Chapter 15: The Fox Altar

This black Yongdao is already terrifying, coupled with those murals full of weird and mysterious illusions, as if they have continued after a thousand years, people can't help but wonder and immerse themselves in it, but the most terrifying thing is the fox face that suddenly stretched out, and anyone will be scared. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

And the old man felt that his whole body was fluttering in a coma, and there were sporadic scenes, like a dream.

In the dream, he was standing halfway up the hill opposite the entrance of the cave, when suddenly, from the direction of the Bay of the Dead, a tall and muscular young man came at the head, dressed in tiger skins, with one shoulder exposed, a bronze crown on his head, a pair of long leather boots at his feet, and a chain of animal bones around his neck.

The crowd that followed was also dressed in animal skins and low boots, but it was noticeably simpler than the young man, carrying a wooden shelf on which fruit and meat were placed.

As he approached the entrance of the cave, the young man at the head raised one hand, signaled the group to stop, and then looked around carefully, pointing with his finger from time to time, as if looking for something. After a while, he led the people to the direction of the entrance of the cave, and when they reached the foot of the mountainside, he instructed them to set up the wooden planks facing the entrance of the cave, and then led the servants to begin to bow down, and every time they bowed, they raised their heads and shouted to the entrance of the cave, and he called out to the people behind him to repeat a sentence.

When the young leader had bowed down for the ninth time, a huge fox came out of the hole, with white hair, bigger than the strongest wolf king, and a pair of ruby eyes solemn and majestic, and saw it standing at the mouth of the cave, looking around with its head held high.

Then the white fox turned around and entered the cave again, and when he came out again, he had a crimson gem in his mouth, and he came down from the mountain in a few steps, and came to the young man who was the leader, and the young man quickly knelt down, took the gem from the white fox's mouth with both hands, and then put it on his bronze crown and gestured, and the white fox nodded, as if smiling, and his expression was kind and solemn.

The young leader brought the tributes of fruit and meat to the white fox, and the white fox let out a long roar at the mouth of the cave, and a group of foxes, large and small, came out of the hole, including the youngest red-haired fox.

While the other foxes were enjoying their offerings, the white fox raised his paw to stroke the young leader's forehead, then turned around and took the leader with him into the hole.

In this way, these pictures are like dreams, and scenes appear in the old man's mind, and he knows that this is telling the history of Zhuan Xuan and the White Fox Emperor.

It turned out that he was less than twenty years old at that time, and led his tribe into Lushan Mountain, where he began to multiply. For some reason, he learned of the existence of the White Fox Emperor, so he led his people to come and worship with tribute, and the White Fox Emperor gave him a huge ruby and then led him to find the vein.

From then on, the young Zhuan led his people to live in harmony with the White Fox Clan, they expanded the cave entrance to make it easy to mine, and Zhuan Xuan set the gem in his crown, and made the gem into various tools and began to use it, and every time he encountered sacrifices and festivals, he invited the White Fox Emperor to accept the worship of the clansmen.

In the battle with the Gonggong, the Gonggong clan dug rocks, dug springs, diverted large rivers, and hit the Zhuan clan with floods, while he himself rode freely through the flood in a dragon's head boat. The Zhuan clan can only retreat to the mountain, and the White Fox Emperor and the clan work together to fight, the Zhuan Xuan made the gem into an arrowhead, and invented a weapon like a multi-shot strong crossbow, this kind of gem as an arrow is far more fiery than ordinary wooden weapons, finally, the Zhuan won the battle with the Gonggong.

Before he died, he ordered his people to bury themselves in the ore vein, which was originally the habitat of the White Fox Emperor's family, and since then, they have guarded the coffin of the Zhuan Xuan, and the ore vein has been sealed forever.

The White Fox Emperor has been receiving the ancient worship, but it never appeared again, but silently guarded in the vein, this is a thousand years, until this Lu Mountain has been vicissitudes, the mountain people have long forgotten the history of antiquity, gradually, history has become a legend, the legend began to evolve again, but if the White Fox Emperor family perceives that someone needs help, they will send gems to help, which forms the legend of the fox fairy to send treasure, and gradually there is also the White Emperor Temple and the original old mother hall These places of folk belief have appeared.

Until one day, Lan Yu led his troops to pass by, and saw a little white fox when hunting, so he chased all the way here, followed the little white fox into the hole and found these stone walls, and when Lan Yu entered the underground palace, he saw a grand ore vein, so he wanted to organize an army to carry out mining.

