Chapter 331: Luohan Temple
The mountaineering team followed the expedition team and climbed up the rugged mountain road for nearly three days before they came to a majestic snow-capped peak!
From a distance, the snow peak looks like a holy triangular pagoda, floating in the blue sky, and the light of the setting sun swaying down, giving the white pagoda a golden edge, which looks mysterious and mysterious.
"This is Peak No. 7!" Lao Jin walked up to Changsheng and Baoyue and said with a smile, "Zen Master, do you think No. 7 Peak looks like Dubo Snow Peak?"
"Miracles, miracles!" Bao Yue knelt down reverently, prostrate on the ground with his hands folded, and bowed for a long time before standing up, and said, "If there is really a Dubo Snow Peak, it must be this magical Snow Peak...... After so many years, so many disciples of the Buddha Sect have not even found Dubo Snow Peak?"
Changsheng stood beside him, a sneer on the corner of his mouth, but he didn't say anything!
"Zen Master doesn't know!" Lao Jin didn't notice Changsheng's strange expression, pointed to the snowy peak, and said with a faint smile: "Look over there, more than a hundred years ago, most of this mountain, as well as the valley over there, were buried under the snow, and it was only because the weather warmed up and the snow melted that the peaks and valleys were revealed, and it was because of this that we were able to discover the Luohan Temple!"
Changsheng glanced at Lao Jin, looked at the obvious man-made traces on the mountainside, and asked lightly, "Where is the Luohan Temple?"
"Yes!" Lao Jin replied with a smile, beckoned the members of the scientific expedition team, and said, "It's getting dark, let's rush to the Luohan Temple to rest again!"
After a while, several members of the scientific expedition team took the lead in climbing, and Changsheng, Baoyue and Baofeng followed behind!
The mountaineering team did not continue to follow Changsheng and the others, and turned into the valley, presumably they had to rest in the valley for a night before climbing Mount Everest.
The altitude here is already more than 6,000 meters, the air is even thinner, and everyone has a hard time climbing with a pickaxe in hand, and it took several hours to get close to the Luohan Temple!
Halfway up the mountainside, facing the direction of the valley, there is a flat place of half an acre in size, and I don't know if it was formed naturally or artificially bulldozed by the monks who built the Luohan Temple!
On the platform stands a desolate temple, which has long been dilapidated, and with thousands of years of wind erosion, only a few ruins remain, swaying in the wind and rain.
"This is the ruins of the Luohan Temple?" Looking at the ruins of the broken wall a hundred meters away, Changsheng frowned and said secretly!
It is said to be a temple, but in fact it is just a few broken stone walls, enclosed in a general range, and there are no buildings in it, not even traces of buildings!
The mountainside where the 'Luohan Temple' is located is more than 300 meters upward, which is the snow line of Mount Everest!
Above is a snow-capped silver world, while below is a bare and desolate mountain rock, with a white line in the middle, dividing Everest into two different worlds.
"Exactly!" Since the scientific expedition team climbed the seventh peak, Lao Jin has been by Changsheng's side, and replied with a smile: "Last time, we found a stone tablet here, and the stone tablet records the history of this Luohan Temple! It is said that the Luohan Temple was built around the 11th century AD and has been glorious for more than 400 years, but I don't know why, in the 16th century AD, the monks of the Luohan Temple suddenly left here, and no one knows where they went, so this Luohan Temple was abandoned!"
Before that, Changsheng had also heard Lao Jin introduce things about the Luohan Temple, but until now, Changsheng hadn't figured out why those monks built the temple on a plateau of more than 6,000 meters?
How did they build the temple at such a high altitude?
And what is the purpose of building this temple?
"This Luohan Temple has been abandoned to such an extent, is it still valuable for scientific research?" Changsheng looked at a few lonely stone walls and asked suspiciously!
"You don't know, although the monks of the Luohan Temple suddenly disappeared, and the temple almost ceased to exist, there are still more than a dozen stone tablets buried in the Luohan Temple, which are recorded in Sanskrit, which is the best information for investigating history, and the purpose of our trip is to rub down these stone tablets and take them back for research......
"That's it!" Changsheng nodded, took out the simple figure in the Eight Treasure Map, and compared the surrounding scenery while climbing the hillside!
Sure enough, combined with the white snow-capped peaks in the distance and the mountains next to them, the terrain here is very similar to the lines drawn in the graphics!
The only regret is that there is a missing oval lake.
"Changsheng, do you see the traces of drying up in the valley next to you, does it look like a lake?"
Following the direction pointed by Zen Master Baoyue, Changsheng looked at it!
Sure enough, there are traces of water erosion on the stones in the nearby valley, which means that hundreds of years ago, there was a very likely lake in the nearby valley, but for some unknown reason, the lake dried up.
Changsheng secretly thought that if there was really an Arhat temple here, the monks in the temple would inevitably be close to the water source, and it would be normal for a lake or river to appear in the valley next to it!
Perhaps, it was because of the unexpected drying up of the lake that the monks of Luohan Temple had to abandon this temple, and then built the Eight Treasures Temple, dividing the clues of the Buddha's treasures into eight parts, which were hidden under the Eight Treasure Maps!
