Holy Bone

Chapter 428 Exiting the Ridge of Corpse Ridge (5k Chapter)

In ancient times, Wu Gang cut down trees.

Now there is an evil tree in Jin'an that splits people's faces.

The Kunwu knife made a lot of noise, and Jin An cut down the human face tree with seven knives in a row.

However, those blind piranhas underwater are very clever. Although they are blind and cannot see, they have a very keen sense of touch underwater. Far away, no piranha dared to approach.

After Jin An destroyed the altar, destroyed the evil human-mask tree, and destroyed all the painted pottery pots with facial expressions, he looked around and saw that there were no omissions. Then he stamped the ground with his feet and leaped steadily onto the ancient ship a few feet away. .

"Who are you, Yali?" Jin An looked at Yali and the others who were kneeling in a circle, and stepped forward to help them up.

Yali stood up and replied with trepidation: "Master Jin'an, we used to think that no matter how powerful you are, you are still like us, a living person with flesh and blood... But we only discovered today that you are different from us, you are not human, you are God-man! It's a man-god!"

Jin An's face darkened: "Yari, are you turning a corner and calling me not a human being, or are you calling me not a thing?"

He stretched out the bloody tiger's mouth that was cracked by the shock of Kunwu's knife: "Of course I was born with parents like you, a person of flesh and blood, how can I be injured and bleed if I am not a human being."

In a panic, Yali wanted to bandage the wound for Jinan to stop the bleeding.

Jin'an thanked the other party for his kindness: "Our practitioners have good physique, and this small trauma will heal itself soon. Yali ordered us to go on, and we will continue on the road and get out of the holy mountain of Guchi Kingdom as soon as possible before dark."

Then the ancient ship continued on its way.

When passing the ruins of the altar and the ruins of the human face tree destroyed by Jin'an, the people in the boat couldn't help but ran to the side of the boat and looked at the ruins outside the boat, and couldn't help showing shocking expressions again.

Such a big tree fell down as soon as it was said, and they all knew that it was beyond human power!

In their eyes, Jin An is not only a divine man who manifests his holiness, but also a mighty Hercules!

Jin An, who had recovered the plague-repelling talisman, glanced at the hanged people above the cave ceiling with a heavy expression.

There are too many corpses here, and the ancient ship can't hold so many corpses, so he can only temporarily give up the idea of ​​taking these corpses out and finding a place to bury them.

"Although your souls have long been scattered, but today I completely destroyed the human-faced stinkbug and the human-faced tree that harmed you, and it can be regarded as revenge for you, and it can be regarded as an account for the dead."

……

Next, the ancient ship proceeded downstream.

Jin An has long noticed that this cave is not a dead end, but a waterway leading to other directions.

It seems that the management of the Guchi family in this mountain cannot be completed overnight.

According to the scale of the widening of the cave, it should be generations, and it took hundreds of years to gradually have the perfect waterway in front of us.

The holy mountain of Guchi country can only be seen after the snow mountain has been transformed into sea. These widened caves are not reserved for Jin'an and others, but for the family of Guchi country to enter the mountain to worship.

After passing the huge cave where the Human Face Tree was located, the ancient ship moved forward for a while, and some magnificent repairs began to appear, including gold lamp holders, and even gold-rimmed coffins as hanging coffins.

However, those golden lamp holders and coffins were destroyed along the way, those who could be taken away, those who could be pried away, and the bones in the coffin were roughly pulled out and thrown on the plank road supporting the hanging coffin.

Only a small number of items that could not be removed or pried away were left behind.

At first glance, those bones are different from the ordinary people of Guchi Kingdom who are rotten to the bone in the cliff cave outside, because they have all undergone special embalming treatment.Even in the dark and humid environment where groundwater flows through all the year round, it still maintains the appearance of a complete mummy without corruption.

"Daoist Jin'an uses coffins to collect corpses here. The people buried in these coffins should be the noble people in Guchi Kingdom." Yali said curiously, looking at the hanging coffins on the plank road.

