Chapter 91

The weapons in our hands were of no use to these immortal temple guards, and we retreated step by step until we were trapped in the middle of the temple, which I had always thought to be controlled by some kind of monster, just like the martyrs we saw in the Kunlun Golden Gate.

But it wasn't until Tian Ji's arm was wounded by an arrow that I realized that these temple guards were actually thinking, and after the guards in the front row were blocked by bullets, the guards in the back row immediately bent their bows and arrows, and the arrows shot accurately at those who tried to resist.

At that moment, I suddenly began to wonder if these people were dead or not, but I couldn't explain how these Jiuli ancestors thousands of years ago survived to the present, and even if they were hit by bullets, they could still recover intact.

Tian Ji's injury is not light, in the face of this group of brutal and bloodthirsty temple guards, we have nothing to do, everyone is close together, there are less than ten people left in the scar now, and all around are sabre-rattling guards, the three-eyed unicorn on the majestic mask, now it falls in my eyes full of murderous killing, this is the totem given to them by the Jiuli Ancestral God, it seems that they have only been given a task.

Kill everyone who breaks into the temple and never die!

I heard the sound of countless bowstrings being pulled, and in the depths of the gloomy temple, the sharp bronze arrows refracted a cold light as dense as a star, and my heart sank, and we all died here after this rain of arrows, just like the slaughter that happened here forty years ago, and I believed the priest's warning to us.

This is God's forbidden land, and the only price to enter is death.

The general stepped in front of us, his waist straight towards a sword that would rather not bend, he had no fear of death, until the last moment he was teaching me what it means to be a man's responsibility and responsibility, I pulled him behind me, rude and brutal and resolute, I never seemed to have done anything for him, and these friends behind me, if I could I would be willing to stand in front of death for them.

This time I didn't hear the general's abuse, but I heard his arrogant laughter, there was a kind of calmness to laugh at the wind and clouds, but the palace lord stood beside him, Tian Ji covered his injured hand and stepped forward, at that moment I knew what it meant to live and die together.

"Get out of the way." Ye Zhiqiu lifted the field chicken next to him and stood next to me, the corner of the bridge I trusted like when I was a child, I saw Ye Jiuqing's arrogance on her face.

"Don't be afraid, there's a brother." I touched her head as before.

Bang dang.

Something fell from me when I raised my hand, and the crisp sound should have drowned out the killing in the temple, but at that moment, the whole temple was instantly silent, filled with the deathly silence of the temple that was thick and bloody.

The sabre-rattling temple guards suddenly stopped, froze in place, their eyes falling on the thing that had fallen to the ground.

With a bang, all the temple guards fell to their knees, looking pious and respectful, reminding me of the priest's expression when they worshiped the ghosts and gods on the stake, and we were a little overwhelmed by the sudden change, wondering why these violent temple guards suddenly stopped killing.

I looked at the falling thing on the ground, it turned out to be the bronze pillar that I didn't know who had placed it on me, and I looked around in confusion, these temple guards were clearly worshipping this inconspicuous bronze pillar.

I squirmed my Adam's apple and slowly picked it up from the ground, the prostrate temple guards looking up as the bronze pillar rose and fell, as if the only thing I could see in the eyes of this undead army was the bronze pillar in my hand.

"What's going on?" The palace lord asked in surprise.

I shook my head blankly, looking at the bronze pillar again, completely unaware of the magic of this thing that could make these immortal temple guards bow down as if they were gods.

"Leave it alone, get out of here first." The general said.

I took a step forward with the bronze pillar, the temple guard's body did not move, but his eyes followed the bronze pillar as it moved, and everyone else followed me, but within three steps, the guards who were kneeling around suddenly stood up and returned to their previous rage and bloodthirstiness.

I hurriedly retreated, and strangely enough, just one step away, the guards knelt down again, and I tried several times with this result, and I didn't understand the reason at all.

"Sunshine!" Ye Zhiqiu raised his head and looked at the light shining on the large dome of the temple. "As long as they hold the bronze pillar and don't go out of the sunlight, these temple guards won't move, as if the bronze pillar must be kept inside."

I took the bronze pillar and stretched out my hand to the sunlight according to Ye Zhiqiu's words, and sure enough, as Ye Zhiqiu guessed, the guards immediately returned to their original state, but as long as the bronze pillar was illuminated by the sun, the temple guards would bow down devoutly.

"Thief, mother, this is not over, do we have to stand here all the time, and we will starve to death sooner or later." Tian Ji scolded helplessly.

"Don't starve." The palace lord looked up at the sunlight on the large dome. "It won't be long before the sun sets, and ...... then"

The palace lord did not say any more, but we all knew the consequences, before the sun disappeared, we must find a way to get out of here, the only way to come out was the unattainable dome above, but the temple was empty and there was nothing, and we could not climb up at all.

"What is this?" Liao Kai looked down at the ground.

We turned our eyes, the injury on the arm of the field chicken was not light, the bone was visible, and there was no time to bandage it, and the blood flowing down the arm fell to the ground, and it flowed out of a regular arc in the dust.

I squatted on the ground to wipe off the dust, and found that there were circular bronze grooves under the shadow of the three-eyed unicorn cast by the large dome, and I quickly asked everyone to clean up the surroundings, and gradually a bronze circle with a diameter of more than five meters inlaid in the stone slab was revealed in front of our eyes.

There is a ring on the bronze circle, the blood of the field chicken is penetrated into it, I counted a total of twelve, from the top down to look like the annual rings of a tree, and each ring has a different pattern on the outside, the middle layer is a tree, in the center of the tree there is a butterfly, it looks very much like the bronze mask worn by the temple guard, and can also identify people, dragons, elephants, cows, and other patterns.

