On the first day of coming to the ancient city, a few people took a good walk around the ancient city, and met a few other tourists during the process, but most of them came with cameras to take pictures, and I don't know whether they are professional photographers or enthusiasts who study ancient buildings.

For Wei Qingxuan, this ancient city is just a sign of the loneliness of the times. As the heir of the first series family, Wei Qingxuan has understood too many changes of the times, and is also keenly aware that the empire is now at a critical moment of era change.

What ancient buildings, what ancient culture, in his eyes, may be just a bunch of data, maybe with some interest, but if you really want to talk about studying these things, what Wei Qingxuan can think of is just to learn from experience by studying these old eras.

For the rest, most of them are just fresh.

So as little as possible to provoke any other fanatical travelers, the group took a group photo after seeing a few special locations in the ancient city, and then quickly returned to the RV.

The RV is parked on the edge of the square in the middle of the ancient city, next to the viewing platform, while on the other side is the royal palace where the ruler of the ancient city was located at the time. I can't say how magnificent it is, and I don't see how noble it is, but compared to the other buildings around it, the palace is somewhat huge.

From the palace to the square, and then to the viewing platform, this is the central avenue area of the entire ancient city, just like the road from the gate of the Three Thousand Academy to the sea of Three Thousand Books. There are also some buildings next to them that have signs on them, saying that they are places of worship, gladiatorial arenas, auditoriums, etc.

One of the more striking is the architecture of an ashram.

The complex is not very interesting, but it is just around the square in front of the palace gate, and the gate is facing the square. The buildings inside are low, except for a tall tower in the center, which stands tall in the center, but it seems to be an ornament.

Because after they entered, after Fu Tianxuan saw the tower, he immediately wanted to climb to the top of the tower to have a look. This tower may even be the highest building in the entire ancient city, and if you climb to the top of the tower to see the whole of the ancient city, isn't this an experience that every tourist destination should have?

Fu Tianxuan's proposal was unanimously praised, and they were all ready to die of exhaustion here, but when they arrived on the first floor, they found that there were no stairs in the entire first floor, the entire roof was sealed, and there was no passage to the upper floor on the periphery of the tower.

This is very strange, they obviously see that the dozen or so floors above are hollow, why are there no stairs?

At this time, Shao Jiaxian said to them: "Look, there is an introduction to this tower here. ”

The terminal shows a public version of the ancient city's research report, which contains a lot of information about the city's history, its development stage, and the reasons for its eventual decline. Of course, many of these iconic buildings are also introduced.

Regarding this pagoda, the study said that the monastery had a total of 18 floors and a height of 100 meters, and that there was a square platform on each floor except for the first floor, which seemed to be used for retreat and meditation, so the whole was closed and there were no stairs.

In other words, when this pagoda was built, it was prepared for practitioners to retreat inside. Since it was a retreat, it naturally could not be disturbed, so there was no passage to the upper level on each floor. Practitioners retreat on this platform, and if they want to go in and out, they can only go in and out by themselves.

Obviously, this tower was a retreat place for the great practitioners. As a practitioner, you can't climb up from the first floor in front of the whole country, can you? Therefore, those who are able to retreat here must be practitioners above the Heavenly Realm.

The rest of the people lived and practiced in various houses of the monastery, and even did something for the kingdom when necessary, in exchange for resources for cultivation from the royal family, and received the assistance of a large number of civilians.

In ancient times, most of those dynasties, dynasties, and practitioners coexisted in this form of mutual benefit. Therefore, in addition to humanism, the practitioners of that era also derived many other schools of thought.

Including this genre that once existed in this ancient city, it is a genre that has not been recorded in ancient times. They seem to have a kind of body worship, retaining some elements of the witch culture of antiquity, making the human body into various strange symbols engraved in various places in the monastery.

The people who came here to study seem to think that this kind of different symbols of the human body represent some special spiritual meanings, including the special understanding of the heavenly way and human beings by the practitioners here at that time, and if they can figure it out, they can even restore a spiritual culture that has disappeared.

Of course, for people nowadays, the status of a cultivator and the like can almost always be ignored. So at the instigation of everyone, Wei Qingxuan and An Xing climbed directly to the second floor of the tower. After all, the two of them were the only two of these people who had already completed the cultivation of the Ming Body level.

Under everyone's gaze, Wei Qingxuan and An Xing climbed up to the second floor three times and climbed in through the window. As a result, as soon as their feet hit the ground, the brows of the two people furrowed.

What kind of retreat is this? Although it had been so long that it was almost imperceptible, for cultivators like them, this distinct smell of blood could not escape their senses at all.

The source of the smell of blood is the platform in the center of the entire space.

The platform was about a meter high, the size of a single bed, and if it weren't for the smell of blood, even the two of them would have thought it was a place of retreat. After all, stone beds and the like were almost the standard for those practitioners in the retreats in the past.

But if it is really a place of practice, then where does the smell of blood on the stone platform come from?

Wei Qingxuan and An Xing glanced at each other, left the window, and walked into the room, while Mu Si and them outside couldn't see them.

