"It's not clear yet, but we have to brace ourselves. Since this old man has nothing to do with this mission, he is a temporary joiner. It's right for us to be cautious with him."
"Oh, right."
Song Siyuan took out the brocade box containing the health-preserving Gu pills from her backpack and handed it to Yue Guanchao: "You should eat this first. I always feel that you are the most suitable person to eat this health-preserving Gu."
Yue Guanchao looked at the elixir and quickly pushed it back: "No, this is what I asked Old Man Feng to ask for for you. What does it mean if I eat it? You should eat it quickly. We have already reached the altar. If it is true, If something strange happens, no one can guarantee our safety."
"Okay, let's each take a step back, how about one half?"
After saying that, Song Siyuan split the pills in the middle without waiting for his consent, and handed half of them to Yue Guanchao's hand. These pills can be taken separately, but the quantity should be smaller, in order for the health-preserving Gu to work. , it can only be nourished for a period of time with the nutrients of the body.
Yue Guanchao knew that Song Siyuan's decision could not be changed, so he simply took the other half and stuffed it into his mouth and swallowed it. After he took the pill, Song Siyuan swallowed the other half.
"Are you two leaving or not?"
Xu Xiake saw Yue and Song stopped behind him and shouted in front. The two swallowed the pills and gradually followed the team to the altar of the Niu Head Temple.
Yue Guanchao looked up. From a distance, the Niu-Head Temple was just an ordinary altar. Now, standing under the altar, everyone could see the towering majesty of the altar.
The altar is high, the jade steps are opened, the walls are painted with red mud, and the windows are decorated with golden eaves. The eight zigzag-shaped pavilions are stacked with verandahs, with high eaves and teeth. The houses on each floor are nested with carved railings, just like the complex and elegant stilt houses by the river. Exquisite, the main colors of all the pavilions are red, moon white, sapphire blue, burnt yellow, and stone black. The colorful curtains are knotted and the streamers are swaying. They represent the day, night, sky, earth, and ocean, which are what the ancient shamans understood. Simple world.
If you look closely at the pavilions, you will find that all the pavilions of the altar are tilted outwards, and the overall shape is like an phoenix flower blooming outwards. The horns are just like the stamens of a flower gathered upwards. There are corridors connecting the pavilions. It can be seen that the wings are flying. The columns and columns are intricately decorated and decorated like calyxes, holding up and confining the pavilion.
On the outer wall of the altar, it can be seen that each pavilion has a trapezoidal door opening, and each has its own stairs leading to the second floor platform. Although the entire pavilion is completely different from the Han Dynasty architecture, its shape is more gorgeous and exquisite than the Han Dynasty Minglou and Mingtang. It can be regarded as the most advanced sacrificial place in the Kingdom of Witch God.
Even though a thousand years have passed, this altar to the shaman god is still as bright as new. The precipitation of time has not made it old and decayed, but has added the weight of time, just like old sandalwood. The older it gets, the more lustrous and charming it becomes. Woody and fragrant.
"What does it smell like?"
When Yue Erpao approached the pavilion, he could clearly feel the lingering smell. It was fresh and not greasy in his nose, which was very strange.
Wu Mifeng smelled the rich woody fragrance here and explained: "This is the old woody fragrance of the altar. When the altar was first built, in order to make the wood strong for thousands of years, the survivors of the Witch God cut down many tall osmanthus trees in the canyon and prepared it with herbs and flowers. The medicinal liquid is soaked and poured day and night, and after it dries, it can remain incorruptible for thousands of years. It is said that the longer the time is, the richer the aroma will be."
After that, several people walked into the doorway, walked up the stairs to the second-floor tower, and after exiting the pavilion, the square among the phoenix flowers came into view.
The area of this square is slightly smaller than the base, but it is not a problem to accommodate four or five mansions. The green brick paving is smooth and solid, and there are five-meter-wide flower beds along the edges, most of which are not The sun-loving moss shrubs are lush and green.
There are many things placed in the altar, most of which are bronze trees, strange stone statues, kneeling bronze statues, standing bronze statues, and straw terracotta skin figures.
Let’s talk about the bronze tree first.
These bronze trees were very similar to the ones they saw at the Sushen Altar, with only slight differences!
The bronze ancient tree in the Sushen Altar is a real tree. The bronze tree in the Witch God Altar is just a reference to the shape of the tree. In fact, there is still a distance from the real tree, and it is not particularly portrait.
If you look carefully, you will see that the bronze tree is slightly taller than a human being, wide at both ends and narrow in the middle, with rough flower and grass patterns on the surface. The branches are as thick as wrists, extending outward like curved horns. The nine layers of trunks are constantly superimposed, forming a dense crown.
There are no leaves on the branches. At regular intervals, there must be hung a golden furnace tripod, an animal whip, an animal control whistle, a drum for inviting gods, a pestle for subduing demons, a waist bell, a gold comb mirror, a staff for chasing gods, a sword for inviting immortals, and a sparrow. Silk feathers, jade banners for attracting immortals, Sinan compass, and three-legged golden crow.
Yue Guanchao had seen most of all kinds of gold artifacts. He didn't find it strange. What made him feel strange was the golden crow mask at the tail of each branch.
These masks are similar to the masks of the Sushen Altar, but completely different. The masks are trapezoidal with a wide top and a narrow bottom. The eyes are like triangles, the bridge of the nose is high, the mouth is wide, the ears are sharp, and the horns are on the forehead. The face is like a knife or an axe, with many tough lines. .
Especially the pair of hollowed-out eyes are particularly eerie in the dark environment. When the flashlight is turned on, it neither reflects light nor produces any light. The darkness is so deep that it makes people feel sad and happy. It makes people feel cold when they look at it. Countless sacred trees are spread all over the flower bed, like thousands of trees. A strange face stared at them.
In addition to the bronze trees, there are more stone statues in the flower bed.
These stone statues are about one person tall. Their bodies are not realistic, just oval-shaped pillars. Their heads are carved to look round and smooth, and their facial features are deliberately deformed. Just like the masks they saw, it can be seen that the facial features carved with knives and axes have been stretched and deformed, which is extremely... Tough and cold.
These stone statues have no arms or legs. They are covered with thick paint and carved with embossed patterns, as if they have been cut into human sticks. They stand blankly in the grass. The outline of the face is specially carved, and then triangles are drawn. The eyes, raised eyebrows, straight nose, wind-catching ears, slightly curved horns, and lips as wide as Buddha's are as if the stone statue is wearing a thick mask, and its eyes are dark and missing.
After watching it for a while, I felt my spine trembling as ants crawled from head to tail.
Among these bronze sacred trees and strange stone statues, there are many bronze statues that are half a person tall. These bronze statues are scattered in a random arrangement. They either kneel and sit in front of them with their hands tied behind their backs, or stand like pine trees with swords and guns tilted at an angle. Or holding a sun wheel, a silk book, a picture scroll, or a lamp. Hundreds of stone statues have different postures and have the same weird face with deformed facial features.
Finally, under the bronze tree, there must be a man made of grass terracotta and skin. He was tied up under the canopy of the tree and kept swaying like a fool as the breeze blew.
If you look closely, you will see that this grass figurine has a skeleton inside to support the body, and a leather covering the skeleton outside. The facial features are sketched and realistic, and the red and green wide-sleeved clothes are gently fluttering.
Some people died, but not completely...
