Chapter 70: The Ancient Prophecy of Tomb Exploration
The huge black and shiny meteorite suddenly cracked a gap, and Xinyan disappeared in that light in an instant.
"Senior sister......" Seeing this, Li Ji got into it without thinking.
Everyone hesitated for a moment, stared at the seeping and terrifying gap in front of them, and slowly advanced.
Inside the meteorite was a secret room, which was unusually open, and at this time, a gust of wind blew from inside, carrying the smell of sand and earth, and everyone took a few steps back.
"It's so strong!" Even Li Ji felt it, and the smell wafting in the air seemed to be the smell of the corpses of the dead, which was extremely unpleasant.
Everyone covered their noses, and secretly wondered in their hearts: this secret room is obviously old, this smell is disgusting, and I don't know where it came from.
So, Zhou Babao raised the night pearl in his hand, although the light was limited, the soft silver light was enough to dispel the rich darkness.
Through the faint light of the night pearl, the outline of the secret chamber was faintly visible, and it turned out to be a huge burial chamber, and the meteorite actually communicated with the wall and reached deep underground.
This also means that the huge meteorite in the Chiyou Temple is very likely to be the Gate of Chiyou.
Thinking of this, everyone couldn't suppress the joy in their hearts, and diluted the horror and weirdness of the tomb a lot.
After looking around in the light of the night pearl, everyone realized that this place was not so much a tomb as a mass burial mound, which made people's scalps tingle when they saw it.
There are dense tombstones erected on the ground, there is no handwriting on the stele, and there are some gloomy white bone remains scattered around the stele, and after walking in for a while, you will find that the fewer the vertical tombstones, the more messy and crooked tombs there are, and the dilapidated appearance of the original tomb cannot be found. Further on, there were no graves or tombs, only a white skeleton that was exposed, glowing with a faint phosphorescence in the dimness.
Zhou Babao's clenched palms were slightly dripping with beads of sweat, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and he trembled: "Are these the bones of the martyrs?"
Li Ji licked his chapped lips, frowned, and said, "If it is a burial, it is really cruel and unreasonable, and a person's departure requires so many fresh lives to accompany the burial." ”
After carefully observing these bones, the Akajiri horse monkey shook his head and said: "It is not necessarily a burial, if it is a burial, after the death of the tomb owner, he will be buried by the people before his death, so that he can be driven by slavery after his death." Most of the martyrs were killed and buried with the tomb owner, in the same position, either the hand bones were tied behind their backs or the skulls were chopped, and there were no obvious signs of struggle. However, some of these scattered bones have broken hands, some have broken waists, the bones are incomplete, and there are even traces of struggle and fighting, and nine times out of ten they are dead. ”
Everyone nodded when they heard this, and they all thought that the Akajiri horse monkey was observant and reasonable.
Soon, everyone stopped at the same time in front of a huge cemetery.
The flat ground in front of you is very different from the front, and there is a very open vestibule, where five life-size pottery puppet warriors are erected, with hideous faces and different postures, guarding the huge tomb behind them.
The tomb at the rear is a raised stone platform on which is parked a huge coffin, made of a special wood that, despite thousands of years of erosion, shows no signs of decay.
This huge coffin is 100 feet long and 50 feet wide, and at first glance it looks like a square boat.
Since Pangu opened the world, the three emperors and five emperors were established, and at the beginning of civilization, the saints began to appear, and the truth was revealed. However, the ritual system is also ugly, the dogma hides pedantic, and the ritual system of "death is like life, death is like survival" gradually went astray, and a strict hierarchical coffin burial system appeared in ancient times.
"Coffin" is what we often call a coffin, which is used to hold the wooden burial utensils of the deceased and is used to bury the corpse, while "coffin" is a box set outside the coffin or around the coffin.
The layer that the coffin is used to wrap around the coffin is often the emperor's house or even the rich family will have such a huge style, and not everyone is qualified to use the coffin.
It can be seen from this huge coffin that the tomb owner is definitely very promising, either respectful or noble, but the strange thing is that in this coffin, there is a burst of cold breath, as if the evil spirit is about to pounce.
Li Ji protected Xinyan by his side, sweating and said, "This is ......"
I didn't know what to say for a while, and looked at Zhou Babao and the others.
Li Tian understood that the coffin exuded a sky-high evil aura, not an evil spirit, but he was overjoyed in his heart: "Is this the coffin we have been looking for for a long time? ”
Li Ruoxi also rushed over when she heard this, looked up and down at the coffin, her delicate face was flushed, her eyes flashed with endless excitement, a pair of creamy jade hands were clenched, and she said tremblingly: "The coffin is tightly sealed and complete, and it seems that it has not been moved, which shows that the mysterious masked man's 'Awakening Bloodline' formation has not been able to open the coffin, and the conspiracy has not succeeded." ”
The night pearl in Zhou Babao's hand suddenly lit up, causing a disturbing turmoil in the blue light on the coffin. He was so frightened that his face turned pale, he had learned from the past, and this time he also learned to be obedient, and he didn't dare to rush forward, looking at this formation, he knew that the hidden weapon formation of the mechanism must be lurking around, and if he was not careful, he would be crushed.
The Akajiri horse monkey also walked around outside the range of the five life-size pottery puppet warriors, and then stared at the coffin: "This coffin is extremely weird! Don't act rashly, be careful, if you are not careful, you may have to worry about your life!"
