This temple is not splendid, heavy boulders and quaint bronze set the majestic and eerie tone of the temple, we have become accustomed to looking up at everything here, walking along the corridor, the murals on both sides reproduce the rise and fall of the Jiuli tribe in great detail.

"Elder Wen, come and see, the style of these murals has changed a lot." Ye Zhiqiu raised his head in front and shouted suspiciously.

We walked over, for the mural we only care about the content inside, but as an archaeologist Ye Zhiqiu, she pays attention to far more things than us, the mural is indeed very different from what we saw before, the front mural lines are rough and concise after all, abstract, and this pair has become delicate and cumbersome, the portrayal of the characters and the scene are vivid and careful.

We see the whole picture of this temple in the frescoes, and a group of people dressed in Jiuli costumes came here under the guidance of the priest and bowed down reverently.

"This should be the depicted sacrificial scene, before us, the ancestors of Jiuli came here and sacrificed to the ancestral gods." Wen Ru said after reading it. "These frescoes and shrines are not from the same period, they should be left by the people who came to worship."

"Then these people are also the same as us, they are all people who have been chosen by the so-called ancestral gods?" Tian Ji stood in front and asked suspiciously. "Then why is there so many people in this mural, and only one comes out?"

I frowned and walked over to Tian Ji, the fresco in front of him was a continuation of the previous one, only the priest came out of the temple alone, and I didn't know where the others had gone.

"There's ...... here"

Click!

The general shouted in front of him, and suddenly he stepped on something, and a stone slab slowly fell from the corridor, and the palace lord immediately became alert, and he said that it was not difficult to see from the bronze round mechanism that this temple must be covered with quite a lot of delicate mechanisms, and we kept looking up at the mural, and the general should not have accidentally triggered a certain mechanism.

But strangely enough, nothing happened, we only heard the roar of fading away from the soles of our feet, and then slowly disappeared, everyone stayed where they were, and did not dare to move, and after a long time there was no movement, and the palace lord said that he went ahead, and let the others follow the steps he had trodden.

The general shouted just now because he saw another mural, and a big man like him could see that it was completely different from the other murals, Wen Ru stood below and only glanced at it, and his brows furrowed deeply.

"The figures on this mural are more detailed and vivid, and can even distinguish between men and women, this is a woman, you can distinguish from her clothing accessories, this is the carved phoenix pattern, the ornamentation is gorgeous, the style is fresh is typical of the Qin Dynasty style." Wen Ru took a deep breath and took a step back, and watched carefully for a long time. "The people who carved these murals are definitely from the Qin Dynasty, that is, there were people who came here to worship two thousand years ago."

There is no mural before that, which means that in addition to us, the last person who came here was two thousand years ago, and the content of the mural is similar to the previous one, it is still the priest who led a large number of descendants of Jiuli to come here to worship, but the strange thing is that only the priest came out.

"Since it is a shrine, it stands to reason that there should always be people to sacrifice, and it can be seen from these two murals that at a specific time, the priest of Jiuli will lead the clan to the temple to worship, and this tradition has continued for a long time." Ye Zhiqiu was puzzled after reading the mural. "But why did this kind of sacrifice suddenly stop after the Qin Dynasty?"

According to the first two murals, it is inferred that as long as the people who have sacrificed will leave patterns on the stone slabs, it can be seen that the last sacrifice was two thousand years ago.

The priest told us that the descendants of Jiuli did not know the exact location of the Temple of the Ancestral God, and I think that since he brought us to the forbidden land, there is no need to hide the secret of the Temple of the Ancestral God under the forbidden land, and the only explanation is that the priest really does not know.

However, the content reflected in these murals is that the temple sacrifices are all led by the priests, and only the priests return, so it can be seen that only the priests know the location of the temple, and this secret has been passed down from generation to generation.

What is the reason why this temple, which is very important to the Jiuli people, disappears from the priest's inheritance, and the more I go inside, the more curious and eager I want to know, who the ancestral god of Jiuli is.

"There's no way ahead." The palace lord said to us.

At the end of the corridor is a heavy stone door, the palace lord said that he has explored, at least a dozen tons, even if there are tools, don't want to open it, but there are three discs with strange pints on the stone door, these discs can be rotated, each disc has a different pattern, the palace lord can only identify one of them as a dragon pattern.

Scar stepped forward and wanted to turn, but was pulled by the palace lord, and nodded his head at the corner of the stone door, Scar shone the flashlight, and the corner was full of broken bones, and Scar's hand retracted and did not dare to make a mistake.

Gong Jue picked up a few bones from the ground, pointed to the broken place, and said with certainty that these bones had been calcified, because of the low temperature here, they were preserved, and from the cut surface, they were quite flat, and they were cut off in an instant.

After speaking, Gong Jue walked to both sides of the stone gate, and groped with his hands to clean up the dust on the stone wall, revealing thin grooves, and Gong Jue asked me to shine a flashlight, which reflected a faint cold light.

"There's sharp blades in there, and they're staggered." Gong Jue wiped it with his hand, and there were many such grooves evenly distributed on the entire stone wall, which were staggered with each other from the opposite stone wall. "The stone plate on the stone door can only be opened if it is turned correctly, if it is wrong......"

