Shu Guan stood in the corner and looked at the remaining rock painting in front of him.
The lines of the rock paintings are rough and sharp, very similar to the style of this village. They should be carved from metal objects inside knives and axes, but they have a sense of returning to nature, and the objects in the paintings show the topography of the paintings vividly.
Regardless of other things, in terms of the artistic achievement of this rock painting, I am afraid that according to the standards of Dahua painting art, it can be said to be the pinnacle.
If this rock painting were taken to the outside world, I am afraid it would not only be priceless, but it might also be called Dahua's top art collection.
Of course, Shu Guan's attention at this time was not on these things. The reason why he came over to take a closer look had nothing to do with anything like art, but the content of the rock painting itself.
The painting shows a vast land, with a scorching sun in the sky, and countless dead crops on the ground. Many people are kneeling on the ground, raising their hands high to the sky, as if they are praying for something.
The reason why this rock painting is so miraculous is that the appearance of each person in the painting is roughly the same as that of the lake, but the despair, pain, and humility on their faces are vividly displayed by simple lines. Anyone who looks at this eye painting seems to be able to clearly feel the emotions of those in the smoke painting.
And in the upper left corner of this painting, in the direction opposite to the scorching sun in the sky, there is a person flying from the sky.
It is not accurate to say that it is a human being. Although that person has a human body, he has the head of a wolf and is wearing armor. On his shoulders, there is also a head with four fangs lying on it. It looks ugly, ferocious and There are also some ridiculous little green pigs.
This is what this petroglyph is about.
Then Shu Guan looked at another rock painting next to him. Unfortunately, the next rock painting had been scratched to pieces by sword marks, and it was impossible to see what was inside.
This is what the next petroglyph page looks like.
It was not until after three petroglyphs that half of the petroglyphs could be seen clearly.
In this half of the rock painting, there is still the vast land, there are still countless dead dealers on the land, and there are still many people kneeling beside the fields, but the object of their kneeling has changed, and they are no longer kneeling to pray to God. Instead, he knelt in front of the wolf-headed man.
The few old men kneeling at the front held bamboo baskets high in their hands. The bamboo baskets contained various kinds of food, but the quantity was very small.
These people seemed to be dedicating their remaining food to the wolf-headed man.
However, there was no forced unwillingness or anger on the faces of those old men. Instead, there was a kind of joy and respect welling up from the bottom of their hearts.
Shu Guan also noticed that the eyes of the leading elders did not seem to be looking at the wolf-headed man, but on the ugly and ferocious green piglet with four fangs on the shoulder of the wolf-headed man.
And their respect and admiration seemed to be directed at the little green pig.
The other half of the rock painting also depicts something, but unfortunately it was damaged by sword marks and can no longer be seen clearly.
Because the two rock paintings in the middle are missing, I don’t know what happened in the middle, so that the object of worship by those people changed from God to the two creatures who should be the demon clan.
Shu Guang looked a little confused.
Then he moved his eyes to other places on the walls of the hall and scanned them slowly.
It's a pity that except for the one and a half in front of me, there is no other rock painting that can clearly see the complete content.
Lu Zu's sword that year really completely destroyed this hall.
The rock paintings in this hall should be about a grand narrative. Unfortunately, it is impossible to get a glimpse of the true appearance of that grand narrative just by looking at a half-rock painting.
Shu Guan thought so with some regret.
Then his eyes turned to the center of the front room of the hall, where there were high steps. Above the steps was a rather spacious platform. There was a very large stone chair on the platform, like a throne.
But at this time, the stone throne had also been split into two halves, lying on the left and right sides.
There is a deep sword mark on the ground, extending forward and straight to the wall behind the making table.
Perhaps the real target of Lu Zu's sword was this throne. As for the bones, they were just those who died due to being affected by the sword energy.
Many stones fell from the wall at the end of the sword mark, but most of the wall collapsed, revealing a crack half a person wide. Behind the collapsed wall, a clear light shone faintly from the crack.
There seems to be a room behind the wall.
Maybe there are answers to everything about this place.
Shu Guan thought so and then walked towards the high platform.
Go up the steps, onto the high platform, walk past the collapsed Wang Zuo, and walk into the crack.
Beyond the crack is indeed a room.
