Chapter 18 Ancient Temples

When we walked outside the stone gate, the villain who was leading the way stopped very abruptly.

It looked back at me with an indescribable solemnity in its eyes.

"In danger?" I asked cautiously.

The Devil nodded, his mouth growling, as if threatened, the two huge claws tightened, and the nails slowly sprouted outward, becoming much longer.

Since I didn't dare to go in before, I just looked casually outside, so I really only observed part of the details behind these two doors.

When I actually walked to the door, I tentatively poked my head in, and shook it in with a strong flashlight, and my heart suddenly chuckled.

Dog's day.

It's not a fucking empty hall, it's a big square underground!

I could never have imagined that under this primeval forest, there would be a space the size of a football field, and the walls on the edge were still made of bluestone bricks.

As you can guess with your toes, this place must have been built by hand.

The ceiling at the top is semicircular, like a hood, and the highest place, separated from the ground by at least twenty or thirty meters.

Of course, these are not the main ones.

What really made me jaw-dropping was the one standing leisurely in the middle of the square...... Temple!

In the middle of the square, there is an ancient building that covers an area of nearly one-third.

The shape of the building is very similar to that of the Daxiong Hall in ordinary temples, except that the color is gray and there is no sign of lacquering, from the roof to the pillars and other places, it is the same color.

Ash.

Dead as gray.

Even though the building was a dead thing, I still felt that it had once lived, but now it was dead, completely silent.

The reason why I can be sure that it is a temple and not an ordinary building is because of the plaque hanging high outside the door, with those four big characters on it.

"Dasa Po Temple."

Seeing this slightly obscure temple name, I thought about it for a while, and then I remembered what some Wenren Bodhisattvas had told me.

The "Supo" written on this plaque should come from the Buddhist name for this world.

According to Buddhism, the world in which we live should be called the Great Thousand World, also known as the world of sava.

The leader of this world is Shakyamuni Buddha, and this world of samsara is the collective name of the three thousand worlds taught by Shakyamuni.

"In the world of sampa, all sentient beings are content with the ten evils, and they refuse to leave when they have troubles, and it is the place where the three evils and five interests are miscellaneous, so it is also called the five turbid evil worlds.......

Thinking of this, my heart beat involuntarily faster, looking at the slightly strange temple name, I only felt that this temple was ..... It shouldn't be a good place.

If I am in the outside world, when I see a Buddhist temple or a Taoist temple, I will inevitably feel an indescribable sense of security.

But at this moment, all I can feel is danger.

After thinking about it for a while, I looked left and right, and I only felt that the wind blowing in the corridor was coming from the empty hall, and that location was still on the other side of the temple.

"You take the lead, let's go over and have a look." I whispered.

The Devil roared twice, but he didn't stop because he sensed the danger, and he seemed to be quite angry when he saw what it meant, as if he felt that he was taken aback, which made it a little embarrassing.

While roaring, the evil man walked forward.

It doesn't walk slowly, but it moves steadily with each step, and its gaze is not focused on one point, but like me, constantly scanning left and right.

The closer I got to the temple, the more windy it became.

Seriously, I can't even imagine what kind of temple would be built underground.

This temple and this empty hall square should have been around for a certain number of years, at least it was built decades ago, and the amount of work is definitely not small.

If you want to build such a large-scale underground building, you have no ability or foundation, and it is a dream to do it.

But generally speaking, temples are built on the ground, on a mountain, in a forest, and so on.......

Whether I've heard it from others or read it in a book, I'm really confused about this kind of temple built underground, and I can't figure out what the purpose of its construction here is.

The temple is built here, it is inconvenient for believers to go on incense and worship, and the monks in the temple cannot live, and if they want to go out from here to find something to eat, they have to live like a wild man, and there are no people in a radius of dozens of miles, which is damn ......

Could it be that this temple is not inhabited? Just a simple building?

That shouldn't be!

It's impossible to put all your effort into creating such a big formation just to make an ornamental piece, right? It's just pointless like that man-made landscape!

"Knock ......."

At this moment, a bell rang out of the temple very suddenly.

Perhaps because of the proximity to the temple, the bell rang much louder this time than at the beginning.

The dull and loud sound of the bell seemed to have been knocked out of the temple...... Right! It's like the sound of a bell!!

The Devil looked back at me, saw me nodded, and motioned for it to go to the temple, but the Devil did not hesitate, turned around, raised his feet and walked that way, not knowing what it meant to be afraid.

With it taking the lead, I was a little more steady, carefully following behind it, observing the situation around me and reminding myself.

If there is a voice, there should be people, and although all the people who haunt this place should be enemies, I think it is better to go and see it.

The empty square is so big, and the footsteps of me and the wicked man are small, but if you listen carefully, you can still hear them.

Instead of being exposed to the other party's sight, like a dog, and not daring to enter the temple to check, it is better to go in generously.

Anyway, this place is so big, if it is attacked by them, it will have to be beaten, and now it will have to be beaten......

All in all, it's all about fighting, so it's better to take the initiative and at least bring out the momentum.

I haven't even met in person, what are you trying to do?

What's more, whether the people of the old religion can fight me or not, it depends on two things, with the help of the evil people, I think I have a good chance of winning.

As long as the number of the other party is small, and he is not a first-class gentleman who raises nine lives, he should be able to handle it.

"Can you feel someone inside?" I followed behind the Wicked Man and asked tentatively.

The villain shook his head and roared twice, but his eyes were still the same solemn.

There is an enemy, this should be certain, and it can be seen from the performance of the evil man that that enemy can bring a certain threat to it, otherwise it would not be so dignified.

But I've smelled it carefully, and there is no special smell in this place, and the yin and yang qi are also in a relatively peaceful state, not like there is a situation where there is injustice.

At this time, we walked to the temple gate and stopped in unison.

"You go and push the door open." I said.

The Devil nodded, raised his feet and took a few steps forward, stood in front of the door, and roared and pushed.

The gate of the temple is made of wood, and although the color is as gray as the wall, with an indescribable sense of death, it has to be said that the workmanship of this gate is extremely exquisite.

There are many incave patterns on the façade, most of them are Buddhist statues, which look vivid and very expressive, although the color is single and there is no sense of hierarchy, but it is also much stronger than the painting in the general temple.

These two wooden gates weigh at least a thousand pounds, let me push them, it's not that I can't push them open, it's just a little laborious, and it's so easy to fall into the wicked.

Soon, the gate was pushed to either side by the Villain, opening a passage nearly two meters wide for us.

I didn't rush in, I stood outside and watched.

The temple was pitch black, and nothing could be seen, and with a flashlight, I could only vaguely see that the ground was made of white marble.

Just when I was hesitating, should I let the villain take the lead and walk in first, or should I observe for a while.......

Suddenly, only the sound of the whirring wind was heard, and the temple lit up with oil lamps without warning.

The oil lamps are distributed on both sides of the temple, all of which are orange-yellow warm light, which looks slightly dim, but when they are put together, they are enough to illuminate.

And in front of us, under the seated statue of Shakyamuni, which is seven or eight meters high.

Someone was sitting cross-legged, watching us from afar.

The man was supposed to be a monk, wearing a shabby gray monk's robe, holding a string of prayer beads in his hand, constantly stirring, as if chanting a Buddha, with his head slightly bowed.

Even if we were dozens of meters apart, I could feel his eyes that were extremely calm, like a deep pool of stagnant water.