The palace lord shook the bones in his hand, the consequences were obvious, we would end up like these dry bones, the dense and sharp blades could cut us into pieces in an instant.

"Can you crack the mechanism here?" I asked

"I can't." The palace lord shook his head.

"You can't?" Tian Ji was as surprised as I was, if even the palace lord was helpless, then even if we found the temple, it would be useless.

"No matter how clever the general mechanism is, there will always be flaws, which is the same as no matter how strong the lock is, as long as you find the right key, you can open it, but the problem is that I don't know the principle of this mechanism at all, and I have found that there is no chance to try it at all." Gong Jue sighed and said to us. "These three disks must be rotated at the same time, and they must be turned to the correct position at the same time, but any mistake will trigger the mechanism here, to put it simply...... I can't even figure out what kind of lock this is, how do I open it? ”

"Aren't there patterns on the stone plate, these patterns may be hints." The general said.

"I recognized it for a long time, and I recognized that the stone plate on the lower left was a dragon pattern, and the other two strange shapes couldn't be understood." The palace lord was powerless to spread his hands.

"Why are you stunned, I brought you here to let you play your spare heat." I looked at Ye Zhiqiu and urged. "It's rare to have a time when you show off your skills, hurry up and see what's on it."

Ye Zhiqiu glanced at me and ignored it, stood in front of the stone gate and looked at it carefully for a long time, the topmost pattern is similar to a snake, with a horn and a foot, and the mouth is open and the tail is rolled up.

"It's a crest!" Ye Zhiqiu said with certainty. "Another pattern is composed of continuous broken lines, with a rough middle line and a whirling square fold, which is a thunder pattern."

"Dragon, Kui, Thunder ......" I thought about it in my heart for a long time and didn't think clearly about the connection and meaning between these three patterns, and looked at Ye Zhiqiu. Any idea what that means? ”

"It's not Dragon, Kui, or Thunder." A smile appeared at the corner of Wen Ru's mouth. "The correct order should be thunder, dragon, and kui."

"Elder Wen, do you know the meaning of these patterns?" Ye Zhiqiu asked.

Wen Ru nodded and told us that the Miao ancestors in Miao Jiang worshiped the sun, moon and stars, regarded the three lights as the purity, and also believed that all things were composed of thunder, dragons and kui, which were called the three specializations, and at the same time matched with metal, water, wood, and fire to create the Seven Yao Calendar.

The Seven Dawn Calendar is the earliest surviving almanac, even 3,000 years before the Egyptian calendar.

"It can be seen that the Qiyao calendar of Miao Jiang can be traced back to the ancestors of Jiuli, and it should be the Jiuli people who really invented the Qiyao calendar, and the Miao people just followed this calendar, and with the disappearance of the Jiuli people, the Qiyao calendar is attributed to the Miao people." Wen Ru said to us calmly. "The three stone disks of thunder, dragon and kui on the stone gate correspond to the year, month and day respectively, which means that they can be opened if they are turned to the right time."

"The time of years, months and days ......," Gong Jue looked back at Shimen and shook his head helplessly. It's useless to know this, who can know what the right time is. ”

"Yo, aren't you quite capable, this is your strength." Ye Zhiqiu suddenly gloated and laughed sarcastically at the palace lord.

"You have the ability, you come." The palace lord gave her a blank look.

"I'll come, I'll come." Ye Zhiqiu actually agreed.

Pulling me and Tian Ji to stand in front of the stone gate, she controls the thunder pattern stone plate, and Tian Ji and I control the dragon pattern and kui pattern respectively, and tells us where to turn.

"Are you ready?" Ye Zhiqiu asked calmly.

Tian Ji and I looked at each other face to face, and saw Tian Ji subconsciously squirming at the Adam's apple, and his eyes glanced at the dense grooves on both sides, I knew what he was thinking, because I was thinking the same thing as him now, this is a matter of life and death, even the palace lord is not sure, let alone Ye Zhiqiu, who knows nothing about the mechanism.

"You don't believe me?" Ye Zhiqiu pursed his lips and glared at me.

"Phase...... Believe ......" I nodded helplessly and looked at the palace lord's face.

"Look at what he's doing, he said he can't crack this mechanism, you just look him through the autumn water, and he still doesn't know what to do." Ye Zhiqiu said to me, in fact, it should be said to Gong Jue, most likely it was a response to Gong Jue's previous attack on her.

"Come on, there is still a group of temple guards outside who can't be killed, and there is no way out anyway, trapped here will either starve to death or freeze to death sooner or later." Tian Ji looked open-minded, easily put his hand on the stone plate and smiled. "Let's just listen to the autumn, a dead horse should be a live horse doctor."

Liao Kai and the people with scars behind him began to retreat, it seems that we are not the only ones who dare not pin their hopes on Ye Zhiqiu, I gritted my teeth and sighed heavily, and nodded to Tian Ji and Ye Zhiqiu with a weak wry smile.

Ye Zhiqiu counted to three, and the three of us turned the stone plate at the same time, and when I stopped, I almost held my breath, only to hear a roar, my body trembled in fright, thinking that it had touched the mechanism, but the heavy stone door in front of me slowly opened.