Chapter XXIV Predecessor

[The book continues from the above, and the last book said that Mu Qingming was in the stone room of the underground palace, watching the murals. From it, the past of the Dragonwood Clan and the Golden Crow Clan was interpreted, as well as the past of the demise of the Dragonwood Clan. In the mural appearance, sure enough, the ancestors of the dragon lock people could not eliminate the evil, and the Longmu clan, which should have been completely wiped out, had few survivors, and after escaping the catastrophe, they quietly fled from the Western Regions and entered the central Yunnan region. The matter that led to the large number of immortal Taoists was not known to the dragon lockers in the city or Mu Qingming on Liangwang Mountain. Mu Qingming and the others continued to observe the mural and discovered a shocking secret that had been hidden. That is the surviving Longmu clan who escaped, who created Wuwen and the extinct Dian priestly institution. 】

Liangwang Mountain, in the belly of the mountain. In the stone chamber at the end of the dark passage, the night pearl dotted on the dome emitted a soft light that was not strong, but also bright, illuminating the stone chamber.

I don't know how long these night pearls have been silent here, but the light emitted from them is undiminished, and they can still illuminate every corner of the stone room.

So that Mu Qingming, who didn't know that the Immortal Dao had been dispatched, and was still in the belly of the mountain, as well as the few dragon lockers who followed, could clearly see the murals on the walls.

Those exquisite murals are even more vivid in color under the soft light, and they are even more lifelike.

After looking at it for a long time, you can't help but feel that the painting of the scenery is about to come out.

Mu Qingming once saw the colorful Dunhuang murals, as well as the murals on the four walls of his ancestral hall. Both of them have been formed over thousands of years on a huge scale, and they are highly skilled and have a very strong sense of three-dimensionality.

The same is true of the murals you see in front of you today.

The picture is mostly outlined with strong fine lines, the pen is smooth and powerful, the coloring is just right, and the concave and convex and light and dark are intertwined, which is three-dimensional. And I don't know what method has been used to keep these murals fresh for thousands of years.

And Zhang Xiaosheng has also seen some murals in the tomb, but Zhang Xiaosheng has never entered the large-scale princely tomb, and the murals he saw are naturally not as spectacular as those seen today.

There is no such grand scene and such magnificent colors as the murals seen today, seeing today's murals, Zhang Xiaosheng can't help but be amazed.

"Central Yunnan, yes, if the Jinhe River above is the Jinsha River, then the murals gradually changed, and the wooden dragon clan that gradually turned into a human form entered the area south of the river bank, and it must have entered Central Yunnan." After pondering for a moment, Mu Qingming said his guess to the others: "These guys have come to Central Yunnan, have they changed the culture of Central Yunnan?" ”。

"These guys, the remnants of the Dragonwood clan, won't they still hide here?" After Zhang Xiaosheng made a bold guess, he turned his head to look at the closed bronze gate not far away.

Zhang Xiaosheng, who had a thought flashing through his mind, always felt that behind the closed door, there were demons hidden on the murals, but later the dragonwood clan in human form would jump out from behind the bronze door at any time.

This kind of thinking made Zhang Xiaosheng's scalp a little numb.

Ah Hong saw Zhang Xiaosheng's fear at a glance, and smiled at Mu Qingming and said, "Master, my junior brother is cowardly. ”。

Zhang Xiaosheng's face suddenly turned red, and he argued strongly: "No! ”。

Mu Qingming and Mo Han didn't care about the bickering of the two juniors at all, and continued to observe the rich content on the mural.

Zhang Xiaosheng and Ah Hong argued for a moment before stopping.

Thanks to Hong's blessing, Zhang Xiaosheng has forgotten his fear after some bickering.

Ah Hong deserves to have lived more than 100 years longer than Zhang Xiaosheng, and he also knows how to completely dispel the fear of his junior brother.

When they calmed down, they also set their eyes on the mural that Mu Qingming and Mo Han were looking at.

"Master." Zhang Xiaosheng's face returned to its original state, and he asked while looking at it: "It is said on the mural, how did the Longmu clan after they arrived in central Yunnan?" ”。

"With their magical skills that can call the wind and rain, they have become god-like beings in the minds of the local aborigines, and they are highly respected." Mu Qingming said, looking at the mural in front of him.

In the painting, the Longmu clan stands on the top of a tall and lush mountain in the mountains of Yunnan, up and down, the black evil aura overflows, and lightning and thunder fall from the sky.

In the clear water of the lake at the foot of the mountain, a huge column of water rushed straight into the sky, like a flying dragon ascending to the sky.

There are many residents of central Yunnan painted in the mountain, who are kneeling and kowtowing to worship those Longmu clansmen on the top of the mountain.

And by the lake at the foot of the mountain, there are also a few thatched huts, and a few members of the Longmu clan are teaching the local residents, or supervising the local residents to play bronze tools. Most of them are helmets and swords.

