People are in the comprehensive tomb, unloading the mountain and stealing the chief

Chapter 428 Human Skin Scroll
What appeared in front of everyone's eyes were two huge stone gates that were concealed. On the left and right sides of the stone gate, there was a doorless stone chamber. Two gemstones, one blue and one red, were inlaid on the upper edge of the stone chamber door opening.

When I walked over and looked inside, I found that the two stone chambers were much wider than they looked from the outside. Not only were they very deep, but the dome was also high. With the help of the burning butter lamps in the corner, you can clearly see the specific situation inside.

The most eye-catching thing in these two stone chambers is the ghost head statue in the depths. This ghost head statue is not only ugly and ferocious, but also made of special materials. It looks the same as the two gemstones on the outer edge of the door opening.

"This should be the 'Ice Palace' and the 'Fire Palace'." Shirley Yang dug out the rubbings again, pointing to one of the dots on the residual map.

Because the map is incomplete, there is no sign corresponding to the stone gate in front of it, but there are signs representing the two stone chambers.

"What do these ice and fire mean?" Hu Bayi stared at the two statues of ghost heads and asked.

He felt that the mystery here might lie in the name.

"It should be referring to this." Chen Ziyan turned on the flashlight at some point, and said according to the dome above his head.

Others followed the light of the flashlight and saw that there were many patterns of seven-star ladybugs carved on the dome of the stone chamber.

"Dapu ghost!" Hu Bayi's doubts disappeared immediately, and he said in a deep voice.

He didn't even need to guess, he knew that the patterns of the seven-star ladybugs above referred to the Dapu ghost insects he had encountered before.

"'Ice Palace' and 'Fire Palace' should refer to this. As far as I know, Dapu ghost worms have two completely different forms." Chen Ziyan continued.

Because they didn't meet Naiqiong Shenbing on the road ahead, others didn't know that Dapu ghost worm had another form at the moment, so he was the only one to reveal the answer.

The reason why they found the pattern of Dapu ghost insects first is also to attract others.

"Another form of Dapu ghost worm?" Hu Bayi heard the words and looked over.

"The Dapu ghost worm has two forms. One is the infinite karma we have encountered before, and the other is the Naiqiong ice that can freeze everything." Chen Ziyan said.

He said this not to show off his knowledge, but also to remind others.

No matter what form the Dapu ghost worm is in, it is not easy to get along with, and you must be careful and vigilant.

Now it seems that it is close to the hinterland of Eluohai City, and it is not ruled out that there will be Dapu ghost worms entrenched.

Seeing that the others listened to his words, Chen Ziyan didn't say anything more, and walked towards the front door first.

Because the two stone gates were concealed, and the gap in the middle was just enough for them to pass through, Chen Ziyan and the others didn't need to touch the two stone gates.

But the moment he walked in front of the stone gate, Chen Ziyan suddenly felt a piercing chill, which spread from the soles of his feet to his whole body.

"Hiss—" Wang Kaixuan followed behind Chen Ziyan, who was also agitated by the sudden chill at the moment, and couldn't help but said, "This place is probably weird, it's as cold as his grandma's."

The black glasses are well-informed, and after walking up to feel it, he warned everyone: "Be careful on the road ahead, there is too much evil in it, it may not be as simple as being weird."

After finishing speaking, he nodded towards Chen Ziyan, indicating that he could continue walking.

It's one thing to be evil, but it doesn't mean you need to stay away from it.

Chen Ziyan understood what he meant, shook his neck slightly, and walked towards the inside of the stone gate.

In fact, this evil energy had no effect on him, because as soon as the chill spread throughout his body, a warm current spontaneously appeared inside his body, dispelling all the coldness that invaded his body.

Behind the stone gate is a temple full of jewels, but the strange thing is that although there are many lights in the temple, it still gives people a dark feeling, and they can't even see the situation a little further away.

The others also followed in at this time. Seeing Chen Ziyan standing there staring at the dim temple in front of him in meditation, they didn't rashly go too deep. They all stood near the stone gate and looked at the temple.

"Master Chen, what did you find?" Hu Bayi approached Chen Ziyan and asked in a low voice.

"There's a problem with the light here, don't you think it's too dark?" Chen Ziyan told him what he found.

