The Unorthodox Tomb Raider

The last prophet of Zagrama also died in that natural disaster. Only a few Hui Zagrama people who came to deliver the message managed to escape and bring back the news from Jingjue Kingdom.

Later, they learned a secret: the script used in the Jingjue Kingdom was the same as the script used in the ancient ruins in the Zaglama Mountains.

Those ancient ruins are very old; they existed long before the Zaglama people arrived at Zaglama Mountain.

Therefore, the Zagrama people believe that the Jingjue Kingdom is descended from the earliest indigenous people of the Zagrama Mountains, but those indigenous people migrated away before the Zagrama people arrived at the Zagrama Mountains.

Fang Yun put down the stone slab and carefully recalled the whole incident.

In the earliest times, the people who lived in the Zaglama Mountains were the ancestors of the Demon Kingdom.

The ancestors of the Demon Kingdom discovered the Ghost Cave inside the mountain. They somehow managed to sneak into the Ghost Cave, where they found the bones of the Serpent God and learned about the Serpent God's power and how to use it. So they took the Serpent God's eye, the Muchen Pearl, out of the Ghost Cave.

They wanted to worship the snake god in order to control the power of the imaginary space and receive eternal life from the snake god in their second life. So they decided to place the place of worship for the snake god in the Kunlun Mountains, because Kunlun is the head of all mountains in the world, and its vitality is far beyond human imagination.

Afterwards, the ancestors of the Demon Kingdom came to Kunlun Mountain and built a huge city, Ero Luo Hai City, inside the mountain, thus establishing the Demon Kingdom. After the establishment of the Demon Kingdom, the ritual of worshipping the snake god began.

Immediately afterwards, another naturally born goddess appeared in the Demon Kingdom. She could connect to the imaginary space with her eyes and grasp a small part of the Serpent God's power. Thus, this woman was called the Serpent God's Daughter. After the Serpent God's Daughter died, the Demon Kingdom held a grand funeral ceremony for her and buried her in the Nine-Story Demon Tower.

The appearance of the Serpent God's daughter led the people of the Demon Kingdom to believe that the Serpent God had sensed their sincerity and had shared his power with her. As a result, they began to worship the Serpent God even more frantically and began to frantically search for the Serpent God's daughter within the Demon Kingdom.

However, due to the madness of the Demon Kingdom, public resentment boiled over, and the city was eventually destroyed and the kingdom perished. It was at this time that the Muchen Pearl was lost to the Demon Kingdom.

This is the story of the first indigenous people of the Zagrama Mountains.

The next group of residents were the Zaglama tribe, the same tribe of prophets that Fang Yun remembered.

The Prophet Clan was afflicted with the Ghost Eye Curse, so they traveled to the Central Plains to find the Muchen Pearl.

About eight or nine hundred years later, around the Western Zhou Dynasty, the surviving descendants of the Demon Kingdom returned to this place and eventually established the Jingjue Kingdom. Later, the Queen of Jingjue appeared and ruled the entire land near Mount Zaglama...

Meanwhile, another branch of the Demon Kingdom's descendants returned to the Kunlun Mountains in Tibet after the Demon Kingdom's destruction, hoping to restore the Demon Kingdom's glory. They called themselves the Reincarnation Sect.

However, Evil Luo Sea City had already sunk into the sea, so they used the divine power of the eyes of the daughter of the first serpent god to connect with the imaginary space. With the power of the divine eye combined with the power of the imaginary space, they manifested Evil Luo Sea City.

But in the end, the Jingjue Kingdom perished, and the Reincarnation Sect also gradually declined and died out.

.................

"found it!"

Just as Fang Yun was deep in thought, Partridge Whistle suddenly cried out.

Fang Yun looked over at the sound and saw Partridge Whistle holding a yak bone and an ancient book with a look of ecstatic joy on his face.

The yak bone was engraved with dense ancient characters and patterns.

"Brother Fang, please look, is this the ancient city we saw in the tomb of King Xian?"

"Ok?"

Fang Yun was taken aback, then took the yak bone and examined it. It was a yak skull, and it was rather large.

In the center of the skull is carved an ancient city built of giant stones, and at the top of the city stands a huge stone human eye, which is the Muchen Pearl.

