Chapter 1170 Sacrifice and the figure wearing a hat
After exiting the coffin cave, the surrounding environment changed drastically again and returned to the original cave wall environment.
"It's strange to say that I didn't encounter the group of tomb robbers along the way. They didn't see anyone alive or dead. It stands to reason that they couldn't have been swept so far by the current..."
"Otherwise, we would all be swept away by the current into the rapid underground river..."
Based on the rapidity of the underground river, Jin An secretly guessed that these people were probably in danger.
As the funeral aura grew stronger and stronger, Jin An knew that he was getting further away from the ground, and that he was continuing to penetrate deeper into the Daheishan Mountains.
The underground world at this time was not only dark, but also extremely quiet. It was definitely a desperate situation of claustrophobia.
Suddenly, Jin An's ears moved, and he heard some sounds, but because of the interference of the flowing water of the underground river, the sound was not clear at first. As he got closer, he finally heard that it was the dull sound of stones colliding, like
The sound of rocks hitting my head one after another.
This voice was still some distance away from him, but because the underground space was claustrophobic and quiet, it could be heard far away in the open underground world.
Jin An's eyes turned cold and he walked towards the direction of the sound.
When he came to a river bank, he once again saw those kneeling headless corpses with strange postures. They were in the same posture, with their hands tied behind their backs, and their bodies covered in sacks. The sacks were stained black by rotting corpse liquid, and their bodies were in a kneeling posture.
He lay facing the other side of the river.
It can be vaguely seen that there seem to be two huge stone statues standing on the cliff on the other side of the river. Because the underground world is dark, it is impossible to see clearly what gods the stone statues are.
That dull banging sound came from the other side of the river.
As soon as Jin An came to the river bank, the sounds on the other side disappeared and fell into silence. Jin An squinted his eyes and looked for the other side carefully without moving his body.
He knew how conspicuous the torch in his hand was in the dark world. The unknown thing on the other side of the river had noticed his arrival and was observing him as still as he was.
At this time, Jin An discovered that the flow of the underground underground river became gentler when it passed through this area. Upon closer inspection, it was because the river surface in this section was artificially raised, making the flow less turbulent.
However, he never found the heads of these kneeling headless corpses.
Suddenly, there was movement on the opposite side. He heard the sound of leaving footsteps, and there was a vague figure leaving in the darkness.
Jin An didn't even think about it and directly used Taoist gifting skills to gift himself to the other party.
But the opponent was too agile and left very quickly. As soon as he appeared where the opponent was standing, he saw a figure entering the stone door between the two stone statues on the cliff. Mohu saw that the person seemed to be wearing a hat.
hat?
Hmm? Hat?
"people?"
"Thousands of years have passed, but there are still gravekeepers here?"
Jin An did not hesitate to pursue him into the tall stone door, and found that behind the door was a huge Hades Palace.
The Hall of Hades is too big and dark, and when a person enters it, he is like an embroidery needle thrown into the sea. Without a splash of water, he will lose him.
He stood at the door with a torch in hand and waited quietly for a while. Seeing that there was no result, he had to temporarily exit the stone door to see what the man was smashing just now.
He was surprised to find that there was also a bull head sacrifice on the river bank here, and there was also a stone altar.
The strong smell of blood still lingered on the stone platform of the altar. Several fish were smashed by stones, and the stinking blood covered the carved characters on the altar.
"It seems that we have figured out what is being sacrificed on these altars. It is a human being, not some other special thing."
Jin An observed the altar and muttered to himself.
It's just that he still hasn't figured out what the functions of these two altars are, and what do these sacrificial texts mean?
"It seems that the answer to all this can only be found by entering the Hades Palace behind the stone gate."
Jin An jumped off the altar and came to the stone gate and looked up at the two stone statues in front of him. Each stone statue was carved about ten feet high and looked fierce. It was a tomb beast with a human face and a beast body.
There are roughly two types of tomb-suppressing beasts, one is the animal-faced cat-like tomb-suppressing beast, and the other is the human-like tomb-suppressing beast with a human face and an animal body.
What grave robbers are most afraid of encountering is the latter, the beast that attacks the tomb.
Elephants are only interested in the dead. Placing a few of them in the tomb can ward off evil spirits, deter strange things, and prevent any unclean things from entering the gloomy cemetery to disturb the sleeping ancestors.
It's different with the Tomb Suppressing Beast. This thing is interested in both living and dead people, and those who are targeted by it will not end well.
"Hey, these two people's tomb beast is incomplete. There are traces of man-made chiseling on the eyes. They only dug out the eyes and did not knock down the stone statue. Is it because they have eyes but not beads? So they only chiseled out the eyes on purpose?"
This discovery surprised Jin An.
The destroyed tomb beast, the tall stone door that was pushed open, and the coffin hole where several ancient tomb coffins were discarded, it seems that the man, the tomb beast, and the Hades Palace behind the stone gate are not that of the Great Warring States Emperor.
Owned by the general.
It was excavated by the Warring States General and became his own, becoming part of his tomb.
It was strange to say that Jin An searched around the river bank and never found where the heads of the headless kneeling corpses were hidden.
Shaking his head, he stopped worrying about these small details, turned around and walked into the Hades Palace behind the tall stone door.
There were two tombs guarded by humans and beasts at the entrance. He became more and more interested in these tombs in the Daheishan Mountains. It was like peeling off cocoons and peeling away the fog layer by layer, making people look forward to what the final result would be.
The Hades Hall is very large and empty. It is said to be empty because everything inside has been removed, leaving only a few supporting stone pillars.
"Sure enough, this Hades Palace has another owner, and it was also robbed by the Warring States general."
At this time, he encountered seven stone coffins. The stone coffins were heavy, each weighing several thousand kilograms. When the coffins were opened, the corpses and funerary objects inside had long disappeared. Perhaps it was because these stone coffins were heavy and inconvenient.
It was moved, so it was abandoned where it was.
Holding torches and making a circle, Jin An saw that each of the seven stone coffins was pulled by several thick iron chains, and the other ends of those thick iron chains were set high above the head of the Hades Hall.
"Seven-star hanging coffin?"
"It seems that the status of the master of the Underworld Palace was not lower than that of the Warring States General."
But so what? Death is like a lamp going out. After death, there is nothing. No one will respect you anymore. On the contrary, the more burial objects there are, the more greedy people will be attracted to look at them. Jin An shook his head and passed through