"They should also benefit the people, right?" Zhang Xiaosheng looked at it for a long time, and said a conclusion of his own conjecture: "You see, their Longmu clan has given the people of central Yunnan smelting technology." ”。

"You can't say you're completely wrong about that, but I always think that there must be some conspiracy in this?" Mu Qing pondered for a long time, and said with a slight bow: "It seems that the Longmu clan has always wanted to resurrect the Golden Crow. ”。

As soon as he finished speaking, he glanced at the mural he had seen several times before, and moved over.

He walked to another mural, which covered the entire wall from top to bottom, depicting the story of Zhuang Zhuang's entry into Yunnan and the establishment of the ancient Dian Kingdom.

But there are also historical records that do not mention anything about the past, and have never been presented.

That is, after Zhuang Ji became the queen of Dian, he enshrined the Longmu clan as the supreme sacrifice and asked them to form a team of wizards in the Dian Kingdom. And regard the elders among them as national teachers.

At the same time, the Longmu clan taught Wuwen to Zhuang Ji and used it as a cipher text to pass on secrets.

Seeing this, Mu Qingming thought about whether this is how Wuwen spread?

In the past, he only knew that Wuwen was very popular in the ancient south, and even evolved several times, showing several branches. If he hadn't looked at these murals, Mu Qingming would never have thought about the origin of Wuwen and how it spread.

"At the same time, the Longmu clan began to secretly experiment with the people of the Dian Kingdom, and every time they used the method of sacrifice as a cover, they continued to collect human blood and inject the bones of two cobblestones and the golden crow."

As Mu Qingming spoke, he saw a corner of the mural, showing the picture he narrated.

"Wood, do you remember, you once said that when you fought with Emperor Hali again, you touched her heart and found that what made her golden body and soul become one were two beads?" Mo Han stared at the mural and asked, "I always feel that the two stone beads on the mural are very similar to those two beads. ”。

"Red Silkworm Stone Mo and Shadow Stone Bu Mo?" Mu Qingming asked thoughtfully; Mo Han immediately hummed and nodded again and again.

Mu Qingming turned his head to look to the side, and saw that above the other side of the mural, there was a dragon wood clan who put the bloody stone and the golden black bone together.

At first glance, many mysteries have been solved.

Legend has it that the red silkworm stone and the shadow stone Bu Mo are the beads on the staff of the great wizard of the ancient Dian Kingdom, which contains a large amount of divine and ghost power and witch power, and more of them are ghosts and evil yin qi.

On the mural, the Great Witch is the elder of the Longmu clan, and the two cobblestones were brought by the Longmu clan from the northwest. It was the eye of the holy maiden of the Longmu clan, which grew out of the shattered place.

This also explains why the Emperor Mother of Heli can restore her mana with the help of two divine beads, and she can also make the golden body and her soul become one.

"If you look at it this way, your guess is right, this so-called holy woman is the Emperor Mother of Heli." After saying this, Mu Qingming walked towards the mural on the other side.

After standing still, he looked at it again.

I saw that there was a pattern of the tomb of the Dian King on the mural, and I saw that there were Hanfu envoys from the north.

It seems that the mural shows the passage of time and the replacement of the king of Dian. As for the envoys going south, it should be the matter of the Han envoys coming from the north and entering Yunnan.

Among them, Mu Qingming knows. At that time, the King of Dian and the King of Yelang were very arrogant and asked the envoys of the Han Dynasty: "Is it because you have a big land in the Han Dynasty, or are we big?" ”。

So he made a joke and extended an idiom - Yelang is arrogant.

"Master, that's not right." Just when Mu Qingming was concentrating and carefully figuring out the content of the mural, Zhang Xiaosheng suddenly interrupted Mu Qingming's thoughts and said: "According to the Buddhist scriptures, the Emperor Mother of Heli is one of the twenty heavens, how did she become a saint on this mural?" ”。

"Maybe this is the real fact, she fled south and became the mother of the Emperor of Heli, and this name may have been given to her by later generations." Mu Qingming pondered for a while, thinking that the south of Kunlun is the land of Tianzhu, and the earliest story of the Heli Emperor's Mother came from this state, so he said: "Maybe she is really in Tianzhu and has eaten children, so the legend of the Heli Emperor's Mother spread." As for the legend of the Buddha recovering her, I don't know if it's true or not. However, the Immortal Dao summoned her from hell to perform evil magic on a child who had eaten human brain porridge, which means that the soul of this holy woman had died. ”。

In the perception of the dragon lockers, hell is not a place to punish evil spirits, but dead souls can enter hell.

And the current Immortal Dao undoubtedly used an evil technique to open the gates of hell and release the soul of the Emperor Mother of Hali.

It's just that Mu Qingming can't find this evil god now.

Mu Qingming, who was fixed, continued to look at the mural after Zhang Xiaosheng said 'oh', and explained to the people around him while watching: "Before and after the arrival of the envoys of the Han Dynasty, the King of Dian invented many evil arts with the help of sorcerers and sacrifices, including witchcraft and sΓ©ance. ”。

On the mural that he Mu Qingming was staring at, the Longmu clan was cultivating poisonous insects, summoning the undead, and injecting them into the body of the soldier of the Dian Kingdom, and the green tendons on the soldier's body suddenly burst out, his eyes were black and white, and he looked like crazy at the same time.

