Vol 2 Chapter 65: altar

Xiao Hei stared at the three fork roads ahead, obviously showing some hesitation. It seemed that although he smelled some of the breath of the waiting family in his memory, he didn't know whether the breath was too weak, or something disturbed in front of him, making it impossible. Clearly distinguish which way the waiting family is taking. This article is from 　. .　Starting
However, Shen Shi was a little bit more happy after he was surprised. Although I don’t know how the Hou family got into the Ancient Dragon Temple in this town, since they have also arrived here, according to Ling Chunni’s previous statement, Hou Jia The people over there have a secret map of the treasure here. It seems that although this place is dangerous and unpredictable, it should be the place where the treasure of the mysterious tomb is located.
After waiting for a while, Shen Shi found that Xiao Hei was still hesitant, and couldn't help asking, "Can't tell which way they went?"
Xiao Hei looked a little depressed, and shook his head.
Shen Shi thought for a while, and said, "Forget it, anyway, it's just a chance. Let's try it first."
As he said, he glanced over the fork in the left, middle and right three passages in front of him, hesitated for a moment, raised his foot and walked in the middle road. Xiao Hei murmured a few words behind him, not sure if he was complaining, but he soon followed.
This middle passage does not seem to be much different from the passage made by the blue-gray boulders when they came over. It is also wide and flat, but after they walked more than ten feet away, Shen Shi looked at it. A step appeared in front of the passage, extending upward.
Climbing up the steps, walking up step by step, Shen Shi carefully paid attention to the surroundings, but in this huge ancient palace of Zhenlong, it seemed that there was never the slightest bit of anger, there was a lifeless appearance everywhere, there was no sound, only he and Xiao Hei's footsteps echoed around her side.
The stone steps are quite long. When they reach the top, they are almost thirty or forty feet high from the ground. When Shen Shi crosses the last step, he suddenly sees his eyes. A square high platform is shaped like an altar, and four large bronze tripods stand upright. On the four corners of the altar, the tripod was carved with simple patterns of birds and animals, and fires were faintly visible inside. It was the strange, transparent and slightly yellow fires that I had seen in the passage before. I don’t know how many years it has burned here. I don't know why after such a long time, it still won't go out.
In the middle of the high platform, there is a tall altar, the whole body is red, and it is very different from the surrounding blue-gray. Surrounded by this blue-gray boulder, it is very conspicuous, and even feels a bit out of place.
Shen Shi walked over and took a closer look at the red altar, and found that the material of the altar was not recognizable by himself. It looked like it was not stone or jade. The whole body was crimson and it looked like amber. In the meantime, there are a lot of weird veins and textures, like blood vessels in the flesh and blood of creatures, which looks very strange.
But other than that, this altar is nothing more unusual. On the altar, it seemed that something was enshrined. At this moment, it is a mess. Many places seem to have been overturned recently. .
Shen Shi frowned, his eyes swept across the altar, wondering if those waiting for his family were walking this way? At first glance, most of the scattered debris on this altar are mostly useless things. They have long been decayed under the erosion of time, but after a while, there is one thing in these debris that caused the sinking stone. Kind of concern.
It was a long stone box with its lid opened, and it was thrown randomly on the altar table. It looked like it had originally stored something, but it was already empty at the moment, with only one empty box left. That's it.
Shen Shi leaned forward and grabbed the stone box, feeling quite heavy when he started, and then looked around and found that the position of the stone box seemed to be in the middle of the altar. And the sacrificial objects scattered around in a mess, seemed to be placed around this stone box.
He was silent for a moment, then his gaze fell on the stone box in his hand, and he just turned to look at it. There was nothing in this empty stone box that could attract his attention. Perhaps the key point was originally placed in this stone box. Stuff.
It’s just that the things inside have been taken by the waiting family?
Shen Shi thought for a while, and finally put down the stone box gently, but at the moment from the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw the side of the stone box, and the bottom of the stone lid also seemed to have some writing. After a shock, he stopped. Reached out and picked up the lid and turned it over.
Sure enough, there are several lines on it:
Fortune in the universe, the fate belongs to me;
Ranked in the immortal class, immortal;
Taoist fairy tools, bequeathed by fate;
Fortune is forever, merits and virtues forever.
※※※
Four lines and eight sentences, thirty-two characters, the words are clear and startling.
Every word and every sentence is the supreme goal that all the monks who practice Dao Dao dreamed of since ancient times. After decades and hundreds of years of arduous practice, isn't it the longevity and flying immortal? Isn't the fairy magic and the fairy artifact that you dream of?
In just a few words, it seems that this magnificent dream has been placed in front of everyone.
Shen Shi's face also changed, but after the initial surprise, although he had some incredible surprises, but soon, for some reason, he suddenly cast his eyebrows in contemplation again, and a trace of doubt flashed across his face. In a blink of an eye, I looked around me, looked at this high platform, looked at this altar, and the messy and rotten sacrifices on the altar.
