When the sun rose the next day, Ujida had already crossed the mountain village at the very edge of Shuanghe County. She was originally a barbarian who was good at climbing over mountains and ridges in the dark, and she was also a priestess with divine power. The walk was quiet and did not arouse the alertness of any villagers, but at this moment, standing in the sun, she felt more confused than ever before.
She remembered this road clearly, and it was unmistakable. A qualified priest of the Guru would not lose his direction on a road that he had walked once, let alone twice. She and her companions had had a drink at the master's house here. The high priest once blessed this family with the rice wine they brought out, but now... what happened to this family?
The huts made of Yi people stood in the sun, and the men and women dressed as Yi people sat in the courtyard drinking and playing. Their faces were familiar to her, and she could even call two or three of them by name, and recite their family's family traditions. The family tree is related to a certain generation of her family. If she is not the priestess of the Guru, she must have walked into the door eagerly, announced the name of her chieftain's daughter, and asked them to provide mounts and followers.
However, she happens to be a priest of the Guru.
This building is no longer under the blessing of the Guru.
It smelled as dark as the surrounding forest.
Chieftain Paigang didn't know where his daughter was. He was a very practical person and always only considered things that were beneficial or harmful to him. Therefore, when he saw the dark mountains in the distance, he gave the order to stop advancing. The order, that was the end point of the journey that he had agreed with Hualin before setting off.
"What's over there in the Black Mountains?" Hualin asked him.
"That's the land of the Guru." Indeed, anyone who sees those mountains will have no doubt that those mountains belong to some unnatural existence. Those mountains are too strange and terrifying, unlike those in Yishan Mountain. The other mountains were completely different, they were neither tall nor steep, but no one would think of climbing them - and what was there to do with climbing them? Every hilltop in the Black Mountains is barren of grass, and no birds are stopping. All the mountains are covered with sharp black gravel. Under these barb-like stones, you can't even find a blade of grass or a cricket. Less than. Someone once climbed the highest mountain nearby and looked at it, saying that there were at least a hundred such mountains in the Black Mountains, like a deep scar on the earth. The blasphemous guy immediately met a terrible fate, but his words were in some minds. Disloyalty is passed down in the families of chieftains, and the family of Chieftain Paigang is one of them.
The ground between Black Mountain and Black Mountain is completely covered with sharp black gravel. There is only a narrow path cleared by slaves that leads to the depths of Black Mountain. Chief Pai Gang has walked on that road several times. According to his experience, You know, after walking through the three hills, you will reach the end of the trail, where the high priest practices practice.
The barbarians who curry favor with the high priest continued to bring slaves, livestock, wine, and rice from outside the mountain. The high priest and his men lacked nothing in this desolate mountain. He was always followed by a hundred disciples and servants. Lives more generously than all the toasts. Thanks to his kindness, Chief Paigang stayed in his courtyard for a week. Every day, the high priest killed a cow as a sacrifice to the Guru. His daughter Ujida was one of the assistants in the sacrificial ceremony.
As a priest, Ujda should know more about the situation. For example, they have never heard the screams when killing cattle, and they always come back empty-handed. How do they deal with those cattle? Pai Gang, who was too realistic, only cared about how much divine power his daughter had gained and turned a blind eye to it. Hualin had to order him to ask the other priests who stayed in Gala Cave. What was bad was that the two priests did not have Wu. As for the status of Jeddah, all they could tell was that there were not one, but three, high priests of the Guru in each generation.
The high priest they call them daily is the one with the least spiritual practice. They say that the other two practice places are deeper in the mountains, which are not accessible to mortals, so there is no intestinal road that can lead to them. Go, they don't need the dedication of the Yi nobles, the Guru will naturally give them everything. Their task is to guard the portal for the Guru, because the end of the Black Mountain is the end of the world, and beyond the end, there are countless evil ghosts.
That's all they know. They don't know more details. Ujda may know something, maybe not. Although her status is noble, she is still too young.
It is very dangerous to enter the Black Mountain rashly. Hualin also knows that, but the description of the Yi priest coincides with the knowledge he gained on Qiyun Peak. The end of the Black Mountain is the desert connecting to the Danxia Kingdom. No, The place marked as a desert on the map is actually the "Barbarian Ghost Country", that is, the fundamental place of the Death Worship Cult.
"Send two of your most astute men to see what happens to the intestines of the sheep after the high priest dies, but do not go beyond the first mountain of the Black Mountain."
After thinking for a while, Hualin gave Pai Gang such an order.
Pai Gang was also happy to execute it. He set up camp far away from Montenegro and distributed enough supplies for two days to all the people, including the slaves, and asked them to try their best to feed the horses, clean the knives, and use the remaining The goods were gathered together in one place, preparing to wait for the sunrise the next day, organize the team, and then send the two most agile young men to ride fast horses to check it out from a distance. When they came back, they immediately broke camp and headed back. In order to avoid possible obstacles, he was also prepared to donate all remaining cargo and pack horses.
He is not afraid of ordinary priests, but something that can make Hualin think seriously cannot be taken too seriously.
For this reason, he claimed that he was not on duty at night, but was going to get up secretly after nightfall, holding a knife to see if anyone in the camp was foolish enough to misuse supplies. He distributed more supplies in case they got separated, not to give them a large amount of supplies. For eating and drinking.
However, before he could poke his head out from behind the tree, he heard some very unusual noises.
The entire camp seemed to have broken out without him giving the order.
No, they didn't break camp at all. They abandoned their goods, tied horses, and the swords and arrows they didn't wear on their bodies, formed a long queue, and walked straight towards the Black Mountain in the distance. The night watchman responsible for guarding the camp walked in front, and the others followed behind them. They did not light a torch and their footsteps were silent.
Chief Paigang, who stayed where he was, could only hear his own violent heartbeat and the crackling sound of the campfire.
