Chapter 117
According to the written record on the riverbed, an incident that happened countless years ago is recorded.
Chi You, the leader of the Jiuli clan, was named the god of war, he has eighty-one brothers, all of whom have copper heads and iron foreheads, ten fingers and toes, and all of them have extraordinary skills.
The Yellow Emperor and Chi You were invincible in nine battles, Chi You made a fog for three days and three nights, and the Yellow Emperor's ministers invented the guide car under the inspiration of the Big Dipper constellation, only to rush out of the fog. Then the Yellow Emperor got the help of the Xuannu in the predicament, made 80 Kui skin drums, Kui is the divine beast in the East China Sea, "like a cow, the body and no horns", "into the water will be wind and rain, its light is like the sun and the moon, its sound is like thunder", the Yellow Emperor uses its skin to cover the drum, with the bones of the thunder beast as a drumstick, "the sound is five hundred miles, to power the world". The war between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou lasted for a long time, and the final decisive battle was carried out in the field of Jizhou.
When Liu Jun was an archaeology intern, he was also quite an old professor who talked about the myths and legends on the other side of the starry sky.
According to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Great Wilderness of the North", a legend is recorded, "There are people dressed in green clothes, and their names are called the Yellow Emperor's Nu. Chi You made a soldier to attack the Yellow Emperor, and the Yellow Emperor was ordered to respond to the dragon's attack on the wilderness of Jizhou. In response to the dragon and animal water, Chi You invited the wind and rain master to indulge in the wind and rain. The Yellow Emperor was the goddess of heaven, and the rain stopped, so he killed Chiyou. There shall be no rain in the rebirth, and there shall be no rain in the dwelling."
The two sides first by the sorcerer, hoping to conquer each other with the help of natural forces, the Yellow Emperor called the winged Ying Long animal water, in order to drown the Chiyou army, Chiyou also asked the wind and rain, the rain division to help, a storm for a while, the Yellow Emperor's army again in trouble, in danger, the Yellow Emperor had to ask the goddess to stop the wind and rain, the weather suddenly cleared, the Chiyou army was surprised, the Yellow Emperor took the opportunity to command the army to cover the past, and achieved the final victory.
And at this moment, this war was recorded on the bed of the Netherworld, which shocked Liu Jun's heart.
"Meng Daoyou, do you think we should go over first to see if there is any blood lotus liquid?"
Just when Liu Jun was stunned, Zhao Shandie's voice suddenly remembered, interrupting Liu Jun's thinking, Liu Jun nodded, seeing some myths and legends in his previous life, he actually forgot the business of this trip.
The black river has been drained completely, and a young man from the Zhao family stepped on the sheep intestine path, and everyone followed one after another.
As the crowd continued to move forward, after two incense sticks, in front of them, a five-zhang high stone platform appeared, the stone platform was made of cyan stones, and a stone staircase surrounded the top.
Above the stone steps, there seemed to be a vast space, and the firelight rushed up, and only a deep darkness could be seen.
In the empty cave, only the sound of people's messy footsteps could be heard, and the fire was full of light, making it seem like daylight, but only five meters away, everything was swallowed up by darkness.
"Liu Jun, why do I think it's so evil here?" Zhao Tianjiao asked in a low voice to Liu Jun beside him as he walked.
"I don't know how many years this place has existed, and if we weren't monks, we'd have died here. Liu Jun shook his head and smiled, but his heart was also a little panicked.
Slowly, everyone noticed that the distance between the stone steps was getting farther and farther, and it seemed that the space was getting wider and wider, and the footsteps were coming in the distance, and even the echo could not be heard.
Everything in the cave seems to be filled with a desolate atmosphere.
After countless years, the cave was broken into, and everything inside was suffocating.
"Knock Knock Knock ......"
At this moment, a loud bell suddenly spread throughout the cave, the sound was extremely clear, but it was extremely ethereal.
Immediately, in the shocked eyes of everyone, there was a little white light flashing in mid-air, and then, more and more white light, gradually, the mid-air seemed to become an endless starry sky, illuminating the cave as if it was day.
Everyone looked up and gasped.
I saw that in mid-air, there were countless thick iron chains, and on top of the iron chains, there were bronze oil lamps.
I didn't know that because it was too dark in the cave, everyone didn't even notice the existence of this iron chain.
At this time, on the iron chain, tens of thousands of bronze oil lamps were lit up in unison, shining here as bright and dazzling as the white sun.
And under the illumination of these bronze oil lamps, everyone clearly saw that in the most central place, the soft moon-white light emanated from the five-zhang high stone platform.
However, it can be seen that the white light of these moons is already quite dim, as if the oil lamp that is about to run out of oil is struggling to support it.
