1

When the first rays of sunlight in the east shone on the tranquil water, Tang Feng walked to the shore of the dead sea, a burst of golden phosphorescence flashed, the originally calm water surface suddenly changed, there seemed to be a glance underwater, no, it could also be that many springs were constantly spraying out of the water surface, until the water surface in front of Tang Feng was completely boiling, Tang Feng's eyes widened, and he looked at the boiling water surface in surprise, so what was below? Skull Mandala? Or countless pythons?

The surface of the water slowly parted, and after a cloud of mist, the masked woman reappeared, only to ...... It's just that this time the woman wearing the mask came out from underwater, and she slowly drifted to the shore, which made Tang Feng surprised to eat that this woman didn't even carry a drop of water on her!

Tang Feng still instinctively stepped back, didn't take two steps back, leaned against the cowardly Xue Jun stele, the woman wearing the mask stopped three steps away from Tang Feng, Tang Feng still couldn't see the eyes from her black hole sockets, what kind of face was behind the mask that shone with metallic luster?

Tang Feng was still thinking nonsense, and the woman spoke first, "Are you okay?" ”

"No...... Not so good! We couldn't find a way into Mi Cheng. Tang Feng said.

"That's all because of the monk Ba Sipa, who blocked the passage into Mi City." The masked woman said calmly.

"He? Why did Phag-pa block the passage into Mi City? Tang Feng was a little surprised by the woman's words.

"Because from Genghis Khan to Kublai Khan, the war between Mongolia and Western Xia lasted for a long time, and the party members made them suffer, Genghis Khan died in Western Xia, and Kublai Khan almost died here, so Ba Si Pa didn't want the party to have this place and occupy the city again!" When the woman said this, she suddenly changed her words and asked Tang Feng, "You must have heard the story of the Jiqian Lao Wang Di Jinze incident, right?" ”

Tang Feng nodded, "I know that Li Jisheng, the leader of the Dangxiang clan, was lured into the Song Dynasty and forced to hand over the land of the Five Prefectures and belong to the Song Dynasty. Li Jisheng's clan brother Jiqian refused to give in, only took hundreds of people out of the desert in the middle of the sea to resist the Song Dynasty self-reliance, after the relocation, Deming two generations of Xiping King, and then to King Hao, three generations of monarchs for decades of efforts, the party people re-strengthened, established the Western Xia, and in the Song Liao to resist for hundreds of years! ”

The woman wearing the mask bowed slightly, "You are right, when Li Jisheng dedicated the land of Wuzhou, the party members were almost wiped out, only Jiqian Lao Wang refused to give in, only brought only a few hundred people, and fled to the desert Dijinze, and later, the foundation of the entire Western Xia began at that time." You should now understand why King Hao named this place 'Mi Cheng', right? Mi is the place where our nation originally originated, our party Xiang nationality crisscrossed the grassland desert for thousands of years, several times sinking, and several times rising, as long as there are unwilling to give in to the party people back here, they can re-develop and grow here, Mi Cheng is like a seed of the party people, when the king of Hao looked at the territory of Xixia, the east, the south, and the west are all heavily garrisoned, only the north is empty, and see that this place is extremely dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, when it is in danger, it can be another place Jinze, so build a city here, and send the most brave and warlike clansmen to garrison here, It is hoped that when the party is in danger, it will play a role like Dijinze and become the source of national rejuvenation. ”

"I understand, so when the Mongol army spent decades, killed and wounded, and captured Micheng, Ba Sipa did not want any party members to return here in the future and revive the foundation of the party, so he blocked the road to Micheng and did not let Liu Bingzhong record this matter, so that future generations did not know this secret history at all. However, I still can't figure out how Phag-pa used to block the passage to Mi Cheng. Tang Feng's heart was still full of questions.

The woman wearing the mask muttered for a long time, and did not answer Tang Feng's question, Tang Feng stared at the woman's mask anxiously, under the dazzling sunlight, Tang Feng tried his best to see the face behind the mask, but all he saw was a mask, an expressionless mask, what was she thinking? Or is it already out of body? Why don't you speak? Don't answer my questions?

Tang Feng pondered a series of questions in his heart, at this time, the woman wearing the mask suddenly took two steps forward, almost leaning against Tang Feng, somehow, at this time, Tang Feng didn't dare to look directly at the woman's mask, he was at a loss, he didn't know what the woman in the mask wanted to do? The woman seemed to be looking at Tang Feng, and suddenly, the woman wearing the mask turned around and stood side by side with Tang Feng at the water's edge, and then, Tang Feng saw that the woman slowly raised her right hand again, and every time she raised her right hand, she was going to be unlucky! This time, when Tang Feng saw the action of the woman wearing the mask, he trembled unconsciously, although this time the woman's right hand was not pointing at herself, but at the water.

Before Tang Feng could understand, he heard an extremely dull sound in the ear chakra, the sound was not loud, as if it came from a very distant place, but Tang Feng felt the earth under his feet tremble slightly, and then, the vast water surface of the Immortal Sea began to boil, like countless springs under the water, gushing out continuously......

After a while, the water surface returned to calm, Tang Feng was surprised, he felt that the water surface seemed to be starting to fall, the water surface was still very calm, but the water surface was falling obviously. Tang Feng half-opened his mouth and looked at the scene in front of him in surprise, suddenly, Tang Feng saw that under the receding water, a giant python with a thick bowl mouth was spitting out letters, staring at himself, Tang Feng was shocked, and then looked at the masked woman next to him, but there was no trace......

2

"I saw it, I saw it!" Tang Feng screamed, wanting to open his eyes, but he was pierced by the strong sunlight.

Tang Feng had another nightmare, when he woke up, the sky was already bright, but he didn't have time to remember the nightmare that was not a nightmare just now, he felt the white sand particles under his body began to beat slightly, he hurriedly sat up, but saw that Han Jiang, Liang Yuan, Yelena and Makarov were not beside him, but lined up, standing straight on the edge of the sea of death.

Tang Feng just wanted to stand up, but he felt the ground shake slightly, "This...... What's going on? Was there an earthquake? Tang Feng shouted at Han Jiang and them.

