White Bone Monkey King

In ancient times, Wu Gang cut down trees.

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

The Kunwu knife made a lot of noise, and Jin An slashed seven times before cutting down the human face tree.

However, those blind piranhas underwater are very smart. Although they are blind and cannot see, their underwater touch is very keen. The vibration pattern of the Kunwu knife hitting the water made these piranhas aware that they were not easy to mess with. At this time, they hid Stay far away, no piranha dares to get close.

After Jin An destroyed the altar, destroyed the evil human-faced tree, and destroyed all the painted pottery pots with human faces, he looked around and saw that nothing was missing. Then he stamped his feet on the ground and jumped smoothly onto the ancient ship a few feet away. .

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

Yali stood up and replied with sincerity: "Taoist Master Jin'an, we always thought that no matter how powerful you are, you are still just like us, a living person of flesh and blood... But we just discovered today that you are different from us. You are not a human being. You are a human being." God-man! He is a man-god!"

Jin An's face turned dark: "Yari, are you going around the corner and scolding me for not being a human being, or are you scolding me for not being a thing?"

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

Ari panicked and wanted to stop Jin An's bleeding and bandage his wound.

Jin An thanked the other party for his kindness: "We cultivators have good physical constitution, and this small injury will heal on its own soon. Yali ordered us to continue on the road and get out of the holy mountain of Guchi Kingdom as soon as possible before dark."

Next, the ancient ship continued on its way.

When passing by the ruins of the altar and the human-faced tree destroyed by Jin'an, the people in the boat couldn't help but run to the side of the ship and look at the ruins outside the ship, and couldn't help showing shocked expressions again.

Such a big tree was felled immediately. They all knew that this was beyond human power!

In their eyes, Jin An is not only a holy man, but also a powerful Hercules!

Jin An, who had already taken back the plague-repelling talisman, looked at the hanging people above the cave ceiling with a heavy expression.

There were too many corpses here, and the ancient ship could not hold so many corpses. He could only temporarily give up the idea of ​​taking these corpses out and finding a place to bury them.

"Although you have already lost your souls, today I completely destroyed the human-faced bug and the human-faced tree that harmed you. It can be regarded as avenging you and giving an explanation to the deceased."

…

Next, the ancient ship moves forward along the river.

Jin An had long noticed that the cave was not a dead end, but had waterways leading to other directions.

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

According to the size of the cave after it was widened, it should have taken generations and hundreds of years to gradually create the perfect waterway in front of us.

This sacred mountain of the Guchi Kingdom can only be seen after the snow-capped mountains turn into the sea. These expanded caves are not reserved for Jin'an and the others, but are reserved for the Guchi Nation's clan to enter the mountain for worship.

After passing the huge cave where the human-faced tree is located, the ancient ship advanced for a while, and some magnificent renovations began to appear. There were gold lamp holders, and there was even a gold-trimmed coffin that served as a hanging coffin.

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

Only a small amount of things that couldn't be taken away or pried away were left behind.

At first glance, those bones were different from the ordinary people of Guchi who were rotten to death in the cliff cave outside, because they had all undergone special embalming treatment. Even in a dark and humid environment where groundwater flows through all year round, it still maintains the appearance of a complete mummy and has never decayed.

"Taoist Master Jin'an has corpses buried in coffins here. The people buried in these coffins should be the noble people in Guchi Kingdom." Yari looked curiously at the coffins hanging on the plank road and said.

Jin An nodded: "These bones have been stolen. It seems that when the leader of the Black Rain Kingdom led his men to find the Kingdom of the Immortal God, he also let his subordinates work part-time as tomb robbers. Treasure thieves like this are the underworld. business."

"I don't rule out another possibility... Leading an army to fight is very expensive. You have to reward the army from time to time to keep morale high. The soldiers of the Black Rain Kingdom must be jealous when they see so much gold, silver and jewelry here. Lord of the Black Rain Kingdom It can't be suppressed even if you don't want to, and it will cause a mutiny in the army if you are not careful. It is estimated that the leader of the Black Rain Kingdom gave these dead people's wealth to the soldiers accompanying the army as rewards to stabilize the morale of the army... This is not what I guessed out of thin air. , you see these bones and coffins, they are all very messy, it looks like they are being rummaged by waves of people, there is no sign of strict military discipline at all, look at the gold and silver decorations that have been pried away. , the techniques are rough, and they want to pry away even if they are damaged. They don’t know how to pry, but they are more like a group of laymen who are eager to pry indiscriminately, as if they are afraid that if they are too late, the next good treasure will be discovered by others first..."

