Chapter 427: Exiting Corpse Ridge (5k big chapter)
Chapter 428: Exiting Corpse Ridge (5k big chapter)
In ancient times, Wu Gang cut down trees.
There is an evil tree that splits the human face in Jin'an.
The Kunwu knife made a lot of noise, and Jin An slashed it seven times before cutting down the human face tree.
However, those blind piranhas underwater are very clever. Although they are blind and cannot see, their underwater touch is very keen. The vibration pattern of the Kunwu knife hitting the water made these piranhas aware that they were not easy to mess with. At this time, they hid
Stay far away, no piranha dares to come close.
After Jin An destroyed the altar, destroyed the evil human-faced tree, and destroyed all the painted pottery pots with human faces, he looked around and saw that nothing was missing. Then he stamped the ground with his feet and smoothly leaped onto the ancient ship a few feet away.
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"Yari, what are you?" Jin An looked at Yari and the others who were kneeling in a circle, and stepped forward to help them up.
Yali stood up and replied with sincerity: "Taoist Master Jin'an, we always thought that no matter how powerful you are, you are still a living person of flesh and blood like us... But we just found out today that we are the ones who have surpassed you. You are different from us.
You are not a human, you are a god! You are a human god!”
Jin An's face turned dark: "Yari, you are just going around the corner and scolding me for not being a human being."
Then he stretched out the bloody tiger's mouth that was cracked by Kunwu's knife, and said: "Of course I am a flesh and blood person like you. How can I be injured and bleed if I am not a human being?"
"Ah! Taoist priest Jin An, you are injured. Taoist priest Jin An, I have some medicine to stop your bleeding right away..." Yali saw a bleeding wound on Jin An's right hand holding a knife, and hurriedly tried to stop the bleeding and bandage the wound for Jin An.
Jin An politely declined the other party's offer: "We cultivators have good physical constitution, and this small injury will heal on its own soon. Yali ordered us to continue on the road and leave the holy mountain of Guchi Kingdom as soon as possible before dark."
Next, the ancient ship continues on its journey.
When passing by the ruins of the altar and the human-faced tree that were destroyed by Jin'an, the people in the boat couldn't help but run to the side of the ship and look at the ruins outside the ship, and couldn't help showing shocked expressions again.
Such a big tree was felled immediately. They all knew that this was beyond human power!
In their eyes, Jin An is not only a holy man, but also a powerful Hercules!
Jin An, who had already taken back the plague-repelling talisman, looked at the dead people dumped above the cave ceiling with a heavy look on his face.
There were too many corpses here, and the ancient ship could not hold so many corpses. He could only temporarily give up the idea of taking all the corpses out to find a place to bury them.
"Although you have already lost your souls, today I completely destroyed the human-faced bug and the human-faced tree that harmed you. It can be regarded as avenging you and giving an explanation to the dead."
The ancient ship continues to move along the current.
Jin An and the others have long since noticed that this cave is not a dead end, but has waterways leading to other directions.
It seems that the people of the Guchi Kingdom can't complete their business in this mountain overnight. According to the scale of the cave after being expanded, it should take generations and hundreds of years to gradually achieve the perfection they have in front of them.
waterway.
This sacred mountain of the Guchi Kingdom can only be seen after the snow-capped mountains turn into the sea. These widened caves are not only reserved for Jin'an and the others, but also for the Guchi clan to enter the mountain to offer sacrifices.
After passing the huge cave where the human-faced tree is located, the ancient ship moved forward for a while, and some magnificent renovations began to appear. There were gold lamp holders, and there was even a gold-trimmed coffin that served as a hanging coffin.
However, those golden lamp holders and the coffin were all destroyed along the way. Those who could be taken were taken away and those who could be pried away. The bones in the coffin were pulled out and thrown carelessly on the plank road supporting the hanging coffin.
Only things that couldn't be taken away or pried away were left behind.