This darkroom-like room was not big, only about ten square meters. The surrounding walls were inlaid with a dozen beads that exuded a clear light, shrouding the entire room in a bright and soft light.
Shu Guan recognized that those beads were the legendary night pearls, which he had seen before in the underground palace of Qixia Temple in Taoyuan Village.
It's just that each of the luminous pearls here is the size of a adult's head. Compared with the luminous pearls in the Qixia Temple Underground Palace, they are much larger, and the light they emit makes people feel more comfortable.
In the dark room, apart from these luminous pearls, there was only one chair.
A king's chair that was exactly the same as the one on the high platform outside, but slightly smaller.
Naturally, there was no one sitting on the king's chair, but there was a crown.
Seeing the crown, Shu Guan's heart beat suddenly.
Because this crown was exactly the same as the crown painted on the head of the golden-haired ape on the back of the parchment scroll Jiang Yun showed him.
While he was thinking about it, he immediately walked over quickly.
The crown was quietly placed on the stone chair.
This is a somewhat peculiar crown. It is completely black and seems to be made of iron. It does not have many luxurious decorations and only has some wavy mountain-shaped bulges at the front end.
You're not even sure whether this thing is a crown or just a headband.
Just because it is placed on a throne in such a temple, people subconsciously think that it should be a crown.
Shu Guan was now standing in front of the crown, but he did not reach out to pick it up immediately.
After carefully examining the crown and confirming that there was no spiritual power fluctuation on the crown, he asked Xiaoyi in his heart.
"Is there a weapon spirit inside?"
"No, brother, I can't detect the existence of any intelligent consciousness."
Xiaoyi's sweet voice sounded in his head.
Shu Guan then reached out and picked up the crown.
As soon as I put it in my hand, I saw that this seemingly small crown was heavier than it seemed.
Therefore, this crown is naturally not really made of iron. As for what kind of material it is made of, Shu Guan cannot tell with his current vision.
Shu Guan's fingers gently slid over the crown of the crown, feeling the cool touch on his fingertips, but his brows furrowed slightly.
He was thinking about a question.
That is this crown. It is naturally a very important thing to be placed in such a precious and precious place in such a dark room.
And just because I can’t see how special this crown is, it doesn’t mean that this crown is really not special. Just like the birthday gifts left by the old cripple in my bamboo box, they look ordinary and can only appear under certain conditions. Show your true self.
And for such an important-looking thing, since Lu Zu had already opened the darkroom back then, why didn't he take it away instead of leaving it here?
Is there any special reason for this?
So should I take this crown away?
Shu Guan is a bit hard to decide.
But in the end she still remembered the painting on the parchment, and the golden-haired ape wearing a crown in the painting.
This finally made him decide.
So Shu Guan turned around and said to the other four people following the dark room:
"I want to take this crown away. As for the luminous pearls in this room, they all belong to you. No problem with that!"
Of course no one had any objections.
The sharing of the spoils ended in a relaxed and happy atmosphere.
…
A group of five people appeared outside Dahong Mountain again.
This time the adventure is finally over.
Except for Shu Guan, the other four people were disappointed to varying degrees.
The most disappointed were Mai Tianlun and Lian Zhongfang.
After a hard trip to Dahong Mountain, I didn't find any Taoist secret books or magic weapons. In the end, I only got a few luminous pearls.
Although in the mortal world, those few luminous pearls can buy them huge wealth, but for practitioners like them who are new to the realm, wealth is no longer what they desire most.
Song Yanu was also a little disappointed, but thinking about this time she came to Dahongshan and got to know Mr. Shu Guanshu, and Mr. Shu's attitude towards her was also very kind, so it was not without gain, and she could return safely, so That disappointment was nothing.
On the contrary, Jiang Yun, like everyone else, said with regret that this trip was in vain, but there was no disappointment in his eyes.
This big fat man's mentality is really good.
Shu Guan, who noticed Jiang Yun's true emotions, actually admired the fat man.
As for himself, there will naturally be no disappointment.
He was willing to come to Dahongshan not for some Taoist skills or magic weapon.
And now he can be roughly sure that Patriarch Lu Duanyang also visited that valley thousands of years ago, so maybe this valley really has something to do with his senior brother.
In addition, he got the crown in the village at the bottom of the valley. Maybe this thing can help the senior brother regain some sanity.
