Chapter 35: The Pilgrimage Route
Bai Yunfei finally got a chance to breathe, and couldn't help but hold on to the statue to breathe as much as he wanted, although it was not far from the fake rock shell on the cliff outside the mountain to here, but for Bai Yunfei, who was still heavily injured, this dark, decaying, sticky and extremely dangerous escape road had exhausted his whole body strength.
Niu Gang and Li Yulan used torches to confront the surging slime monsters, and Bai Yunfei was able to raise his eyes to look at the environment while breathing.
What lifted his spirits was that in addition to the strangely shaped and somewhat evil statues here, there were actually murals on the walls of the cave inside the Tongwang Cave.
These murals are not found in the fake rock shell of the cliff wall at the entrance of the Tongwang Cave, so if you hadn't been chased by these slime monsters to escape here, you wouldn't have found these murals if you ran away from the empty cave space.
These murals firmly attracted Bai Yunfei, and he looked at them one by one in the light of the torches, and the more he looked at them, the more surprised he became, and the more he looked at them, the more excited he became, and he actually forgot about the two people who were confronting the slime monster behind him.
Because Bai Yunfei saw the self-proclaimed "King of Wei" Wei Zhenliang from these coherent murals, with a lofty and arrogant attitude, with the ambition and dream of dominating the world, the "Immortal Beast Country" created, and how to lead to the "Immortal Beast Country" "Pilgrimage Road".
It is said that Niu Gang and Li Yulan are using torches to confront the surging slime monsters at the two statues hidden at the beginning, and there are more and more slime monsters surging around, and the two of them can only intimidate those bloodthirsty slime monsters by waving the torches in their hands constantly.
And the two of them and the surrounding slime monsters have been around for a long time, but they have not been able to sense the slightest reaction from Bai Yunfei around him, which not only makes the two of them very puzzled, because this is not in line with Bai Yunfei's character and character at all, even if it is not his teammates who come to save him, but he comes to save his teammates, in this case, he will never sit idly by.
There must have been another accident!
The two hurriedly turned back in a hurry, but they saw Bai Yunfei holding a torch in front of the cave wall and staring at the mural, so they breathed a sigh of relief, but because of this, they found that there were still murals here.
The two of them breathed a sigh of relief, but they couldn't relax, but were oppressed by the slime monsters that gathered more and more, and the pressure in their hearts became more and more intense, and those crimson slime monsters with a pair of small meat wings on their backs were also able to spit out amazingly harmful mucus from their mouthparts, making it quite laborious and scrambling for the two to deal with.
At this time, Bai Yunfei had already walked forward from the gap between the statue and the cave wall, gradually looking over one by one, and had already seen a lot of murals in a row, completely forgetting the two people behind him who were desperately resisting the slime monster in order to protect him. [@... ...&Better update faster]
And when these two people saw that he had forgotten to see a long distance, they didn't dare to hold on any longer, and quickly retreated to Bai Yunfei's side.
In this way, Bai Yunfei watched as he walked, the two of them followed suit, Bai Yunfei walked forward and they followed back, fortunately, Bai Yunfei was in front, and the roof of the cave was full of ordinary slime monsters
There is no upgraded version of the crimson slime monster drilled out of the "brood", so the pressure of the huge threat that followed behind him was borne by the two people behind.
With the light of the blazing torches, Bai Yunfei looked at the murals in front of him one by one, these murals are ancient and simple, they are the kind of carving-based, but also in the lines and stone walls depicted with color, so it can be seen that the depiction pigment of the mural is corrosion-resistant, and is a good raw material for long-term corrosion resistance, so after thousands of years, the color is still very bright, the mural is lifelike, and it looks very intuitive and eye-catching
The depiction techniques and paint smearing techniques of these murals are very clever, and some of the affairs in the "fairy beast country" in the ancient Wei Dynasty are simply portrayed into legendary stories, which are not only vividly depicted, but also very mythical, which makes people not only deeply fascinated, but also shaken their hearts.
