Xixia dead book

Chapter 127 The Decisive Battle at the Peak of Helan (12)
"That's the most obvious evidence. The samurai in the northeast corner looks like his hands are clasped together, but his hands are pointing forward. His front is the northeast direction. What is there in the northeast? Besides going to the temple, what else can it be?" Han Jiangyue said more and more excitedly .

"But I don't understand that it takes so much trouble and hidden secrets, just to point out the direction to go to the temple?"

"This just shows the importance of going to the temple! We have basically searched here. Although we have found a lot, we haven't found any traces of what we are looking for..."

"So you think what we are looking for is in the temple?" Tang Feng interrupted Han Jiang.

Han Jiang nodded, "I think it should be."

"But we went to that big platform yesterday, and found nothing, not even a trace of the building!"

Tang Feng's question made Han Jiang ponder.After a long time, Han Jiang said: "I can't explain all this now, but I think we need to go there again."

As soon as Han Jiang finished speaking, there was a commotion outside the tent.

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Tang Feng and Han Jiang heard the movement outside the tent, and hurried out of the tent, and heard Xu Renyu shouting excitedly: "The blue sheep! A blue sheep came to our camp just now!"

"Then you should catch it, we also have some game!" Han Jiang joked.

"Yeah, I thought so too, but just as I was about to catch it, that blue sheep got into the woods." Xu Renyu was gesturing while talking.

Tang Feng looked in the direction of Xu Renyu's gesture, and sure enough, in the forest to the north, there was a blue sheep standing in the forest, watching them carefully.

Xu Renyu raised his gun and aimed at the rock sheep, Tang Feng quickly stopped him: "Don't shoot, blue sheep are protected animals."

As soon as Tang Feng finished speaking, the blue sheep quickly fled to the forest to the north.Xu Renyu followed closely, but the nimble blue sheep didn't give him a chance to shoot at all, and disappeared into the forest in an instant.

"It was you who yelled nonsense and scared the blue sheep away." Xu Renyu, who became angry from embarrassment, cast his resentment on Tang Feng.

Just as Tang Feng was about to speak, the air suddenly became gloomy, followed by several piercing screams, his heart suddenly tightened. "Vulture, it's that big vulture again!" Tang Feng shouted, pointing at the huge shadow on the treetop not far away.

Everyone nervously watched the giant vulture in mid-air, and no one knew what the vulture was going to do this time.Scenes of terrifying scenes in the nightmare flashed before Tang Feng's eyes. He was already holding the pistol tightly, fearing that the vultures would swoop down and grab him.But the vulture didn't swoop down on them, but headed north.

"What is the vulture going to do?" Yelena asked in panic.

"To the north is the ruins of the Black Vulture Temple. Could it be..." Han Jiang hesitated to speak.

Just when everyone was thinking wildly, an unforgettable horror scene appeared...

The vulture rushed north, but was soon soaring into the air again.When everyone looked at the vulture together, they found that the vulture had caught a blue sheep that was about the same size as itself.

Everyone stared blankly. "It's amazing!" Yelena exclaimed.

"It's unbelievable, this blue sheep must weigh at least a hundred catties, and it was caught by this vulture!" Xu Renyu muttered to himself.

"It seems that these two vultures are not scavengers." Tang Feng still did not forget yesterday's discovery.

"Do they eat living things?" Makarov also shook his head.

"The pool of blood found on the ruins yesterday, I think it can be explained." Tang Feng looked at Han Jiang again.

Han Jiang has been staring at the Vulture which is gradually going away, seeing Tang Feng glance at him: "Look at what I am doing? The Vulture is also going to the northeast, so what else can I say. To solve these mysteries, the only way to solve these puzzles is to visit the big platform again, which is the The so-called 'going to the temple'."

"There's nothing there, is it the temple?" Tang Feng tried his best to recall every scene he saw there yesterday, but he still couldn't figure it out.

Han Jiang thought for a while: "I think... I think there must be something hidden there."

"Hiding what?"

Makarov also agreed with Han Jiang's opinion: "Anyway, let's find the 'Shangsi' first."

After all the people had finished their calculations, they unanimously decided to break camp and head towards the cliff in the northeast.Everyone packed up and filed into the forest where they got lost.

