The sound of hoofbeats was dull and neat.
Chen Geguang has been the commander of the first army of Quanjie's left wing for so long, and he is very familiar with this sound of horseshoes. This is cavalry marching in formation, and the sound of horseshoes is heavy, not ordinary light cavalry, it should be an army in heavy armor.
The sound of horseshoes approached from far and near outside the stone alley. In this dark stone city, a cavalry troop passed the wide long street they had just seen.
In the military forts of frontier fortresses, it is customary to have cavalry patrolling the city. But this place they're in... Does it seem to be inhabited by living people
The legendary Namu Kingdom is a kingdom of death, so the sound of horseshoes they heard just now may not be some living cavalry. It may be the vague Zangmu army they saw in the desert before. Chen Geguang and Mr. Yan stayed in the alley without saying a word, until the sound of heavy horseshoes gradually faded away, and the surroundings returned to silence.
The gloomy Stone City was shrouded in dead silence again, but the horseshoe just now showed that this place is definitely not a safe place.
Mr. Yan stood where he was, holding a lantern, thinking about something.
Chen Geguang is very clear about how much he weighs. He is an ordinary person, even if he has good martial arts, but in this weird and bizarre place, he is almost like an ant. Since Mr. Yan didn't move, he just stood there. But he didn't deal with Mr. Yan. Although this guy saved his life anyway, he didn't want to talk to this person too much, so he just turned around and looked around.
There is no light, but after the eyes gradually adapt, they can see some things clearly.
But there is really nothing to see in this stone alley, the black rocks are neatly arranged, and the walls built up are also in good order, with nothing on them.
While watching, Mr. Yan next to him lit the lantern again, and walked to the entrance of the alley with the lantern, and Chen Geguang followed.
But standing at the entrance of the alley, Mr. Yan didn't go any further. Instead, he extinguished the lantern and pulled Chen Geguang back into the alley. Before Chen Geguang asked him what to do, he squeezed Chen Geguang's wrist a little bit harder, motioning him not to speak.
It was at this time that Chen Geguang heard the sound of the horse's hooves just now.
He vaguely understood what Mr. Yan was probing.
After the sound of horseshoes disappeared again, Mr. Yan let go of his hand and put away the lantern: "You can't light the fire, it will attract those guys over."
"Zang Mu's army?" Chen Geguang asked, frowning, not knowing what he was thinking, "It is said that after death, the soul will be taken away by Zang Mu's army commanded by Namu, and arrive at the place of the dead. Kingdom, is this the so-called kingdom of death?"
"I don't know if I'm dead or not."
Mr. Yan looked at the entrance of the alley and suddenly smiled coldly.
He stood in the darkness with an iron mask on his face, so it was impossible to see the expression on his face, but his laughter clearly carried an extremely obvious mockery.
"However, Nam's hometown can be regarded as a country."
He said so with an unfathomable voice.
Chen Geguang narrowed his eyes slightly, stared at him for a while, and then asked about other things: "I have heard a little local narrative poem in Kaledroma, saying that the fire of red flames rises from the abyss, the sky and the earth rule The dead Namu was born in the red flames, and the people of Namu are protected by the red flames. If the legend is correct, shouldn’t fire protect us in the kingdom of Namu?”
"Commanders are all talented and knowledgeable." Mr. Yan's tone returned to the usual cold and hard to distinguish, "It may have been like this a long time ago, but it's not necessarily the case now. Because..."
Mr. Yan paused, and he looked up at the building that Chen Geguang had seen before, vaguely higher than the houses.
"The fire of the red flame is no longer burning. When the fire of the red flame is extinguished, lighting the flame in Namu's country is a challenge to it."
Without waiting for Chen Geguang to ask other questions, Mr. Yan walked directly outside the stone alley. This time, the two did not light the lanterns again, and the sound of horseshoes did not appear again.
The long street is very wide for the cavalry to walk unimpeded.