In fact, the two statues where Bai Yunfei, Niu Gang, and Li Yulan hid at the beginning were not where the first mural in the entire mural corridor was located, but they randomly ran to a certain section in the middle of the mural corridor, and it was only at this time that he began to notice that there were murals here.
When Niu Gang and Li Yulan used the torches in their hands to drive away the slime monsters that were besieging them, Bai Yunfei once looked back at a few murals until the very end.
The content reflected in these murals involves many aspects, the first content is the self-proclaimed "King of Wei" Wei Ting, when he was a general under Zhuge Liang, he fought on the battlefield and fought bravely against the enemy.
Then he was the deputy general of Wei Yan, who commanded the divine beast troops, and praised the famous battles or war myths such as "Wooden Ox and Flowing Horse" and "Seven Captures of Meng Huo", and the portrayal of this part is mysterious and treacherous, which casts a mysterious veil on King Wei and his divine beast troops, and it is the most mythical rendering.
After that, Zhuge Liang and Yang Yi and others plotted to kill Wei Yan, which made Wei Ting furious, and in a fit of rage, he rebelled against Zhuge Liang's Shu army, changed his name to Wei Zhenliang, and entered the mysterious tropical rainforest south of the Dian Kingdom, and led his subordinates to create the "Immortal Beast Country", that is, the immortal beast world in the Valley of the Wei Dynasty.
Since then, Wei Xiaoliang has proclaimed himself the "King of Wei" and created a mysterious but powerful country of "fairy beasts".
After the mural that reflects the enthronement of the King of Wei, the mural behind is how the King of Wei led his subordinates to deal with the primitive beasts and poisonous insects in the tropical jungle, and fought against the natural environment, creating a beautiful and powerful new home, and finally forming a small country.
The next few coherent murals tell the story of the King of Wei leading his subordinates, as well as the people and miscellaneous servants, in the mysterious rainforest of southern Yunnan, that is, in the valley of the Wei kings in present-day Burma, using the other three treacherous natural geographical environments, relying on the complex and dangerous mountains and rivers around them, forming a dangerous "national border". Through some ingenious and magical techniques, the Black Mist Valley was created, so that the last direction was built into an excellent defensive environment, thus sealing the "Immortal Beast Country" and forming a world like a world
A world of paradise.
However, after the "fairy beast country" is closed, the exchanges and contacts with the outside world will be interrupted, and many affairs cannot be carried out, although the country can also independently carry out military, farming, textile, hunting, fishing and animal husbandry, and other various handicraft workshops or social production labor, but after all, some external resources are needed to flow in, and there are some things inside that need to be exported to the outside world, such as going out to sell those magical "fairy beasts" that they have cultivated, even if they are ordinary animals that have not been improved and cannot become "fairy beasts", Selling to small neighboring countries in exchange for the resources they need is an urgent need to break down barriers.
This requires creating a channel that can communicate and contact with the outside world at any time, and become a "lifeline" and "diplomatic bridge" for the "Immortal Beast Country" to thrive.
Although the "Immortal Beast Country" has a natural and sinister landscape geographical environment, which cannot be easily attacked by the outside world, this channel for free trade and cultural and diplomatic exchanges undoubtedly has great security risks, and it is completely a necessary channel for foreign enemies to invade.
Therefore, in the process of building this channel, the King of Wei was afraid that the hostile small countries or other surrounding forces in the outside world would eyeing their "Immortal Beast Country" and have ill intentions, relying on this convenient channel to suddenly attack them, so how to make this channel have both a free communication function and a very hidden nature is the most important thing for the King of Wei.
So, through the genius Wei Xiaoliang's planning, there was also a mountain cliff that was knocked open by the second bull running frenzy, and the exposed Tongwang Cave in the real sense is the most correct path to the tomb of King Wei in the Valley of King Wei, as well as the "Immortal Beast Country", and it is also the first section at the beginning.
However, this path is destined not to be passed smoothly.
Wei Zhenliang, a generation of heroes, not only wanted to ensure the safety of the "Immortal Beast Country" he set up, and not be occupied by other small countries around him, conspiring to infiltrate and occupy by force, but he also needed to "go out and invite in", and needed to carry out normal free trade, a variety of cooperation and cultural exchanges, so he turned this passage path starting from Tongwang Cave into a pilgrimage.