At first glance, those bones are different from the ordinary people of the Guchi Kingdom who are rotten to the bones in the cliff cave outside. Because of the special antiseptic treatment, they still maintain the appearance of intact mummies even in a dark and humid environment where groundwater flows through them all year round.
, never corrupt.
"Taoist Master Jin'an has corpses buried in coffins here. The people buried in these coffins should be the noble people in Guchi Kingdom." Yali guessed.
Jin An nodded: "These bones have been stolen. It seems that when the leader of the Black Rain Kingdom led his men to find the Kingdom of the Immortal God, he also let his subordinates work part-time as tomb robbers. Treasure thieves like this are the underworld.
business."
"We don't rule out another possibility. Leading an army to fight is very expensive. What's more, going deep into the desert will cost even more money. Only by rewarding the army from time to time can we continue to maintain high morale. The soldiers of the Black Rain Nation saw that there are
With so much wealth of gold, silver and jewels, everyone must be jealous. The leader of the Black Rain Kingdom cannot suppress it even if he wants to. If he is not careful, it will cause a mutiny in the army. It is estimated that the leader of the Black Rain Kingdom rewarded these dead people's wealth to the soldiers accompanying the army.
It serves as a reward to stabilize the morale of the army... This is not what I guessed out of thin air. Look at these bones and coffins, they are all very messy. It looks like they have been rummaged through by waves of people. There is no sign of strict military discipline at all.
, look at the gold and silver ornaments that were pried away, the traces are rough, it is simply destructive excavation, they do not know the rules to pry, but more like a group of laymen who are anxious to pry indiscriminately, fearing that if they are too late, the next good treasure will be lost.
It’s like someone else wants to discover it first.”
"This can be regarded as evil people getting their own way, and these Guchi royal family and nobles deserve what they deserve!" Yali cursed.
Jin An held a torch and looked at the hanging coffins he encountered along the plank road from time to time: "This should only be the tomb of the nobles of the Guchi Kingdom, not the royal family of the Guchi Kingdom."
Ari: "How did you figure it out, Taoist Jin'an?"
Jin An: "No matter how small the Guchi Kingdom is and how much wealth it has collected over the years, the royal family's tomb should not be so shabby. It is a hanging coffin, embalmed, and inlaid with gold, silver, and jade. Although for
For ordinary people, this kind of funeral is very luxurious, but for the centralized royal family, it is still too shabby."
After hearing so much, Yali looked at Jin An with admiration again: "Taoist Master Jin An, you have learned so much along the way. You are not only a Taoist priest who knows how to exorcise demons, but you also know so much about the cemetery. Yali, I think you, Taoist Jin An,
They know more than those tomb robbers!"
Yali gave a heartfelt thumbs up: "We have caught several groups of tomb robbers in the Yueqiang Kingdom before, but none of them are as professional as you, Taoist Priest Jin'an!"
Well.
Jin An did not pick up Yali's words, leaving the other party with a pretentious and thoughtful figure behind him.
But not long after, the ancient ship encountered another problem. Three forks appeared in front of them.
At this time, everyone on the boat was dumbfounded.
"Taoist Master Jin An, has that old bastard Amul ever told you about our next move?" Everyone nervously came to the ship building to ask Jin An.
As a result, everyone found Jin An's face relaxed and calm. Jin An smiled and said, "Don't worry too much. We don't need to deliberately interfere. We can just sail along with the current. How to follow the road under your feet? This ancient ship is more advanced than us."
clear."
ah?
Everyone is a little confused. You look at me and I look at you.
But out of their fanatical admiration and trust in Jin An, no one raised objections to this seemingly absurd idea.
Sure enough, a magical scene happened.
The water flow bifurcated and the undercurrent was rapid. Not only did the ancient ship not hit the mountain wall, but it smoothly passed through a fork in the road and continued to drift deeper into the dark and deep cave.
"Taoist Master Jin'an, this ancient ship under our feet...did you see anything?" After Yali waved away the people under his command, he quietly approached Jin'an and asked, looking a little nervous.
Although the desert is dry and lacks water, there are many legends about the devil ship in the desert.
