However, Qi Xuansu immediately denied this speculation. Judging from the time, at the end of Paititi, the Holy Court had not invaded the southern continent in a large scale. At that time, it was still a period when the Goddess Association was active, acting as a pathfinder for the Holy Court under the banner of friendly exchanges. Pioneer, so as a member of the Goddess Society, Lopez was able to form a deep friendship with the last emperor of Paititi.
Xidaomen's time will be even later. Xidaomen actually followed the footsteps of the Holy Court to the New World. It was as if the Holy Court was opening the way in front, and the West Gate came along the opened road. After discovering the New World, Xidaomen didn't dare to make any move, he just stayed nearby. Then there was a big fight within the Holy Court due to the uneven distribution of the spoils, and the Steam Gospel was born.
Seeing a rare opportunity, Xidaomen next to them raised the banner of justice for heaven and united with the local forces in the New World to seize chestnuts from the fire. The Holy Court would definitely not be happy, so they wanted to beat Xidaomen. When Xidaomen saw that he was no match, he quickly contacted his brothers in the east, that is, East, South, North, and Central. After all, brothers are jealous of each other and resist their insults outside.
Several brothers of the family discussed and made a plan. First, our brothers cannot be bullied by outsiders. This is a good opportunity to take back Xidaomen; second, the Holy Court has been too arrogant recently, so we need to suppress his arrogance; third, the Holy Court has to swallow up such a large territory. Once he is digested, the balance of forces between the two sides will be broken. Even if it cannot prevent the Holy Court from engulfing the northern continent, it must at least preserve the southern continent; fourth, with the support of local forces, the division will be famous.
The brothers all thought they could do it, so they took action to help Xidaomen stabilize the situation.
In this way, the Daomen made a lot of money and fully restored the connection between the Daomen and the West Daomen, allowing the Daomen to indirectly obtain the Southern Continent. The Holy Court lost a bit miserably, losing the Southern Continent. Although it retained the Northern Continent, Steam Gospel became a semi-independent vassal town.
After coming and going, the Holy Court became less arrogant. On the contrary, the border between East Posuo Continent and West Posuo Continent calmed down a lot.
Although Daomen got an advantage, it was still far away from defeating the Holy Court. In addition, Xidaomen also did not return to the embrace of Daomen, so there was no pursuit of victory. The two sides began to maintain the status quo, only making small moves. The South that just ended not long ago The mainland war has become the largest action taken by both sides.
Calculated this way, the time doesn't match up.
Because there is an important anchor here, and that is Andres Lopez, a missionary of the Society of Goddess.
This person was a friend of the last emperor of Paititi. He reported the matter to the Holy Court only after the last emperor of Paititi disappeared with Paititi with the legendary artifact. A copy of this report was also in the hands of Wang Jiaohe and was written during the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Wei Dynasty.
The ten years of Shenzong were basically ten years of fighting for the world. At this time, Xidaomen had not left the Central Plains and was participating in the fight for the world. At that time, the outcome was uncertain, and it was impossible for Xidaomen to send people to the Southern Continent early.
Qi Xuansu asked: "Is it an insect man?"
Wuniang said: "The earliest insect people appeared in the late Jin Dynasty, and their existence was not discovered until Daomen entered Nanyang. In the intervening hundreds of years, there is no record of how the insect people developed, so even if the insect people It makes sense that we arrived at the Southern Continent early but didn’t know about it.”
Qi Xuansu agreed: "Although the Insect People were discovered in Nanyang, they have very obvious Central Plains appearance. They are not like Nanyang people, but more like people who migrated from the Central Plains. The reason why they were able to deceive Daomen in the first place and let Daomen They mistakenly thought they were branches of the Taoist sect. In addition to their skills, the similarity in appearance was also a major reason. Now it seems that when the remaining insect people fled from Nanyang to the Southern Continent, they did not choose a route in a panic, but were well prepared, because the Southern Continent is There is a branch of the insect people nearby, and they come to seek refuge with their relatives."
Wu Niang continued: "These insect people from the Southern Continent had an encounter with the ancient gods many years ago, and even became priests of the ancient gods. This is probably just following the local customs. The insect people in Nanyang are more like Taoist priests because they are close to the Taoist gate. Because the insect people on the mainland were close to the ancient gods, they became witches. No wonder Ixichel believed in them and knew them very well. They turned out to be old friends."
Qi Xuansu said: "Those human figurines can also be explained as they were left by the ancient insect people during the Paititi period."
Wu Niang reached out and touched the heart of the female corpse. Her palm broke open the flesh that had not yet rotted, and went deep inside. Sure enough, she took out a cocoon, but this time
The cocoon has shriveled up, and the insect inside has obviously died along with the host.
"The methods of the West Dao Sect are not as good as those of the Dao Sect. They did not clean up the Insects cleanly and left many remnants of the Insects, such as the Lanyun Sect." Wu Niang said, "Judging from the altar, these Insects are loyal to Itsam. Na, let’s not care about whether these insect people are playing double-dealing, just think that they are believers of Itsumna. After Itsumna’s death, they chose to trace Ixichel and oppose Kukulkan. Of course, it makes sense logically.”
Qi Xuansu said: "Insect people can be loyal at all? I don't think so. The reason why they are hostile to Kukulkan is not because they are loyal to Itsumna. There must be a deeper reason, maybe Ixiche You made promises to them, such as providing them with divine power, as evidenced by those human-headed trees."
