Xixia dead book

Chapter 123 The Decisive Battle at the Peak of Helan (8)
"During the Western Xia Dynasty, besides Yuan Hao, who else was the person between the world and the kingdom of heaven? In ancient times, the monarchs of all countries in the world hoped to rely on the blessing of God to maintain their rule. Then, God's best blessing for them , is to turn the monarchs into God’s messengers, representing God to rule all things in the world. This is the so-called divine right of kings. Of course, as atheists, we do not believe in the existence of God. The monarchs became their messengers. Therefore, monarchs from all over the world started the god-making movement one after another. Don’t you let me be a god? I created a god for myself. Xixia is no exception. Party members believe in Buddhism, It is very necessary for Yuan Hao to dress himself up as the incarnation of Buddha, or the messenger of Buddha, to rule Xixia and the world." Tang Feng explained for a long time.

Han Jiang nodded: "That makes sense."

"Come here again." As he said, Tang Feng approached the stone wall and pointed to the head of the man in the middle of the rock painting, "The head portrait of Yuan Hao painted here completely conforms to the relevant records in the historical records, and in this painting, Yuan Hao There is also a bald picture on the back of Hao's head portrait."

"What does this mean?"

"Headlights generally appear in Buddhist paintings and sculptures, and generally only Buddhas or Bodhisattvas can have headlights. This further proves my previous judgment that this rock painting is the product of Yuan Hao's creation of a god for himself. The Buddha on it has passed into nirvana , Yuan Hao described himself as the reincarnation of the Buddha, who came to Xixia, came to the world, ruled all things, and brought Xixia a good harvest and victory."

"Well, even if your analysis is correct, what does this have to do with what we are looking for? This rock painting can only show that this is the Black Vulture Temple, other than that, it still can't bring us any new clues .”

"Don't worry, this is already a valuable discovery, maybe we can make even bigger discoveries here." Tang Feng continued to stare at the petroglyph in front of him.

"Then let's go to another place quickly, we have been out for a long time."

Tang Feng agreed, but his eyes were still fixed on the rock painting in front of him.A strange feeling suddenly arose in his heart, as if there was still some secret hidden in this rock painting, but he refused to reveal it to himself easily.

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Han Jiang felt that too much time had been wasted in front of this rock painting, so he urged Tang Feng: "Let's go!" He pulled Tang Feng, but Tang Feng didn't move, "What's wrong with you?"

"I always feel that there is something wrong with this painting."

"Isn't it all analyzed! It's quite thorough, don't be suspicious."

Tang Feng turned his head sideways, then turned his head to the side, still staring at the rock painting, muttering: "This painting..."

"I think you almost stood on your head to see it. Would you like me to help you!" Han Jiang sneered.

"Handstand? Why didn't I think of that!"

"What? You don't really want to stand on your head!" Han Jiang said in shock.

"Why don't you give it a try? Maybe if you stand upside down, you can discover something new!"

Han Jiang had no choice but to lift Tang Feng's feet and help him into a handstand position.

Huge petroglyphs appear in the upside-down world. Tang Feng observes carefully, heaven, King Hao, and the world...

"Are you alright?" Han Jiang was obviously impatient with his mystification.

Tang Feng did not respond.

"You won't fall asleep!" Han Jiang said, pinching Tang Feng's ankle hard.

Tang Feng was pinched by him, and suddenly turned over: "You are so ruthless! You almost broke my ankle."

"I really thought you were asleep."

"Sleep ass! I seem to have really discovered the mystery." As he spoke, Tang Feng approached the rock painting, turned his head to the right, and stared at Yuan Hao's eyes on the rock painting.Suddenly his eyes lit up, "I'm just looking at what's wrong with this petroglyph. Look, I said you can find something by standing upside down!"

Han Jiang hurried over, Tang Feng pointed to Yuan Hao's eyes on the rock painting and said, "See if there is something wrong with Yuan Hao's eyes."

"What's wrong?" Han Jiang stared at it for a long time, "Well, it's not right. The eyes are obviously drawn too big, and they don't match the proportion of the whole face."

"This is not the main thing, you can look back!" Tang Feng reminded.

Han Jiang also imitated Tang Feng's appearance and turned his head as far as possible.Looking at it, Han Jiang suddenly called out: "This... what is this?"

"What did you see?" Tang Feng remained calm.

"I saw the upside-down paintings in Yuan Hao's left eye, just... those paintings representing the human world, of course they are shrunk, and in Yuan Hao's right eye is the upside-down Buddha Nirvana Picture." Han Jiang described what he saw.

Tang Feng nodded and fell into deep thought.

However, Han Jiang asked: "What does this mean? Why do you want to shrink the upper and lower parts of the rock painting into Yuan Hao's eyes? Why do you want to reverse it?"

Tang Feng shook his head: "I've never seen this kind of situation before. You just said that Yuan Hao's eyes are drawn too big and out of proportion to his face. I guess it's because of the need to draw these two pictures in Yuan Hao's eyes. As for the two questions you mentioned, I can still explain why the upper and lower parts of the rock painting were shrunk down and drawn into Yuan Hao's eyes. This may be to represent that both the world and the kingdom of heaven are included in Yuan Hao's eyes. .”