Thinking back to the bones they found on the ship and buried alive, Yari was not a stupid person with a head full of muscles. Thinking of the trust he had shown to the ancient ship several times along the way to Jin'an, Yari had already
I vaguely guessed a possibility...
If this kind of thing is not handled well, it can easily cause an uproar in the team, so he quietly found Jin An, hoping to get an answer from Jin An so that he could have a better understanding.
Facing Yari's question, Jin An raised his hand and patted Yari on the shoulder: "Don't think too much. I said that there are underground rivers in this mountain. The snow water is always draining out. These flowing streams of living water are
A way out to get us out. As for the dead ends that have no roads, they are probably already filled with water by the desert sea, and there will be no flowing water."
"Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with this ship and it won't harm us." Jin An patted Ari's shoulder again.
Yali always felt that this matter was not as simple as Jin An explained, but he respected Jin An very much in his heart and trusted Jin An wholeheartedly. In the end, he chose to believe Jin An's words, shook his head, and shook away all the worries in his mind.
have a bee in one's bonnet.
"Taoist Master Jin An said there is no problem, then there will definitely be no problem." Yali already worshiped Jin An so fanatically that he trusted Jin An without any reason.
Next, the ancient ship encountered several forks, and each time it drifted smoothly into one of the forks.
There are many dangers in this corpse ridge. In order to be able to respond at any time, Jin An always stood on the bow of the boat and looked at the waterway ahead.
Although it is pitch dark in the cave, with limited lighting from torches, and the water surface is so dark that it is difficult to see the underwater environment, you still need to remain highly vigilant at all times.
And there were some weird experiences along the way, such as seeing a few Tibetan fox-headed tomb-suppressing beasts with square heads.
We also found several cocoon urns and human-faced painted pottery pots floating along the river.
However, these clay pots have been broken, and the human-faced corpse crickets and bugs inside have disappeared. It is not known whether the pots were broken by the water flow, and the poisonous insects inside escaped.
In addition, they encountered a huge cave similar to the one used to worship the human-faced tree, but the altar in that huge cave had been destroyed.
It was blown up by explosives.
The only ones who can use explosives to blow things up here are the army led by the leader of the Black Rain Kingdom.
They didn't even blow up the Altar of the Human Face Tree, but they blew up the altar in the second huge cave. I don't know what the leader of the Black Rain Kingdom and his group encountered, so they would rather use explosives to blow it up.
This incident also reminded Jin An that he might have guessed wrong. The human-faced tree was only an important part of Zhonggu Chi’s sacrificial ceremony, but it was not the most important one. There should be several more.
A similar altar.
So along the way, Jin An was more cautious about things in the dark.
call
Just when Jin An was thinking about what was in the second altar, the tattered sail on the mast of the ancient ship suddenly fluttered slightly.
This subtle change immediately caught Jin An's attention.
Jin An perked up and said, "It's windy."
Ari: "Is it windy?"
Jin An didn't need to explain. Soon, everyone saw the sails fluttering again. The wind meant there was an exit, and everyone was in high spirits.
For these desert people who are accustomed to the scorching sun, this dark and humid cave without seeing the sun has always made them feel uncomfortable. Now they suddenly find that there is wind in the cave, which means that they are not far from the exit and can see the sky again.
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The hotter the sunlight, the darker the shadows on the ground; the darker the abyss, the warmer the sunlight.
"There's sunshine over there! I see the sunshine! I see the sunshine!"
Someone suddenly pointed in a direction and shouted excitedly.
This cry immediately made everyone cheer and look at the bow of the ship. When they saw the familiar warm golden light again in the dark world, people cheered wildly.
Hearing the movement on the deck, even the sheep and camels in the cabin tried their best to get through the gap and look outside.
As the ancient ship got closer and closer to the golden light, the golden light became thicker and thicker. A ray of setting sun shone into the cave, and countless dust and light shadows danced in the golden setting sun. Now everyone was finally convinced that it was indeed sunlight!