This city is exactly the same as the one depicted in the murals in the tomb of King Xian. It is the ancient city scene that King Xian saw through divination using the Muchen Pearl.

Evil Luo Hai City!

At this moment, Partridge Whistle opened another ancient book and handed it to Fang Yun.

“Brother Fang, these bone inscriptions and ancient books all originated from Tibet.”

"Ancient texts record that there was an evil religion in Tibet that worshipped a snake god. They established an ancient kingdom in Tibet and used a kind of supernatural power to carry out a bloody rule, sacrificing countless lives in Tibet to the snake god."

"Later, King Baozhu was born. After King Baozhu grew up, he began to organize the kingdoms of the Snow Region and overthrew the ancient kingdom that worshipped the snake god. King Baozhu called it the Demon Kingdom."

Partridge Whistle's eyes lit up, his face full of surprise.

"Ancient texts also record that the Jewel King conspired with Guru Rinpoche of Tibet to steal a great treasure from the Demon Kingdom, which was a human eye jade bead!"

"That human-eye jade bead must be the Muchen Bead. If that's the case, everything makes sense!"

Chapter 111 The Snowy Demon Kingdom!

"I see.."

After reading the information recorded on the yak bone and in the ancient book, Fang Yun nodded in understanding.

He had forgotten about this matter; the Muchen Pearl was stolen by the warriors of the allied forces who infiltrated the Demon Kingdom under the scheme of the Great King of Jewels and Guru Padmasambhava.

Then, the great war began, with the Demon Kingdom facing off against the allied forces of various nations.

But one day, the Demon Kingdom's main city, Eroha City, suddenly collapsed overnight, which led to the Demon Kingdom being defeated by the allied forces of various countries led by King Treasure Pearl.

King Baozhu, leading his mighty army of ten thousand lions, swept across the entire Demon Kingdom and sealed the Gate of Disaster leading to the Demon Kingdom's main city.

After that, this story was passed down from generation to generation, and the great deeds of the Jewel King became a sacred epic poem, passed down from generation to generation among the Tibetan people. This is no secret.

Unexpectedly, someone actually remembered what Eroha City looked like and carved it onto yak bones.

This might have been left by a fan of the Great King of Jewels, or it might have been left by a surviving member of the Demon Kingdom.

And when the Demon Kingdom is destroyed.

Perhaps that generation of Ghost Mother had not yet used the Serpent God's Eye and the Serpent God's power to reincarnate, or perhaps a new Ghost Mother had not yet appeared. Without a Ghost Mother to guard the Demon Kingdom, the Demon Kingdom was defeated by the Pearl King... There are still quite a few doubts.

However, none of these 19 things are important. What is important is... Partridge Whistle won't set his sights on the Ghost Cave.

Next, go directly to the city of Evil Luohai behind the Gate of Disaster, find the altar, and shut down the sacrifice. After that, everything will be fine!

Thinking of this, Fang Yun nodded to Partridge Whistle and said:

"Although this matter is a legend from thousands of years ago, since there are detailed records of it, and the ancient city in the records is exactly the same as the divination map left by King Xian... then this matter should be true, and there must be such an ancient city in the Demon Kingdom."

"The Muchen Pearl was first obtained by the Demon Kingdom, then by the Pearl King, and finally flowed into the Central Plains. The timeline matches up."

"In that case, I think we should find this ancient city. This ancient city must be related to the curse of the ghost eye!"

Upon hearing Fang Yun's words, Partridge Whistle nodded solemnly.

"I agree with Brother Fang."

"Ancient Tibetan texts reveal that the Demon Kingdom worshipped a snake god, and living people were their sacrifices... those sacrifices... were cursed with ghost eyes!"

"Therefore, I believe that the people of the Demon Kingdom must have a way to avoid the curse of the Demon Eye, or a way to break the curse of the Demon Eye!"

“We can go directly to Tibet to find the Demon Kingdom’s main city, which is located beneath the Kunlun Glacier. It’s much easier to find than to search for the Ghost Cave buried deep in the yellow sand!”

After reviewing the clan's records one by one, he had a rough idea of ​​the origin of the Ghost Eye Curse.