"Too dark?" Hu Ba looked at the Temple of Eyes and realized this. After thinking for a while, he shone the flashlight into the temple, but the beam of the flashlight seemed to be suppressed by some kind, and the range was only Only a few meters remain.

"What's going on here? Could it be the light-absorbing paint?" Seeing the result, Hu Bayi was a little confused as to what was going on.

"Not like." Chen Ziyan shook his head lightly.

The light-absorbing paint didn't work as well, and from the side walls, it didn't look like it was painted.

After finishing speaking, Chen Ziyan seemed to have thought of something, and when he turned his palm over, Muchen Bead appeared in his palm.

At this moment, the muchen bead looks like an irregularly shaped jade ball. Although the outer jade material has been cut and peeled by a skilled craftsman, the muchen bead inside is afraid of being damaged, so the cutting and peeling is not so serious. Clean, hard to restore view.

The others put part of their attention on Chen Ziyan's side. Seeing him suddenly take out the Muchen Bead, they immediately looked over.

Chen Ziyan just wanted to explain to everyone his thoughts on doing this, but before he could say anything, he saw that after being taken out, the jade structure remaining on the surface of Muchen Bead began to slowly dissolve and disappear. , revealing the whole picture of the phoenix gall.

It's as if there is some mysterious substance here that can decompose this layer of jade structure.

And when the layer of residue outside Muchen Bead completely disappeared, the dim lights in the temple surged suddenly, illuminating the whole temple brightly.

It was as if this much dust bead was the key to unlock this place.

Seeing such a change, Chen Ziyan took back what he was going to say. The facts had already given him the answer. Although it was a bit different from what he imagined, there was no need to waste any more words.

"This is the true face of Muchen Bead!" Wang Kaixuan looked at Muchen Bead in amazement.

This time, Muchen Bead completely changed its appearance, suddenly it looked like a condensed flame, no wonder there was the name Phoenix Gallbladder.

"Let's go and see what's in this temple first." Chen Ziyan saw that other people also came over, and immediately put away Muchen Bead again.

It's not that he is reluctant to let them see it, but it's too precious now, and it's related to the curse of several people in the team. There can't be any mistakes, so it's safer to put it back in the portable space after it has played its due role.

What Chen Ziyan didn't know was that the moment Muchen Bead appeared just now, not only the tiankeng they were in, but the whole underground world stopped at that moment.

If he continues to carry Muchen Bead like this, then there will be underground creatures coming towards them one after another.

At this moment, the lights of the temple were brightly lit, and Chen Ziyan and the others could finally see the specific situation of the entire temple. The first thing they saw were the human skin scrolls that covered almost all the walls, roughly estimated to be at least hundreds of them.

This made everyone slightly taken aback. The murals they had seen before were either carved on the wall or on special bricks. It was the first time that this kind of mural was painted on human skin in a special way. see you for the first time.

Speaking of it, this is the only picture scroll that Chen Ziyan and the others have seen come from the Demon Kingdom itself.

There are pictures and words on these human skin scrolls. The pictures are okay, as long as you know how to read the murals, you can do it, but those ancient symbols and characters, even Shirley Yang, who has studied the most in this area, can only barely understand a part of them. That's all.

Fortunately, there are corresponding pictures, and some content can be guessed by mutual reflection.

After looking carefully for a while, Shirley Yang frowned: "It does record some important events in the Demon Kingdom, but there is a huge discrepancy with the records in the long poem handed down by the King of the World's Enemy Orbs. .”

She has mastered a lot of information about the snowy land, and naturally there will be no shortage of poems handed down by the poets who were given by heaven, so she also knows some things about the Demon Kingdom.

"This is normal. History is often written by the victors." Chen Ziyan was not surprised.

Ever since he got different opinions from the blue-robed Tibetans, he already knew that the Demon Kingdom was not as extreme as he originally knew.

He does not deny that the Demonic Kingdom is the birthplace of slaying, but this does not mean that mastering shaoshu is absolute evil. In fact, throughout history, the real kind of extremely pure evil is extremely rare, and more often Whether it is evil or not is just a matter of position.

My hero is my enemy, this is the reason.

Shirley Yang nodded slightly when she heard the words, this principle is applicable in ancient and modern times, she can understand it.

