it really exists, given the power of the Holy Prophet, he should never have been unaware of it.
His words were obviously teasing, but Yang Fang, who was very imaginative, didn't hear it at all. He thought he was agreeing with him and couldn't help but slap his thigh.
“Yes, yes, yes.”
“The demon king rules the thirty-six countries, and because he has devoured too many human lives, he has made the people miserable and miserable.”
Listen to him talk to himself.
The old foreigner has an even bigger headache.
He didn’t know much about the Ghost Cave Clan, but the existence of the Ghost Cave was the biggest secret of Zagrama in history.
At that time, their ancestors migrated here.
The ghost cave was also discovered.
The First Sage wanted to pry into what was hidden deep in the cave.
It was this move that brought them the disaster of genocide.
Unfortunately, this matter is too secretive and cannot be revealed at will, but he has a guess in his heart that the so-called Ghost Cave Clan are most likely people who migrated here later.
Like the ancestors of the clan, he discovered the mystery of the ghost cave.
The only difference is.
Although they have discovered the existence of ghost caves.
But the fate of the two races is completely different.
They were killed just for snooping, but the Ghost Cave Clan didn't know how to do it. Not only did they enter the Ghost Cave, they even made a deal with the 'god' inside, gaining boundless power.
Old foreigners rarely participated in discussions along the way.
But that doesn’t mean he can’t think.
On the contrary, what he thought was even infinitely close to the truth.
Right now, I really can’t hold back that kid Yang Fang’s nonsense.
"So, since he is a demon king, how can he be destroyed and his country destroyed?"
Yang Fang was startled, "It wasn't Prince Gumo who hid poison in the golden lamb and died of poisoning. "Poison?"
The old foreigner looked helpless.
“I can’t vouch for how terrifying the transformed monster is, but the six-winged centipede in Pingshan swallows mercury, water, lead poison, and the yin energy of medicine and stone. Not only does it survive, it even encourages spiritual practice.”
< br>"Do you think a demon king can die so easily?"
"Then...I don't know."
Yang Fang frowned and wanted to make a few excuses. But when he opened his mouth, he realized that he could no longer refute.
This thing really doesn't make sense.
At the level of the Demon King, he has transcended the secular world. Even if his ancestors in his lineage help secretly, it should be difficult to find a drug that can poison a big demon.
The most important thing is.
The black snakes that can be seen everywhere in the murals are extremely poisonous in themselves.
The Ghost Cave clan lives with those monsters all year round.
How can you say poison to death?
“The speculation of coming out of the ghost cave is too mysterious. It is possible that they discovered the underground cave and could not explain its existence, so they worshiped it as a miracle.”
Seeing the two people's eyes facing each other, neither one could convince the other.
Chen Yulou tried to smooth things over.
"Shopkeeper Chen...you mean, that cave is not actually a ghost cave, but a snake cave?"
Yang Fangzheng didn't know how to respond.
Hurry down the steps. If the giant snake coiled on Shuanghei Mountain in the mural is hiding in a ghost cave, everything seems to be explained.
He has always been casual and says whatever comes to mind.
But as soon as the words came out.
The partridge whistle that had been silent all this time suddenly felt its heartbeat.
My mind seemed to be buzzing, and there was wind blowing in my ears. The whistling sound suppressed all the sounds around me.
Snake?
Yes.
How come he never thought of this.
I always thought that there were evil gods and demons in the depths of the ghost cave that could not be spied on, so they were so terrifying that the prophet died on the spot. The prophet was unable to use his powers, and it was only 800 years after his death that his tribe moved eastward.
But he knows nothing about the existence of the ghost cave.
Now think about it carefully.
The ancient city of Jingjue was destroyed overnight.
Not a single one of the ancients was left alive.
No one, including cattle, sheep, livestock, barbarians, and ghost cave tribes, escaped punishment, but... those black snakes were still active in the city.
Coupled with the double-eyed giant snakes that can be seen everywhere in the murals.
The existence known as the patron saint.
Perhaps they are not protecting the people of the Ghost Cave at all, but... the Ghost Cave itself.
Thousands of snake tides, as well as the mother snake that caused the death of countless tribesmen thousands of years ago, cannot appear out of thin air. Could they be the descendants of giant snakes?
so.
Their family has been pursuing the truth for thousands of years.
Is there a giant snake in the ghost cave?
"Senior Brother?"
"Wake up!"
There was constant buzzing in his mind, and it was as if his five senses and six consciousnesses were cut off.
Suddenly.
The body seemed to be shaken by someone.
Partridge Whistle opened his eyes suddenly, and the blurred vision gradually became clear, and finally settled on the worried face of his junior brother, the old foreigner.
“No…I’m fine.”
I thought I had arrived at my ancestral homeland under Shuanghei Mountain.
The truth will be revealed.
But he never thought that they were walking through a maze shrouded in thick fog, and finally found a clue, but it turned out to be just the tip of the iceberg.
