Sun Daqiao stared at the furnace for a moment, and explained mysteriously: "This furnace is probably the sacrificial incense burner, as for the three ghost-faced gluttonous copper pillars in front of us, they represent the incense, then, the gluttonous eyes are red and bright, and the smoke floats out, which means that the incense is burning, and the souls of the Beifu who have been brought back are worshipped!" ”

Song Siyuan looked at the bronze pillar and said: "No matter how luxurious this well-dressed mound is, it is essentially no different from a tomb, this is all a small trick to build a dungeon and a tomb, but, what do we smell?" ”

Just now, after the smoke drifted out, the smell in everyone's nose was a little stronger, as if they had smelled some kind of medicine, revealing a strange fragrance.

"It's raw rhino horn."

Yue Qingshan sniffed his nose carefully and said categorically.

"Raw rhino horn?"

Yue Guanchao remembered the raw rhino horn incense they smelled last time in the ancestral land of Su Shen, and they almost planted it in a lucid dream, and immediately covered their noses.

Lao Yuetou waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, only after the raw rhino horn is ignited, can it make people fall into the illusion of lucid dream, these are just raw rhino horn powder, it is not ignited at all, for us, it is no different from ordinary medicinal materials." ”

Song Siyuan asked, "Then what does this mean?" What is the reason why there is a hallucinogenic raw rhino horn, but it does not ignite but emits like powder? ”

"Ghost!"

Yue Qingshan's eyes became serious, and he looked at the white smoke that continued to float out of the incense: "In the understanding of the old generation, raw rhinos are not combustible, burning them can communicate with ghosts, although unburned raw rhinos can't see ghosts, they can be regarded as good material for conjuring spirits, as long as the yin soul smells the smell of raw rhinos, they will be attracted by these smells, lingering around people, just wait for the last step to ignite, you can see them." ”

The old man continued: "I suspect that the raw rhino powder here is actually to continuously recruit heroic souls, and to attract heroic souls from all over the world by offering incense, so as to enter this heroic soul mound, and this furnace and copper pillar are molded into incense burners and incense sticks. ”

"I feel that this place is not only to worship the heroic souls, but also to invite other heroic souls here, as for the bright and extinguishing red light of the gluttonous head, it is probably that there are certain structures in the eyes, and they can't guarantee that the incense burner can burn for thousands of years, and if it can be processed, it can make some mechanical structures run for thousands of years."

After that, Yue Guanchao climbed on the back of the glutton, and climbed directly along the back to the Ding Er, and the things that appeared in the furnace Ding Ding made his back tremble.

"Second uncle, there are bones inside!"

Song Siyuan and Yue Qingshan also climbed into the gluttony, and in the bronze furnace ding, which was larger than the house, what caught their eyes were particles as small as fingernails, and these particles filled the furnace to the brim, and it was only half a meter away from the furnace ding.

At first, Yue Guanchao thought that these were strange-shaped stones and gravel, until he found that the particles were full of fine holes, and found clothes and finger bones mixed in the particles, so he realized that these gravels might be the remains of corpse bones.

Song Siyuan squatted down, carefully observed the gravel, and nodded at him: "Basically certain, these are human bones that have been weathered and eroded, and the bones are full of sparse holes, which are traces left by weathering and erosion." ”

"Well, that's too broken."

Yue Guanchao had never seen such broken bones, and he felt like he had been cut into hundreds of pieces by something.

Song Siyuan nodded: "It's indeed a little broken, and the weathering and erosion are not like this, probably the corpses they were killed were already chopped up back then." ”

Yue Qingshan looked at the broken bones full of pits and valleys, and his face became more and more solemn: "Using flesh and blood as grit, how do I feel more and more evil, if it is said that the furnace is used to make a sacrificial array, I can still understand, so cruel killing, and chopping up corpses, this is somewhat evil, is there any other purpose besides attracting dead souls?" ”

As for what the purpose is, they are not very clear.

The search was fruitless, they bypassed the furnace and began to work separately, under the distribution, Yue Qingshan took them, the descendants of relatives and friends, and planned to go to the pagoda on the right, while the Ghost Fang Sect took his own people to the tower on the left, and after the two teams explored the pagoda, they met directly in front of the main hall along the verandah.

Subsequently, the two teams began to act, Yue Guanchao and they turned to the right, and when they came to the pagoda, they saw a bronze lock directly locking the tower door.

Fortunately, the bronze lock was already rusty, Yue Guanchao picked up the sapper shovel for a while, the chain fell to the ground with a bang, and everyone scattered on both sides, and when the door was opened, there was no mechanism to start, and then he walked into the pagoda.

The pagoda is about eight stories high, basically about the same as a five- or six-story building, with intricate carved windows and exquisite corridors on the outside, but a different structure on the inside.

To be precise, the pagoda they saw outside was only half a tower, which was similar to cutting a whole pagoda horizontally, tightly fitting the mountain walls on both sides, and at the same time, using the outer pagoda as the outline, digging ten meters deep inward, almost a whole pagoda could be placed in it, forming a half-tower and half-hole architectural structure.

