Chapter 387: Confused Timeline
After that surface collapse, Brown Deer Mountain also became what became the night mound.
For five hundred years after the formation of the mound, almost no one paid attention to this place anymore, until five hundred years later, a brown-black skinned man came here, he was a disciple of Siddhartha, and the reason why he came to the mounds was because he got lost on the way to find the secret treasure, and found a small cave to escape the wind and rain and entered the interior of the mound.
In the past five hundred years, other people have discovered this small cave that connects to the interior of the mound, and even some wild beasts have visited this ****** and many bones have been found in the mound, both human and beast, all around a stone with a smooth face.
The book does not mention how Fanren saw the mask crushed under the stone, but when he saw the mask, he suddenly understood that the people who had entered here had come with the same purpose, and they or they had all come to get the rough mask made of the stone.
Sensing the evil aura on his mask, he placed a demon-slaying pestle on the stone with the four murals on it, and used his great telekinesis to draw a clear spring from the ground and block the entrance to the cave with a stream of water.
It turns out that this is the origin of the spring in the Jizo tomb.
Later, Fanren wandered around Qizhou's hometown and learned the legend of the night demon from the local population, and he realized that the night demon who appeared near the secret store was actually the place where the cycle of good and evil began and ended, and at the same time, he also saw through the truth of the reincarnation of good and evil for 3,000 years.
Leaving Qi Zhou's hometown, it took the Fanren a full ten years to find the Vault, and this so-called Vault is in Mindu's hometown.
I asked Mindu if the vault they were looking for was a large catacomb, and Mindu shook his head. I asked him again if it was a very dark jade, and Min still shook his head. Mindu said that the Vault I was looking for was not the two things I was talking about, but he knew what the Vault was, but he couldn't tell us.
I nodded helplessly, and raised my hand at Mindu again, motioning for him to continue.
Mindu said that after the Fanren came to their hometown, they were moved by the hardships of the local people's lives, so they taught them to farm, raise livestock and weave cloth, and preached the scriptures and spread the Dharma in the local area.
He was a disciple of Siddhartha and a mortal who was dedicated to saving people from suffering.
Even though he said he was a mortal, the locals still regarded him as a god, and there is still a statue of him in Mindu's hometown.
I had previously speculated that he was a disciple of Siddhartha, but according to the time given by Mindu, he should have been 2,500 years ago.
Actually, I can't blame me, because Siddhartha's birth was originally very controversial, some historians say that he was born more than 500 years BC, and some religious scholars say that he was born more than 1,000 years BC, a difference of 500 years.
Although the Fanren appeared 2,500 years ago and claimed to be a disciple of Siddhartha, it is impossible to confirm that Siddhartha was born in 565 BC, because every Buddhist monk can claim to be a disciple of Siddhartha.
However, there is no doubt about one thing, that is, the night demon was indeed sealed more than 3,000 years ago, not a full 3,000 years ago, but more than 3,000 years ago, in other words, the so-called 3,000 years of reincarnation, here 3,000 years, is also an approximation.
Mindu said that the Fanren had been in their hometown for thirty years, until he had cracked the true meaning of the Vault, and he left Mindu's hometown alone, and before leaving, the Fanren told the first Mindu that he was going to follow in the footsteps of Siddhartha.
In the past thirty years, *** people have selected a few of the smartest people in the village and asked them to help them take care of some of the magic weapons they carry with them, these people can be regarded as disciples of Fanren, and the first generation of sensitivity is also selected from these people.
Mindu's duty is to take care of the books brought by the Fanren, and wait here for the heirs of the Great Holy Ancestor.
No one knows how the Fan people knew about the Great Holy Ancestor, although in that era, our Heavenly Master Li Er was already alive, but the temple name of the Great Holy Ancestor was posthumously awarded to him by Tang Xuanzong a few hundred years later.
Listening to Sensitivity's statement, I suddenly had a sense of time and space disorganization, as if the things described in that book were randomly interspersed with different timelines. I'm sure it's my delusion, though.
In the more than 2,000 years that followed, Mindu's responsibilities had been changing, they had been a historian to record the events of their hometown, and for a short time they had become priests beside Tusi, but they had never forgotten the duties that the man had set for them.
I asked Mindu: "Does Mindus never leave Xiaotianshan?" ”
Miniti nodded, and I asked him again, "Where did you get the books here?" ”
Mindu said: "They were all written and organized by Mindu over the years, and most of the books in them recorded their perceptions of all things in the world during the ten years they became Mindu, some of which recorded what happened in their hometown, and some of which were stories brought by travelers from outside. In short, all the books here are written by the ages of sensitivity. ”
I couldn't help frowning: "If you never leave Xiao Tianshan, how do you know what happened to the night mound in these years?" ”
Mindu said that all of this is due to Vaa.
