Chapter 269: Statues and Carvings

Li Mu breathed heavily in the air, unable to react to what was happening for a while. After a while, Li Mu stood up and looked at where he was now.

It is a room made entirely of bronze casting. The room is boxy and the space is really not small. The walls were carved with fonts that Li Mu couldn't read at all, and the vibration emitted a faint light, illuminating the entire room. Li Mu walked to the wall curiously, reached out and touched the inscription on the wall.

Although the structure of the font is completely different from that of the Central Plains, each turning point is very finely carved, and not only does it not feel rough to the touch, but it looks a little warm. As for why it glows, Li Mu doesn't know.

"It's weird, it's in the water, but it doesn't turn green. Li Mu looked at the place where there were no words, and was amazed. Bronze is copper mixed with other things, and over time, it will grow patina. However, this is not the focus that Li Mu should focus on.

Li Mu took two steps back, looking at the bronze wall in front of him, but his mind was recalling the situation just now. He first moved the abrupt stick at the bottom of the lake, and then the bottom of the stick was dented, and the lake water poured into it and brought Li Mu here. At that time, the room was also filled with water, and then all the water leaked through the four corners of the room.

Thinking of this, Li Mu raised his head, and on the ceiling, which was also made of bronze, a huge lotus flower was carved, and in the center of the lotus, it was not a lotus pod, but a huge bead.

Li Mu vaguely remembered that when the bottom of the lake cracked, it seemed to be a lotus blooming. It seems that he fell from this blue lotus orb.

"This room is hidden at the bottom of the lake and should have been empty. It won't open until you touch the stick. When opened, the lake enters the room, and then the room closes again. Then drain it. Li Mu muttered to himself as he walked around. "It's empty, and it seems to pull people into the room from the bottom of the lake. If you do it the other way around, first let the lake fill the room, and then communicate with the lake, and you can go out of this room? If that's the case, this room seems to be the door that Ling Jiuhao said. ”

Thinking of this, Li Mu observed carefully. Since this is the entrance and exit door, it should be through the passage to the inside. And with this room as the door, he is now in a state of half-advance and half-retreat.

"Then there should be a real door. Li Mu had such a thought in his heart, and then, he touched the walls of the entire room, but found nothing. This made Li Mu a little discouraged. However, he was sure that this room was just a door for entry and exit. This empty room cannot be the so-called Heavenly Palace. So, he didn't give up.

Since the walls around you are not good, and there is a lake overhead, there is only one possibility left.

Li Mu lowered his head and looked at the ground under his feet. The pattern on the ground echoes the ceiling, and there is also a lotus flower on the ground, and there is also a bead in the center. Li Mu walked up to the bead, looked at it for a moment, and found that the bead protruded from the ground.

Li Mu thought about it, raised his feet and slowly stepped on.

A crisp sound of "click" sounded in Li Mu's ears. Li Mu immediately withdrew his foot. After all, this is a place that is completely unfamiliar to him, and he must act carefully. However, this crisp sound was only a slight depression of the bead on the ground. Li Mu tried to add some force again, and found that as his strength increased, the lotus petals around the beads began to converge to the middle little by little. This didn't seem to be dangerous, so Li Mu stood on the beads. The lotus petals around him enveloped him one by one.

When all the petals were completely retracted and turned into a bud, Li Mu only felt that his feet sank, and the sound of machine operation came. He felt like he was slowly descending with the buds.

The light leaking through the gap in the petals was getting dimmer and dimmer, and Li Mu felt that he was descending into darkness. He took out the firefly beads in one hand, and pressed the other hand on the short sword at his waist. When facing the big snake just now, Li Mu was completely photographed by the big snake, and he didn't even dare to move, let alone draw his sword. And now, with the example of the big snake in front of him, Li Mu can be regarded as a real cup bow snake shadow.

Darkness represents the unknown. Li Mu didn't know where this bud would fall, let alone what would be in the dark. So he can only remain on his guard. The buds do not fall quickly, and occasionally there is a hoarse sound. However, it has been declining and has not the slightest intention of stopping.

In Li Mu's heart, he felt that about half a pillar of incense had passed, and the bud shook and stopped. Li Mu didn't make any movement, and the petals around him opened again. Such a lotus flower blooms in the darkness.

Li Mu lifted the fluorite and illuminated his surroundings. Then he saw what was in front of him, and he was so frightened that he couldn't help but take two steps back.

