Vivien has repeatedly evaluated the historical heritage of short-lived species from the perspective of the long-lived species, and these evaluations are always profound and accurate. Just like the story of the witch circulating in the Andrei family, just three hundred years of family inheritance will make the truth of the year so hugely deviated, not to mention the 10,000-year-long historical record on the Dream Plane - there have been several twists and turns and interruptions in between, so it is understandable how much error the legend has been handed down to this day.

Now, even the longest-lived races on the Dream Plane can't figure out what the truth was back then.

People have long thought that the ancient magic empire's research on forbidden technology angered the goddess, that the artificial miracles built by the magic emperors were a symbol of blasphemy, and that the three wonders, including the Sunset Volcano, have long been regarded as evidence of deviance, but who would have thought that these things were actually used to suppress the eldest son?

Although the repressive effect of these things is probably quite limited.

At the foot of Sunset Volcano is a large stony field of earth that cascades of huge black rocks to the east of the coastline, and on a small mound between this rocky field and limestone fortress sits an ancient monastery that looks almost abandoned.

This monastery was the last facility of the Radiant Cult on the eastern side of the kingdom, and it was tended by only a few elderly ascetics.

The mottled and detached façade of the church is covered with thorns, and the monastery is surrounded by a few salt-tolerant bushes that grow sparsely except for large crumbles. Hao Ren and the others did not waste time in the limestone fortress, and after a simple handover between Ofhra and the defenders of the fortress, they led the team directly to the dilapidated monastery, and the entrance to the sacred cave was under the monastery.

Lily looked at the dilapidated appearance of this ancient monastery and sighed with emotion: "This place is really dilapidated...... A fortress. Can an old monastery really hold such an important place as the Sunset Volcano? ”

"Don't underestimate these ancient facilities." Archbishop Auburn shook his head, "The three ancient ruins have their corresponding sanctuary guards. The Church in the Heart of the Lake in the Diocese of Beinz, the old monastery of Sunset Volcano, and the Chapel of the Tree of Life are the oldest and most powerful nodes of the gods, and the church system of the entire kingdom is powering these three nodes, and even though they look dilapidated, even an army cannot break through the defenses. ”

"The mid-lake church in Beintz's Blood Lake was finished in an instant, and the investigation later revealed that the eldest son had completely cut off the chapel's divine function," Opra shrugged. "It turns out that the power of the eldest son is far beyond our comprehension, and the ancient magic empire can't fight against it, and our current divine system is just fragments, let alone useful."

Archbishop Auburn shook his head and said no more, while the friars of the Priory opened the entrance to the underground: in the back garden of the abbey's chapel, it looked like a large ordinary tombstone. Hao Ren estimated that the Lakecenter Church in Beinz Blood Lake also had such an entrance, leading to the "holy coffin" storage point under the church. But before he could find the entrance, the entire chapel was swallowed up by the whirlpool.

The three sacred caves where the eldest son is sealed are actually the same structure: the eldest son sleeps in a huge underground cavern. The underground caverns are surrounded by a labyrinthine cave system, which is topped by a man-made rock shell (built by ancient magical emperors) that holds the upper floor, and a chapel (built by the first pope of the Radiant Cult) directly above the system. The underground of the chapel is stored with safety devices that constantly "hypnotize" the eldest son. i.e. the holy coffin.

The whole structure is like a silver nail that has been hammered into a coffin to prevent the resurrection of evil spirits - the world has spent 10,000 years under the protection of this fragile security device.

A steep rocky passage leads down to the underground part of the chapel. This is a medium-sized underground palace and very spacious. But the structure is simple and unadorned. It is a thoroughly practical facility.

Hao Ren followed Archbishop Auburn out of the corridor, and saw a spacious rock hall illuminated by a magical glowstone. In the center of the hall was a stone platform, which was empty, but the slight depression in the center seemed to prove that something had been stored here. Around the hall, you can see many gray-robed monks meditating—gray robes dressed as dervishes.

"These are ascetic groups sent from the royal capital," Aufra explained in a low voice, "The church and the royal capital have sent a lot of people to monitor the movements of the two sacred caves, but because ordinary people will be mentally controlled if they get too close to the tentacles, most of them can only be guarded in the limestone fortress, only these ascetics and some high-ranking knights have entered the underground. The High Knights are in other crypts. ”

Hao Ren nodded, he knew that the place where the eldest son was sleeping was like a huge underground labyrinth, there should be countless criss-crossing corridors and huge crypts nearby, the knights and monks from the royal capital should have gone to the various crypts, and the ascetics here should be responsible for guarding the entrance.

