Chapter 135 - Temple of Atlan
"We want to know where all the people in the early Yuan Dynasty came from." The high priest stared at me with burning eyes. There was undisguised desire in his eyes, which made me panic.
"My mother is also from the early Yuan Dynasty. As for where she comes from, I don't know." I half-jokingly bypassed the question of the high priest.
He smiled slightly, and his white beard and hair hung upside down on his head, floating with the sea water, like a long-haired Afghan hound that had fallen into the water.
"We have been trekking for so long, and you are tired from the Yuanchu people. Let's come here first today. Bubu, you can take the Yuanchu people to rest."
"Well...I'm...a little hungry..."
"Oh? Hahahaha, okay, I'm rude. Please come with me, Yuanchu people."
Then I stood on Bubu again and followed the old priest to swim towards the palace. All kinds of Atlan people swam past us. I even saw an Atlan man with an octopus-footed head. But I didn't see the mermaid I imagined. They all nodded and saluted the high priest. Maybe because I was wearing their driver's pressure suit, no one noticed that I was different, which made me feel a lot more comfortable.
After arriving in this dimension, I deeply understood the pain of being an alien. When I was in the centaurs and horses tribe, no matter how close I was to the centaurs and horses, there was still a layer of separation between me. I couldn't find a sense of belonging, and I had to be constantly criticized. Visiting', such attention made me physically and mentally exhausted, but at this time, wearing heavy protective clothing, I felt mentally relaxed as never before.
When I looked at this palace from a distance, I only felt it was glorious and majestic. The closer I got, the more obvious the oppressive feeling was. The tall columns supported the triangular roof of the palace, which was engraved with exquisite and repeated patterns and reliefs with storylines. , there is a dazzling light projected out of the hollow top cover, passing through the top cover, penetrating layers of sea water, and refracting into dazzling light pillars.
There are a dozen corridors outside the palace, each of which is a hundred meters high! The corridors are carved with many scales, large and small, and when combined together, it looks like there are many arowanas entwined around the corridors. I am here While secretly marveling at the architectural craftsmanship of the Atlan people, I was also curious about how such a large rock was carved into exquisite columns. Compared with the tall and strong columns, we were as insignificant as shrimps on chopsticks.
Passing through the tall and exquisite corridors, there are several stone steps in front of you. This seems a bit redundant in the deep sea. After all, no one will actually step on the stone steps. They all choose to swim the shortest distance in a straight line. The stone steps appear. The reason here may simply be to echo the pillars as decoration, or it may be a way for the Atlan people to commemorate the land.
We stopped in the space above the stone steps. Both the top and the bottom were empty. I didn’t know what the high priest’s purpose was for stopping. I saw him stretching out his cane and tapping forward slightly. There was something in the sea water in front of him. Blue-purple light stripes appeared, and then several snake-shaped fish swam out from above the head silently! I was shocked!
Each one is as thick as my waist and five or six meters long. There are no eyes on the pointed and flat head, only these layers of densely packed teeth, as if to warn visitors that it is not easy to mess with!
When one of them got close to Bubu, he was pricked by the spikes on his tail. He was very fast! He immediately opened his sharp teeth and bit into Bubu. Before I could react, one of Bubu's pectoral fins had been bitten off. Big! Bubu's body contracted due to pain, and I also turned somersaults in the sea before being straightened out by the high priest.
"I'm sorry, people from the early Yuan Dynasty, for frightening you. The guards in the temple are more sensitive and the inspections are stricter." The high priest explained to me through a voice. I saw that a piece of Bubu's pectoral fin was missing, and there were uneven marks on the gap.
The tooth mark of this guard is so disreputable that he bites everyone on his own. It seems that he should be more careful in Atlan in the future. Most of the animals in the sea are cold-blooded. If he accidentally offends him, no one will come to help him.
I excuse...
Bubu took me and followed the high priest into the blue-purple light spot, and the surrounding environment suddenly changed dramatically! The snake-shaped strange fish that were above us just now disappeared, and my feet stepped firmly on the rocks.
On the ground, looking at Bubu, it was like a carpet moving along the ground. They were obviously in the same sea water, why was there such a change?!
I looked back and saw that the ether crystals in the square outside had not changed, and the Atlan people traveling through the square were still the same as before. I was indeed still in the sea, and there was no container to isolate the sea water. This was incredible to me.
Got it!
There were two guards holding forks in front of me. They both had the same appearance as the driver. When they saw the high priest, they nodded and saluted. There were several more stone steps in front of me. I now understand that these stone steps are not for decoration.
, but you really need to climb up one level at a time! Bubu used his injured pectoral fin to support his body and climbed up with difficulty. However, he was too big, and I couldn't help him even if I wanted to.
Climbing up these stone steps, there is a small platform with five or six guards on it. They are covered in blue scales, but the fish tails of their lower bodies are coiled like snakes. They stand upright and guard the platform. Stone
There were still stone steps above the steps, and the guards on the platform at the end of each stone step were different. I dragged my heavy transformation clothes and hungrily climbed up so many stone steps. I was already exhausted. I looked at the cloth around me.
Bu was still insisting, and I gritted my teeth and continued to climb up. Until I reached this platform and raised my head, the blood in my body froze in an instant!
I had seen all kinds of guards before, and I was already used to it, but the look of the guards in front of me made my feet immobilized and unable to move even half an inch!
There are no guards with weapons on this platform, but two huge clam shells, one on the left and one on the right, distributed on both sides of the platform. There are no pearls in the clam shells, but they shine with a more dazzling light than pearls.
A huge fish tail rests on the outside of the clam shell. The fish tail is covered with blue-purple pearlescent scales, each one sparkling! The scales gradually become larger starting from the fish tail and spread to the chest... thin and long.
The long neck rested weakly on the clam shell, and on the neck was the face of a girl with distinct lips and teeth! The girl's forehead and chin were covered with blue-purple scales, and a pair of pink-blue intersecting fins emanated from her ears.
Slowly opening and closing...
Isn't this the legendary mermaid?! At this time, the two mermaids seemed to be taking a nap in the clam shell. I was afraid that if I made a little noise, they would disappear...
"You guys are lazy again!" came the majestic voice of the high priest. The mermaid in the clam shell stirred and flapped its huge fish tail, turning the sea water into turbidity. The other mermaid screamed in fear, and the sound was like sharp thorns.
Almost pierced my eardrums!
"High Priest, we don't dare anymore..." The mermaid lowered her head to the high priest and admitted her mistake again and again. The high priest actually let such a beautiful mermaid serve as a guard. What kind of attack power can they have? It's so disrespectful!
The high priest led me straight inside. I couldn't help but look back at the mermaids. They were also looking at us secretly. There was an ether crystal in the temple that was smaller than the one in the square.
Chapter completed!