438: Miracle Returns
Helen razed the Bourbon royal mansion to the ground with a single kick and quickly headed for the eastern suburbs. Xia Yu's efficiency is also very fast, after arriving at the Madrid branch, he sacrificed the ancestral dragon spear, threw it casually, the ancestral dragon spear fell from the sky, and smashed into the branch villa like a meteor, which weighed 10,000 catties in itself, coupled with the power of Xia Yu's throwing, this power was like a meteorite impact, and the branch villa collapsed instantly, and none of the zombie members in the villa were spared!
Xia Yu put these seven zombies into the ancestral dragon ring, did not stop, put away the ancestral dragon spear, and flew towards the eastern suburbs!
After the two met, Xia Yu smiled at him and said, "I'll take you into the ancestral dragon ring to refine zombies!" ”
"Then you'll have to go on the road alone!" Helen said.
"Time is money, you should still cultivate!" Xia Yu said.
"Thank you!" Helen said.
Xia Yu took Helen into the Ancestral Dragon Ring and let her continue refining zombies, while he used the Five Elements Escape Technique to prepare to cross the Mediterranean Sea and go to Athens, Greece, the cradle of Western civilization!
Athens is one of the oldest cities in Europe and even the whole world, with a history dating back more than 3,000 years, and is known as the world's four ancient civilizations along with Rome in Italy, Xi'an in China, and Cairo in Egypt!
Rome has the Roman Forum, the Pantheon, the Colosseum. Egypt has pyramids, the lighthouse of Alexandria. Athens has the Parthenon and the Temple of Erechtheion on the Acropolis. Not to mention Xi'an, the eastern starting point of the ancient Silk Road, with a history of more than 7,000 years of civilization, the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, and the largest city in the world during the two periods of 195 BC - 25 AD and 580 AD - 904 AD. The palace was opened in nine days, and all the nations were crowned with crowns. At the height of its development, Chang'an served as the center of the world, attracting a large number of foreign envoys and worshippers. This is similar to the interception of the sect of "all Buddhas worship, ten thousand immortals come to the court"!
In addition, Babylon, the ancient Mayan kingdom, Atlantis, Tenochtitlan, Great Zimbabwe, Cahokia, these places have all appeared extremely advanced civilizations!
It's a pity that feng shui takes turns, and looking at ancient and modern China and foreign countries, what used to be compared to cattle is now scum!
Ancient Babylon is one of the four ancient civilizations in the world, that is, in Iraq, where the Hanging Gardens were once built, known as one of the Eight Wonders of the World, but now, the country is ruined, the people are in ruins, and the people are not living!
Ancient Egypt was the world's first kingdom, but now, it's hard to look at!
In the Stone Age, the Maya had a highly developed civilization, created writing, and mastered a high degree of construction technology, but later became extinct!
Atlantis also had a prehistoric super civilization, but it sank!
Those who used to have a high degree of civilization are now left with Rome, Athens and Xi'an!
However, feng shui takes turns!
The rise of the Divine Powers will inevitably set off a worldwide strife, and heroes will emerge from troubled times.
When he was in school, Xia Yu learned world history very well, mainly because he had a very strong interest in these things. When I was a child, I fantasized that when I grew up, I would travel around the world, visit cultural monuments, reminisce about the past, and look forward to the future!
But there was no chance before!
Now there are so many opportunities!
After Xia Yu arrived in Athens, he first found a hotel as a place to stay, because there was no Helen to accompany him, Xia Yu seemed a little lonely, and after taking a bath, he was ready to sleep peacefully, and he would no longer practice tonight, which could be regarded as a small vacation for himself, after all, he had not slept steadily in Europe this time!
However, with so many thoughts that it was difficult to sleep, he simply turned over, jumped out of the window, and headed for the Acropolis in the center of Athens!
The Acropolis, built in 580 BC, is located on the acropolis hill in the center of the city, is the most outstanding ancient complex in Greece, which was once the center of the ancient Greek castle, the Acropolis was originally used as a fortress against foreign invasion, the top of the hill is surrounded by walls, the earliest buildings are the Temple of Athena and other religious buildings, the most famous of which are the Parthenon and the Temple of Erichitheon, and are regarded as symbols of Western culture!
The Parthenon is the largest shrine dedicated to the goddess Athena, which originally means virgin and is another name for Athena. The temple is the most magnificent and sits on the highest point in the center of the Acropolis, where it houses a gold ivory inlay statue of the goddess Athena, the tallest in Greece. The Temple of Erechtheion has three temples dedicated to Zeus, the god of the sea, Poseidon, and Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths.
