After passing through the valley, there is another valley, the continuous mountainous area of the Green Dragon Mountains. Here you can hardly see the steep mountain walls near the Xiajin Tower in the north of Kaolin, but the scenery is even better.
The silvery moonlight pours down from the night sky and shines on the dense vegetation in the valley. The rocks condense into a strange arch shape, like a galloping wild horse, giving this place an vivid name - Horse Gate.
The rock wall showed a desolate reddish gray under the moonlight, like tuff containing iron oxide. There seemed to have been some uneven patterns on it, but they had long since been smoothed away by time. Fang Yu got off the back of Mr. Huiyan and stood alone on the edge of the rock wall. He touched the cold surface of the ancient stone slabs with his hands. The response felt like he had traveled through a thousand years of time, conveying ancient stories from an era ago.
But that's just an illusion, because the Snake Empire has existed for much longer than one era.
Their empire ruled the vast lands before the elves of Numerin came into being. Today, the snake people of St. Xiu'an call themselves Sinsas. It is said that this snake people term with unknown meaning is the name of their long-gone ancient empire.
Unlike the Numelin elves who disappeared without a trace after the Disaster of Eshorin, the snakemen still live in Etalia today, in Cape Saint-Hughan and the Numelin forest, but they have long forgotten them. The past glory has been forgotten, and there is no memory of that long-ago empire. The primitive organization of ancient clans and matrilineal societies is maintained in the jungle.
Only in their mysterious witchcraft and sacrificial rituals can we vaguely see some of the past.
Fang Plover stood quietly in the valley.
After repelling the Blood Oath brigade, everyone finally arrived here, the entrance to the ruins of the Snake Empire. As if taking a break from his busy schedule, he asked for a leave from everyone, wanting to see the elegance of this ancient empire that had disappeared in the long river of history.
He walked alone along the valley, and the moonlight shone on the mountain wall, outlining its original strange shape. The red-grey rock walls are peeling off layer by layer, and there seems to be something inside.
The shape of the original buildings is almost invisible. They are broken between the red sandstones, or the sandstones themselves are part of them, with vines and shrubs growing on them.
Natural life and death have accumulated on the corpse of this civilization for countless ages. However, Fang Yu did not come here to find out. He just had great curiosity about this ancient empire.
Many scholars are very curious about this ancient empire, but the investigation about it has almost stalled because even the snake people themselves have forgotten their written inheritance. At the same time, Numelin itself is also a huge blank. It is difficult to find corresponding comparisons for some serpentine characters.
Because this civilization sleeping in the forest could only slowly disappear surrounded by vines. The palace once collapsed into stone slabs, and the stone slabs turned into gravel, and finally disappeared.
Fang Plover suddenly felt that he was lucky to be able to see the last side of it before it completely disappeared.
He looked at the gravel and gravel quietly.
The gravel didn't tell him the answer.
But it can tell stories from the past.
He heard footsteps behind him and turned around, only to realize that it was the Solitary White Wilderness. The current leader of the Rain Listener Brigade pointed to the other side of the valley and said to him:
"That's the entrance to the ruins."
Fang Yu was stunned for a moment before looking in that direction.
A trace of surprise flashed in his eyes. Behind the red-grey mountain wall, there was a row of artificially carved footholds. They seemed to lead people in a direction. At the end of there, there were two tall snake-man stone statues erected in the valley. Only one was missing its head and the other was missing its right hand. However, the long tail and fine scales still pointed out the identity of their carvers.
Behind the stone statue is a huge door.
The door was so majestic that it seemed to guard the entire valley. You had to look up to see the whole thing. The door was pushed open a gap, but it was enough for four or five people to pass through. It is more than one meter thick. I don't know what kind of means were used to carve such a giant thing.
There is a gap opened above the giant door, but it is generally well preserved. There are huge carvings on it, which are still clearly visible after thousands of years. There are also reliefs on the mountain walls on both sides, depicting the past glory of this ancient empire.
This is not the first time that Fang Yu has seen the snake man's wall carvings. There is a lot of related information in the community. The stars hanging from the central sky above the door are like comets. It's called Andron, the Tail of the Earthly Serpent, the main god in the Sinsas pantheon.
The Numelin elves call it the Shape of Disaster, because some scholars believe it is green, but judging from the performance of the snake people on the murals, it does not seem to be a sign of world-ending disaster.
However, the snake people do believe that Andron, the earthly serpent, is a symbol of both life and death, symbolizing a cycle.
Therefore, there is life and death on one side of the mural. The left side is the rise of Sinsas, and the right side is the end of the First Age.
Limited information proves that the first era of Aitaria ended with the arrival of the second bane star Verdant. It may have been a meteorite falling from the sky, or something else. It not only sunk Aesorin, but also brought Dark creatures.