"If it's to express this, then it's fine to paint it upright, and why do you paint it upside down?"

"This... I really can't guess this." Tang Feng frowned and shook his head.

"Okay, let's go back and think about it slowly, first take a picture of this rock painting."

Tang Feng took out his digital camera and took three photos of the rock paintings before he and Han Jiang walked to the camp.

After passing through the forest that made Tang Feng palpitate, everything went smoothly, and the two returned to the camp soon.

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"Where did you go? Why did it take you so long to come back?" Xu Renyu yelled when he saw Tang Feng and Han Jiang.

"Have you discovered something?" Yelena has already guessed a thing or two.

"I think there must be a discovery." Makarov looked confident.

Tang Feng took a sip of water and said, "Yes! We have made a great discovery. Now we can be sure that this is the Black Eagle Temple..." Tang Feng told him and Han Jiang about the discovery of the Black Eagle Temple ruins and the petroglyphs on the rock wall. The three said it again.

"There seem to be more mysteries!" Yelena muttered softly after listening to Tang Feng's narration.

"Yeah! These discoveries don't seem to help what we're looking for?" Xu Renyu was a little disappointed.

"Are you okay here?" Han Jiang suddenly asked Yelena.

"Fortunately, nothing happened."

"It seems that the strange sound only appears at night." Han Jiang deduced.

"To be precise, it should be at a certain time, or under certain conditions." Yelena said.

"Han, what do you plan to do next?" Makarov asked Han Jiang.

Han Jiang looked at Tang Feng, and said, "I want to have lunch first, and then visit the ruins in the afternoon."

"Yes! Maybe there will be new discoveries." Tang Feng echoed.

"Since we've come here, we've confirmed that this is the Black Vulture Temple. We must find out the result." Han Jiang said firmly.

We ate some dry food and took a rest.After that, according to the division of labor in the morning, Yelena, Makarov and the doctor stayed to guard the camp, while Tang Feng and Han Jiang continued to investigate the ruins.

However, before the two set off, they disagreed on the course of action.Tang Feng still wanted to check the ruins discovered in the morning first, and then expand to find other ruins.But Han Jiang had a different idea: "I carefully checked the forest and the route we came from. Last night we turned over from the cliff on the west side of the North Peak. The north side is the ruins we discovered in the morning, and the south side should be the The way down the mountain. Well, there's only the east side that we haven't been to, so I figured we'd go east, through this wood, and see what's out there."

"Judging from the mountain situation here, the east side should be the same as the west side, with cliffs, and there may not even be a road like when we came here." Tang Feng deduced looking at the mountains above his head.

"That's why I went to explore to see if it was a cliff and if there was a way."

Tang Feng couldn't hold back Han Jiang, so he had to follow his advice and head east, to be precise, northeast.The two brought all their equipment and walked into the woods again.Unlike in the morning, they walked in the woods for more than half an hour, but still did not get out of the woods.Suspicious in Han Jiang's heart, he couldn't help but stop and observe.

"According to my inference, half an hour is enough to get out of this forest." Han Jiang looked around.

"Yes! How big is this forest? We walked out of the forest for 5 minutes in the morning. Why did it take so long to walk east?" Tang Feng was puzzled.

Han Jiang checked the compass: "The direction should be correct, northeast."

Tang Feng raised his head and looked at the tree above his head: "Did you notice that? Let's go this way, the terrain hasn't changed much, but the trees have changed a lot."

"Well, the trees here are getting taller and thicker."

Tang Feng raised his head and tried his best to distinguish the cliff above the North Peak: "But what makes it even more difficult for me to understand is why the distance from the North Peak cliff has not shortened after we have traveled so far, it seems to be about the same as the distance from the camp to the North Peak cliff. .”

"Yeah! I noticed that too. It stands to reason that if we go northeast, we should be getting closer and closer to the North Peak cliff until we get to the bottom of the rock!"

"So judging from our distance from the North Peak cliff, we still have a long way to go." Tang Feng showed a pessimistic mood.

Han Jiang shook his head and sighed, "It's unexpected that this seemingly small platform has such a large range."

"At the end of the day, I still complied with the poem 'I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, I only live in this mountain'. If we can stand on a high place, everything here will be clear." Tang Feng also sighed.

"I really want to grow a pair of wings, let me fly into the sky, and take a look at this magical place."

"These few words of yours are quite poetic, hehe, it's a pity that you couldn't be born."

After speaking, both of them fell silent, and there was no sound around them.There was only the sound of two people panting in the woods. There were no animals, no birdsong, not even the sound of the wind at this moment.

Everything fell silent, Han Jiang waved Tang Feng, and the two were ready to continue.At this moment, there was a piercing scream in the air, and then, a gust of wind rolled up the treetops, and a large black cloud seemed to float over the forest.In an instant, Tang Feng felt something pressing down on the top of his head.