My guess is if it is true.
Even if you are carrying the Muchen Bead, this trip to the ghost cave will be extremely troublesome.
But he didn't want his junior brother to worry.
As for Hua Ling, after entering the Western Region, the curse reappeared, and she was the most affected.
I could only suppress it with the help of Qi refining, so during this period I looked sickly.
So, he didn’t let her follow him this time.
Stayed in the city with the red girl.
Partridge Whistle's plan was that once the ghost cave was discovered and things turned around, he would ask his junior brother to pick them up.
"By the way, Shopkeeper Chen, you haven't said yet whether this guess is possible?"
Seeing that nothing happened at the Partridge Whistle.
Yang Fang couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued to ask.
Seeing how persistent he was, Chen Yulou had no choice but to nod.
"It's not impossible..."
"However, a mural is just a mural after all. Unless you see it with your own eyes, everything is unknown."
A simple statement.
He took the lead in crossing the arch and entered the palace hall in front of him.
The other side.
Kunlun came up from inside and briefly described what they saw when they came down.
“You mean, this is the front hall of the palace?”
Listen to his judgment.
Chen Yulou couldn't help but have a flash of admiration in his eyes.
Returning from southern Yunnan.
Kunlun's character has indeed changed greatly.
In the past, he was like a tireless machine, obeying orders. As long as he gave an order, he would not frown even if it was a mountain of swords and a sea of fire.
Now I not only learned to think.
Both the overall situation and the details are outstanding.
Looking around, although the main hall was severely eroded by moisture, some traces of the past can still be seen, and there are side halls on both sides.
From a structural point of view.
It should be exactly as Kunlun guessed.
"Shopkeeper Chen, there is a door on the stone wall in front..."
Oona walked over from behind at the right time and whispered.
Almost as soon as she finished speaking, the people who were searching for gold and jade artifacts suddenly raised their torches and said loudly, "There is a door here."
"Let's go and have a look."
Except for the jade throne, there is nothing interesting to see.
Chen Yulou was also thinking about the underground lake. He didn't want to wait any longer. With a wave of his hand, he led a few people and quickly rushed over to the place where the news was sent back.
After a while.
A stone door embedded in the cliff appeared in sight.
About two meters high.
Integrated with the cliff.
High outside the door is a dome made of polished black mountain stone. It is glowing under the surrounding wind lamps, like a monster hidden in the darkness, feeding on light.
Chen Yulou stepped forward, stretched out his hand and tried to push.
The water mist on the stone gate is cold and motionless.
Compared with the secret door in the previous temple, this door stands here and seems to stop outsiders.
It's a pity...
"Old foreign brothers, we have to invite two armored beasts."
Chen Yulou took half a step back and looked not far behind him.
He said before that the armored beast would definitely have its uses, so how could it be nonsense?
"...Okay."
The old foreigner cheered up and quickly took off the backpack behind him.
Reveal the covering of black cloth.
He took off a medicine bottle from his waist, pulled out the cork, and shook it vigorously into the bamboo basket a few times. A burst of pungent medicinal powder fell like rain.
The next moment.
Inside the bamboo basket, iron leaves intertwined and trembled continuously.
The guys who saw this movement for the first time were all shocked. Their eyes were fixed on the bamboo basket on the ground, and various thoughts flashed through them.
“Go!”
Waiting for the secret medicine.
The old foreigner shouted lowly.
In an instant, two black shadows, one large and one small, rushed out like lightning. After transforming into demons, they no longer needed the copper ring to pull them around. Even though they were separated by several hills, they could still respond on their own.
"It's...what?"
I saw two monsters covered in scales and full of evil spirit falling behind the stone gate.
The group of thieves who had never seen Cailing Armor exclaimed in surprise.
But the two strange beasts paid no attention to them.
Under the sharp claws, the stone wall was torn apart quickly like tofu cubes. One to the left and one to the right, a square cave was cut out along the surrounding stone door.
See this scene.
Even Chen Yulou could not hide his surprise.
I knew earlier that the two armored beasts would eat the blood of dragons and turn into monsters, but now it was the first time I saw them walking through caves and mausoleums from behind Zhelong Mountain.
Compared to Pingshan that day, I don’t know how much faster it will be.
Those sharp claws are probably comparable to divine weapons.
Although the dragon scale sword hanging on his waist can also cut through the rocks, it is difficult to do so casually as the two armored beasts, and the amount of spiritual energy required to do so is unimaginable.
Bang!
In less than a moment.
The thick cliffs are cut open by them.
The standing stone gate lost its support and fell forward in front of everyone's horrified eyes. There was a loud bang and countless clouds of smoke and dust were set off.
Chen Yulou waved his hand to avoid the dust and looked up.
Amidst the sound of gurgling water, a deep pool appeared, and at the same time... countless dark golden lights, like stars, flickered in the darkness.
His heart skipped a beat.
"Sacred Tree!" (End of Chapter)