However, although the Sinthas Snakemen left this prophecy about the end of the Era, their empire itself fell apart and disappeared in the middle of the First Era. What they experienced is still unknown to this day.
Fang Plover looked to the left, and the empire was born from a ball of dark flames. It was the Snake Man's Throne of Fire. Snakes are cold-blooded animals, but snake people worship flames crazily, and then the Seven Kings split. These are a few events that a few advanced Aitaria and Earth scholars can confirm. After that, there is a long war that cannot be confirmed.
Until the empire falls into ashes.
"Below that is an ancient passage that passes through the underground ruins of the Snake Man Empire and reaches the other end of the valley. There is the Dragon's Nest, the trial place of the Holy Valley of Peru."
Gu Baizhiye looked at the door and said.
"Is there something under the ruins?" Fang Plover asked.
Gu Baizhiye shook his head: "There is a passage below. I have been there personally. Some people say that there is a road below that leads to a deeper underground, but I have never seen it."
He looked at the door: "Maybe. In fact, the trial ground under the ruins of Peru Sacred Valley is also an open underground space. What has been really explored by people is only a small area. , no one can tell what’s in the deeper places.”
"Perhaps it is a dead zone, or it may be a long-dormant god. Some people hear strange whispers down there, but when people return, they all tell different things."
"A dormant god?" Fang Plover asked: "Are you talking about the resurrected god of the lizard people? I heard that an adventure group discovered its body underground, and then the body disappeared, but No one can say for sure whether Salus has really been resurrected.”
"It happened more than ten years ago. It's older than me. Who knows?" Gubaizheye replied: "But there is a long-standing legend about a snake-man god underground in Fenris. It first came from St. Xiu'an Cape. It is spread among the ancient snake people clan, and it is said that the night lizards are here just to find it."
"You know," he replied: "Their belief traditions are actually very consistent with the snake people. Some people say that they were once slaves of the snake people empire."
"Then don't they miss the life of slaves very much?" Fang Yu was speechless.
Gubai Zhiye spread his hands.
Aitaria was originally such a world, full of bizarre legends, remnants of the history of two eras, leaving too many unsolved mysteries here.
After the rumors spread by word of mouth, they were exaggerated and magnified, and some of them were no longer credible. But who dares to say that there is no real information behind a ridiculous legend?
Fang Yu glanced at Gubai Zhiye. He had previously told the other party something about the battle at Pegasus Bridge. He was not sure what the other party's views were. But people will be more or less concerned about their own failures, because they don't know whether the other party will be dissatisfied.
But Gu Baizhiye had a calm expression on his face, as if he didn't care about anything.
After a while, he said: "Grant asked me to tell you about us and the Blood Oath."
Only with these words did Fang Yu finally confirm the other party's intention.
"I'm also curious," he asked, "what happened to you?"
"It's a long story." Gu Baizheye replied, his expression was a little downcast, thinking that he was not unaware of what happened to the guild. But so what if you are aware of it. Things like the collective disappearance of the club's top management have happened in the past. There are various reasons, but for the guilds in Aitaria, there is only one result.
The situation like Listening to the Rain is quite special. After the contact with outside clubs was cut off, the guilds in the first world still remained relatively intact and independent. Logically speaking, the Super Competitive Alliance should have come to their door long ago. Count the guild's assets, freeze them, or resell them.
Unless the Rainlister Club is not due to debt, or the investors are not pursuing it at all, but how is this possible? It sounds incredible. This is where Fang Yu feels confused.
However, Gubaizhiye did not talk about this issue immediately, and only said: "Do you still remember what you told me before?"
Fang Yu was stunned for a moment: "Which one?"
"R, do you remember him?"
Fang Plover nodded.
He met such a person in the community about three years ago, and his ID was a single letter R. By chance, that person taught him a lot of things, including many related skills of combat craftsmen.
In fact, he was very grateful to the other party, because if it weren't for this accident, he might not have been able to teach himself to become a Kapka craftsman apprentice after becoming a stowaway. He has the most basic understanding of combat craftsmanship, which was basically formed during that time period.
However, he did not expect at first that this simple ID would be connected with the battle he was familiar with ten years ago. The two users with the same ID before and after are actually the same person on the Internet.
And he only vaguely confirmed this when he accidentally discussed the battle of Pegasus Bridge with the other party, although the other party never admitted it personally.
He couldn't help but look towards Gubai Zhiye, wanting to see what the other person was going to say, because he was also full of curiosity about that person. Not only what happened ten years ago, but also because it was that person who told him that he had a unique talent in spatial perception.
He also wanted to know why the other party suddenly left without saying goodbye after saying this.
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