The buildings in this stone city are extraordinarily tall, and the proportions of everything they see are several times larger than normal. Walking on the long street, looking at the strange stone houses on both sides, it makes people feel like stepping into the legend. The illusion of the city of the Kuafu clan. The neat stone houses are dark and dark, without lights.
There is no trace of any habitation.
Mr. Yan walked to a stone house.
The door of the stone house is almost integrated with the wall, and it is also made of stone. If you don't check carefully, you can't find the location of the door. Chen Geguang tried to push the Shimen, but the Shimen remained motionless. Mr. Yan inserted the sword in his hand into the crack of the door, then waved his hand, signaling Chen Geguang to stand behind him, in order to avoid any accidents after the door opened.
Chen Geguang stood behind Mr. Yan, Mr. Yan turned his wrist slightly, Chen Geguang only heard a slight sound of the stone shaft rotating and rubbing, and the stone door slowly opened inwards.
As soon as the stone door was opened, a gust of wind rushed over from it.
As fast as a feather arrow.
Chen Geguang stood behind Mr. Yan, and before he had time to see clearly what was coming out of it, he heard the whistling sound of the long sword passing through the air.
It turned out that at the moment when the black shadow in the stone room rushed out, Mr. Yan, who had been prepared for a long time, swung his long sword sharply and slashed diagonally. There was only a flash of cold light in the darkness. The thing that jumped out seemed to have no substance, but it touched Mr. Yan When the zhenqi on the sword was touched, it made a sound like snow melting when it touched fire, and dissipated in the air.
The zhenqi on the sword didn't just disappear, and the blade of the long sword exuded a faint light.
After waiting for a while, Mr. Yan stepped into the stone room after making sure that there was no second shadow darting out.
The stone room made of black stone was extremely dark inside, and this darkness also carried an indescribable depression. Chen Geguang frowned, and just about to ask Mr. Yan what the black shadow was just now, a light appeared in front of him.
Mr. Yan took out a luminous pearl and used it as a lighting tool.
Chen Geguang and Mr. Yan waited for a while, but they didn't hear the sound of the horse's hooves before. It seemed that the light from the Ye Mingzhu would not attract the cavalry patrolling this strange stone city.
The luminous pearl in Mr. Yan's hand does not seem to be extraordinary, it is bright and not small in size.
Chen Geguang only glanced at it, and secretly clicked his tongue: the rich guy.
Light is better than darkness. Chen Geguang also looked at the interior of the stone house.
As soon as he moved his gaze to the wall facing the stone room, Chen Geguang felt a slight numbness in his scalp and a chill in his back. It’s okay if there is no light. After the light, the things on the stone wall are revealed. I can see that the black rock is densely carved with countless eye patterns. The lines are not thin and deep, and the scratches are painted with white powder. , as long as there is some shimmer, it is particularly obvious.
"Why are there so many eyes?"
Chen Geguang looked away, and felt that the roots of his hair were standing on end.
The eyes carved on the stone wall are extremely strange, large and small, closed or closed, the carving technique seems not very good, but the emotion in them is extraordinarily vivid, it is a kind of chilling hatred.
Those eyes were carved directly opposite the door, watching the intruder with venomous eyes.
As if he didn't feel anything at all, Mr. Yan stepped forward to check those eyes, and even touched the white powder on them. Chen Geguang also considered this guy who was neither human nor ghost.
"In the legend of Kla Zhuoma, the eyes have very mysterious power, and the Zang Mu army under Namu, their eyes can see the past and the future, and they can see the trajectory of fate clearly. In Namu's Among the people, there will be people who are favored by Namu, and their eyes also have a similar power. Those people are called Zangmu of Namu in the world." Mr. Yan looked at an eye carved on the wall.
He seemed to have discovered something, turned the long sword upside down, and tapped the pupils of his eyes lightly with the hilt.
After two light taps, Mr. Yan suddenly exerted more force.
The stone wall where he struck broke, and several stone leaves fell off.
