Sheng Shiyao was very persistent, seeing that I refused to move, he directly grabbed my waist and lifted me up, but after lying down for less than two minutes, I couldn't stand it, it was too cold, even if I was surrounded by fragrance, I felt that the cold penetrated into my bones, just like jumping into ice water without clothes in winter.

Finally, when he saw that I was shivering with cold, he didn't force me anymore, pulled me up from the jade bed and carried me to the ground, and said lightly: "Forget it, let's use it again when I have the opportunity in the future, this cold jade bed is definitely good for you." With that, he pulled me towards the sculpture of the giant bat, and before I could recover from the cold, I still felt the chill running through my body like a pinprick with my elbows in my hands.

When he found that he was very close to the bat, he inevitably looked directly into its eyes, "Huh? I let out a voice of surprise and pointed to the green eye, "That one looks like a green glass bead, could it be that the other bead is actually here?" ”

"What other bead?"

I hurriedly told him what Chen Bing told me about the green glass beads before, and after listening to me, he took out the bead from his arms, stared at the bat's eyes thoughtfully, and then sneered: "Chen Bing will reverse black and white, there are indeed two beads, but one of them was not stolen by someone, but the one in my hand was stolen by them." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

He raised his hand and pointed to the other side of the bat's blood-red eyes, "You see, its eyes are sunken, and the red light is coming out of them, it should be that its eyes are filled with reddish crystals, and the sunken holes are exactly the size of this green glass bead." He stepped forward, pressed the bead in his hand into the bat sculpture's eye, and stepped back to me.

I took a closer look, and sure enough, the green glass bead is the other eye of this sculpture, and now the eyes are shining, better than the red-eyed bat we saw before, more mysterious and weird, less ferocious.

As I was sighing, I suddenly saw that the mouth of the sculpture seemed to be slowly opening, blinking, and found that it was not unusual, but the next second it seemed to open a little more, and I exclaimed: "Look at its mouth, is it moving?" ”

Sheng Shiyao's eyes were fixed on the mouth of the bat sculpture, but at this time it was no longer moving, and he saw that a stone ring in its mouth gradually spit out, and when it spit out until the stone ring was fully exposed, it stopped, and there was no change around it. After Sheng Shiyao glanced around, he was about to reach out to pull the stone ring, and I said nervously: "Don't, there may be a mechanism!" ”

He paused, looked back at me, and said, "Don't worry, I know in my heart, you're standing behind me." ”

Listening to this seems to comfort me, it is extremely rare for Sheng Shiyao, but how can I not be nervous, this place is full of weirdness, especially such a big black-winged bat sculpture in front of me, there is always an eerie feeling in my heart.

But seeing that he did not frown, he held the stone ring, and pulled it outward, and the sound of the stone machine scraping came immediately, and the sound came from inside the sculpture, and when my heart was in my throat, a stone slab with a thickness of five centimeters, a length of about one and a half meters, and a width of about fifty centimeters arched outward at the belly of the bat sculpture, and then the stone slab was divided into two from the middle and moved to both sides.

I never expected that the swarthy bat sculpture with a slate removed from the belly was made of white marble, and this was not surprising to me, what surprised me was that after the slate was removed, what was revealed in front of me was a pair of more finely carved murals.

What to draw...... It's the prophet girl! There are four carvings, all of which are in relief, and at a glance the environment depicted in the four paintings is the castle. In the first painting, the girl is lying on the fragrant jade bed, her eyes closed, and the air currents around her seem to be surrounded by fairy energy; In the second painting, the girl is still lying on a jade bed, but her figure has become smaller, and she is lying on her side; In the third painting, she sits cross-legged on the jade bed, her hands facing up on her knees, her eyes closed, as if she were meditating; In the fourth painting, she is a smaller woman, kneeling on her knees with her back to the jade bed, her hands held high above her head, and a dagger-like knife in her hand.

Wait, the shape of the scabbard, like ...... Shadow Moon!

I pointed to that place and asked Sheng Shiyao, "Look, the knife in that girl's hand doesn't look like Shadow Moon?" ”

Sheng Shiyao asked me a strange question: "Where do you think these four paintings should be looked from?" I replied, of course, "Naturally, I look from right to left." "Just now I intuitively looked from left to right, forgetting that the ancients were used to writing and painting, from right to left, but the content of the painting is clear at a glance, the prophet girl in the fourth picture is still a teenager, from right to left, in each painting the girl is a little older.