In the cave under the huge palace, thousands of lights burned on countless iron chains.
Beneath it, a five-zhang stone platform radiates a soft glow.
This scene, in the eyes of everyone, looks quite weird.
However, despite the shock in their hearts, they controlled their emotions and forcibly calmed themselves.
Liu Jun looked at the five-zhang high platform in front of him, his eyes showed a look of surprise, and then he slowly walked forward, and the others followed.
When everyone slowly approached the Wuzhang stone platform, they were all taken aback.
"This ...... This is the altar used by mortals to sacrifice to the heavens in ancient times!"
Even Zhao Tianjiao, when he saw the five-zhang stone platform at this time, he reacted instantly, and understood the specific role of this five-zhang high platform.
Indeed, the appearance of the five-zhang stone platform is very similar to the altar used to worship the heavens in ancient times, above the altar, carved with a variety of ancient beast totems, in the center of the altar, the seal is carved with strange lines.
The Netherworld, the altar, and the tadpole writing on the riverbed are enough to show that Liu Jun's speculation is correct, and there has indeed been an earth-shattering war here.
It's just that, the strange thing is that the altars that the ancient ancestors used to worship the heavens were generally three or four layers, but there were no additional layers on these five-zhang high platforms.
"Meng Xiaoyou, why do I think something is wrong with this stone platform?" Just when Liu Jun was silent, Ji Lei, who was on crutches, walked to his side and asked.
Liu Jun looked up at the five-zhang stone platform, pondered for a while, nodded and said: "I also feel the same way, in my opinion, this five-zhang stone platform is not an altar used by ancient ancestors to worship the sky. ”
"It's not an altar, what is it?" Ji Lei said with a surprised face.
Liu Jun looked at the ancient beast totems around him, shook his head and said, "I don't know, I just think that this five-zhang high platform is very different from the appearance of many altars I know." ”
"It's not an altar. ”
A cold voice came from behind them, and the two turned their heads at the same time, only to see that at some point, Zhao Shandie had already come behind the two.
"Miss, what do you think?"
As soon as he saw Zhao Shandie coming, Ji Lei seemed to be a little excited, and he couldn't even speak.
Zhao Shandie did not look at Ji Lei, but stared at the five-zhang stone platform in front of him, and said in a self-talking tone: "On the real altar, most of the ancestors' perceptions of heaven and earth are depicted in pictures such as mountains and rivers, the sun and the moon, and totems, but on this five-zhang stone platform, these things are not involved at all, so this is definitely not an altar, as for what it is, I don't know very well." ”
The three of them fell into deep thought together.
In the cave below the palace, there is an ancient vicissitudes of five-zhang stone platform, what is it used for, all of this is a mystery.
At this moment, the surrounding light seemed to become much brighter, and Liu Jun looked up into the air, his pupils suddenly contracted.
I saw that the bronze oil lamps on the iron chains suddenly gradually dimmed, and at the same time, a soft light emanated from the oil lamps, like a galaxy in the starry sky, slowly gathered together, towards the Wuzhang stone platform.
"Boom!"
Just when everyone was stunned, a loud bell suddenly rang around, if the previous bell was like a lion lazily yawning when he first woke up, then this bell was like the roar of a lion's rage.
The deafening bell rang at this moment, instantly resounding throughout the cave.
It seemed that at this moment, everything in the cave woke up.
In mid-air, it seems that the figure of the dragon flying and the phoenix can be seen, and an endless sense of vicissitudes and desolation permeates out of the five-zhang stone platform.
What shocked everyone even more was that everyone was shocked to find that the surrounding Netherworld River was actually tumbling violently.
"What's going on?!" everyone was shocked.
"Meng Xiaoyou, what's going on, it's so weird?" Ji Lei's hands on crutches trembled violently, and his face turned pale.
Liu Jun was also a little scared in his heart, but his face was quite calm, he turned his head to look at Zhao Shandie beside him, although the other party's face was a little pale, but it was not panicked.
"Knock ......"
Shortly after the first bell rang, the second bell rang out, loud and distant, as if from ancient times.
At the moment when the bell rang, from the five-zhang stone platform, a bright light suddenly came, as if a huge sun appeared in the cave, and everything in the entire cave was illuminated clearly.
"Sister, let's go over quickly!" Zhao Tianjiao yelled and rushed over first.
Zhao Shandie frowned, couldn't bear it, and rushed over, Liu Jun followed, he found that Zhao Shandie's footsteps were a little flustered, which was really inconsistent with Zhao Shandie's calm posture.
The five-zhang high stone platform, although the stone steps spiraled up, it was only an instant, Zhao Shandie came to the top of the stone platform, his face was instantly pale, and his delicate body was also shaking and shaking.
