Elder Gu Li looked at the horrific scene in front of him with a calm expression, without the slightest emotion. It was as if they believed from the bottom of their hearts that their sacrifices were all part of a grand undertaking.
Protector Feng wanted to open his mouth to ask several times, but he could see the solemn look of Elder Gu Li. When the words came to his lips, he swallowed them all.
The two walked slowly, passing over thousands of bloody roads, and flew towards the place where the roads converged.
After he was completely above it, Protector Feng was surprised to find that the bloody roads that he originally thought were scattered and complicated were not random.
With the small hill at the center as the midpoint, the blood sacrifice array scattered around, with eight directions as boundaries, formed the appearance of eight ancient ferocious beasts.
Kui Niu, Tao Zhu, Sky-Splitting Dragon Pattern Beast, Nine-tailed Qingqiu Fox, Demonic Flame Golden Eye, Black Divine Turtle, Dapeng Golden-winged Eagle, and Sky-Swallowing Dragon!
These ferocious beasts that only existed in ancient legends appeared vividly before our eyes one by one. If it hadn't been for Protector Feng, who had been lucky enough to see it on the rubbings of the ancient book Shan Hai Jing, I really wouldn't have recognized it.
The eight ferocious beasts have their tails facing outwards and their giant mouths all facing inwards. All the blood channels were like the meridians in their bodies, gathering out of the huge mouth and forming eight thicker blood channels, forming a circular barrier around the small hill in the middle.
And in the center of the circular barrier is an ancient formation. The blood energy in the formation was soaring to the sky. A strange beast with the head of a bull and the body of a bird was opening its huge mouth slightly, continuously sucking the blood energy gathered into its mouth.
And where the hill is, it's the mouth of the cow-headed bird's body!
Elder Gu Li smiled and pointed to the small hill and said: "Guardian Feng, the temple is right in front of you. Please follow me into it."
Protector Feng has lived for so many years and has never seen such a terrifying place. Seeing Elder Gu Li inviting him to enter together, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and said, "Then Fengming will have Elder Lao lead the way."
The two of them moved very quickly and reached the top of the hill in a blink of an eye. Protector Feng followed Elder Gu Li and plunged in.
After falling completely inside, Protector Feng was surprised to find that the size of the hill was completely beyond his imagination!
Even though the entrance to the hill is not big, the inside is extremely wide, probably no less than a thousand feet deep. I saw traces of knife and ax chiseling everywhere on the stone walls. Countless luminous pearls were inlaid on the stone walls, making the entire cave glow slightly.
After falling a distance of several hundred feet, a huge human face with horns on its head and wide eyes appeared in front of them. But the face of the giant head is also messy with rubble, and the facial features can barely be seen. It is obviously carved with knives and axes.
Looking down along the giant head, I saw a huge stone statue with two wings on its back, resembling an ox and a human, sitting cross-legged at the bottom of the cave. Thinking about it, this huge stone statue, like the cave at the bottom of the hill, was not naturally formed.
It took countless people's excavation and carving, and it took decades or even hundreds of years to form such a spectacular scene.
Roads of blood-colored spiritual energy gathered from around the stone wall above the head. After passing through the spiritual platform above the head, they spread out again and flowed down along the meridians of the giant head.
I saw that this man's face looked like an ox's head, with horns on his head. A pair of round eyes were as big as a living room. At the left eye, there were four or five wizards in black, all sitting cross-legged among them. On the ink-colored pillar in the middle, there is a white bead as bright as the sun.
In the eye socket on the right, there are also four or five wizards in the same costume sitting around. The only difference from the right eye socket is that the ink-colored pillar is empty and there is nothing.
Under the eyes, there is a high raised nose. Looking through the nostrils of both noses, it was still the same hall. It’s just that there are seven or eight wizards inside, with the same ink-colored pillars and the same focused expressions. Wisps of green smoke rose from an antique incense burner.