The difference in the structure of the pagoda also makes the load-bearing core different from the complete tower - the pagoda abandons the load-bearing of the tower core column, and uses grooves and beams to directly connect half of the pagoda and the stone wall in series to form a stable frame attached to the stone wall.

Looking upwards, I saw countless beams and frames passing through each other, grafting, occlusion support, forming a "m" structure in each layer, the eight-layer frame is not arranged straight up and down regularly, and the angle of each layer is slightly offset, forming an extremely complex flower-shaped caisson well.

In order to be beautiful, these frames are all painted with colored lacquer, and at the same time add lacquer strokes, under the stacking of various layers of patterns, there is actually a feeling of a giant mandala flower on the top of the head, and the three-dimensional beams bloom with each other, filled with countless gorgeous feelings!

After talking about this side of the half-tower, let's talk about the side of the half-hole.

After the pagoda recesses into the stone wall, it forms a space in the mountain with a depth of ten meters, and there is nothing else in the space, but a huge stone statue chiseled out according to the stone wall.

This statue is in a lotus sitting posture, the position above the head is close to the position of the waist of the pagoda, and further up, it is relying on the halo pattern carved by the statue, which directly occupies the stone groove space in the pagoda.

Look carefully, the face of the statue is serious, the eyebrows and eyes are vicissitudes of vicissitudes, there is a kind of gangsterism of a person who practices martial arts, the hand pinching the law seal wears a wide-sleeved robe, wearing a lotus crown on the top of the head, the hair is inclined to hang down to the back, in the light of light and chaos, half of the face of the statue is hidden in the dark, the temperament is particularly gloomy, the whole statue has a strong sense of oppression, and it seems that people are extremely small, as if the statue will slap its palm at any time and crush them to death.

Song Siyuan looked overhead, the windows on each floor shone in dappled sunlight, and even the caisson began to shine and shine, she only felt that they were standing under the giant mandala flowers: "It seems that, as I guessed, there is a lot of architectural space in these buildings, and it is a half-inserted beam-like structure." ”

"It's just that this god statue is a Taoist god, I can't be sure yet, Brother Xu, what do you think?"

Song Siyuan looked at Xu Xiake, the little Taoist priest glanced at the statue here, and his eyes were puzzled: "I don't know, it's not the ordinary Sanqing, Taiyi, or the Dharma Protector Xingjun, I can't tell which Taoist god this stone statue is portrayed at." ”

"What's even more strange is that if this face is shaped by the armor of a military general, it is more suitable than the current robe, his face is a military general's gangster, but his clothes are fairy wind bones, which is completely out of tune, as if he was deliberately put together."

"General...... Deliberately put it up ......"

Song Siyuan muttered to herself, and her eyes lit up: "Could it be that this statue is not a Taoist statue, but a statue of someone." ”

"What do you mean?"

Yue Guanchao had already guessed who it was, and blurted out: "Liu Yu." ”

"Yes!"

Song Siyuan continued to explain: "The statue must consider the wholeness, it is impossible to use the head of a military general to create the image of the Taoist immortal wind Dao bone, unless, the statue itself is not to worship a certain god, but to worship a certain person, in this case, only Liu Yu is in line with the situation." ”

"When Liu Yiqing was building momentum for Liu Yu, he also mentioned in the chapter that Liu Yu wanted to bury his coffin in the clothed mound, although we now know that all this is just a statement, at least it can prove that Liu Yu attaches great importance to this place, otherwise he would not have cast a garrison here, then, this shape in the mound is very likely to be Liu Yu in order to fulfill his promise to the Beifu soldiers, specially for it."

"Then why don't you just make a hologram? And just sculpt the head? ”

Xu Xiake asked.

Song Siyuan thought for a moment, paused and explained: "I think that when the craftsman was making the statue, he must have made the appearance of a certain Taoist god, but later, when the body was completed and the head needed to be carved, Liu Yu issued a request to build a statue in his image, and the craftsman was likely to directly create Liu Yu's head, and at the same time, weaken the image of his general, so that the whole statue looks more harmonious." ”

"However, due to the excessive temperament of the generals, even after fine-tuning, there will still be a sense of incongruity that we see."

She glanced around: "In my opinion, the pagoda is like a shrine, and the colossus statue is imprisoned in it, just to prevent the statue from being beaten by the wind and rain, and the other things don't matter, or we will set off for the verandah." ”

Then, the group walked out of the pagoda and walked along the verandah on the side of the pagoda, and when they passed through the arm-like verandah, the Ghost Fang Sect and them had also come to the main hall.

Yue Guanchao asked, "How is it?" What's going on in that pagoda? ”

Ghost Fang Zong shook his head: "Inside is a statue shrine, the shape is similar to a Taoist, but the face is a martial artist......

After the old ghost introduced, Yue Guanchao was basically sure that it was exactly the same as the interior of the pagoda they saw, and he also followed this topic and told them everything they saw.

Taken together, everyone determined that the pagoda was just a shrine, and they all focused their eyes on the luxurious temple in front of them!

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