Chapter 269: The Sacrificial Hall
The starry sky is low, the night shadow is swaying, and the night is getting thicker at this time, and the stars and moon are gradually fading their luster.
In the depths of the Devil's City, there is an ancient building hanging on a cliff mountain, without too many architectural styles, looking from afar, like a mountain rock in the dark night.
It is not so much a building as a boulder extending from the mountain, and the darkness of the night makes the appearance of this building unreal.
A winding and rugged stone staircase climbs up the cliff and leads directly to the hanging building, which is actually formed by a excavated mountain.
The stone steps go down from top to bottom, as if a black ribbon hangs from above.
At this time, the two black shadows walked slowly on the stone steps, although their steps were slow, but they were extremely firm, and the two of them were the stars and the star map.
After climbing such a high stone step, the two of them climbed the mountain as if they were walking on the ground without rest or panting.
The two of them were speechless, the surroundings were silent, and the singing voices of the boys and girls under the Sky Wolf Mountain became extremely ethereal. I don't know how long it took to walk, but Xingchen and Xingtu finally stepped on the last step.
In front of the two of them was a dark sacrificial hall, and they couldn't see the whole picture, only a vague outline could be seen, and even so, the outline seemed so large, like a monster lurking in the shadows.
Xingchen lifted the cane in his hand and knocked it three times to where he was.
There was a low sound from the whole mountain, and when the third sound sounded, a magical scene appeared, and countless fires suddenly ignited around the originally dark and dreary area, illuminating the area.
It turned out that the position where Xingchen and Xingtu were standing happened to be in the square in front of the temple, and the square was neatly surrounded by seven pillars.
It was from the top of the seven pillars that the fire burned.
The dark hall of the festival was also revealed, and when you look closely, the entrance to the hall is a wolf's head carved out of stone.
The wolf lowered its head, two narrow fangs sticking out of its gaping mouth, and looked down at the ground below with a hideous face.
"Let's go!" Xingchen's old voice sounded at this moment, as if talking to himself, and as if he was talking to the star map behind him.
Xingtu couldn't understand why Xingchen would bring him to the family sacrifice hall here, it stands to reason that the sacrifice hall here can only be entered once a year, and that is the day to worship the Sirius God.
After that, the temple will be closed for another year, waiting for the next Celestial Wolf Festival.
During the day, all the clansmen of their Star Family have already come in to worship once, and they should not set foot here again after that, this is the clan motto of their Star Family.
Xingtu was right, but he forgot one thing, that is, except for Xingchen, who is the patriarch, he has absolute power over matters within the family, and the patriarch is not bound by the family treaty, let alone stepping into the ancestral hall of the Xing family again.
Xingchen gave the star map the cane in his hand, and then he walked towards the gate of the altar.
The two gates of the ancestral hall are located just behind the fangs of the wolf's beak, which are dozens of zhang high, and the gates are carved out of stone.
The overall gate gives people the feeling of being thick and stocky, but these are two huge doors, and Xingchen pushed them open without any effort, as if he had done an ordinary thing.
As the giant gate opened, the interior of the shrine immediately became brightly lit.
The first thing that catches your eye is a stone statue of a wolf-headed human body, the stone statue is as high as five or six zhang, like a giant living Buddha standing in the front.
On either side are various stone statues twice as small, but they are also beast-headed human bodies, ten in total, evenly arranged on both sides. The beast's head was hideous and terrifying, and it was even more terrifying in the dim light of the fire.
Although the star map was puzzled, he still followed the stars without saying a word.
In fact, as far as he is concerned, he doesn't like this place very much, it is always too gloomy when he comes here, no matter how hot it is outside, as long as he steps through this stone door, the temperature will drop by a few degrees. Second, these statues are too hideous, like the evil spirits of the Nine Hells, as if who would want to step into a place like the Netherworld.
What is even more bizarre is that the ground is covered with various shallow trenches, and the trenches are twenty or thirty centimeters long. Overall, the grooves are irregular, as if someone is scribbling here.
At this time, there was still blood left in the trench from the slaughter of animals during the day, which was used to worship the god Celestial Wolf.
"I called you here today, there is only one thing to tell you, this matter was originally only known to the patriarchs of the past dynasties, but now it is different from the past, this is related to a secret that our Star Family has guarded here for thousands of years. Does the legendary Zhou River exist, and if so, where is it?" Xingchen looked at the huge Sirius statue in front of him and was stunned.
Xingtu couldn't help but be stunned, as one of the clansmen of the Xing family, he naturally knew the clan motto, and this clan motto was to guard the continent river here and wait for the time to come.
This so-called opportunity has been waiting for a thousand years, and it has been passed down from generation to generation, until today.
He looked at the old man in front of him, who was dozens of years older than himself, and saw that his old body trembled a little, and he didn't know if it was caused by excitement or other factors.
"Big brother!" Xingtu hurriedly stepped forward, and was about to go up to help, but saw Xingchen raise his left hand and stop Xingtu's movements.
"It's okay!" Xingchen's words trembled slightly, "You stand back to the door!"
I don't know why, but I did it anyway.
In the entire space, only Xingchen was left standing in the middle of the many stone statues, only to see that he was covered with a blue-white light, and the light continued to expand, like an expanding balloon, instantly filling the entire ancestral hall.
The stars in the center of the light moved their fingers towards the stone statues on both sides, and the star map standing in the distance saw that the stone statues weighing thousands of catties moved.
"The power of the realm is really strong!" Xingtu secretly sighed, the last time he saw Xingchen exert his domain was ten years ago, but he didn't expect to see Xingchen's domain again today seemed to be more pure and powerful than before.
"This is ......" Xingtu watched those stone statues continue to crisscross back and forth, as if they were finding their place, and what made him even more shocked was that the trench on the ground was not just used for sacrificial purposes to store the blood of demon beasts, but also had another function, the stone statues moved through the cracks in the trench.
After a while, all the stone statues stopped moving.
Xingtu looked at the scene in front of him, the stone statues formed a pattern in their respective positions, and he couldn't think of where he had seen this pattern for a while.
Suddenly, his gaze was fixed on the three stone statues in the middle that were connected in a line, and not far from the three stone statues were facing the Sirius God statue in the front.
"Hunting ...... Orion!"
These stone statues, guided by the stars, actually formed a constellation Orion in the starry sky.
"Boom!" At that moment, the Sirius Idol split in half, revealing a passage.