Walking to the side of the stone platform, Wei Qingxuan's face was slightly condensed, and he reached out and touched the smooth stone platform, and found that it was a stone platform that was carved and polished by the rocks in the nearby mountains, which completely ruled out the possibility that the smell of blood was a special stone used to assist in special exercises.

An Xing also approached the stone platform, and after taking a closer look, he said: "The smell of blood has soaked this stone, it seems that after being soaked in blood for many years, the blood has penetrated into the inside of the stone, so that the stone platform itself has the smell of blood." ”

Wei Qingxuan also nodded and agreed with this statement. The edges and crevices of the stone platform, and even the patterns, there is no trace of blood at all, and it is indeed as An Xing said, because it has been soaked in blood all year round, so that the smell of blood has been preserved to this day.

But compared to waking up, Wei Qingxuan also discovered some other things.

"Don't you think it's a little strange?" Wei Qingxuan looked at the stone platform and asked.

"What?"

"This tower is more than 10,000 years old, right? You see the tower outside, although it is still very strong, it has been mottled, and even the edge of the window where we came in just now has traces of weathering. But this stone platform is obviously of the same material and has gone through the same years, but it is still clean and tidy. ”

"Isn't that strange?" Wei Qingxuan asked.

It stands to reason that the window of the tower is open, and it is hard to imagine that the stone platform inside can completely maintain its original posture. Then there is only one problem, that is, the window of this stone tower was not opened before it was developed by archaeology.

Walking to the window, An Xing looked at some scratches on the windowsill that were obviously rubbed in recent years, and affirmed this even more. The window of this stone tower was definitely closed by something, and it was only when they began to come in to study that the window was opened.

And Wei Qingxuan also found from the terminal that when this ancient city was just discovered many years ago, the photo taken here by the discoverer, the stone tower above, the window is clearly not transparent, but is sealed from the inside by the stone slab.

The strong smell of blood on the stone platform means that the stone platform has been soaked in blood for many years, and the people who often let the blood flow on the stone platform, which causes this situation, will not have the habit of cleaning the stone platform frequently. In other words, the original appearance of this stone platform should be extremely fishy and stained with old blood.

Obviously, it was the people who did the research who cleaned the blood stain from it and made the stone platform look new. They even used some cleaning methods to ensure that the blood stains on the stone platform did not leave a trace or smell.

It's a pity that they are still ordinary people after all, and the fact that they can't smell it doesn't mean that the cultivators can't smell it either.

It seems that any retreat places and the like are all lies created by the researchers in order to prevent the true secrets of this stone pagoda from being revealed. Moreover, the study of the human body worship of the ancient city and the old country is certainly not just moving in the direction of certain beliefs.

This ancient city was once an ancient country, and it is likely that it was a kind of sacrificial worship.

That is to say, in their cultivation, they used human lives to improve their own strength, and through believing in a cult, they built this stone pagoda in the ashram to slaughter human beings for many years and provide them with materials for cultivation.

This situation was not uncommon in the early days of antiquity, and it is not unusual.

Such a phenomenon depends on the social environment and human development factors at that time, in ancient times, under the influence of the sound of the extinction, human beings, who were regarded as blood food and livestock by the primeval people, have long been insensitive to the death of their own kind, and after seeing death, it is easy to replicate this phenomenon.

Some cultivators even believe that the reason why the primeval races are favored by the Heavenly Dao and are inherently powerful is that they are the masters of the entire continent because they feed on people, so when the strength of these cultivators is above that of ordinary people, it is inevitable that they will begin to learn from the powerful alien races.

And those strangely shaped human symbols probably represent a bloody culture of cultivation.

But what is strange is that the vast majority of this phenomenon only appeared in the early ancient times, when the dynastic system of mankind had not yet been fully established, the cultivators went their own way, and the ordinary human race was displaced, and it was understandable that such a culture was produced in the troubled times.

Moreover, with the passage of time, a large number of cultivation facts have proved that human body worship and eating human flesh cannot improve the speed of cultivation, let alone strength. Even because of the killing of ordinary people, they will be punished by the Heavenly Dao that gradually accepts the existence of human beings.

After human beings gradually took control of the right to live, the Heavenly Dao had to begin to include human beings in the category of heaven and earth, and the laws of Heavenly Dao also began to provide basic protection to human beings. After that, such schools of worship were basically chopped to death by God's curse.

But the history of this ancient city is obviously not very recent, dating back only a thousand years before the founding of the country, when the Great War of the Races began to move all its inhabitants. At that time, human civilization had developed to an era in which morality and law ruled the world together.

How could it be that in such a hinterland of the Central Plains, such a bloody primitive cultivation culture still existed, and it still existed for so long that the stone platforms were soaked in the smell of blood?

At this time, Fu Tianxuan's voice came: "Big brothers? What's going on? Why hasn't it come out yet? ”

Wei Qingxuan and An Xing glanced at each other, and they both understood what the other party meant.

This place is obviously a place where secrets are hidden, but what does this secret have to do with them? As for those researchers covering up the truth of the matter, it was only out of good intentions, and what the real history is like, I'm afraid only those who have experienced it will know.

What are they going to worry about? Hungry?

