Chapter Twenty-Seven: See the Soul Bone Again
When Ling Zikai and Du Juan heard the roar of the tiger, their faces changed, and they looked back down the mountain in unison.
I saw that in the bushes that I had just passed, a tall and mighty Siberian tiger appeared, judging from the length of the height, it was the one who guarded King Sam before.
The Siberian tiger jumped out of the bushes and ran to the entrance of the trail, but instead of coming up, he looked at the two of them with his head held high, and there was a mixture of hostility and a little fear in the tiger's eyes.
Seeing that it hadn't caught up, Ling Du and the others breathed a sigh of relief slightly, looking at it, it seemed that they were going to wait for the rabbit at the entrance of the trail, waiting for themselves to go down. The two looked at each other and continued to walk up.
The Siberian tiger roared again and again unwillingly, but as if he had some scruples, he didn't dare to chase after them, so he could only watch them keep walking up.
Ling Zikai looked back at the Siberian Tiger and asked the cuckoo, "Why didn't you say it caught up? Is it really because this is the former residence of the ancestral god?"
The cuckoo nodded, frowned, and said, "It should be so, but it will be troublesome if it stays there all the time and does not leave, should we just stay up there and spend time with it!"
"Whatever, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, can the two of us be suffocated to death by a big worm? ”
While talking, the two had already arrived in front of the cave, and the cuckoo took out a small pickaxe used to dig ginseng seedlings, and cut off the weeds and shrubs blocking the entrance of the cave, opening up a passage.
Walking into the cave, you are greeted by a cool breeze, which makes people's spirits lifted.
At this moment, that mysterious summoning sound appeared in Ling Zikai's mind.
Could it be that there is still some genius treasure hidden in the former residence of this ancestral god?
As the cuckoo said before, the inside of the cave is very clean, except for the fallen leaves of some shrubs two or three meters away from the exit, there is hardly a trace of dust to be seen.
Twenty or thirty meters inside, the light began to dim.
I saw that the cuckoo took out a small piece of pine Mingzi and shook it on the cave wall, and saw a black wooden stick inserted in the cave wall not far ahead, so he stepped forward and put the pine Mingzi in his hand up and ignited the wooden stick.
Ling Zikai took a closer look, and found that the entire wooden stick was a natural pine seed, as thick as an arm, more than half a meter long, and he didn't know how many years it had been inserted there, and a lot of pine grease that had flowed down after burning had condensed on the wood.
After such a thick pine is lit, a raging fire ignites, illuminating the area of more than 20 meters in the cave.
There was a strong smell of rosin in the air.
After entering the first twenty meters, a piece of pine seeds of the same size appeared on the wall of the cave again.
In this way, every 20 meters or so, there will be pine seeds on the cave wall, and after lighting all the way, it is like installing street lamps in the cave. The orange-yellow light of the fire paints the entire cave with a hazy color, adding a bit of mystery.
The cave was winding and twisting and turning, and it still didn't come to an end after advancing more than 100 meters. The footsteps of the two echoed through the cave, making the surroundings even quieter.
Ling Zikai walked all the way and observed all the way. From the cave wall, it can be seen that the cave is naturally formed, and there is no trace of artificial carving on the wall. It is difficult to imagine under what conditions such a long karst cave could have formed, and one has to marvel at the power of nature.
As he continued to go deeper, the summoning sound in front of him became stronger and stronger, and the ancestral god consciousness in Ling Zikai's mind was about to leave his body, but he forcibly pressed it down.
In this mysterious place full of unknowns, he didn't dare to release the ancestral god consciousness rashly, and if something happened to him, it would be too late to regret it. He didn't want to be in a coma for three days and three nights like the last time he met the Siberian tiger.
"Haven't you arrived yet?"
Ling Zikai asked.
"Come on, it's ahead!"
After turning a corner, when the cuckoo ignited a pine nut again, his eyes suddenly opened up, and a huge karst cave appeared in front of him.
It was accompanied by the crisp sound of flowing water.
As the cuckoo lit the pine seeds on the walls around the cave in turn, Ling Zikai saw the scene inside, and the first impression in his mind was the three words "tall, big, and strange".
The entire cave space is divided into three platforms in a stepped manner.
The lowest platform is seventy or eighty meters wide, more than fifty meters long, and more than thirty meters high.
On the top is a strange landscape composed of various strange-shaped stone pillars, stone curtains, and stone flowers.
The underground is made of dazzling stalactites to form a rockery-style stone forest of hundreds of square sizes, the exquisite and clear curly stones in it are large dozens of zhang, and the small ones are like tender bamboo shoots, which are in a variety of postures, making people dizzy.
There is also a babbling spring stream around the edge of the stone forest.
On the left side of the platform there is a passage to the second platform, where a stone stalactite is connected to the cave wall, forming a natural arch. The drop between the two platforms is more than 20 meters.
