From four o'clock in the morning, several people were tired after a day's running in the forest, this was not the first outing up the mountain, this time entering the path, everything became dangerous, and the siege of Zhu Yeqing at the beginning may have been a wake-up call for them from Kuabu Mountain.

If you want to say that the most tired person is the dragon girl, a girl who has just passed twenty, has endured too many ups and downs in this day, and she is already physically and mentally exhausted, if it weren't for Ai Qing who has been protecting her, the situation will definitely be worse.

Hou Yan and Ai Qing can be interchanged, although they are physically tired, they can always stay in a very sober state mentally.

The ghost went to bed early because of his injuries, and the lone dragon and the dragon girl then put on their coats and lay on the ground and fell asleep.

The main hall of the Taoist temple has no door, and the wind keeps pouring into the room, making a sharp whistling sound.

Hou Yan and Ai Qing have a characteristic when they swap dominance, that is, no matter what state the previous person is in, coma or sleep, as long as the fixed time is up, the moment the exchange is completed, he will definitely wake up once.

At twelve o'clock in the morning, Hou Yan was already asleep, but Ai Qing's arrival made his body wake up immediately.

Ai Qing looked at his surroundings in confusion, sleepiness swept through his mind, his head was as dizzy as if he had taken drugs, but the current time did not allow him to continue to rest, because once he continued to sleep, it was very likely that he would wake up again at four o'clock in the afternoon, and he would miss a lot of key information.

"Monkey, where are we?" Ai Qing shook her head vigorously, and was forced to use a sobering agent to temporarily dispel the sleepiness.

"The Taoist temple, the Taoist temple we were looking for before. ”

As soon as he looked up, he saw the tall statue of the god sitting in the main hall, confirmed that Hou Yan had not lied to him, and reluctantly stood up with his cane, and saw that the other three people around him were already asleep, so he deliberately slowed down his steps so as not to wake them up.

The heavy rain was still falling in the mountain, and there was no good drainage system in the courtyard of the Taoist temple, so after Ai Qing walked down the steps, the rain did not reach his ankle.

The white light of the strong flashlight waved back and forth in the courtyard, Hou Yan and the dragon girl were afraid of these things, it didn't mean that Ai Qing would also be afraid, he was much more rational than those two, and he wouldn't think nonsense in his mind and fabricate something that didn't exist to scare himself.

If you want to say that you can scare Ai Qing, only a madman can do it, after all, it is a big living person, and people can scare people to death.

The courtyard is so small that Ai Qing only took less than ten minutes to turn around inside, this is an abandoned Taoist temple, in addition to the main hall is relatively complete, several scripture buildings have been corroded and you can't see what is carved, even the wall of the side hall lacks bricks and tiles, and the rainwater pours into the house.

"What does the Hui Ri Pan have to do with this temple, and why did the news come out here three years ago?" Hou Yan asked.

Ai Qing couldn't give him an answer, and stepped into the side hall, after the lights swept inside, there were no other special facilities here except for a few statues of gods and incense burners for burning incense.

The flashlight moved away from the side hall, he just wanted to leave, but the eagle eye in his eyes scanned a different place, the mural on the wall inside the side hall seemed to be a little wrong, the infrared night vision function of the eagle eye is particularly sensitive to temperature and light, and it now shows that the walls of the side hall have temperature.

The strong light of the flashlight was nothing special when it was on it, but when it was removed, the mural was reddish within the eagle's eye, and a few special spots were even brighter red.

Ai Qing turned off the flashlight, walked to the side of the mural in two steps, put his hand lightly on the mural, and a trace of warmth transmitted to his palm, the temperature of the wall was obviously inconsistent with the ambient temperature, and the brightest points were not much different from his current question.

"Ai Qing, why don't you go back to sleep, I feel like it's too crazy here. ”

Hou Yan observed Ai Qing's every move in his body, and he was so close to the statue that he couldn't help but remember the look in the eyes of the statue just now, and he would feel fear when he hid in his body.

"Don't you think the contents of this mural are familiar?" Ai Qing said as she stroked the wall.

"Well, it seems to be a little familiar, as if I've seen it on the walls of the guest house......"

Ai Qing's eyes turned three times, and she extracted the picture on the wall of the guest house from the eagle's eye, and moved it to a corner within the eagle's vision, contrasting it with the mural in front of her.

"Exactly the same?"

The murals in the side hall of the Taoist temple are not only the same as those in the guest house, but even the color details are exactly the same, which is simply carved out of a mold.

The murals on this wall are the history of some agricultural civilizations, such as the Shennong clan of the cow head and the human body, he invented the grain agriculture and promoted the development of the ancient society, and then in order to save the people in the disease, he tasted all the herbs, and finally died because of the accidental consumption of the broken intestine grass, people in order to commemorate his kindness and achievements, worship him as the god of medicine.

The statue in this side hall is the Shennong clan with the head of a cow and a human body, wearing an old robe and holding a handful of herbs in his hand.

"What is the meaning of the content of this mural?" Hou Yan asked puzzledly, this is obviously Kuafu Mountain, why is the mural to commemorate Shennong.

Ai Qing flipped through the other murals recorded in the eagle's eye and said, "There is more than one mural in this one. With that, he turned to the other side hall opposite.

When he walked into another side hall, the content on the wall was a little different from what he thought, because what was introduced in this side hall was actually the life of the ancient god of war Chi You, which was very unreasonable, why would the Taoist temple commemorate the demon god Chi You.

Chiyou was the lord of all evil in ancient times, and it stands to reason that people generally do not worship him.