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Entering the forest, Han Jiang walked ahead, this time he changed to a diamond symbol as a mark.After the group of people took a few steps, Han Jiang saw the triangular mark he had left yesterday on the tree trunk, but soon, they saw the triangular mark carved in three cuts.Han Jiang touched the deep nick with his hand, lost in thought.

Tang Feng walked to the front, turned his head and patted Han Jiang: "What are you thinking? Let's go!"

"I was thinking, what is the purpose of the person who carved this triangle symbol yesterday?" Han Jiang asked suddenly.

Tang Feng was stunned: "It goes without saying, in order to disturb us, let us get lost in the woods."

"No! I don't see it that way now. I originally thought the same way as you did. However, now I think that the man did it for another reason."

"Han, do you think that person did this for the same purpose as you?" Makarov said suddenly.

Han Jiang nodded: "God is fair to everyone. Since this mysterious forest can make us lose our way in it, it will also make other people lose their way. Therefore, this person came to the forest for the same purpose as us. engraved these marks."

"And what explains the markings that appear around our camp?" Yelena asked.

"Yes! Could it be that that person has been by our side, watching us?" Tang Feng also asked.

Everyone was surprised by Tang Feng's words, and then they looked at the surrounding forests in unison.The woods here are not too dense, and the surroundings are quiet.Today is a fine day, the sun shines into the forest and sprinkles on the ground. If it weren't for those bizarre and terrifying encounters, this place would be a beautiful paradise.

"If..." Han Jiang cleared his throat, looked around everyone, and said solemnly, "If this mark is not a prank by one of us, then there is indeed someone around us. From the inn at the foot of the mountain to Fanny's mysterious death, Considering all the bizarre encounters on the mountain, I can now almost conclude that this mysterious person does exist and is by our side. But this person does not seem to be interested in us, he is interested in other things."

"So he came to our camp before, but he didn't show up." Tang Feng said.

"But we stayed in the camp yesterday. If someone is watching us nearby, I should be able to notice it?" Yelena was puzzled.

Han Jiang's eyebrows were twisted into a knot: "There can only be one explanation for this situation. This guy is a master, and his kung fu is superior to yours and mine."

"Really? There is someone better than you and Yelena?" Tang Feng couldn't believe it.

"Yes, I believe there must be in this world." Han Jiang didn't say anything, but Makarov suddenly said this.

Everyone is puzzled.

"You mean yourself?" Tang Feng asked Makarov back.

Makarov just shook his head and said nothing.The crowd continued to move toward the northeast, and the further they went, the denser the woods became.Tang Feng noticed that there were more and more marks on the trunk, some were carved by Han Jiang, and some were carved by that mysterious person.Both Han Jiang and Tang Feng wanted to judge the place where they lost their way the day before from the triangular marks beside them, but they went all the way into the pine forest and couldn't find that place.

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The terrain was getting higher and higher, the tall cedars pierced into the sky, and the light in the forest dimmed.Everyone came to the stone wall and walked along the stone wall for a while, and the stone ladder appeared in front of everyone.

Tang Feng was about to rush forward, but Han Jiang grabbed him.Han Jiang stood on the stone ladder on the first floor, listening quietly, and everyone was staring at him.Suddenly, Han Jiang pulled out a pistol from his waist: "Be careful, everyone, I smell blood."

"The smell of blood? Are you overly nervous? Why didn't I smell it?" Tang Feng sniffed hard.

Han Jiang didn't answer, but pulled Tang Feng behind him, took the gun by himself, and was the first to jump onto the large platform on the stone ladder, followed by Yelena, Tang Feng, Makarov and Xu Renyu.The cold wind blew, and a strong smell of blood rushed to the face, but no one was seen.Han Jiang took a few steps and quickly came to the center of the platform. A blue sheep that fell to death had been gutted out, and the strong smell of blood came from here.

"Is that the blue sheep just now?" Tang Feng knelt down, covered his mouth and nose, and examined the blue sheep's body.

"It should be the other end just now. I think he just died not long ago." Han Jiang judged.

"That is to say, the vulture first smashed the blue sheep to death, and then ate." Makarov said.