"Nope! This...... It's not an earthquake, it's a miracle! Han Jiang shouted.

"Miracle?!" Tang Feng hurriedly stumbled to Han Jiang and the others.

"Look, it's not foggy today, the sun has just risen, and the miracle you were waiting for yesterday has finally arrived!" Han Jiang looked at the water in front of him and muttered.

"Strange ...... A miracle really happened...... "Tang Feng found that the water level of the sea began to fall again, and at this moment it had retreated to a position more than one meter below the stele base of the cowardly Xue Jun, and the water level was still falling, this decline did not seem to be as fast as Liu Bingzhong mentioned in the inscription, and the rising and falling water they encountered yesterday was not as suspenseful as recorded in the inscription, but everything was indeed very similar to what was recorded in the inscription, and the water level was obviously declining.

When the water level of the Xiangsheng Sea dropped to a position two meters below the stele of the cowardly Xue Jun, Liang Yuan first noticed the abnormality, "Look, what is that?" ”

They looked in the direction of Liang Yuan's finger, and a large area of reeds appeared on the edge of Haizi in front of them, and on the water surface about thirty meters away from the reeds, a large shadow was slowly emerging from the water.

"Yes...... It's a mandala, it's a skull mandala! Tang Feng opened his mouth half-open in surprise, and he didn't know if it came from his mouth or from his throat.

The water level is slowly and precisely descending as if it were manipulated! Under the early morning sun, a large shadow was slowly revealed, and a large piece of white flowers, as recorded in legends and inscriptions, after the sea receded, the skeleton mandala was exposed.

At this time, the upper part of the skull mandala was clearly displayed in front of everyone. Everyone was surprised, because although they had imagined the shape and scale of the Skeleton Mandala countless times in their minds, their imagination was not worth mentioning compared to the real Skeleton Mandala! I saw that the upper part of the mandala is densely superimposed with white bones, regular and grand, and each area of the mandala is cleverly superimposed and interspersed with different bone parts, like a complex system engineering.

As the water level continued to drop, what surprised Tang Feng even more was the scale of the skull mandala, the entire mandala was rectangular, and when the water level of the sea of life dropped to the bottom of the mandala, no more, no less, it stopped continuing to fall! Only then did Tang Feng see clearly that there was a wide avenue more than ten meters wide behind the reeds in front of the left, which was higher than the surrounding water surface and extended to the south, and this road was not far from the skull mandala. Tang Feng somewhat understood, the Skeleton Mandala is located on the road to Mi City, no wonder Ba Si Pa insisted on building the Mandala here, not only to overkill the soul, but also to block the road to Mi City!

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The scale of the skull mandala is beyond everyone's imagination, Tang Feng couldn't see the end of the skull mandala for a while, only saw the mandala stretching on the long lift, the mandala is four or five meters high, such a height also surprised everyone!

"It's amazing! It's like a castle, it's just ...... It's just that it's all made up of bones. Yelena exclaimed.

"I originally thought that the so-called Skeleton Mandala was a little bigger than the Jingguan we saw in Qianhu Town, but I didn't expect it...... This is simply a super grand Beijing view! Han Jiang exclaimed.

"No, this is not Kyokan. Jingguan is to show off martial arts, and the bones of the enemy are built into Jingguan; Liu Bingzhong's inscription makes it very clear that this is a mandala, and Ba Si Pa built it here, not to show off his martial arts, but to surpass the soldiers on both sides who have died in battle for decades! Today, there are many mandalas made of prayer slabs in Tibetan areas, but they are just ...... It's just that the mandala in front of us is made of the bones of countless people. Tang Feng explained.

"I remember that the mandalas in Tibet were all built with stone slabs engraved with Buddhist scriptures, so will there be Buddhist scriptures on the mandala in front of us?" Liang Yuan asked suddenly.

Tang Feng was shocked in his heart, yes, the stone slabs that built the mandala were engraved with scriptures, could it be that these white bones were also engraved with scriptures? Tang Feng thought of this, packed his bags, and said, "Whether there are scriptures engraved on it or not, you will only know in the past." ”

"Shall it go now?" Liang Yuan asked a little scared.

"Do we still have to wait here? The ancient legend and the record on the stele of the cowardly Xue army point us in the direction, I believe that the general's people should not have found this place by now, but they are nearby, we must get ahead of them! Tang Feng said that he had already packed his bags and walked towards the reeds in front of him.

Everyone hurriedly followed Tang Feng, and when they got closer, Tang Feng found that the original reeds should have grown in a high place, that is, the location of the stone tablet base they saw yesterday, and now the water has receded, and the roots of the reeds have all been exposed, so it seems that in recent years, the water level of the sea should have been maintained at the height seen yesterday.

Tang Feng pushed away the dense reeds, and a strange feeling instantly swept through his body, and he suddenly remembered that nightmare again, he also broke into the dense reeds like this, stepped on the damp white sand, and suddenly, a white human bone was exposed...... Tang Feng thought of this, a white bone really flashed in front of his eyes, Tang Feng was startled, and looked at it, it turned out that Liang Yuan found a white bone from the mud, it was a human tibia!

"Throw it away!" Tang Feng reprimanded.

"Look at how timid you look now, I'm afraid of this! How can you enter the Skull Mandala later! Liang Yuan threw the bone and said with a smile.

Oh, yes! Tang Feng felt that his nerves were becoming more and more sensitive and fragile now, and there would be such a huge skeleton mandala waiting for him later.

Tang Feng was silent and continued to walk forward, and after about ten minutes, they walked out of the reeds and came to the avenue leading to the Skull Mandala, which was also the road to Mi City.

The avenue is about ten meters wide, like a sea plank road protruding on the water, Tang Feng walked to one of the sides, the water level of the sea has stopped falling, but the water level has receded so much, standing on the edge of this avenue and looking down, Tang Feng still feels dizzy, and the sea of life is still bottomless. "What a magical Haizi!" Tang Feng couldn't help but sigh again.

