Chapter 53: The Altar and the Gods
The words on the stone pillar are a brief history of a man, or a man somewhere between a genius and a madman.
As the reading deepened, Lu Xiao also learned about a new world.
The text on the first pillar reads:
I didn't have a name when I was a child, I didn't know who my parents were, where they came from, and only my uncle in the village gave me food so that I could live.
As I grew up, my strength grew, and I gradually became the number one hunter in the village. Every time I give you the prey I have hit, I can see the smiles on their faces.
At that time, I was laughing too! Really happy laugh.
However, a beast tide destroyed my home and the people around me.
I remember that time, I killed the wolf, I killed the tiger, I killed a lot of wild beasts. I remember that at that time, the sky was full of red light and blood mist, but I couldn't change the people around me who fell one by one.
Then I passed out because I was detached.
This is what is written on the first stone pillar, and the carved images are also of several adults giving food to a child, and some villagers fighting wild beasts with weapons.
Subsequently, Lu Xiao read from beginning to end in order.
The owner of the memoir, the man who fainted, did not die, but was rescued by the officers and soldiers sent by the imperial court at that time to quell the tide of beasts, and since then, he has followed this squad leader to learn martial arts, learn words, and learn the art of war. And he was born with divine power, dared to fight in battle, and had a flexible brain, and gradually became the general of this country.
At the same time, he also has his own name - Li.
It's just that at this time, even if the scenery is infinitely separated, it is not happy, and every time in the dead of night, I will think of everything in the village.
However, by chance, he got a message from a mysterious person, a way to resurrect the people in the village.
That is to become a god.
In the eyes of the world, God is omnipotent, and only by becoming a god can he have a chance to resurrect the villagers.
So, according to that person's statement, this tomb within a tomb was built here, and in the Ming tomb, the Nine Palaces Blood Demon Flying Star Array was arranged to suppress luck.
On the side of the tomb, a shrine was set up to prepare him for becoming a god.
From then on, Li Ben used his power to start a large-scale expedition, and then brought prisoners here to be used as sacrifices. Moreover, he also obeyed that person's instructions, grabbed a gold-eating ant about two meters or so, which had already opened its spiritual intelligence, and used its aura to nourish the altar of the gods.
But who would have thought that his dream of resurrecting his relatives was just a dream.
There is no god in this world, and how can a person who has long been dead and turned into a handful of loess be resurrected.
All of this is just a bureau set up by that mysterious man in order to satisfy his selfish desires and allow himself to live for a long time and live nourishingly.
And Li, is just the strongest chess piece in his hand.
At that time, due to the endless killing, Li had already provoked the anger of the public, and under the siege of the multinational army, his army was completely annihilated, and in the end, he was the only one left, who was rescued by the mysterious man and returned to this cemetery.
However, the purpose of the mysterious man's salvation was only because of his innate divine power, and the mysterious man wanted to use the separation as the last sacrifice.
It's just that just when the mysterious man was about to succeed, an accident ended his efforts for so many years.
Because the gold-eating ant had been fed by Li for so many years, he had already had a relationship with Li, and at the moment when Li was about to be killed, at the moment when the mysterious man was concentrating on killing Li with a special method, it suddenly attacked the mysterious man and seriously injured him.
However, it also made the mysterious man nailed to the square under the altar in a special way, and he could never turn over.
Seeing this, Lu Xiao subconsciously looked at the oversized gold-eating ant in the center of the square.
In addition to lamenting that it was able to survive so long under the condition that it was seriously injured. There is also a deep admiration for its attitude towards its owner.
Looking at it at this time, it seems that it doesn't look so ugly anymore.
The next thing is that two seriously injured people fight, one is deceived and does not care about life and death, and the other wants to save his life but cowers.
In the end, the mysterious man was driven out of here by Li, and then Li put down the dragon stone in the entire cemetery and sealed himself here.
In the following years, based on the knowledge he had learned over the years, he set up a set of eight life and death arrays specifically for that mysterious person under the altar. If someone steps into this formation for no apparent reason, they will be attacked violently.
Because he knew the character of the mysterious man too well, he would surely return here and take the fruits of the bloody rain he had exchanged.
In the end, Lihuan carved everything in his past on these eight stone pillars to warn those who come here by chance in the future not to be covered by fame, fortune, and lust that should be looking up at the sky.
Seeing this, even Lu Xiao sighed.
He's a genius, a genius in the true sense of the word. In just a few decades, not only Wen Taowu is proficient in everything, but even the formation has been studied thoroughly.
Away, he is even more of a madman, a madman who is very affectionate and trustworthy. For the illusory hope of being able to see relatives again, countless bloody storms have been set off on the mainland.