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Faced with this sudden situation, Tang Feng was terrified and hurriedly raised his head to wait and see.But the dark cloud in the sky seemed to disappear in an instant, the sky was blue, and there was no abnormality, and the forest returned to its previous calm.

"What happened just now?" Tang Feng was still in palpitations.

Han Jiang also raised his head to check: "It seems to be a big bird."

"Big bird?!" Tang Feng immediately thought of the vulture he dreamed of in the woods in the early morning. He was grabbed by the vulture's sharp claws and carried by it to fly across the grasslands, rivers, mountains, and finally came Arrived over a large virgin forest.It was a pitch-black world, where I saw the most terrifying sight in my life, especially the head of the woman in white robe...

"Could it be that vulture?" Tang Feng muttered to himself.

"What did you say?" Tang Feng's voice was very low, but Han Jiang still heard it.

"Do you remember the dream I told you about? I saw a vulture in the dream, and all the horrors I encountered in the latter part of the dream came from that vulture."

"Vulture?" Han Jiang's eyes lit up, "Did you forget the name here?"

"Black Vulture Temple." Tang Feng's heart trembled suddenly, "It is recorded in the literature that Yuan Hao had an affair with Empress Wuzang in Jietai Temple. Misha judged that Jietai Temple was the Black Vulture Temple he discovered, and 'Black Vulture Temple' Misha learned the name of Temple from the local population. Could it be that there are really vultures here?"

"According to the local population, there may be two situations. One is that there were vultures here in the Western Xia Dynasty, so some people called Jietai Temple 'Black Vulture Temple' at that time, and it has been in use; the other is The situation is that Jietai Temple has long been lost, but later a small temple appeared here. Misha’s notes can prove this. The local people didn’t know that it was called Jietai Temple before. 'Black Eagle Temple'."

"Anyway, I'm beginning to believe that there are vultures here. I'm afraid the dreams will come true."

"Don't scare yourself, it's just a dream. Even if you saw a vulture just now, there's nothing to be afraid of. It's normal for a vulture to appear in the mountains."

Han Jiang comforted Tang Feng for a long time. Seeing that Tang Feng had calmed down a lot, the two continued to move northeastward.After walking for a while, Han Jiang found that the trees around him had changed. The trees that no one could name that had been with them had disappeared, and now they were surrounded by tall cedars.

Tang Feng also noticed the changes around him.Not only that, but he also noticed that the terrain under their feet was gradually rising: "We seem to be walking up the mountain."

"I noticed that too."

"Could it be that the road to the east can go all the way to the North Peak?" Tang Feng raised his head again and looked up.The tall cedars covered the sky and the sun, and the cliffs of the North Peak could not be seen at all. He didn't know how far they were from the cliffs of the North Peak at this time.

Tang Feng's words made Han Jiang stop.The way to the North Peak?Looking north from the camp, the North Peak seems to be so high that there is no way to climb it!Is there really a road winding around the North Peak?

"If that's the case, once we go far, we won't be able to return to the camp before dark!" Han Jiang judged.

"Yes, we have been walking for almost an hour. If this road really extends all the way to the North Peak, we have to make a decision now, whether to continue moving forward or return to the camp first."

"After walking so far, are you willing to return here?"

"Of course not reconciled."

"I'm not reconciled either."

"But……"

"There is no 'but', since you and I are not reconciled, we should continue to explore." Han Jiang interrupted Tang Feng and said firmly.

Tang Feng still wanted to say something, but at this moment, the sky above their heads was covered by "dark clouds" again, and a gust of wind blew over their heads.They instinctively looked towards the "dark clouds" in the sky, no, it was the treetops!Because they saw something passing over the cedar treetops, casting a large shadow on the woods, and casting a deep shadow on their hearts.

"It really is a vulture!" Tang Feng shouted.

"I've never seen such a huge vulture, it looks like a pterosaur flying overhead." Han Jiang's words brought the two of them back to the Cretaceous era.

While the two were in a daze, another giant vulture flew by in mid-air.With their mouths half open, Tang Feng couldn't help murmuring, "We've really returned to the Cretaceous Period..."

The scenes in the dream flashed in Tang Feng's mind, and he didn't dare to think about it any more.He stepped back, but was grabbed by Han Jiang: "Why don't we follow these two vultures and see where we can go?"

"You are crazy!"

"It's not me if I'm not crazy."

With that said, Han Jiang grabbed Tang Feng and ran towards the direction where the vulture was flying.He quickly judged the direction, and to his surprise, the vulture flew in the northeast direction where they were going.He didn't know whether it was joy or sorrow, and he didn't know where the vulture would take them.

Han Jiang's pace slowly slowed down, because he could no longer see the two vultures.Tang Feng broke free from Han Jiang, panting and yelling at him: "You are running like this, is the direction right?"

"That's right, after walking for so long, it's time to see the outcome."

As soon as Han Jiang's words fell, the eyes of the two suddenly became clear, and the tall cedar had come to an end.The two looked ahead in surprise, a stone wall blocked their way like a high wall.

(End of this chapter)