"What is this?" Tian Ji squatted down with his arms covered and looked at it for a long time and asked.

"The Miao people really evolved from the descendants of Jiuli!" Ye Zhiqiu looked at it for a long time and said happily. "I know what it is."

"Don't be pretentious, hurry up, the sun is about to disappear." At this juncture, the palace lord did not forget to raise the bar with Ye Zhiqiu.

Ye Zhiqiu told us that this is the ancestral god in the myths and legends of the Miao people, but now it seems that this legend originated from the ancestors of Jiuli, that is to say, the Miao people inherited the myth of the ancestral gods of the Jiuli people.

In mythology, the Jiuli people believe that their ancestors are transformed from butterfly eggs, there are records in the ancient songs of the Miao people, the legend is that there is a maple tree first, a butterfly is turned out from the heart of the tree, this butterfly gives birth to twelve eggs, hatches for twelve years, and finally hatches out of people, Lei Gong, dragon king, elephant, cow, sheep, chicken, snake, centipede, lynx, tiger, dog and other twelve things, which are called twelve ancient ancestral gods by the Miao family.

"Twelve Ancient Ancestor Gods......" Tian Ji frowned and scratched his head, and suddenly laughed. This is interesting, the priest said that this is the temple of the ancestral gods of the Jiuli tribe, and the Miao people follow the mythology of the Jiuli tribe, that is, the temple of the ancestral gods is dedicated to a group of cattle, sheep, chickens and horses? ”

"These are just myths and legends, but any myth has roots." Wen Ru looked at us for a long time and said. "What matters now is not the meaning of this myth, but the reason why this bronze circle engraved with the myth of the Jiuli people appears here."

In the unobstructed temple, there is nothing except those temple guards who are kneeling on the ground, and now they are about to move as the sun gradually fades, and the three-eyed unicorn shadow projected on the large dome shines impartially on this bronze circle, since the three-eyed unicorn is a totem given by the ancestor god of Jiuli, it is of great significance to the ancestors of Jiuli, and even Chiyou must be in awe of this pattern, and there must be some meaning when it appears here.

The palace lord raised his hand to signal that we should not speak, and after listening for a moment, his eyes fell on the pattern of trees in the center of the bronze circle, and he slowly put his hand up, his brow furrowed, and then he lay down and put his ear on the pattern.

"There is subtle feng shui coming from below, indicating that the bottom is empty." Gong Jue looked up with a look of surprise, and then his hand touched lightly on the bronze circle, until the butterfly that moved to the center of the tree stopped, and his hand pressed down lightly, and the middle of the butterfly actually sunken down to reveal a round hole.

The palace lord cautiously reached in and touched it for a while, and then lay on the ground and told us that the bronze circle should be a closed entrance to the bottom of the temple, but the bronze circle was cast very solid and heavy, and it was difficult to break even if there were tools, and the round hole exposed by the butterfly in the middle should be the mechanism to open the entrance.

"But the mechanism here is very strange, I've never seen it before, and it's quite subtle, the mechanism should be connected to the pillars of the temple, and if you force it open, the whole temple will collapse." The palace lord stood up and said to us. "There should be something that can open the mechanism from the round hole, but I don't know what it is."

Who would leave the key to open after closing the entrance, even if we find the mechanism, there is nothing we can do, looking at the dimmer and dimmer sunlight, the temple guards who are kneeling around me have let out one low roar after another, my heart is getting more and more anxious, and I am clenched tightly in my hand and distraught.

When I was anxious to think about what to do, my eyes fell on the bronze pillar in my hand, and the whole person was stunned, frowning and looking at the round hole found by the palace lord on the butterfly pattern, the bronze pillar happened to be round, and it was covered with irregular sunken round holes, like ......

Like a hole in a key!

I licked my dry lips, slowly walked over and slowly put the bronze pillar at the round hole and put it down, the size was just the same, but there was no movement, the palace lord looked up at the big dome and the three-eyed unicorn light and shadow projected, I suddenly realized that there was also a three-eyed unicorn pattern on the bronze pillar, but the direction was just reversed with the pattern of light and shadow, I twisted the bronze pillar hard, when the three-eyed unicorn and the direction of light and shadow were the same.

Click!

With a snapping sound, there was a low roar beneath our feet, and the bronze circle magically folded out of the middle, revealing a spiral staircase before our eyes, leading to the darkness beneath the temple.

This is indeed the entrance, and when the others were relieved, I picked up the bronze pillar from the ground in shock, which was clearly the key to open the mechanism, to be exact, the key to open the entrance to the Temple of the Ancestral Gods, and the ancestral gods guarded by these temple guards were at our feet.

But I remember very well that the priest told us that the ancestral god of the Jiuli tribe had awakened and taken something from here, and now in retrospect, the ancestral god should have taken away this bronze pillar that opened the temple.

If that's the case, then the Jiuli Ancestral God that the priest said really exists, but what makes me even more puzzled is who secretly handed over this key to open the ancestral god's temple to me, it is obvious that this person is extremely familiar with this place, and it is impossible for anyone who breaks into this place to get out alive, unless it is ......

It is the ancestral god who once rested here!

I remembered hearing a strange voice from the stake in the priest's room, saying that we were the chosen ones, and that there was really a manifestation of the ancestral gods, but why was it me who was chosen?

I couldn't figure out why such an important thing was given to me, apparently knowing that we were going to be here, and it seemed that it was intended for me to open the Temple of the Ancestral God.