However, Qi Xuansu immediately denied this speculation, in terms of time, at the end of the Payiti period, the Holy Court had not yet invaded the Southern Continent on a large scale, and it was still an active period for the Goddess Society, acting as the pathfinder of the Holy Court under the banner of friendly exchanges, so Lopez, as a member of the Goddess Society, could form a deep friendship with the last emperor of Payiti.

The time of the West Gate is even further back, and the West Gate actually followed the footsteps of the Holy Court to the New World. It was as if the Holy Court had opened the way in front of it, and the West Gate had come along the open road. After discovering the New World, Xidaomen didn't dare to move, just cated beside him. Then because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, there was a big fight within the Holy See, and the steam gospel was born.

Seeing the rare opportunity, the Xidaomen next to it erected a banner for Tianxingdao to unite the local forces of the New World to take advantage of the fire. The Holy See was certainly not happy, so he wanted to beat Xidaomen. Xidaomen saw that it was not an opponent, and hurriedly contacted the brothers in the east, that is, east, south, north, and middle. After all, the brothers are against the wall, and they are insulted from the outside.

Several brothers of the family discussed and summed it up. First, his own brother can't be bullied by outsiders, this is a good opportunity to take back Xidaomen; Second, the Holy See has been too arrogant lately, and has to suppress his arrogance; Third, such a large territory was swallowed by the Holy See, and when he finished digesting it, the balance of forces between the two sides would be broken, even if it could not prevent the Holy See from swallowing up the Northern Continent, at least the Southern Continent would be preserved; Fourth, with the support of local forces, the division is famous.

The brothers felt that they could do it, so they stepped in and helped Xidaomen stabilize the situation.

In this way, Daomen made a lot of money, and fully restored the connection between Daomen and Xidaomen, so that Daomen indirectly obtained the Southern Continent. The Holy See lost a bit badly, losing the Southern Continent, and although the Northern Continent was retained, the Steam Gospel became a semi-independent feudal town.

As soon as they came and went, the Holy Court was no longer arrogant, but the borders between East and West Po Zhou had stopped a lot.

Although Daomen got cheap, it was still far from defeating the Holy Court, and the West Daomen also did not return to the embrace of Daomen, so they did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, and the two sides began to maintain the status quo, only small actions continued, and the war in the Southern Continent that had just ended not long ago was already the largest action on both sides.

In this way, the time is not right.

Because there is an important anchor point in this, and that is the Goddess Society missionary Andres Lopez.

This man was a friend of the last Emperor of Paititti, and he reported the matter to the Holy See only after the last Emperor of Paittiti had disappeared with the legendary artifact. A facsimile of this report was also in the hands of Wang Jiaohe and was written during the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Great Wei Dynasty.

The ten years of Shenzong are basically the ten years of competition for the world, and at this time, Xidaomen has not left the Central Plains and is participating in the competition for the world. At that time, the outcome was unknown, and it was impossible for Xidaomen to send people to the Southern Continent early.

Qi Xuansu said, "Could it be a wormman?"

Wu Niang said: "The earliest insect people appeared in the last years of the Great Jin Dynasty, and it was not until the Daomen entered the South Seas that their existence was discovered, and in the hundreds of years in between, there is no record of how the insect people developed, so even if the insect people came to the Southern Continent early, we don't know, it makes sense."

Qi Xuansu agreed: "Although the Worm People were found in the South Seas, they have an obvious appearance of the Central Plains people, but they are not like the Nanyang people, but more like they migrated from the Central Plains. The reason why they were able to deceive the Daomen in the first place and make the Daomen mistakenly think that they were a branch of the Daomen was that in addition to the exercises, the similarity in appearance was also a major reason. Now it seems that the remnants of the insect people fled from the South Seas to the Southern Continent not in a panic, but because there are branches of the insect people on the southern continent, and they have come to join their relatives."

Wu Niang continued, "These insects from the Southern Continent had an intersection with the ancient gods many years ago, and even became the priests of the ancient gods, which is probably to follow the local customs. The insect people of the South Seas are more like Taoist priests because they are close to the Daomen, and the insect people of the Southern Continent are close to the ancient gods, so they become witches. No wonder Ichichel believes in them, knows them well, and is an old friend."

Qi Xuansu said, "Those figurines can also be explained, they were left by the ancient insects of the Payiti period."

Wu Niang reached out and touched the heart of the female corpse, the palm of her hand broke the skin and flesh that had not yet rotted, and went deep inside, and sure enough, she took out a cocoon, but this

The cocoon has dried up, and apparently the bugs inside have died with the host.

"The methods of the West Dao Gate are not as good as the Dao Gate, and the cleaning up of the insect people is not clean, and there are still many remnants of the insect people, such as the Blue Cloud Sect." Wu Niang said, "Judging from the altar, these wormmen are loyal to It-Sumna, let's not care whether these worm-people are playing duplicity or not, just as they are It-Sumner's followers, after It-Sumna's death, they chose to trace Itchel back to Kukul Kanran, which logically makes sense."

Qi Xuansu said, "Will the wormmen have loyalty? I don't think so. The reason why they are hostile to Kukurkan is by no means because they are loyal to Itsumna, there must be a deeper reason, perhaps it is the promise that Ichchel has made to them, such as providing them with divine powers, as evidenced by those human head trees."

