At the foot of the war elephant's skeleton, a bonfire burned brightly, and everyone sat in a circle.
In the outer circle are people from the Rebirth Sect, and on one side of the inner circle is the reincarnated goddess Yunzi. They took out their futons and sat cross-legged.
On the other side, Chen Yang and the others were not so particular, so Chen Yang took off his coat and put it on Tang Wan's back, and the three of them sat down on the ground, not caring whether they were clean or not.
The bonfire uses solid gasoline as fuel, which is suitable for lighting and heating. There is a portable outdoor pot on top, which is boiling water.
The people in the outer circle were eating compressed biscuits and energy bars, while Chen Yang and the others in the inner circle were talking seriously.
"Master Zhu, are you sure this is not the mausoleum of the Khitan Goddess?"
The reincarnated goddess still has a gentle and kind attitude, like a normal conversation between neighbors.
The swaying bonfire illuminated the face and body of the reincarnated goddess, which was full of uncertainty. At the same time, under the firelight at a close distance, Chen Yang captured many details that he had not noticed before.
The reincarnated goddess is quite old. She has many wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, mouth, and forehead, and her hair is mixed with silver threads, which is consistent with her age of around sixty.
However, her figure, the skin exposed from the neck down, and the collar upwards, looked like a girl's.
Walking all the way through caves that were at least a thousand years old, on stone and dirt roads, and across underground lakes, her bare feet were still clean, as if they would never be stained by dust.
The white that should be white, the red that should be red, just like a teenage girl playfully taking off her shoes and walking on the clean and dewy green grass.
This is so abnormal.
Chen Yang's eyes moved and finally fell on the hand of the reincarnated goddess.
On the hand where she wore the ring made of spirit stone fragments, she took out a small string of bracelets at some point, hung it on the tiger's mouth and put it on half of her palm. She stared at Zhu Wuneng with burning eyes, waiting for an answer, and kept twisting it.
String of beads.
"It seems that she is not as calm as she appears."
Chen Yang withdrew his gaze, adjusted his posture slightly so that Tang Wan could lean more comfortably, and listened to Zhu Wuneng's words casually.
"Goddess, this cannot be the tomb of the Khitan Goddess, unless you can travel through time in your previous life."
Zhu Wuneng said half seriously, half teasingly.
Until now, he believed that this reincarnated goddess was no ordinary person, and she still had some skills.
But if you say that she is the reincarnation of the Khitan goddess, that's fine.
Except for the Puranana believers of the Reincarnated Goddess’s own family, whoever believes in this is a fool.
"What do you mean?!"
Yunzi took out his Emei thorns and scolded him with a surly face.
If she hadn't been concerned about Chen Yang's previous actions, she would have more than just scolded him.
The reincarnated goddess raised her hand to stop and said with a smile, "Master Zhu, please give me some advice."
Zhu Wuneng seemed to have not seen Yunzi at all. He didn't even respond to her threat and said to the reincarnated goddess: "The era is wrong."
"I feel something is wrong outside. The shape of the tomb passage and the use of mud sealing do not look like those from the Liao Dynasty, but more like those from the pre-Qin period."
"Let's talk about elephants. During the Liao Dynasty, let alone elephant soldiers, they probably didn't even know what an elephant looked like, right?"
The reincarnated goddess was confused, so Yunzi scratched his hair with the handle of the Emei thorn, looking like he didn't understand.
Chen Yang smiled and added: "It's not impossible that an elephant can become a mount, but it is rare. It can only be done in places where elephants are common."
"For example, Caiyunnan, Burma, etc., there were elephant cavalry in ancient times. Historical records show that the Mu Prince's palace pacified the chieftains and encountered elephant soldiers charging into the formation."
"In China, before and after the Yin and Shang Dynasties, there were still elephants in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and there were also war elephant cavalry."
"By the Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou dynasties, there were basically no records. At that time, elephants were basically extinct in the country.
I can’t even see them, let alone use them as cavalry.”
"During the Three Kingdoms period, there were people like Cao Wei who paid tribute to elephants. It was rare that they were so amazed that Cao Chong paid tribute to the elephant. It was only then that the allusion of Cao Chong paying tribute to the elephant has been passed down through the ages."
"That was still the Three Kingdoms period. By the time when the Khitan goddesses were active, which was around the Northern Song Dynasty, it was impossible for war elephant cavalry to appear in the Central Plains, let alone to be buried with them."
"I'm afraid this tomb cannot be later than the Yin Shang Dynasty."
Chen Yang talked in a hurry, without the professionalism that Zhu Wuneng said, about the tomb passages and the mud sealing. He only talked about allusions, the order was clear, and the arguments used were also known to ordinary people.