"Then what are you waiting for? Let's take a look." When I heard Bloomberg's words, I felt an indescribable agitation. It can be said that this major event was almost entirely left by this Taoist priest hundreds of years ago.
What is the ending of the mysterious reincarnation of immortality? I am eager to know the final result.
Bloomberg recorded the information he got from the mural in writing, and then closed the book. A few of us retreated a little and shrank into a blind corner of the stone room. Jiang Chen cautiously went to the front to take a look. We waited until he signaled
Once it was safe, we entered the next stone chamber.
I didn't dare to move back and forth, I just looked around, but I immediately felt that this stone chamber might be the end of the mural, because the walls in the stone chamber were not fully painted. Bloomberg looked at it from several fixed angles.
At this time, I was attracted by the content of the mural and watched it with him. I knew some of the inside story before and after, so the content of the mural was not too difficult to understand. As I looked at it, I discovered that the man with the long beard and white face
, seems to have completely disappeared into the mural.
This means that he is dead, or has disappeared forever.
Is this man with long beard and white face actually Shi Pan?
The following content is a bit boring. The Taoist priest in the painting appears in various scenes. He may be looking for something, or he may continue to perfect the wheel stone that cannot be activated. After watching this for a while, the mural is about to end, leaving only
Below are the last two pictures.
In the penultimate painting, the Taoist priest is lying under a vigorous old pine tree, with a cloud above his head and several cranes hovering above with pine branches in their mouths.
"He! Is he dead?" I clenched my fist involuntarily, and I had an indescribable feeling. Is Lu Xiuhuang dead? Really dead? He was lying on his back. Although it was only in the painting, it was clear to people.
He felt that his life had come to an end.
My eyes immediately turned to the last mural. In this painting, there were no characters, only a lonely cliff, and a huge coffin hanging on the cliff.
In the endless darkness, a lonely coffin hangs quietly. Lu Xiuhuang may really be dead. He has calculated his whole life, but he cannot withstand the erosion of time. Such a person is lonely when he is alive, because everyone around him
People are all tools he uses. After he dies, he is still alone, sleeping in the cold darkness.
I have speculated about Lu Xiuhuang's whereabouts countless times. According to normal thinking, no one can survive death, but I have always had a feeling before that this mysterious Taoist priest may really have mysterious power and can live forever.
, but he is hiding in a corner that no one knows, or hiding his true identity.
But it wasn't until this moment that I felt that he might really be dead. Everything he had done in his life was wasted at the moment of his death. His immortality and eternal life were just an endless dream.
"Where is this Taoist priest buried?" The monk muttered behind me. I shook my head. On the last mural, there was only boundless darkness and a lonely coffin. No one knew where he was except himself.
.
We waited for a long time, and Bloomberg finally slowly finished reading the murals. Based on the scenes and information combined from all the murals, he had the same idea as me. Lu Xiuhuang died, and his whole life was left intact on the stone wall.
on the mural.
"There is a very important question." Bloomberg looked back at us and said, "Who left these paintings?"
"Who left it?" I was startled. Because I had been attracted by the content of the murals before, I didn't pay attention to the original artist of these murals. If I had to analyze it myself, I don't think Lu Xiuhuang could completely
He doesn't trust anyone. Take this place as an example. All the people who worked for him were killed. I very much doubt that this is the mural left by Lu Xiuhuang himself when he knew he was about to die. The content of the mural is very
Complete, some things we didn’t know before have surfaced. Who else would know so much except Lu Xiuhuang himself?
I told Bloomberg this analysis, and he did not object, but then said: "It was probably left by Lu himself, but do you know when these murals were painted?"
"When will the painting be completed?"
"If I read it correctly, these murals should have been painted in the early Yuan Dynasty."
Bloomberg's basis is the layer of protective oil painted on the outside of the murals. The formula of these oils was introduced to Xixia from the Northern Song Dynasty, and has evolved several times during this period. It doesn't matter how the style of the murals changes, but this
Material relics can be distinguished carefully by experienced people. Bloomberg told us that the oil used in the murals here was a product of the early Yuan Dynasty. It was first used to paint the precious vessels used by the Mongolian nobles to prevent discoloration.
It has strong antioxidant function.
I quickly understood what Bloomberg meant. If these murals were really left by Lu Xiuhuang himself, then he lived in the period from the late Southern Song Dynasty to the early Yuan Dynasty. But what era was Lu Xiuhuang?