The platform on the second level is nearly thirty meters long and about ten meters wide. The floor was smooth as if it were paved with marble.
At the edge of the platform, there are just rows of stone pillars, like erected railings, giving security protection.
The most amazing thing is the platform on the third floor, which is only a little more than a meter away from the second floor. A huge stone curtain twenty meters wide hangs down from the stone walls on both sides, like a curtain of the Heavenly Palace, blocking the space inside.
Those stalactites are strange, like Buddha, like birds, like beasts, like forests, like curtains, like waterfalls, stone pillars, stalagmites, stone towers, vivid.
And below, there are some stalagmites, stone vines, stone curtains, stone curtains, bell flags, stone drums, and stone pillars that echo each other from afar.
The space formed by the ceiling, the wall and the bottom of the cave is tapered, curved, rectangular and square, presenting a dizzying vividness and variety.
Before entering the third platform, Du Juan pulled Ling Zikai to kneel down and knocked respectfully at the platform three times.
It was as if the common people in ancient times stood in front of the palace treasure hall and were about to enter to meet the supreme emperor, revealing a look of sincere fear.
Entering the third platform, he lit a few pine nuts inside.
Under the orange-yellow firelight, I saw that the platform was only about 40 square meters in size, except for the one facing the second platform, the other three sides were flat rock walls, which made the whole platform more like a flat-roofed house.
There are some maroon patterns painted on the rock walls on three sides, and it is difficult to accurately distinguish the content of those patterns due to their age, but from the simple and rough lines, it should be a record of the scenes of people's daily life and production activities in the primitive society period, and the abstract graphic metaphor inversion and worship of life and intelligence.
In addition to petroglyphs, there are also some skulls that are almost fossilized in some hollows in the rock wall, such as wolf heads, deer heads, bear brains and so on.
In particular, in the deepest part of the platform, there are several caves that are much larger than the others, and there are several totems made of bronze.
There is a fish-shaped one, and the fish leaps forward. The body of the fish is covered with scale armor, in the form of a semi-circular leap, its form opens its mouth and shows its teeth, has flying wings, has a spiritual beard, is vigorous and light, and does not lose the spirituality and sacredness of the fish.
The wolf is in the shape, with a high head, frowning eyebrows, intracted ears, a straight chest, combined feet, colorful patterns, and a halterneck, showing the majestic wolf form.
There is also a frog-shaped totem that stands upright, with bulging eyes, a big belly, the front legs raised, and the hind legs supporting the body. It is in the form of a beautiful and powerful zigzag.
Ling Zikai counted carefully, and there were eighteen bronze totems in those caves, which were in the shape of eighteen divine beasts, with sparse and dense lines, exaggerated forms, and extremely decorative lines, full of mysterious colors.
When Ling Zikai's eyes fell on the largest cave in the middle, he found that there was a golden remnant of more than 20 centimeters in length.
Just when he saw the golden bone in the hand of the ancestral god statue, the ancestral god consciousness in his body finally couldn't be suppressed anymore, rushed out of his mind, and went straight to the remnant bone. Immediately locked onto the target, and subconsciously urged Ling Zikai to hurry up and take that thing, it seemed that that thing had great benefits to the ancestral god consciousness.
Ling Zikai stepped forward a few steps, and was about to grab the remnant bone, but was stopped by the cuckoo exclaiming: "Zikai, that is the soul bone of the ancestral god, you must not touch it, otherwise you will be punished by the ancestral god!"
At this moment, the golden remnant bone was wrapped in the ancestral god's consciousness, and it automatically floated up, slowly flying towards Ling Zikai and falling into his hands.
The moment the remnant bones were in his hands, a stream of energy was transmitted into Ling Zikai's body, and the original ancestral god energy in his body, after he happily captured it, there was a kind of joy like a fusion of water and fire, as if this energy was originally a part of himself, and now it has returned to his body.
Ling Zikai obviously felt the bones in his hands become hot, and immediately, his entire body seemed to be hit by a powerful electric current, and he kept trembling, and an indescribable feeling of comfort hit his whole body, and he couldn't help but let out a burst of *.
This feeling continued until the bones in his hand turned into a pinch of powder.
At this time, Ling Zikai found that his ancestral god consciousness was constantly extending outward, the picture in his mind was clearer, and the speed of movement was faster, and in the blink of an eye, he rushed out of the cave and entered the mountain forest.
What was different from the past was that Ling Zikai actually felt the breath of energy in his consciousness, this breath came from all the creatures in the mountains and forests, and he could quickly distinguish which breaths belonged to whom, and feel their state.
At the same time, these energy breaths were guided by the ancestral god's consciousness, and after being fused with the ancestral god's energy, they seemed to have been purified and refined, and once again through the guidance of the ancestral god's consciousness, they returned to their respective life bodies, and burst out with a more vigorous life breath.