I stared at Maka Ito, "What clues do you have?"

Maka Ito pointed to the stone wall engraved with unfamiliar words in the distance and said, "This is indeed a secret hiding place for shamans. Although I was not able to communicate with the shaman's soul during the dance just now, I resonated with him for a short period of time. ”

"The shaman's soul tells me that he has a peerless enmity with an emperor buried in the distance, and that emperor is called Yelu Tokumitsu. ”

"What did you say?" I wondered, "where is Jerod's light buried?"

Old man Sun turned his head and asked, "Do you know Yelu Deguang?"

"I've heard about some. I slowly recalled the information I had read and said, "Yelu Deguang is the son of Yelu Abaoji, the Taizu of Liao, that is, the second emperor of Liao. ”

In 936, he personally led 50,000 cavalry to the south, helping the famous emperor Shi Jingjiao in history to destroy the Later Tang Dynasty, and cut the sixteen states of Yanyun, which opened the door to the Central Plains in the south.

In 946, Yelu Deguang led his army to attack Bianliang, the capital of the Later Jin Dynasty, and captured the Emperor Shi of the Later Jin Dynasty and destroyed the Later Jin Dynasty. In 947, Yelu Deguang issued an edict in the Tokyo Imperial Palace to change the name of the country "Great Khitan Kingdom" to "Great Liao", and changed the tenth year of the meeting to the first year of Datong.

Soon after Yelu Deguang became emperor in Bianliang, the people of the Central Plains began to resist. Only three months after Yelu Deguang entered the Central Plains, he was defeated and withdrew to the Liao State, and it was on the way back to the Liao State that he died of illness.

When Yelu Deguang's mother, the Empress Dowager of Liao, Shu Luping, learned that her son was critically ill, she decreed that "you must see people in life and corpses in death".

When Yelu Deguang died of illness, it was a hot weather, and the accompanying officials were afraid that the corpse would rot, so they were punished by the Empress Dowager Shu Luping, and came up with a way that was not a way, that is, to use the grassland to marinate cattle and sheep, and marinate Yelu Deguang into what people now call bacon, and bring it back to Liao. Yelu Deguang became the only emperor in Chinese history to be mummified.

As I spoke, I couldn't help but look at the words on the cave. Lu Xinyao opened his mouth and asked, "Then where is Yelu Deguang buried?"

"Legend has it that he was buried in Huailing. I explained, "Legend has it that Yelu Deguang was not buried in the ancestral tomb of the Liao Kingdom, but in Fengshan, Huaizhou, so his tomb is called Huailing. ”

"But Liao Huailing miraculously disappeared after Yelud was buried. On the other hand, the Liao ancestral tomb of Yelu Deguang's father, Abaoji, not only has always existed, but the locals have also continued to worship. And Liao Huailing disappeared from people's sight. ”

"Huaizhou of Liao should be in the northwest direction of the current Inner Mongolia Bahrain Right Banner. It was probably in the 70s, after scholars' research, that Liao Huailing should be in the bed of Jingou, that is, Chifeng City. However, scholars who have explored Huailing have not yet found the body of Yelu Deguang. ”

I said in a deep voice: "We are now between Tongliao City and Chifeng City, and we are only about three hundred kilometers away from the tomb where the golden mask of the princess of Liao Kingdom was found. If the bed Jingouzi is not Yelu Deguang's tomb, what are the Liao people doing with Yelu Deguang so far away?"

"To resurrect the light of Jerod. "The shaman's soul told me that the mother of the light of Jerod had forced them to resurrect him, otherwise, they would have to be sealed in the same place with him until they could come out with him. ”

"However, shamans would rather face death than go against nature. In the end, they were imprisoned to death by the Empress Dowager of Liao in Pingtianhai, and they never resurrected Yelu Deguang. ”

Maka Ito pointed to the tombstone in the cave and said, "This is the place where Shu Luping imprisoned the shaman back then, and every tombstone here represents a curse left by a shaman. The shaman not only cursed the descendants of Yelu Deguang, but also cursed the Khitan. They would rather let the shaman lineage be buried in the world than let the Khitan disappear forever. ”

Maka Ito pointed to Ishigari's last words: "This is the strongest curse of the shaman - the Khitan will eventually be destroyed by the emperor who believes in the shaman." ”

I looked between the stone walls, and suddenly hundreds of shamans and shamans appeared in front of me, dancing wildly around the flames, and issuing terrifying curses on the incomparably powerful Khitan again and again.

The blood flowing from their eyes turned into runes and flew in all directions, to the Nine Heavens Netherworld, to the mountains and rivers, and their blood melted into the mountains and rivers, waiting for the day when they would take crazy revenge on the Khitan royal family that imprisoned them.

The horrific sight flickered in my eyes once and then vanished, but the cold sweat on my body soaked the back of my clothes in that instant.

Historically, the Liao State established by the Khitan was destroyed by the Jin State, and the countries established by the Liao nobles in the subsequent years were destroyed by Genghis Khan, and the Khitan also became a disappeared nation. Genghis Khan's belief in immortality is a god believed in shamanism.

