Soon everyone walked up the stone steps. There were about ten levels of stone steps. After going up, the space was still not spacious, but there were more forked roads to the left and right.
"Do you want to search separately?" The Taoist priest with a grimace looked at He Siniang.
He Siniang nodded: "I and Lao Qi will go to the left. After burning the incense, no matter whether we gain something or not, we will meet back here."
"good!"
The two groups separated at this point. Taoist Ghostface and Grandmaster Xia Houyun briefly planned the search path, and then one after another got into the passage on the right.
After walking not far, the first fork appeared on the right side of the passage. After entering, you can faintly see the dark red light coming from the depths. The ghost-faced Taoist priest walked forward quickly. When he turned a corner, he immediately saw the open hole at the end.
This cave entrance is one of the many cliff caves seen outside. The Grimace Taoist thought it was more appropriate to call it an "open window" because there is an obvious arc-shaped space near the cave entrance. At first glance, it is the cave where the Yemu clan lives.
There are "furniture" such as stone beds, stone tables, and stone benches in the cave. There are also some scattered bits and pieces on and off the stone table whose purpose is difficult to confirm. They must have been the daily necessities of the Yemu clan. Apart from this, there is nothing else. , including the bones of the former owner here.
The grim-faced Taoist priest walked to the stone table and picked up an object on it. He looked at it and said, "It's a stone bowl. Do the people here live in houses made of stone?"
"Didn't the Taoist Priest and the old man find wooden bowls in the stone houses in the city?" Xia Houyun said: "Perhaps because of the lack of underground wood, only some 'special' tribesmen are qualified to use them."
"Yes, those rice dumplings were probably used as sacrifices in the city. It's understandable to use good ones, but..." The grim-faced Taoist priest looked around: "I have a bad premonition. This cliff cave seems to be ordinary. Residence, if you want to find the antidote to the iron wire bug from here, I’m afraid the hope will be very slim.”
"I feel the same way."
"Hey, I have no choice but to give it a try. I don't know where the clan leader will live. Maybe there will be clues in his residence."
Everyone then began to speed up their exploration. As long as there were no special clues at first glance, they would immediately move to the next cave.
The structure of this cliff cave was soon figured out by everyone. It was basically the same as what the Taoist Ghost Face had guessed. Every fork was connected to a cave, without any exception. The imagined secret passage in the dark pavilion did not appear, and even ten In many caves, not even a single bone of the Yemu clan could be found.
The Taoist priest with a grimace sighed, turned around and left the cave in front of him. He estimated the time in his mind and felt that the stick of incense was almost there. There was no point in continuing the search, so he called Xia Houyun and his grandson to go back.
After returning, He Siniang and Luo Laoqi were already waiting at the place. The two groups told their respective progress, and they all shook their heads. It seemed that there were no clues in the cave.
For a moment, everyone couldn't help but feel a little depressed. Looking at the stone steps going up, they didn't know if it was necessary to continue searching.
Seeing this, the grim-faced Taoist priest quickly cheered up, clapped his hands and said to everyone: "Why are you all wilting? You just searched the bottom and gave up now? You don't even think about it, the good things must be in the hands of the leader. Who can live in the leader?" Down there? Come on and continue on your way with Pindao, let’s go straight to Huanglong this time, go to the damn top and search down.”
After some encouragement from the grim-faced Taoist priest, everyone set off on the road again. This time they ignored the forks on both sides and headed straight for the end of the stone steps.
After walking almost half of the way, everyone discovered that something had changed inside the cave. Not only did the forked roads on the side become very wide, but they also changed from multiple to one, and the stone steps also came to an end.
The grim-faced Taoist priest murmured in his heart: Has it reached the top? Pindao estimates that there is still some distance left?
He hurriedly entered the forked road, held the torch and walked forward a few steps. Then he found that two more forked roads appeared in front of him. The one on the right was relatively flat, while the one on the left was slightly sloping upward. He suddenly felt Suddenly: It turns out that the stone steps are gone. If you want to continue going up, it seems you have to take the tunnel on the left.
The grim-faced Taoist priest said to the people who came in one after another: "We don't need to climb the steps next, we will climb the slope instead, but before going up, I want to go to the right and take a look."
"Taoist Master, do you think there will be clues over there?" Xia Houyun asked.
"Not necessarily, but the situation here has suddenly changed. I have to go and confirm. It's all a flat road anyway... Senior, is your body unable to bear it?"
Xia Houyun nodded: "Climbing the stone steps along this way will cost me most of my life. I'll help you all over there. I'll be lazy here and rest for a while."
"Senior, just rest. There is no need for you, Si Niang, to follow. Pindao will go over and have a look and he will be right back."
"No, I will go with you."
He Siniang chose to enter the tunnel on the right side with the Taoist Ghostface. The two walked side by side. As they walked, they found that the space in front of them widened again, and finally led to a tall cave.
The environment of this cave is dark, and there are no "windows" on the four walls, because judging from the location, it is still some distance inside the mountain. However, at the bottom of the rock wall opposite the cave, there are three openings lined up next to each other, and the cave is pitch black. A piece of land, I don’t know where it leads.
At this time, Taoist Ghostface and He Siniang did not look at the entrance of the cave, but looked at the center of the cave, where five stone tablets were erected, all one person high, forming a pentagon around each other.
The grim-faced Taoist priest and He Siniang walked to the stone tablet and saw that there were no words on the stone tablet, but it was full of patterns. After taking a closer look at the content of the patterns, they couldn't help but said in unison: "This is a memorial tablet!"
The patterns on the stone tablet are carved very carefully. It seems that Yemu is also very accomplished in painting. Although the patterns are not colorful, they can still make people fascinated.
The first painting depicts the process of the Yami clan entering the deep valley. This is not much different from what everyone has speculated. They indeed chose to settle here after digging the deep valley and seeing the underground volcano. One of them painted the style It is very eye-catching. Only he wears a feather headband, and this person appears frequently in subsequent patterns. It seems that he is the leader of the Yami clan.
After reaching the bottom of the valley, what appeared was a scene of the Yemu clan kneeling and worshiping under the volcano. There was also a hunting picture of the same length, which recorded more than a dozen Yemu clan members holding torches and hunting wild beasts. The Taoist priest found this picture very strange, because the roe-headed and rat-like figure of the beast looked particularly like a mouse, but it was taller than the person in the picture. Could it be that this was an exaggerated painting technique? But if that were the case, wouldn't it be even more exaggerated to have ten people surrounding a mouse?
