After passing through the valley, there is another valley, the rolling mountains of the Green Dragon Mountains, where you can hardly see the steep walls near the high tower of summer embers in the north of Kaulin, but the scenery is even more beautiful.

Silver moonlight pours down from the night sky and shines on the lush vegetation of the valley. The rocks condense into strange arch-like shapes, like galloping wild horses, giving this place a figurative name - the Horse Gate.

The rock face was a desolate reddish-gray in the moonlight, like iron oxide-bearing tuff, with some uneven patterns on it, but it had long since been smoothed out by time. Fang Plover got off Mr. Limestone's back and stood alone on the edge of the rock wall, touching the cold surface of those ancient stone slabs with his hands, and the response felt like he had traveled through a thousand years of time, conveying an ancient story from an era ago.

But that's just an illusion, because the Snake Empire existed far older than a time.

Their empire ruled the vast expanse of the land before the appearance of the Numerin Elves. Today, the snake people of St. Huyen call themselves Sinsas, and it is said that this unclear word for snake people is the name of their ancient empire long gone.

Unlike the Noumerin Elves who disappeared without a trace after the Plague of Esserin, the Serpents still live in Aitalia, in the Cape Saint-Huyen and the Noumerin Forest, but they have long forgotten the glory of the past, and there is no trace of the memory of that ancient empire, maintaining the primitive organization of ancient clans and matriarchal societies in the jungle.

It is only in their mysterious witchcraft and sacrificial rituals that some of the past can be faintly seen.

Fang Yu stood quietly in the valley.

After repelling the Brigade of the Blood Oath, everyone finally arrived here, the entrance to the ruins of the Serpent Empire. As if he was busy, he asked everyone for a leave, wanting to see the style of this ancient empire that had disappeared into the long river of history.

He walked alone along the valley, the moonlight shining on the mountain wall, outlining its original strange shape. The red-gray rock wall, peeled away layer by layer, seems to contain something inside.

The original buildings were almost shapeless, shattered between the red sandstone, or the sandstone itself was a part of it, and vines and shrubs sprawled out of it.

The life and death of nature have been piled up on the corpses of this civilization for many ages, but Fang Yu didn't come here to find out, he just had a huge curiosity about this ancient empire.

Many scholars are very curious about this ancient empire, but the investigation of it has almost come to a standstill, because even the snake people themselves have forgotten their own written heritage, and the contemporaneous Noumerin itself is a huge gap, a rare serpentine script, and it is difficult to find a corresponding comparison today.

Because this civilization that sleeps in the forest can only slowly disappear under the vines, and the palace once crumbled into stone slabs, which turned into sand and gravel, and finally disappeared.

Fang Yu suddenly felt that he was lucky enough to see the last side of it before it was completely gone.

He watched silently at the sand and rubble.

Gravel doesn't tell him the answer.

But it can tell the story of the past.

He heard footsteps behind him, and turned around to realize that it was the Lonely White Field. The current commander of the Rainhearer Brigade pointed to the other side of the valley and said to him:

"That's the entrance to the ruins."

Fang Yu paused for a moment before looking in that direction.

A hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and behind the red-gray mountain wall, there was a row of artificially carved footings that seemed to lead people in one direction. At the end of there, in the valley stood two tall stone statues of snake men, one without a head and the other with a right hand, but the long tail and fine scales still pointed to the identity of their carvers.

Behind the stone statue is a huge door.

The gate was so grand that it seemed to guard the whole valley, and it was necessary to look up to see it all, and the door was pushed open a gap, but it was enough for four or five people to pass through in parallel. It is more than a meter thick, and I don't know how it took to carve such a huge thing.

There is a gap in the top of the gate, but it is generally well preserved, and there is a huge carving on it, which is still visible today after thousands of years. The mountain walls on both sides are also carved in relief, depicting the former glory of this ancient empire.

This is not the first time Fang Yu has seen the wall carvings of the snake people, there is a lot of relevant information in the community, and the stars hanging from the central sky above the door are like comets. His name is Andreon, the tail of the earthly serpent, the main god of the Sinsas god line.

The Noumerin elves call it the shape of calamity, because some scholars believe that it is verdant, but from the representation of the snake people on the mural, it does not seem to be a sign of the end of the world.

However, the Serpents' identification as the Earthly Serpent's Andron is both a symbol of life and death, symbolizing a cycle.

Thus the fresco is surrounded by life and death, with the rise of Sinsas on the left and the end of the First Age on the right.

Limited information suggests that the First Age of Aitaria ended with the arrival of the Second Calamity, perhaps a meteorite that fell from the sky, or something else that sank Aetherin and brought with it the creatures of darkness.