Han Jiang also saw the clue, "No wonder Pasipa wants to build a mandala here, and there is still no way to enter Micheng elsewhere, only here when the water recedes to this position, the avenue leading to Micheng will be revealed." ”

"I think this is the so-called 'great mystery' of Ba Sipa, several things he did after breaking through Micheng were for the long-term peace and stability of the Yuan Dynasty, how can it be long-term stability? is not to let people, especially the party members, return here and occupy Micheng, so he took a series of measures, one is to strictly order the soldiers not to kill indiscriminately and not to loot, so as to appease the hearts of the surviving party members and resolve the grievances between the two sides for decades; Of course, this first article may not be effective, so Ba Si Pa took several measures, second, not to let any written record about this war pass on, even Liu Bingzhong, who was the noble Zaifu, was no exception, so Liu Bingzhong had no choice but to record this matter on the stele of the Timid Xue Army, which stood in this inaccessible place for hundreds of years; 3. Building the huge skeleton mandala in front of you is not only to superimpose the soul and resolve the grievances, but also to skillfully block the road to Micheng with the mandala. I even suspect that the nameless fire recorded in the inscription on the stele of the Cowardly Xue Army was also secretly ordered by Ba Sipa, if this is true, then this is also a one! Tang Feng seems to have cracked the so-called great mystery of Liu Bingzhong, the secret language of Ba Sipa.

"It's unlikely, isn't it? At that time, their people were still in Micheng, and arson would inevitably cause casualties among themselves, and this contradicted what you said in order to resolve the grudges with the party members! Makarov doubted.

"This ...... I'm just skeptical, and no evidence has been found right now, so I can only be suspicious, but I can't rule out the possibility. ”

"Tang Feng, I don't understand a little bit either." Yelena suddenly asked, "If Ba Si Pa wants to block the road into Mi City, then wouldn't he just dig up this causeway, even if it is only a small section, won't he achieve his goal?" ”

"This ......" Yelena's question made Tang Feng unable to answer.

"Maybe there's some mystery in this mandala?!" Makarov said.

"And the mystery?" Makarov's words made Tang Feng fall into deep thought.

Tang Feng was thinking about Yelena's question, and Liang Yuan suddenly saw a skull in front of the avenue, "Look, this is the water rushing down from the mandala!" ”

Saying that, Liang Yuan used his hand to take the skull, Tang Feng wanted to stop it again, it was too late, only to see a small snake with a small body rushing out of the skeleton's eye socket, and suddenly pounced on Liang Yuan, Liang Yuan was so frightened that he lost his face and screamed, Han Jiang reacted quickly enough, grabbed the snake on Liang Yuan's body, fell to the ground, and then pulled out the dagger and cut the snake into two pieces with one knife.

Liang Yuan gradually stopped screaming, Tang Feng just wanted to say two words to her, "Tell you not to touch these things...... Unexpectedly, a surprised scene caught everyone's eyes, only to see that the snake that had been divided into two sections by Han Jiang was still wriggling in the front half of its body, squirming into the water little by little, and finally jumped into the water and disappeared in the blink of an eye, and the second half of the snake was cut off under the strong sunlight, instantly turned into a pile of snake skin.

4

Everyone looked at the scene in front of them in amazement, and no one knew what kind of snake it was? Even the well-informed Makarov did not know what kind of snake it was.

Everyone continued to move forward, although the road to the skeleton mandala was not too far, but they walked carefully for twenty minutes, before they came to the front of the mandala, one by one hideous skeletons and white bones piled up like a castle, in the middle of the castle even made the shape of a door, this is the entrance to the mandala? The five people looked at each other, and no one knew what would be in there.

Han Jiang was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "It seems that I'm the first one again, what are you still doing!" Come in! ”

"From ...... From there? Tang Feng pointed to the white city gate, as if asking Han Jiang.

"Nonsense, if you don't get in from there, where else can you get in from?" Han Jiang said and strode into the bone-filled city gate, and the others had no choice but to follow in.

Entering the gate of the White Bone City, inside is a wall made of white bones and skulls, Tang Feng observed it carefully, and then he was bold and pushed it with his hand, the white bone wall did not move at all, strange? This wall of bones didn't use any adhesive materials, just these bones and skeletons were stacked together, and it was so strong? Tang Fenghu suspiciously followed behind Han Jiang and bypassed this wall, behind which was a square courtyard, of course, this courtyard was also made of white bones all around.

Tang Feng glanced at it twice, and couldn't help sneering: "This Ba Si Pa and Liu Bingzhong seem to be worthy of being master architects!" ”

"Master builder?"

"You don't know, in history, Liu Bingzhong and Ba Si Pa can be regarded as masters of planning and architecture, Liu Bingzhong presided over the construction of the Yuan Dadu, which is today's Beijing City; Phags-pa presided over the construction of many important temples such as the Sakya Monastery in Tibet and the Baita Monastery in Beijing. You see, this mandala made of bones is also made into a courtyard house, which is very different from the stone scripture mandala I saw in Tibet! "Tang Feng doesn't seem to be as nervous as he was before he came in.

"There just don't have a roof!" Liang Yuan muttered.

Tang Feng looked up, although the Skeleton Mandala made the appearance of a castle, with walls and doors, but it did not make a roof, at this time, the courtyard where they were located was more like a patio. Looking out from the top of the patio, the sun is shining outside, since yesterday after the fog dissipated, the temperature of the sea has risen sharply, just now Tang Feng was sweating profusely by the blazing sun before entering the skull mandala, but at this time it was like coming to another world, he didn't know why the blazing sun couldn't shine into this mandala, maybe ...... Maybe it's because the yin energy here is too heavy!