Wu Niang agreed with Qi Xuansu: "Yes, the character of the insect people is destined to not be loyal to anyone. When Itsumna was alive, maybe they would be afraid of the power of this god and pretend to be loyal. In After Itsumna dies, they will never continue to fulfill their filial piety for Itsumna, and what happened to the Zhao orphans will not happen to the Insect Man."
Qi Xuansu asked: "Wu Niang, how did this insect priest die?"
Wu Niang hesitated for a moment: "It doesn't look like suicide, there are no obvious injuries, and the body is not rotten. It can't be a case of obsession."
Qi Xuansu said: "This possibility cannot be ruled out. The insect people's skills have always been greedy for success. They call it the 'Elixir Formation Period'. If you are not careful, your elixir will be destroyed and people will die. It is normal for you to go crazy." If you follow the right path, have you ever heard of someone who died because of cultivating the golden elixir path? Taoism cultivates immortality, and some magical powers are incidental to immortality. If you do not cultivate immortality, life is nothing more than sitting at the end of your life. What is the difficulty of the immortal path? They looked like they wanted to die. "
Wu Niang scanned the temple again with her spiritual thoughts, but found nothing else, and said: "Let's not talk about this anymore, let's continue looking for Paititi."
Qi Xuansu had no objection, and the two of them left the temple and continued along the ancient road.
Along the way, there are still some building ruins, which should be supporting buildings of the temple, such as the residence of clergy, etc. However, the quality of these buildings is obviously not comparable to that of the temple serving the gods, and they have all collapsed.
It can be seen that this may be a temple area, and Qi Xuansu and Wu Niang have entered the city limits of Paititi.
After all, these southern continent city-states do not build city walls on a large scale like the Central Plains, which makes sense.
Qi Xuansu and Wu Niang gradually left the temple area, and there were more and more ruins of the building. In a prosperous city, every inch of land must be at a premium. Only palaces, temples, noble residences and other areas can leave large open spaces and appear empty. Once in downtown and civilian areas, people must be next to each other and houses are next to houses. .
Take Qi Xuansu for example. When he lived in Haichanfang, there were several neighbors in one alley, and one street was divided into many alleys. After arriving at Taishangfang, there were no alleys, only streets. There were only three or two households on one street, and each house had a big garden.
There were originally few buildings in the temple area and there were many open spaces, which gave the rain forest the opportunity to grow wildly. Of course, there were only a few buildings seen, but it was different now. The rain forest could not completely swallow up these closely connected and chaotic buildings.
Once here, the road becomes clear with reference to the various architectural remains on both sides.
There is no doubt that the two of them have entered Paititi.
Although Paititi is not as spectacular as imagined, it is reasonable. After all, it is an abandoned city swallowed up by the rain forest. It is almost integrated with the rain forest. If it is very spectacular, then Qi Xuansu can take a look at it from above. Saw it.
Qi Xuansu roughly analyzed the situation. According to Andres' records and some legends, it was said that the last emperor of Paititi disappeared with the artifact and Paititi. From this, it can be seen that although the ancient gods of the northern continent It had penetrated into the Southern Continent at this time, but it was still the royal family that dominated Paititi, not the ancient gods. Therefore, the road to Paititi Cave will not be in the temple area, but will most likely be in the palace that symbolizes the royal family.
Qi Xuansu communicated this speculation with Wuniang.
They also agreed with Qi Xuansu's idea, and the two decided to go to the palace area.
The palace is not difficult to find. It is usually located in the center of the city. It is no exception in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad.
However, along the way, the two of them always felt very strange. This place seemed to be an empty city. There were no traces of damage from the war, and no human figures or corpses were seen. It did not look like a scene after a massacre, but it seemed that the people here There has been a mass evacuation.
Qi Xuansu was a little confused: "Paititi has perished, but there are no traces of the war. Wasn't Paititi destroyed at the hands of other city-states?"
Wuniang is still knowledgeable: "This is your typical Central Plains thinking. You always think that a city must be destroyed by foreign enemies, because the Central Plains has maintained a unified court for most of the time since Zulong, which can integrate resources and concentrate We have the strength to do big things, and we can provide timely rescue once disaster occurs. But these city-states in the southern continent are different. The rainforests are dense, travel is inconvenient, and the environment is not comparable to that of the Central Plains. They are very fragile. Once a disaster, such as an epidemic, occurs, it is easy to The entire city perished immediately."
Qi Xuansu suddenly said: "No wonder later people didn't know the location of Paititi. If Paititi was destroyed in the war, then the city-state that destroyed Paititi should have relevant records. But if Paititi was destroyed in It makes sense that some kind of epidemic is unknown to outsiders.”
Wuniang said: "In the cave we entered, apart from some people who died from the massacre, most of them may have died from the epidemic. In the early stages of the epidemic, there were fewer deaths, and Paititi still had the power to kill them. The corpse of the deceased was placed in the tomb of the temple. Later, the plague spread and there were too many dead, so the living began to flee. There may be many dead bodies like the priestess left in the ruins of the building."
Qi Xuansu nodded in agreement.
There are similar traditions in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad. In the East, Taoist temples and temples are chosen for the temporary resting place, while in the West, people are simply buried in churches. It seems that the temple in Paititi is no exception.
