This cave was much smaller than the Yongdao just now, and both Li Bing and Lord Lu needed to bow halfway before they could move forward.

Li Bing looked at the wall and scraped the dirt with his hand again: "It seems that this passage is older than the tunnel just now." ”

"Yes, indeed. Lord Lu also touched the wall, and his words were full of joy: "It must be here." This is the real one—the Altar of the Slaughterers!"

The three of them had just walked a few steps before they froze at the same time.

"Wow!

What greeted me was a huge platform, almost the same as the one just now, as wide as it was, as round and regular, but even higher, so high that it seemed that the top could not be seen.

The three of them were amazed because there was a dense starry sky above this dome. The dense dots glow like stars, in different colors, flickering and dark, just like the night sky, or even brighter. There is also a huge sea-blue glazed stone in the center of the dome, which is placed among the stars, like the moon, dazzling.

"Those little lights, are they fireflies?"

"It's not a firefly, it's a glow-in-the-dark stone! It's here! It's here! This is the place my father didn't find in his whole life—the altar that has been passed down from generation to generation by the Hugh Tu people—the Gate of Heaven!" Lord Deer was excited, as if his long-standing wish had finally been fulfilled.

He said fanatically: "Legend has it that we Hutu people were originally the people who were forgotten by the gods on the way from the earth to the kingdom of heaven. So this altar of the Hugh slaughterers is the place where the gods are waiting to come and receive us. Sacrifice is also a top priority among the tribes. Look at it! Look at it! How magnificent this is! It is ten times more beautiful than Wu imagined. ”

Li Bing looked around, the size of this altar was almost the same as the platform outside just now, but the workmanship was more meticulous, and the entire altar floor was paved with fan-shaped floor tiles made of red clay, which spread out from the center one by one. Each piece of masonry has a unique pattern on it. Along with the walls on both sides are carved with flowers. With such a high wall, I don't know how much manpower it will take.

Since it was an altar, the center was not as empty as it had been before, when only one Heaven and Earth Order had been placed.

In the center is a huge horse-shaped stone sculpture - the horse neighs with its head high, its eyes are bright, its torso is strong and its limbs are slender, its legs and hooves are light, and its three legs are soaring forward, and one foot is on top of the swallow. The horse's mouth was open, holding a scroll. The craftsmanship is exquisite and lifelike.

"This horse stone sculpture is so special!" Anzi looked at the huge statue from afar, looking amazing.

Legend has it that the messenger of Heaven came to receive the Hugh Tu people! In his mouth was the edict of heaven and earth, the edict that led the Hugh Tu people to the kingdom of heaven. ”

Around the dragon sparrow Pegasus, more than twenty life-size statues are neatly lined up. It's all golden statues. They all wear peaked hats, kneel on one knee, and put their hands on top of their knees.

"The look of these statues is also very special! There is also a faint fragrance. Anzi also squatted down, looked at the humanoid statue face to face, and sniffed closely: "It's really fragrant! It's been a thousand years, and it's still so fragrant?"

Lord Deer looked at Anzi, who was looking at the appearance of the humanoid statue, and coughed lowly: "These are not statues, they are all dead people!"

"Ahh

Lord Lu handed the torch to Li Bing, knelt in front of the "Dragon Sparrow Pegasus" and these "humanoid statues" and kowtowed three times, and made a big salute. He had bowed to the Hutu ritual. But when I got here, my heart was agitated for a while, and I couldn't help but act according to the etiquette of the Tang people. After all, the Xiutu civilization has long been wiped out, and these cultural influences have always been imperceptible.

Lord Lu stood up, pointed to these humanoid statues in front of him, and explained, "These are the corpses of the 'Hutu King' of my Hutu clan in the past dynasties, and they are called the Heavenly Gold Sacrificers. After the death of King Hutu, his body was eviscerated and cleaned, then coated with incorruptible water inside and out, stuffed with spices, re-stitched, air-dried and then coated with incense and gold paint. It's what it is now. ”

Looking at Anzi, who hurriedly retreated, he explained: "The royal family's sacrifice to the sky was originally my tradition of slaughtering people. It's a great honor. After speaking, he began to count the number of these heavenly gold worshippers: "One, two, three...... Twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three. Sure enough, there were only twenty-three!"