The huge mouth under the nose is slightly open, from which can be seen the sharp teeth, broad tongue and throat. There are also more than ten wizards, each sitting cross-legged on Kua Ya. On the tongue coating, there is a large worm with hundreds of joints coiled on the genuine product. The blood flowing down the river is being swallowed into the mouth through the connected meridians.
On both sides of the cow's head are a pair of earlobes hanging down to the shoulders. Inside each ear, there is a stone chamber, and the left ear is empty. In the right auricle, just like the left eye socket and the huge mouth, on top of the dark stone pillar, lies a large bird about half a man tall, sleeping soundly.
Elder Gu Li drifted all the way down, not even looking at the ten scenes in front of him. Although Protector Feng was shocked, he was in this mysterious and strange temple, so how could he dare to ask more questions?
All the way down the stone giant, the huge body has long been hollowed out. It can be seen from it that countless stone paths are crisscrossing, just like the meridians of the human body. The blood-red spiritual energy kept wandering and turning, and after it all gathered at the right atrium, it was absorbed by an amethyst stone placed there that could not be held by five or six people. Then it beat brightly and darkly, and was squeezed again. Pressed and flowed out.
Looking further down, the giant statue's hands are wrapped around the Dantian, and his legs are sitting cross-legged. The place surrounded by the limbs is where the Dantian is located. The empty stone chamber is much larger than the six stone chambers on the face, and is second only to the stone chamber on the right atrium.
Eight old men in black robes sat in eight directions. In the middle, there was still a dark black stone pillar, which was still empty and nothing could be seen.
Surrounded by two palms and two feet, there are four smaller stone rooms in each, in which four middle-aged men in black robes sit cross-legged. In the stone room with only the left hand and left foot, there is a group of spiritual stones emitting black flames and an earthy yellow bead respectively.
After the two of them landed gently at the feet of the huge sculpture, they found an ancient mausoleum in front of them. The square stone bricks are piled up in an arch shape. Judging from their style and color, they are exactly what they were shaped like thousands of years ago.
"The temple is right in front, Protector Feng, come with me." Elder Gu Li straightened his clothes and stepped into the arched stone path.
This stone path is not only wide, but also deep. Protector Feng followed Elder Gu Li, and after walking another hundred feet, a mausoleum with a height of five to six hundred feet and a width of more than two hundred feet appeared in front of him.
The entire mausoleum is in the shape of a semicircle, with countless talisman and animal patterns engraved on it. With the knowledge of the wind protector, I have never seen these strange talisman beast patterns.
In the center of the mausoleum, there is a coffin that is more than twenty or thirty feet high. The strange thing is that the entire coffin has no walls or lid, only a blue stone slab. A giant that looked similar to a giant stone sculpture had its eyes slightly closed and was suspended above the ground. The slightly heaving chest showed that he was not a corpse that had been dead for thousands of years.
At this moment, there were three people, two men and one woman, standing on both sides of the giant. The person on the left is about sixty or seventy years old. It was the mysterious old man who released Tiger King and Mu Jingyu outside Zangfeng Retreat.
On the right side stood a man and a woman. The old man was wearing a black robe, with a brown vine on his head. The same black robe was wrapped with golden threads. If you look closely, you will see that the golden threads are swimming back and forth, just like Gu worms as thin as golden threads!
It was the old man in black robe who led three mysterious men to intercept and kill Biyan and others outside the Pimu Diqiu. It turns out that he is the high priest of the temple.
The woman next to her was much more gorgeously dressed. Wearing a bird-phoenix crown on her head and a long white skirt. Looking from a distance, it gives people a feeling of sanctity and immortality.
This woman seemed to be only thirty or forty years old, but as soon as she opened her mouth, Protector Feng was shocked.
"Gu Li, seeing that you came here in such a happy mood today, you must be looking like this because you found a treasure."
In Protector Feng's impression, Elder Gu Li was at least sixty years old, but the woman's tone sounded like that of an elder. From this point of view, the real age of this holy lady is probably the same as that of the high priest, around eighty or ninety years old.
It's just that his complexion is rosy and there are few wrinkles, which makes him look much older.
