Volume 2 The Name of the Heavenly Wind Chapter 128 Heavenly Road
The sturdy dragon horse was covered in armor, and the huge ironwood carriage behind it required four dragon horses to pull it. Iron hooves stepped on, stirring up a cloud of dust, and the heavy ironwood carriage left two deep ruts in the dirt.
As the carriage farther and farther away from the city, the road became more and more dangerous, but these complex and changeable terrain could not stop the four dragon horses.
Large and small stones were scattered on the road in front of them, and those swarthy dragon horses raised their heads and accelerated suddenly, and a layer of gray magic was wrapped in their four hooves, crushing all the stones scattered on the road into powder.
When the dragon pulled the ironwood wagon into the forest, the trees parted along with the dirt to make way for both sides.
The Rock Demon Temple was built on a cliff, and when it was built, it was excavated from the rock wall into the mountain, and after digging a large enough space, the temple was built with huge stones inside, and at the same time, a platform of hundreds of zhang was excavated outside the temple.
The temple had been abandoned for thousands of years, and the only stone bridge that could be passed through had long since broken, but the four dragon horses and the driver of the car seemed to be out of sight, and rushed straight to the cliff.
The driver was wrapped in black cloth all over his body, revealing only a pair of eyes, a short knife pinned to his waist, and his thin palm flashed with magic power, and gently swung out, and a rock-paved road on the edge of the cliff slowly extended forward.
The rocks seemed to float in the air without support, but when the dragon horse's iron hooves stepped on it, the rocks did not move, and when the dragon horse-drawn cart stepped on it, they all fell from the sky and fell into the cliff.
"Herod~~~"
With the neighing of the four dragon horses, the carriage suddenly stopped, and the bodies of Shang Hao and the others sitting inside shook for a while.
The ironwood carriage was completely enclosed, with only the faint glow of the illuminated magic stone in the car, and everyone sat around a round table, looking at the information on the table.
As Ryoma stopped, Mengsha also put away the information on the table, looked at a few people from Tianfeng Academy, and told again, "No one knows the situation inside, after you go in, you must not be separated easily, ensuring safety is the most important thing!"
"Don't worry, my two junior brothers and sisters are very strong!" Luo Qiu said with a smile, Wei Bin and Dou Sisi didn't answer, but just listened to them quietly on the side.
"Then please everyone!" Mengsha still maintained that calm and elegant, but also a little more worried.
The moment he stepped out of the carriage, a breath of mountain rock came to his face, and there was something that Shang Hao was very familiar with, like the dark flower of the land, this feeling made Shang Hao believe that this rock demon temple must have something to do with this incident.
Huge rock statues, robes carved from rare rocks, and hands clasped together on a ball, as if performing magic. The rock statue is about 100 meters high, and such a ghostly carving makes people have to admire the superb skills of their predecessors.
The material of this rock statue carving is also a bit special, even if thousands of years have passed, every carving of this statue is still clearly visible, and even Shang Hao can see the solemn expression on the rock statue's face when he stands at the foot of the rock statue, as well as the lines of the magic circle engraved on the magic ball.
"What's that?" Huang Tianyang's voice caught everyone's attention, and as Huang Tianyang's eyes looked at the foot of the rock statue, two black things fell at the foot of the rock statue, and the green liquid was slowly flowing out.
The wind around Katun burst out, swept the two black things in front of everyone, and then dissipated.
Only then did Shang Hao see the true face of these two things. Green wrinkled skin, sharp claws, and a small body, the mage with a modicum of common sense would recognize the creature.
Goblins, a creature that is excluded by all races on the mainland, greedy, ferocious, and treacherous, is the accepted view of all races on the mainland about goblins, but most of these creatures live in the dark corners of the chaotic domain on weekdays, and they are very puzzled as to why goblins appear in the territory of the human race.
The two goblins showed no signs of life, and the two throwing knives stuck in their necks ran through, and green blood flowed all over the ground.
"Two little imps blocking the way" The voice came from the direction of the beast cart like a ghost, and the man with the black cloth wrapped in his body was looking in their direction, and the two goblins on the ground suddenly fell into a dark shadow and disappeared, and even the blood on the ground was cleaned up without a trace.
"Thank you, old man, for waiting for us!"
Monsha was surprisingly serious, looking at the driver and saluting respectfully. made Shang Hao and the others even more curious about this person's identity, but they didn't dare to ask here.
"Let's go!" Monsa took out her staff and looked in the direction of the rock statue.
"The three of you and Sisi walk in the middle together, Luo Qiu, Miss Mengsha is in the back, Wei Bin and I will open the way, don't act without permission!"
Caton rarely uses his magic weapon on weekdays, and this is the first time Shang Hao has seen Caton take out his magic weapon. A heavy sword as tall as Caton was taken out by him and carried on his back, which made Shang Hao very novel.