Li Bing calmed down and took a closer look at the faces of these people, and sure enough, they were all different, and their bodies were also big and small. "Twenty-three, is there anything special?"

"Because the twenty-fourth King Xiutu descended to the Han Dynasty, and then was killed by other tribes. His bones are not here. After him, there was no more King Hugh. So there are only twenty-three golden men on this altar. ”

Anzi was taken aback by these golden figures just now, walked to the periphery of the altar stupidly, and walked around the altar: "I have checked all the walls, and there is neither a secret door nor a secret grid. There is no mechanism. Lord Deer, where is this secret passage?"

Lord Deer also looked around: "Actually, I don't know, it's just rumored that there is a way out of the altar, and this path can only be taken as a last resort." As for where the road is and how to get there. I had no idea. You can only walk around. ”

When Anzi heard this, his heart, which had already been half relieved, hung up again: "It's just a legend? Then this is too child's play, isn't it? What if the legend is fake?"

Lord Deer also walked around the altar, but did not find any mechanism. However, he was still in the excitement of discovering the altar at this time, and as for going out, he had already forgotten about it.

He carefully admired every detail of the "Dragon Sparrow Pegasus", and said to Anzi: "It's not a rumor. There is a book handed down by the ancestors at home, which was written by the ancestors who fled from Wuwei during the Three Kingdoms. There's a lot of stuff about the altar there. There is a detailed introduction to the origin of the family, the ritual rites, and the traps of this underground palace. However, the book was missing a few pages, and some places were blurry and illegible. But since it was said above that there is a way out in the final altar, there must be a way out. You can look for it with confidence!"

After speaking, he glanced at Li Bing: "Brother Li, what are you looking at?"

Li Bing knocked on the horse's belly: "I'm thinking, since you haven't found it after looking around, and this altar is so empty, only this 'Dragon Sparrow Heavenly Horse' and 'Heavenly Golden Man' are left." ”

"If the Jin people are all the kings of the Hutu tribe for generations, I'm afraid they won't do anything to them. There's only one thing left, and that's this dragon sparrow. After saying that, he tugged the tail of the statue again, and there was no mystery.

Lord Deer also came over with torches to help, and carefully examined the three hooves in the air, even touching the bottom of the hooves. Still nothing.

Anzi didn't want to get close to those golden people, but fortunately, with the help of those luminous stones on the dome, this altar could also do a rough job, so he walked back to the entrance of the altar to investigate. Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration: he pointed to the bright night sky above the dome and shouted, "You say, will that exit be up there?"

After speaking, he sighed, as if he found a flash of light in the passage when he came, so he walked over cautiously and took a look: "In the aisle just now, there seems to be something flashing, it may be a mechanism, I'll take a look!"

Li Bing glanced at An Zi's distant figure and said, "This dome is higher than the city wall, and no one I know has reached that high in light function." And the wall is so vertical that you can't climb it. ”

He stood in front of the dragon sparrow Pegasus, and suddenly looked at the stone scroll in the horse's mouth: "Lord Deer, lend me the torch!"

Before Li Bing could get the torch, an "exclamation" came from the entrance of the altar.

"Anko?"

"Brother Bing'er!" replied that Anzi was right, but Hao Ran who came in from the entrance of the altar was two figures. The Rat Venerable held Anzi's hands behind his back with one hand, and the knuckles on the other hand pressed against Anzi's right neck.

The two of them slowly walked in and stopped at a distance of four or five feet from the bronze sparrow.

"Who are you?" Lord Deer jumped down from the Bronze Sparrow Celestial Horse, the dagger hidden in his sleeve already in his hand.

