Holy Bone

Chapter 458

The temple in the cave is built against the mountain.

The mountain is hollowed out, and the main body of the building is hidden in the mountain.

Jin An and Young Master Yiyun ran ahead, followed by other Western Regions people. As soon as the group ran into the temple, those Western Regions people were stunned.

"Ok?"

"My God!"

"what is this!"

Jin An has thought about the scene after entering the temple more than once. He even expected that there will be dead people in the temple, such as the mummified corpse of Wuer, the hanging corpse that cannot occupy the land after death... he also knows all kinds of foreseeable evil corpses, weird corpses and strange corpses. They've all been considered, but they're the only ones who didn't expect to meet such a dead man who died in such an absurd way.

A big man dressed like a northern prairie nation died leaning against a stone pillar. His upper body was blown to pieces, and the splashed flesh and blood splattered several feet away and several feet high, covering the stone pillar, the surrounding ground, and even some The ceiling of the ten-meter-high temple was glued together, and the flesh and blood were all black flesh and flesh shaped like human ears, too many to count.

Looking at this strange way of death, Jin An could even imagine that this man was bewitched by an evil spirit, his stomach was covered with sarcoid tumors like human ears, and he was finally blown up alive, and then died tragically in this underground temple where no one cares about him. .

This man's evil death method is far more than that.

Because of the impact of the explosion, his entire spine stuck to the wall with his head on top, and the upper half of his head exploded, and layers of human flesh ears exploded on the wall like waves, like a blooming delicate and poisonous flower , it looks like even the brain is full of human ears...

...Only the part of the face below the eyes remained intact, and his mouth kept a weird smile, as if the man still had consciousness after his tragic death, and he was smiling at Jin'an and the others.

Looking at that weird smile, Jin An thought of those weird laughing corpses in the laughing corpse farm.

Thinking of this, Jin An turned his head and asked Mr. Yiyun beside him for confirmation: "Mr. Yiyun, do you feel that the smile on that half of the face seems familiar?"

Mr. Yiyun is very smart, she said without hesitation: "Daoist Jin'an wants to say, the smile on this half face is like those laughing corpses in the Laughing Corpse Village that are full of human ears and flesh puppets?"

"It turns out that you, Mr. Yiyun, also feel this way." Jin An pondered and frowned slightly.

He looked at the strange corpse in front of him and analyzed: "The identity of this dead man is undoubtedly a nomad from the northern grasslands."

Then Jin An talked about some imitation voices he heard from the phoenix when he spent the night in Guchi country.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Yiyun was not surprised at all after hearing this, she already knew about it.

This saves Jin An a lot of explanations. He looked at the temple in front of him, and continued to speak out some of his conjectures: "Is there such a possibility, those people from the northern grasslands, they first found us a few days ago and stayed in the desert. The veterans here in Mozhi'er, and those veterans tricked those people into eating the human ear flesh puppet..."

"There is a tiankeng with the ear of the gods here, those people will definitely come down to investigate, that is, in the process they discovered the secret of the Yin-Yang stone ladder, and then found the huge cave we are in through the Yin-Yang ladder..."

"It's just that I don't know what happened later, and one of them died here, and he died in the temple in such a tragic way."

"As a nomadic empire, the northern grassland tribes are naturally aggressive and murderous. When they find their own people are killed, they will definitely not let it go...Here we can make a bolder assumption that those people will not let it go, so we found those left behind veterans, And there was a conflict, and in the end those people in the northern grassland won an overwhelming victory with a numerical advantage, but they didn't immediately kill the veterans who stayed behind, but took people away to help them find the Centipede ruins."

Hearing this, Young Master Yiyun frowned and thought, "Maybe it wasn't that he was forcibly taken away, but for self-protection, he offered to know the news about Baizu and promised to take them to find Baizu as a way to delay the attack. Not to be killed for the time being."

Jin An nodded and said, "It is indeed possible."

Although many of the conversations between the two were incomprehensible to those people from the Western Regions, they understood one thing. They would die, and they would die in a miserable way like the person who was stuck on the wall and couldn't get it off.

"What, what is a human-eared flesh puppet?"

"Are we really going to die like this guy on the wall?"

"Yes, but many people have eaten those fragrant meats, everyone is fine..."

These people from the Western Regions said tremblingly.

Although they said they didn't believe it, they looked over with trepidation. They had already believed what Jin An and Mr. Yiyun said, and their eyes showed pleading looks, begging them to save them.

"The first goal now is to catch up with Ayimaimaiti, Aheqi and the others. Let's talk about this as we walk."

