"Sink pit and ground crack?"

"Yes, it is the crack of the earth in Fengjie. There are many such earth pits in Badi. Legend has it that this was the place where Bashe Yanwei ascended. Every Yanwei ascended to become a pillar of heaven, there will be a earth pit here, so there are earth pits everywhere in Wushan.

The crack of the Tiankeng, located in Tianjing Gorge, is currently the largest in the world. It is said that it is the first place that turned into Daba Mountain in the past and became the pillar of heaven."

"Then we are going there too?"

"right."

"However, how could the wuli be there?" I was puzzled.

"I'll know when I go."

We followed the map to the route to Fengjie.

It took another day to cross Wushan to the crack of the earth near Tiankeng near Tianjing Gorge.

As the monk said, there are caves and cracks everywhere here.

Moreover, because of the ivory eyes given to us by the ancient Shu clan leader before, I can see snake-skin-like rocks that ordinary people cannot see on the stone walls of every sinkhole.

It is probably what is said to be left by the Bashe.

When he was about to reach Fengjie territory, the monk suddenly proposed to walk the small path.

So we plunged into the mountains again.

This time, we saw an ancient group of people still in the dark forest of a small sinkhole that was very close to Tianjing Gorge.

The clothes of these people retain some characteristics of the Tujia people, and at the same time they have some similarities with the clothes of Shu and Miao people.

The houses they live in are made of acres of bricks, which look very retro.

When we came here, they seemed to be holding some kind of sacrificial ritual.

A group of people were wearing strange makeup on their faces and holding animal skin drums in their hands, singing and dancing.

The dance they dance is not as beautiful, and every move is straightforward. It is even more like training horses than dancing.

Whether it is music or dance, it all exudes a sense of solemnity.

It also makes those of us peeking around and think that this dance is quite unknown, and even has a sense of primitive tribe déjà vu that we should eat people after dancing.

I still have some impression of this kind of dance similar scene.

When I was a child, when I was watching old TV series with my dad, he liked to watch the Battle of Red Cliffs in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

Among them, Zhou Yu held a banquet for Liu Bei and performed a similar dance when he wanted to kill Liu Bei.

The name of this dance is called "Bayu Dance". Legend has it that it was introduced by a Cong tribe in the Western Han Dynasty. In fact, for the Ba people, the dance has a longer history.

The monk Leque wanted to go from me to find the wooden sign in the former residence of Wuli, and then walked out of the grass directly.

Those who danced the Bayu dance were startled by the sudden intruder. The dance was interrupted, and they surrounded the monk in anger.

The monk Leque recited the Buddha's name: "Amitabha, don't be anxious, don't be anxious." Then he spread his palms and showed the wooden pendant.

An old man walked out of the crowd opposite. He saw the wooden sign in the hand of the monk, muttering something. After a while, he faced the monk, kneeled down and kowtowed.

Others also put away their weapons, followed the old man, and knelt down to the monk Leke.

But I know very well that what they worshiped was not the resignation, but the wooden sign.

The monk Leke waved and let us go out.

When we emerged from the grass, the old man was stunned.

Then he kowtowed to me with a panic expression.

I couldn't bear it, so I quickly stepped forward and helped the old man up.

"You are the messengers of the goddess - we have been waiting for you for thousands of years, and finally we have waited!"

After saying that, he welcomed us into the room.

And give us the best wine circulated in the Ba people in Zhenshangba - Baxiang Qing.

There are very few real Baxiangqing. Legend has it that this wine is fragrant and mellow, and the wine tastes the best and will also have the aroma of vanilla.

Now the real Baxiangqing has been lost, and there are only a few records in the "Shui Jing Zhu".

It is said that there was a village in Fengjie in the countryside, where people are good at brewing wine. It seems that it is here.

These Ba people didn't say anything and just had good wine and food to entertain us, which made me feel a little disgusted.

So I asked the old man, the village chief here, what he meant by the messenger.

"Young man, the black scar on your hand is Yanwei Gu."

"You know?"

The old man nodded: "This is a legend passed down from our ancestors.

It is rumored that a long time ago, our Ba people's ancestors were surrounded by the emperor's army. It was a celestial girl who saved me.

Later, the entourage of this celestial girl came here again, let us wait here. A man carrying Yanwei Gu would come here, he is the messenger of the goddess, the messenger who can go to the fairyland to find the goddess."

My heart moved: "Is that God's follower called Wuli?"

The old man shook his head: "We don't know the great name of the master. But the ancestor's teachings left behind and said, "If a person with a black scar on his hand comes, he will be a messenger of God."

I will take you to find the place where the goddess's entourage is located later."

"The place where the goddess entourage is? He is still alive?"

"I don't know." I saw that the old man really didn't know more details, so I had to fill my stomach first.

After we had almost finished our meal, the village chief Baren took us to the crack of the sinkhole in the Tianjing Gorge accompanied by several villagers.

We avoid travelers and walk on barren mountain paths that are not easy to be discovered.

Finally, I came to the largest sinkhole in the central area.

We found a waterfall in it.

The old man gave it to the villagers and didn't know what it was.

The stronger Ba man jumped into the waterfall, and after a while he walked out of the waterfall.

Then the old man took us into the waterfall.

"Damn, what is this place? Is Huaguoshan Shuijian Cave?"

After passing through the waterfall, there was a cave in front of us.

The village chief of Baren said that moving forward further is a holy place that they cannot enter.

We can only let us messengers of God enter.

After saying that, they turned back.

Leave us to continue to go deeper.

This cave is very deep, we walked for a long time.

The more you go, the less confident you feel.

Finally, we came to the end of the cave.

In the innermost part of the cave is a pool of water.

Next to the pool is a stone-carved chair.

On the chair, there was a man who had become a skeleton bone.

We approached and saw the wooden pendant of Wuli on him.

It seems that this person is a wizard.

Unexpectedly, he died here.

"Why did he stay in such a place?"

The monk Leque stared at the pool beside Wu Li and said, "Don't you think this crack in the sky pit is like a huge basin? And it was left by Yan Wei Feisheng, so it is the best choice to refine Yan Wei Gu."

It seems that he makes sense to say this.

The monk Leque took out the water of immortality, Ganoderma lucidum and ten mother Gu that we collected through great hardships along the way.

He didn't know where to take out a pounding pestle, poured all the ten female Gu and Ganoderma lucidum into a bowl, then used the pounding pestle to mash it into juice, and finally poured it into a longevity water and stirred it into a bowl of green, oily and yellow soup that looked very disgusting.

"Drink it."

"ah?"

"Drink." The monk repeated.

I held the bowl and looked at the severed limbs of the bugs floating inside, and could not get out of my mouth.

Seeing that I was so unrighteous, the monk raised his hand and pinched my mouth and directly brought the soup into my mouth.

After drinking it, I just felt disgusted from the bottom of my heart.

At the same time, it feels steam is emitting in every pore in the body.
To be continued...