Combining these ancient records, we can conclude that the Ghost Cave is related to the Snake God, the Demon Kingdom and the Jingjue Kingdom were originally one family, and the Muchen Pearl was lost from the Demon Kingdom.

Those who bear the curse of the demon eye are sacrifices used by the demons to appease the snake god.

His ancestors imitated the Muchen Pearl and spied on the Ghost Cave, which is why they were tainted by the Ghost Eye Curse! They were used as sacrifices to the Snake God by the Ghost Cave!

The fact that the Demon Kingdom and the Jingjue Kingdom, one worshipping the snake god and the other built on top of the Ghost Cave, suggests that both of them have methods to avoid or remove the Ghost Eye Curse.

Otherwise, they would have been cursed with the ghost eye long ago, just like the Zaglama tribe!

Now, there are two paths to take.

The first path is to find the Demon Kingdom's main city, which is the ancient city in the King Xian's divination map. The second path is to find the Jingjue Ancient City, because the Ghost Cave is located within the Jingjue Ancient City.

Compared to the Jingjue Ancient City and Ghost Cave, which were completely buried by yellow sand and could no longer be found by later generations, finding the main city of the Demon Kingdom was obviously much simpler.

After all, the epic legend of King Baozhu destroying the Demon Kingdom is very famous in Tibet, and almost every poet can sing about King Baozhu's great deeds.

In addition... he also wanted to know the truth about the Demon Kingdom's priesthood and what exactly the Ghost Eye Curse was.

"Senior brother, the last words left by the saints were that we should return the Muchen Pearl to the Ghost Cave."

Listening to Fang Yun and Partridge Whistle discussing their trip to Tibet, the old foreigner hesitated for a moment before speaking to Partridge Whistle:

"Could it be a mistake for us to go looking for that Demon Kingdom's main city? There's no Ghost Cave there, so we might not be able to lift the Ghost Eye curse."

"No matter how hard it is to find the Jingjue Ancient City, it won't be a problem for us. You know Fang Yun's feng shui skills. We will definitely find the Jingjue Ancient City and the Ghost Cave."

"The Ancient City of Jingjue..."

Partridge Whistle paused, pondered for a moment, and then shook his head.

"Returning the Muchen Pearl to the Ghost Cave might unlock the secret of the Ghost Eye Curse, but... I must know the truth about the Ghost Eye Curse to give an explanation to my deceased clansmen. If I'm not mistaken, the Ghost Eye Curse can also be lifted in the Demon Kingdom's main city."

"The Demon Kingdom's rituals to the Snake God... that must be the key."

"That's why King Baozhu and Guru Padmasambhava sent their warriors to infiltrate the Demon Kingdom and steal the Muchen Pearl. The Muchen Pearl... is related to the Demon Kingdom's rituals!"

Upon hearing Partridge Whistle's words, Fang Yun nodded to himself.

Partridge Whistle got to the point. These ancient Tibetan texts clearly indicate that the Demon Kingdom used the Muchen Pearl to worship the Serpent God, and the offerings to the Serpent God were all cursed with ghost eyes.

But none of the people of the Demon Kingdom were tainted by the curse, and that is the problem.

It seems that Partridge Whistle already knows very well that the Zaglama tribe has become a sacrifice delivered to their doorstep because of their spying on the Ghost Cave, but he doesn't want to tell his tribesmen about it until he gets a definite answer.

After all, the truth is... the clan's ancestral priests harmed the entire clan.

Perhaps even if the curse on the Ghost Eye were truly lifted, Partridge Whistle wouldn't reveal the truth like that, but would instead fabricate a reason to make his people feel better.

Seeing that the old foreigner didn't quite understand, Fang Yun explained:

"Your senior brother means that we need to find a way to use the Muchen Pearl first."

"These Muchen Pearls are most likely items used by the Demon Kingdom to sacrifice to the Serpent God. We need to go to the Demon Kingdom ruins and find a way to use Muchen Pearl 470."

"If we can't find a way to lift the curse of the Ghost Eye in the Demon Kingdom, then I'll take you to the Jingjue Ancient City. Although the Jingjue Ancient City has been covered by yellow sand for thousands of years, it's not too difficult for me."