The dark bottom may seem calm and unpredictable on the surface, but there may be turbulence and danger hidden everywhere.

This is Xu Tianchuan's first personal feeling when he went underwater.

Although Xu Tianchuan's water quality is very good, he does not have a lot of diving experience.

Based on the basic understanding of diving, and the current water pressure, the depth of the water is about 30 to 50 meters, so the impact of water pressure is not very large.

Judging by the time, it is now half past three in the afternoon.

It was three o'clock when I got into the water, and a full half hour had passed.

Because he wasn't sure if it was a river or if it was in an underground river, the time left for Xu Tianchuan was only one hour at most.

In other words, after an hour, you have to find a way to go up anyway.

According to common sense, an hour is obviously not enough, even if you play a game with a girl, it will take at least half an hour.

Unless there is a special circumstance, it can be extended for time.

Now, Xu Tianchuan can be said to have put all the bets on the female ghost.

Where will she take herself?

The female ghost's somewhat ethereal white figure was like a guiding light under the dark water at this time, probably to take care of Xu Tianchuan and Xing Chang's swimming speed, so it was not very fast.

After all, Xu Tianchuan and Xing Chang are not professional divers, and they don't have any equipment with them for freehand diving, and they only paddle with their limbs, and their speed is very limited.

Fortunately, Xu Tianchuan and Xing Chang's physical strength is not bad, if they are ordinary people, even if they can hold their breath for a long time, they can't bear this kind of physical exertion at all.

This is also one of the main reasons why Xu Tianchuan did not take Jiao San to play together.

While following the female ghost to the west, Xu Tianchuan was also constantly observing the surrounding situation.

There are also broken columns in front, and as seen before, the farthest distance is more than thirty meters.

Judging from these columns, the scale of this Shang Dynasty architectural site is not ordinarily large!

What made Xu Tianchuan excited was that in addition to these footholds, he finally saw some other architectural ruins exposed above the water in front, which basically collapsed into ruins, with walls, and some buildings buried underneath, similar to sculptures, but because of the incomplete fracture, most of them were pressed under the wall, so it was impossible to see what the sculpture was.

The further you go, the bigger the ruins of this building become, because the line of sight is too low, so you can hardly see the edge as far as the eye can see, and the scene is enough to shock Xu Tianchuan and Xing Chang.

It seems that the area you first saw was not the core of the ruins, or rather the main part of the building, so it was all hidden in the dirt layer underwater.

It is no exaggeration to say that even the ruins of this building are considered a large palace.

But it was definitely not a palace, or even a place where normal habitation was at the time.

Regarding this point, Xu Tianchuan is very sure.

Because the ancients were very cautious about the location of buildings, there was also a set of deep knowledge in it.

First of all, the topography of this place is very low, it is very easy to collect water, and the ancient buildings will be on the high ground, even if it is 4,000 years later, the landform will not change much.

If it is said that it will be 350,000 years, or within 100,000 years, this is not guaranteed, but there will never be much geological change in 4,000 years.

Moreover, this location is not the capital of the Shang Dynasty.

The Shang Dynasty was the city of Chaoge, which is 200 kilometers away from Luoyang City, although it is also in Henan Province.

In ancient times, when transportation was not very convenient, 200 kilometers was not a short distance.

Although it could not be the remains of a palace, it must have been of great significance at the time given its sheer size.

It's significant, and it's so large.

Combining the above two points, there is only one possibility left - sacrifice!

Sacrifice was the most important culture of the Shang Dynasty, so Xu Tianchuan guessed that the predecessor of this architectural relic was most likely a sacrificial temple.

Xu Tianchuan's current cognition of the ancient tombs of the Shang Dynasty is basically all from that Heavenly Order.

If it weren't for the Heavenly Order, I probably wouldn't know what kind of tomb this was.

And what is recorded in the Heavenly Decree is basically consistent with reality, so this also proves that what is recorded in the Heavenly Decree is true.

Judging from the records of the Youtian Order, the owner of this ancient tomb was the high priest of the Shang Dynasty, so there is a very large sacrificial temple here, which seems to be reasonable.

At the same time, this also opened a long-standing doubt in Xu Tianchuan's heart.

