Hu Bayi pondered: "This topographic map has the characteristics of each direction drawn on it, and the end point of each route is also marked. According to the instructions on the topographic map, there should be dangers in these terrains."
Song Xing was even more keenly aware that there was a line of mysterious symbols printed on the map that looked quite ancient.
"These are ancient runes in the underground palace of the Fire Extinguishing Kingdom. They are an ancient text that has been lost." Professor Sun explained.
The ancient writings of the Fire Kingdom come from the Yellow River Basin in the Central Plains, and are parallel to the "Jia Ancient Writings" of the Yin and Shang Dynasties. It is speculated that they were produced at least in the Xia Dynasty among the three ancient dynasties of "Xia, Shang, and Zhou", or even earlier. Therefore, archaeologists Name it "Xia Dynasty Dragon Seal".
Dragon refers to these alien symbols similar to "beasts, birds, turtles, dragons, yin and yang flying and crouching". Seal refers to imprints, logos, and symbols.
The dragon seals of the Xia Dynasty are extremely rare in the world, and their writing is far-reaching and reaches the underworld, almost unlike human language. Therefore, after the Song Dynasty, there is almost no trace of it in the world, and no one understands its secrets.
In modern times, Green Tombs searched for the true form of the ancient gods and began to dig underground ancient tombs frantically. Only then did they accidentally excavate the ruins of the Fire Kingdom in Shennongjia and discovered this ancient writing.
After research by the Green Grave Organization, it was discovered that the rock mountain at the site of the Fire Nation was the "Diqiong Palace" recorded in ancient geography books of the Pre-Qin Dynasty.
For those who are poor, the palace is called a cave house, which means the cave located deepest underground.
The Miu Huo family has eyes like candles, moves like snakes, looks like ghosts, travels through black water, lives in a poor land, and does not know the nature of fire. Green Tomb spent countless efforts to decipher the text on the stone tablet of the Miu Huo Kingdom, and found that it recorded "There is accumulation in the poor earth." Stones, under the stones is the sea" and other sentences.
Green Grave speculates that the Fire Extinguishing Country should be a branch of the ancient civilization of the "Xia Dynasty Dragon Seal". It died out due to sea immersion, and its true origin cannot be verified.
The "Dragon Seal" symbols engraved all over the secret rooms of the Fire Kingdom's underground palace record a secret about the "underground passage". The end of the passage is an area that humans can never reach, or in other words, it does not belong to this world.
Professor Sun speculated that the Fire Nation might have some connection with the ancient snake worshipers.
"Could the Fire Nation be the descendants of snake worshipers?" Song Xing guessed.
Professor Sun said: "No, on the contrary, I think the Fire Nation and the descendants of snake worshipers are enemies."
Seeing everyone looking at him, Professor Sun organized his speech and said slowly: "When the Green Tombs excavated the ruins of the Fire Kingdom, I participated in it and also studied the Dragon Seal of the Xia Dynasty. I found that in the texts they recorded, there are many Words such as spitting fire appeared for the first time."
"Later, after I escaped from the Green Tomb, I checked many ancient books and found out that the word spitting fire may represent the hostile force of the Fire Extinguishing Kingdom, the ancient country that was once born in the underground abyss, the Tocharian Kingdom."
"The Tocharian Kingdom, the Tocharian Kingdom in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty?"
Shirley Yang was a little strange. She was also familiar with history books. She thought about it in her mind and thought about this country.
According to records in the Sui Dynasty, the capital of the Tohara Kingdom was five hundred miles west of Congling, and they lived together with Yi Tao. The capital is two miles square. The victorious soldiers numbered 100,000 people, all of whom were trained in fighting. His custom is to worship Buddha.
There is a magical horse in the cave of the mountain. Every year, if a female horse is herded in the cave, a famous colt will be born.
"It's not the Tocharian Kingdom you think of," Professor Sun said, "it's the ancient Tocharian Kingdom that existed earlier."