In fact, she had already had such an idea as she studied the Xueyu culture in depth, but she hadn't been able to confirm it.

After studying for a while, Shirley Yang told everyone about her findings.

From these human skin scrolls, we can know that the main city of the Demon Kingdom is indeed Eluohai City, and just like the blue-robed Tibetans said, at its peak, the Demon Kingdom's rule covered the entire Kunlun area.

The Demon Kingdom is a country different from other countries. There is no king in their political system. The ruler of the entire country is the ghost mother of all dynasties. All major decisions are based on divination.

"Divination is used for all decisions? Why does this sound so unreliable?" Hearing this, Wang Kaixuan couldn't help complaining.

Although he, Mr. Wang, didn't read much, he also knew that he couldn't do this.

"Xue Li, is there any description about the ghost mother?" Chen Ziyan didn't come to a conclusion so early, but asked such a question.

He felt that there might be a problem here. He knew about the selection ceremony of the Ghost Mother behind the Demon Kingdom, so he didn't believe that those nobles who had the power would really feel at ease to hand over the power to the Ghost Mother.

Thinking of the cruel and bloody ritual, he felt that it would be a lie if the ghost mothers of all ages did not hate those in power.

If it were him, he would not rest assured that the ghost mother had the power of life and death.

After all, the latter ghost mothers are different from the first generation of ghost mothers, they are the existences who have truly mastered extraordinary power.

As early as hearing the blue-robed Tibetans say that the ability of the first generation of ghost mothers was to plunder snake gods and that they died accidentally, Chen Ziyan had doubts about the abilities of the subsequent ghost mothers.

He felt that those ghost mothers behind the Demon Kingdom were probably puppets pushed out.

"Yes." Shirley Yang nodded, and then said: "It says that every generation of ghost mothers are reincarnated in this world, so they never show their true colors to others, and always cover their faces, because their eyes can match the 'Buddha eyes'. ', but because of accidents in reincarnation, not every generation of ghost mothers has this ability. The more common ability of ghost mothers is the ability to control a kind of giant eye called "Jingjian Aghan". snake."

really!

Hearing this, Chen Ziyan was finally sure that his thoughts were not wrong.

The ghost mothers of the following dynasties are actually puppets pushed out. This kind of thing is not uncommon in ancient times, especially this kind of alternative regime.

"By the way, the snake god was also mentioned above, and it was said that the snake god was revered as the highest god, and the first ghost mother was the descendant of the snake god. Because of this, the ghost mother was able to master the magic eye and the pure seeing Ah Han. That comes from the power of the snake god." Shirley Yang added with a strange expression.

The latter part is different from what they know, or more precisely, it is different from what the blue-robed Tibetans said.

"This is a very normal thing. The source of power of many ancient clans will be described in a similar way." The blue-robed Tibetan said softly.

At this time, he had to keep silent, after all, the matter about the first ghost mother came from him.

"Speaking of this, I'm curious. Why did such a thing happen? I can understand that the Demon Kingdom is here to strengthen their beliefs, but other ancient clans don't need to do this, right?" Chen Ziyan asked curiously.

He didn't mean to embarrass the blue-robed Tibetan, but he was really curious about this question.

"No matter what type of regime it is, the essence of governance is the same, and people are more willing to believe in what they can accept." The blue-robed Tibetan said Youyou.

"That is to say... many of the so-called gods in history are in similar situations?" Chen Ziyan asked.

"That's right, the last time we Kangbaluo had contact with the outside world was in the early Ming Dynasty. At that time, something happened. I think you should have heard of it."

"What do we know? It was still in the early Ming Dynasty?" Chen Ziyan thought for a while, but couldn't think of what it was.

The beginning of each dynasty is magnificent, and there are countless events that happened. As a graduate of archaeology, he knows all about these things, not to say that he knows them all.

But sometimes the more he knows, the more choices he has to face, just like now, his brain has been running at its fastest speed, but he can't sift out the answers in the first place.

While Chen Ziyan was thinking hard, Hu Bayi's eyes lit up suddenly, and he said in a startled voice, "Liu Bowen kills the dragon?"

Hearing Hu Bayi's words, Chen Ziyan's eyes lit up suddenly. He had locked his direction on historical events from the beginning, and he really didn't expect this.

(End of this chapter)