Chapter 54: Purple Dragon Scales
"So according to you, if we just ran into a squid, this is the Infernal Hell?" Concubine Wu asked after listening to Meng Xiaomei's narration, although she felt that her identity was very peculiar since Meng Xiaomei appeared, she seemed to know a lot of things, even the squid she met here now She also knew, she had to doubt Meng Xiaomei's true identity.
"Yes or may not." Meng Xiaomei glanced at Concubine Wu slyly, as if she guessed what Concubine Wu was thinking, and she herself was more sure of where they were now.
"Meng Xiaomei, who are you? You're not from Li Guicun, are you? "Concubine Wu is a little worried now, will this qiē be a trap, since Meng Xiaomei said that she wants to start with them, what is the purpose of her coming to Li Gui Village?
Meng Xiaomei raised her eyebrows and didn't deny it, I looked at Concubine Wu and wanted to say something, I wanted to tell her that Meng Xiaomei was actually a fox spirit, but I didn't know how to speak, what if she was scared, although the things we encountered these days when we came here were very weird, but I think we should wait until the matter is over to sue her, and it seems that she shouldn't hurt Concubine Wu, but what does she want to do with us?
The atmosphere fell into a long silence, "Okay, I can only say that I used to cultivate the Dao on Kunlun Mountain, and now I have no ill intentions in coming to Li Gui Village with you, I just came to find something." Meng Xiaomei said with a long sigh of relief.
Hearing Meng Xiaomei's words, I was also taken aback, it turned out that she was here to find something, but what could be here, what else would there be besides those monsters?
Meng Xiaomei looked at Concubine Wu's still half-believing expression, and then glanced at Jiang Shuisheng, who seemed to have been sitting silently, and said to us in a hearted voice, "The place where I went with the little ghost at noon today should have been set up by someone, but it was only on the side of the formation, and now I know that the place we came to is the eye of this formation." ”
"Array Eyes?" Concubine Wu didn't understand what Meng Xiaomei meant at all, only Meng Xiaomei and I went to that place.
"That's right, little ghost, do you remember that Li Gui Village I told you is on the top of the pit of the dead, and the military soul of the 400,000 Zhao soldiers who were killed in the pit has been suppressed here, and I think the reason why Li Gui Village is so weird is also related to this." Hearing Meng Xiaomei's words, I seem to understand a little, this array is used to shock those military souls, and if this is the eye of the array, that is to say, we have come to the inside of the Bone Mountain, no wonder the yin qi here is so heavy, it seems to be real and illusory, and there is a soul body like a squid.
Then I told Concubine Wu about me and Meng Xiaomei inadvertently entering the ghost warrior array at noon, killing 400,000 Zhao Jun in Baiqikeng, and the matter of the Bone Mountain, of course, I didn't say how Meng Xiaomei saved me, Concubine Wu listened to these feelings like listening to the Arabian Nights, I originally thought that Li Guicun was just because of the curse of a powerful ghost, but now it sounds far more than that.
"Let's go, we're going to find the skeleton." Meng Xiaomei looked at me and Concubine Wu and said, "Well, yes, Concubine Wu, your aunt also said that we have to go out before the moon disappears, we must hurry up." I held Fei Wu's cold hand and said firmly, don't worry, Fei Wu will be fine with me by your side.
Meng Xiaomei walked forward with the injured Jiang Shuisheng, as the red light in front of her became brighter and brighter, the surroundings began to change, the air faintly hissed, with the broadening of the line of sight, we seemed to come to a clearing underneath, where the red demon light was permeated, and there was a trickling spring stream around it, and the blood-red spring water in the stream was still bubbling white, and there was a high ancient shrine five hundred meters in front of us.
We carefully avoided the place where the blood-colored stream flowed towards the altar, we couldn't imagine that there was such a place in the depths of the earth, this strange shrine seemed to have existed for thousands of years, those exquisite bronze carvings were lifelike, in front of the altar was a huge strange bird with one leg and independent wings to spread its wings and fly high, this bronze statue was depicted fine and realistic, and even every feather on the strange bird was vividly depicted, Also, the eyes of this strange bird are made of unknown what they are made of, and they reflect proudly in the red light.
