Holy Bone

Chapter 1665: The Temple of Emperor Tubo in a Foreign Land

Since they were returning by the same route, they were familiar with the route and returned to the vicinity of the glacier.

When I looked at the glacier from the snow-capped mountains, I could already tell that the river was very wide. When I got closer to the glacier, I discovered that it was even wider than I had imagined.

This reminded Wutou Jin'an of the rivers that flow into the sea, winding and huge like dragons entering the sea, majestic and magnificent.

Several bearded men took turns dragging the stretcher and moved carefully along the bank of the glacier, but did not step onto the glacier.

The glacier was as smooth as a mirror. They were in a hurry and had not made many preparations. It was difficult for people to stand and walk steadily on the ice. The safest way was to walk on the snow along the bank of the glacier.

In terms of life experience in the snowy mountains, these people have more experience than Wutou Jinan.

Wutou Jin'an stayed in the snowy Tibetan plateau for two or three months only a year ago. His cultivation was higher than that of several others, but his survival experience in cold areas might not be better than that of ordinary people.

This section of the journey was a long distance, and it was almost dark, and the few people had not yet led him to find the Gewu Xianding.

The few people were still on their way and had no plans to stop to find a place to rest for the night. Just when Wutou Jinan was wondering if they wanted to continue their journey overnight, as they were not afraid of encountering hungry wild beasts looking for food when traveling at night in the deep mountains, they finally found a building to stay in before it got completely dark.

It seems that this is not the first time for these people to spend the night here. They must have stayed here several times before and are very familiar with the place. They have planned the distance and time just right.

When he stood in front of the building in the last ray of evening light before the night fell and saw the overall style of the building, Headless Jinan was suddenly stunned.

If he had a head on his neck right now, he would definitely have an expression of shock.

The building in front of him had a strong Han Chinese style. It was a Han Chinese temple. He was very familiar with this temple. It was the Tubo Temple.

  I never thought I would see the Tubo Temple again in a foreign country!

And it will be the first time that I will see the Tubo Great Temple again in such an environment!

But he is now in the world of obsession after death. Emperor Tubo is in charge of the underworld. He does not think that the resentment and obsession after death have the courage to face Emperor Tubo, because Emperor Tubo can suppress all resentment and evil thoughts after death.

What's more, this is the obsession of a dead person on the other side of the ocean. Emperor Tubo should not appear in his beliefs.

So there is only one reasonable explanation left, that these are all the things the other party had experienced in his life, and they were not made up out of thin air to deliberately set a trap for him.

Being able to see the shrine of Emperor Tubo here both surprised and delighted Wutou Jin'an, as he carried a statue of Emperor Tubo with him.

Emperor Tubo is here, and his disciple Jin'an is paying his respects to him again. Headless Jin'an lights a few incense sticks with joy and sticks them at the entrance of Emperor Tubo's shrine. Then, with some confusion and surprise, he follows the bearded man and the others into the shrine of Emperor Tubo.

As for why there is a temple dedicated to Han gods in a foreign country?

  Who was the person who traveled across the ocean to build a temple dedicated to the Han Chinese gods on the other side of the ocean?

Wutou Jinan already had the answer in his mind.

The Immortal Cauldron of Gewu is an evil cauldron. The Great Emperor Tubo is in charge of the underworld. The people who built the shrine of the Great Emperor Tubo are the ones who abandoned the Immortal Cauldron of Gewu.

It is not difficult to guess that this person must be Kang Dingguo who visited various countries on the Shenzhou ship.

It is not difficult to guess why they built the shrine of Emperor Tubo and then abandoned the Gewu Immortal Cauldron here. They probably planned to use the shrine of Emperor Tubo to suppress and seal the evil nature of the Gewu Immortal Cauldron and the resentment of the dead.

From what he had seen and heard along the way, those who died in the Immortal Cauldron of Gewu would not have a peaceful afterlife, so it was right to be cautious against the resurrection of the dead. However, there was one thing he couldn't understand: since there was a shrine to the Great Emperor Tubo here, how could evil spirits still be so rampant?

His doubt was soon answered when he followed the bearded man and several others into the temple of Emperor Tubo.

From the outside of the shrine of Emperor Tubo, there was no apparent problem; the building was intact and had not been damaged. However, after entering the shrine, it was discovered that it had been severely damaged. The altar, statues, incense burners and other items had been smashed and severely damaged.

No wonder these people could not get the protection of Emperor Tubo, it turned out there was a reason. The statue of Emperor Tubo was smashed, which was equivalent to the destruction of one of his Dharma bodies in the human world. Naturally, he could not inspect what happened in this space.

Even the headless Jin'an suspected that the statue was smashed by the bearded man and his gang.

This place is sparsely populated, and apart from these people, it is difficult for anyone else to come here.

The people here do not believe in Tubo the Great, but only worship their own gods devoutly. So it is not difficult to imagine that one day, when they suddenly see temples of gods from other countries appearing on their own territory, they would vent their personal anger and smash and destroy things.

  These people do not know other gods except those of their own country, and they smash and destroy the Tubo Emperor without any psychological burden.

The fact that only the interior of the Tubo Emperor's shrine was severely damaged, while the exterior was intact, also confirmed his conjecture.

If the entire temple was demolished, how would these people spend the night in the freezing cold, snowy mountains and avoid the wind and snow?

With this guess, Wutou Jinan began to pay attention to the facial expressions of several people, and it turned out that no one had an abnormal expression.

"Could it be that they were the ones who smashed the Tubo Emperor?"

"Did someone else do the vandalism?"

"Could they be the companions of the bearded men?"

After entering the shrine of Emperor Tubo, Wutou Jin'an bowed and saluted towards the place where the altar and the statue of the god were originally erected, expressing his goodwill and respect to Emperor Tubo.

Afterwards, he walked back and forth in the divine palace of Emperor Tubo, looking for the place where the Gewu Immortal Cauldron was sealed. However, he searched every corner of the divine palace but could not find the Gewu Immortal Cauldron.

Instead, we found an underground cave that was exposed after the ice and snow melted.

Gusts of cold wind blew out from the bottom of the cave, as if they went straight to the underworld below the nine springs. The cold wind on the Yellow Springs Road blew out through the cave.

"It seems that I am one step closer to the truth." Headless Jin'an looked at the dark cave at his feet and felt that there was a high possibility that the Gewu Immortal Cauldron was sealed underneath.

The subsequent reactions of the bearded men further confirmed his thoughts.

After briefly settling the sick man, several people gathered around the cave and started talking in mutters.

  Judging from the tone of their voices and the volume of their voices getting louder and louder, there are big differences of opinion in the team. It seems that they are arguing about whether to go down or not?

I didn't meet the companions I was looking for along the way, and I was arguing about whether I should go down to look for the surviving companions?

The dispute ended with the bearded man pointing at the darkness outside, then pointing at the cave, and saying a few impatient words in a heavier tone. The other two men fell silent and stopped talking.

Then several people began to look for firewood to make a fire, take care of their unconscious companion, and go about their business.

Judging from the situation, it seems that they have finally decided to go down the cave, but they will have to wait until daybreak...