Full of doubts, Chen Geguang followed Mr. Yan to the second floor of the stone pagoda.
The second floor, the third floor... all the way to the last floor.
Chen Geguang and Mr. Yan looked at it layer by layer. There were three murals on the walls of the first three floors of the stone pagoda, one pair of murals was reduced from the fourth to sixth floors, and only one mural remained on the last three floors.
Their guess was not wrong. What was engraved on the wall of the black stone tower was indeed about Naam, about this stone city, and about the historical records of Kla Zhuoma.
As a medium of recording, mural paintings can only record a general idea because of their limited content. Moreover, the style of mural paintings is not exquisite and detailed, full of symbolic metaphors, and very obscure.
Chen Geguang could only vaguely understand the general idea.
According to the records on the murals, the ancient emperor who was revered as "Nam" by the people of Klazhuoma experienced the turmoil that overthrew the rule of wild beasts at the end of the wild era, and possessed the power to command the world. In the era of chaos, Namu Rule the Kladroma region, majestic as the sun in the sky, shrouding this world of sand and wind.
People and the alien beasts conquered by Namu built eight stone pillars connecting heaven and earth on the earth, which they called "Pillars of Heaven". On the pillars of heaven, people built the royal city of Namu with pure black rocks. Naam's throne is suspended in the middle of the royal city. After the king city was built, Namu ruled the Klazhuoma area for a long time.
At that time, the royal city was still above ground.
In the era of the ancient emperor's rule, people who could not stand the tyrannical rule continued to resist and were brutally suppressed. At that time, people were all slaves under the orders of the ancient emperor. Over the long years, some people began to secretly study the source of the ancient emperor's miraculous power, and a group of desperadoes began to steal the unique power of the ancient emperor.
Some of them succeeded and gained great power, and some of them failed, and terrible changes took place in those who failed.
When Chen Geguang saw this, he had a vague realization in his heart. Those people who stole the power of the ancient emperor were probably the immortals and demons in the later Ten Thousand Immortals Era, that is...the most original group of cultivators By.
The history of immortal cultivators has a long history. According to the world of immortal cultivators, immortal cultivators were originally immortals who were ordered by heaven and earth, and they ended the brutal rule of ancient emperors. After the end of the chaotic era and the end of the ancient emperor's tyranny, the destiny gradually faded away, so the immortals and demons gradually disappeared. Some of them researched the method of cultivating immortals, and comprehended some of the rules of the world.
This is the source of cultivating immortals.
However, there are various ambiguities in this statement. Obviously, many secrets are grasped and hidden by the Eight Sects of Immortal Sect.
However, seeing the murals in Namu King City now, Chen Geguang has a vague guess that is close to the truth.
The so-called fairy demons in the legend are probably the ones on the murals, the first group of people who directly stole the ancient emperor's power. Their power comes directly from the ancient beings. They deciphered the power of the ancient emperor and studied it day after day, and the number increased day by day.
In other words, there is no such thing as the destiny of heaven and earth. The original immortals and demons were just a group of mortals who stole the power of the ancient emperor. Chen Geguang guessed, maybe... With the fall of ancient emperors one by one and the end of the chaotic era, the power of the first batch of people who directly obtained power from the ancient emperors gradually declined, and the immortals and demons therefore withdrew from the stage of history .
However, there are also some methods that can be cultivated, which have produced the later cultivators.
Of course, these are just speculations made by Chen Geguang combined with the stone tower murals. There is no real record of what happened in the ancient era.
And the murals on the stone pagoda obviously don't know that in later generations, those who stole the ancient emperor's power are called immortals and demons, and even left behind today's inheritance of cultivating immortals. At that time, Namu was furious with these people, and he sent his own army—an army of the underworld who had gained his power, Zang Mu's soldiers, to kill these daring desperadoes.
Many of these people who stole the power of the ancient emperor were caught, and their bodies and souls were sentenced to death. Their bones were cast into ancient monuments, which shocked all the people ruled by Naam.
There were also some people who escaped Zang Mu's army and survived, and they joined forces with rebels in other ancient emperors' rule. These people erased their original names and used eighteen code names as their surnames. There are a total of 18 rebels who barely survived on the earth.
Their whereabouts are mysterious, and under the coercion of the ancient emperor, they lived like desperadoes.
It's like a spark, small, but it will never go out.
Originally, Nam should have been overthrown and fallen at the end of the Chaos Era like other ancient emperors. However, one day Nam met a mysterious man in a cloak and hat.
In the mural, a person wearing a bamboo hat kneels under a throne suspended in the air. The content that can be shown on the mural is limited, and they can't know what the mysterious man said to Namu.