"Oh my God, what kind of strange bird is this, this statue is amazing!" Although Jiang Shuisheng was blind in one eye, he still couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart when he saw this statue.
"I've never seen such a finely carved statue." Fei Wu looked at the giant bird's eyes and saw what was passing.
"It's a phoenix eagle." Meng Xiaomei looked at the lifelike phoenix spreading its wings and sighed a little, the phoenix, this legendary sacred bird, compared with their fox clan, it looks graceful and luxurious, and has always been a symbol of the royal family.
Phoenix? I looked at the statue in front of me, looking at each feather, the gorgeous tail was also carved into the eyes, as if it was really so elegant, suddenly, I seemed to really see the statue in front of me turn into a giant bird and roar, unfold its colorful coat, glow with a bewitching brilliance and go away, and then come back to God, the statue is still a statue, not alive at all.
"Ryuko, what's wrong with you?" Fei Wu looked at me and was stunned for a while, and asked with some concern.
"It's nothing, I should have been dazzled just now, but I feel a little familiar with this phoenix statue."
"Ryukitsu, I'm a little scared, I always feel that I'm getting closer and closer to that dream." Concubine Wu looked at me with a hint of fear in her eyes, and her willow eyebrows were slightly raised.
We followed Meng Xiaomei and Jiang Shuisheng step by step to this altar, in addition to the huge phoenix statue in the front, there is a small animal statue of different shapes on the railing of each staircase, these small statues are also done vividly, with movements and expressions like living creatures.
On the altar, in this empty underground, only the sound of snapping, snapping footsteps was heard, we bypassed the phoenix statue, and saw a shrine two hundred meters ahead, and there were four one-person-high sculptures around the shrine, these statues looked really dressed in the costume of the ancient generals, their expressions were a little hideous, and the fierce gods glared at us viciously, as if they were angry when they saw our coming.
Could it be that this is where Meng Xiaomei said the eye of the formation is? This array is to suppress the soul of the 400,000 Zhao army? And what is that skeleton? Why did it curse the people of Li Gui Village?
On the cold god platform, there was a dead silence.
Seeing that I was about to walk in front of the shrine, I vaguely saw a white thing under the shrine, could this be the skeleton?
The closer I got closer, the clearer I could see that it was indeed a white skeleton, prostrate on the ground as if struggling to get up, and as if it was kneeling reverently.
We rushed to the front of this corpse, the face of the skeleton was buried deep in the ground and could not see the front, I took Fei Wu and carefully walked to the skeleton's side, leaning □down to see the corpse clearly, although I shuddered, but I wondered if my body had already become like this skeleton, only a terrifying skeleton remained.
Meng Xiaomei was not interested in this skeleton, she quickly rushed to the side of the shrine, the statue guarding the side of the shrine was looking at Meng Xiaomei angrily, but she seemed to ignore it, when we first walked over, the statue was looking directly at us, and now, Meng Xiaomei has walked in front of the shrine, and the statue is indeed squinting at her.
Meng Xiaomei opened the shrine in front of her, and the smile on her lips slipped down as the shrine opened, and the shrine was empty, there was nothing she was looking for?
Meng Xiaomei paused for a moment before she felt an inexplicable peeping gaze around her, she turned her head to look at the statues of the four generals, their eyes were still staring straight ahead, Meng Xiaomei's heart chuckled and there was a strange feeling.
"We need to get out of here quickly." A hint of anxiety appeared on Meng Xiaomei's bewitching face.
Concubine Wu looked at the skeleton in front of her and said, "This is the root of Li Guicun's curse, and can this qiē really end?" ”
"Then let's hurry up and take this skeleton away." Jiang Shuisheng also felt an indescribable chill when he heard Meng Xiaomei's words, just now those terrible squids ate one of his eyes, he just wanted to get out of here quickly, he took out a sheet cloth from his backpack and began to pick up the white skeleton in it.
