Chapter Ninety-Eight: Bronze Chiyou

We went around to watch Wen Ru turn the stone plate, and he told us as he turned that this is the core place in the temple of the Jiuli Ancestral God, and it should be the Jiuli Ancestral God enshrined, and the pattern on the stone door must be related to the Jiuli Ancestral God, and it also has some special meaning.

Three-eyed unicorn!

My eyes lit up and the meaning came, the descendants of Jiuli firmly believe that the three-eyed unicorn is a totem given by the ancestral god, and even the temple guards also wear a mask with a three-eyed unicorn pattern, I remember that the priest said that only the guards who worship and protect the ancestral god are qualified to wear such a pattern, which shows how lofty the three-eyed unicorn is in the hearts of the Jiuli people.

Wen Ru nodded silently, and after he took a step back, Wen Ru really pieced together a complete three-eyed unicorn on the stone door.

Rumble!

There was a loud noise from the stone gate, and the thick and tall stone gate slowly parted from the middle, and a strong and biting cold wind whistled out from inside, almost blowing out the torch in Ye Zhiqiu's hand.

When the stone door was fully opened, the faint light of the fire could not penetrate the darkness inside, and only felt that the unusually cold air flow was constantly pouring out from inside, and the headache that had been unbearable for me was also disappeared in an instant, but the sound that filled my ears gradually became clear.

When we stepped through the huge stone gate, I subconsciously had a cold shiver, it was so cold that it made people shiver, so that Tian Ji's cold teeth kept bumping, but unfortunately we lost the flashlight, and I couldn't see what was in front of me just by the torch in Ye Zhiqiu's hand.

Boom!

The light was too dim, and the general who walked in front didn't know what he had hit, so he fell to the ground and rubbed his head and cursed, I hurriedly helped him up, and saw that the general's forehead was red and swollen, and it must have been hit lightly.

Ye Zhiqiu brought the torch over to illuminate it, and then we saw a thick bronze pillar in the darkness, with rough and simple lines on it, Ye Zhiqiu recognized it for a long time, frowning and wondering: "These lines are early Han ornaments, because they are incomparable and used as a symbol of war." ”

"Archaeological discoveries have found that the early Han ornaments appeared on the weapons and flags of the war, and this bronze pillar has the ornaments of the Han Zhu ornaments, representing war and killing, and is regarded as a bad thing, but it can be ......," Wen Ru said with great confusion. But this is a shrine dedicated to the ancestral god of Jiuli, why is there such an ominous thing? ”

"There's another one over here." Tian Ji shouted next to him.

As we walked over, the two bronze pillars were exactly the same size, and even the ornamentation was the same, but they were not erected upright, but they were distributed in a figure-of-eight shape and were very high, because the fire could not illuminate them, and we could not see what the two bronze pillars were supporting.

"There's ice on it." The palace lord touched us with his hand and said in surprise.

It was unusually cold from the moment I entered, the thick ice attached to the bronze, and the fact that the fire could not penetrate the darkness around me made me feel eeriely uneasy.

There was a low and slow sound behind us, we turned around and found that the stone door that had been opened before was slowly closing, I was shocked that once it was closed, there was no way back, we tried to stop the stone door from closing, but we couldn't stop the heavy stone door at all, until a dull crash, the only light was completely blocked, and we were even darker and gloomy all around.

"It's not a bad thing, it's okay to turn it off." The general said with a sigh. "That way, we don't have to worry about butterflies and bugs sneaking up on us behind our backs."

"There's something here." Tian Ji shouted loudly in the distance.

When we got closer, we saw that it was a stone wall, with a bronze groove inlaid on the outside, Tian Ji's hand took it out of the groove, it was stained with black liquid, this should be the fire trough used for lighting, Ye Zhiqiu hurriedly lit it, and the fire quickly spread and swallowed the darkness in front of us.

When the light of the fire illuminated everything in front of us, all of us fell back in panic until our bodies slammed against the closed stone door, and it was difficult to describe the horror in words, and the general and Tian Ji did not even raise their guns, but looked up blankly and blankly.

It was a huge ice room, much bigger than the one we saw the butterfly queen, and in the empty ice room, not far from us, a behemoth covered in bronze armor stood in front of us, and the bright light of the fire allowed us to clearly see the whole picture of this behemoth.

It was a huge monster with three heads and six arms, covered with bronze head and iron arms covered by bronze armor, with a bull's head and a human body, each with its own hands holding a sword and axe, and its face was fierce and majestic that people did not dare to look up.

Chiyou!

The corners of my mouth quirmed and shouted out the rumored and respected god of war, the priest said that the temple of the ancestral god was guarded by Chiyou, except for the statue of Chiyou at the entrance of the temple, we have never seen anything related to Chiyou in the entire temple.

But I never expected to see such a big Chiyou in this ice room, and the two thick bronze pillars we saw before were actually the legs of the three-headed and six-armed Chiyou.