Wu Niang agreed with Qi Xuansu's statement: "Yes, the character of the worms doomed them to be loyal to no one, and when It-sumner was alive, perhaps they would be jealous of the power of this god and pretend to be allegiance. After It-Sumner dies, they will never continue to do their filial piety for It-Sumna, and the incident of the Zhao orphans will not happen to the worms."

Qi Xuansu asked, "Wu Niang, how did this insect priest die?"

Wu Niang hesitated for a moment: "It's not like a suicide, there are no obvious injuries, and the corpse is not decomposed, so it won't be a madman."

Qi Xuansu said: "I can't rule out this possibility, the insect people's exercises have always been greedy for merit, and their so-called 'Dan Formation Period', if they are not careful, they will destroy people and die, and it is normal to go mad. If you take the right path, when have you heard that you died because of cultivating the Jindan Dao, the Dao Gate cultivates immortality, and some supernatural powers and mana are incidental to immortality, and if you can't cultivate and live forever, it is nothing more than a lifetime to sit down, what kind of immortal path is difficult, like them, it seems to be bent on death."

Wu Niang swept the temple with her divine thoughts, but found nothing else, and said, "Don't talk about that, let's continue to look for Payiti."

Qi Xuansu had no objection, and the two left the temple here and continued to walk along the ancient road.

Along the way, there are also some architectural remains, which should be the supporting buildings of the temple, such as the places where the clergy live, etc., but the quality of these buildings is obviously not comparable to the temple that serves the gods, and they have all collapsed.

From this, it can be seen that this may be a temple area, and Qi Xuansu and Wu Niang have already entered the city limits of Payiti.

After all, these city-states in the southern continent did not build walls on a large scale like the Central Plains, which is also reasonable.

Qi Xuansu and Wu Niang gradually left the area of the temple, and the remains of the building became more and more. A prosperous city must be every inch of land, only the palace, the temple, the noble mansion and other areas can be left a large open space, appear empty, once to the downtown and civilian areas, it must be people next to people, houses next to houses.

Take Qi Xuansu as an example, when he lived in Haichanfang, there were several neighbors in one alley, and there were many alleys in one street. After arriving at Taishangfang, there are no alleys, only streets, and there are three or two families on a street, each of which is a big garden.

There were already few buildings in the temple area, and there were many open spaces, giving the rainforest a chance to grow wildly, and of course there were few buildings to see, but this was different, and the rainforest could not completely engulf these tightly connected and chaotic buildings.

When I got here, the road became clear with the reference of the remains of various buildings on both sides.

There is no doubt that the two have entered Paittiti.

Although Payiti is not as spectacular as imagined, it is also reasonable, after all, this is a deserted city engulfed by rainforest, almost integrated with the rainforest, if it is very spectacular, then Qi Xuansu can see it at a glance when he looks down from above.

Qi Xuansu roughly analyzed the situation, according to Andres's records and some legends, it is said that the last emperor of Payiti disappeared with the artifact with Payitti, which shows that although the ancient gods of the northern continent have infiltrated the southern continent at this time, it is still the royal family that dominates Paittiti, not the ancient gods. Therefore, the road leading to the Paittiti Cave will not be in the temple area, and it is likely to be in the location of the royal palace, which symbolizes the royal family.

Qi Xuansu communicated this speculation with Wu Niang, Wu Niang

also agreed with Qi Xuansu's idea, and the two decided to go to the palace area.

The royal palace is not difficult to find, it is generally located in the center of the city, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, no exception.

However, along the way, the two always felt very strange, this place seemed to be an empty city, there was no trace of war destruction, and there was no half a figure or corpse, not like the scene after being massacred, as if the people here had been evacuated on a large scale.

Qi Xuansu was a little puzzled: "Payiti is gone, but there is no trace of war, isn't Payiti destroyed at the hands of other city-states?"

Wu Niang is still well-informed: "You are a typical Central Plains thinking, and you always feel that a city must be destroyed by foreign enemies, because the Central Plains has maintained a unified imperial court for most of the time since Zulong, and can integrate resources, concentrate on big things, and rescue in time once a disaster occurs." However, these city-states in the southern continent are different, the rainforests are dense, the travel is inconvenient, and the environment cannot be compared with the Central Plains, which is very fragile, and once it encounters a disaster, such as epidemics, it is easy to cause the entire city to perish directly."

Qi Xuansu suddenly said: "No wonder later people don't know the location of Payiti, if Payiti was destroyed in the war, then the city-state that destroyed Payiti should always leave a relevant record. But if Paittiti perishes from some kind of epidemic, it makes sense that outsiders don't know about it."

Wu Niang said, "In the cave where we entered, except for some of the people who died in the massacre, most of them probably died from the plague, and in the early days of the plague, there were fewer dead, and Paitti still had the spare strength to place the bodies of the sick and dead in the tombs of the temple. Then the plague spread, and there were so many dead that the living began to flee, and perhaps many dead bodies were left in the ruins of the building, like the priestess."

Qi Xuansu nodded in agreement.

There are similar traditions in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad. In the East, Taoist temples and temples are chosen for temporary suspension, while in the West, people are simply buried in churches. It seems that the temple of Payiti is no exception.