At the end of the text, Lili reads:
In this life, I have never regretted it.
It's a pity that Xiao Hei, I have studied for a long time, but I still can't pull out the seven soul suppression pillars nailed to him. I had to borrow the vigorous qi and blood essence on the altar and inject it into Xiao Hei's body every day, so that he could survive for a long time.
However, God gave me time...... Not much.
In the end, I still didn't have time to save Blackie.
Farewell, my dear brother Blackie.
Farewell, this world where I existed.
Perhaps, only death will allow me to see the people in the village again!
There are eight huge stone pillars in total, and the text on them ends here.
And Lu Xiao was still immersed in the ordinary but thrilling words.
Especially at the end of the text, a picture naturally appeared in Lu Xiao's mind, a man who was seriously injured and wanted to die but was still domineering and majestic, leaning on the oversized extermination gold-eating ant. His eyes were filled with reluctance for Xiao Hei and the expectation of another world, and the corners of his mouth were smiling, and he passed away suddenly......
Xiao Hei next to him couldn't help but mourn the corpse that was gradually becoming cold with his tentacles.
Thinking of such a picture, Lu Xiao suddenly popped up a poem he had read in his mind:
Famous generals have been jealous since ancient times, and they are not allowed to see white heads in the world.
Lu Xiao suddenly felt that this sentence could not be more appropriate for Li's body.
"Whew!"
"Suck!"
Lu Xiao took a deep breath and let himself come out of this story.
"Brother Lu, are you okay?"
Looking at Lu Xiao, who had a rich expression on his face just now, his eyes finally left the huge stone pillar, and Gao Jie, who was standing beside him and cared about him, immediately asked.
Lu Xiao shook his head lightly, but Lu Xiao did not tell Gao Jie the information on the stone pillar. Because Lu Xiao didn't know if the mysterious person who escaped had any descendants, and whether he would still be staring at this place, he didn't want Gao Jie, a kind woman, to get involved.
Like these dangerous things, Gao Jie still doesn't know.
Therefore, Lu Xiao casually made up a story to tell Gao Jie, but Xiao Hei, that is, the oversized extinction gold-eating ant, was still portrayed as a positive image by Lu Xiao.
"Little Black is so pitiful! Brother Lu, shall we save it? The kind-hearted Gao Jie began to overflow with love again, shaking Lu Xiao's arm, and there was a slight coquettish taste in his tone, which made Lu Xiao feel a little bit ape.
And seemed to feel the aura of concern in Gao Jie's words, this time, Xiao Hei just shook his big head, his eyes looked in Gao Jie's direction, but he didn't make that angry strange sound.
Faced with such a kind request, Lu Xiao couldn't bear to disappoint Gao Jie, and nodded kindly. As for the final result, Lu Xiao didn't think about it for the time being.
The top priority was to be able to penetrate the Eight Gates of Life and Death Array set up against that mysterious person, so that the two of them could enter the suspended altar, so that the two of them would have a chance to get out.
Of course, there is a second way, which is to discuss with Xiao Hei, say that they are good people, and let Xiao Hei's children and grandchildren make a hole and send them out.
It's just that this second thought flickered in Lu Xiao's mind and disappeared without a trace.
Not to mention that this idea is pure nonsense, even if it can make sense that Xiao Hei, who has already opened his mind, can surround them with thousands of gold-eating ants, it gives people goosebumps just thinking about it.
Then, Lu Xiao carefully studied the square within the range of the eight stone pillars.
On the ground are excellent quality green steel bricks, which are extremely hard, and each piece is a regular square about nine meters long. The blue steel bricks within the range of the eight stone pillars intersect exactly 361 points, just like a super-large square Go chessboard.
Seeing this, Lu Xiao's eyes lit up, and he already knew the key to leaving the Eight Gates of Life and Death Array that he had set up.
This so-called Eight Gates Life and Death Array is based on the Five Elements Bagua and is built on this chessboard created by himself without chess pieces.
Every green steel brick on the entire chessboard can be said to have a mechanism.
As soon as someone steps on the board, the traps inside these green steel bricks will automatically open.
And Li, based on the mysterious man's selfish thoughts, secretly set a trap. That is, the game of Go is generally played in black and white, and at the same time, it can also be seen as yin and yang.
Therefore, it must be a man and a woman to break the formation.
But if it's really that conceited, proud, and selfish mysterious person, he really won't bring anyone else.
Therefore, if Lu Xiao and Gao Jie want to arrive safely in the middle of the square where Xiao Hei is located, they must board the chessboard at the same time, and find out the safe routes listed in the eight gates according to the black and white pieces of the Go chessboard and the way of yin and yang.