This is also the reason why the general and Tian Ji gave up resistance, in the face of such a behemoth, all resistance is in vain, and the fierce face of Chi You in the firelight makes us afraid that we don't even have the courage to resist.

"Thief, your mother, you should have believed the priest if you knew it, people have clearly warned us, but we don't believe it, there is really such a big Chiyou......" Tian Ji said stiffly and intermittently.

"It stands to reason that Chi You was defeated and killed by the Yellow Emperor in the battle for deer, and his head was in a different place, so ......" Ye Zhiqiu was shocked. So what's going on with this Chiyou? ”

"The priest said that after the defeat of the Jiuli tribe, Chiyou was indeed killed, but it didn't take long for Chiyou to be resurrected, and the resurrected Chiyou was even more brave and tall, and he also wore bronze armor and a mask, leading the remaining Jiuli people to leave the Central Plains and go deep into the mountains in the southwest." I took a deep breath and shuddered. "It seems that what the priest said is true, and the resurrected Chiyou that the Jiuli people saw later should be the one we see now."

"Chi Yu Ta...... Why didn't he move? Gong Jue frowned and asked in surprise.

I only then found that for a long time, the huge Chiyou stood motionless in front of us, we looked at each other, after a long time, the general's Adam's apple squirmed, and slowly took a step forward, we stared at Chiyou intently, still there was no movement, the general raised his hand to us and signaled not to follow, he approached cautiously like walking on thin ice, when standing in front of Chiyou, the general hesitated, and finally raised the butt of the gun and gently hit Chiyou on the leg.

While......

The sound of bronze being knocked echoed in the ice room, the general took a step back, but the huge Chiyou still didn't move, the general looked back at us suspiciously, I walked to the general, timidly looked at it carefully for a long time, only to find that this Chiyou was just a huge statue.

To be exact, it's not a statue, it's a different body and a different body and surroundings cast in bronze, and then reassembled, and I breathe a long sigh of relief, which may be the reason why the priest said that Chiyou is immortal, this is just a patchwork of bronze Chiyou.

"Why do you want to be such a big Chiyou?" Tian Ji's voice was much more relaxed.

"Chiyou was praised as the master of war and the god of war by later generations, it can be seen that at that time it was really brave and brave and brave, I think it is because, after Chiyou was killed, the Jiuli crowd had no leader, so someone cast this bronze Chiyou, in the hearts of Jiuli people, Chiyou is like a banner, only Chiyou does not fall, they can still see hope." Ye Zhiqiu walked around the huge Chiyou and sighed.

"Your explanation is reasonable, but the question is how did this bronze Chiyou lead the defeated Jiuli people here?" Wen Ru shook his head in confusion. "From the priest's description of us, he firmly believes that Chiyou is really resurrected, although he did not see it with his own eyes, but he inherited the secret of Jiuli that has been passed down from generation to generation."

"Chi You was still an ordinary tribal leader before the Battle of the Deer, I believe that he is indeed brave and abnormal, but he is a person after all, but have you noticed that from the mouth of the priest, it seems that after the Battle of the Deer, Chi You was endowed with divinity, and his existence is no longer as a leader, but the guardian of the Jiuli Ancestral God." I thought about it for a long time, and looked up at the tall and mighty Chiyou. "And Chiyou also inherited the pattern of the three-eyed unicorn from that time."

"I understand, even if Chiyou is the leader of the Jiuli clan, but the most noble status of the Jiuli clan is the ancestral god, after Chiyou was defeated and killed, the ancestral god reborn Chiyou...... No! It was this huge bronze Chiyou that was created to think that the Jiuli people believed in the existence of miracles, and used this bronze Chiyou to summon the defeated Jiuli people to retreat to the southwest region. The palace lord nodded in realization. Objective...... It is for the Jiuli people to build this temple for them! ”

"Labor to build a temple?" The general looked at the palace lord suspiciously. "And what is the purpose of building the temple?"

The priest once mentioned that the temple was the resting place of the ancestral gods, and ...... rest in peace, "I slowly opened my mouth and looked around the huge ice chamber again." It's a mausoleum! It is a mausoleum where no one is allowed to enter, and the ancestral god of Jiuli is buried here! ”

"If it's a god, why do you need a mausoleum, and if a god dies too?" The general asked.

"Don't forget, the priest also said that the ancestral god who rested in the temple once woke up and took something from here." I took out the bronze pillar from my body that opened the temple, and I couldn't figure out these unbelievable things in my head. "This bronze pillar is the vital key of the temple, and it must also be something taken away by the ancestral god, since this bronze pillar appears in our hands, it is enough to prove that what the priest said is not groundless, and this ancestral god may really be reborn......"

"No...... Tian Ji pursed his mouth. Not one ancestral god, yes, eleven! ”

"How do you know?" We asked in surprise.

Tian Ji's expression froze like a carving, and then he slowly raised his hand, his gaze and hand pointed behind us.

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