But when they think about it, when Caton teaches them on weekdays, the battles of various weapons can be explained clearly, and it is not too strange for them to feel that what kind of weapon Caton uses.
Carrying the heavy sword, Caton and Wei Bin took the lead towards the foot of the rock statue.
The entrance to the Rock Demon Temple is behind the rock statue, which is obscured by the rock statue and can only be seen when you are behind the rock statue. Two small stone statues stood there at the door, a tiger-like creature and a turtle, and Shang Hao, who didn't know much about the Rock Demon Temple, could only be classified as superstitions of believers.
"Sister Mengsha, does this stone statue have any meaning?" Lin Xingyan was also very curious about this stone statue.
"These are the two guardian beasts of the Rock Demon Temple, Rock Turtle Petas, and Shihu Bacto, it is rumored that these two magical beasts were excavated during the excavation of the Rock Demon Temple, and a magician at that time subdued the two magical beasts and ordered them to be stationed in the Rock Demon Temple to guard the temple. In the earliest record, there are indeed these two magical beasts, but there is no relevant record in the later classics, so I think these two magical beasts are dead!"
When it came to these things related to historical materials, Mengsha was simply omniscient, and Shang Hao even wondered if she had memorized all the books in the entire magic tower in her head.
"Ready to go down, be careful!"
Caton said again, strapped a pure illuminated magic stone around his shoulder, stepped forward, and placed his hands on the closed stone door of the temple passage.
"Squeak~~squeak~~"
The stone door was slowly pushed open by Caton, and the smell of decay came to the surface, and the stone gate had been silent with the temple for I don't know how long, and the wind on the rock wall was howling and pouring into the stone gate.
Inside the stone gate is an upward staircase, which has been buried inside the mountain for a long time, and the steps are covered with moss and a little slippery. As soon as Caton stepped inside, a strong gust of wind suddenly hit the door, and a group of shadow bats flew out from above everyone and rushed into the dense forest on the other side of the cliff.
"Isn't this temple closed, why is there a ghost bat inside?" Huang Tianyang couldn't help but ask.
"The mountain is so big, how can there be no other passages, and since there are goblins at this stone gate, it is likely that they are guarded here, but the stone gate has indeed not been opened for a long time, which can only indicate the existence of other passages!" Shang Hao said as he looked at the top of the stairs, and indeed found no traces of biological activity.
"The shadow bats will appear here, and looking at the panicked appearance of the bats, there should be something inside that has encroached on their living space. Caton added after Shang Hao's words.
After coming to the Rock Demon Temple, all kinds of signs indicate that there is something wrong with this temple, and as for whether it is related to the anomaly in the city, it is up to them to investigate the results.
Caton tidied up the rope that bound the Illumination Magic Stone and set off to walk inside, followed by Wei Bin with the famous man on his back. Dou Sisi held the staff and walked in the middle with Shang Hao, ready to protect everyone's safety at any time, while Luo Qiu and Mengsha walked at the back of the line, guarding against attacks from behind. Each of them carried a high-purity Illumination Crystal, which shone enough to make them see inside.
The Rock Demon Temple was built inside the mountain, in addition to the largest main hall, there was also a series of side halls, the front hall, and after the stone steps came to the end, there was a ten-kilometer curved passage, nineteen turns connected to twenty passages, each section had five hundred meters, so that Shang Hao had to admire these people who built the temple.
The existence of this passage was the highest reverence for magic in the beginning, and if you want to contact the supreme god, you must first pass the test of this twenty-mile heavenly path.
"No wonder this temple will be deserted, just put this twenty-mile road here, and no one wants to come to worship!" Hearing Mengsha's introduction of this twenty-mile road, Lin Xingyan couldn't help but say.
"This passage of heaven is not only a test for visitors, but also the lofty status of those earliest magicians, carving such a passage in the mountain is easy for magicians with higher strength, and it is extremely easy for them to cross this twenty-mile road, this road is mainly to restrict those ordinary people!" Mengsha smiled and explained to everyone the meaning of the existence of the heavenly road.
The stairs are very short, just walk to the end, turn a corner, you can see this section of the heavenly road, there is a stone tablet at the entrance of the heavenly road passage "If you want to sacrifice to the gods, you need to show your highest respect!"
This sentence is enough to see the status of the gods in people's hearts at the beginning, but how high it was at the beginning, how hard it fell when the facts were presented. When people discover that magic is just a power that can be freely controlled by humans, that those who possess magic are not chosen by the gods, and that when humans are strong enough to change the world to a certain extent, it is inevitable that these temples will be abandoned!
Therefore, at the beginning, three of the four temples of wind, fire, water, and earth were demolished, that is, the temple of the rock demon was hidden deep in the mountains, so they were spared......