When Tang Feng was thinking nonsense, Liang Yuan slapped him violently, scaring him half to death, he just wanted to have a seizure, but Liang Yuan pointed to a large piece of white bone beside him, and exclaimed: "Look, look, there are words on it!" ”

Tang Feng was also surprised, and looked at it fixedly, and sure enough, this pelvis bone was engraved with dense small characters, which were Xixia scripts, Tang Feng roughly identified them, and exclaimed: "Sure enough, it's scriptures!" ”

At this time, Han Jiang, Yelena and Makarov also found words on other skeletons, and Tang Feng recognized them one by one, and was even more surprised, "It's all Buddhist scriptures, and ...... And I just looked at these few pieces, and I already found four kinds of text. ”

"What? Are you saying that these verses engraved on the bones were written in different scripts? Han Jiang glanced at a skeleton beside him in surprise.

"Yes, there are Tangut scripts, ancient Tibetan scripts, Basipa scripts, and even Chinese characters!" Tang Feng looked at everyone in surprise.

"What, then, do these verses say?" Yelena asked.

"To understand this, I'll have to take a closer look." Tang Feng said and began to continuously check the neatly stacked row of skeletons, and after a while, Tang Feng seemed to see some famous halls, "I picked a bone engraved with Chinese characters and looked at it, it was engraved with different Buddhist scriptures, let me take a look at it again." ”

Tang Feng walked forward, Han Jiang and the others followed him, and everyone passed through a door and entered a narrow alleyway, surrounded by skeletons, five people were next to these skeletons, it was so close, Tang Feng had a feeling of suffocation, all the way, his eyes were full of white skeletons, and dense Buddhist scriptures, suddenly, he stopped, the alley here opened up, Tang Feng suddenly pointed to the words on one of the skulls, and said: "I saw some famous halls, I just looked at the Chinese language, but also read the Ba Si Pa text, In the Tangut language, when I compare several scripts, I find that the Buddhist scriptures written in these different languages are often the same. ”

"Does that mean that these four characters are engraved with the same Buddhist scriptures?" Liang Yuan said.

"Yes, it's all the same, although I've only seen this small part, I can already deduce that these bones should be engraved with a Tripitaka!"

"What? The Tripitaka! I've heard that the Tripitaka is a collection of major Buddhist scriptures, and that must be huge! Liang Yuan exclaimed.

"Yes, that's why we saw such a massive mandala, it's not a mandala carved and piled up by the faithful, it's a big religious action organized and planned by the emperor Phagsipa from the beginning, and he was organized from the beginning, and the scale of the mandala surprised me. Of course, we haven't finished reading it, and we don't know if we have carved the entire Tripitaka in the first place. Tang Feng said excitedly.

"Why did Phags-pa engrave the Tripitaka on these bones? Is it just to overtake the souls? Han Jiang asked puzzled.

"Maybe that's the power of faith!" Tang Feng sighed softly and walked deeper into the mandala.

5

Tang Feng continued to walk forward, and entered the narrow alleyway again, still with white skeletons and dense scriptures on the skeletons. As he walked, Tang Feng suddenly felt that everything here was so familiar, and his heart slammed, could it be ...... Could it be that they are back in the alleyway they just walked?

Turning around in the cookie-cutter alleyway of the mandala, Tang Feng's eyes widened, and they entered a circular hall, Tang Feng exhaled lightly, and finally walked out of the cookie-cutter alleyway, which was a place they had never been, but this was not an exit.

The rotunda is surrounded by four doors made of white bones, "and this is probably the center of the whole mandala." Tang Feng speculated that no one answered, and the entire rotunda was silent, only Tang Feng's brief words echoed here.

The five of them stood stunned in the rotunda for a while, and Han Jiang asked in a low voice, "Where should I go next?" ”

Tang Feng pointed to the door opposite, "It should be south, go from there." ”

So, the five people walked into the alley again, exactly the same alleyway, even the shape of the skeleton placement was exactly the same, not long out, there was a fork in the road, Tang Feng stopped, when everyone hesitated, Liang Yuan suddenly lost his voice and screamed, "Look! Snake...... The snake is above our heads! ”

Tang Feng was startled, looked up, and sure enough, a black snake came out of the eye socket of a skull at the top, spitting out a letter, staring at himself, Tang Feng was a little confused, he wanted to retreat, but he was afraid that if he stepped back, the snake would suddenly rush up, and he knew that his speed could not be compared with this snake in any way!

Tang Feng tiptoed back half a step, who expected, the snake still caught Tang Feng's slight move, and pounced on him, Tang Feng secretly said badly, and quickly retreated, just when he leaned heavily against the skull wall behind him, the snake also followed, just at this moment, Tang Feng's eyes suddenly flashed blood, and a cloud of red and black liquid splashed on the white skeleton beside him, and a few drops even splashed on Tang Feng's body.

Tang Feng fixed his eyes and saw that Han Jiang was holding a dagger and had cut off the snake at the waist, but the snake, just like the snake he saw outside the mandala, dropped the back half of the severed body, shook the front half of his body, and quickly disappeared into the gap in the ground.

Tang Feng let out a long breath, and just wanted to move on, but unexpectedly, another long black snake came out of the skull behind him, "Ah-" Tang Feng only screamed for half a time, and then lost his voice, because the snake had already spit out blood-red letters, and quickly wound up.

Seeing this, Han Jiang just wanted to come over to rescue Tang Feng, but he didn't expect that another snake had already entangled his feet, Han Jiang squatted down, wanting to solve the snake under his feet first, but almost at the same time as he squatted, another snake came out of the skeleton above the mandala and quickly pounced on Han Jiang.

At some point, a snake also climbed on Liang Yuan, and Liang Yuan was so frightened that he was left to scream in place, and Yelena and Makarov were also unable to protect themselves, because seven or eight snakes were attacking them at the same time.

Han Jiang was wrapped around his neck by the snake that suddenly came above his head, and he was struggling, and at this time, Tang Feng's body had been wrapped around five snakes, Tang Feng felt frightened, disgusted, and had a violent nausea, he almost vomited the little thing he ate in the morning, but before he could spit it out, a snake with a thick bowl mouth had firmly wrapped his neck, Tang Feng coughed violently, the snake was getting tighter and tighter, Tang Feng rolled his eyes, feeling suffocated, he tried to lean forward and get rid of these damn snakes, Every green tendon on Tang Feng's neck burst out, but the strength of these snakes was so great that any of his efforts were in vain, and finally Tang Feng was pulled back to the skull wall by the snakes......

