Desert Beacon Smoke Chapter Ninety-Eight, Maitreya Grottoes

The scientific expedition team drove the camels, trekked through mountains and rivers, followed Chen Haopeng's signal coordinates for a long time, and finally came to a mountain range near the snow line.

The people walked along the mountain, but found that there was no way forward.

It was a gloomy day, the mountain wind was howling, the grass was full of 10,000 years of snow, and people's eyes were blown red by the mountain wind.

I saw that the ridge in the distance stretched vertically and horizontally, but it was broken under the feet of everyone to form a natural huge fault, and a vein of the Tianshan Mountains was actually interrupted here, and the whole ridge seemed to be split by a big axe, forming a huge valley.

Under the valley, as far as the eye can see, a cloud of red mist lingers in the valley, and the stones on the mountain are mostly ochre-red. It was like a white dragon being cut off at the waist, and bright red blood flowed from the wound.

Xue Pu knew that where the dragon vein was cut off, there would be a big evil. And now in such a fierce area, the only thing that can be compared to it is the evil and dead water of Xiyuan City.

However, Xiyuan City is a small city after all, and above this Tianshan Mountain is a network of famous mountains, each with its own danger that cannot be said.

Zhou Yunfeng couldn't help but complain: "I'll take it, it's spectacular!" Creation Zhong Shenxiu, yin and yang cut the dawn! ”

The little fox couldn't help but cover his face and complain when he heard this: "Da Lao Tie is using bad words again." "She leaned on her camel and drank some water, and her strength was a little weak. A pair of autumn pupils looked at Xue Pu unconsciously, for fear that he would see it and hand it back.

Looking at the red dot flashing on the radar map on Chen Haopeng's laptop screen, everyone knew that the drone had crashed here, and after a short rest, they followed the signal to look around.

Under the broken ridge, there is no bottom in sight, and no one knows what is under the red mist.

This eerie profundity is chilling and curious.

Xue Pu fixed the sling, and Sakuraku's big mountain slid down the sling down the valley, and he reported the situation to Sakura Momoko in Japanese, with a camera on his head.

Soon the martial artist disappeared into the red mist.

However, everyone can also see the images he transmits in real time through the computer.

Most of the rock walls of the valley are ochre-red stones, but surprisingly, these stones are unusually shiny and smooth, and they are invariably ceramic.

Professor Jia Wenwen pushed his glasses and thought to himself, he knew that this situation was exactly the same as the situation in the melting city when he came.

This is the first time he has seen this situation in his life, even if it is in many ancient books, it is absolutely not mentioned.

The sling went down a little bit, and the light in the valley became darker and darker.

Gradually, the color of daylight faded away, and the sky and earth were shrouded in a foggy dark red.

He was in a deep valley, unable to see the sky or the earth, and could only cling to the rock wall a little bit.

Soon Daiyama found the wreckage of the drone on a steep cliff face, and he was surprised by what appeared in front of him.

"Buddha!? It's the Buddha! The mountain shouted upwards from below the rock face.

Through the dark shadows in the red mist, he saw a grotto appear on the cliff in front of him, and a statue of an Indian Buddhist Bodhisattva was carved from the rock in the grotto.

Jia Wenwen pushed his glasses, thoughtfully, and looked at the statue of the Bodhisattva in the grotto, with a thin figure, a crown of gold jewels, carved tattoos, naked clothes, and a navel.

The Buddha knotted the Buddha seal in his hand, sat on the golden platform, and was exceptionally well preserved.

From the aesthetic and modeling point of view, it is a typical Northern Dynasties period, the Western Regions statue.

According to Professor Gu Jiawen's analysis, this Bodhisattva should be Maitreya Buddha, to be precise, Buddhism at that time called him 'Maitreya Bodhisattva Mahasattva'.

The early Maitreya Buddha was not the image of the pot-bellied monk of the later Han Buddhism, but in fact the image given by many bodhisattvas like Manjushri Puxian.