According to the records of the Youtian Order, before the owner of the tomb was ready to sacrifice, he did not seek eternal life for the king of Shang, and the king of Shang was defeated by the king of Wu, and the owner of the tomb also fled here and used this place as his own tomb.

Didn't you say an urgent burial? If everything was so sudden, how could there be such a large tomb?

And the ruins of a temple here basically solved this doubt in Xu Tianchuan's heart.

After the Shang King was defeated by the Wu King, the high priest chose to flee to the sacrificial temple, perhaps using the sacrificial temple as his own burial ground!

This also makes perfect sense.

Because the sacrificial ground is the most sacred and revered place in the heart of the sacrifice, it is indeed a very normal and reasonable thing to regard the sacrificial temple as a place for one's soul to return.

In addition, more than 3,000 years ago, with the situation of this high priest at that time, this must have been the best place to go, and there was no one!

That is, with this speculation in mind, when Xu Tianchuan's eyes swept over the ruins, he was suddenly attracted by an object in the ruins, and immediately stopped.

Xu Tianchuan, who was next to him, suddenly stopped, and he also stopped.

Stopping along with the female ghost who led the way at the front.

There is no way to communicate, but one look is enough.

After Xu Tianchuan stopped, he turned around and swam to a piece of ruins, then grabbed the broken rocks of the ruins with one hand, and reached over with the other hand, gently wiping the soil and green algae on the ruins.

At this time, Xing Chang immediately shone the pillar of light from the miner's lamp on his forehead.

As the dirt and green algae above are wiped off, the underneath is bronze! It is a bronze vessel crushed under the rubble.

Although most of this bronze is pressed under the ruins, it can still be seen that the volume is very huge, from the shape of the vessel, it looks like a bronze tripod, and there are words on it, but it is not an immortal text, but a Zhong Ding text.

Zhong Dingwen is the text engraved on the tripod vessel with the events and content related to the sacrifice, in fact, it has the same meaning as the oracle bone inscription, and the same font is used, the oracle bone inscription written on the bone or tortoise shell, and the Zhong Dingwen written on the sacrificial vessel is called Zhong Dingwen, but the name is different.

The appearance of this huge bronze vessel also confirmed Xu Tianchuan's previous guess that this architectural relic was a sacrificial temple.

And in a very, very large scale of the sacrificial activity, that's why such a large bronze tripod is used!

As for the text on it, because the time was too long, Xu Tianchuan carefully wiped off the layer of soil and green algae on it with his hands, and used a dagger to pry off some shells attached to it, and the content of Zhong Dingwen's text could still be seen.

As Xu Tianchuan guessed, the Zhong Dingwen above is a record of the events related to this large-scale sacrificial activity.

Strictly speaking, it can be regarded as divination!

Divination!

Xu Tianchuan has always wanted to find the divination of the high priest, and wants to know the content of the divination and why his name appears in the divination of the high priest.

So when Xu Tianchuan saw the words on this bronze, he was very excited and excited.

That's a clue.

It's just a pity that what is recorded on this bronze with Zhong Dingwen is not a complete divination!

A complete set of divination words is divided into precedents, propositions, divinations, and verifications.

The preface is both the time of divination and the date of divination, as well as the person who divined it.

A proposition is to ask about divination, such as what to ask for divination, and write it down, which is a proposition.

Then there is the divination, which means to ask how things will happen in the future.

Finally, there is the test, which is the result, the result of the divination and the verification of the fulfillment of the divination.

The combination of the above four words is a truly complete set of divination, and it is also the whole process of sacrificial divination.

However, from the current point of view, as the most important ritual vessel in the sacrifice, the tripod records the things and content related to the sacrificial divination, that is, the preparation before the sacrifice, and usually only the pretext and the proposition are written.

It is only after the end of the sacrificial divination that the divination and the verification of the words appear, and the divination and verification of the words are usually not written on the tripod vessels.

Even so, the preface and the proposition are extremely important to Xu Tianchuan, and they are an indispensable part of unlocking the secrets of this ancient tomb.

Therefore, Xu Tianchuan did not leave in a hurry, but continued to carefully pick up the soil and shells attached to it with his hands.