I guessed to myself, "I guess this must be the scene before the girl died, it turns out that this castle is for her to live in." ”

"Wrong." Sheng Shiyao silently retorted, "On the contrary, these paintings are after her death, and the order is from right to left. ”

"How is that possible?" I instinctively didn't believe it, "How can she still be in this ancient castle when we saw her die in the mural outside, and her body was burned by the fire?" ”

Sheng Shiyao hooked the corners of his lips slightly, and said lightly: "Is it necessarily her who is incinerated?" ”

I want to say that there are so many pairs of eyes watching, but when I think about it, don't facts often tell us that seeing is not necessarily believing? I couldn't help but wonder in my heart, could it be that it wasn't the prophet girl who was cremated in front of everyone at that time? But it's still unreasonable, even if the girl is not incinerated, how can she come back from the dead? And according to Sheng Shiyao, she not only came back from the dead, but also grew smaller and smaller?

"Remember what I told you about the effect of the fragrant jade bed?" Sheng Shiyao asked.

My heart moved, "Soul Protector of the Suppression God?" ”

"That's right, after she died in response to the catastrophe, her body was not incinerated, and she was hidden in the ancient castle and placed on the cold jade bed to protect her soul. Later, she used other methods to bring her back from the dead, but somehow her age was shrinking, and by the time of the third painting, she had already awakened and seemed to be cultivating. The key lies in the fourth picture, where you look closely into her eyes. Sheng Shiyao pointed to the last painting and led me to see it.

I found that my attention just now was attracted by the knife that looked like the shadow moon on the top of the girl's head, but ignored her other forms, only to see her eyes slightly raised, with admiration in her eyes, and a question arose in her heart: What is she looking at? Or...... Who is she looking at? I suddenly understood Sheng Shiyao's intention to let me see her eyes, and he was reminding me that although these four paintings only depicted the prophet girl, they actually hid another person.

First of all, who rescued the girl from the cremation platform and transferred it here, then who brought her back to life, and then the last painting, from whose hand she should have taken the knife, and then bowed down to the other person, that person should be her savior.

When I asked Sheng Shiyao who the other person who had not been depicted was, he narrowed his eyes and whispered, "At that time, whoever had the most power was the most likely." "There was one person in my head right away—a wizard.

As can be seen from the murals on the outside, the shaman's status in this place is very high, and he can even lead armies against enemies. He must have the true ability to win the love of the people, and it was he who presided over the ceremony of incinerating the prophet's girl, believing that with his wisdom, if someone else took the girl's body, it would definitely be discovered. In the last painting we saw outside the door, there was only a raging fire burning, and a pair of wizard's hands, his hands clasped together as if grasping something, which must have meant something.

The whole thing is not only weird, but also incredible, how can a person come back from the dead, and how can he grow smaller and smaller? Could it really be the relationship between the cold jade bed? I couldn't help but look back at the cold jade bed again, but I heard Sheng Shiyao say beside me: "It's not the reason for the white jade bed, it can only protect her soul and soul, the main thing is to rescue her, the wizard will inevitably have some kind of technique, including the woman who practiced later, it should also be this technique." Xiaoxiao, what do you think? ”

He was really keen, so I rolled my eyes, and he saw it, and after sorting out his thoughts, he said: "I just heard you mention the number of techniques, and a strange thought flashed in my mind, do you say that this girl is practicing Huang Xingyuan's secret technique?" You see, whether it is Zhou Jing, Chen Bing, and Huang Taixian, they have all practiced Huang Xingyuan's secret arts, and then the three of them all look younger than their actual age. Zhou Jing once said that it was magic mysticism, isn't the demon god referring to the black-winged bat in front of us, after being passed down from generation to generation, what they have learned is only fur, and these furs alone can make them look good and live a long life, will they learn this secret art completely, and they will have the ability to bring the dead back to life? ”

Sheng Shiyao's dark eyes stared at me, and after a while, he pulled the corners of his lips and said with satisfaction: "Yes, you have learned to think now, basically what you said is not far from ten, the source of Huang Xingyuan's secret technique should start from the wizard, he used this technique to combine with the effect of the cold jade bed to revive the woman, and then teach her to let her cultivate on her own." The meaning conveyed by these four paintings can be described in eight words: resurrection from the dead, rejuvenation and rejuvenation. This is perhaps the greatest secret of this secret art. ”

Resurrection from the dead, rejuvenation and rejuvenation......

I silently recited these eight words, and said in my heart how many people have been diligently seeking this. In ancient times, Qin Shi Huang asked for the elixir of life, and then Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty believed in the alchemist for immortality, and there were many people who were obsessed with it in later generations.

It's a pity that no matter what, it can't withstand the cross-flow of time, year after year, day after day, thousands of years have passed, this secret art is slowly disappearing, and even become a tool for people with intentions to seek utilitarian gains.