The Acropolis was once brilliant, and represents the highest level of Greek architectural art, is the greatest example of ancient architecture, the relief of the temple is exquisite, like a ghostly workmanship, but also has the reputation of "Greek national treasure", but historical changes, the Acropolis in the following years, several times was destroyed and destroyed by war, except for the west of the Acropolis still retains some stone pillars and buildings, the rest are all in ruins!
Xia Yu will visit the Acropolis, which is also quite emotional, immersive, you can think of how brilliant this place was in the past, and how magnificent these temples were. But now, in the Acropolis, weeds are overgrown, the temple is broken, and Xia Yu's heart is a little sour!
The Summer Palace and the Old Summer Palace are not the same!
These two royal gardens have been looted and destroyed several times, countless treasures have been looted, the most hateful is burned, the British and French coalition of those miscellaneous pieces, grab it, but also set fire, especially the Old Summer Palace, this unique garden has been burned for three days and three nights, the fire is not extinguished, smoke clouds shrouded the entire city of Beijing, in retrospect, it is really resentful!
The Parthenon is rectangular in shape, with a front, a main and an apse, and its pedestal is the size of half a football field, with 46 34-foot marble columns supporting the temple. The temple faces east with its back to the west, stands on the 3-story steps, the jade step stone pillars, the carved eaves of the painted building, the relief carvings all over, is very spectacular. Between the 46 marble columns, there are 92 temple walls, all of which are made of Panterico marble. It is carved with lifelike statues of various gods, as well as exotic beasts. On the east side of the herringbone wall there is a set of reliefs carved with the goddess of wisdom Athena born from the head of Zeus, the king of the gods, and on the west side of the herringbone wall is carved with Athena and the sea god Poseidon to be the patron saint of Athens, legend has it that Athena and Poseidon fought for the ownership of the city of Athens!
In the temple of the goddess, there was once a statue of the goddess Athena up to 12 meters high, and it is said that the image looks like this: Athena stands, with a spear resting on her shoulder, a shield by her side, and a gold and ivory sculpture in her right hand, a helmet made of gold, a cuirass, the color of the robe, smooth and calm, the ivory carved face, hands and feet, and arms show soft tones, and the gem-encrusted glasses are shining. Unfortunately, this art treasure was taken captive by the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire in 146 AD. In 393 AD, the temple was converted into a Christian church, and during the period of Turkish rule in Athens, it was changed to a *** temple, and in 1687 AD, the Venetian army bombarded the entire acropolis, detonating the explosives piled up in the temple by the Turks, and the temple roof and temple walls were all blown down. At the beginning of the 19th century, the British also looted all the marble relief stone statues in the temple, some of which were broken and damaged in the process of sawing and chiseling, and some sank to the bottom of the sea due to shipwrecks, and the surviving ones are still displayed in museums in Britain and France.
In a word, the British are brutes!
The evil acts of burning, killing, looting are all over the world!
Many of China's national treasure-level cultural relics are now displayed in museums in Britain and France, and have become their things!
Xia Yu stood in the temple of the goddess, looked at the signs of decay around her, sighed helplessly, and then lit a lonely cigarette and smoked!
What a stunning picture it would be if the relics of civilizations around the world, such as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus of the Sun God of Rhodes, the Mausoleum of Mausolus, Arthur Landis, and the ancient city of Maya, could all be preserved to this day!
It's a pity that time is gone, and most of these historical treasures have disappeared in the long river of time, and future generations can only understand these once glorious and great civilizations through written records!
After sighing, Xia Yu was ready to leave!
However, just as Xia Yu turned around, in the temple, a golden light suddenly appeared, which startled the sad Xia Yu, and looked at it, where the golden light went, the dilapidated Parthenon was actually being repaired and revealed!
"Lying grass!" Xia Yu was shocked, thinking that he was hallucinating.
But on closer inspection, this is not an illusion, it is true!
He's sharp-eyed, and you can't be mistaken!
Where the golden light reflects, the collapsed walls, all restored to their original state, those stone pillars, reliefs, and temple roofs, all of which are quickly repaired and perfected in the face of the summer rain, as if time is going back, it looks amazing!
In the blink of an eye, this ruin-like temple was presented in front of Xia Yu intact, it was simply magnificent, magnificent to the extreme, which made Xia Yu suddenly confused, it seemed that there was a feeling of time travel, he seemed to have returned to the era when the temple was just built, and appreciated the most spectacular, perfect, and exquisite appearance of this temple!
Xia Yu immediately turned around and walked towards the place where the statue of the goddess Athena had once been placed.
Then he was stunned by what he saw!
Originally, the place was empty, and the statue of the goddess was taken away by the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire as early as 146 AD, but now, a majestic and lifelike statue of the goddess stands in front of you!
Xia Yu was dumbfounded, and his brain was a little confused, because he really couldn't figure out what was going on!
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The next chapter is being written!