At this time, there was no need to listen to the shouts of the people on the deck. Even the few sheep and the twenty-odd sand bandit camels in the cabin saw the setting sun shining into the cave.
After turning around a rock wall, they finally found the entrance of the cave where the sun shone in, and saw the golden cross of the setting sun outside.
They entered the mountain early in the morning, but they didn't expect that they had been wandering around the mountain for a whole day. It was almost dark outside. There were still many secrets deep in the mountain that had not yet been discovered. I am afraid that nine out of ten of them had not even been explored.
People who have been in a dark environment for a long time will be temporarily uncomfortable when they first see the strong sunlight. When everyone gradually adapts to the glare of the sun, and opens their eyes again to look at the hole with joy, their hearts will beat violently!
So many bones!
Everything in front of me is densely packed with bones!
There are adult bones!
There are also bones of children!
A mountain of bones!
I don’t know how many people the Guchi Kingdom brutally killed during the years it existed!
"This is..." Ari looked at the Bone Mountain in front of him, with an expression of astonishment on his face.
Jin An frowned: "This should be a corpse pit, a place where corpses are dumped and disposed of."
After Yali was stunned at first, he looked at Jin An with confusion: "A place where corpses were abandoned?"
Jin'an: "The expansion of the Holy Mountain by the Guchi Kingdom cannot be completed overnight. They need a large number of slaves and labor force to help them expand the Holy Mountain. During this period, the people who died of overwork or illness cannot be ignored casually.
, otherwise it would be easy for corpse plague to break out, they must have a place specially used to gather abandoned corpses."
It is said that the success of one general will lead to the destruction of thousands of bones.
This mass grave in front of us is not the most realistic portrayal of Guchi Country.
Jin An looked around and suddenly frowned.
At this moment, Ari suddenly shouted in surprise: "That's not right, Taoist Master Jin'an! If this is the exit, why is there no ship here where the leader of the Black Rain Kingdom led the army to the holy mountain of Guchi Kingdom?"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, the Guchi Kingdom's army is marching into the mountains. The ships they need are certainly not as simple as one or two! Why don't we see even one ship here?"
"Even after so many years, if the ship sank or was damaged, there should still be some traces left, such as fragments of planks, ropes, anchors, etc. With so many ships, it is impossible to say that they have completely disappeared! This is wrong!
"
In fact, Ari's question was also Jin An's inner question.
But at this moment, the ancient ship docked and stopped moving forward.
"Yari, let's put down the planks and get off the boat to see what's going on here?" Soon someone put down the planks, and Jin An took Yali and others off the boat to check.
The feeling of walking on the dead bones in mass graves was not pleasant. The Yali people prayed to these dead souls in the language of the desert along the way, and followed Jin An to the entrance of the cave diagonally above.
click
click
Everyone stepped on countless bone mountains all the way to the entrance of the cave. When they saw the long-lost sunshine again, several people subconsciously blocked their eyes with their hands.
After the vision was completely restored, looking into the distance, there seemed to be a very huge ancient city standing faintly at the end of the vast desert. There seemed to be something in the ancient city shining brightly in the sunset.
"Is that the Gu, Gu Chi country that has been mysteriously rumored in the desert for thousands of years...?" Someone in the team muttered to themselves with a shocked face.
Jin An's mood recovered faster than these people. He began to turn his head and look at his surroundings. The location they were currently in seemed not to be on the back of Corpse Ridge, but to the southwest or northwest.
Because they initially followed the east sun to find the Holy Mountain of Guchi Kingdom. If they were now on the back of the Holy Mountain of Guchi Kingdom, they should not be able to see the setting sun and could only see the clouds.
Jin An looked at the position of the sun and the moon. At this time, the sun was setting and a clear moon was gradually appearing at the end of the sky.
He finally determined that they were coming out of the southwest side of the mountain.
"Yari, send someone to call everyone out. It's going to be dark soon. We can't stay in this corpse ridge overnight." Jin An ordered.
Ari quickly ordered people back to the ship to tell everyone to come out.