"After the snake worshipers dug underground, causing great floods and leading to their demise, the descendants of the snake worshipers established an ancient country on the Huaihe River that respected snakes as gods. They still lived in caves and repeatedly dug river channels, causing floods and flooding. After Dayu surrendered, he was sent as a slave to dig the ghost canal underground. Due to the rational use of the original caves hidden under the earth's crust, the underground river meandered for thousands of miles, and many heavy weapons were buried to suppress the river, and it was finally dug through. Dragon Gate leads the flood into Yuxu.”
Song Xing thought thoughtfully: "So, when Dayu controlled the floods, they also had some credit."
Professor Sun nodded: "Yes, after controlling the floods, Dayu let these slaves live in the underground of the abyss to monitor the floods. After the fall of the Xia Dynasty, these slaves built the Tocharo City underground in the abyss. It was not until a thousand years later that the city was built. Gradually, ghost slaves escaped from the underground and escaped into the deserts of the Western Regions, becoming the ancestors of the "Tocharians"."
"As for the Fire-Destroying Country, I guess it may have been a country established by the remnants of Yu the Great who stayed to guard the slaves."
When Hu Bayi heard this, he couldn't help but interjected and asked: "In this case, why is there the word 'diqiong' in the underground palace of the Fire Extinguishing Country?"
"This..." Professor Sun looked hesitant, obviously hiding something, but he continued: "According to the records of the extinguishing country in the "Qiong Zhu Jing", the extinguishing country was the second group to enter Yuxu after the fall of the Xia Dynasty. A land of exploration.”
"And if you find the Yu Ruins, in my opinion, you may be able to find the green tomb buried deep in the ground, and then find the true form of the ancient god."
Song Xing looked at Professor Sun and asked, "Are you sure the ancient god's true form is in Yuxu?"
Professor Sun said: "It is very possible that the true form of the ancient god must be sealed in the green tomb. Otherwise, Room Zero would not have been trying to find it for so many years."
Song Xing thought for a while and said, "Now that I know that you have appeared, the people in Green Grave will probably be stuck on the way back to Beijing. What are you going to do?"
Professor Sun thought for a while and replied: "In that case, why not go back to Beijing at all? Let's go directly to Shennongjia. To be honest, I have been wondering over the years, do gods exist under the endless abyss?"
Dixian Village was destroyed, and the last wish of the Feng clan had been fulfilled in the hands of Professor Sun, and he had no regrets.
Having been an atheist all his life, he also wanted to know if there were any so-called 'gods' that had survived for countless years in this world.
After some discussion, everyone decided not to return to the capital but to go directly to Shennongjia.
Shirley Yang turned the car around. Professor Sun thought for a moment, then took out his old and almost torn notebook from his arms, flipped through it and then pulled out another folded piece of paper from the middle.
After spreading it out, there was a stack of rubbings printed on the paper. It looked like the patterns were extremely old, the words didn't look like words, and the patterns didn't look like patterns.
"This is the rubbing I made from a bronze tripod under the ruins of the Fire Nation. Take a look."
Fatty Wang stretched out his head: "It's just some strange lines, what's so interesting about them?"
Professor Sun didn't say anything, turned the paper around, and placed it in front of them again.
Fatty Wang saw it clearly this time, and then said hesitantly: "This seems to be a map of the underground mountains?"
Professor Sun nodded: "The mysterious graphics on this rubbing record the various topography and landforms below the earth's surface, as well as a large number of ancient creatures."
As he spoke, Professor Sun pointed to the corner of the rubbing. Near the top, there was a depiction of a giant with horns on his head. There was a disc-shaped mysterious object placed in front of him. It was divided into several layers. It looked like a tower but not a tower. It looks strange in shape, with mysterious and complex lines all over its body. I don't know whether it is metal or stone. There are strange beasts entrenched around it, and above it is a mountain-eating monster python that is twisted several times.
(End of chapter)