Next, a group of people walked through the wall of human ears and flesh that splashed upwards and adhered to the ceiling of the temple, and walked into the depths of the temple.

On the way, they encountered several similar dead bodies, all of which had their stomachs and brains exploded. The stone brick floor, stone wall, and ceiling above their heads were covered with flesh and blood. Even everywhere, turning the supposedly grand and tall temple into something more absurd and treacherous than a ghost cave.

Seeing so many tragic deaths, the people from the Western Regions were all terrified. At this time, they wished they could slap their mouths a little more, because they were too greedy at the time, otherwise they wouldn't have committed such evil things.

After scolding themselves, they scolded those veterans in the Laughing Corpse Village again. When they see those veterans again, they will definitely not be polite to those veterans, and they will not be able to buckle their heads if they are stuck here.

Hearing the harsh words of those people from the Western Regions, Jin An subconsciously said: "It seems that those veterans ran rightly, otherwise they would have died too badly after staying."

Those people from the Western Regions were dumbfounded.

Daoist Jin'an, which side are you on?

Jin An glanced at these people: "I think those human-eared meat spirit puppets are a bit like Gu, the Gu worms are constantly multiplying, and passed on from generation to generation to the next generation... You should be thankful that the amount of delicious meat you eat is not much. I ate a meal of fragrant meat, so the time of poisoning is not so fast."

"Also, you should thank old man Jiufeng even more. If he hadn't burned down the entire Laughing Corpse Manor, along with those laughing corpses and flesh puppets, you might still be staying in the Laughing Corpse Manor. Lianlian is reluctant to leave."

Listening to Jin An's lecture, these people from the Western Regions did not hold back their necks to refute, but really thanked Old Man Jiufeng: "Yes, yes, Daoist Jin'an is right, we should thank Old Man Jiufeng, thank you Feng Jiu The old man Apa Ata, sister, grandpa, grandma, thank you to the family of old man Jiufeng."

puff.

Mr. Yiyun laughed softly, and couldn't help but cast a sideways glance at Jin An. Jin An's flamboyance in that gaze made Jin An smash his mouth. It's a pity that Mr. Yiyun doesn't wear women's skirts or a cloud bun.

Jin An glared at those Westerners who couldn't speak: "Are there any of you who are so thankful? It sounds more like scolding the whole family of your savior."

They all complained: "Master Jin'an, of course we are sincerely grateful to old man Jiufeng, even his Apa Ata grandparents and his family are sincerely grateful."

After they finished speaking, they still looked at Jin An curiously.

What they thanked was Old Man Jiufeng.

Why did Daoist Jin'an react so strongly?
Jin An's face turned black.

Originally, he had some good feelings for these people from the Western Regions who valued love and righteousness and went deep into the "hell" to save their companions regardless of danger, but now he was so angry that his face turned black.

The main buildings of this temple are all inside the mountain. The temple is tall and spacious, with two rows of thick stone pillars standing in the center.

And in front of each stone pillar stands a stone god statue.

Those human-headed statues polished with huge stones are each ten feet high, but have no ears. The expressions of each earless stone statue are different, with joys and sorrows, anger, sorrow and joy.

The environment in the temple is a little dark. Those huge earless stone statues with different expressions, in this dim environment, look a little towering and evil. I don’t know if it’s the oppressive feeling brought by the dark space. I always feel that these stone statues are cold and faint. Staring at everyone who entered the temple.

Walking through two rows of stone pillars and stone statues, there is an altar in the tall temple.

On the altar, they finally found Ayimaimat, Aqqi, and Abbas, the earless man who was running around.

The earless Abbas was lying on the altar madly, as if he could hear the will of the gods.

"Great you're all safe here!"

"What's the matter with you, didn't you agree to wait where you are, why can't we see you when we come down!"

The people from the Western Regions excitedly ran over to reunite with Aheqi and the others.

Ayimamet and Aheqi were also happy to be reunited with their companions. Aheqi explained: "It's not that we want to run around, but Abbas is running around. I saw Ayimamet I went to chase Abbas, I was afraid that there would be another accident between them, so I went to chase Abbas with Ai Yimaimati, and planned to control Abbas and come back to you... Who knew that Abbas would fall If you have a broken leg, you can still run like that, and run all the way into this temple."

At this time, Jin An and Mr. Yiyun also came to the altar.

Huh?
Jin An saw that there were many dried and blackened bloodstains on the altar. The bloodstains were so thick that even after a thousand years, the thick dust on the ground could not cover up the black and red bloodstains.

