Walking into the wall, those ancient traces are full of darkness and mystery. The stone wall is engraved with King Wuyou's sacrifice to ghosts and gods, and there are some ancient seals with bird traces carved next to it.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, a spacious and bright empty cave suddenly opened up in front of me.
This is an underground palace in the shape of a dome. The floor is paved with blue jade bricks and there are many murals carved on the walls.
There are humanoid stone figurines and snake-shaped animal heads, both male and female, which are lifelike and seem to come to life.
There are many huge stalactites in the cave, suspended above the dome of the cave wall, as misty and illusory as clouds, filling the entire space with a rich and eerie atmosphere.
Song Xing saw several ancient corpses wearing bronze masks among them. The corpses were buried here in high crowns and robes. They seemed to be dressed as shamans from the ancient Chu Kingdom.
In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period when ghosts and gods were superstitious, shamans were not only familiar with people but also with ghosts. Only they could communicate with the invisible and mysterious power, so they had a very high status.
Seeing the corpses of these witches, Professor Sun seemed to be one step closer to the secrets buried underground by King Chu You.
In addition to carvings, there are also several rows of bronze imitations of bronze figures on the cave wall. Among them, Song Xing saw another beast, with a head and no face, many arms and many legs, holding a giant candle that illuminates the darkness upward. There are two bronze tigers lying on the ground, holding copper rings as thick as human arms in their mouths, and locking a bronze box.
Looking at it carefully, the copper body of the box is mottled and engraved with a pattern, which is actually the shape of a vicious ghost grabbing people. It seems that whoever dares to pry into the things in the box will be immediately taken to the underworld by the evil ghost.
On the back of the copper box, there is another pattern, which describes in detail the discovery of the Tianhuan and the golden corpse by the Shennong clan in Shennongjia in ancient times, and the process by which King Chu You obtained the golden corpse.
Looking at the story depicted above, it seems consistent with the records Professor Sun saw in another ancient tomb.
"Will you die if you open this bronze box? It's scary, right?" Fatty Wang looked at the picture on the bronze box with some disbelief.
Professor Sun was a little hesitant. After all, several shamans wearing bronze masks died nearby. It was impossible to guarantee that it was not because of the bronze box.
Just when the two sides were debating whether to open the bronze box, the five ghosts controlled by Song Xing had already passed through the bronze lid, allowing him to see clearly what was inside the bronze box.
There is indeed a skeleton in the bronze box.
The skeleton is more than two meters long, looks like a human but not human, and has limbs. However, it is neither a human bone nor any kind of living thing.
The remains are made of gold from the skull to the foot bones, and the internal organs are made of "agate, amber, crystal" and other materials. There is a deep vertical eye in front of the skull, and two black jade beads are placed in the two eye sockets, which are jade transformed from coal essence. .
With the five ghosts' vision, no danger was found in the bronze box.
Seeing that Professor Sun and Fatty Wang were still arguing, Song Xing said, "You'll find out if there's a curse or not by opening the box."
With that said, he directly controlled the Nine Death Jingling Armor and opened the heavy bronze box lid.
Seeing that Song Xing had opened the box, the two people in the dispute also turned their attention to the bronze box, and then saw the gold skeleton that looked priceless.
Before Fatty Wang could show a look of surprise on his face, he suddenly felt a cold wind blowing behind him, and a cold hand rested on his shoulder. He suddenly felt a chill coming over him, making his hair stand on end and trembling all over his body.
Fatty Wang reacted quickly, stepped forward in an instant, shook off the hand on his shoulder, and turned around to look at the same time.
Then he saw a black mist appear behind him. In the black mist, stood a figure. Regardless of his body shape and appearance, he was exactly the same as him. The only difference was that Fatty Wang's face in the black mist was purple and no longer there. Not the slightest bit of life.
The right hand he extended forward showed that the hand that had been placed on his shoulder just now was none other than Fatty Wang from the black mist.
Others who had the same experience as him were Professor Sun, Hu Bayi, Shirley and Yang. The cold and eerie feeling, as if one of the three souls and seven souls was being pulled out of the body, frightened them to the extreme.
The dark wind blew by, and the strange black mist seemed to be staring at Song Xing again.
Song Xing slowly turned around and looked calmly at the strange existence that looked exactly like him that appeared in the black mist. The eerie and cold feeling suddenly filled the entire cave.
