"A beast path, isn't that the six realms of reincarnation?" Zhang Meng stopped, then looked at the fat man, grabbed the handrail and looked down the spiral staircase, pointing at the statues of ghosts with ferocious faces and big belly and said, "This is the way of hungry ghosts?"

"Well, the six realms of reincarnation are the heavenly realm, the Shura realm, the human realm, the animal realm, and the hungry ghost realm." The fat man counted carefully: "If you guessed correctly, there should be a hell path under the pagoda."

"If it is the six realms of reincarnation in Buddhist teachings, that makes sense." Zhang Meng thought about it and said with some confusion: "But since it is the six realms of reincarnation, why do we only see the hungry ghost realm and the animal realm, and the other realms?"

"Who can know this?" The fat man thought for a while and said, "But then again, the six realms of reincarnation are independent of each other, maybe there are only three realms here."

"However, the Thangka I have seen before has painted all the six realms of reincarnation on a Buddha statue." Zhang Meng remembered the business he had taken in Shuiyuexuan in his early years. At that time, because he didn't know much about Buddhism, he did not accept the golden Thangka.

"Maybe there is another mystery here, maybe it is not necessarily true." The fat man thought for a while and said.

Zhang Meng shook her head and did not continue to discuss, but continued to walk down with the fat man.

In fact, in Zhang Meng's heart, he was not surprised by the emergence of this pagoda. As mentioned before, the peak of civilization in the Western Regions was once the Han Dynasty and the prosperous Tang Dynasty. It was during these two dynasties that were spread from the Western Regions to the Middle Earth, and since then it occupied the traditional position of Taoism in China. Traces of the pagoda were found in ancient buildings such as the Dunhuang Grottoes, but what does the pagoda have to do with the mysterious Lop Nur? Why did Ye Jiu who found this place disappear? This is what Zhang Meng really couldn't guess.

Zhang Meng didn't have much thought about whether it was pagoda or the six realms of reincarnation, but for Ye Jiu, Zhang Meng still carefully observed every scene around him with the fat man.

The third floor under the spiral ladder is just as Zhang Meng and Fatty guessed, and it turns out that they are all hideous devil statues. These devils are not only ferocious in appearance, but also bloodier than the animal path. Some ghosts are cutting people with hacksaws, some are tearing people open their stomachs, and some are digging their chests and taking out their bloody hearts...

The use of these statues is very ingenious, either blue, red, and white. The carving technique is very realistic, which always makes people feel like they are in the situation. Zhang Meng and the fat man are even more distressed and move down faster.

But the further down, the faster the two of them beating their hearts, and they always feel that these statues don't look fake.

"Zhang Quede, I think something is wrong with Fatty." The fat man gasped.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Mengqiang said calmly.

"I just think these things seem to be not dead, but alive." The fat man looked around sneakily.

"How is that possible!" Although Zhang Meng also felt this way, he did not say it directly.

"My mouth, have you forgotten that thing? Did you have the Yin people in Guanxi?" The fat man suddenly turned off the flashlight, then leaned against Zhang Meng's ear and whispered: "Didn't that old thing just paint the things on the mural alive?"

Although Zhang Meng couldn't guess what method the Huayin people used at that time could actually resurrect the things on the murals, the iron-like fact could not be ignored by Zhang Meng. Zhang Meng looked around with lingering fear: "No! That's a master from the seven mountains and eight sects, and he wouldn't come to this Western Regions, right? There are also seven mountains and eight sects that were passed down from the Ming Dynasty? Could it be that the Han Dynasty had it?"

"How do you know that this is the Han Dynasty pagoda?" The fat man asked Zhang Meng.

"This..." Zhang Meng paused and immediately thought that he had made a conclusion too early. The fat man was right. The pagoda was not only Han Dynasty, but Tang Dynasty also had the possibility: "Is it a pagoda in the Tang Dynasty?"

"No." The fat man thought for a while and said, "Although I said this is not a pagoda of the Han Dynasty, it is definitely not a pagoda of the Tang Dynasty."

"Why?"

"This is very simple." said the fat man: "When I was stolen from a Tang Dynasty pagoda when Lai Zi and I went to the world together. I also made a lot of information preparation at that time. I found that most of the documents in the Tang Dynasty pagoda must be written in Uighur language. Do you understand Uighur language?"

"I know, the Uighurs are the Uighurs, the ethnic minority in the northwest of the Tang Dynasty." Zhang Meng nodded.

"Yes. But this pagoda, whether from the four great Vajras, three Bodhisattvas, or the animal realm, or the ghost realm, there are obviously no traces of Uighur language, and I seem to have seen a few characters in the Lu language." The fat man frowned and said.

"Repost Lu Wen, isn't that Loulan Document?"

"That's right, but the font style should be the simplest characters, so I guess it might be the early ones." said the fat man.

"If it was an early stage, it should be..." Zhang Meng thought carefully.

"Warring States Period." The fat man reported it out in one breath.

"Isn't that BC?" Zhang Meng paused and sighed in his heart that the pagoda here was hundreds of years earlier than the Xiaowan site.

Just as the two were talking, the feeling of the cold wind storming began to appear behind them again, and the two of them shivered involuntarily. Zhang Meng even stepped back and whispered to the fat man: "No, it seems you are right. This tower is weird, so let's go down quickly."

"Um."

After the two of them finished speaking, they turned on the flashlights, back to back, and began to walk down the spiral stairs quickly, but the more they walked, they felt that they could not get out of the hideous statues around them. It seemed that no matter how the two of them walked, they were constantly walking around the spiral stairs. Finally, Zhang Meng and the fat man simply made marks and walked down, but even so, they still did not walk through the hungry ghost path in front of them while walking down. For a moment, the two seemed to have embarked on a road that they could never finish.

The anxious mood gradually made both of them feel a little panicked, as if they could never get out.

Just when the two were at a loss, someone suddenly chanted the Buddha's name: "Amitabha." As the Buddha's name sounded, the two people's chaotic mind seemed to have returned to calm in an instant. The hungry ghost statues that flashed in their eyes just now returned to normal. For a moment, the two returned to the second spiral ladder.

This sudden Buddhist chant not only rescued the two of them from danger, but also made Zhang Meng and Fatty confused.

The two of them secretly observed around and found that there was nothing unusual around them. Inside the bare pagoda, except for the statues of wild beasts and devils, there were only three statues of Bodhisattvas left.
Chapter completed!