That is to say, through cultural dissemination and religious superstition propaganda, as well as the setting up of some sinister passes, etc., so that the surrounding small countries that have become his vassal states, or other countries that want to interact with the "Immortal Beast Country", can complete their exchanges with the "Immortal Beast Country" in a pilgrimage posture by visiting him.
Judging from the murals, this road was completely mythologized as a pilgrimage road by the Wei king, so there are these murals in this cave that praise his glorious deeds, and similarly, those vicious statues that the envoys and subjects of those small foreign countries must respect with awe and piety. It's a ritual, but it's also a way of manifesting power.
At the same time, he was afraid that the hostile country would easily discover the cave at the beginning of this path, so he used his magical beast control technique to transplant those "mother nests" that can secrete "paraffin" above the mouth of the cave, and when he encountered hot air, this magical monster
It will frantically secrete a "paraffin" solution and seal the hole.
In order to allow outsiders to enter the "Immortal Beast Country", but also unable to find and find the initial entrance of the path, a few kilometers outside the mountain, the remains of the old military camp site destroyed by those "Sword Thorn Bull" are a "blindfolded" post station, all those who want to enter the "Immortal Beast Country" outsiders, must be blindfolded here, by the "Immortal Beast Country" of the "foreign envoys" under the samurai, bring the outsiders into the Tongwang Cave, through the follow-up road, and finally complete the "pilgrimage journey", to meet the King of Wei.
Through the portrayal of the mural, Bai Yunfei was able to know that anyone who was blindfolded, if he was curious or had a bad heart, dared to forcibly or opportunistically remove the blindfolded silk cloth, he would definitely be punished by those slime monsters and some other evil means, and eventually become a pile of white bones.
Bai Yunfei was convinced that at that time, only in this way could outsiders with bad intentions and conspiracies have bad intentions towards the Immortal Beast Country, it would be difficult for outsiders with conspiracies to find that there was a shortcut to the "Immortal Beast Country" in the Wei King Valley, a flat "broad road".
Even if they have bad intentions, in the blindfolded state, like immortals stepping on immortal clouds, they walk through this pilgrimage path in a trance, but they cannot know the true situation of this path.
And those "broods" that can secrete "paraffin" can not only repair the damage of the mountain and prevent the leakage of secrets, but also cultivate the ordinary version of the slime monster and the upgraded version of the crimson slime monster, these slime monsters will be a touchstone to test the mentality of foreign pilgrims, whether they are pious and awe-struck enough, and whether they can worship King Wei as a god in their hearts, when passing through the Tongwang Cave full of slime monsters, there will be completely different results.
It is difficult to find out how the specific means are carried out on the murals, but the general meaning of the murals is very clear: those small countries that are very friendly and awe-inspiring, as well as the envoys and trade people of the countries who have voluntarily become vassals, the greeters of the "Immortal Beast Country" will make their subordinates use some mysterious and magical means to temporarily put those slime monsters in a state of shock and hibernation, so that they will not attack outsiders, and those with bad intentions, after being discovered, when passing here, Those terrifying slime monsters will be the final nightmare of their lives.
Further on, there are many murals on the cliff walls of the cave, which depict the pilgrimage road to the final destination, in addition to various depictions of praise and reverence for the Wei king.
In the praise and propaganda of the murals, Bai Yunfei saw a very glorious image of himself as a wise monarch, a diligent king, an invincible general, a great inventor who can invent and create, and such a heroic figure dazzlingly assembled, and it can even be said to be a collection of mythical characters.
This is the King of Wei.
It was such a "god man" who was not named in the annals of history at all that they were going to excavate and explore the tomb of King Wei in the Valley of King Wei.
However, what made Bai Yunfei a little crying and laughing was that in ancient times, all outsiders were blindfolded, since no outsiders would see it, so what was the use of carving so many murals on the stone wall in this Tongwang Cave?
(End of chapter)