At the same time, a strange aura followed the void and seemed to want to invade Song Xing's body.
Song Xing snorted coldly, and a ray of white light suddenly appeared from between his eyebrows. In the white light, a shadow could be vaguely seen, sitting cross-legged in the Vajra Lotus posture, looming in the void.
As the phantom opened its eyes, countless thunderbolts seemed to flash through the empty room, converging into a faintly visible handwriting in the air.
"town!"
Under the white light, Song Xing's figure in the black mist twisted a few times and disappeared, followed by roars and roars, rushing out of the black mist.
A grimace covered with red hair flashed through the black mist and then disappeared.
As the grimaces disappeared, the four Fatty Wang men not far away seemed to wake up from the abyss, their bodies soaked in cold sweat.
"Is what you saw just now a ghost?" Fatty Wang's voice was trembling.
Although I have seen countless weird things in my fights over the years, and it is normal to encounter the rice dumpling monster, but this is the first time I have encountered such a weird ghost in my life.
"Fat man, don't talk nonsense. How can there be ghosts in this world?" Hu Bayi's voice was trembling. Although he refuted Fatty Wang, he himself couldn't figure out what kind of existence he just encountered.
Song Xing looked at the golden corpse in the bronze box in front of him. There were no ghosts or black fog, but a thoughtful look flashed in his eyes.
Although the black mist disappeared and the strange power in the void that was about to invade his body was suppressed by the 'Yin Shen' in his body, the Yin Shen followed the remaining power and still found its source.
It's the murals inside the stone letter and around the stone wall!
Song Xing took a step forward, and the bronze vines of the Jingling Mausoleum of Nine Deaths were inserted into the cracks of the stone. Then he gently exerted force, and the murals on the periphery of the stone wall fell off one after another, revealing a brick wall on the ground, and another layer hidden under the brick wall. mural.
The painted paintings exposed behind the masonry of the stone wall are carried by turtles and dragons. The skeleton is placed inside the cave on its back. There are many ethereal women on the outside. I don’t know whether they are humans or ghosts. They may be closer to Dunhuang murals. Female fairies, such as the flying apsaras, live in strange-shaped boxes, appearing and disappearing in the mist, half-hidden and half-revealed, full of mysterious and weird auras of evil.
Fatty Wang said with lingering fear: "Could it be that what we see of ourselves is transformed by these ghosts?"
Song Xing shook his head and said nothing. He just saw the red-haired ghost face in the black mist, but he couldn't tell what it was for the moment.
Unlike Fatty Wang and the others who saw ghosts for the first time, he could summon the five ghosts himself, so he knew that ghosts did exist in the world. However, there were too many mysteries in this world, and the existence of ancient gods was completely contrary to common sense. , he couldn't tell for a while whether the ghost hidden in the golden bones was real or fake.
As the Nine Death Jingling Armor destroyed more stone layers, more and more murals were exposed, as magnificent and magnificent as an epic scroll.
There are naked warriors standing on giant whales, long snakes, giant turtles, winged birds, and various monsters scattered around.
From the beginning of ancient times, two of the eight pillars supporting the sky and earth collapsed, water vapor and the atmosphere coexisted, and thick clouds were everywhere.
Thunder and lightning, violent winds, heavy rain and turbid currents formed a primitive ocean. At that time, Shennongjia was a vast and endless sea.
There are majestic mountains, deep trenches and canyons, vast submarine plains and some isolated oceanic volcanoes. Until the gate of the earth opened up and swallowed up the sea water, the mountains rose and became the Shennongjia with its winding peaks today.
At the time when the sea was changing, an island was trapped between the cracks in the earth, and there was an ancient man with a body decorated with strange horns who built a nest in the mountain and chased birds and beasts. These people may be the ancient Shennong family.
The caves on the island lead deeper, and there is a large ravine below, which is actually a bottomless valley.
Seeing this, Song Xing was very surprised. These murals show the formation process of Shennongjia in ancient times.
The question is, did the Chu State during the Warring States Period have such a clear understanding of the world?
Do you know the principles behind the formation of oceans, the reasons for the formation of mountains, and the motivation behind the devouring of ancient underground islands?
These murals do not look like the murals left over from the era of King Chu You.
On the contrary, the stone wall outside the mural seems to have been deliberately painted by King Chu You in order to cover up the real mural behind the stone wall.
Who was the first person to paint the mural at this moment?
Shennong?
(End of chapter)