Speaking of which, this is like the record in the evil book of the Immortal Dao that is interpreted by the wonderful pen, and the Immortal Dao in the past can prolong the life of others through certain evil books, making it a sharp weapon and tool that can only kill people.

"Fantasy Map?" Suddenly, Ah Hong raised his hand and pointed to the mural, which depicted the high priest taking the skin of a black-scaled snake to make a hundred illusions of absorbing and extracting souls.

In the picture, with the priest's spell, a mirage-like scene is released. Thousands of troops and horses galloped out of the picture.

Mu Qingming stared at the mural's eyes, trembling slightly.

Many things that used to be only half-understood for him have received definite answers today.

It turned out that the words recorded in the ancient books were like a puzzle piece, showing a complete picture in front of Mu Qingming's eyes.

The content of the mural after that surprised Mu Qingming and several of them locked the dragon.

On the murals, the wizards and priests of the ancient Dian Kingdom are becoming more and more crazy. More human experiments, disemboweling and disemboweling are presented. Underneath the mural is a conscientious member of the Longmu clan, dressed in priestly costumes, who sneaks into the residence of the Han Dynasty envoy at night, discussing something with him.

The reason why this wooden dragon clan has a conscience is that on the mural in the back, it seems that he stole the Hundred Illusion Map and burned it according to the explanation of the deputy envoy next to the envoy of the Han Dynasty, and began to raise night owls.

And when the envoys of the Han Dynasty left, this clansman of the Longmu clan invited a few like-minded companions to release a large number of night owls together.

For a time, the night owl made the evil people in the entire Yunnan lose their mana, and the priests and wizards lost their power.

At the same time, the army of the Han Dynasty marched south in a big way, killing the evil people in Yunnan.

The conscientious Longmu clan took advantage of the chaos to steal the bones of the Golden Crow. But he couldn't take the two stone beads.

On the mural, these dragons and wood clans fled far away to the mountains and built this underground palace, trying to destroy the bones of the golden crow in the depths of the underground palace, so as not to fall into the hands of people with unrighteous intentions and create harmful evil arts.

And the king of Dian saw that the general trend had gone, and surrendered to Han. Most of his wizards and priests died in battle, and only a small number of them escaped and integrated into the Central Plains society, and since then, they have not been found.

This is the end of the mural, as if it were a story with no ending.

did not explain what happened to the Longmu clan who fled. I didn't make it clear, did the bones of the golden crow be destroyed?

This can be seen as a solution to a mystery, and a regeneration of mysteries.

And Zhang Xiaosheng sighed: "It turns out that the ancient Dian Kingdom died like this." ”。

After that, he added: "It seems that if you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself." ”。

Mu Qingming, however, didn't say a word, turned to look at the bronze gate, and after a long time, he took out a piece of jade; It was the piece of jade that the old flower king handed him before leaving.

"Yin and Yang are immortal." Mu Qingming looked at the jade in his hand, and then looked at the other jade in the gate, interpreted the witch text in it, and said: "However, the evil art is not shallow, and it cannot be recreated." The things of immortality in the afterlife should be irreversible in accordance with the will of heaven. ”。

The content presented by the top few witch texts was quickly interpreted by Mu Qingming.

"The first six words are the current doctrine of the Tao of Eternal Life." Mo Han also looked at the bronze gate, and after thinking for a while in combination with the content of the mural, he said slowly: "Could it be that this Longmu clan is actually the predecessor of the Immortal Dao?" ”。

When the two disciples heard this, they were immediately stunned.

Only Mu Qingming still didn't say a word, continued to look at the witch text on the bronze gate in front of him, and interpreted: "After a thousand years, the person who entered by mistake took the key, and the key was circulated, and the last person who held the key opened the door and entered, and immortality was destroyed. ”。

"Immortality perishes, immortality perishes." After Mu Qingming muttered a few words, he looked at the Zimu Jade in his hand again, and said in surprise: "Could it be that the Longmu clan who built this place foresaw our arrival today, and also foresaw that the old Huazi King once entered this place?" ”。

"Are they prophets?" Zhang Xiaosheng rubbed his nose and said casually: "Can you still foresee the future?" ”。

"Since ancient times, although there are very few people who can have this ability, it is not impossible." Mo Han stood beside Mu Qingming, and also raised his eyes to look at the bronze gate: "Li Chunfeng, ***, can't he also foresee the future?" ”。

"Well, yes. The Longmu clan studied under the Golden Crow, and it is also possible to learn the ancient secret art from this evil thing. As for the ability to foresee, I am afraid that although they are not prophets, they are better prophets. Mu Qingming nodded and said, "I want to go to the back of the door to have a look." ”。

What's behind the door? Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.