Seeing clearly what was exposed after the peeling of the stone, Chen Geguang took a breath, and saw that in the black rock, under the stone-carved eyes, there was actually a real eye inlaid, the black pupils shrunk, and the eyes were white. This eye seems to have been processed in a special way, and it is unknown how long it has been embedded in the stone wall and still retains its spherical shape.
Chen Geguang had previously felt that the carvings of these eyes were strange, but now that he knew that there was a real human eye behind each stone carving, the uncomfortable feeling became stronger.
"strangeness."
Mr. Yan brushed away the dust and gravel around his eyes, and he didn't dare to act rashly anymore.
Around the eyeballs embedded in the wall, there are faint lines in the rock, which seem to be patterns but not.
With a sword in one hand and a night pearl in the other, Mr. Yan looked around the stone house. Only the walls facing the door are engraved with the patterns of these eyes, and the other walls are not. The stone house was empty, with nothing in it. After entering it, I found that there were no windows at all.
"Walk."
It seemed that the eyeball embedded in the rock made Mr. Yan feel some pressure. Facing the wall engraved with the eye pattern, he stepped back slowly and exited the stone room with his long sword half in front of him.
Mr. Yan and Chen Geguang had just exited the stone room when the stone door turned and closed again in front of them.
It wasn't until the stone gate was closed that the weird feeling of being watched by countless people disappeared.
They entered several stone houses again, and they were almost the same as before. When they opened the door, there would be a black shadow, and the wall facing the door was carved with totems of eyes. It seemed that the conditions were exactly the same in the houses all along the long street.
After seeing it, Chen Geguang was numb to those eyes.
Apart from those dark shadows, there seemed to be no other threats, but the more Mr. Yan checked, the more serious he became.
He seemed to have settled on something.
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On the eight pillars, the black stone city stands majestically.
The city gate was made of a huge wild animal skull. It is not known what kind of beast it was in the wild era. The bones of the skull were placed here after death, and it was built into a majestic and terrifying city gate. The skull of the desolate beast was half-open after death, and the two longest teeth were left behind, protruding outside the city gate like a crescent moon, entering and exiting the city gate was like entering and exiting through the mouth of a desolate beast.
The door of the thick black stone lies deep in the skull of the wild beast.
There are four such gates in this black stone city supported by eight pillars, but these gates have been closed for thousands of years.
However, at this time, there was a person standing in front of the north gate of Shicheng.
It was Bailishu who disappeared after entering the whirlpool.
Bailishu was wearing a white cloak, and the hood with the cloak blocked most of his face. Shicheng is located high in the sky, and the wind is strong, blowing the robes that are hundreds of miles away.
He stood outside the city gate, looking up at the black, silent giant city.
"Who can pass through the gates of the four directions? The northwest is open, and the harmony is open?" Baili Shu looked at the gate located in the northwest corner of the stone city and whispered.
Holding the Golden Crow Bow in his hand, he walked towards the city gate without haste.
The towers above the gates were unguarded, and the gates were closed. Baili Shu walked through the huge fangs of the desolate beast, stood in front of the heavy stone gate, raised his hand and gently pressed the Golden Crow Longbow on the stone gate.
The flames burning on the Golden Crow Longbow spread across the city gate.
It turns out that there are countless totems of flames carved on the gate of the Black Stone City, but the color of the rock is too dark to be seen. When the Golden Crow Longbow touched the stone gate, golden flames spread along the inscriptions, and the lines were quickly rekindled. In the end, only a "hoo" was heard, and the entire city gate was engulfed in raging fire.
In the raging fire, there was only a muffled thunderous sound rolling up, and the heavy stone door, which could not be pushed open by manpower, slowly opened.
The long wind circling outside the city suddenly poured in from the opened stone gate.
Bailishu held his bow and walked into the giant gate hundreds of feet high.
His figure was gradually engulfed by the darkness, leaving only the flames of the North Gate rekindled ragingly, and the skulls of wild beasts in the fire became more ferocious and terrifying.