Finally, in this valley, Shu Guan also got a lot of information about the Monkey Army.
He saw the shackles of the Divine Monkey Army and learned that there were many demons in the Divine Monkey Army. It was even possible that the Divine Monkey Army five thousand years ago was an army dominated by demons.
Although this information is not enough to completely reveal the mystery of the Monkey Army, it can still allow Shu Guan to speculate on many things.
And the Divine Monkey Army is really an army dominated by monsters, so many of the unreasonable behaviors of the Divine Monkey Army in history can be reasonably explained.
Therefore, for Shu Guan, this trip to Dahongshan can be regarded as a fruitful one.
A group of five people returned to the jeep parked outside the mountain.
"Let me drive!"
Song Yanu opened the car door directly, smiled at Shu Guan and said:
"Mr. Shu, are you still sitting in the front?"
Shu Guan shook his head and said:
"No, you guys can go back by yourself in the car! I'll go first."
Yes, he can't wait to go back now and show the crown to his senior brother.
…
After running wildly with the Thousand Miles Talisman and the Invisibility Talisman, Shu Guan returned to Jingcheng and outside Shanji Temple after only half an hour.
Entering the dust formation, Shu Guan ran all the way into the mountain gate. He ran past the pavilion behind the mountain gate like a gust of wind. During this time, it was his turn to guard the mountain gate. The fifth senior brother An Zichun who was sitting in the mountain gate was frightened. One jump.
"Seventh Junior Brother, what happened?"
"It's okay, Fifth Senior Brother, do you know where Senior Brother is?"
"I saw him dazed by the lake just now... Hey, why is he missing?"
In the end, Shu Guan found his senior brother on a pine tree growing between the gaps in the cliff.
The senior brother's tail was wrapped around a branch, and his head was hanging upside down. His body was swinging like a swing, his eyes were melancholy like a philosopher, and he seemed to be thinking about some very profound proposition.
The eldest brother was in a state of confusion during this period, but he was not crazy or noisy. He was even quieter than before.
Most of the time, he just seems to be wandering and thinking about something, and he doesn't pay attention to what others say to him. Occasionally he glances at you, his eyes blank and without any focus, as if he doesn't know you at all.
Sometimes he would babble some weird things. Shu Guan once sat next to him and listened to him for a whole day. In the end, he concluded that what the senior brother was nagging was nothing more than three things:
who I am?
Where do I come from?
Why am I here?
So the insane elder brother really looks like a philosopher.
Shuguan used the wall-walking technique to walk down, walked to the pine tree, and stood on the roots growing out of the cliff.
"Big brother!"
Shu Guan called out like this.
As for the golden-haired ape on the branch, which was swinging like a swing, as expected, it ignored him at all.
Then Shu Guan carefully took out the crown from his arms, held it in his hand and shook it at his senior brother.
The senior brother's attention was finally attracted.
He stopped shaking and his eyes fell on the crown in Shu Guan's hand.
Then, look at the flowers in front of you.
But it was the senior brother who stretched out a monkey's paw like lightning and snatched the crown from Shu Guan's hand.
Although Shu Guan was originally planning to give this crown to his senior brother, when the golden-haired ape stretched out his claws to grab it, Shu Guan actually had no room to resist.
The senior brother who snatched the crown over, as if he had obtained some novel toy, put the crown between the monkey's paws and turned it over and over.
Shu Guan, on the side, stared at the senior brother's movements and expression without blinking.
The eldest brother seems to be very interested in this crown.
But this kind of interest is not the kind of interest Shu Guan wants to see.
Because the eldest brother's eyes still looked so dazed and confused at this time, and the expression on his face did not change in any particular way.
And its interest in the crown in its hand does not seem to be much different from its interest in a banana.
One of them, the senior brother really put the crown into his mouth and took a bite. Then he screamed a few times as if his teeth were knocked, and then threw the crown away with a look of disgust.
The crown plummeted and fell into the lake below.
Shu Guan was stunned.
Could it be that I thought wrong...this crown actually has nothing to do with senior brother?
And the senior brother is actually just a relatively powerful monkey demon, but he is not the one he guessed?
At this moment, there was a loud crash from below, and a huge thing emerged from the lake, and on the head of the big thing was the crown!