Tang Feng felt nauseated for a while: "This place reminds me of the celestial burial platform in Langmusi, and it also reminds me... of that terrible nightmare."

"Nightmare?" Han Jiang suddenly remembered something, "Tang Feng, recall your nightmare carefully."

"What's there to remember? If you don't want me to have another nightmare tonight, don't mention it to me."

"No! To recall, you seem to have said that a vulture picked you up in your dream and left you here?" Han Jiang inspired Tang Feng.

Han Jiang's words brought back terrible memories of Tang Feng: "Yes, there were two times. The first time was very vague, I can't remember clearly, it seems that the vultures threw me into a virgin forest. The second time was very difficult. Clearly, this is where the vultures threw me, and then a group of people in scary masks sang and danced, and finally threw me off the cliff."

"No...no, you seem to have mentioned that group of masked people knelt down reverently..."

"Yes, those people started singing and dancing around the bonfire, and then they all fell to their knees devoutly, right here, where we were standing." The details of the nightmare in the early morning are still vivid in Tang Feng's memory Still terrified.

"Here, is it in the direction of the mountain?"

"Well, it's in the direction of the North Peak, and everyone is very pious."

Han Jiang took a few steps back and looked towards the mountain above him.Everyone didn't know what Han Jiang was thinking, so they all stepped back and looked up.

"There must be some secret hidden on this mountain!" Han Jiang's eyes narrowed into a line.

"What secrets can this bare mountain have? What I just said is a scene in a dream, don't take it seriously!" Tang Feng reminded Han Jiang.

"No! Take it seriously." Han Jiang said persistently.

"You are really crazy." Tang Feng felt that Han Jiang seemed to be possessed by a demon.

"Whether I'm crazy or not, we'll find out today!" Han Jiang said with certainty.

As soon as Han Jiang finished speaking, several pieces of gravel suddenly rolled down the mountain wall.He took a few more steps to the east, and almost retreated to the edge of the cliff on the east side.

"Be careful." Tang Feng and Yelena reminded Han Jiang at the same time.

Han Jiang said nothing, still staring at the mountain in front of him ecstatically.Tang Feng smiled and said, "If you stare here, what can you see..."

Before Tang Feng finished speaking, Han Jiang suddenly said calmly: "I can see it."

"what?"

"What did you see?"

Everyone is puzzled.

Han Jiang didn't answer, and was still staring at the mountain in a daze.Tang Feng began to carefully look at the mountain peak in front of him again. The rising sun was shining directly on the towering north peak. The mountain peak seemed to be covered with a golden coat by the sun, and it glowed golden in the sun.There seems to be a Buddha statue vaguely, it is a big Buddha...

[Section [-]: King Hao’s Eyes]

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Tang Feng couldn't believe his eyes, he rubbed his eyes vigorously, and then took a closer look.Yes, a Buddha statue!Just where the crooked-necked trees he and Han Jiang found yesterday, a 40-meter-tall Buddha loomed.

"I can also see that a big Buddha is a big Buddha." Tang Feng shouted.

Yelena, Makarov, and Xu Renyu also noticed that the head, shoulders, chest, abdomen, and limbs, the outline of a big Buddha gradually appeared on the cliff.

"Why didn't you find out when you two came yesterday?" Yelena asked with her head raised.

"It's blocked by those trees on the cliff, and the Buddha is too weathered." Tang Feng said, picking up a rock that rolled down just now, "Look, I found out yesterday that the rock texture here is not hard enough. It’s very windy here, if this giant Buddha was excavated in Xixia, it would have been 800 years ago. The wind and rain for so many years has made the giant Buddha’s face blurred.”

"I think it's more than that." Xu Renyu said suddenly, "According to my observation, the carving of this giant Buddha was not fine enough, but only thick lines. I even doubt that it was not finished."

"It's possible, and after so many years of wind and rain, if you don't look carefully, you won't find a big Buddha carved on the rock wall." After Han Jiang finished speaking, he murmured, "It seems that I still Not crazy."

"Yes, you are not crazy! How did you tell? Could it be because of that nightmare?" Tang Feng asked.