Smiling, the two of them climbed out of the window again, clapped their hands and said, "It's nothing, there is a stone bed inside, and the cultivators at that time liked to live in caves and sleep on stone beds, which is normal." It's a retreat place, and I'll show you the pictures. ”

Wei Qingxuan showed them the photo he had just taken, and it was really empty and boring.

But Yu Beibei, who rarely spoke, frowned at this time and whispered to herself: "This place is so familiar!" ”

Yu Beibei's voice was very small, only He Yingyi beside her heard it, and sneered: "Such a cultivation place, there are not a thousand but five hundred that have been found before, it is much the same, there are so many photos on the Internet, maybe you have seen it." ”

Yu Beibei thinks what he said makes sense, but this familiar feeling is still very fresh, I should have seen it recently, but why can't I remember where I saw it? Yu Beibei no longer spoke, but she was still thinking and remembering.

Seeing that it was not early, Wei Qingxuan began to beckon everyone to go back to the RV, they were going to have a barbecue in the evening, and Hei Niu was already preparing a barbecue.

The meat is a high-end product brought from the imperial capital, and it has been processed, just waiting for the grill. Others are also served with some vegetables and large pieces of meat, noodles and vermicelli, fish balls, etc., which can be used for random stewing.

As soon as he heard that he was going to barbecue, Fu Tianxuan was very excited, and said loudly: "It's up to me to see my craftsmanship today, I can tell you, my master is known as the little prince of skillful chefs in Dongyun, if it weren't for my family's big industry, I would have gone directly to be a national chef." ”

He Yingyi couldn't help but hit him next to him: "The national chef doesn't have the classification of barbecue. ”

Fu Tianxuan glared: "Won't I have it if I go?" ”

Okay, you're awesome, you're awesome, right? He Yingyi shrank to Yu Beibei's side and began to be courteous again. But obviously, Yu Beibei's mind is not on him now, she is still thinking about where she saw that cultivation room.

At this time, Fu Tianxuan had already used his fat waist to squeeze out the black cow who had just finished installing the electronic grill, directly grabbed a handful of meat skewers next to him, and put them on the grill in a decent manner, and then messed up the seasoning next to him, and after turning the meat skewers around, he immediately closed the market.

"Here, try my craft!" Fu Tianxuan was beside him.

Mu Si looked at the meat skewers on the plate that seemed to be still bloodshot, and asked cautiously, "Are you sure this can be eaten?" ”

What else did Fu Tianxuan have to say, but the black cow directly pinched a string and looked at it, and smelled it again, it was a little mushy, and the other places were not cooked, and the smell of various condiments was mixed together, and he couldn't bear to look at it directly. The black bull put down the meat skewer and slapped the fat man away: "Won't you make a mess?" ”

The little fat man slipped aside aggrievedly, I just wanted to try it, young people who haven't tried a few times and failed?

Black Bull obviously saw his thoughts, and directly put the handful of meat skewers he baked in front of him: "Don't waste it, this is the price of your failure." ”

What the? Fu Tianxuan almost jumped up, looking at the plate of half-cooked barbecue meat with unknown taste in his hand, and his whole fat face was pinched together. Why do you want to die? Fu Tianxuan raised his head and saw everyone's indifferent gazes, so he had to swallow his saliva and bite down.

It's unpalatable......

By the time the black cow and the others had cooked the meat skewers, and the messy stew in the pot had begun to emit fragrance, Fu Tianxuan had not finished eating the plate of meat skewers.

The black bull looked funny: "Get over here and eat meat!" ”

Fu Tianxuan was like being amnestied, threw the plate aside, and ran to the side of the grill in three jumps, but the meat skewers in the hands of the black cow were stuffed into his mouth, and he quickly washed away the taste of raw meat in his mouth, and felt the ultimate happiness in life.

A few people who were barbecuing saw that it was almost over, and they also took a break for a while, sat next to the grill, opened a case of beer and separated, everyone clinked glasses, and one person served a bowl of steaming stew, which was particularly warm in such late autumn and early winter.

He Yingyun and Xiang Wan became a pair, Wei Qingxuan and Lu Yuqi were about to leave, Fu Tianxuan could only seek comfort from Hei Niu, and the remaining little girls were afraid that they all wanted to marry An Xiaoyu. He Yingyi kept talking to Yu Beibei like a psychic masochist, and then was pierced in the heart again and again.

"Bebe, what's wrong with you? Feeling unwell? He Yingyi's voice was in everyone's ears, like a beggar.

Yu Beibei shook her head.

So He Yingyi asked again: "Is that a bad mood?" You tell me, just say it. ”

Yu Beibei shook her head again: "No, I'm thinking about things." ”

"So what are you thinking? I'll help you think about it! ”

He Yingyun covered her face on Xiang Wan's chest, feeling that this younger brother seemed to be a fake and could not be saved.

However, at this time, Yu Beibei's eyes suddenly lit up and said loudly: "I remembered!" ”

"What do you remember?" Everyone began to wonder.

"The stone platform in the cultivation room!" Yu Beibei said excitedly: "It's exactly the same!" ”

The crowd was even more bewildered.

What is exactly the same?