"You see, the coffin has lacquer drawings and ancient characters. Although Zhou Babao didn't dare to move forward, but by the light of the night pearl, his eyes did not stop for a moment, wandering around, he was not uncommon with a skull, the most beloved is gold and silver jewelry, he can make a windfall with this, and his dream is to one day be able to tie his waist and return to his hometown.
During the search, I accidentally glanced at the sides of the coffin and found a row of small ancient characters next to the lacquered image on it.
Following the place he pointed, Li Ruoxi looked sideways, and it turned out to be a unique ancient character of the Jiuli tribe, which was difficult for outsiders to recognize.
She took a deep breath and read it carefully, beads of sweat faintly appeared on her forehead, and her face was full of surprise.
Li Ji first took a closer look around, for fear that there would be some vicious mechanism installed here, and one could kill someone if he was not careful.
Then looking at the strange look on Li Ruoxi's face after staring at the row of words, he couldn't help but feel strange, and he also looked around, and saw that there was a pattern on the lacquer painting images on both sides that was quite familiar, so he pointed and asked, "Where do you seem to have seen this pattern?"
Hearing this, Li Tian said indifferently: "That is the supreme totem of the Jiuli Clan......"
Li Ji suddenly remembered that there was this totem on the giant stone door at the entrance of the tomb, so he said: "Oh, the Demon Venerable Chiyou is the ancestor of the Jiuli clan, and this set of patterns and characters must be closely related to the Jiuli clan!"
Li Ruoxi pondered for a long time after reading that passage, and then suddenly said to herself: "Yes, this group of lacquer pictorial characters speaks of an ancient prophecy of our clan!"
The crowd was puzzled and asked, "What?" ...... ancient prophecy?"
The deep blue eyes reflected her stunned appearance, a touch of mockery gently spread to the corners of her mouth, slowly rippling, and extending to the peerless eyes as deep as the night, Li Ruoxi stared at everyone for a long time, and finally took a long breath, and said in a somewhat cold tone: "Everyone is in the same boat, we should be in the same boat, we should be in the same boat, and we will share weal and woe, and it doesn't hurt to talk to you." ”
"Princess......" Li Tian couldn't believe it, she wanted to tell Jiuli the prophecy in public, and she wanted to stop it, but Li Ruoxi signaled to him not to interfere, although she was unwilling, she had to give up.
It is engraved with an ancient prophecy passed down by the Jiuli people from generation to generation: when the universe was barren, the ancestors of Jiuli survived, drank blood, slash and burn, lived with beasts, lived in a remote place for a long time, did not learn the way of the saints, did not know the etiquette, and Jiuli was in danger of extinction. Passed to the Middle Ages, the ancestors of Jiuli who evolved and enlightened with the gods and beasts constantly struggled, unexpectedly obtained the supreme book of heaven, the creation of heaven and earth, the mystery of invading the sun and the moon, and the strong were invincible in the world, so they led the ancestors of Jiuli to overcome thorns and thorns, open up the world, and move towards the road of rejuvenation, so it is called "Jiuli Zhongxing". When the ancestor of Jiuli ascended, he predicted that Jiuli would suffer the doom of exterminating the clan twice before he could be reborn from the fire. And for these two dooms of extermination, he only left a sixteen-character proverb to future generations, that is, "when a deer turns into a wolf, there is no life or death; the end of the world comes, and the chaos is apocalypse."
"When a deer turns into a wolf, there is no life or death, and the end of the world comes, the chaos of the apocalypse ......" Everyone silently recited these sixteen-character proverbs in their hearts, but they never had any clue.
Later, during the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the Jiuli tribe appeared in power headed by Chiyou, and their power also increased greatly, and they waved their troops directly at the Shenzhou Continent, and finally defeated Zhuolu, so that the people of Jiuli fell into a dire situation and could not recover. In order to avoid the extinction of Jiuli, the Demon Venerable Chiyou cast an eternal curse when he was defeated and died, and the descendants of Jiuli can turn into werewolves within a hundred miles of the place where their skulls are buried, not living or dying, in order to ensure reproduction. After the defeat of Zhuolu, the Jiuli clan was also divided into two, one of which pursued the blood maple forest where the skull of Chiyou was buried and turned into a werewolf clan, and the other group flowed to the extreme west to merge with the vampire demon clan to become the later 'Blood Demon Palace', which also responded to the first prophecy of the ancestor of Jiuli, 'When you meet a deer and turn into a wolf, you will not live or die'. ”
"What about the second prophecy?" Rao is a red jiri horse monkey knows the past and the present, but the prophecy of the Jiuli ancestor is still the first time he has heard it, and he can't help but be very interested.
"The second prophecy is more obscure and difficult to understand, and the elders of the clan who are highly skilled in the clan unanimously believe that the prophecy has arrived. Especially after the destruction of the Jiuli Demon Cover, it is believed that the end of the world is coming, the sky is a bad omen, and there is a chaotic god, crossing the mountains and mountains, crossing the river and the sea, gathering the five elements, awakening the bloodline, opening the door of Chiyou, lifting the curse of the ages, since then the sun has risen in the east, and the sun is shining. ”
"The sun rises in the east, and the sun shines brightly......"
Li Ji seemed to have heard this sentence somewhere, and he didn't think of it for a while, but he always had a question in his heart that he didn't ask for a long time, and now he couldn't help but blurt out: "Miss Li, could it be that you and we met in the Death Swamp was also planned by you in advance?"
Li Ruoxi wanted to speak and stopped: "This ......"