Chapter 44: The Mandala
Xiao Ling watched Zhou Kesheng, Yu Tingting, Sun Tao, Li Zhibao and Wang Lei climb out of the surrounding snow one after another, looking at each other, and they all felt a kind of joy for the rest of their lives after the catastrophe.
"What a fluke, thanks to His Holiness's quick decision." Hu Shengzhe had palpitations, wiped his forehead, and was happy.
Xiao Ling took a deep breath, looked around, and found that there were thick snow pillars standing under the snow slope, everyone rolled all the way, and they were rolling into these snow pillars, and the avalanche Yu Wei could not completely submerge these snow pillars, and everyone climbed out of the snow and was looking at the huge snow pillars standing around.
Sun Tao was busy checking the equipment, and just after a while, he lost several mountaineering backpacks, which were filled with food, fresh water and various equipment and materials, which made Sun Tao's flesh ache.
Venerable Maza's eyes looked into the depths of the snow pillars, and he suddenly took a step, strode towards the oncoming snow pillars.
"Venerable, have you found something?" Zhou Kesheng saw Venerable Maza's abnormal behavior, and hurriedly shouted loudly.
Venerable Mazha didn't look back, and continued to walk forward, while saying in a deep voice: "You come with me, if it is not bad as expected, the Kunlun Xuan you want to find may be in front." ”
Hearing this, everyone trembled, stood up one after another, and without thinking about it, they hurriedly chased after Venerable Maza and rushed up.
"Venerable, you said that Kunlun Xu is in front?" Hu Shengzhe hurriedly chased and asked.
Venerable Mazha said: "I don't know if that's the Kunlun Xuan you're looking for, I had no intention of breaking into it, and the pots and pots you saw I put in the yard were brought out there, but the snow-capped mountain topography is changeable, so many years have passed, the landform has long changed, and even I haven't been able to find the right direction, but I remember these snow pillars clearly, it shouldn't be wrong, the ancient ruins that I had inadvertently broken into back then, should be in front of me......"
He paused and continued: "As for whether you are looking for Kunlun Xu, I am just guessing, not completely sure." ”
Although Venerable Mazha said that he was not completely sure, everyone was still full of confidence and excitement, they had just escaped the avalanche catastrophe, and now it was possible to enter the ruins of Kunlun Xu, and they were all very excited.
Everyone hurried forward along this pillar of snow, and Venerable Mazha walked like a fly, and everyone followed behind him, and had to run.
Soon, everyone passed through the snow pillars and saw the ancient ruins that Venerable Maza said he had inadvertently broken into back then.
This is the ruins of an ancient castle that was mostly buried by snow, and I don't know how many years of wind and rain have passed, and only a dilapidated silhouette is exposed to the snow, which is covered by snow, revealing the tip of the iceberg.
In front of him was a ruined wall, most of which had collapsed, and the parts that had not collapsed were also covered by snow, forming a wall of snow.
Everyone followed Venerable Mazha around the dilapidated snow wall in front of them, and as far as the eye could see, all the ruins and ruins were covered by snow, and at a glance, it stretched all the way to at least three or four kilometers long, and from the remains of the ruins, it seems that the scale of this ancient city was once not small.
"Professor Li, is this Kunlun Xu?" Pang Yan asked Li Zhibao, with the death of Song Jifu and Zhang Yan, according to the death curse, it was her turn to die next, and she was now starting to become anxious, more than everyone hoped to find Kunlun Xu, find Yu Ding, and think of a way to restrain and crack this death curse.
Professor Li Zhibao shook his head and said: "It's not certain yet, at the moment we can only be sure that this is indeed the site of an ancient city, as for which dynasty it belongs to, we can't be sure, let's look inside." ”
As he spoke, he walked inside first, for the study of ancient civilizations, everyone was not as good as Li Zhibao, with a national treasure-level expert like him, everyone didn't think much about it, they just needed to follow him.
Professor Li Zhibao looked all the way, and Sun Tao was carrying a gun and guarding him in case there was an accident.
Bypassing the towering walls of snow and remnants, the group descended about two kilometers into the area, and according to their location, they were now standing in the center of the ancient ruins.
Li Zhibao finally stopped, stood in front of a relatively well-preserved building in front of him, and said: "Judging from this appearance, this building should be the sacrificial center of this ancient city, if there is any important information left, it is most likely to stay here." ”
Everyone understands that for the ancient ancestors, sacrifice is more important than any administrative or economic matter, the so-called major affairs of the country, in the worship and Rong, meaning that the major things of the country lie in the sacrifice and war, for the ancients, the reverence for heaven and earth and the sacrifice to the ancestral gods are above all else.
Li Zhibao stretched out his hand as he spoke, and pulled away the snow from a wall facing him, revealing the black wall inside.
Xiao Ling, Yu Tingting and Wang Lei stepped forward to clear the snow on the surface, and soon the wall was completely revealed, with patterns of ancient sacrifices painted on it.
Li Zhibao nodded and said: "Sure enough, this building is a mandala used by ancient ancestors to worship the gods of heaven. ”
Walking along this black wall, Li Zhibao's eyes were shining, observing the surrounding buildings, and quickly stretched out his hand to summon Sun Tao and Qin Yang, pointed to a place of snow, and said: "This is the entrance to the sacrificial mandala, but it is covered by snow, let's work together to get rid of the snow piled up here." ”
Xiao Ling, Sun Tao, Qin Yang, Du Changde, Liu Guangsheng and others worked together to shovel the snow here, and as the snow was shoveled, a dark stone gate was soon revealed, which represented that Li Zhibao's speculation was not wrong.
"Lao Li, it's really yours, if it weren't for you, we wouldn't even be able to find this entrance, unless we shovel all the thousand-year-old snow here, it's a big project, and it can't be done in a short time, let alone with our manpower." Zhou Kesheng shook his head, admiring Li Zhibao's extraordinary insight.
Li Zhibao smiled faintly, and did not answer Zhou Kesheng's praise, his attention had already been focused on this altar ancient city building.
For a person like him, who has studied ancient civilizations all his life, there is nothing in this world that attracts him more than this.
The snow that buried the entrance was shoveled, and everyone did not rush in, let it ventilate for a while, Sun Tao took out the instrument to detect air quality and tested it, and after confirming that the air inside was non-toxic and had no effect on the human body, he put away the instrument and reported that Li Zhibao could enter.