Chapter Seventy-Two: The Astrolabe and the Moon (Five Watches)
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The man in yellow dug two zhang deep into the ground, and a one-man high cave suddenly appeared. The entrance of the cave is sealed with a dark blue stone door, divided into two doors, half buried under the frozen soil of the snow mountain, the Xuanhuang people were supposed to dig down again, how can the frozen soil of the snow mountain be as hard as iron, and the knife can not go deeper than half a minute.
At present, only half of the lapis door is exposed, thick as a barrier, and the gaps are filled with lead, water and iron juice, mysterious and unpredictable, like a portal to another world. Phi Fu carefully leaned down, peeled off the mud stains on the surface of the stone door, and there were many ancient seals on the half of the stone door that leaked out, which was very different from the runes on the bronze giant, and the law was solemn, and it seemed to be Shangqing writing.
Phi Fusheng was in danger and didn't know the Shangqing characters, so he pulled Hefei over to help him take a look. He Yan was waiting for this opportunity, leaned over to the cave, and looked at it, it was indeed the ancient seal of the Shangqing Dynasty, and it was still the old language of the heavenly realm.
When she looked at it carefully, she couldn't help but change her complexion. Sensing that something was wrong, Phi Fu asked, "What is written on it?"
He Yan said in a deep voice, "...... It's a curse. ”
It turns out that the ancient seal engraved on the stone gate lists the names of Gu Qingying and its affiliated seventy-two countries, and says extremely vicious curses to it, such as the extinction of the avalanche clan, the backflow of blood, and the extinction of the descendants.
He Yan's legs and feet trembled intuitively, and at that time, the lead clouds above her head were dense, and the cold snow grits were rolling down, and she didn't know whether to touch the scene or how, but she felt a powerful ominous aura enveloping her.
The curse on this stone gate was by no means groundless, I am afraid that it was really as she and Shen Miao had thought before, Qingying's destruction was not just because of an avalanche. The tentacles hidden in the darkness gradually surfaced, and the secrets in the cave were likely to solve the puzzles that had been bothering him, and when it came to the end, Kazuki flinched a little.
Phi Fu thoughtfully repeated the sentence "Qingying ......" and then joined forces with Phi Mucun, pouring all their spells to open the stone door, only to hear a dull loud sound of "quack-", the stone door only moved a little crack, only allowing one person to barely squeeze through, and the other half of the stone door buried in the frozen soil could not be shaken.
A trace of cold rotten gas peeked through the crack in the door, and the faint light could not penetrate the darkness inside.
Phi Fu pondered for a moment, and said to Phi Mucun, "You are guarding here, and this seat will go back when you go." ”
Phi Mu bowed down to receive the order, dragged the collar of the Shawl, and pushed it towards the stone gate of the cave, "You go with this seat, go ahead." ”
Although he didn't know how many dangers lurked in the cave, he couldn't refuse after choosing her to take the lead, so he had to agree and sneak into the cave without moving.
It was suddenly pitch black in front of her, and the damp rot accumulated in the cave the year before choked the tip of her nose, staggered under her feet, and stumbled with sharp gravel. Phi Fu followed behind, took out a bright night pearl, and then saw the situation in the cave.
Surprisingly, there are no sinister traps in the cave, and the rock walls are covered with murals, which seem to be just an ordinary place for sacrificial spirits. The frescoes depict scenes of war, sacrifice, and mythology, with victorious heroes wearing prisoner heads, and new kings being crowned...... Flashy and unrealistic, mostly singing praises of virtue.
He Yu suddenly moved, although the folk customs painted in the cave paintings are very different, but they are not strange. She suddenly remembered that everything in the city of Burmese was very similar to the scene depicted in this mural, like two overlapping shadows, but she did not know who imitated whom. Could it be that the ancestors of Burmese witches still have a relationship with Qingying?
Phi Fu may not have so many feelings from her, but she only listened to the urging behind her, "Go faster." ”
The cave is not big, and after walking a short distance, it seems that you have reached a relatively spacious area in the center.
Overhead, under the feet, in front of and behind the back, the four walls here are carved with dense magic scripts. Those magic texts are just like the ones engraved on the bronze giant statue outside, red and black, like symbols, not the text of the Qing Dynasty, difficult to recognize. The red and black colors on the magic text for thousands of years have not faded in the slightest, and they flicker like stars under the light, which is strange and inexplicable, as if they have arrived at the Shura field where the soul of the soul has been overlived.
He Yan suddenly became vigilant, and at this moment he was even more sure that the strange words on the sin deed left by Zero Nine-Six were these words! It's a pity that Elder Utu and Shen Miao are not around, otherwise there will definitely be a lot of gains.
Patrolling left and right with eagle-like eyes, shuttling under the magic text, vigilant to the slightest wind and grass around him, and said coldly, "Go find something with Yao magic." ”
Yaoshu? and Yu secretly calculated, and it was really not for the sake of the young emperor that he made this big move. She had heard of the name of Yaoshu before, but it was a long-lost forbidden technique in Shangqing. This kind of forbidden technique can be seen differently by such a person, which is unpredictable.
The dome here is oval-shaped, and the ground underfoot is very regular and square.
Nothing, the beginning of heaven and earth, and yes, the mother of all things.
He was in a trance, and suddenly felt that the magic text above his head and under his feet faintly flowed. The circular dome bears countless vain inscriptions, black for the night sky and red for the stars, just like the starry sky overhead.
And the magic text under the feet is staggered, sparse on the left and dense on the right, and the arc is bent consistently, like the moon on the wind.
Stars, moons, this can't be a astrolabe moon array, right?
He Yan suddenly said: "I know! I'm afraid this is the sacrificial crypt of the Qingying people." Here above the circle, there are more magic text arrangement, the chapter is solemn, although I don't know what special meaning there is, but this is clearly a astrolabe moon moment. ”
The astrolabe moon carving is an ancient formation, and it is not very mysterious, that is, some words symbolizing good fortune and misfortune are placed in the shape of the stars and the moon, and then divination is divined according to the change of the figure. In the past, the priests of Shangqing also used this method, but now such a majestic astrolabe and moon carving are unprecedented.
This astrolabe is engraved with red and black magic scripts, with the damp land of the snow-capped mountains as the cave, and the stone gate sealed with cursed words...... If these inscriptions really symbolize some ominous omen, and the qi is enclosed in them, then I am afraid that the victim will never have peace!
Will Qingying be destroyed here?
At the moment, after reading too much magic texts, I felt a feeling of nausea and vomiting, and I was a flower in front of my eyes, and I was top-heavy for a while, and I couldn't help but gasp for breath while holding on to the stone wall.
Phi Fu didn't care about Qing Ying's life, and said, "It's just a divination thing, what's the fuss." ”
After that, he ignored Heyu and circled around the cave, and found a stone baby lying in the middle of the cave, with a mirror on his forehead, red cinnabar all over his body, and two small hands raised diagonally upward, holding a red stone bowl.
Shaw frowned, "Astrolabe, another baby, it looks like there is some secret ritual held here." ”
He Yan also walked to the stone baby, the light was dim, and many details could not be seen clearly.
Newborn babies have never been defiled by the world and have historically been regarded as holy. With a baby holding a stone bowl, the stone bowl is stained with color and turns red, I am afraid that it is really as Phi Fu said, what bloody rituals have been held here.
But what kind of ritual is so shady that it should be held in this dark cavern of death? and who is the master of this ceremony?