6

Tang Feng looked up at the sunshine outside the mandala, feeling that his life was about to come to an end, but at this moment, a black shadow suddenly flashed on the mandala, what was that? Tang Feng's heart tightened suddenly, his bloodshot eyes widened, and he looked out, and after a while, the huge black shadow shrouded him again, this time, Tang Feng saw clearly, it was two eagles, real eagles.

The two eagles circled back and forth on the mandala, and finally landed on the mandala, Tang Feng saw the eagle's sharp claws firmly grasping the two hideous skulls, and was watching the terrifying scene that happened in the mandala.

"O eagle! At this time, if I can turn into an eagle and fly out of this terrifying skeleton mandala, then ...... How nice that would be! I'm going to fly into the air and take a look at this...... This amazing place! Tang Feng thought silently in his heart, gathering strength in his body again, and he suddenly felt that the snake wrapped around his neck was a little loose, maybe I still have hope!

Tang Feng thought of this, and used his strength again, little by little, little by little, constantly moving forward, Tang Feng tried to break free from the snake wrapped around his leg first, he knew that this was his last effort, if he couldn't get rid of these damn snakes this time, this was his burial place!

Just when Tang Feng and the snake were at a stalemate, the two eagles standing on the mandala suddenly grabbed the two skulls under their feet and flew up, and then, Tang Feng felt the ground under his feet tremble, no, not only the ground under his feet, but also the skull wall behind him.

This...... What's going on? Is the mandala going to collapse? Tang Feng didn't react yet, but the snake on his body panicked first, as the shaking intensified, Tang Feng felt a lot more relaxed, and the snake that was still entwining himself just now disappeared in an instant, and the snakes on Han Jiang, Liang Yuan, Yelena and Makarov also disappeared one after another, leaving only a few severed snake tails in the laneway.

But everyone was not in the mood to rejoice that they had escaped death at this time, "This ...... How did this skull mandala shake? Han Jiang shouted.

"Do you see those two eagles?" Tang Feng answered the question.

"See, what?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

"It was those two eagles who saved us!" Tang Feng said loudly.

"What do we do now?" Yelena interrupted the two.

"This place is dangerous, get out of here!" Tang Feng shouted.

"But there are two forks in the road, where do we go?" Yelena asked.

Tang Feng looked at the two almost identical forks in the road in front of him, all of them were hideous-looking skeletons, which one should he take? The mandala was still shaking, Tang Feng looked at Han Jiang, and then at Yelena and Makarov, they were also staring at Tang Feng, as if they were waiting for Tang Feng's final judgment, but Liang Yuan had words in his mouth, and he didn't know what he was tinkering with.

"Nope! Let me think! Tang Feng closed his eyes, his thoughts flew through the dark labyrinth, and after a while, the dark labyrinth turned into a narrow alleyway, and both sides of the alley were full of white bones and skeletons, and those hideous skeletons seemed to have been given life again, although there was no flesh and blood, Tang Feng saw their strange expressions, some were struggling in pain, some were blurred in flesh and blood, some were expressionless, some were angry, some were crying wolves, and some were thinking and words...... The skeletons in the alleyway on the left are like this, and the skeletons in the alleyway on the right are like this, Tang Feng's brain is running fast, but he feels more and more confused, he is afraid that he will be ...... by these skeletons when he runs into the alleyway Tang Feng didn't dare to think about it anymore, he opened his eyes suddenly, raised his trembling right hand, and first pointed to the alley on the left, but at this moment, his feet suddenly shook violently, Tang Feng was shocked, and moved his right hand to the right alleyway.

"Are you sure?" Han Jiang asked loudly.

"I don't know!" Tang Feng couldn't calm himself down at all.

"No matter! Walk! After Han Jiang finished speaking, he was the first to rush into the alley on the right.

Yelena and Makarov also followed, and Tang Feng had no choice but to pull Liang Yuan, who was still reciting words in his mouth, to follow.

7

In the alley on the right, the white bones are forested, the mandala is still shaking, Tang Feng felt that all the skeletons on both sides were alive, staring at them, he didn't dare to stop, just ran forward, there was a strange sound in his ears, he didn't know if it was the wind, or the howl of these unjust souls.

In the alleyway, there are constantly turns, almost every twenty steps will encounter turns, Tang Feng feels that they have entered a huge maze, this road is right? Can you take them out of the maze? Tang Feng thought wildly, and suddenly, there was a bright spot in front of him, it seemed that he had gone on the right track, and walked out of the mandala?!

Tang Feng was surprised and delighted in his heart, but who expected, he was only half happy, but he was shocked all the time, they rushed out of the alleyway, but came to a circular hall again. It's exactly the same as the rotunda I just saw, the same shape, the same white bones, and the same four doors on all sides!

No! This is the rotunda they just visited! Tang Feng's heart tightened suddenly! "We seem to be lost again!"

Tang Feng's words made everyone depressed, and Han Jiang also saw it, "Yes! This is the rotunda we've been to, and we've stepped out through another door! ”

"So what do we do now?" Liang Yuan asked.

"I don't know......" Tang Feng is out of order.

"At least it's safe here." Yelena said suddenly.

"Oh!" Everyone looked at Yelena together.

"Don't you notice? The mandala is gone! ”

Hearing Yelena say this, everyone felt that the mandala had returned to calm at this moment, and those snakes were gone, Tang Feng let out a long breath and fell heavily on the skull wall behind him, but as soon as he leaned against the skull wall, like a conditioned reflex, he jumped up again, "I...... I think of those snakes again! Tang Feng smiled bitterly and walked to the center of the rotunda.

The five of them sat here and couldn't rely on it, they could only stand in the middle of the hall, only here they could feel a little safe, but they couldn't stand like this all the time, they had to find a way out. Tang Feng looked around the rotunda, only one door had not passed, he pointed to the door, "It seems that we can only go in here!" ”

Han Jiang was also looking around, he was about to speak, but stopped, Tang Feng looked at Han Jiang puzzled, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Han Jiang quickly waved his hand at him, which meant to shut up Tang Feng, and Tang Feng noticed that not only Han Jiang, but Yelena and Makarov were also holding their breath and staring in the same direction as Han Jiang - that is, the door when they came!

