After two days of exploration, the tranquility of Tiandao Temple reveals something strange.
Such a large temple has no protection from the magic circle, and no one patrols at night. Even wealthy families will arrange for servants to patrol at night. It is not just that Tiandao Temple is overconfident, but also thinks that money and magic weapons are outside the body.
But what's even more strange is that those little animals don't dare to come within 3 feet of the Scripture Cave. Even if Bai Liming controls them and forces their way in, as long as one approaches the entrance of the cave, the instinct of the creature overcomes everything.
He will definitely turn around and run away.
If something goes wrong, there must be a monster, but time waits for no one. The caravan will leave in a few days. By then, the two people will lose their identity cover and be more easily exposed.
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Bai Liming and Yuan Zhaoxi realized they could wait no longer and decided to check it out in person.
Although they had found out that no one was patrolling the Tiandao Temple, the two of them still moved forward cautiously and slowly, and finally came to a dark cave entrance without any risk.
The two of them wandered around to observe the situation for four weeks. When they looked up, they saw that the mountain walls were smooth and steep. The hill, which was not considered high at all, looked steep, tall, abrupt, and quite imposing.
The dark hole resembles the open mouth of a giant beast. It is not wide and can only accommodate three people walking side by side. There is a faint sound of dripping water.
The cave was very dark, and ordinary people would have to hold a torch to see clearly. Fortunately, the two of them were monks with excellent eyesight, and they could barely see clearly the tunnel that curved like the throat of a giant beast.
There are stalactites on all four sides. Water drops drip down the stalactites, making a ticking sound, which is particularly clear in the quiet space.
Although no spiritual power fluctuations can be detected, there is an invisible pressure in the cave that makes people feel heavy physically and mentally, always giving people an eerie feeling.
After walking for about a mile, my vision suddenly opened up. A huge cave appeared in front of me, as if I was in a spacious palace. It was surrounded by smooth stone walls and a high stone roof above my head. There were thousands of people gathered there.
It feels crowded.
What is surprising is that the stone wall actually emits a pale red light, like a night pearl. Under the red light, the entire cave seems to be covered with a layer of blood-colored mist.
With the faint red light, the two people could clearly see the situation inside the cave and couldn't help but take a breath of air.
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I saw a circle of stone pedestals placed in the cave, and on the stone pedestal were stone statues with different shapes and ferocious faces.
These stone statues are dressed in traditional shaman costumes, either deer-antler hats, wolf-skin hats, or tree-crown felt hats.
Both hands held various strange-shaped instruments, some were hammers, some were sharp knives, some were bows and arrows, and some were even large iron spoons for cooking.
They either raised their left or right foot high, or looked like a hungry tiger pouncing on food, or roared up to the sky, or leaned down to hold onto the water, as if they were dancing a primitive and wild dance.
Bai Liming looked at these stone statues with some dumbfounded eyes. He couldn't figure out why it was obviously a Buddhist scripture cave, but there was not a single scripture, not even half a piece of paper.
Are these stone statues the inheritance of teachings?
After all, Yuan Chaoxi has been in Taoism for a long time and has extensive knowledge. After scanning the stone statues over and over again, she said with certainty:
"This is the God-Dancing Ceremony of Guifang Shamanism. Their most important religious activity. Look at these stone statues, they are all dressed up as shamans."
"Wearing sacred robes, sacred skirts, sacred shoes, sacred socks and other robes, and wearing antlers, wolf heads, etc. that show divine power, these sacred hats that symbolize the gods of nature. The robes are decorated with bronze mirrors and iron waist bells to ward off evil spirits, and in the hands are
Holding magic drums, magic knives, magic staffs and other magic weapons that can destroy ghosts and summon gods, they beat drums, sing, dance and dance to gods, or worship ancestors, or exorcise evil spirits and cure diseases."
Bailiming suddenly realized what he said, and then said with some doubts:
"These stone statues look very ordinary, and there are no magic circles in the cave. It is just an ordinary place. It seems that this is not the place we are looking for."
Yuan Chaoxi was unwilling to give in, shook his head and said:
"The more ordinary it seems, the more unusual it is. Think about it. This Tiandao Temple is the holy land of Onifa Shamanism. How could a useless place be arranged in this hidden place?"
"Let's investigate more carefully. Maybe we need external force to stimulate it."
As she spoke, she mobilized her spiritual power and poured it into a stone statue.
However, this stone statue showed no reaction at all.
Yuan Chaoxi was a little disappointed and couldn't help but feel discouraged. Could it be that he had guessed wrong?
At this moment, a stone statue next to it emitted a faint dark red light, and the shadow moved slightly, as if it was coming to life.
Yuan Chaoxi looked at Bailiming in surprise and confusion. It turned out that Bailiming had also input spiritual power into the stone statue.
"Why can you succeed? Could it be..."
Bailiming didn't show off, he replied:
"Yes, what I input into the stone statue is the mana refined by the evil spirit."
Yuan Chaoxi suddenly realized, yes, the barbarians in the Northern Wilderness all practiced through refining, but if he input spiritual energy, there must be no reaction.
Baili Ming did not stop, and in one breath he instilled evil energy and mana into dozens of stone statues in the cave.
These stone statues all emitted a faint dark red light, but that was all, and there was no further reaction.
Looking at the stone statues whose red light receded and gradually dimmed, Bai Liming and Yuan Zhaoxi fell into deep thought.
"The stone statue reacted, which means that inputting evil energy mana can activate the stone statue, but why aren't there more changes?"
"Is the order of inputting each stone statue wrong? Is this possible? Or do they need to be activated at the same time? This possibility is also very high. Although it is difficult for one person to do it, it is completely possible for many wizards in Tiandao Temple to cast spells together.
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Thinking of this, Bailiming thought in his heart, and the yin-yang scroll of the natal spiritual creature enveloped the entire cave. Then his body swayed, and dozens of Bailiming appeared, standing in front of each stone statue.
Under Yuan Chaoxi's worried and expectant gaze, many Baili Ming cast spells together, and dozens of evil mana were injected into the stone statue at the same time.
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A faint red light lit up at the same time, and countless colors spread to the stone statue. On the original blue-white stone, gorgeous clothes, bronze skin, black hair, brown eyes...
At this moment, those stone statues seemed to come alive.
The red light rose and floated in the air, like the meandering sunset. Many stone statues jumped up lightly, singing and dancing in this glow.
Some stepped on hundreds of thunders, splashing raindrops all over the sky. Some stepped on heavy steps, and the magic weapons in their hands collided with dazzling flames. Some 33 were entangled with each other in pairs, doing indescribable movements...
The whole cave seems to have turned into a vivid picture, full of red, green and blue, outlining such a scene of carnival and sacrifice, full of life and fragrance.
Da 4's bright handwriting and the call of the primitive wildness amazed the two of them.
Suddenly, the group of images in the sky began to rotate rapidly, like a revolving lantern, constantly changing various scenes.
On the ground, red dust rolled up, and a complex magic circle suddenly appeared, with talisman patterns shining brightly.
Bai Liming and Yuan Chaoxi, who were caught off guard, were involved...