This time, the appearance of the Everlasting Lantern is more like a supernatural cross-race hybrid of a bunch of animals than a monster.

It has the body of a pig, half the horns of a cow, half the horns of a sheep, four wings of different sizes, probably from poultry such as chickens, ducks, and geese, and a fluffy horsetail.

It would be difficult to find a corresponding prototype for such a different animal in reality. It should be that the characteristics of various animals were mixed together and cast into a lamp holder, and finally we got such a weird thing.

Son.

This made Ye Suling think of so-called totems for the first time. Archaeologists believe that in the ancient times before the emergence of real city-states and countries, people still relied on tribal gatherings to hunt and live, so different tribes often used the same animal to

They are used as their own totems, tattooed on their bodies or engraved on utensils to show that they belong to a certain clan.

After that, various tribes began to conquer and merge with each other, and the totems taken from different animals became stranger and stranger due to the fusion of different tribes, absorbing more and more characteristics of other animals, and eventually formed a completely different form in nature.

The appearance of the monster that exists.

This is also the origin of the bizarre birds and animals in most ancient books such as The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Even the dragon totem that represents the Chinese people is widely believed to have appeared through this method.

So, could this lamp holder, which combines the appearance features of various animals, also be a special totem unique to the Qingtian Sect? It represents a certain legendary beast in their sect?

But Ye Suling quickly shook her head and rejected her idea, because first of all, Qingtian Religion was a folk religion that only appeared in the late Qing Dynasty. There were thousands of years between the tribal era and people at that time were no longer enthusiastic about it.

It’s all about totems. What’s more, if this is really a special mythical beast that belongs exclusively to the Qingtian Sect, then it should at least appear on more other occasions. Some records can also be found in classics and documents, rather than just existing in

On a lamp.

However, the types of animals that make up this lamp seem to have a commonality - Ye Suling suddenly thought, pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and horses, aren't these the most common poultry and livestock that people raise? Although there are very few modern people.

Horses are raised, but for the ancients who needed to use them as transportation, horses were indeed one of the important farmed animals.

In contrast, this lamp does not have any charm of auspicious beasts such as dragons, phoenixes, and unicorns. Logically speaking, in such a place where Buddhism and Taoism are combined with folk sects, patterns such as dragons and phoenixes should be seen as auspicious.

It is so exaggerated that it can be painted everywhere. But this lamp did not choose any animal with mythological significance as a reference. Instead, it used livestock that are closest to people's daily life. This must have an ulterior motive...

…

This lamp is an animal, and the other two lamps, one seems to be a rich man, and the other is a warrior with horns on his head... I feel that I have found some clues, although it seems that there is still a veil between the truth.

But as long as there are more clues, the clouds will soon clear up.

Ye Suling immediately started running. This time she did not pick off the lamps one by one. Instead, she went half a circle around the corridor, looked at all the remaining unchecked lamps, and found three more.

A lamp that is unusual and different from each other.

Other than that, all the remaining long-light lamps are exactly the same and ordinary. They should be mass-produced goods with no special purpose.

"Only the shape of the six lamps is different from other ever-burning lamps. Sure enough, it is related to the number six again - it turns out that the last clue is hidden in the common oil lamp and scattered among these nearly a hundred ordinary ever-burning lamps.

It’s really hard to notice.”

Ye Suling quickly removed the other three newly discovered strange lamps from the wall and placed them on the ground to examine them one by one.

One of them has a very terrifying appearance. Although it is also human-shaped, its facial features are extremely huge, its face is distorted, and its body is dark green. It looks like a ghost. What is even more terrifying is that its mouth is very open, taking up most of its body. It is simply

As if it was about to swallow up the heaven and earth, the green fangs exposed from it were carefully polished, so they were extremely sharp.

The appearance of the other lamp has a different style. Not only is it not scary, but it looks full of fairy spirit. This lamp seems to be carved into an elegant and agile fairy, with streamers flying on its shoulders and holding a sutra in the other hand.

Decorations such as rolls, shells and pearls make people feel leisurely and otherworldly.

The last lamp is also the most special one - it is special because compared to the other five lamps with different shapes, its appearance is too ordinary and too unspecial.

It turns out that the basic shape of this lamp is almost exactly the same as hundreds of other oil lamps. It is neither carved into a fairy nor an animal. It just looks like an ordinary ever-burning lamp.

But unlike ordinary oil lamps, every part of it is completely black from top to bottom. The lamp holder, lampstand, lamp neck and wick have no extraneous color. Even the flame that emits is vaguely colored.

The black radiation is like a black hole and abyss solidified into a lamp. It seems that if you stare at it for a while, your soul will be sucked into the netherworld.

If it weren't for the fact that it was so dark and eye-catching, Ye Suling almost dismissed it as an ordinary lamp. But now after putting it on the ground and observing it carefully, she discovered another feature besides blackness - the treasure in the wick of other ever-burning lamps.

The wheel was replaced by a dark lotus flower here, but the flower had no beauty at all. The special texture carved out made people think of skin cracked in the extreme cold.

Even if you look at this lamp for a while, it will make people feel weird. Even a person like Ye Suling, who has never been superstitious about ghosts and ghosts, can't help but want to look away, lest he really loses consciousness after looking at it for a long time.

So now, all six lights have arrived - their different shapes are swirling around in Ye Suling's mind, changing with each other, and gradually pointing to the same conclusion.

"Officer Ye, how are you doing here?" At this moment, Zhang Ke's voice suddenly came from his ears, "I have made new discoveries here, and I have basically reached a conclusion."

"I'm almost the same as you." Ye Suling opened her eyes suddenly, the answer was already coming out in her mind. She stood up and her eyes met Zhang Ke who was walking slowly.

"Then, let's tell each other's answers at the same time." Zhang Ke suggested with a smile, and Ye Suling also nodded, "This entire circular corridor structure is actually a metaphor..."

"Six Paths of Beings——"
Chapter completed!