Under the cold light, a coffin appeared in front of Li Mu's eyes. The coffin is very large, and it is carved with various carvings. It's just that this coffin can't scare Li Mu. What made Li Mu retreat was that at the head and end of this coffin, there were two statues larger than real people. Li Mu was taken aback when he saw these two statues at first glance.

Li Mu had been frightened enough times today, he calmed down and began to look at the two statues.

At the top of the coffin, there was a big man dressed in animal skins and naked on his upper body, with his hands raised high, holding a monster like a giant python. The big man wore his hair out, as if he was looking up to the sky and shouting, full of injustice in his chest. His feet, stepping on the splash, seemed to be riding the waves.

At the foot of the coffin, a beautiful woman was carved, with a well-proportioned figure, but she was dressed in a small skirt and short clothes, revealing a large area of skin. She carried a long jasper-like sword in her hand, and in her left hand she held a gourd-shaped object, from which water splashed. Behind her, there seems to be a huge dragon head, which appears and disappears from time to time, but the body of the dragon head is in the shape of a turtle, and above the turtle shell, there seems to be a python surrounded, and the snake head is spitting out a core, facing Li Mu.

Li Mu was once again amazed by the delicate technique of this carving, and he couldn't help but reach out and touch the long sword of that beautiful woman, and then touch the python in the hand of the rough man. Li Mu had doubts in his mind again. Who are these two statues, and why do they depict giant pythons and Xuanwu as foils?

However, the question that Li Mu wanted to figure out most now was who was buried in the coffin in front of him? In order to find out this question, he half-squatted down and illuminated the coffin with the light of fireflies. After careful inspection, Li Mu found that there were pictures engraved on the coffin.

Li Mu walked around the coffin and found a total of seven carvings.

Lu Li walked quickly around the coffin and came to the position behind the coffin. Lu Li looked in front of Fei Tian and saw that there were patterns on the coffin. Those patterns are all carved on the coffin with the technique of Yin carving. Lu Li glanced at it, and these patterns seemed to be in order.

In the first carving, a man stands proudly in the sky, and below him, a group of people kneel on the ground, as if in worship.

On the second carving, many wild beasts are depicted. However, those beasts, with strange appearances, looked very ferocious, and by no means ordinary, more like fierce beasts. The beasts stormed the human village and wreaked havoc. The people depicted are scattered and fleeing.

In the third carving, the man in the first sculpture appears in the village in the second carving, still standing in the sky. There was no sign of man on the ground, only ferocious beasts.

The fourth sculpture focuses on the people in the sky. Seven other people appeared around the man. But the pattern of the seven people is exactly the same as the one in the middle. It seems that he split into eight and created seven others. For this point, Li Mu didn't know if this was the reason for the performance technique, or if it was deliberate, anyway, according to his understanding, it should be like this.

The fifth carving is immediately following the fourth, which is still eight people, floating in the air. But someone appeared below them. They are leading humans in a fight against ferocious beasts. Although only this carving is static, because of the delicate technique, the depiction is extremely expressive. The brutality of the monster and the majesty of the eight men are perfectly depicted in one picture.

In the sixth engraving, the content has changed greatly. The man who had been depicted in the air all along, lay down on the ground. And it was the eight men who fell to the ground together. There are still depictions of people kneeling and worshipping around. This seems to be the scene of these eight men dying in battle.

The seventh engraving is followed by the sixth, and the most striking of the paintings are the eight coffins, carried by people to eight buildings. These eight buildings are located beneath the carvings, and they are built in different locations and have very different styles. The only thing in common is the sky of these eight buildings, all dotted with stars.

Li Mu browsed all the portrayals and connected them into a story in his heart. A person has become the object of worship. Perhaps, it should be said that he is a god himself. In short, let's call it a man of God. Gods and men are worshipped, but strange beasts invade the places where people live, breaking the peace. Under the fangs and claws of the beasts, the people were powerless to resist and suffered heavy casualties. At this time, God stepped forward, and he divided into eight and led the people to fight back the beast. Peace was restored, but the man of God was killed in battle. In the end, eight people were buried in eight places in eight coffins.

Straightening out this story, a bold but reasonable idea popped up in Li Mu's heart. "This story is painted on this coffin, does it mean that this coffin is one of the eight coffins? That is to say, inside this coffin, the one buried is the man of God?"