"This can be regarded as evil people getting their own way, and these Guchi royal family and nobles deserve what they deserve!" Yali cursed.

Jin An held a torch and looked at the hanging coffins that he encountered from time to time along the plank road: "This should only be the tomb of the nobles of the Guchi Kingdom, not the royal family of the Guchi Kingdom."

Ari's eyes were puzzled: "How did you figure it out, Master Jin'an?"

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

After hearing so much, Yali looked at Jin An with admiration again: "Taoist Master Jin An, you have learned so much along the way. You are not only a Taoist priest who knows how to exorcise demons, but you also know so much about cemeteries. Yali, I think you, Taoist Jin An, He knows more than those tomb robbers!"

Saying that, Yali gave a thumbs up sincerely: "We have caught several groups of tomb robbers in the Yueqiang Kingdom before, but I feel that none of them are as professional as you, Taoist Priest Jin'an!"

Well.

Jin An did not pick up Yali's words, leaving him with a pretentious and thoughtful figure behind him.

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

At this time, everyone on the boat was dumbfounded.

"Taoist Master Jin An, has that old bastard Amul told you about the next step?" Everyone looked at Jin An nervously.

It turned out that Jin An was the most calm and calm person on the whole ship: "Just sail along smoothly. This ancient ship knows better than us how to take the road under our feet. We don't need to deliberately interfere or worry."

ah?

Everyone was stunned.

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

A magical scene happened.

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

"Taoist Master Jin An, this ancient ship under our feet...did you see anything?" After Yali waved away the people under his command, he quietly approached Jin An and asked with a nervous expression.

Although the desert is dry and lacks water, there are many legends about devil ships in the desert.

Thinking back to the bones they found on the ship at the beginning, Yari was not the kind of stupid person who was full of muscles. Thinking of the trust shown in the ancient ship several times along the way to Jin'an, Yari had already vaguely guessed One possibility...

If this kind of thing is not handled well, it can easily cause an uproar in the team, so he quietly found Jin An, hoping to get answers from Jin An so that he could have a better understanding.

"Don't think too much about it. I said that there are underground rivers in this mountain. The snow water is always draining out. These flowing streams of living water are the way to take us out. As for those dead roads with no roads, they have probably been destroyed by now. The desert sea is filled with water and there will be no flowing water."

Jin An patted Yari on the shoulder: "Don't worry, there is nothing wrong with this ship and it won't harm us."

Yali always felt that this matter was not as simple as what Taoist Jin An explained, but he respected Jin An very much in his heart. In the end, he chose to believe in Jin An without any reservation, shook his head, and shook away the random thoughts in his mind.

"Taoist Master Jin An said there is no problem, then there will definitely be no problem."

…

Next, 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 looking at the waterway ahead.

Although it is pitch dark in the cave, the torch lighting is limited, and the water surface is so dark that it is difficult to see the underwater environment, you still need to remain highly alert at all times.

And there were some weird experiences along the way, such as seeing a few Tibetan fox-headed tomb-suppressing beasts with square heads.

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

However, these clay pots have been broken, and the human-faced corpse crickets and bugs inside are missing. It is not known whether the pots were broken by the water flow, and the poisonous insects inside escaped.

In addition, they encountered a huge cave similar to the Sacrificial Human Face Tree, but the altar in that huge cave had been destroyed.

It was blown up by explosives.

It is impossible to know what was originally sacrificed.

But the only ones who can use explosives to blow things up here are the army led by the leader 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 wonder what the people of the Black Rain Kingdom encountered, and they would rather use explosives to blow it up?

This incident also reminded Jin An that he might have guessed wrong. The human-faced 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 was more cautious about things in the dark.

call--

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

This subtle change immediately caught Jin An's attention.

Jin An perked up and said, "It's windy."

Ari: "Is it windy?"

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

For these desert people who are accustomed to the scorching sun, this dark and humid cave with no sunlight 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 sky again.