Is this a historical coincidence, or is it a shamanic curse?

I was sweating through the back of my clothes and couldn't help but ask, "What else did you see?"

Maka Ito said, "That's all I saw. By the way, I vaguely heard the shaman say that there was a woman guarding them back then, and without that woman, they would not have lost their golden masks. ”

I frowned and said, "A woman??"

"I don't know. Maka Ito shook her head, "The shaman said that she was a very terrible woman, she was beautiful, but she was ruthless. ”

Who is that woman? I desperately think back to the outstanding heroines of the Liao State in history, but I think about it that there are only so two people, one is the biological mother of Yelu Deguang, who is known as the Empress Dowager with a broken wrist, Shu Luping, and the other is the famous Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao State, Xiao Xuan.

Empress Dowager Xiao was named a noble concubine when she was in Liaojingzong, and the time when she was in power was too far from the time of Yelu Deguang's death to be her.

The most likely person is Shu Luping, the empress dowager with a broken wrist. does not mention how Lu Ping turned the tide and protected the Khitan during his lifetime, just because the minister advised Shu Luping to accompany the burial of Yelu Abaoji, she was able to cut off her right hand and throw it into Yelu Abaoji's coffin with a straight face, which shows Shu Luping's ruthlessness and domineering. After the death of Yelu Abaoji, Yelu Deguang is her only spiritual sustenance, she can force the shaman to resurrect Yelu Deguang, and naturally she can also personally sit in Pingtianhai and suppress the shaman.

But the most unlikely person is also Shu Luping. After Yelu Deguang's death, his nephew Yelu Ruan was proclaimed emperor under the support of his ministers, and Shu Luping sent his son Yelu Lihu to send troops to fight. After Yelu Lihu's defeat, Shu Luping was sent back to his ancestral land by Yelu Ruan to be imprisoned until he died of illness. If that's the case, the person who guards Ping Tianhai is not Shu Luping.

"Who the hell is this person?" I kept scratching my head, and Ito Maka said, "I think that person is the Empress Dowager Shu Yuhei with a broken wrist." ”

"I have studied the history of the Liao State, and Shu Luping was the regent after the death of Liao Taizu, in charge of military and state affairs, and smoothly transitioned the Liao State into the hands of Yelu Deguang. Will she not be aware that her ministers want to establish a new king? With her iron-blooded means, she will be killed by all of them before the ministers can support the new king. ”

"Moreover, the large-scale relocation of shamans and the construction of new mausoleums are not something that can be done overnight. Shu Luping did not know in advance that Yelu Deguang would die unexpectedly, and she had no plans to build a mausoleum in Ping Tianhai, so after she made up her mind, she naturally chose to stay in Ping Tianhai to suppress the shaman. ”

When I heard this, I couldn't help but ask: "Then she is not afraid, if she is not in the Liao Kingdom, will there be changes in the court?"

"Don't be afraid. Maka Ito said solemnly, "All women with high positions have absolute self-confidence. Shu Luping believes that one of her stand-ins can suppress the Liao State, or rather, she believes in Yelu Deguang more. ”

Ito Maka's words changed and said: "Taking a step back, even if the Liao State changes, as long as she can resurrect Yelu Deguang, with Yelu Deguang's military talent, he can lead the sergeants guarding Ping Tianhai to gather the old troops and return to the Liao State to quell the rebellion in one fell swoop." ”

I squinted my eyes at Ito Masaka and said, "Don't you think your speculation is a bit contradictory?

Maka Ito shook her head and said, "I can't guess this." However, I think it is also possible that Shu Luping began to build the mausoleum after he discovered that he could not resurrect Yerod Light. ”

I took a few steps back and forth with my hands behind my back. If what Maka Ito said really came from the will of the shaman's undead, then her words are nine points credible.

If I'm not mistaken, the key to resurrecting the light of Jerod is the Golden Mask. Even if Yerod Light was not made into bacon by the cook, it is unlikely that the shaman would be able to resurrect a corpse, but it is possible to use the characteristics of the Golden Mask to transfer Yerod Light's memories to others, so as to achieve the purpose of memory resurrection. In a sense, this is also a kind of resurrection.

I suddenly spoke: "Old Sun, when you told me outside the Pingtian Sea that you found the Beidou and had seven stars and then went to look for the North Star, did you imply that there were seven golden masks?"

Old man Sun shook his head at first, and then nodded again. He didn't dare to say it, but he could nod and shake his head to convey some information to me.

I immediately asked, "The number of Beidou and Arctic together is eight, you mean, there are eight golden masks in total?"

Old man Sun nodded.

I understand. The Khitans should have taken the mask from the shaman's hands, but they never knew how to use it, so they did not really resurrect Yelu Deguang.

It seems that the secret of Pingtianhai lies not only in the golden mask, but also in a thousand-year-old contest between shamans and Khitans. They've certainly been fighting in some way, but I don't know what they're fighting for and how.

As I thought about it, I turned my gaze to the stone monument in the cave.