Concubine Wu also squatted down, although she looked at the human bone with some fear, the rotten corpse aura faintly strung into her nose, she still forcibly picked up the bone on the ground and put it in the sheets.
I stood next to me and couldn't help, so I could only look around at the long-sealed shrine, which was in a semicircle shape, and there was a bronze iron pillar behind it in addition to the shrine in the middle, which I didn't notice because it wasn't special.
I unconsciously floated to the side of this pillar, the bronze iron pillar was carved on both sides of a winding dragon pattern, the pillar dragon seemed to be engraved with some words, it looked a little ancient, and some of the words were next to a matching relief, like a comic strip.
"Concubine Wu, Meng Xiaomei, come and see, there are still pictures here!" I shouted at them in surprise.
Meng Xiaomei quickly walked to my side, and Fei Wu raised her head and stood up and walked towards us when she heard my shouts. I looked at the pictures as if they were telling a story, with a lot of people worshipping a person who seemed to be holding something in his hand, and another picture of a man directing a group of people to build a strange structure.
"What is this?" Fei Wu also walked over and saw the relief on the pillar, and she pointed to one of the paintings carved with a group of people watching.
"These pictures are talking about the origin of this shrine." Meng Xiaomei stared at these paintings carefully for a long time.
I turned to the other side of the pillar near the dragon's tail, there were also a few paintings here, but the pictures were completely different from the ones just now, the pictures were full of some terrifying and terrifying patterns, there were piles of skulls, and there were monsters with blue faces and fangs, and some brutal and bloody pictures, what do these pictures mean?
"I can't read the text on it, but if you look at the order of the pictures, it should start here," Fei Wu said, pointing to the painting she was pointing to.
"I remember that there is a strange book in Kunlun Academy that specifically records the folk world, and there is a story written that during the Qin Dynasty, a foreign object fell from the sky, and the king of Qin sent an official to check the foreign object and asked the official to explain the origin of the foreign body, and at that time, the place where the foreign object landed was the place where the Great Wall was being built, it was a stone that looked like a dragon, and then the official sent someone to carry the dragon-shaped stone to the palace to meet the King of Qin, who knew that on the way through a mountain under the heavy rain, the mountain road was slippery, The dragon-shaped stone fell down the mountain. At that time, the official was so frightened that he didn't know what to do, he knew that if he reported it truthfully, he would definitely be killed, and if he didn't do well, it might even harm his wife and children, so he ran through the group in charge of transportation at that time to make up a story about the dragon stone flying to the sky, saying that when it rained, passing through the valley, suddenly a lightning and thunder in the sky just hit the boulder, and in an instant, a golden light shone, and the giant stone roamed in the sky for a true dragon, and said that the real dragon flying in the sky was a good omen, so the king of Qin was overjoyed after hearing it, He also rewarded officials and officials. But although the giant petrified dragon is fake, but after the dragon-shaped stone fell from the sky down the valley, the stone body was shattered, but there was something else inside, and a quick scale-shaped crystal stone shining with purple light fell out, and then the scaly-shaped amethyst stone was picked up by a woodcutter passing by, and the woodcutter felt that the amethyst was a treasure and took it to the local market to sell, and was later bought by a rich boy at a high price. Later, the boy liked this amethyst very much, so he asked the craftsman to take a small piece of it and make a necklace for his wife to wear, and the other large piece of amethyst was given to a Taoist priest who had sought good fortune for their family.
