Chapter 957: The Old Cave Locking Evil Ceremony

After Master Xu gave the order, a group of people rushed in. This time, the total number of people, including the original tour group and the subsequent security team, was at least three hundred.

There is strength in numbers, and because they are not short of money and are equipped with a large number of combat creatures and various advanced weapons, the wealthy disciples who are accompanying them are not afraid at all, but are extremely excited.

Young Master Xu was even more energetic. He was not interested in what was hidden in the secret treasure, he just wanted to go in and take an adventure.

Exploring secret treasures is the most exciting activity in the world. It is not comparable to simply sitting there and watching a fighting game. If you are not careful, you may lose your life.

If he could break into this secret treasure that no one has ever entered and record the whole process on video, it would definitely cause a sensation in the entire circle. It would not be surprising if the news spread abroad, which would be a very proud thing.

After passing a section of pier, there was another section in front of them. There were many missing boards on it and the long hanging rope did not look very stable. So the security team immediately sent several people over and reinforced the pier.

Master Xu held up the flashlight in his hand and shone it on the mountain wall that was already brightly illuminated by the searchlight. He asked, "Teacher Fan, how come it is such a coincidence that we found the road today?"

Teacher Fan is a man in his fifties who wears glasses and looks like a professor at a higher education institution.

He smiled and said, "Mr. Xu, this could only happen if the ritual covering the entire secret treasure changed. Either the geographical environment changed, or someone moved a key place. Maybe someone got in before us."

Master Xu was startled. "Has someone entered first?"

Teacher Fan smiled and said, "That's nothing strange. For more than a thousand years, countless people have explored this area, and quite a few have entered it. It's just that there's no guarantee that they can come out safely, but there must be some people who have specific clues."

As he spoke, he added meaningfully, "Those who have the clues and can go in are not simple people."

Master Xu thought about it and felt that it made a lot of sense! His Xu family was so powerful, but they didn't know the specific information. How could those who knew it be simple?

He immediately told the security chief beside him, "Lao Lai, don't be impulsive when you meet someone later. Say hello if you can, and make friends if you can. We are all here to have fun, so don't make things unpleasant."

Lao Lai didn't say anything nonsense and replied, "Yes, Master, I will listen to you and say hello first."

"Yes!"

At this time, a shout came from the front, saying that the pier had been reinforced, so under the leadership of Young Master Xu, the group of people excitedly rushed forward again.

On the other side, after Chen Chuan walked to the end of the long road, he saw a narrow upward staircase in front of him.

Standing here, he looked back and around. This direction was leading to the mountain ridge. He had come up to take a look during the day, and there was nothing there except a barren slope.

But now, as I walked along, I could see flat bricks and steps under my feet, and in the distance I could see some majestic stone men and horses.

When he arrived here, the sky was actually faintly bright, looking like the sky at dusk. You have to know that he came here at midnight.

This situation...

He thought about it and thought that the entire secret treasure might be connected to a crack.

Perhaps at this time of year, the rift would intersect with the real world, so there would be a portal in and out, but it could also be another situation...

He glanced at the second self and did not see any signs of blurring, which meant that what he saw was absolutely real.

He turned his gaze to the front again. No matter what was going on here, he would put it aside for now and go in to take a look.

At this time, he called out, and Chao Ming, who was originally flying above, landed and followed him.

He walked up the stone steps, which were very narrow at first, only allowing two people to walk side by side. But after a hundred or so steps, the stone steps gradually became wider, until he came to a larger resting platform at the end of this level, with pavilions on both sides for rest and viewing.

Just as he was looking around, the stone tablet in his coat pocket trembled slightly, and the raccoon cat suddenly jumped out. Originally its body was very illusory, but now it looked a lot more solid. As soon as it landed on the ground, it began to bite the ground with a crunching sound.

Chen Chuan didn't pay much attention at first, but when he looked down, he found that the floor tiles were shining with golden light. His eyes moved. Is this... the powder of Six Yang Gold?
He looked into the distance along the ground below his feet and found that except for the place in the distance where the view was blocked by fog, the ground was almost entirely paved with this kind of stone bricks. He couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

Not to mention the difficulty of collecting Liuyang Gold, just smelting it and integrating it into bricks and stones would inevitably require the assistance of a large number of masters at the fighter level.

In addition to the huge amount of manpower and materials consumed, this obviously also involves some special technology. If all this is just to show luxury and majesty, then the huge power behind it is simply unimaginable.