When the northwest gate was opened and the fire was rekindled on the gate, on the long street that Mr. Yan and Chen Geguang walked through in Shicheng, in the stone houses on the left and right sides, the countless eyes carved on the walls, Slowly lit up the scorching fire. Pair by pair, those eyes slowly came to life on the black stone.
Mr. Yan and Chen Geguang knew nothing about this.
Mr. Yan and Chen Geguang are standing in front of a nine-story stone pagoda.
Walking along the long street, after turning the corner, there is a stone tower standing at the intersection of several avenues, as if this stone tower is the center of the city.
The stone pagoda in front of Chen Geguang and Mr. Yan, the door of the stone pagoda is not closed tightly, it is half open, you can just stand outside
I saw it was dark inside. The body of this stone pagoda is conical, and there are two strange stone sculptures of strange beasts in front of the pagoda, which cannot be recognized.
The stone pagoda was just like the stone house I had seen before, it was empty and there was nothing there.
The walls of the stone pagoda are also engraved with things, but instead of the densely packed eye patterns, there are three murals in a circle around the pagoda wall.
Chen Geguang was born in a family. Although he couldn't practice because of his special status, he is very familiar with the history of various eras. Mr. Yan used the Ye Mingzhu to slowly illuminate the content of the first mural, and with just one glance, Chen Geguang recognized that it was the battle between the human race and the wild beasts at the end of the Barbaric Era, the "Battle of Emperor Fen".
The ancient barbaric fights on the murals are naked and bloody and cruel.
Chen Geguang clenched the knife tightly, his heart sank slightly.
The Ten Thousand Immortals Era is a puzzle to today, not to mention the earlier Barbaric Era. All places involving the past events of ancient eras such as the wild era and the chaotic era are extremely dangerous. In this kind of strange stone city, since the past events related to the wild era can be engraved in the tower, one can imagine its antiquity and danger.
Mr. Yan did not speak, and continued to look at the second mural.
The contents of the murals seem to be connected and have a certain chronological order.
In the second mural, groups of people and the enslaved beasts are carrying things. Eight huge stone pillars stand on the ground, and long ladders hang down from the huge stone pillars. The crowd and the enslaved beasts walk along Climb up with something like a ladder, and build something on the stone pillar.
Those stone pillars are extraordinarily huge. Compared with the stone pillars, people are like ants.
This seems to be when the ancient emperor established his rule after the desolate beast rule was overthrown, but Chen Geguang couldn't understand what the eight stone pillars were, and what those people built on the stone pillars.
The two then looked at the third mural.
When I saw the third picture, the meaning of the second picture became a little clear. On the third mural, there are eight huge sky pillars standing on the ground, and a majestic and shocking stone city stands on the top of the stone pillars. The effort of countless people in the second painting is to build this stone city supported by eight pillars.
The murals in the tower room on this floor end here.
"In the kingdom ruled by Namu, eight pillars support his royal city. This is the history of Namu's hometown." Mr. Yan said in a low voice, he looked up to the second floor, "Let's go."
After all, Mr. Yan walked quickly to the stairs leading to the second floor. He seemed to be very concerned about the content recorded in this mural.
Chen Geguang turned his head and glanced at the last mural, the stone city supported by eight pillars towered above the ground.
——If the murals and legends are true, the stone city he is standing at the moment is supported by eight stone pillars.
hell.
Chen Geguang's complexion is not good-looking. Too much history of the Chaotic Era has been lost. What are the ancient emperors in that era that have been handed down to this day, only a few trivialities remain. However, judging from the murals of this stone tower, the god Namu believed by Klazhuoma should be an ancient emperor in the era of chaos.
If Namu is indeed the ancient emperor who ruled one side in the Chaos Era, then the various legends about Namu have more profound significance.
So…
The Buyiks claim to be the people of Namu, and the Jintang Dynasty has encircled and suppressed the Buyiks until now...
Chen Geguang shuddered solidly, he suddenly felt indescribably confused, as if the world he knew had changed in an instant.