Ai Qing glanced at the statue in the side hall, it was not the soldier lord Chi You, it seemed that this mural should just be a record.

The murals of the two side halls are Emperor Yan and Chi You, so what about the main hall?

"Yellow Emperor, Yellow Emperor vs. Chiyou?" Ai Qing exclaimed, stepping on the soles of her feet in the courtyard, and quickly ran back to the door of the main hall.

The reason why he was so excited was his mission, the search for the keel floating lantern, and the source of the dragon bone floating lantern was the battle of the Yellow Emperor against Chiyou.

He didn't notice when he woke up just now, but now all his attention was on the murals on the four walls of the main hall, which was nearly ten meters high, and the paintings on the walls around it were huge.

The proportions of the people in the painting to the entire mural are more exaggerated than in the real world, and their momentum is much stronger than the brief introduction of the characters in the two side halls.

"Are you sure this is the Yellow Emperor vs. Chiyou?"

Hou Yan can naturally see it, but this mural doesn't look like the Yellow Emperor, how could the Yellow Emperor run naked on the ground?

"No, it's not, this is Kuafu, this is Kuafu's biography!" Ai Qing stammered excitedly, they had indeed found the right place, this building was built for this Kuafu Mountain.

But why did the side hall use Shennong and Chiyou as a foil, he is not an archaeologist, so Ai Qing can't explain this matter.

He turned on his flashlight and began to systematically observe and analyze the mural from the beginning.

Kwafu is a clan, not a person.

During the period of the Yellow Emperor, in the northern wilderness area, there was a big mountain named Chengdu Zaitian, inhabited by the descendants of the great god Houtu, collectively known as the Kuafu clan.

The people of Kuafu are warm-hearted, good runners, and people with great strength. Because they are tall and strong, they are also called the Giant Clan, they rely on these innate conditions, they like to fight for others, and get along with other clans around them are particularly friendly, and the clansmen share the blessings and difficulties, and share the joy of family.

In this quiet life, a person changed the life of the Kuafu clan, he is Chiyou, because Chiyou is not defeated by the Yellow Emperor, so he sent troops to the Kuafu clan for help, the leader of the Kuafu clan thinks that the weak should be helped, so he led his clansmen to join the Chiyou side without hesitation, and the Yellow Emperor started a big war.

The mural is only attached to a confrontation map of the Yellow Emperor vs. Chiyou, without introducing its detailed process, from the mural you can see this incident a battle of the gods, the Yellow Emperor's side should be hovering in the air, the goddess accompanied by the emperor, behind a group of Chinese warriors holding blades, ready to attack.

On the other side, the three-headed and six-armed Chiyou stands in the middle, and there is a black and white beast on both sides of the beast crawling on the ground, some people now say that it is a giant panda, but in fact it is not, it just looks similar to a panda, its real name is called the iron-eating beast, and it is also a big beast in ancient times.

In the sky, the Wind Boyu Master carried thunderclouds to help, and behind him was a titan-like giant who was unarmed but still imposing.

Everyone knows the result of the Yellow Emperor's battle against Chiyou, Chiyou was defeated to death, and the leader of the Kuabu clan led them to flee back to their homeland in order to save the lives of the clansmen, and continued to live their old lives.

However, due to natural disasters, the land where the Kuafu people live has been depleted due to excessive reclamation, and the water source has disappeared, and the Kuafu people can no longer provide living resources.

The leader of Kuafu thought that it was the sun in the sky, so he vowed to pluck the sun, so there was a story of Kuafu's day-by-day story.

There are many versions of Kuafu's death, and this mural records that Ying Long, who belonged to the Yellow Emperor's side, followed Kuafu after killing Chiyou, and used his divine power to cut off the water source on Kuafu's daily journey, making Kuafu thirsty to death.

After Kuafu's death, his spirit moved the sun, so he turned his body into this Kuafu Mountain, and his various organs transformed into various creatures in the mountain.

Ai Qing carefully observed the Kuafu Mountain in the mural, its shape was very similar to the Kuafu Mountain where they were now, and calculated according to the direction in which the body of Kuafu fell.

The highest main peak is the torso, and the flat and longer Mingyue Peak next to it is the lower limbs, so it is speculated that the third peak is its head.

A gray-brown house in the third peak of the mural, shaped like an eye, looks straight into the scorching sun above the mural.

"The Eye of the Giant?Taoist Temple is in the Eye of the Giant?" Ai Qing suddenly remembered the location of the Taoist Temple that the madman Ji said.

While Ai Qing was still looking at the mural, a string of water droplets dripped from the roof of the shed and fell on his head, and the cold water droplets made him tremble and look up at the roof of the shed.

Only then did he realize that there were murals on the roof of the main hall, but this mural was a little monotonous, a single color, painting the scorching sun in the sky, and the golden paint was eclipsed in the gloomy main hall, without the majesty that the sun should have.

"This temple is really too old, and the water leaks into the main hall. Ai Qing sighed, this whole mural of Kua's father's deeds, he can see that he is still unsatisfied, the colors are bright, and some places are concave and convex, which makes the characters in the painting vivid, if you take it outside, it is definitely a national treasure-level cultural relic.

He had a detour to the back of the main hall, a huge humanoid stone sculpture standing between the wall and the main hall, looking at its figure and appearance, exactly like the leader of the Kwafu in the mural, with his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky.

Ai Qing looked in the direction he was looking at, and the whole person seemed to be electrocuted by something, and the feeling of numbness spread throughout his body, and the main peak wrapped in clouds and mist was impressively distant in front of him.