The Temple of Light was also built, and the information of the four Buddhist treasures was kept in the Temple!
However, it doesn't make sense that the Luohan Temple is only more than 300 meters away from the snow line, and some drink fresh water, and it doesn't have to be close to rivers or lakes.
"Speed up, you must rush to the ruins of the Luohan Temple before dark!" Lao Jin urged the members of the scientific expedition team to climb along the rugged mountain rocks to the Luohan Temple!
But Changsheng did not continue to follow the scientific expedition team, and after discussing with Zen Master Baoyue, he turned his direction and entered the Grand Canyon next to him!
The two of them carefully checked the size and shape of the water erosion in the canyon, and then took out the simple terrain in the Eight Treasure Map and carefully compared!
Sadly, although the mountain ups and downs here are very similar and illustrated, they are still a little different!
The biggest difference is that, judging by the shape of the water erosion, there is no lake in the canyon, but a river!
This river is supposed to be formed by the melting of snow water on the snowy mountains, but for some unknown reason, the river suddenly disappeared, or was diverted to flow in other directions.
"Zen Master, do you think this is the place?"
Zen Master Baoyue came over, looked carefully at the figure in Changsheng's hand, shook his head and said, "I don't think it's very similar, otherwise, let's follow the scientific expedition team and carefully study the stone tablet in the Luohan Temple, maybe the inscription on the stone tablet records about the treasure!"
"What the Zen master said makes sense!" Changsheng nodded, and walked with Zen Master Baoyue to the Luohan Temple on the mountainside!
Since he started mountaineering, Monk Baofeng hardly spoke, just ate, slept and ate, and in addition, he followed Baoyue Zen Master all the way up!
Immortal didn't care about him, as if he didn't exist.
At nine o'clock in the evening, it was already getting dark!
Changsheng and Baoyue Zen Master rushed to the ruins of Luohan Temple, the members of the scientific expedition team were squatting in front of a flat stone tablet, and Lao Jin was squatting in the innermost, holding a brush to clean up the stone tablet!
The stele is engraved with some zigzag inscriptions, which seem to be ancient Sanskrit.
"Professor Jin, what does this stele record?" Changsheng asked politely!
"Oh, you're here!" Lao Jin stood up, deliberately glanced at Zen Master Baoyue and Monk Baofeng behind him, and said with a smile, "This stele is the one I said, and it records the history of Luohan Temple...... Zen Master Baoyue, come and see!"
As he spoke, Lao Jin vacated a place for Zen Master Baoyue to inspect the lying stone tablet!
Zen Master Baoyue did not refuse, half-squatted down, checked the inscription line by line, and after a long time, he suddenly stood up and said, "Sure enough, this stone tablet records the history of this Luohan Temple, it turns out that the monks who built this Luohan Temple really came from Nalanda Temple, they did not cross the snow-capped mountains to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, but built a temple here! The stone tablet also said that because the terrain has changed, the snow on the seventh peak is very likely to collapse, and they have to leave the Luohan Temple!"
"Where did they go?" Changsheng nodded and asked!
Zen Master Baoyue looked at the stele carefully and sighed, "There is no record of their whereabouts on the stele!"
"It's getting dark, don't care about these for now, let's camp here first, and wait for tomorrow after dawn, and then look for more stone tablets!" Without waiting for Changsheng to ask again, Lao Jin suddenly stood up and beckoned the members of the scientific expedition team to set up tents and prepare food and water!
In this way, Changsheng didn't want to ask again, took out the tent and sleeping bag from the storage bracelet, and together with Baoyue and Baofeng, set up a tent along the stone wall, and then put three sleeping bags in the tent!
After a while, the scientific expedition team made coffee, took out its own canned food and some cooked food, and distributed it to everyone to replenish energy.
Because Changsheng was not used to drinking coffee, and did not accept the cooked food handed over by Lao Jin, he ate a can that he brought, and walked alone to a flat mountain rock not far away.
Under the glow of the night, the stars in the sky shine brightly, spreading a faint light!
Changsheng lies on the flat mountain rocks and looks at the sky, and the entire Milky Way is full of mystery and unknown.
If it had been before, when he saw the stars in the sky, Changsheng would only feel very beautiful and mysterious, and he would not have felt anything else!
But since entering the Mo family and coming into contact with Ling Feng and the more mysterious Nome, Changsheng's state of mind has also begun to change!
Every point of light there is a star that is many times brighter than the sun, and in those star systems, there may be higher life like humans, or more powerful than humans!
So, what are they doing? Are they looking at the stars from afar, just like themselves, do they know that extraterrestrial life exists?
Or like the Celestial Clan and Nome, they have already started interstellar colonization with high technology and conquered the sea of stars?
"Changsheng, rest early, there are still many things to be busy tomorrow!" Zen Master Baoyue poked his head out of the tent and shouted!
Changsheng sat up, looked at the mountaineering tent in the valley, it was already dark, only a few bonfires were still burning, and then looked at his own tent not far away, secretly relieved, and while walking to his tent, he whispered, "There are indeed a lot of things to be busy with, but it's not tomorrow, it's tonight!"
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