Even if the time is urgent, you must understand it, so that you can be relatively prepared and psychologically prepared, otherwise, even if you directly find the owner of the tomb or the ghost girl, relying on yourself and the two of you, it will definitely be the material for death.

Not to mention the owner of the tomb and the ghost god, even any devil can rub himself and Xingchang under the water......

After all the clean-up was done, Xu Tianchuan carefully analyzed and studied the above Zhong Dingwen, after all, Zhong Dingwen is not like modern Chinese characters, and he can see ten lines at a glance.

The punishment next to him didn't bother, just watched quietly from the side, his eyes were full of curiosity.

After a short analysis, Xu Tianchuan deciphered the Zhong Dingwen that appeared.

This is a preface, the time of divination is the period of King Shang, and the divination person is named Ji Yao!

"Auntie!"

"Auntie!"

Seeing these two words, Xu Tianchuan subconsciously frowned deeply!

Judging from the ruins of this magnificent sacrificial temple and such a large bronze tripod, this sacrifice is extremely vast.

The one who can be qualified for this kind of sacrifice must be the highest status sacrifice in the Shang Dynasty at that time, that is, the owner of this ancient tomb.

And the one who wrote his name in the preface is also the main person in this sacrifice.

Therefore, judging from the antecedents of the bronze tripod, the owner of this ancient tomb, the high priest of the Shang Dynasty, is named Ji Yao!

As I said before, 'Him' is one of the eight surnames in ancient times, and it is the descendant of Dayu.

The original tomb of the concubine, the owner of the tomb, is also a descendant of Dayu, which has been confirmed.

A concubine, a concubine!

These two people sound like brothers!

It seems that the direction of the previous guess is correct, this ancient tomb is not only formally related to the tomb of the concubine, but even the owner of the tomb is also deeply related.

But definitely not brothers.

One is from the Shang Dynasty and the other is from the Spring and Autumn Period, with an interval of several hundred years.

"Before, he was the descendant of this high priest?"

"So the High Priest's Book of Eternal Life ended up in the hands of the concubine?"

"And Ji Yan searched for the Hall of Eternal Life through the Book of Eternal Life, and as a result, he was cursed by the Hall of Eternal Life?"

Xu Tianchuan connected these into a line that ran through each other, as if he had instantly cleared a layer of fog that was bothering him!

It seems that he has found out the graves of the ancestors of several generations with the surname Him.

Is this related to Dayu's descendants or what?

However, on the bronze tripod, not only the preface is written, but also the proposition, that is, what to ask.

It's just that because the entire bronze tripod was pressed under the ruins, only a small part was exposed, which happened to be the precursor that was seen.

As for the proposition, it is on the back.

Theoretically speaking, if the proposition asks about something, it is likely to ask the location of the Hall of Eternal Life.

But this is just theoretical speculation, and normal people's thinking and thinking.

Xu Tianchuan didn't think that the fate was asking about the location of the Hall of Eternal Life.

Because Xu Tianchuan believed that before this sacrificial divination, the high priest Ji Yao already knew the location of the Hall of Eternal Life, otherwise, there would be no appearance of the "Book of Eternal Life", and after the result was passed to the hands of the concubine, the concubine looked for it for the sake of immortality, and came back with a curse.

"That's how to enter the Hall of Eternal Life, or how to open the Hall of Eternal Life?"

Xu Tianchuan looked at the huge bronze tripod in front of him and hesitated for a moment.

"Move!"

In any case, regardless of whether your guess is correct or not, you must find a way to see the content of the proposition buried underneath.

It's also about your own life and death.

It is even said that if the proposition is really to ask how to enter the Hall of Eternal Life, or how to open the Hall of Eternal Life, and then find a way to find the following divination and verification words, then there is no need to go to the high priest Ji Yao and the ghost Gu God, just bypass the two of them and go to the Hall of Eternal Life!

After confirming, Xu Tianchuan tried to remove the fractured rock that was pressed on the bronze tripod.

If it were on the ground, this would certainly be unrealistic, and even if Xu Tianchuan had the strength of a thousand catties, some of the larger rocks here were far more than a thousand catties.

But it still didn't move at all, and the visual inspection of this rock slab may be tens of thousands of catties.