Like him, Va'a is not a fixed personal name, but a profession that has been passed down from generation to generation. In ancient times, they were the guards of the village, and they were also responsible for protecting the safety of the people when they occasionally left the village. All of these people have been taught by the Fan people, and they have an ability that is difficult for ordinary people to understand.
Each generation of Vaa can learn about all the things that happened in the Yazuka over the course of five years by touching the stones in the mound. Every winter, Vaa would leave the Little Tien Shan and go to the Night Tomb to memorize the events of the year in the Night Mound, and after they returned to the Little Ten Thousand Mountains, they would be recorded by Mindu what they saw.
I remember Uncle Liu said that Dorjee also went to the Jizo tomb every winter to check the demon pestle.
No wonder Wa'a just said that it was because he saw Dorjee that he decided that we were here to find Mindu. He must have seen Dorjee in the Jizo Tomb.
I looked at Dorjee with questioning eyes, and thought to myself, if Waa has seen Dorjee, Dorjee should have also seen Waa, right?
Dorjee looked up at me, a brief purr coming out of his mouth.
The fairy said to me, "It asks why you are looking at it with your eyes." ”
I asked Dorjee, "Have you seen Wa'a in the Jizo tomb?" ”
Dorjee shook his neck and shook his head.
It is said that dogs' senses are much more sensitive than humans, and Wa'a should be easy to be spotted by Dorjee when he sees it, but why...... I suddenly remembered the coldness in Vaa, he was a killer, and usually killers are very good at stealing and disguise.
At this time, Liang Houzai opened his mouth and asked Mindu: "I also took a cursory look or two when Brother Dao looked at that book just now, and I found that the second half of the book is written in Chinese Simplified, I am a little curious, how did you learn to write this kind of character, did anyone teach you?" ”
Mindu said, "It's taught by Toast, and every spring, Toast comes into your world and brings your things back to your hometown. Toast is the greatest man in the entire race, and he is the only one who has been able to come back after entering your world. ”
I don't know why, when I heard Mindu's words, I felt very uncomfortable, he didn't know that those Mindu who had wanted to leave here couldn't find their way home, they simply died on the way down the mountain.
And the great toast in his mouth brought him nothing but hypocrisy and lies.
Liang Houzai and I didn't talk much, but Liu Shangang asked inappropriately: "Doesn't Waa have to go to the Jizo Tomb every year, and isn't he also going to leave here and go to our world?" ”
Mindu shook his head: "In our opinion, the Night Mound is the boundary between our world and your world, but in the entire race, only Va'a can get close to there, and as long as the others leave the area of the Little Tianshan Mountain, they will never come back." ”
Fortunately, Min Du can give such a plausible explanation, if he himself can't explain why Va'a can leave Xiao Tianshan, he will inevitably have doubts about his life.
Why can't I leave Xiaotianshan, but Waa can, why can he go to that strange world, but I can't.
Just such a doubt has the potential to overturn Sensitivity's outlook on life. And what I'm more worried about is that when he questions his life, will he tell Waa his doubts, and what will Waa do to Min, as a minion planted by Tusi in Xiaotianshan?
I dare not infer such a thing, nor can I infer it.
I stopped the discussion of these irrelevant questions and steered the conversation back to the right path: "Is there any important information about Daredevil?" ”
Mindu first said "yes", but he seemed to have forgotten what to say, and after a moment of silence, he quickly opened the book and glanced at it a few times with great speed.
Mindu closed the book and said to me, "The book says that there is only one way to defeat the Night Demon, and that is ...... Go back to her past. ”
I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows: "Back to her past, what does this mean?" ”
Mindu pouted: "I don't know what it means, but that's what the book says." In addition, the book also says that only by understanding the Daredevil's past can you go back to her past. That's why I've said so much. ”
I folded my hands and frowned, what did it mean to go back to the past of the night demons?
Liang Houzai turned his face to me and said, "Does it mean to go back to the past of the Night Demon, to go back to the place where Jiang Taigong suppressed it in the first place, where maybe there is something that is the key to suppressing the Night Demon." ”
I sighed through my nose and said, "Isn't the place where Jiang Taigong suppressed the Night Demon the Jizo Tomb?" ”
Liang Houzai said slowly while thinking: "The Jizo Tomb was rebuilt thousands of years ago by the Soul Village on the basis of the night mound, and the place where Jiang Taigong lived in the night demon back then, to be exact, should be the night mound. ”
His words woke me up suddenly: "The past of the night demon means returning to the night mound...... We're going inside the Stone Gate, and the key to suppressing the Night Demon lies there! ”