Tang Feng immediately understood something, he calmed down, listened carefully, and the ground under his feet shook slightly, no, this was not the shaking just now, it was...... Someone's coming! Who will it be here and now? Anyway, it won't be his own people, Tang Feng knew from the moment he entered the desert that there would be no one to help them here.

Then it can only be the general's person! Maybe the general is among them! Tang Feng thought of this, Han Jiang waved his hand at everyone, and they retreated towards the door they had never walked through.

Just when they were hiding, two men in black with guns rushed into the rotunda, and then a man in a cloak walked in, the man was wearing a cloak on his head, and he couldn't see his face clearly, Tang Feng and the others were surprised, and a large number of people in black poured into the rotunda.

Tang Feng's heart was already hanging in his throat, and he stared at Han Jiang, wanting to see the instructions for his next move from Han Jiang's face, but Han Jiang's face was unusually calm.

"Are we going to withdraw? What if they ...... from here" Tang Feng asked Han Jiang in a low voice, but before he could finish speaking, he was gagged by Han Jiang.

The five people held their breath and hid in the alleyway, Han Jiang slowly let go of his hand, Tang Feng understood Han Jiang a little, Han Jiang was comparing himself with that group of people, he wanted to see the true face of the general, he had to take this risk. Tang Feng leaned on the skeleton and looked up, the neatly arranged skeletons were also looking at him, Tang Feng's heart was beating wildly, he was afraid that those snakes would come out at this time, so even if he had a strong psychological quality, I am afraid that he would not be exposed!

Fortunately, the snake did not appear, the men in black did not speak, but just looked around the rotunda, and the man in the cloak had been standing quietly in the center of the rotunda, while Stephkin was standing behind him, Stephkin waved his hand at several men in black, and several men in black began to check the other doors of the rotunda one by one, seeing that those men in black were about to walk to the door where Tang Feng was hiding, Han Jiang had to wave his hand.

The five people tiptoed back to the depths of the alleyway, turned a few corners, Tang Feng estimated that after walking nearly a hundred meters, they stopped, the five people leaned on both sides of the narrow alleyway, Tang Feng finally couldn't help it, "The person wearing the cloak is the general?" ”

"Damn, you're still playing hide and seek with us!" Han Jiang scolded.

"Don't you see? Stephkin followed the man, obviously, that person has a higher status than Stepkin, and within their organization, can there be anyone with a higher status than Stepkin? Tang Feng said.

"According to the information revealed by Stephen before his death, in addition to the general in the organization, it is White, White is dead, so the person wearing the cloak can only be the general!" Han Jiang inferred.

"Why is he wearing a cloak on such a hot day?" Liang Yuan asked.

"Needless to say, he definitely doesn't want us to see his true colors!" Tang Feng Road.

"It's like a woman in a mask!" Liang Yuan suddenly mentioned the woman wearing the mask.

"A woman in a mask?" Tang Feng's heart was shocked, and he still couldn't be sure if that woman really existed at this time.

"Shhhh - "Yelena suddenly made a silent gesture to the crowd, "Someone is coming. ”

Everyone calmed down and listened attentively, and sure enough, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps coming from the depths of the alleyway, general, they are coming this way? Tang Feng pulled out his gun.

8

The messy footsteps were getting closer and closer, and everyone was ready to encounter, but Han Jiang suddenly waved his hand, meaning to let everyone retreat in the opposite direction.

"Why withdraw?" Tang Feng was puzzled.

"If there is an enemy on the other side, we will be trapped in this narrow alleyway, and there is no danger to defend!"

After Han Jiang finished speaking, he had already bent down and walked quickly in the opposite direction, Tang Feng and the others had to follow, passing by a fork in the road, they couldn't care about judging these forks, Han Jiang just drilled forward, but Han Jiang stopped walking and walking, Tang Feng urged: "Hurry up!" ”

Han Jiang "shh

"! We're stuck in the middle! Han Jiang scolded.

"It's all a good path for you! Now it's okay, I can't run away if I want to! Tang Feng complained.

Han Jiang tried his best to keep himself calm, and he suddenly thought of the fork in the road he had just passed, "Let's see if we can go back to that fork!" ”

"I'm afraid it's too late."

"Give it a try!"

Saying that, everyone turned around and walked back again, this time Tang Feng walked in front, he walked quickly towards the fork in the road he had just passed, but before he walked out of two minutes, they met two men in black head-on, in a panic, Tang Feng took the lead in pulling the trigger, "Bang!" Bang! "The two shots, which did not hit each other, hit the skeletons on both sides of the alleyway, flashing with dazzling fire.

The other party immediately hid and quickly counterattacked, Tang Feng lay down sideways, Yelena and Makarov also raised their guns to shoot, Han Jiang did not participate, firstly, because the alleyway was narrow and could not accommodate so many people, and on the other hand, the enemy behind him was already approaching.

Han Jiang hid sideways next to the skull wall, the person on the other end obviously heard the gunshots coming from this side, and quickened his pace, Han Jiang quickly judged the number of people over there, there were at least six people!

Those people were getting closer and closer, Han Jiang raised his gun, and when the first person broke into his sight, Han Jiang pulled the trigger and fired three shots in a row, the gun hit, the two men in black fell, the other person screamed and hidden, Han Jiang shot a few more shots, but the guy on the opposite side hid and failed to hit; Han Jiang changed the magazine, and the opposite side began to return fire, and Han Jiang had to dodge sideways.

In this way, the exchange of fire lasted for more than ten minutes, Han Jiang and Tang Feng were attacked on their backs, and then their firepower was completely suppressed, and what was worse was that it was impossible for them to hold on like this, "The gunfire will attract more and more people in black, and if we continue like this, we can only be completely surrounded by them!" Tang Feng yelled at Han Jiang.

"What can you do?" Han Jiang asked Tang Feng rhetorically.