Seeing Zhao Shandie like this, Liu Jun instantly rushed forward, hugged Zhao Shandie, and hugged him into his arms, but the other party did not react at all, and his beautiful eyes were blank, which made people feel distressed.
"Zhao Shandie, Zhao Shandie, are you okay?" Liu Jun couldn't help but ask.
"I ...... I'm fine. Zhao Shandie's dull gaze instantly returned to clarity, which made Liu Jun also breathe a sigh of relief and looked towards the center of the stone platform.
On the stone platform, there are the corpses of countless demon beasts, and there are countless iron chains surrounding it in mid-air, where is there still the existence of blood lotus liquid, no wonder Zhao Shandie's face is pale.
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
The other people also followed to the stone platform, seeing this scene, Ji Lei shook his head with a disappointed expression, as for Zhao Tianjiao, he couldn't help but scold angrily: "Damn, this is the last place, there is no blood lotus liquid yet!"
"Tianjiao, don't say it again!" Zhao Shandie heard the voice of his younger brother Zhao Tianjiao, and couldn't help but scold.
"Sister, we have been looking for so many years, and according to the clues of the parchment scroll left by my mother, we finally found this place, but ......" The words stopped abruptly here, Zhao Tianjiao did not continue, his expression was hideous, and his eyes were red.
Over the years, he accompanied his sister Zhao Shandie to travel all over the mountains and rivers in the Tang Kingdom, in order to find his mother, in order to find the blood lotus liquid, he worked tirelessly, others could only see that the two sisters and brothers of the Zhao family were excellent, but they didn't expect the bitterness behind it.
"If the blood lotus liquid is not here, it doesn't mean that there is no one in the cave, maybe there are other places that have not been discovered by us, or let's look for it carefully. Liu Jun opened his mouth to comfort, but he also knew in his heart that if he wanted to find the blood lotus liquid, he was afraid that there was no hope.
"Meng Daoyou, what you said is true?" Hearing Liu Jun's words, Zhao Shandie hurriedly looked up at Liu Jun, as if he saw a look of affirmation on Liu Jun's face.
"Now that we haven't reached the end of the cave, maybe in front of you, you can see the existence of the blood lotus liquid. ”
Liu Jun nodded directly, Zhao Shandie at this moment is like a little girl who needs to be affirmed, fragile and distressed, if she refuses rashly, I am afraid that the other party will not be able to bear it.
At the moment when everyone stepped on the five-zhang stone platform, at the moment when the cave was illuminated, a statue appeared in the cave, quietly dormant here.
The body of a snake has a human head, three legs and two arms, three eyes and two mouths......
Each sculpture subverts everyone's cognition, and each statue is made of bronze, filled with the breath of time.
They have been baptized by countless years of time, and sit quietly in the cave, as if they want to tell a dusty past.
"Oh my God, what's going on?"
"Why haven't we ever seen these sculptures?"
Everyone present was stunned, several times they were ready to enter the cave, they had seen a lot of strange things, but they were still stunned by the scene in front of them.
These sculptures are strangely shaped, they have never seen them before.
"Look down on your feet, what are these?"
A young man from the Zhao family exclaimed, and at the highest point of the Wuzhang stone platform, mottled pictures suddenly appeared, obviously dusty for a long time, but he could vaguely identify the original appearance of the pictures.
Everyone stepped forward one after another, carefully identifying the pictures.
"No, how do I feel familiar, it seems to be ...... Jingwei reclamation?" Liu Jun was horrified and thought of a possibility.
Next, the speculation in Liu Jun's heart was more and more confirmed.
Flying...... Three-legged and two-armed...... Angry bumps into the mountains......
Occasionally, one or two familiar portraits can be seen in those paintings.
These stories, which have never existed only in myths and legends, clearly appeared at Liu Jun's feet at this time.
The Chinese myths and stories recorded on the other side of the starry sky in his previous life slowly surfaced in his heart, which reminded Liu Jun of many things.
From Pangu to the legendary battle of the deer, from the mythical and legendary giant of the wilderness to the later strange beasts and monsters...... Liu Jun originally thought that it was just the imagination of the ancient ancestors, but he didn't expect that after coming to this world, he refreshed his cognition of the other side of the starry sky.
A strange sculpture, a familiar picture, after countless years, finally reappeared.
"The spinning turtle in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", Shu deer...... Jingwei reclamation, angry collision with Buzhou Mountain, Lich War...... And also...... What does all this represent? Could it be that all the powers on the other side of the starry sky have finally come to this world?"
Thinking of this, Liu Jun was startled, as if he heard the sound of something peeling.