Chapter 65: The Altar
Xiao Hei stared at the three forks in the road ahead, obviously showing a little hesitation, it seemed that although he smelled some of the breath of the Hou family in his memory, he didn't know if the breath was too weak, or something disturbed in front of him, so that it could not clearly distinguish which road the Hou family was taking.
And Shen Shi was a little more happy in his heart after being surprised, although he didn't know how the Hou family entered the Dragon Ancient Hall in this town, but since they also arrived here, according to Ling Chunni's statement before, the people on the Hou family's side had a secret map of the treasure here, it seems that although this place is full of dangers and unpredictable, it should be the place where the treasure of the mysterious tomb is located.
Just waited for a while, but Shen Shi found that Xiao Hei was still hesitant, and couldn't help asking, "Can't you tell which way they went?"
Blackie looked a little frustrated and shook his head.
Shen Shi thought for a while and said, "Forget it, it's a chance anyway, let's pick all the way and try it first." ”
As he spoke, he swept his gaze across the three forks in the left, middle and right passages in front of him, hesitated for a moment, raised his feet and walked into the middle road. Xiao Hei muttered a few words behind him, not knowing if he was complaining about something, but he soon followed.
This passage in the middle didn't look much different from the passage made of blue-gray boulders when they came before, it was also wide and flat, but after they had walked about ten zhang away, Shen Shi saw a step appear in front of the passage, extending upward.
Walking up the stairs and up step by step, Shen Shi carefully paid attention to his surroundings, but in this huge Zhenlong Ancient Palace, there never seemed to be the slightest bit of anger, there was a lifeless appearance everywhere, there was no sound at all, only the footsteps of him and Xiao Hei echoed around him.
The stone steps are quite long, almost thirty or forty zhang high from the ground when reaching the top, when Shen Shi crossed the last layer of steps, suddenly opened up in front of his eyes, a square platform shaped like an altar, four tall bronze tripods stand at the four corners of the altar, the tripod body is engraved with a simple pattern of birds and beasts, and the fire is faintly visible inside, it is the strange fire that has been seen in the passage before, and I don't know how many years have burned here, and I don't know why after such a long time, it will still not be extinguished.
In the middle of the high platform, there is a tall altar, the whole body is red, which is very different from the surrounding blue-gray, which is very conspicuous under the embrace of this blue-gray boulder, and even makes people feel a little out of place.
Shen Shi walked over, took a closer look at the red altar, and found that the material of this altar was unrecognizable, it looked like it was not stone or jade, and it looked like amber in the red body, and there were a lot of strange veins and textures in it, like blood vessels in the flesh and blood of living beings, which looked very weird.
But other than that, there was nothing more unusual about the altar, and on top of the altar there seemed to be something enshrined, but now it was a mess, and there were places that seemed to have been turned over a short time ago.
Shen Shi frowned, his eyes swept over the altar, and he thought to himself, could it be that those waiting family members were walking this way? Just at a glance, most of the miscellaneous items scattered on this altar were useless things, which had long been decayed under the erosion of time, but after a while, there was one thing among these miscellaneous items, which attracted Shen Shi's attention.
It was a long stone box, the lid of which had been opened, and was casually thrown on the side of the altar, which looked as if it had been stored for something, but now it was empty, and only an empty box remained.
Shen Shi leaned over and grabbed the stone box, feeling quite heavy when he started it, and looked around again, and found that the location of the stone box seemed to be in the middle of this altar. And the scattered sacrificial debris around it seems to be placed around this stone box.
He was silent for a moment, and then his eyes fell on the stone box in his hand, but he turned it over and saw that there was nothing that could attract his attention to this empty stone box, perhaps the key point was what was originally placed in this stone box.
It's just that the things in this have already been taken by the Hou family?
Shen Shi thought about it, and finally put down the stone box gently, but at this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw that on the edge of the stone box, the bottom of the lid of the box that was also also made of stone seemed to have some handwriting, and after being stunned for a moment, he reached out and picked up the lid of the box and turned it over.
Sure enough, there are several lines on it:
Qiankun is created, and the fairy fate belongs to me;
Ranked in the immortal class, immortal;
Taoist immortal weapons, bequeathed to fate;
Blessings for thousands of years, merit for all generations.
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Four lines and eight sentences, thirty-two characters, the words are clear, and the sentences are thrilling.
Every word and every sentence is exactly the supreme goal that all the cultivators of the Great Cultivation Dao have dreamed of since ancient times, and after decades and hundreds of years of hard cultivation, isn't it exactly this immortal and flying immortal?
In just a few words, it seems that this magnificent dream has been placed in front of everyone's eyes.
Shen Shi's face also changed, but after the initial surprise, although he also had a little unbelievable surprise, but soon, for some reason, he suddenly stared again and pondered, a trace of doubt flashed on his face, and then he turned his eyes to look around him, looking at this high platform, looking at this altar, and the messy and rotten sacrifices on the altar.