After a while, he slowly put the lid back on the altar, his expression on his face seemed to have calmed down, he closed his eyes and thought for a while, then suddenly sneered, and muttered to himself in a low voice:
"What kind of fate, what kind of Fuze, there will be so many dangerous restrictions along the way, is this immortal with a good and murderous temperament?"
With a "click", the lid of the stone box fell on the altar, shaking up dust.
Shen Shi didn't look at it any more, his eyes restored calmness and clarity, even more vigilant and careful, perhaps from childhood to adulthood, his father who had no ambitions in his life kept admonishing him, no There are those chance coincidences against the sky, even if there are, among the hundreds of millions of people in the Hongmeng realms, why would you get them?
This so-called fairy relationship, although it looks extremely beautiful, but after careful consideration, it is suspicious, but the original things in the box are no longer seen, and most of them were taken away by the waiting family who came here first. Can the Hou family be able to tell.
Shen Shi took a deep breath and walked around the altar. At this moment, in his eyes, the ancient temple of Zhenlong became more mysterious and unpredictable. Although there was no danger until this moment, the pressure on his heart was still getting bigger.
It's just that the way to go, I still have to go on, because here, there is no turning back.
Shen Shi greeted Xiao Hei and continued to move forward. At the end of the high platform, there are also layers of stone steps, but this time they are downward, and in the faint yellow flames ahead, this large tomb, or Said it was this Zhenlong Ancient Temple, as if it became more and more vague.
※※※
The blue-gray boulder seems to be endless endlessly in the dim flame. Wherever he goes, what Shenshi sees is this cold and lonely color. After getting off the high platform, it is another passage. , While walking, Shen Shi suddenly found that there was no longer a straight and single passage in front of him. Several fork roads extended in different directions, and when he tried to walk on a fork road for a while, But they found that there were more diversions ahead.
The road, more and more, is like this Zhenlong Ancient Temple is constantly changing and expanding, only the color of blue and gray and the yellow fire seem to be endless, and when Shen Shi feels that something is wrong and wants to turn back, he finds Above the path, there are similar chaotic channels.
He gritted his teeth and his heartbeat speeded up slightly, but before he could think of any countermeasures, he suddenly heard a stern cry from an unknown place in front of the vast road.
The voice was full of horror, fear, and despair. It seemed that the owner of the voice had seen the scariest thing in the world in front of him. It was creepy.
Shen Shi suddenly turned his head and looked forward, but what he saw was only the passage formed by countless cold blue and gray boulders, leading to different directions, missing.
Xiao Hei had been following him all the time, and at this moment he couldn't help but moved a little closer to Shen Shi, rubbing his head against Shen Shi's legs, as if this made him feel a little relieved.
Shen Shi thought silently, and at the same time looked at the terrifying maze ahead, maybe somewhere in front of him, something strange and terrible would be waiting for him. He slowly put his hand to his waist, and gently rubbed it twice on the wishful bag. After a while, he stepped forward again with no expression.
Since there is no way to go back, you can only move forward!
The footsteps sounded softly, and the passage kept retreating in the footsteps. Although it was still exactly the same as a maze-like passage, although there were many indistinguishable junctions, Shen Shi felt a little bit in his heart. It seems to be getting closer and closer to something.
Because he didn't need any reminder from Xiao Hei, even he faintly smelled the faint blood in the air.
After another ten feet away, a new fork appeared in front of Shen Shi again, but when Shen Shi saw this intersection, his expression suddenly changed.
Not only did he walk here, the aura suddenly became stronger, and it was in front of his eyes that Shen Shi saw a person sitting with his head bowed on the ground at a fork in the road ahead, leaning on the green-grey boulder wall.
It seemed to be a thin old man, sitting down in a pool of blood. All over his body, on the ground beside him, and even on the walls of the gray boulders with his back, were splashed with red blood, which looked thrilling. , Red glare.
And in this shocking scene, the old man lowered his head, his chest heaving slightly, as if making a low gasp.
Shen Shi's body was shocked. This was the first living person he saw after entering the Ancient Palace of Zhenlong. It was just that the scene before him was too horrifying, and he had to be treated with care, so he didn't dare to pass right away. Standing in place, he yelled carefully:
"Hey, you are..."
Before he finished his words, his voice suddenly went dumb. Perhaps he was awakened by his voice. The old man with his head down slowly raised his head and revealed his face. It was unexpectedly when he was waiting for his family to set off outside Floating Cloud City. Master Wen who can control the floating immortal boat. But at this moment, in Shen Shi's horrified eyes, it was reflected on the blood-stained dry face of Master Wen, and in his eyes, two groups of pale ghost fires were burning.