But after that mural, the flames enveloped the eight pillars and the king's city, and a big hole was opened on the ground, as if Namu's king's city was falling into the darkness of hell. Next, there are the eight pillars suspended in the darkness, the black water rushing under the eight pillars, and the royal city above the eight pillars.
But fire seemed to be burning everywhere in the royal city, and above the temple and the throne, the flames were more numerous and more peculiar than other places. Chen Geguang guessed that it was the red flame that Mr. Yan was talking about.
Namu's royal city seems to have been moved to another space by Namu, relying on flames to survive there.
Seeing this, Chen Geguang probably made some guesses. The reason why there is no record about this ancient emperor in later generations is probably because in the chaotic era, this ancient emperor followed the suggestion of the mysterious person. Moved the king city to another space. In the legend of Klazhuoma, too much history has been lost in tens of thousands of years, and the rest is the legend about the ancient god Namu.
And the space where the Nanam King City is located has become what people call the kingdom of death. When Namu still existed, his army still ruled the Kladroma area, so it became the legendary army of Zangmu who harvested souls.
Too many legends hide ancient history.
Namu moved the royal city to another space, it seems to be to avoid the subsequent subversion of the era, so that he can rule the Klazhuoma area forever. But his wish doesn't seem to have worked out.
In the last mural, the temple in Wangcheng collapsed and the red flames were extinguished.
The last mural seems to have been painted shortly before the city of Naam completely changed into the ghost they see now. The picture is scribbled and blurred, with many metaphors. The army is running on the streets of Shicheng, and the ancient emperor on the throne falls into a deep sleep.
On the last floor, there are still a few lines written on the mural. The writing is not any kind commonly used in the Twelve Dynasties today. Chen Geguang couldn't recognize what was written on it, so he looked at Mr. Yan to see if this mysterious guy recognized him.
Mr. Yan illuminated it with the night pearl, and slowly read the few lines engraved on the last mural: "The traitors will be punished in the end. On the day when the people of Namu return, the flames will be rekindled. Majestic as the sun shining on the earth.”
"What do you mean?" Chen Geguang frowned. He also looked at the murals, full of doubts, "What happened to the royal city of Namu? Why did the red flames finally go out?"
Mr. Yan looked at the few lines, but didn't answer directly. After a long time, he said in a low voice: "It may be related to the person in the third picture from the bottom."
The third to last one
Chen Geguang thought of the mysterious figure in the picture he saw just now, wearing a cloak and hat, kneeling in front of the throne: "The so-called traitor, do you mean that person?"
"Perhaps moving the royal city to the void itself is a deception." Mr. Yan looked at the mural and spoke slowly. He seemed to be still thinking about something, and raised his head slightly, "Perhaps... that person himself is the eighteenth Gu family." One of them. He came to Kelachorma, gained Namu’s trust, and persuaded Namu to move the king city to another space. After the king city moved, he relied on the fire of red flames. Then… that person took it away… or Extinguish the fire of red flame."
Mr. Yan spoke very slowly.
He didn't seem too sure about his guess.
To deceive the ancient emperor, to move the royal city, to extinguish the flames...
What kind of desperado is this, what kind of resourcefulness and courage can it be done
Following Mr. Yan's speculation, Chen Geguang also seemed to have seen tens of thousands of years ago, in the era when the ancient emperor commanded the world and his majesty was like the scorching sun, a rebel wearing a cloak and a hat and hiding his identity walked away. Into this black king city. He came alone, and opened the net of conspiracy to ruin everything for the ancient emperor.
What kind of person is that
And if only someone could do such a thing.
Chen Geguang couldn't imagine it, he just guessed, so he found it difficult to complete.
Suddenly, he remembered something, turned his head and asked Mr. Yan who was still looking at the mural: "Gu Clan Eighteen, which one is Gu Clan Eighteen?"
Chen Geguang once heard his father say "Gu Clan Eighteen" when he was talking with the elders of the clan, but he was still young at that time, and asked his father which eighteen surnames they were, and his father said that he would know when he became the patriarch , As a result, the Liu family was destroyed later, and he went to the ruins to have a drink. Since then, there was no such thing as the patriarch, and he was sent to this ghostly place full of yellow sand.
Mr. Yan turned around, intending to go down to look at the mural of the mysterious man again, when he heard Chen Geguang's question: "Don't worry about this."
The tone was tough, and there was no room for negotiation.
After a pause, Mr. Yan stood where he was as if he suddenly thought of something.
"Gu Clan Eighteen, Gu Clan Eighteen... I see!"