The Rat Venerable smiled, and his voice was sharp and dry: "Don't be nervous, you two, I was just following the Lady of the Rite to come in to see the fun." I accidentally got stuck here like all of you. I wanted to follow the three quietly and escape as long as I could, but I was discovered by this little brother first, so I asked for self-protection first. But don't worry, as long as we can get out, I will definitely let this little brother go. ”

Li Bing took a step forward, and as soon as he pulled out his sword, the Rat Venerable pressed his fingers tighter against the tiger, forcing Anzi to tilt his head to the other side.

"If you do any more tricks, your little brother's life will be gone. You think clearly. The Rat Venerable looked at Li Bing, who was forced to move forward, and smiled contentedly: "That's right." ”

He looked at the dragon sparrow and said, "Don't you two see that the stone and bamboo slips in the horse's mouth are strange? The whole horse is carved from stone, but the bamboo slips in the horse's mouth are made of pottery." It's out of place with the whole horse.

Li Bing was shocked in his heart, he had just discovered that the color of the bamboo slip was slightly different from that of the dragon sparrow Pegasus, and he still needed the help of a torch to see it clearly, but the person in front of him was a few feet away from the statue, and he could see it so clearly.

This kung fu of the Rat Venerable, the practice is in the eyes, and he has already achieved it. Not only is his eyesight outstanding, he can also see mosquitoes and flies clearly from a hundred feet away, and he can also see at night, even in a completely dark place, he can see clearly, and Venerable Leopard sent him to this underground palace.

"Well, brothers, would you like to take a look? Everyone is stuck here, and we still have to find a way to get out, right?"

Lord Lu gave Li Bing a look, that is, let him go and take a look, and said, "If you want to go out with us, you have to be a little sincere." It's all to get out, and everyone doesn't have to be so stiff. How about you let people go, and I promise to take you out?"

The Rat Venerable smiled, "Hahahaha, that's not necessary. I still like to take my life into my own hands, there are three of you, I only have one, if you turn against me, I can't do anything at all. ”

As he spoke, Li Bing had already turned over on the horse, stepped on the horse's back, and reached the bamboo slip.

Sure enough, as the Rat Venerable said, the bamboo slip was not one with the Dragon Sparrow Pegasus. Li Bing tried to pull it out, but there was little resistance.

"Boom!"

As soon as the whole bamboo slip was pulled out, the upper and lower jaws of this Ryoma were actually closed. Li Bing knew that he had touched the mechanism, and hurriedly flew down. But there was nothing out of the ordinary.

Venerable Rat, Yasuko, and Lord Deer were also taken aback by this movement. Look around, but don't get some darts and arrows flying out of nowhere.

"Click~Click~Click~!"

A few crunch sounds came from the dome. The blue moon gem had an extra crack, and the crack grew longer and longer in this constant crunch, and the light reflected on the ground also changed. A column of water flowed straight down from the center of the crack, like a silver thread, like a crystal thread.

The water flow widened as the cracks widened, and the light of different colors was reflected on it, and the silk threads turned into colorful ribbons, which was really beautiful.

"Click!

Before Li Bing could appreciate the beautiful scenery, two crisp sounds came from the dome. The blue moon crumbled into pieces and fell to the ground, and a flood mixed with mud and sand rushed down!

"Oh my God!

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It is said on the Internet that "Dragon Sparrow Heavenly Horse" and "Sacrifice to the Golden Man" are cultural relics, so don't believe it. The bronze "Horse Stepping on Feiyan" in the museum is a fake, just an imitation of the treasure of the Han Dynasty. That Heavenly Gold Sacrifice Man is also a treasure that we have lost to the slaughter people. Don't believe rumors on the Internet, don't spread rumors, don't believe rumors. We must firmly believe that these are the treasures of our Hugh Tu, and they have nothing to do with Qianliang and the Huns. (Manual Dog Head)