There are no written records on the murals, so Song Xing and others could not guess whether the one with horns was Shennong.
After walking a few steps forward, I found another mural depicting a strange creature.
It is said to be a creature because the pattern on the mural has six legs and four wings, but its body is like a yellow cloth bag, as red as a red fire, with no ears, eyes, mouth, or nose, and no five senses or seven orifices.
Viewed from the side, the creature on the mural looks a bit like a worm, with no internal organs and only one intestine.
Fatty Wang came closer to the mural and said, "What the hell is this? Do animals from ancient times look so weird?"
Song Xing was familiar with books on ghosts and strange things. When he saw this, he replied: "This thing is shaped like a bag, without any five senses or seven orifices. It is recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas that it is called "Dijiang" and that its belly is filled with "nothing". "There is no time and space. "Youyang Zazu" records that Emperor Jiang was born from Pangu's belly, and he carved out chaos to form the heaven and earth, so it is also called chaos."
Hu Bayi was a little confused, "Why do the mythical beasts in the Classic of Mountains and Seas appear in the murals of snake worshipers?"
Song Xing said: "Perhaps these murals of Shennong and Dijiang are actually telling the history that was lost in ancient times."
When he once again set his sights on the Imperial River in the mural, for some unknown reason, there was a faint warning in his heart, as if some unknown crisis was approaching.
Seeing Professor Sun and his party preparing to follow the mural again, Song Xing stopped them: "Wait a minute, don't move yet."
Professor Sun turned around in confusion: "What's wrong?"
Song Xing looked forward. In front of the grotto, there was a stone chamber. From Song Xing's perspective, he had a clear view of the stone chamber. The passage behind the wall seemed to have come to an end. On both sides of the stone walls were mysterious symbols like traces of insects, fish and birds. , if you look closely, it looks like fossils imprinted on the stone wall by marine life after the seabed dried up.
Fatty Wang approached carefully and asked in a low voice: "Master Song, did you find anything?"
He could also see the scene in the stone room, but he didn't see anything strange, but since it could arouse Song Xing's alert, it must not be a simple monster.
"There's something wrong," Song Xing turned to look at Shirley Yang, "Look at the walls in front of you. Are they fossils of marine life?"
Shirley Yang followed Song Xing's gaze, made a detailed analysis, and nodded affirmatively: "The fossils of brachiopods and the fossils of phyllopods are species that only existed in the Devonian era. These thin-shelled pylonites are an important symbol of the evolution of fish into terrestrial creatures during the Devonian era."
After finishing speaking, Shirley Yang turned her head and looked at Song Xing, wondering why he was so wary of this stone room.
Song Xing answered her doubts: "I felt the power of nothingness inside."
Because he had practiced the Black Sky Book, in addition to the power of true energy, there was also a mysterious calamity force in his body. Just when he was about to enter the stone chamber, the calamity power hidden in the hidden veins in his body suddenly rioted, causing Song Xing to He sensed that there was a terrifying substance lurking in the stone room that could swallow up time and space.
"The power of nothingness?" Song Xing's words puzzled several others.
Song Xing explained: "The "Book of Mountains and Seas·Western Mountains" records that because Dijiang does not have seven orifices, his body becomes chaotic. Time and space have no meaning in it. Any existence that enters his body will be filled with matter that is filled with chaos. Swallowed, it will always stay in the "nothing" without time and space."
This time Hu Bayi and others understood what Song Xing meant, and looked at the stone chamber with horrified faces, "Master Song, are you saying that there is a Dijiang hidden in the stone chamber?"
Song Xing said coldly: "No, this stone chamber is just an imperial river."
Fatty Wang smacked his lips: "But isn't Dijiang a mythical creature?"
Song Xing looked at the stone chamber cautiously and said: "Myths are also processed by later generations based on some kind of existential art. Maybe Dijiang is also some kind of creature left over from the Devonian era, which devoured some kind of material in the underground chaos and then transformed." It’s done.”
He reached out and took out a grenade from Fatty Wang's backpack, "Yes or no, you will know after you try it."
After saying that, he threw the grenade straight into the nearby stone chamber.
Fatty Wang was just about to warn that detonating a grenade here might cause a landslide, when the grenade drew an arc and sank into the stone chamber.
Then, in his surprised eyes, the grenade seemed to be swallowed by a black hole, landed in the center of the stone chamber, and then exploded.
The air in the center of the stone chamber suddenly bulged into a big bag, and then it calmed down as before. No sound or vibration came from it, and not even the light of fire came out. It was as if the scene where the grenade was thrown just now was everyone's hallucination.
A smile appeared on Song Xing's lips: "It seems that I guessed it right. We were lucky enough to see a living Dijiang, or a living Devonian relic."
Fatty Wang felt his hands and feet were a little weak: "Mr. Song, don't be ridiculous, no matter if it is the Emperor River or some Devonian relic, this thing can't even be blown up by a grenade, I think we should just ignore it."
Song Xing smiled and shook his head: "You should be lucky. This Devonian relic was relatively small in size during the Devonian Period. It would be dangerous if we encountered a creature that was hundreds of meters long and accidentally entered it."
As for the Devonian relic in front of him, in Song Xing's opinion, it was probably only tens of meters in size. As long as he did not actively enter its belly, there should be no danger.
If he had really accidentally entered the stone chamber just now, he would have really experienced the horror of time going from existence to nothingness until he was completely dematerialized.
As if disturbed by the sound of the grenade exploding, the Devonian relics that originally looked like dead objects suddenly began to squirm.
The stone wall seemed to have come alive, revealing a huge lump that looked like a big meat cabinet. It had a mouth but no head, face, limbs, and slowly squirmed in the direction of Song Xing and the others.
"Master Song, this monster is coming." Hu Bayi's face was solemn.
Song Xing seemed very calm, "Don't worry, as long as it doesn't enter his body, there is no danger if you don't touch it."
The next second, the Nine Death Jingling Armor broke out of the ground, branching out into hundreds of bronze vines, sealing this huge Devonian relic firmly between the airtight bronze vines.
Although the chaotic matter inside the Devonian relic can swallow time, in the final analysis, it is just its unconscious instinct. As a tower-section stone creature from the Devonian era, it did not have basic consciousness. The pursuit just now was entirely out of fear. An instinctive reaction to an external grenade explosion.
When the sealed bronze space formed by the Nine Death Jingling Armor blocked all information from the outside world, this Devonian relic fell into silence again.
"Master Song, is this good?" Fatty Wang was a little unbelievable.
Song Xing said: "This is like a snail. It will react when it is stimulated. When it feels safe from the outside world, it will naturally return to its shell and stop moving."
He also felt frightened when he thought about how he almost entered the body of this Devonian relic.
After the Devonian relics were sealed within the vines of the Nine Death Jingling Armor, the passage originally blocked by it became visible again.
Not long after walking, I was surprised to see a ruins at the end of the underground passage. Above the ruins, stood a huge bronze sphere!
(End of chapter)