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

This cry immediately made everyone cheer and look at the bow of the ship. When they saw the familiar warm golden light again in the dark world, people cheered wildly.

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

At this time, there was no need to listen to the shouts of the people on the deck. Even the few sheep and the twenty-odd sand bandit camels in the cabin saw the setting sun shining into the cave.

After turning around a rock wall, they finally found the entrance of the cave where the sun shone in, and saw the golden cross of the setting sun outside.

They entered the mountain early in the morning. Unexpectedly, they had been wandering around the mountain for a whole day. It was almost dark outside. There were still many secrets in the depths of the mountain that had not yet been discovered. I am afraid they had not even explored ten or two of them.

When people stay in a dark environment for a long time, they will be temporarily uncomfortable when they first see the strong sunlight. When everyone gradually adapts to the glare of the sun, and opens their eyes again to look at the hole with joy, their hearts skip a beat!

So many bones!

Everything in front of me is densely packed with bones!

There are adult bones!

There are also bones of children!

The bones are as strong as a mountain!

I don’t know how many people the Guchi Kingdom brutally killed during the years it existed!

"This is..." Ari looked at the Bone Mountain in front of him, with an expression of astonishment on his face.

Jin An frowned: "This should be a corpse pit, a place where corpses are dumped and disposed of."

After Yali was stunned at first, he looked at Jin An with confusion: "A place where corpses were 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 laborers to help them expand the Holy Mountain. During this period, there will inevitably be a large number of people who die from overwork or illness. These corpses cannot be If you just discard them casually, otherwise corpse plague will easily break out, so they must have a place specifically designed to gather abandoned corpses."

It is said that one general can achieve great success but ten thousand bones will wither.

This mass grave in front of us is not the most realistic portrayal of Guchi Country.

Jin An looked around and suddenly frowned.

At this moment, Yali suddenly shouted in surprise: "That's not right, Taoist Master Jin'an! If this is the exit, why is there no ship here where the leader of the Black Rain Kingdom led the army to the holy mountain of Guchi Kingdom?"

“No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, the Guchi Kingdom’s army is marching into the mountains, and the ships they need are certainly not as simple as one or two! 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 fragments of planks, ropes, anchors, etc. There are so many ships, it is impossible to say that they have disappeared completely! This is wrong !”

In fact, Ari's question was also Jin An's inner question.

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

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

The feeling of walking on dead bones in mass graves was not pleasant. The Yali people prayed to these dead souls in the language of the desert along the way, and followed Jin An to the entrance of the cave diagonally above.

Click——

Click——

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

After the vision was completely restored, looking into the distance, there seemed to be a very huge ancient city standing faintly at the end of the vast desert. There seemed to be something shining in the ancient city in the sunset.

"Is that the Gu, Gu Chi country that has been mysteriously rumored in the desert for thousands of years...?" Someone in the team said with a trembling voice in surprise.

Jin An's mood recovered faster than these people. He began to turn his head and look at the surrounding environment. The location they were currently in seemed not to be on the back of the Corpse Ridge, but to the southwest or northwest.

Because they initially followed the east sun to find the Holy Mountain of Guchi Kingdom. If they were now on the back of the Holy Mountain of Guchi Kingdom, they should not be able to see the setting sun and could only see the sunset.

Jin An looked at the position of the sun and moon. At this time, the sun was setting and a blurry moon gradually appeared at the end of the sky.

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

"Yari, send someone to call everyone out. It's going to be dark soon. We can't stay here overnight in the Corpse Hidden Ridge." Jin An turned around and ordered.

Ari quickly ordered people back to the ship to tell everyone to come out.

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

Although it was difficult for the camels, which were carrying water, food and other supplies, to walk in this terrifying mountain of bones, fortunately, they overcame the difficulties with the help of humans and animals.

"Taoist Master Jin'an, I still don't understand why the ship of the Black Rain Nation's army didn't appear here?" Yari has been thinking about this problem.

At this time, Jin An was carefully observing the entrance of the cave: "This Corpse Hidden Ridge is complicated, with cracks crisscrossing the mountain. Maybe the Lord of the Black Rain Kingdom has found another exit. Ari, come over and look at the rocks at the entrance of the cave. Do you find anything strange? ?”

"Strange?" Ari also walked 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. This cave entrance 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?"

Ari was shocked.