Jin An nodded: "These bones have all been stolen. It seems that when the Lord of the Black Rain Kingdom led his troops to find the Kingdom of the Immortal God, he also let his subordinates work part-time as tomb robbers. business."

"I don't rule out another possibility... Leading the army to fight is very expensive, and the army has to be rewarded from time to time to keep the morale high. The soldiers of the Black Rain Kingdom must be jealous when they see so much gold, silver and jewelry wealth here, the Lord of the Black Rain Kingdom If you want to suppress it, you can’t suppress it, and if you are not careful, it will cause the army to mutiny. It is estimated that the Lord of the Black Rain Kingdom gave all these dead money to the soldiers accompanying the army as rewards to stabilize the morale of the army... This is not my groundless guess , look at these bones and coffins, they are all turned over in a mess, it looks like they have been rummaged by waves of people, there is no strict military discipline at all, look at the gold and silver decorations that have been pried away , The technique is rough, prying away at any cost, not knowing how to pry it, but more like a group of laymen rushing to pry it carelessly, fearing that the next good treasure will be discovered by others first..."

"It's the evil man's own punishment. These nobles of the Guchi royal family deserve what they deserve!" Yali cursed.

Holding a torch in his hand, Jin An looked at the hanging coffins along the plank road from time to time: "This should only be the tomb of the nobles of the Guchi Kingdom, not the tomb of the Guchi royal family."

Yali looked puzzled: "How did you find out, Daoist Jin'an?"

Jin'an: "No matter how small the Guchi Kingdom is, with so many levies, the tomb of the royal family should not be so shabby. Although it is a hanging coffin, it is embalmed, and it is inlaid with gold, silver and jade. In the eyes of ordinary people, it is already very luxurious, but it is still too shabby for the centralized royal family."

After hearing so much, Yali looked at Jin'an again with admiration: "Master Jin'an, you know a lot along the way. You are not only a Taoist priest, but also know how to exorcise demons, and you also know so much about cemeteries. Knows more than those grave robbers!"

Saying that, Yali gave a thumbs up sincerely: "We have caught several batches of tomb robbers before our Yueqiang Kingdom, and I feel that they are not as professional as you, Daoist Jin'an!"

Uh.

Jin An didn't go to answer Yali's words, leaving the other party with a pretentious and thoughtful back.

Not long after, the ancient ship encountered another problem, and three forks appeared in front of them.

This time, everyone in the boat was dumbfounded.

"Daoist Jin'an, did that old bastard Amur tell you, what should we do next?" Everyone looked nervously at Jin'an.

It turned out that Jin An was the most calm person in the whole boat: "It's good to sail the boat along the way. This ancient boat knows better than us how to walk the road under our feet. We don't need to deliberately interfere or worry."

what?
Everyone was stunned.

But out of fanatical admiration and trust in Jin An, no one raised any objection to this seemingly absurd idea.

A miraculous scene happened.

The water flow forked and the undercurrent was turbulent. Not only did the ancient ship not hit the mountain wall, but it passed through a fork smoothly and continued to drift deep into the dark and deep cave.

"Daoist Jin'an, this ancient ship under our feet... Did you see something?" When Yali waved away those people under his hand, he quietly approached Jin'an with a nervous expression and asked.

Although there is drought and little water in the desert, there is no shortage of legends about devil ships in the desert.

Thinking of the bones they found from the ship at the beginning, Yali is not the kind of stupid person with a brain full of muscles. Thinking of Jin'an's trust in the ancient ship several times along the way, Yali has already vaguely guessed one possibility...

If this kind of matter is not handled properly, it will easily cause an uproar in the team, so he quietly found Jin'an, hoping to get an answer from Jin'an, so that he can have a bottom line in his heart.

"Don't think too much, I said that there are underground rivers in this mountain, and the snow water has been draining out. These flowing water streams are the way to take us out. As for those dead roads with no roads, it is estimated that they have been taken away by now. Desert Haizi is filled with water, there will be no flowing water."