"Nope!"

"Shut up if you don't! Let me think about it. ”

Han Jiang leaned against the skull wall, closed his eyes, and let the other party's bullets whizz above his head, he was thinking, come up with a way out of the desperate situation, but no, there was only a blank in his brain, he did not lack the courage to rush forward, but that could only end up together, but was it just here?

Han Jiang's heart was restless, but after two minutes, the surroundings were quiet! Han Jiang opened his eyes suddenly, Tang Feng, Yelena, Makarov and Liang Yuan were also looking at him, everyone looked at each other, listened attentively, and the gunfire at both ends of the alley stopped, "Could it be that they have some tricks?" Tang Feng muttered quietly.

As soon as Tang Feng's words fell, a dense burst of gunfire suddenly came from the alley in front of him, followed by a heart-rending wail! Tang Feng noticed that although the gunfire was loud, there were no bullets fired at them! What's going on over there? Everyone's hearts are suspicious and frightened!

After a while, the gunfire stopped, and the wailing could no longer be heard...... "What the hell is going on?" Everyone was thinking about this question in their hearts, Han Jiang looked back and forth, and then pointed to the front, everyone understood what he meant, Tang Feng and Yelena walked in front and walked forward, while Han Jiang stared cautiously behind him and walked forward backwards.

9

Everyone was extremely cautious, Tang Feng tiptoed in front, suddenly, Yelena stretched out her hand to stop him, Yelena glanced at him, Tang Feng peeked at him, there were several people in black lying in the alley in front of him! Are they dead? Or in ......

Tang Feng was suspicious, but Yelena pulled the trigger and fired two shots at those people, and those people fell to the ground, not moving, it seems that they are indeed dead! Tang Feng and Yelena maintained a high level of vigilance, but quickened the pace of their feet. Soon, the two walked up to the black-clothed people, Tang Feng only glanced at it, and felt dizzy, even Yelena, who was used to seeing bloody scenes, was gagging.

I saw six black-clothed people lying in the narrow alleyway, their bodies were covered with bullet holes, but at this moment they had stopped bleeding out, and the exposed heads of these people were attacked by something, the flesh and blood were blurred, and they were miserable, and even one person had exposed his white bones.

"This ...... How did they die? Tang Feng asked puzzled.

Makarov crouched down and took a closer look, and said, "You see, each of them had gunshot wounds, but apparently this was not the cause of their deaths. ”

"Oh! Then they are ......"

"Look here." Saying that, Makarov pointed to the chest of one of them, "The ribs have already been broken and pierced through the skin, exposed!" This can only be done by one thing! ”

"You mean—Monty Python?!" Tang Feng exclaimed.

"Monty python here, too?" Liang Yuan was so frightened that he hurriedly looked around, it was full of skeletons, where did the giant python come from?

"It's not just Monty Python!" Makarov added, "I'm afraid there are other snakes, and there are many snakes, that's why their bodies are so miserable!" ”

Yelena nodded, "In the panic, these people fired, and even when they had a mental breakdown, they killed each other, and the snake probably left here without swallowing them because of the gunshot!" ”

"So what do we do now?" Tang Feng asked.

"We must get out of here quickly and get out of the mandala!" Yelena said.

Han Jiang pointed to the alleyway behind, "Let's go over there!" ”

No one said anything more, and everyone walked to the alleyway behind them, and it didn't take long for several white bones to appear on the ground! The crowd was even more amazed, "This ...... These people are a pile of bones so quickly? Liang Yuan exclaimed.

"They died before they could shoot, and then they were devoured by snakes." Makarov muttered.

"Yes, they were devoured by the python, and when I fought them, it was estimated that there were at least six people on the other side, and there were only four skeletons left here!" Han Jiang analyzed.

"It seems that there is more than one python! And I guess these skeletons were devoured by thousands of small snakes! ”

Tang Feng's words made everyone even more frightened. Yelena urged, "Hurry up! Get out of here! However, as soon as Yelena finished speaking, Liang Yuan screamed because a snake was wrapped around her ankle.

Tang Feng pulled out the dagger, cut off the snake on Liang Yuan's feet, pulled Liang Yuan up and ran forward. The five of them did not dare to stop, and ran forward desperately, as if there were countless snakes chasing them behind them.

Running and running, Tang Feng suddenly felt that the ground under his feet began to tremble again, the skeletons on both sides of the alley began to change, and all kinds of strange expressions appeared on the faces of these skeletons......

"Bang-" sound, Tang Feng, who was galloping, didn't know what was blocking him, Tang Feng didn't have time to take a closer look, and continued to pull Liang Yuan forward, running and running, Tang Feng instinctively waved the dagger in his right hand, as if he was blocking the skeleton that kept drilling out beside him, but when he really stabbed the dagger at the skeleton next to him, he didn't stab anything.

Tang Feng didn't think much about it, he felt that there were countless pairs of eyes staring at him around him, countless pairs of fleshless arms grabbing him, and countless snakes of all sizes coming out of the skeleton's empty body...... Finally, Tang Feng pulled Liang Yuan out of the narrow alleyway, but before he could get happy, he found himself back in the rotunda.

Tang Feng stood in the center of the rotunda, looking back, Han Jiang, Yelena and Makarov also rushed into the hall, Tang Feng was dizzy in front of him, at this time, he couldn't tell whether all this was his hallucination, or those skeletons were really possessed by souls!

"This ...... What's going on? We're back in this hall again! Yelena exclaimed.

"Looks like we're completely lost in this skull mandala!" Makarov said dejectedly.

"It's not just those who are lost here, but these soul-possessed skeletons and thousands of snakes!" Yelena said again.

"Did you find it, the man with the cloak?" Han Jiang suddenly reminded.

"Looks like they're out of here!" Makarov tract.

When everyone was surprised, several snakes came in from the top of the rotunda, and then, three giant pythons slowly slipped out of the three doors of the rotunda, the mandala was still trembling, there were more and more snakes, and thousands of snakes continued to drill out from the gaps and tops of the skeletons, approaching Tang Feng and them little by little......