At this time, the White Fox Emperor incarnated as an immortal and told Lan Yu the history here, and Lan Yu worshipped respectfully to the coffin, but seeing how could Lan Yu be willing to give up, the White Fox Emperor was already old, and his body was about to be extinguished, so he exchanged with Lan Yu, which helped Lan Yu defeat the Northern Yuan Dynasty to achieve immortal achievements, so that he could enjoy the wealth of the world, while Lan Yu gave up mining and kept secrets.

Therefore, the White Fox Emperor led his people to hide around the Blue Jade army, helping him accurately find the Northern Yuan army in the vast sand sea and bad weather, and completely defeated it in the Yuer Sea, and Lan Yu was also a very popular minister.

The White Fox Emperor warned him that if greed runs rampant in his heart, there will be a disaster of extermination, but Lan Yu has always been concerned about this mineral vein, and on the way back to the army, he ordered someone to carve a stone wall in the Yongdao, and at the same time secretly built a pavilion and a stone tablet of the White Emperor Yiran, recording the mountain-shaped terrain here, but from then on, it soon went to its own fall.

And the White Fox Emperor finally ascended to the end of his life, and finally designated a huge red fox as the guardian of the race, and then walked into a chaotic thing alone, and that red fox was the fox general.

The dream was here, the old man's body fell and woke up suddenly, and found that he was still in the corridor, and the torches around him were still burning, but the brown fox had disappeared, but he could still clearly recall the dream just now, and he really had a feeling of sleeping for thousands of years, and he didn't know how much time was the time, so he stood up and continued to walk towards the corridor.

I saw that the remaining stone walls except for the record of the White Fox Emperor's ascension, the other murals were exactly the same as in their dreams, and they came to the end of the road, which were two stone doors, all of which were inlaid with agate stones.

But just when the old man was studying whether there was a mechanism to go in, the stone door, which should have been lifeless, actually had light shooting out of the crack in the door, what was behind this stone door? Who lit the lights inside? He hurriedly pushed open the stone door with all his might, and was immediately stunned by what he saw.

I saw that behind the stone gate was a clearing, which stretched into the endless darkness, and when I looked up, the whole darkness was like the sky in the middle of the night, but there was no moon and no stars.

For the first time, the old man felt that this was a huge natural cavity in the mountains, so big that he couldn't see the boundary at all when he looked around.

There are huge stone statues of foxes erected in the clearing, sitting on their hind legs with one front paw raised, their heads lowered and their tails facing the clearing, as if they are summoning people to pass.

Each stone statue was more than ten meters high, and the old man walked below, feeling so small, and the fox's expression was very solemn, without that sense of cunning at all. Under each fox's unraised paw was a half-human-high round gem, which glowed with a faint blue glow, casting a long shadow on the huge stone statues opposite each other.

The old man was shocked by these huge stone statues, he had never heard of such a grand group of stone statues mentioned in any records, let alone seen it with his own eyes, could it be that this was built by the ancient Zhuan clan in the abyss of this mineral vein?

However, the shock is shock, the old man is very careful, worried about what mechanism is hidden here, just this huge stone statue, a stone can be smashed flat, but after testing, he did not find any suspicious place at all, the ground here is all paved with large stone slabs, and they are tightly seamed with each other, and there is no abnormal sound when he touches it from a distance with the tools he carries, except for the sound he made, the whole space is silent, as if the owner of this place is completely open to welcome you.

Past the stone statue of the fox, the clearing came to an end, and it was certain that beyond the edge of the clearing was a bottomless cliff, but from here a path emerged that gradually ascended, like a ladder to the sky, drowning in darkness.

The road is paved with gold and lined with stone pillars inlaid with multicolored agate, the huge gems on which the pillars glow softly yellow. The old man walked to the stone pillar, crouched down and probed the outside with his hands, he thought that the road should be built on a very narrow cliff.

However, when he touched down from the edge of the road and the stone pillars, he did not touch anything, and there was no support under the road. He quickly leaned down against the edge, and found that the road and the stone pillars were not built on some narrow cliff at all, he only saw the bottom of the golden stone slab and the stone pillar, which was simply suspended in the air!

The old man was completely there, he didn't believe what he was seeing, what kind of technology was it that could defy gravity and levitate the building in the air, and it was as solid as if it were built on the ground.

At this time, there was a burst of music in the darkness in the distance, although it was far away but clearly lingering in the ears, it was really a fairy repertoire, the sound of tossing and rolling was like nectar that made people feel clear physically and mentally, and there was no anxiety and fear at all, and the whole person unconsciously wanted to go back to the middle of the road and hurry up, as if there were gods there to greet him.

When it was determined that the road under his feet was very stable, the old man cautiously walked up the steps, one step at a time, and gradually relaxed his vigilance, all the way up, the gold on the road gradually turned into transparent stones, and even saw the light penetrating into the abyss below, and the stone pillars on both sides also became legendary beasts, they held gems in their mouths, and the light emitted was getting stronger and stronger.