Jin An patted Yali on the shoulder: "Don't worry, this boat is fine and won't harm us."

Yali always felt that this matter was not as simple as Taoist Jin'an explained, but he respected Jin'an very much in his heart, and finally he chose to believe in Jin'an without reservation, shook his head, and shook away the wild thoughts in his head.

"Daoist Jin'an said there is no problem, then there must be no problem."

……

Then 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 has been standing on the bow of the boat and looking at the waterway ahead.

Although the cave is pitch black, torch lighting is limited, and the water surface is pitch black, it is impossible to see the underwater environment clearly, but one must always maintain a high degree of vigilance.

And along the way, there are also some weird experiences, such as seeing a few square-headed Tibetan fox-headed tomb-slayers.

Several cocoon urns and painted pottery pots with human faces were also found floating along the water.

However, these clay pots have been broken, and the human-faced cadavers and human-faced stinkbugs are gone. I don't know if the pots were smashed in the water, and the poisonous insects inside escaped.

In addition, they came across a huge cave similar to the human face tree, but the altar in that huge cave had been destroyed.

It was blown up by dynamite.

It is impossible to know what was originally sacrificed.

But the only one who can use explosives to blow things up here is the army led by the Lord of the Black Rain Kingdom.

Even the altar of the Human Face Tree was not blown up with explosives, but the altar in the second huge cave was blown up. I don’t know what happened to the people of the Lord of the Black Rain Kingdom, they would rather use explosives to blow it up?

This incident also reminded Jin An that it is very likely that he guessed wrong a little. The human face tree is only an important part of the Guchi Kingdom's sacrificial ceremony, but it is not the most important one. There should be several more. Similar to an altar.

So along the way, Jin'an is more careful to beware of things in the dark.

call--

Just when Jin An was thinking about what was in the second altar, the tattered sails on the mast of the ancient ship suddenly fluttered slightly.

This subtle change immediately caught Jin An's attention.

Jin An lifted his spirits: "There is wind."

Yari: "Wind?"

Jin An didn't need to explain. Soon, everyone saw the sails fluttering again, and the wind meant there was an exit. Everyone was in high spirits.

For these desert people who are used to the scorching sun, this dark and humid cave 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 sun again.

The hotter the sun, the darker the shadows on the ground, and the darker the abyss, the warmer the sun. Someone suddenly pointed in one direction and shouted excitedly: "There is sunshine over there! I see the sun! I see the sun!"

With this cry, everyone shouted to the bow of the ship to look around. When they saw the familiar warm golden light again in the dark world, people shouted for joy.

Hearing the movement on the deck, even the sheep and camels in the cabin tried their best to get into 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 slanting sun shone into the cave, and dust particles danced in the golden slanting sun. Everyone was finally convinced that it was indeed sunlight!They finally found the exit!

At this time, without listening to the shouts of the people on the deck, even the few sheep and twenty or so camels in the cabin could see the setting sun shining into the cave.

After turning around a rock wall, they finally found the hole where the sunlight came in, and saw the golden cross outside as the sun was setting.

When they entered the mountain early in the morning, they had already walked around the mountain for a whole day, and it was almost dark outside. There are still many secrets that have not been discovered in the depth of the mountain, probably not even one out of ten.

People stay in the dark environment for a long time, and the first time they see the strong sunlight will cause short-term discomfort. When everyone gradually adapts to the glare of the sun, and opens their eyes to look at the entrance of the cave again, the heart beats!
So many bones!

There are densely packed bones in front of my eyes!

There are adult bones!

There are also bones of children!

The bones are like a mountain!

I don't know how many people were brutally killed during the years when the Guchi Kingdom existed!
"This is..." Yali looked at the Bone Mountain in front of him, with a surprised expression on his face.

Jin An frowned: "This should be a corpse pit, a place for throwing and disposing of corpses."