The surface of Sunset Volcano does not seem to have changed, but there are layers of defense lines set up underneath it—only psychological comfort.

Archbishop Auburn pointed to the stone platform in the center of the long hall: "This was used to place the holy coffin, but after opening the outer shell of the sacred cavern, we moved the holy coffin to a deeper place. ”

He then led the group through the hall and continued down the alley. It didn't take long for the group to pass through a rock wall that looked like it had just been chiseled through, and the road ahead suddenly opened up.

"We just passed through the outer wall of the church's dungeon, which was broken last month," the other bishop looked back at the black stone wall engraved with Leta runes, "and from here on, we will enter the firstborn's sphere of influence." ”

Several ministers in the team immediately clenched the magic amulets in their hands: these people were ordinary people, they did not have the strong mental power of a monk or the tenacity of a high-ranking knight, but the mission forced them to go deep into the realm of the eldest son, relying on those blessed amulets to move freely in this underground world.

"I feel a little hot," Nangong May was the first to feel the change in her surroundings after she walked for a while, "and there seems to be a little ...... in the air Sulfur smell? ”

"We're under the Sunset Volcano," Opra grinned, "and the werewolf Magic Emperor Sanur has created the world's largest and most complex underground lava river beneath it, with some heat and gas seeping through the cracks in the rock. But don't worry, we've confirmed that there's nothing leaking. ”

Nangong May pursed her lips and created a layer of mist enchantment around her: "Tsk...... Why do I always encounter this kind of thing, I've started to lose scales in the last few days. ”

Hao Ren: "......"

The group went deeper along the underground passage, and the further they went, the more open it became, and in front of them passed several forks and relatively spacious stone chambers, each of which was guarded by three or five high-ranking knights or monks, just as Hao Ren had expected. They have built rudimentary camps and defenses in this underground world, watching out for any disturbances that may come out of the labyrinthine corridors.

At the same time, Hao Ren finally saw what he wanted to see: the tentacles of the eldest son began to appear on the surrounding cave walls.

Archbishop Auburn's face finally lost its stone-carved calm when he saw those sinuous and huge tentacles, and his head mosaic even trembled slightly, as a high-ranking clergyman who specializes in tempering spirits and is very sensitive to "source blood" and "origin power", he feels the powerful power and crazy thoughts contained in these tentacles more clearly than others: "These are outer tentacles, and only a small number of them have the ability of mental interference, as long as they are carefully avoided, they will not be affected, So it's fairly safe here. But if you keep going, you'll get into ......."

"You will enter the key 'organ' of the eldest son, I know, we have entered it ourselves," Hao Ren nodded, "These tunnels should still be in the outer layer of the cave, have you opened the outer shell of the inner area?" ”

"It's just ahead, but we didn't open it," Archbishop Auburn nodded, leading the group towards a fork in the road, "We searched for ten days, and finally found the weak point of the barrier left by the Ancient Magic Emperor in this labyrinthine tunnel, and the disturbing thing is that there is a gap in it, and some of the tentacles of the eldest son spread out of that gap. ”

After about ten minutes of further progress, the team came to what Auburn called the "barrier entrance". It is a large circular cavern, and the walls around the cave are covered with ancient and sacred writings, which are the seals and messages left by the first popes. Hundreds of dervishes and paladins built forts and defenses in the cavern, keeping a close watch over the tentacles that spread from the western side of the cavern. Hao Ren saw the tentacles poking out of a large fissure, rather than "seeping" out of the rock as elsewhere, suggesting that the tentacles were using more violent methods to break through the barrier, and they were consciously expanding their access to and from the barrier.

But it seems that this should be a short "fake awakening", and now that the tentacles have quieted down again, judging by the traces around the tentacles, the last time they "twitched" should have been many years ago.

"It's scary," Oprah smacked her lips, "when we don't know...... How much is going on beneath this planet? ”

Hao Ren cautiously approached the tentacles, and after making sure that the latter was unresponsive, he stepped on them with confidence, and he climbed along the tentacles to the crack in the stone wall, looking at the situation on the other side.

On the other side was the chamber where the eldest son was sleeping, and he saw a huge stone chamber filled with ominous red light, and countless tentacles gathered from all directions to form a tangled and twisted sarcoma-like organ, which was dormant, and the faint red light on its surface changed at an extremely slow speed.

"The good news is that I slept very well, and the bad news is that this 'tumor' looks bigger than the one in the Dragon's Back Mountains," Hao Ren jumped back to the ground, "Where is the holy coffin?" I'm going to break down how it works. ”

Archbishop Auburn pointed to a small stone house in the middle of the knight's quarters: "It's there. (To be continued......)