Chapter 22: The Strange Laojun Temple
Go further, the mountain is getting steeper, there is no road anymore, all around are boulders and towering trees, at this time, Ye Ping, has long been unable to distinguish between southeast and northwest. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)
"How can this be? He got lost?!" After walking a long way, the last glimmer of hope was shattered, and Ye Ping knew that he was really lost.
The sun is setting and the breeze is refreshing.
"It's almost dark now, I haven't gone back yet, my mother will definitely be very worried about me?!" Ye Ping's color changed slightly, and his mood was also a little bad, he wouldn't be too worried when he got lost, but he was afraid that his mother Li Xiumin, who didn't know the situation at home, would be anxious.
Without further delay, Ye Ping re-identified the direction and continued to walk forward.
After traveling more than 100 meters, Ye Ping found a collapsed piece of earth and stones, which seemed to be a cave that had collapsed under the erosion of time.
As long as there are mountains, there will definitely be caves, and Ye Ping, who has always lived in the cultivation world, is no longer strange about these.
"Click......" A sound similar to a fracture was heard far away under the night sky.
"Skull, it turned out to be a human skull!" Ye Ping's face changed slightly, and he slowly took a step back, finally seeing what was in front of him clearly.
Not far from the collapsed cave, half of a snow-white skull was exposed in the sand, Ye Ping kicked the skull out of the sand with his foot, it was obvious that this was an adult's skull, I don't know how many years it had existed, it had been almost weathered, the bone was no longer smooth, and there were many rough cracks on it.
What is surprising is that it has an irregular round hole in its frontal bone, which can be the thickness of a finger, as if it has been pierced by some sharp weapon.
"It seems that this place is full of unknowns and uncertainties. ”
The unfamiliar environment and uncertain factors made Ye Ping's heart feel a little chilly.
Although these were dry bones and were left over from many years ago, Ye Ping still decided that it would be better to be careful.
"What's up ahead?"
Under the hazy night sky, the stars and moon are not very bright, and only a vague undulating shadow can be seen in front of them, like pieces of rocks connected together, uneven, and intertwined.
When he approached, Ye Ping was a little stunned, this turned out to be a ruin, and what stood in front was only a small part, and the even larger ruins ran horizontally into the distance.
The ruins of the walls and the rubble in one place seem to tell an unknown story.
Under the night moon, this place is particularly lonely, although it is a bleak scene here, but fortunately, Ye Ping has walked out of the dense forest at this time, and he can tell the direction, and I believe that he will soon find a way out.
It is a huge ruin, covering a large area, and the solid foundation is made of huge stones, and it is conceivable that there must have been a palace and temple built here.
And at the end of this ruin, there was a light source not far ahead, behind a broken wall.
"What is it that makes this place in ruins, that all the buildings here have collapsed?"
The huge ruins in front of him made Ye Ping a little amazed, because all this was really incredible, and it was obviously like two worlds with the countryside below the mountain.
In fact, to put it bluntly, this is nothing, Ye Ping, who is in the cultivation world, has already experienced a thousand strange things, and in terms of the history of this world, they should not happen, even if someone tells him at this moment that this is the cave palace where a certain immortal cultivator lives, he will not be surprised.
The light source was ahead, pouring out from behind the broken wall, causing a faint halo of light to appear, adding some mystery to it.
"What the hell is that?"
The light source circulates at the end of the ruins, making the ruins seem more and more desolate and desolate, which naturally makes people feel extremely mysterious.
"Bang!Bang!......"
Ye Ping made a sound as he stepped on the rubble, which spread far under the empty night sky, and soon, Ye Ping finally walked through this huge ruin. Just ahead, the broken wall, though partially damaged, was four or five meters high.
"Let's see what that light source is!"
Ye Ping carefully bypassed the huge broken wall and came to the end of the ruins, and suddenly felt a breath that made people feel comfortable rushing towards him.
Ye Ping had completely walked out of the ruins and appeared behind the broken wall, and really saw the light source in front of him.
Just fifty meters in front of him, an ancient temple sat quietly, it was not the residence of some god or Buddha that Ye Ping thought at first, but just a temple that ordinary people commonly saw.
In front of the temple, an ancient tree on the left and right is as vigorous as a dragon, the whole body is dry, only some branches are scattered, only some dead leaves on the ground have long been lost, each dead leaf seems a little lonely, the so-called new things from generation to generation, but these dead leaves on the ground are obviously desolate caused by the superposition of years and years.
These two vigorous ancient trees, six or seven people can't hug each other, the ancient trunk has been hollowed, if it weren't for these dead leaves on the ground, Ye Ping would have thought that these ancient trees have already died.
Behind the ancient tree, there is the temple that Ye Ping saw, as long as you take a few steps forward, you can enter from the temple gate.
"How can there be such a temple?"
The temple and the ancient tree are interdependent, full of antiquity, and suddenly Ye Ping feels a hazy flow of time, the changes of the years, and the two lives of people, so that he has a feeling of returning to the world of cultivation again.
Walking here, not to mention that there are many such temples in this world, such as White Horse Temple, Guandi Temple, Wutai Mountain and so on. Just saying that this small temple has existed on such a mountain for many years feels very strange.
"Why do I feel like there is a long river of history surging, all this in front of me seems to be incomparably long, as if I have experienced the precipitation of history. ”
The distance of fifty meters was very short, and Ye Ping soon came to the front, and a strange feeling surged in his heart, and what he saw in front of him was like an old historical picture, with the breath of time permeating.
"Is there anything different about this temple?"
The temple was silent, and there was peace here.
Raising his head slightly, Ye Ping looked forward, and there was a rusty and mottled copper plaque on the deserted temple, with three ancient characters engraved on it, like a dragon and snake coiled, and the Zen meaning was endless.
Although these three characters are ancient characters, they are not difficult for Ye Ping to recognize, because he has some imagination with the font of the Xiuzhen world.
"Laojun Temple!" At this moment, Ye Ping read out all three words.
Although there was an ordinary appearance here, Ye Ping still saw something extraordinary, which made him wonder what kind of place it was.