But while the Sinsas left behind this prophecy of the end of the Epoch, their empire itself fell apart and fell into ashes by the middle of the First Age, and what happened to them is still unknown.

Fang Yu looked to the left, and the empire was born out of a dark flame, which was the fire throne of the snake people. The serpents are cold-blooded, but the serpents worship the flames madly, and then the Seven Kings split, which are a few events that can be confirmed by the few advanced Aitalia and earthscholars, and then the long war that cannot be confirmed.

Until the empire was in ashes.

"Below that is an ancient passage through the underground ruins of the Serpent Empire to the other end of the valley. It is the Dragon's Lair, the place of trials in the Sacred Valley of Peru. ”

Lonely White no said, looking at the door.

"Is there anything underneath the ruins?" Fang Yu asked.

Gu Bai Nono shook his head: "There is a passage down there, I have been there myself. Some say there's a path down there that leads deeper underground, but I haven't seen it. ”

He looked at the door: "Perhaps, in fact, the trial ground under the ruins of the Peru Sacred Valley is also an open underground space. What has really been explored is a very small area, and in the deeper places, no one can say what there is. ”

"Maybe it's the Dead Zone, maybe it's a long-buried deity who hears strange whispers down there, but when people return, they tell different things."

"A sleeping deity?" Fang Yu asked, "Do you mean the resurrected god of the lizardmen, I heard that an adventure party found its body underground, and then the body disappeared, but no one can say whether Sarus has really been resurrected." ”

"It's more than ten years ago, older than me, who knows?" "But there is a long tradition of a snake god in the underground of Fenris, and it was first passed down from the ancient snake clan of St. Huyen's Point, and it is said that the night lizards were here to find it. ”

"You know," he replied, "their religious traditions are actually very similar to those of the Snake People, and some say they were once slaves of the Snake People Empire. ”

"Wouldn't they miss the life of a slave very much?" Fang Yu was speechless.

The lonely white field spread his hands.

Aitalia is a world full of bizarre legends, the legacy of two eras of history, and the mysteries left unsolved.

And after the rumors are spread by word of mouth, they are exaggerated and amplified, and some of them can no longer be believed, but who dares to say that there is no real information behind an absurd legend?

Fang Yu glanced at Gu Bai Zhiye, he had told the other party something about the battle of Pegasus Bridge before, and he didn't know what the other party's opinion was. But a person will be more or less concerned about his own failures, because he does not know whether the other party will be a little dissatisfied.

But Lonely White Nono had an indifferent look on his face, as if he didn't care about anything.

After a while, he said, "Grant asked me to tell you about our oath with the Blood. ”

This sentence finally made Fang Yu determine the other party's intention.

"I'm curious, too," he asked, "what happened to you?" ”

"It's a long story." Lonely White no Ye replied, his expression a little gloomy, and he was not unaware of the things that came to the guild. But what if you notice it, such as the collective disappearance of the club's top management, it is not unheard of in the past, there are many reasons, but for the guild in Aitaria there is only one result.

The situation like the Rain Listener is quite special, after the connection with the outside club is severed, the guilds in the First World are still relatively intact and independent, and it stands to reason that the Super Athletic League should have come to the door a long time ago. Inventory guild assets, freeze them, or resell them.

Unless it is not because of debt, or that the investors have not pursued it at all, how is this possible, it sounds incredible. This is also where Fang Yu felt confused.

However, Gu Bai Ye didn't talk about this problem immediately, only said, "Do you remember what you told me before? ”

Fang Yu paused for a moment: "Which one?" ”

"R, do you remember him?"

Fang Yu nodded.

He met a guy in the community about three years ago, and the person's ID was a single letter R. By chance, that man taught him a lot of things, including many of the skills of the Battle Craftsman.

He was actually very grateful to the other party, because if it weren't for this accident, he might not have been able to teach himself to become a member of the Kapka craftsman's apprenticeship after becoming a stowaway. He had the most basic knowledge of combat craftsmen, which were basically formed during that time period.

However, he didn't expect at first that this simple ID would be associated with the battle he knew ten years ago. Two users with the same ID will be the same person on the Internet.

And he only vaguely confirmed this when he discussed the battle of Pegasus Bridge with the other party by chance, although the other party never admitted it himself.

He couldn't help but look at Gu Bai Zhiye, wanting to see what the other party was going to say, because he was also full of curiosity about that person. Not just everything ten years ago, but because it was that person who told him that he had a unique talent for spatial perception.

He also wanted to know why the other party suddenly didn't say goodbye after saying this.

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