After being stunned at the beginning, Yali looked at Jin'an suspiciously: "The place where the corpses are 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 to help them expand the holy mountain. During this period, there will inevitably be a large number of people who died of exhaustion or disease. These corpses are impossible. Throw them away casually, otherwise corpse plague will easily break out, so they must have a special place for collecting corpses."

It is said that one will succeed and ten thousand bones will dry up.

The mass grave in front of us is the truest portrayal of the Guchi Kingdom.

Jin An looked around, and suddenly frowned.

At this time, Yali suddenly yelled in surprise: "That's not right, Daoist Jin'an! If this is the exit, why is there no boat where the Lord of the Black Rain Kingdom led the army into the sacred mountain of Guchi Kingdom?"

"No, no, no, no, the army of the Guchi Kingdom must not need one or two ships to enter the mountain! Why don't we see even one ship here?"

"Even after so many years, if the ship sank or rotted, there should still be some traces left, such as wooden fragments, ropes, anchors, etc.! There are so many ships, it is impossible to say that they have disappeared completely! This is not right. !"

In fact, Yali's question was exactly Jin'an's inner question.

But at this time, the ancient ship docked and stopped moving forward.

"Yari, let's put down the plank and get off the boat to see what's going on here?" Soon someone put down the plank, and Jin'an took Yali and the others out of the boat to check.

It didn't feel good to walk on the dead bones of a mass grave, and the people of Yaris prayed to the dead souls in the language of the desert along the way, and followed Jin'an all the way to the entrance of the cave above the slope.

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Everyone stepped on countless bone mountains all the way to the entrance of the cave. When they saw the long-lost sunshine again, they subconsciously raised their hands to block their eyes.

After the vision is fully restored, looking into the distance, there seems to be a very huge ancient city looming at the end of the vast desert. There seems to be something shining in the ancient city under the setting sun.

"Is that the country that has been mysteriously rumored for thousands of years in the desert, the country of Guchi...?" Someone in the team trembled in surprise.

Jin An's emotions recovered faster than these people, and he began to turn his head to look at the surrounding environment. It seems that their current location is not the back of Zangshi Ridge, but the southwest or northwest.

Because they followed the sun in the east to find the holy mountain of Guchi country at the beginning. If they are now on the back of the holy mountain of Guchi country, they should not be able to see the sunset but only the sunset glow.

Jin An glanced at the positions of the sun and the moon. At this time of sunset, a round of blurred moon gradually appeared at the end of the sky.

He finally determined that they came out from the northwest of Zangshi Ridge.

"Yari, you send someone to call everyone out, it's going to be dark soon, you can't stay overnight in this corpse ridge." Jin An turned his head and ordered.

Yali hurriedly ordered people to go back to the boat and inform everyone to come out.

When they learned that they had really walked out of the holy mountain of Guchi Kingdom and suspected that they had found the legendary Guchi Kingdom, cheers came from the ancient boat, and everyone began to lead the camels and sheep off the boat.

Although those camels carrying clean water, food and other supplies are not easy to walk in this creepy bone mountain, but fortunately, with the help of humans and animals, they overcome difficulties along the way.

"Daoist Jin'an, I still don't understand why the ship of the Black Rain Kingdom army didn't show up here?" Yali kept thinking about this question.

At this time, Jin'an was carefully observing the entrance of the cave: "The Tibetan Corpse Ridge is intricate and complicated, and the mountain is full of cracks. Maybe the Lord of the Black Rain Kingdom has found another exit. Yali, come and see the rocks at the entrance of the cave. Do you find anything unusual? ?”

"Strange?" Yali also went to the entrance of the cave to check, but after looking for a long time, he had no clue.

"The rocks here are newer than other places, and the entrance of this cave is new." Jin An clapped his hands and said firmly.

"new?"

"Is there anyone else who used explosives to blow out the hole before us?"

Ali was taken aback.

(End of this chapter)