He had personal contact with Yuan Hao. From the founding of Xixia in 1038 AD to the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, it took more than two hundred years. In other words, Lu Xiuhuang lived from the time of Yuan Hao to the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty?
"Are Taoist elixirs really so miraculous?" I wondered secretly. A life of more than two hundred years is a staggering miracle even today.
Moreover, I immediately thought of what Du Yu and Du Qingyi had said about the old man’s age. He might really be over a hundred years old, but he didn’t leave such obvious traces. The old man also concealed some things.
Really hid it from me.
"I have a hunch..." Bloomberg looked up and looked around a few times and said, "This place is really important, and I think we can find some more substantial information."
"Walk!"
Mustache glanced at Jiang Chen silently. The latter didn't say anything and walked straight forward. We drank some water behind us, and then followed Jiang Chen's instructions and followed in his footsteps. Behind us, we again
I saw two renovated stone chambers, but there were no murals anymore, and the relatively stagnant air in the stone chambers had some slight convection, and it should be approaching a relatively large space.
Boom...
We stepped on the hard ground of the stone chamber and suddenly felt a shock. It was not very strong, but the entire stone chamber and even the inside of the mountain seemed to start to shake slightly, as if there was a beating heart under the ground.
"What the hell are you going to do like that again!" Ma Dad really couldn't stand the tossing anymore and held his head like a reflex: "Lao Jiang! What did you step on again!"
"No!" Jiang Chen also started to look nervous and looked around quickly, because he felt that the vibration seemed to be very loud.
boom......
An indescribable violent explosion came from below and in front of us. The explosion was very muffled, as if it was coming from a confined space. We know that the more confined the space, the greater the risk of combustion and explosion.
The energy became more astonishing, and the destructive power reached an unimaginable level. Several people panicked. Although the stone chamber did not seem to be the center of the explosion, the violent vibrations caused by the explosion made me unsteady.
The stone chamber was shaking, as if the entire mountain was about to be blown into two halves. The explosions kept ringing. This kind of explosion was continuous, and the center of the explosion was constantly changing. Through the exit of the stone chamber that was about to reach the end, the outside could be seen.
The space was filled with dust and dazzling light. The light was flickering, and the surrounding shaking became more violent. Large stones flew across the air, and some flew directly into the stone chamber like cannonballs.
This time, even Mustache was in a dilemma. He didn’t know whether to go back or charge forward. If he charged in the wrong direction, he would definitely die. The sound of continuous explosions became duller and duller, but they seemed to be getting closer and closer to us, stretching from the front to
Under my feet, I felt like some of the mountains had been blown apart.
Bang!
At this time, just below the central position where we were standing, there was a loud explosion that seemed to come from the ground. Several people staggered around. Jiang Chen was the most severely affected. He almost flew out, but his reaction was extremely quick and his body was still in the air.
There was a sudden movement at the exit of the stone room. He put his hands on the edge of the exit and turned over to come in.
"The explosion was underground! It was from front to back! Go forward!"
Mustache quickly identified the direction of the continuous big explosion. In front of us, the explosion just now was very violent, but now it seems to be safer than the stone room we are in. Jiang Chen held on to the stone wall with one hand and was shaking violently.
I wanted to rush forward, but at this time I saw that the stone chamber was already quite dangerous. Several stone walls were constantly cracking, and large rocks fell from the top of my head, accompanied by the kind of dust I had seen before.
is spreading all around.
"Quick!" Mustache pulled me directly behind him, and the monk rushed over, blocking me with him. These dusts usually look like nothing, but they are indeed very deadly. Once they are suspended in the air and spread to some kind of
High pressure and high temperature can cause violent explosions.
boom!
Before Jiang Chen could rush to the exit of the stone chamber, large areas of the stone chamber we were in had begun to crack and collapse. Mustache dragged me forward a few meters, and with a swish of his body, a huge stone was pressed against me.
His back rolled over.
Click, click, click...
This continuous explosion is absolutely destructive and will destroy everything in this area. A huge crack opened under our feet, and it spread rapidly, like a terrifying avalanche. Once it comes
I just resigned myself to fate. Mustache held me tightly, but we still rolled involuntarily with the big crack, and rocks were flying everywhere.