After the three of us left the stone house, we walked along the path for about ten minutes before exiting the ancient ruins. Following that, Hua Muling took me around a few more turns.
The light in this place is not very good, but she can still avoid roadside obstacles very skillfully. It seems that she and Xiong Ming have been here more than once or twice during the time when I was poisoned and injured.
After a short time, Hua Muling brought me to the entrance of a cave. She stretched out her hand to push aside the weeds blocking the way, and in an instant, a cold and musty wind floated out from inside.
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I quickly covered my mouth and nose with my hands and murmured: "This place is hidden so deep, it's a shame you two were able to find it."
When Xiong Ming heard what I said, he slapped me hard from behind and said, "That's not to save your kid's life!"
"Okay! This is not the time to talk about this..." Hua Muling interrupted us, and then she pointed at the dark hole and said, "I mentioned it to you before... that The mural that is exactly the same as the scene you saw in your dream is right here. Xiong Ming and I have been here four or five times before, but we didn't find any useful clues... There are three murals in there, but at critical moments, the murals There’s always a part missing…”
"Grandma's...!" Xiong Ming scolded from the side: "I always feel that someone has been here before us and then destroyed the mural above, just to prevent us from seeing the content inside."
I looked at Xiong Ming and asked, "How are you sure someone else was here before us?"
Xiong Ming grinned and said: "I'm talking about Hu Tian... don't think that your Grandpa Xiong and I are a mountain cannon. Let me tell you... Regarding the matter of reverse fighting, your Grandpa Xiong and I can be considered an expert. Those I've seen the scraped off walls, and the edges are clearly visible. It looks like it was cut off with sharp tools! I thought I could find some clues about the Fountain of Youth when I got here, but who could have imagined it? , it’s another attempt to fetch water from a bamboo basket but in vain.”
"That's not necessarily the case!" I said, stretching out my hand to push away the weeds in front of me, looking at the hole in front of me, then looking at Hua Muling and Xiong Ming beside me, and said, "Since Hua Muling said this The content on the mural is exactly the same as in my previous dream. Perhaps, I can fill in the missing parts with my memory."
When Xiong Ming heard what I said, he couldn't help but slap his thigh hard, but because of the excessive force, he grinned in pain, "Hahaha! Don't tell me... it's really possible!"
After saying this, Xiong Ming didn't wait for my answer, so he urged: "Okay, Hu Tian! Now that we have a way to find clues, let's not be like an old lady..."
Before he finished speaking, he pushed me towards the dark cave.
The cave is not big and is naturally formed. The overall width from left to right is only about one and a half people at most, and the height is only one and a half meters. Up and down, I had to bend very low to enter.
The three of us hunched over and walked inside for about twenty or thirty meters. The entire passage suddenly became very wide. It was originally only wide for one and a half people, but now it became enough to accommodate two cars moving forward at the same time. Not only In this way, the height also became nearly two to four to five meters at this time.
After reaching this stage, Xiong Ming seemed to be prepared. He took out a lighter from his pocket and lit up several oil lamps originally hung on the wall.
With the light of the fire, everything inside can be seen clearly in an instant.
The place where the three of us are at this time is a straight corridor, with six simple humanoid statues standing on both sides of the corridor.
The reason why it is said to be simple in shape is because these six statues can only be vaguely seen as human beings. As for some details on the body, they don't even have eyes and mouths. The living shills are just Chinese versions of "Easter statues" .
But the strange thing is that compared with these six seemingly rough statues, everything around the corridor appears to be very delicate, and can even be described as exquisite.
The first is the ceiling of this corridor, which is painted with sacrifices to the twelve immortals.
This picture belongs to a legend in the Western Regions. It roughly means that after a person dies, six messengers of the gods transform into eagles and take the six parts of the person's body to the heavenly palace and place them on another body. into the luminous body, thus reaching the realm of eternal life.
The content of this painting is not complicated, but both the painting craftsmanship and the materials used are very exquisite. Even after thousands of years, it is still lifelike. Even under the light of the fire, the six flying immortals transformed into Eagles, their feathers seem to be flapping in the wind.
In addition, there is also a painting on the ground corresponding to the ceiling, but what is depicted here is not the world of gods, but hell.
I saw six hungry ghosts crawling out of the hell, dragging the six people next to the person who had ascended into the hell respectively, and suffering from different levels of torture. Destroy.
"This is... the sixth reincarnation substitute!" I murmured while looking at the two murals in front of me: "It seems like this place should be a tomb!"
Hearing me muttering in a low voice, Xiong Ming next to me touched me with his shoulder and said, "Hu Tian, what are you talking about here?"
I pointed at the murals on the ceiling and the floor and said, "This is the reincarnation of the substitute in Buddhism...also called the sixth reincarnation substitute."
Hua Muling seemed to be very interested in what I said, and asked from the side: "What does this so-called six-life reincarnation substitute mean?"
I thought about it and then said: "I won't explain it to you in detail... but the general meaning is that in order to be able to ascend to immortality and become a Buddha, the owner here found the corpses of six people to serve as his six previous lives. , and then let the people in these six lives bear the karma he had committed before on his behalf, and suffer the suffering of those six lives... while he himself directly ascended to become a Buddha."
"I'll go..." After Xiong Ming heard what I said, he couldn't help but cursed: "The guy in this painting thinks too well! How can there be such a good thing in the world? He will be promoted without any sin at all. To become a Buddha, let others suffer all the suffering... Hey, this old boy thinks too well!"
"But to be honest..." I didn't answer Xiong Ming's words, but frowned and said to myself, "I always think this place is weird!"