10

Tang Feng tried his best to calm his mind, he knew that he would not be able to get out of the mandala if he messed around, Ba Si Pa...... Tang Feng thought of the inscriptions of Ba Si Pa and Liu Bingzhong, there is a big mystery in the mandala? What is the big mystery? Tang Feng closed his eyes and chewed on this sentence in the inscription carefully, suddenly, Tang Feng opened his eyes, he somewhat understood, "Ba Si Pa built the Skeleton Mandala City back then to block the road to Mi Cheng from the outside world, why didn't he just destroy the causeway leading to Mi City?" He must still want to leave a passage into Mi City, but he can't let people find this passage easily......"

Han Jiang interrupted Tang Feng's words and said angrily, "What are you going to say?" It's all this time! ”

"I'm going to talk about the great mystery of the Skull Mandala!" Tang Feng's words were unusually calm.

"The Great Mystery? You've figured it out now? ”

"Pasipa left this passage to Mi City, but in order not to let people enter Mi City easily, there is a suspicion in this mandala, and it is likely that these snakes were also stocked by Ba Si Pa back then." Tang Feng Road.

"You're saying these snakes were stocked by Phag-pa?"

"Yes, he wants to leave a passage, but he doesn't want ordinary people to get out of here easily, obviously he left the passage not for the sake of the party members, but so that they can still enter Micheng one day if necessary, then, I think Pasipa will definitely have a special way to keep his people from getting lost in the mandala, let alone being in danger in the mandala like us!"

Tang Feng's words reminded everyone, "Yes, Pas-pa must have left a special passage for their own people in the mandala!" Han Jiang inferred.

"No, it's not necessarily a special passage, it's likely to be some specific route in the mandala, and that special passage is the great mystery of the mandala!" Tang Feng said categorically.

"A specific route? Where is it? Han Jiang asked urgently.

Tang Feng was about to speak, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of Liang Yuan, who had been speechless, "What are you reading in your mouth?" ”

"Chanting the scriptures! I now think of that passage as soon as I get nervous. ”

"Chanting? It's that passage that your dad taught you! ”

"Well, that's the scripture!"

Liang Yuan stopped chanting, strange to say, the mandala no longer swayed, the skeletons that were about to move also regained their calm, and the snakes in the rotunda no longer moved forward, Liang Yuan looked at the scene in front of him in amazement, "Could it be ...... Does it have anything to do with the scriptures I read? ”

Everyone confronted thousands of snakes, Tang Feng was still thinking about the great mystery of Ba Sipa, he took two quick steps, came to one of the skull walls, those snakes did not rush up, but retreated, Tang Feng clearly saw the scriptures engraved on the white bones, and whispered these scriptures, everyone was puzzled, followed Tang Feng's footsteps, slowly walked around the rotunda, when they walked to the gate they had never entered, Tang Feng stopped, after a suffocating silence, Tang Feng suddenly turned around, With a twinkle in his eyes, he said excitedly, "I...... I think I've found the big mystery of Phag-Pa! ”

"Speak quickly!" Han Jiang urged.

"The Tripitaka is engraved on these skull bones, not only to transcend the soul, but also to hide a secret - the skeletons engraved with scriptures are placed in a certain order, in short, we only need to follow the order of the Tripitaka, and we should be able to walk out of the mandala."

"In other words, it is difficult for people who don't understand Buddhist scriptures to get out of the mandala?" Liang Yuan asked rhetorically.

"Yes, only the great monks who are proficient in the Buddhist scriptures can walk out of the mandala smoothly according to the order of the scriptures on these skeletons and white bones!"

"So, are you okay?" Han Jiang asked Tang Feng.

Tang Feng nodded with some hesitation, "When I was in school before, I was interested in the Tripitaka, and later I studied with Professor Luo, so it should be okay." ”

"Then hurry up! I don't want to wait here until it gets dark! ”

Han Jiang's words shocked everyone, and Han Jiang fired several shots at the snake on the door, and then covered everyone through the snake group and rushed into the alley in front of them. Several snakes landed on them, and Liang Yuan couldn't stop screaming until Tang Feng threw the snakes away from him, and Liang Yuan stopped screaming.

Tang Feng walked in front, he followed the order of the "Tripitaka", quickly walked through the lane, only when he encountered a fork in the road, he would stop, carefully identify, and then choose one of them in the correct order to walk forward, strange to say, they did not meet the snake on the way, nor did they encounter those black-clothed people, the mandala was unusually calm.

The front suddenly opened up, the blazing sun was waiting for them at the exit of the mandala, although it was daytime, although they could see the sun overhead, but the sunlight could not shine into the mandala, the whole mandala was gloomy, at this moment, Tang Feng just wanted to quickly put his cold body in the scorching sun, he couldn't help but speed up the pace of his feet, but suddenly Makarov's voice came from behind him, "Wait, Tang Feng." ”

Everyone stopped and looked at Makarov, who turned sideways, panting, looked at the sun-drenched exit of the mandala, and then looked at the gloomy and gray mandala on the other side, and suddenly asked: "Tang Feng, you just said that only people who are familiar with the Tripitaka can walk out of the mandala, then, what about the general's people?" ”

"The general's man? If they had walked out of the mandala before us, then some of them must have known the Tripitaka, but I think they are probably still wandering around the mandala at this time! Or they simply withdrew from the mandala. ”

"Oh! Are you so confident? If that's what you say, then wouldn't we be able to get rid of the generals, at least temporarily. Makarov said.

"I think so, we can at least get rid of those men in black for a while, Master Paspa has helped us, and our main opponent below is probably that oasis of death!"

"Oasis of Death?!" Tang Feng's words shocked everyone's hearts again, just walked out of the gloomy and terrifying mandala, and was about to enter another terrifying oasis of death? Everyone thought wildly, and walked out of the Skeleton Mandala, the scenery in front of them was even more surprising, they seemed to have come to another world, where the desert had receded, and at the end of the causeway was a dense green, and in the green cover, they could already vaguely see the outlines of some ancient buildings, that was the Mi City they were looking for?