Elder Gu Li laughed and said: "Aunt Saint has really good eyesight. She guessed it before Gu Li said it."
"It turns out that she is the holy aunt in the entire Netherworld Ghost State, and her status is only the same as that of the high priest!" Protector Feng was shocked, and then bowed and saluted: "Feng Ming, I have seen the holy aunt!"
The holy lady smiled and held her hand slightly, and Protector Feng stood up straight.
"I have long heard Gu Li talking about a handsome man named Feng Ming who abandoned his secrets and joined the army of my temple. Saint Aunt, I originally thought that Gu Li was exaggerating and deliberately promoted this new disciple of his. When I saw him today, it turned out to be true. It’s well-deserved!”
How could Protector Feng not hear that this was a compliment from Saint Aunt? He bowed again and replied: "Sage Aunt Miao praises me, Feng Ming is ashamed to deserve it!"
Elder Gu Li smiled and said: "Holy aunt, high priest, and elder Ba Xiu, please take a look. This is the ancient cold moon stone that Gu Li Xinjin found from Kyushu."
The other two old men's eyes lit up at the same time. The high priest spread his palms flat, and a soft spiritual energy pushed out, sucking the crescent-shaped spiritual stone that Elder Gu Li had just taken out into his palm.
"Elder Ba Xie, Holy Aunt, you two, come and see if the cold moon stone newly found in Gu Li is real or fake."
Elder Ba Xie, who was standing opposite, nodded and walked over from the side of the vertical coffin. After looking at the cold stone carefully, he handed it to the holy aunt.
"Holy aunt, I see that this stone is as cold as ice, but it also has a hint of warmth. It is exactly the same as what is contained in the ancient book Shan Hai Jing. I wonder if you are old, what do you think?"
The Holy Aunt nodded and said, "Elder Ba Xie is right. According to the Book of Mountains and Seas, the Cold Moon Stone is a round spiritual stone at the bottom of the Ten Thousand Years Lake. After tens of thousands of years of tempering, it absorbs the moonlight. It is made naturally. It is cold but not cold, warm but not hot. Together with the Sunstone, it is the first among the strange stones in the world. From what I can see, it is definitely safe."
Elder Gu Li said: "You three, now that you have confirmed the authenticity of the Moon Cold Stone, please quickly put it into the stone body of the god and activate your right eye!"
The three of them looked at each other and nodded at the same time.
The high priest held the moon-cold stone in his palm, slowly injected spiritual energy into it, and then made it rise out of thin air. A soft light, centered on the moon-cold stone, spread out in all directions.
After rising to a height of tens of feet, it quickly circled and danced. The black-robed wizards sitting inside the huge stone sculptures all muttered ancient and mysterious spells.
The huge amethyst stone located in the atrium could not help but speed up the circulation of blood-colored spiritual energy. At the same time, several black-robed wizards in the stone chamber of the right eye all stood up. He raised his arms together, looked at Leng Yueshi who had reached between his eyebrows, and bowed to meet the ink-colored stone pillar in front of him.
There was a soft popping sound, and the cold moon stone landed on it smoothly. The light flashed away and calm returned.
"Ho~~~"
A breathtaking sound penetrated directly into the hearts of the five people. The other four people were accustomed to it and did not show any surprise. Instead, Protector Feng couldn't help but tremble, and was about to ask Elder Gu Li where this inexplicable sigh came from.
But when he saw the tall man with the head of an ox in the stone coffin in front of him, he suddenly opened his eyes. It's just that those eyes were different from those of ordinary people. The left eye was as bright as the sun, which pierced his eyes and made it difficult to open them. The eye on the right is shaped like a crescent moon, and its cold color is breathtaking. It is strikingly different from the stone figures carved from huge rocks.
The high priest, the holy aunt, and the elder Ba Xie were the first to kneel down. Elder Gu Li pulled the Feng protector, who was still standing in shock, and knelt down to the ground.
"Subordinates, welcome the Lord!"
