Bo Ni Ya is a short and small girl, completely different from the "Witch of Fire" that Hao Ren had guessed before. She was wearing an oversized dark red cloth robe, her long brown hair was braided behind her back, and colored silk threads were woven into her hair for decoration. This little girl timidly hid behind the adults, observing the actions of Vivian and Hao Ren with her big shining eyes. She didn't dare to salute to Vivian until Geisel called her out: It's not like a high-ranking "saint" role at all.
"Bernia was just elected as a saint last year," the elder of the Fire Tribe, the strong middle-aged man who looked like a warrior, explained with some embarrassment, "The last saint died suddenly. Ya took up the post in a hurry before she even had time to learn the knowledge of spells and rituals. However, her belief in the gods and her natural ability as a saint are all right, and she will definitely be your guide."
Vivienne looked at the timid little girl curiously, who blinked her eyes and looked at her carefully, and said in a very small voice: "Goddess, praise... praise you, your coming makes the earth... the earth panic …”
Almost like crying.
"Take us to the place where the witch is buried," Vivienne said directly, not to let the little girl continue to be nervous, "The others don't need to follow."
No one expressed any opinion on Vivienne's arrangement. Gezel and the warriors of the Fire Tribe retreated together. When Hao Ren heard them leave, they had already started to talk about the process of the goddess's coming and how Gezel was able to escape in an instant. The Wind Tribe arrived at this place. And Bernia was left alone. She glanced at Vivienne carefully, and raised her finger to the root of the giant tree of Tianzhu: "There, far away, to enter the Pillar of Eternity."
The Tianzhu giant tree is so huge that a single root can be called a mountain range, and a small hole in the trunk can be called a tunnel. The Fire Tribe lives at the foot of this giant tree, but their range of activities is no bigger than a group of How big is the territory of ants that nest in tree roots. The "temple" that Bonia refers to is a tribal holy place located in the center of the giant tree of Tianzhu, so how far is it from the nearest tree root to the center of the trunk
Ten kilometers.
Such is the majesty and astonishment of the miracle plant created by the firstborn.
Hao Ren took Bo Niya with him. Drive directly to that holy place.
This Tianzhu giant tree is similar to the one that the group passed through at first, and it is also hollow. After entering the interior through a triangular crack at the root of the tree trunk, you will see a huge dark space. But the difference is that there are many traces of human activities here as the base of the Fire Tribe. Some lights can be seen in the open space inside the giant tree, and there is a wide avenue that has been repaired from the crack in the trunk to the center. At the end of this road, Hao Ren saw the so-called "sacred temple" that Bo Niya said. Unlike other temples he had seen, the building in front of him was much simpler than he imagined. It was just a building made of wood and stones. It is a building that resembles the Pyramid of Dorazil. Not gorgeous, not even stylish.
Of course, even so, it is still much stronger than the tribal yurts outside.
"The witch and the saint four hundred years ago are buried behind the temple," Bernia seemed relieved when she came here, and she took the initiative to guide Vivienne a little boldly, "It's very quiet here, only those who do ceremonies That's when soldiers will come here."
At this time, Lily was looking up at the chaotic darkness above, which undoubtedly led to the surface crust of Purgatory Planet: "Say you build a house here... you won't be hit by things falling from above Is it?"
Bernia was dumbfounded. Whispered: "Occasionally... something will fall."
Lily was startled: "Isn't that very dangerous?!"
Bernia maintained a blank expression, as if she hadn't thought about this question at all: "God bless, so it's no problem."
Lily felt unbelievable: "What if it gets hit? Or even gets hit to death?"
"Then... it's still God's blessing. If you are crushed to death, you should be able to be with the goddess," Bernia finished in a daze. He quickly raised his head and glanced at Vivian, "Really?"
Looking at the darkness above her head, Vivian felt guilty, let alone protecting others, but she could only bite the bullet and nod when faced with Bernia's stubborn question: "I will bless you, I will bless you Yes—but I still suggest that you don’t move around inside the tree trunk in the future, you can go outside for the ceremony, this pillar leads to the surface, if something falls, it’s not just a matter of smashing the bag.”
Boniya didn't know if she understood or not, she just shook her head up and down in a daze. Then take a group of people to see the witch's grave.
Behind the "temple" is a large open space surrounded by round stones, and many stone bags piled up with crushed stones are neatly arranged on the open space. The stone packets themselves are indistinguishable. But there is a rough stone pillar erected on the top of the stone bag, and simple information such as the name of the owner of the tomb is written on the pillar with hieroglyphic symbols. The witch who came from the earth, had explored the depths of the Purgatory Star, and had an extraordinary life experience slept in this cemetery. Her stone bag was mixed with other people's, and there was nothing special about it.
Bernia pointed to the tomb of the witch, and there was only a simple sentence on the stone pillar above it: witch, friend, stranger, you are sleeping here, and may your soul return to your hometown in your sleep.
"That's it." Bernia said, bending slightly in front of the stone bag, and performed a simple blessing and comfort with a complicated and strange gesture.
Vivian looked curiously at the graves around her: "All the saints of the Fire Tribe are buried here?"
Bernia shook her head up and down: "Yes."
"Do you allow a foreigner—and maybe a 'cursed' foreigner to be buried with the saints?" Hesianna took up the question, "You don't have any taboos in this regard?"
"This was specially allowed by the saint back then. It is said that the saint and the witch are good friends, and they cured the black spot plague back then," Bernia said, suddenly looking at Wei Wei nervously. An glanced, "Is that... not possible?"
Vivian waved her hand immediately: "Oh no, it's okay, it's fine."
"Besides this grave, what else did the witch leave behind?" Hao Ren was not satisfied with only one grave in front of him. "Relics, messages, or other legends are all fine. By the way, you won't take all her things together." Is it buried?"
He subconsciously glanced at Lily as he spoke, thinking that if all the witch's relics had been buried with him, then he had no choice but to ask Lily to throw away the grave, anyway, she was best at digging holes. Lily noticed Hao Ren's eyes and her whole body became excited, she drew her paws and hid behind Nangong Wuyue: "Landlord, don't look at me! Digging a hole is not the same as digging a grave!"
Fortunately, the things left by the witch were not buried with them. As Hao Ren expected, people who accidentally wandered into this situation would find a way to pass on their stories to compatriots who might visit here again—the one left by the witch She downloaded a lot of things, and asked her indigenous friends to keep them properly.
Bonia led a group of people into the temple (actually a larger stone house), and found some seriously discolored parchment scrolls and stone tablets with inscriptions, as well as miscellaneous things from an ancient stone box. Many things: "This is what the witch left behind."
Hao Ren felt like he had found a treasure, these things were what he wanted. Vivian also couldn't wait to check the relics. She saw scrolls and papers made of black goatskin, a ritual knife carved from obsidian, glass bottles that once held potions, some fragments of cloth, and a pair of The old special gloves that witches used to wear when making medicinal soup, these things undoubtedly came from the earth. She even found a coin from eight centuries ago in these piles of old things. This rusted and almost invisible piece of metal stunned her for a long time: "... ten thousand years, a full ten thousand years , I picked up money for the first time... "
Hao Ren patted the coin out of Vivienne's hand: "Don't make trouble, you didn't pick this up, it's someone else's relic."
"Almost the same meaning," Vivian pouted, "I used to dig other people's graves but never found any money."
"Ahem," Hao Ren hurriedly coughed twice to put the subject aside, "Let's take a look at what is written on these parchments." (To be continued~^~)