"I don't know. In short, after I heard your nightmare, I had a strong premonition. Combined with the situation here, my judgment is more firm. First of all, we have determined that the ruins in the forest are The "Xiasi" of Heijiu Temple, then the upper temple is likely to be here. The two Xixia characters appearing here, as well as the strange warrior statue at the pagoda of the lower temple, can also confirm this point. Secondly, there are no buildings here , and is not suitable for building houses. If there is no building here, there must be other uses."

"So you combine the scene in my dream and deduce that this is a sacrificial site."

"Sacrifice site? Isn't this a Buddhist temple?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

"It is a Buddhist temple, and it is also a sacrificial site. I once said that the Dangxiang people began to believe in Buddhism around the founding of the Western Xia Dynasty. Before that, the Dangxiang people believed in primitive religion, that is, they worshiped the sun, mountains and rivers, and believed that all things have spirits." Later, although the Dangxiang people rose rapidly under the leadership of Yuan Hao, established the Xixia Dynasty, and converted to Buddhism, it was difficult to completely abandon the primitive religion for a while. Therefore, the rulers of Xixia combined Buddhism and primitive religion. This is the case here The location here is just facing the east, which is the direction where the sun rises. The Buddha statue was excavated on Helan Mountain. It is also to worship Helan Mountain, the sun and ancestors." Tang Feng explained.

"It seems that this was a big project of Xixia at that time!" Xu Renyu sighed.

"Yes! It was definitely a national project at that time. This can explain why Yuan Hao spared no expense to build a large-scale Buddhist temple deep in the mountains. Even the Western Xia royal family, including Yuan Hao himself, once worshiped here. The big platform and the stone ladder also came in handy." Tang Feng talked eloquently.

"You said that Yuan Hao also paid homage here?" Han Jiang suddenly asked Tang Feng.

"That's right! This is a royal temple, and it was originally used by the royal family to worship Buddha."

"Hehe, why do I feel that Yuan Hao is portrayed by this Buddha! He won't kneel himself, will he?" Han Jiang laughed.

"You mean, the Buddha was carved according to Yuan Hao's appearance?" Tang Feng was a little shocked.

"Don't talk about it, the Buddha is so weathered that you can't see his face clearly at all. Besides, do you know what Yuan Hao looks like?" Xu Renyu jumped out to refute Han Jiang.

"Yes! How can it be seen that it was carved according to Yuan Hao's appearance?" Yelena was also puzzled.

"Han Jiang's words reminded me that this possibility is not impossible." Tang Feng thought for a while and explained, "When the ancient Chinese emperors excavated grottoes, especially when excavating the giant Buddha, they would carve the giant Buddha according to their own appearance, like The "Tanyao Five Grottoes" in the Yungang Grottoes were carved according to the appearance of the five emperors of the Northern Wei Dynasty; the "Lushena Buddha" in the Longmen Grottoes was carved according to the appearance of Wu Zetian. The emperors all hope to become the incarnation of Buddha , so that people all over the world will worship, so when Yuan Hao carved this great Buddha, it is very likely that he carved it according to his own appearance."

"Tang Feng talked about one aspect, but I didn't see it from this aspect." Han Jiang laughed.

"Oh? Then how did you see it?" Tang Feng was puzzled by Han Jiang's intention.

Han Jiang smiled: "Because I just saw this image yesterday."

Tang Feng was awakened by Han Jiang's words: "You mean that rock painting?!"

"Yes, the person in the middle of the rock painting, you said, is the image of Yuan Hao. When I saw this big Buddha today, I felt that this Buddha statue seemed familiar."

"If this big Buddha is really carved according to Yuan Hao's appearance, then it has three meanings: one is a Buddha statue; the other is to satisfy the original worship of Helan Mountain by the party members; Fusion, in order to achieve the purpose of making party members worship him forever." Tang Feng said.

"That is to say, the party members here are not only worshiping Buddha, but also worshiping mountain gods, and also worshiping Yuanhao." Yelena finally understood.

"Think about it, what a spectacular scene it is! The sun is just rising, just like today, Yuan Hao turns into the image of a Buddha, and becomes one with Helan Mountain, watching countless party members kneel down on this big platform."

As soon as Han Jiang finished speaking, some gravel suddenly fell from the mountain.

(End of this chapter)