After a while, he slowly put the lid back on the altar, his face seemed to have calmed down, he closed his eyes slightly and pondered for a moment, then suddenly sneered, and whispered to himself:
"What kind of immortal fate, what kind of blessing, there will be so many dangerous prohibitions along the way, isn't this immortal a murderer?"
With a "click", the lid of the stone box fell on the altar, shaking up a little dust.
Shen Shi didn't take another look, his eyes also regained calm and clarity, and even a little more vigilant and cautious, maybe from childhood to adulthood, his father, who had no ambition in his life, kept telling him that there would be no coincidences against the sky, even if there were, among the hundreds of millions of people in the Hongmeng realm, why would you get it?
This so-called fairy fate, although it looks extremely beautiful, but after careful consideration, it is suspicious, but the original things in this box are gone, and most of them were taken away by the waiting family who came here first, but I don't know if those waiting family members can see it.
Shen Shi took a deep breath and bypassed this altar, at this moment in his eyes, this Zhenlong Ancient Hall was becoming more and more mysterious, and although he had not encountered danger until this moment, the pressure on his heart was getting bigger and bigger.
It's just that the road that should be taken must be continued, because at this point, there is no turning back.
Shen Shi greeted Xiao Hei and continued to walk forward, at the end of the high platform, there were also layers of stone steps, but this time it was downward, and in the faint yellow firelight in front of him, this tomb, or this Zhenlong Ancient Palace, seemed to be becoming more and more blurred.
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The blue-gray boulder seemed to stretch endlessly in the dim firelight, and everywhere Shen Shi went, all he saw was this cold and lonely color, after getting off the high platform, there was another passage, walking and walking, Shen Shi suddenly found that the surroundings in front of him were no longer a straight single passage, several forks in the road, extending in different directions, and when he tried to walk on a fork in the road, he found that there were more forks in front of him.
The road, more and more, as if this ancient hall of Zhenlong was constantly changing and expanding, only the color of blue gray and the dim yellow fire seemed to be endless, and when Shen Shi was shocked and wanted to turn back, he found that above the road, there were also chaotic and similar passages.
He gritted his teeth, his heartbeat increased slightly, but before he could come up with any countermeasures, he suddenly heard a terrible cry from the unknown place in front of the vast road.
The voice was filled with horror, fear, and despair, as if the owner of the voice had seen something terrible in the world in front of him, and it was terrifying.
Shen Shi Huo Ran turned his head and looked ahead, but all he saw was a passage composed of countless cold blue-gray boulders, leading to different directions, and he was nowhere to be found.
Xiao Hei had been following him all along, and at this moment, he couldn't help but get a little closer to Shen Shi, and rubbed Shen Shi's leg with his head, as if this made it feel a little relieved.
Shen Shi pondered silently, while looking at the eerie and terrifying labyrinth in front of him, maybe somewhere ahead, there would be something strange and terrifying waiting for him. His hand slowly lowered to his waist and rubbed lightly on the ruyi bag twice, and after a while, he took another step forward with a blank face.
Since there is no way back, there is only to move forward!
The footsteps clattered softly, and the passage kept retreating in the footsteps, although it was still exactly the same labyrinth-like passage, although there were still many indistinguishable fork entrances, but Shen Shi had a faint feeling in his heart that he seemed to be getting closer and closer to something.
Because, there was no need for Xiao Hei to remind him, even he faintly smelled a faint trace of blood in the air.
After walking more than ten zhang away, a new fork in the road appeared in front of Shen Shi's eyes again, but Shen Shi's face changed suddenly when he saw this intersection.
Not only did he walk here, the bloody aura suddenly became much stronger, but it was in front of his eyes that Shen Shi saw a person sitting with his head bowed on the ground against the blue-gray boulder wall at a fork in the road in front of him.
It seemed to be a thin old man, sitting in a pool of blood with his head bowed, and his whole body, on the ground beside him, and even on the blue-gray boulder wall against which he was leaning, was splashed with red blood, which looked thrilling and dazzling.
And in this shocking scene, the old man lowered his head, and his chest rose and fell slightly, as if he let out a low gasp.
Shen Shi's body was shocked, this was the first living person he saw after entering the Zhenlong Ancient Palace, but the scene in front of him was too terrifying, so he had to be careful, so he didn't dare to go over immediately, just stood in place and called out carefully:
"Hey, you're ......"
Before the words fell, his voice suddenly became dumb, perhaps awakened by his voice, the old man with his head hanging slowly raised his head, revealing his face, it was actually the master Wen who was able to control the floating immortal boat when he was waiting for his family to leave outside Liuyun City. It's just that at this moment, in Shen Shi's stunned gaze, there are two pale ghost fires burning in the eyes of this dry and thin face with a bloodstained face on Master Wen's bloodstained face.