The origins of the belief in Maitreya are complex, and the word Maitreya is also translated from the Tocharian language of Kuzi.

In Buddhism, Maitreya represents the future Buddha, and in some other religions in Central Asia and West Asia in the Western Regions, Maitreya is also believed to mean "light" and "flame".

Therefore, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when the Guangming Sect revolted, it was also necessary to play the slogan of "Maitreya was born".

When the matter was investigated here, Xue Pu and the others were also stunned from the bottom of their hearts, and they had something to do with fire.

When everyone saw that they had gained something, they wanted to pull the mountain back to the cliff, but they were opposed by the mountain.

He shouted at the bottom of the cliff for a long time, and Xue Pu also understood the cry of Ya Butterfly, Ya Butterfly.

Da Lao Tie couldn't help but complain: "Is this mountain double force bad kidneys!" A big man, Ya Yan Butterfly, Ya Yan Butterfly shouted very happily! ”

Although the people of the Sakura family were a little worried, they still went down with the camera according to Oyama's opinion.

As the rope slowly descended, the images coming from the computer screen were jaw-dropping.

I saw that there were countless large and small brick-red grottoes on the cliff wall, which were closely arranged and carved with countless Buddha statues.

The Buddha statues are densely packed and coiled down along the cliff wall, and the whole valley is surrounded by these cave statues, and the two sides of the valley seem to be a secret room full of Buddha shrines.

The mountain was lowered to the bottom, and after some exploration, it was found that there was no danger, so the expedition team was also curious, and descended along the zipline to see the miraculous discovery in this canyon.

Xue Pu held the compass in his palm and lowered it down the zipline, and the pointer of the compass in his palm sometimes turned the needle, sometimes floated the needle, obviously out of order.

There is a way not to enter dangerous places, Xue Pu felt that things were not simple, so he asked the little fox and Lu Jia to stay on it, and implored Wang Zebin to take care of the two.

Wang Zebin shook his head, and Little Fox and Lu Jiayi also refused, after all, these two girls, one is a beautiful female thief who has searched for countless people in the Dragon Tower Treasure Palace, and the other is a famous girl from an archaeological family and quite a genius.

No one will miss the opportunity to witness the remains of the monuments.

Besides, it was about the secret of Falklu back then, and the life and death of Lu Jiayi's parents, she would definitely not stay on it.

So the two also followed the scientific expedition team, followed the zipline, and descended to the bottom with everyone.

Sakura Momoko is dressed in a field costume, sassy and shapely, and has a plump figure.

She's sliding down surprisingly fast, she's very good at it, and it's clear that she's extremely professionally trained.

On the other hand, Chen Haopeng, who became a monk halfway, needed the help of Xue Pu to slide down smoothly, and Zhou Yunfeng also relied on his good physical strength to descend along the zipline.

Needless to say, the little fox's body is naturally needless to say, she can also help Lu Jia slide, but her weak and thin figure always looks much thinner and haggard in front of Sakura Momoko, who is also a woman, and because of this, she is a little more pitiful.

Entering the valley bottom, everyone was stunned, and countless Buddhist shrines and grottoes were densely packed with stars.

The Buddha cave stretches out from the crowd until it disappears in the red mist, and it is truly breathtaking to look up at the Buddha.

In terms of scale, it is at least half the size of the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang.

And as the grottoes and Luoyang are different, Luoyang's Longmen Grottoes originated from the Northern Wei Dynasty, and even the style and size of the later generations are uneven, and the times are quite different, among which the statues of Buddha, Bodhisattva, King Kong, and Arhat abound.

And the grottoes here, in terms of the aesthetics of the statues, the single shape and workmanship are not as expressive as the Central Plains, and the times are also limited to the style of the Northern Dynasties.

And the carved statues are also "Maitreya", these Maitreya sit dignifiedly, as if smiling but not smiling, faintly revealing a trace of mystery.

The shrine is also surrounded by flames.

But even so, the statues are jaw-dropping enough.

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