"This is the temple, and here is another altar that has been stained with a lot of blood. Could this be the place where Wu Ershi performed the ear-cutting ritual?" Mr. Yiyun glanced at Madman and lay on the altar as if he was listening to the gods. Abbas, the earless man of will, whispered to Jin'an.

"The ear-cutting ceremony is a very grand ceremony for the Wuer family. It is impossible to just find a place to cut off the ears. They must have a special place to hold a grand ceremony. I think it should be here .”

"And you can see the appearance of Abbas the Earless, which proves that this altar is very important to the Earless, and it is an important part of the major sacrificial activities."

The altar under their feet is very strange.

Carved with many human ears.

The altar was built very large, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there are tens of thousands of human ears on the altar.

"Compared with this, what I'm more curious about is that there are so many real human ears carved on this altar. Are they real human ears or fake human ears carved out of stone?" Jin An said. Mr. Yun was speechless for a while.

Jin An was still carefully observing the altar under his feet, and did not notice the subtle expression changes on Mr. Yiyun's face, and continued to say: "If it is really used by the Wuer clan to perform the ear-cutting ceremony here, it is the most important thing for the Wuer clan. The most sacred place for major sacrifices, will they cut off their ears and sacrifice to the gods in this way? Then they can hear the will of the gods in the ear holes of the gods' ears all the time .”

"That's why I guess, so many human ears on this altar, could they be real human ears?"

If this desert ear tiankeng is really the ear of some kind of god, they are now deep into the tiankeng, so Jin An is not wrong to say that this is an ear hole.

Young Master Yiyun: "..."

She was a little disgusted, because she also felt that it was very likely that this matter was true.

"You are all here, what about Lord Yan and those people? They came down with you, Aheqi, why didn't you see them? We have been here for so long, but we haven't seen them?" Jin An asked Ayimaimati and Aheqi He Qi.

Aheqi talked a lot, and it was he who answered Jin An: "Those two people are studying a stone gate at the end of the temple."

"Shimen?"

Jin An followed the direction of Aheqi's finger, squinting his eyes slightly in the dark environment, and looked carefully, and sure enough, he faintly saw an open stone door in the dark place.

But Lord Yan and the mountain guard were not there.

Aheqi also found that there was no one at the stone gate, and was taken aback: "Huh? When are they not there?"

"Just now they have been studying Shimen there, and they have been muttering there, as if they have discovered something. When did they enter behind Shimen?"

Jin An and Mr. Yiyun exchanged glances, and walked towards Shimen.

It is said to be a stone gate, but it is actually a stone gate. Now the stone gate has been blasted with a big gap. Judging by the level of dust falling, it should be blasted by those northern grassland people a few days ago.

Jin An: "Those people are really not afraid of death. They dare to use explosives to blow up the gate here."

Mr. Yiyun: "Maybe it's because they didn't recognize the black water as fierce fire oil, so they acted recklessly."

Jin An stretched out a thumb: "It's Mr. Yiyun, you have a real insight."

Mr. Yiyun rolled his eyes at Jin An: "Don't talk too much, the grassland is as barren as the desert. How can you not know such a simple matter, Daoist Jin'an?"

Next, the two held torches in their hands and looked at the stone gate, wondering what secret Yan Kuan and the mountain guard had discovered.

There was a huge relief carved on the stone gate, but half of the relief was destroyed by explosives. Relying on half-guessing, the two gradually sorted out the general content of the relief.

The stone gate is carved with the purpose of the temple in Wuershi.

This temple is the place where the Wuershi used to perform ear-cutting ceremonies, major sacrificial days, obtain water sources, and sleep and live in the high priest.This Wuer clan is a desert theocratic country. The real ruler is not the king. The king is just an ordinary person selected by the high priest to manage the secular kingdom for the gods. The high priest can abolish the king at any time.

The reason why the high priest of Wuershi has such great divine power is that according to the description on the relief, it is because the first high priest was the one who entered the deepest ears of the gods, so he was also the person closest to the gods. After the ground, he said that he had heard the will of the gods, walked the world on behalf of the gods, and became the envoy of the gods.

Because no one can penetrate deeper into the ears of the gods than the high priest, the people of the Wuer clan will believe whatever the high priest says.

Even the words of the high priest are greater than the authority of the king.

So this Wuer clan later became a theocratic country.

Each generation of High Priest is appointed by the previous generation to take over from its own disciples.

The high priest would spread the will of God every once in a while. The high priest said that whoever was made the king would be the king, and the high priest would offend the god's body if he condemned to death.

As a result, no one in the Wuer Clan could shake the theocracy, and it has been firmly controlled by the high priest.

(End of this chapter)