Chapter 1169 Black smoke rises from ancestral graves, smoke rises from immoral deeds
Finally, Jin'an sacrificed a red gourd and burned all the clay pots with human heads on fire.
This can be regarded as liberating the souls of these slaves.
You don’t have to be trapped in a clay pot for life and never see the light of day.
As for the rotten seed sacrifices, Jin An didn't touch them, and it was useless for him to bring them.
There were also other gold, silver and jade sacrifices left in the pit untouched. He was not a tomb robber, and he was not greedy for these worldly things.
With greater curiosity about the tomb of the Warring States general, Jin'an continued on the road.
He walked past the kneeling headless corpses holding torches and walked deeper. The deeper he went, the more gloomy and sinister the atmosphere became, and its influence on the spirit that left the body was increasing.
Fortunately, at this time, his soul was possessing the body of the dead Liu Guang, and he was using the corpse to bring his soul back to life, thus avoiding his soul being directly exposed to the surrounding funeral aura.
Not long after passing through the group of corpses, he heard the sound of running water, like the roar of an underground river, and Jin An raised his eyebrows.
Sure enough, he found a surging underground river nearby. This underground river was much more majestic than the previous artificial underground river.
"This makes sense. Where does the water drained from above go? Where does it go back and forth?"
This underground river is wide and turbulent. There are cliffs on both sides, with thousands of cliffs and jagged rocks. There is no way to the other side. Jin An moves along the river bank to find another way.
The water vapor in this underground space was very heavy, and the cave walls were covered with water droplets. However, as he walked, Jin An noticed something was wrong. He actually smelled the smell of blood in the thick water vapor.
It's not the stench of rotting corpses and blood.
It smells like blood with the smell of rust.
"Blood?"
Liu Guang was a dead man with no heartbeat, so this time Jin An's heart did not move, but his expression moved, with a look of surprise on his face.
The first thing he thought of was what happened to the group of tomb robbers after they were rushed down.
He hurriedly quickened his pace, and when he found the source of the bloody smell, he discovered that it was a stone altar built on the river bank. It was an altar carved directly on a huge rock on the river bank.
The stone platform of the altar was about two people high, and there were bull-head stakes inserted around it. Those bull-heads had rotted to the point where only white bones were left.
Flags and flags were hung on the wooden piles, and there were some ghostly symbols painted on them that looked like sacrificial characters. The flags had been exposed to dark and humid places for many years and had become riddled with holes. It was impossible to see the meaning of the sacrificial characters.
It was precisely because of the existence of these things that Jin'an was able to conclude that the man-made stone platform was an altar for sacrificial rituals.
Jin An carefully walked to the altar and found that there were many ghost symbols carved on the altar. He could not yet understand what kind of sacrificial culture these ghost symbols represented, but he saw smashed fish corpses, fish bones, and blood flowing all over the altar.
Those ghostly symbols.
The bloody smell he smelled came from the blood of these rotten fishes.
At this time, he also noticed a small detail. There were many fish bones beside the altar stone platform. Those fish bones had become brittle, and they could tell they were old at a glance.
This discovery made Jin An even more interested and he let out a light sigh.
"Hey, are there any other creatures or tombkeepers in this ancient tomb of the Warring States General? They have been salvaging fish from the underground river to maintain the sacrificial ritual, and they have been maintaining the sacrificial ritual for thousands of years..."
Jin An couldn't think of any kind of people who could live underground for thousands of years without going crazy. Even if there were ethnic groups that reproduced, they would have gone crazy and killed each other or destroyed themselves through incest. The only thing he could think of was the walking dead without sentience.
Jin An waited at the altar for a while, but he never saw the person performing the sacrificial ceremony. He did not intend to keep doing this and decided to continue walking along the river bank.
There are traces of human activity here, indicating that there must be another way out ahead.
In ancient times, productivity was backward, and cattle were rare among nobles. Mastering cattle is equivalent to controlling food, and controlling food is equivalent to controlling a country's monarchs and people. The range of bull head sacrifices used here is very large. I can't count how many there are at the moment, and I don't know what to say.
The great general of the Warring States Period had great wealth and power over the country, and his tomb was of such high standard.
After passing through the range of bull head sacrifices, the style of the next step completely changed, and we actually entered a large tomb directly. This large tomb had been robbed and excavated, and it was completely destroyed inside. All the funerary objects were missing.
Instead, let Jin An find a new torch here. He replaced it with a new one and continued on the road.
With the appearance of this ancient tomb, the road that followed became more and more bizarre and absurd. He passed through three large and incomplete tombs in a row with different styles.
The scene in front of us is obvious. There are too many tombs in Daheishan, and many historical tombs overlap. The Warring States general dug through several ancient tombs when building the underground tomb palace, and then occupied the magpie's nest and demolished other ancient tombs to blend in.
In his tomb.
The general's ancient tomb was built on top of other ancient tombs.
At this time, Jin An entered the fourth ancient tomb with a different style. In this ancient tomb, he saw a large number of rotten coffins and corpses that had been discarded and piled up everywhere, as well as some useless pottery pots.
There are too many rotten coffins and corpses piled up here. They are piled up on both sides, giving people a sense of visual oppression like a hill. Only a small path is left in the middle for people to walk.
Through the gaps between the rotten coffin boards of the coffins, you can even see that there are still bones in many coffins.
These discarded rotten coffins, bones, and pottery pots as funerary objects seem to have verified Jin An's previous conjecture that this Warring States general was narrow-minded and cruel. He built an underground tomb, destroyed countless tombs, and exhumed countless corpses.
He actually just exposed other people's bones in the wilderness without any follow-up arrangements.
"This can be regarded as smoking out of evil deeds. The ancestral graves emit black smoke instead of green smoke. This general is not afraid of being entangled in karma and giving birth to a son without an asshole..."
Jin An muttered unintentionally, then thought of his wife's tomb in the right hall, and the heirs in the left hall who used soul-sealing nails and gold and ink threads. He had a strange look on his face. Isn't this the three evils and five shortcomings, and the cause and effect will pay off.
Jin An's thoughts were just random thoughts, and they did not prevent him from moving forward through the piles of coffins and bones.
"Um?"
Even without the help of the Five Thunder Evil-Slaying Talisman, with Jin An's current cultivation and keen perception, he could still feel the voyeuristic gaze in the coffin hole.
That forbidding gaze always followed him like a shadow. He held a torch and walked alone along the narrow path between the coffins and corpses. With a lifeless look on his face, he was like a decayed gravekeeper walking through the cemetery. Finally, he walked out of the coffin hole safe and sound.
Nothing weird happened.
It wasn't until he walked out of the coffin cave that Jin An turned his head thoughtfully and glanced at the coffin mountain and corpse mountain behind him. At this time, it was unusually calm behind him, and the prying eyes were gone.
In the end, Jin An did not take this matter to heart and continued to move forward, looking for a way out.