Song Xing came to Shennongjia on this trip just for the ancient gods hidden behind human history. Seeing that the target might be right in front of him, he naturally would not back down.
As for Professor Sun and the others, if they were to break away from the protection of Song Xing, even if they could return to the surface and face the pursuit of the Green Tomb, it would be difficult to return to Kyoto alive, not to mention the terrifying ancient creatures along the way.
Everyone climbed along the roots of the tree. The cave at their feet was originally a rock cave in the mountain. It was more than a hundred meters in diameter and was steep and almost vertical.
The interior is densely covered with holes, and it looks like the outer wall of the ancient Roman Colosseum. The root veins of those prehistoric tree species are extremely thick and long, and the thinnest ones are as thick as holding pillars. It is no wonder that Professor Sun believes that this ancient prehistoric tree is a legendary tree. of building wood.
Countless tree roots stretched out and attached to the stone crevices, already integrated with the cave wall, and the wisteria fungus wrapped around it was even more continuous like a net.
Because he didn't know what was in the cave, Song Xing had already summoned five ghosts to explore the way ahead, while the Nine Death Jingling Armor slid along the rock wall, supporting them in the middle and crushing the vines blocking the road along the way.
The vines were swept away, revealing some murals originally hidden behind tree roots and painted on the cliff.
It's hard to imagine how the ancients painted on this almost vertical mountain wall. Song Xing looked up and saw that after thousands of years, the colorful murals were still faintly discernible.
It can be clearly seen that one of the murals depicts an evil spirit snatching and eating people in the thick fog. The upper body of the victim is still flesh and blood, while the lower body has been eaten into bones. The mural is colorful and lifelike.
Professor Sun chiseled off a corner of the murals. Based on the degree of damage to the paint, he determined that these murals were formed during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. He speculated that they were the work of King You of Chu.
These murals from the Warring States Period retain a lot of valuable information, but the contents are horrifying and cruel, so bloody that it will send chills down your spine.
When Song Xing scanned the mural, he saw another mural on which a large box was painted. The lid of the box was half open, revealing a skeleton. The box was surrounded by dragon patterns with open mouth and teeth.
There is a human figure next to the box, wearing a python robe and jade belt, with a phoenix pattern canopy behind him, looking like a king. Opposite there is another person standing, wearing a three-eyed mask. The two of them seem to be whispering secret words to the big skeleton in the box.
Song Xing suddenly realized that this should be the scene where King Chu You got the golden skeleton, and later he was afraid of the evil ghost seeking his life and asked Yu Wu.
In ancient times, it was believed that there were springs underground, that is, groundwater distributed layer by layer. The deepest place passed through Jiudao Spring.
The tomb of Qin Shihuang was built very deep. According to historical records, the coffin was placed "through three springs." This means that the place where the coffin was placed was so deep that three layers of underground water were dug through.
King Chu You was afraid that the evil spirits would seek his life, so he ordered the great witch to take the golden skeleton to the Nine Abyss underground to suppress the evil spirits. Unexpectedly, the great witch never returned.
"It seems that the golden skeleton is really down there. So, the countless treasures of King Chu You must also be under the ground." Fatty Wang said happily.
Hu Bayi disagreed: "After so many years, who knows what will happen next. I advise you not to be too optimistic."
While the two were arguing, the five ghosts had already reached the ground first. This seemingly bottomless abyss was only a hundred meters away from the entrance of the cave. The bottom of the cave was a low depression.
In the low-lying area, there is accumulated water seeping from high places. In the water lies a golden beast with animal ears. It is huge in size, with its surface covered with copper corrosion and green moss. Each of its two ears is in the shape of a tiger.
Scattered on the thick raised tree roots nearby were countless statues, swords and other objects, as well as heavy bronze weapons in the shape of birds, beasts and dragons. They all seemed to be ancient relics from the Warring States period.
This made Song Xing a little disappointed. The terrain here looked like a sacrificial pit. Although the scale was ridiculously large, it was far from what he had imagined.
With the Jingling Mausoleum Armor of Nine Deaths clearing the way, Professor Sun and others quickly climbed down and were surprised when they saw the sacrificial pit below.
Fatty Wang was even more excited to find some small and valuable items to stuff into his backpack.
Hu Bayi looked at Professor Sun strangely: "Why is there no road at the bottom of Jianmu and the abyss?"
Professor Sun was also a little disappointed. He ignored the important weapons from the Warring States Period under his nose. He looked around and said, "Maybe there are other passages that are covered up. Let's look for them and understand the terrain here first."
Hu Bayi walked a few steps along the pothole and saw several strange-shaped cylindrical objects exposed in the water in front of him, which looked like the claws of a giant beast statue. They were half submerged. Curiously, he stepped forward to check, but they were not waterproof. Several strange fish that looked like heads, had no scales on their bodies, and had two pairs of fins behind their gills suddenly jumped out and bit at him.
In a blink of an eye, Hu Bayi recognized that these fish were very similar to some kind of strange fish in the mountain and sea map on the rubbing in Professor Sun's hand. They had double fins like wings and were ferocious and bloodthirsty.
Then, as if boiling under the water, countless strange fish appeared in an instant, jumping out of the water crazily and rushing towards Hu Bayi and the few people behind him.
Before Hu Bayi could dodge, countless bronze blood erosions sprang out from behind him, piercing through the bodies of all the strange fishes within a hair's breadth.
But it was the Nine Death Jingling Armor next to Song Xing that showed its power!
Facing this man-made monster, these prehistoric fish lurking in the water did not even have a chance to resist. They were all killed in an instant and had all their flesh and blood sucked dry.
Hu Bayi took a few quick breaths. Years of fighting and facing countless life and death crises made him calm down quickly.
Song Xing still had the Nine-Death Jingling Armor hunting those strange fish, and he came to the water's edge and set his sights on the stone pillar that Hu Bayi discovered.
There is a green mottled tree-shaped object six or seven meters high between the stone pillars. On each branch, there is a bronze vessel like a large fou. The body of the fou is cast with mother-and-son holes, and the whole body is decorated with a string pattern of a panchi.
From his point of view, those rock pillars were indeed the upward lifting paws of some kind of stone beast. The six or seven-meter-tall tree-shaped copper lamp was just something in its palm, which was enough to imagine the huge size of the stone beast.
The side of the giant beast's body is blocked by a rock wall. If you look closely, you will see a rectangular stone letter engraved with ghostly patterns, which is like a mountain pressing on the stone beast holding a tree-shaped copper lamp.
He suddenly remembered the murals he had seen in the cave before. In those ancient murals left two thousand years ago, a strange beast with a body like a turtle appeared. It had a head and no face. It held a candle in its hands and carried a candle on its back in the chaos. There is a roulette-shaped object pressed on it, which is similar to the "Bi Xi" in the form of a negative stele, and is no different from the strange beast under this stone letter.
Professor Sun stepped forward and knocked on the stone letter and said: "In ancient times, there was a saying of 'Han Zai'. The monster crawling in the chaos is called 'Zai'. It carries all things in the world on its back and has been running through the ages. The box on its body is 'Han'. It seems that The road to the lower level is on its back.”
The stone wall was very large. Everyone groped along the stone wall and finally found a depression in a corner. The outside was a raised animal-face relief, and the mouth was a terrifyingly large hole, which went directly through the thick wall.
Song Xing asked the five ghosts to walk in front, and then followed him into the cave. Professor Sun and others also got in. The Nine Death Jingling Armor shrank its body and finally followed in.
(End of chapter)