But think about it again, according to historical records, Emperor Ying was a very ambitious person, so it doesn't seem strange that he did such a thing. And this should be just the outer boundary. Even this place can use so much Six Yang Gold, you can imagine how valuable the things hidden inside will be.

However, this is the secret collection of the imperial family after all, and the things here will not be taken away for nothing. There must be arrangements and protections. Even after a thousand years, it can be seen from the fact that the ceremony outside is still the same, so you still need to be careful.

Continuing upwards, Chao Ming followed him obediently. If he didn't signal, he wouldn't go forward. Instead, the civet cat was running around here, but it seemed to know that it couldn't get far away from Chen Chuan, and always stayed within a distance of about 20 meters in front.

Chen Chuan just let it go and at the same time he could explore a way for himself.

After walking up a corner staircase, he came to a square. The front of the square was still covered by a hazy fog that looked like a dream.

When the civet cat arrived here, it did not move forward, but lay there, making low hissing sounds.

This must be because it felt threatened.

Chen Chuan took a look and did not walk in rashly. Even though he was a fighter, he did not think that he could handle any situation easily.

Moreover, this place doesn't look simple, and he doesn't know whether he will encounter any dangerous situations later, so he won't waste his energy where he can save effort.

He put down the suitcase beside him, unbuttoned it, opened it, and took out a tubular object with holes in it. He just shook it lightly, and the object shattered instantly. With a buzzing sound, a group of insects shaped like bees flew out from it.

This is a small modified creature, usually used to cooperate in combat and harass the enemy, but because of its fast speed and flexible body, it is really useful for reconnaissance.

He made a hand gesture at this time, and the bees and insects surrounding him immediately dispersed rapidly and flew in all directions after receiving this information.

These things can get into many small places, and when danger occurs, they will directly explode into a ball of fire and make a loud noise, so that if there is any abnormal situation, he can find it immediately.

These were just bugs hanging out for a few minutes, and not a single one of them had any problems.

He did not take these things back, but let them fly outside. He walked forward. After walking fifty or sixty meters, he saw stone pillars in front of him. They were covered with carvings of dragons and snakes fighting each other.

He had done his homework before coming here. Emperor Ying called himself a dragon and his brother a snake, so all these sculptures are of the image of a dragon crouching over a snake.

When he got closer, he found that the dragon and snake carvings seemed to move slightly, but when his eyes swept over them, they returned to being still, as if they had never moved.

He did not investigate further, retracted his gaze, and walked through these dragon-snake stone pillars. As the fog in front of him dissipated, a row of black copper and iron trees with branches appeared in front of him. Each tree was about two meters high, and was hung with strings of human and animal bones.
Chen Chuan immediately recognized that this was the "Iron Thorn Forest" which was very famous in the old esoteric religious rituals and was a sacrificial pillar that was more popular in the Middle Ages.

When the sacrifice needs to be alive, it is skewered on the pillars and then fire is set below to burn it alive until it is charred. These sacrificial pillars will be covered with layer upon layer of charred flesh and blood, eventually forming the special black-brown color seen before.

Emperor Ying was from Donglu, but at that time he had experienced two or three hundred years of invasion by the northern barbarians, and the grassland farming culture was mixed in, so he did absorb some of the barbaric styles of northern shaman sacrifices.

The object of this sacrificial ceremony might be some kind of god, or it might be some kind of creature from the Land of Blending. The sacrifices were usually slaves and defeated captives, which were definitely not worthy of an emperor.

So from this point of view, this location should still be the edge of the secret treasure. As the fog dissipated, he looked up and saw a palace complex faintly over there. He thought that was the center of the secret treasure.

However, he did not leave in a hurry. Instead, he came to the center of the ceremony and saw a one-foot-high dragon and snake statue on the pivot position. It was finely carved and lifelike, and the overall shape was a cylindrical column.

As long as this thing exists here, as long as there are enough sacrifices, the ritual can still be started.

Chen Chuan shook his head. This overly bloody ritual should be left in the archives of history and there was no need to use it again.

He stretched out his hand, intending to take down the statue.

Without this thing, even with those ceremonial pillars outside, the ritual can no longer be performed.

But as soon as he touched it, the whole statue shattered with a snap, and something seemed to fall out from the debris. It was a scarlet egg-shaped object.

He took a look and seemed to have thought of something. After a moment's hesitation, he picked up the thing and put it in the suitcase. He looked up again and saw that the swarm of bees had already flown deep ahead. He then quickened his pace and walked towards the palace complex in the distance.

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(End of this chapter)

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