Later, after Bai Qikeng killed 400,000 Zhao Jun, Afang Palace began to be haunted, even the place that was killed by the pit was also extremely yin, the corpses all over the place, the mountains and fields that had been watered by the blood flowed like a river were not a single grass, the crops were lost that year, the drought continued, and folk rumors arose, all said that it had something to do with the 400,000 unjust souls, and later the King of Qin ordered to search for capable strangers in the people, at this time there was a Taoist priest named Fu Yunzi who said that it was necessary to build a god platform, and the array around the god platform could calm the evil spirits, and the country was peaceful and peaceful. So the king of Qin ordered the craftsman to help Fu Yunzi build a shrine, but because the resentment of the 400,000 military souls was too great, the ordinary formation could not be suppressed at all, Fu Yunzi used the scale-shaped amethyst stone as a magic weapon to suppress the array, and later Fu Yunzi told his disciples that this purple crystal stone was transformed by the ancient dragon scales, called purple dragon scales, if it was obtained by people with advanced Taoism, it could not only suppress ghosts and suppress evil spirits, but also contribute to the cultivation of Taoism. There may be more power than that. ”
"Could it be that the picture above records what happened from the discovery of the purple dragon scales to the construction of the Divine Platform?" Is there such a thing in the world? But where are the purple dragon scales now, according to the story Meng Xiaomei said, this shrine is the place where the purple dragon scales are placed.
Concubine Wu touched the necklace tattoo on her chest, which was slightly hot, and a faint purple light kept shining, as if she sensed something.
"What is this?" The sound came from the water in front of the shrine, and we ran over again to see what was happening.
I saw the skeleton of the skeleton that Jiang Shuisheng was holding in his hand, the skeleton of Bai Sensen, the two big black holes in the eye sockets, and a bronze awl inserted in the protruding skull, which ran from the top of the head to the lower jaw.
Boom, Jiang Shuisheng wanted to pull out the bronze awl, but with force, the awl did not move.
The side is starting to shake a little, there is an earthquake? Wouldn't it be so tragic, we're already underground, and there is an earthquake? There was another rumble, an even more violent tremor, and the entire shrine began to shake, "Take the corpse away, it's not safe here." Meng Xiaomei shouted as she looked at the surroundings.
When Jiang Shuisheng heard this, he didn't care about the bronze awl, so he put away the sheets containing the corpses, tied a knot, and put them on his back, and we hurried all the way to the stairs.
I have been following behind Concubine Wu and telling her to be careful about the steps behind, Jiang Shuisheng is running very fast, and then look at Meng Xiaomei I don't know when she has moved to the bottom of the altar, this fox's escape technique is really first-class.
With a heavy sound, I looked back and saw that the huge phoenix sculpture fell and smashed to the ground, whirring, fortunately, Concubine Wu had just stepped on the last step and there was another rumbling behind him, the sound of bang, the entire Shentai was destroyed in an instant, and the thunderbolt became a ruin, and even the bronze dragon pillar was broken into several pieces.
"Concubine Wu, fortunately we ran fast!" I covered my heart, pretending to soothe my little thumping heart, and said to Concubine Wu happily.
"No, it's not safe yet!" Meng Xiaomei looked at the collapse of the Shentai and said sharply.
Hearing Meng Xiaomei's words, we all turned around, only to see that a small crack began to appear on the ground where the Shentai collapsed, and then the small crack began to expand gradually, "Run!" As soon as I finished shouting, I ran towards the border with Concubine Wu again, and as we ran, there was another sound behind me, boom, boom, I floated into the air and looked at the place where the original Shentai behind me was sinking, and the wreckage of those Shentai was deeply sunk into the depths of the ground, and it was pitch black below, and the wreckage of the Shentai could no longer be seen.
"Ahem!" Jiang Shuisheng caused the wound on his face to burst and hurt because of the violent running, he held his face while panting, but it was really thrilling, he was sitting on the edge of the subsidence, or a step later may be buried deep in the ground with the wreckage of the Shentai.
"How's it going, are you okay?" Meng Xiaomei stood beside Jiang Shuisheng and asked.
"Well, it's okay, it's just that the wound is ruptured." Jiang Shuisheng shook his head, he took out a bottle of water from his backpack and poured it, finally breathing a sigh of relief.
The author has something to say: I've been so busy lately~~ I don't have time to change it~~~
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