Gradually, at the end of the field of vision, a magnificent altar appeared, it was suspended above, the whole was transparent, and the light could be seen from below, the old man couldn't hold back the more and more excited mood, he had never seen such a magical underground palace in his life, and he never thought that he could really meet it once in this life, so he rushed upward, the closer he got to the music, the more solemn it became, and finally, after crossing the last step, he saw the whole picture of the altar.

The whole altar is circular, and there are huge stone pillars in four directions, the top of which is completely invisible, and the stone pillars are black and glowing with a faint white light, and the ground is covered with transparent stones.

In the center of the altar are four huge stone statues of foxes, their heads bent outwards and their bodies forward, facing away from each other and staggered at a 45° angle to the four pillars of Babel, their two front paws reflexively backwards, their mouths wide open and their fangs exposed, their eyes wide, and their heads bowed and glaring, like the protectors of the Dharma to warn that this place is a forbidden place.

The reflexive front paws carried a large red lotus bud as tall as a low hill, the petals tightly closed, and the bottom held up by the fox's tail pointing upwards.

When the old man approached, the lotus bud slowly began to bloom, making a burst of stone rolling sound, and the six petals rose with brilliant red light, and when the petals were fully opened, there was a ball-like thing suspended in the middle, it didn't look like a hard texture was not a gem at all, but it showed a perfect spherical shape, and the light that shone around it was distorted, becoming like lightning wrapped around its surface, and the light in the circular space flowed like a river, sometimes gathering together, sometimes scattering, Sometimes it's like the Milky Way, sometimes it's like a cloud that changes shape, but those rays of light can't shine out at all, and the whole thing is as deep as chaos, which is exactly the same as the place where the old man saw the White Fox Emperor walk into in his dream.

Just as the old man was intoxicated and attracted by the chaotic scene, the stone slab under his feet suddenly rose in the air, lifting him to a height parallel to the thing, and suddenly, all the light that surrounded it like lightning converged, concentrated between it and the old man, forming a beam of light that slowly extended, mixed with the stone slab under the old man's feet.

At this time, the light in the chaos began to disperse in all directions, turning into a pitch black, the old man looked at the beam of light under his feet, like a road paved with light, moved one foot to step on it, and found that the foot began to become transparent, but there was no feeling at all, once it retracted, it returned to the entity.

He took a few steps carefully, and then stood on the beam, the feeling was not on the earth or stones, but a feeling of floating in the air, and with each step, it seemed to be wrapped in a mass of air under his feet, and the further he walked, his legs slowly sank into the light, and began to become transparent.

Gradually, the old man's whole body was surrounded by light, and when he looked at his body, where could he still see it, only a piece of translucent light was completely integrated with the surroundings.

But at this time, his previous life appeared in his mind, from birth to entering the road, everything was so clear, there was remorse, excitement, pain and joy, there was the happiness of the parents' healthy family reunion, and the sadness of his parents when they were dying, the sense of accomplishment of the first tomb robbery, and the fear of dying in the tomb, what made the old man even more concerned was his pair of children, watching them be born and grow, but now it seems that he is going to be separated from them from now on.

In this way, I don't know how long it lasted, I don't know how far he had to go, he wanted to get out of the light, he wanted to go back, but he was surrounded by a stream of air, like a film but could not break through, and even more so behind him, a force pushed over as he advanced, and he was not allowed to go back at all.

The old man's heart began to be anxious, could this be a gateway to another world? Could it be that this is the path of the White Fox Emperor's ascension? But he didn't want to leave this world now, and he didn't want to go to any fairy land, he just wanted to return to reality and be able to return home.

Suddenly, there was a burst of light in front of him, which pierced the old man so hard that he didn't dare to look at it directly, and when the light dissipated, it seemed to come to an end, where there was a round hole where he could see the world inside.

I saw that there were fairy islands floating in the sky there, up and down, clear spring water flowed down from each island and then converged into the big river on the ground, on both sides of the big river were endless green fields, full of wild flowers, tall trees rose to the sky, outstretched branches and leaves grew clusters of flowers, a gust of wind blew, the flowers in the sky were scattered in the air like raindrops. At the end of the river, there is a peak, and rainbows hang among the mountains.

It's so beautiful! Is this the land of the gods?

The old man was already drunk, and everything there was as he had hoped in his heart, only peace and tranquility, no strife, no danger, no deceit, no pain, and gradually, the old man had forgotten his anxiety and fear, and just smiled silently and opened his legs, and went straight there.