Xixia dead book

Chapter 231 The Finale of Death (21)
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"I saw it, I saw it!" Tang Feng screamed, trying to open his eyes, but was blinded by the strong sunlight.

Tang Feng had another nightmare. When he woke up, the sky was bright, but before he had time to recall the nightmare that was not a nightmare just now, he felt the white sand grains under his body start to dance slightly, and he hurriedly sat up, But Han Jiang, Liang Yuan, Yelena and Makarov were not beside him, but lined up, standing upright on the sea of ​​death.

Just as Tang Feng was about to stand up, he felt the ground shake slightly again, "This...what's the matter? Is there an earthquake?" Tang Feng shouted loudly at Han Jiang and the others.

"No! This... this is not an earthquake, but a miracle!" Han Jiang yelled.

"Miracle?!" Tang Feng hurriedly stumbled to Han Jiang and the others.

"Look, there is no fog today, and the sun has just risen. The miracle you waited so hard for yesterday has finally come!" Han Jiang murmured, looking at the water in front of him.

"Odd... a miracle really happened..." Tang Feng discovered that the water level of the Sea of ​​Rebirth began to drop again, and now it has receded to a position more than one meter below the stele of Qi Xuejun, and the water level is still falling. This kind of decline does not seem to be as fast as Liu Bingzhong mentioned in the inscription, and the rising and receding water they encountered yesterday was not as sudden as the inscription records, but everything is indeed very similar to what is recorded in the inscription, and the water level is obviously declining .

When the water level of the Sea of ​​Rebirth dropped to two meters below the base of the Xuejun Monument, Liang Yuan first noticed the anomaly, "Look, what is that?"

They looked in the direction of Liang Yuan's finger, and there was a large piece of reed on the edge of Haizi in the front left, and on the water surface about [-] meters away from the reed, a large piece of shadow was slowly emerging from the water.

"Yes...it's the mandala, it's the skeleton mandala!" Tang Feng opened his mouth half-open in surprise, and he didn't know whether it was from his mouth or his throat that he made a sound.

The water level seems to be artificially manipulated, slowly and precisely falling!Under the sunlight in the morning, the large area of ​​shadow slowly revealed, a large area of ​​white flowers, just like the legend and the records on the inscription, after the sea of ​​rebirth receded, the skeleton mandala emerged from the water.

At this time, the upper part of the skeleton mandala has been clearly displayed in front of everyone.Everyone was surprised, because although they had imagined the shape and scale of the skull mandala countless times in their minds, their imaginations were nothing compared to the real skull mandala!The upper part of the mandala is densely stacked with white bones, which are regular and grand. Each area of ​​the mandala skillfully uses different bone parts to overlap each other, like a complex system engineering.

As the water level continued to drop, what surprised Tang Feng and the others was the scale of the skeleton mandala. The whole mandala was in the shape of a rectangle. When the water level of the Past Life Sea dropped to the bottom of the mandala, it stopped and continued to drop. !Only then did Tang Feng see clearly that behind the reeds in the front left, there was a broad avenue more than ten meters wide that was higher than the surrounding water, extending southward, and not far from this road was the skeleton mandala.Tang Feng understood a little bit, the skeleton mandala was just on the only way to Mi city, no wonder Ba Siba insisted on building the mandala here, not only to save the dead souls, but also to block the road leading to Mi city!
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The scale of the skeleton mandala was beyond everyone's imagination. Tang Feng couldn't see the end of the skeleton mandala for a while, but only saw the mandala extending on the long handle. The mandala was as high as four or five meters. Everyone was surprised!
"It's amazing! It's like a castle, but...it's just made of bones." Yelena said in surprise.

"I originally thought that the so-called skeleton mandala was bigger than the Jingguan we saw in Qianhu Town, but I didn't expect... This is simply a super big Jingguan!" Han Jiang exclaimed.

"Wrong, this is not the Jingguan. The Jingguan is built to show off martial arts, and the enemy's bones are built into the Jingguan; Liu Bingzhong's inscription clearly says that this is a mandala, and Basiba built it here, not to show off his martial arts. , but to rescue the soldiers of both sides who died in battle for decades! Today in Tibetan areas there are many mandalas built with sutra boards, but... it’s just that this mandala in front of us is built with the bones of countless people. " Tang Feng explained.

"I remember that the mandala in the Tibetan area was built with stone slabs engraved with Buddhist scriptures, so will there be Buddhist scriptures on the mandala in front of us?" Liang Yuan asked suddenly.

Tang Feng's heart was shocked. Yes, scriptures were engraved on the stone slabs that built the mandala. Could it be that these bones were also engraved with scriptures?Thinking of this, Tang Feng packed up his luggage and said, "Whether it is engraved with scriptures or not, you will only know when you pass by."

"Shall we go now?" Liang Yuan asked with some fear.

"Do we still need to wait here? Ancient legends, and the records on the Kexue Army Stele have pointed us in the right direction. I believe the general's people should not have found this place yet, but they are nearby, and we want to grab them Ahead!" Tang Feng said as he packed up his luggage and walked towards the reeds in front of the left.

Everyone hurriedly followed Tang Feng, and when he got closer, Tang Feng realized that the reeds should have grown on a high place, which is the position of the base of the stone tablet they saw yesterday. Now that the water has receded, the roots of the reeds are all exposed From this point of view, in recent years, the water level of the Past Life Sea should have been maintained at the level seen yesterday.

Tang Feng pushed aside the thick reeds, and a strange feeling swept over his body in an instant. He suddenly remembered that nightmare again. He also broke into the dense reeds like this, stepped on the wet white sand, and suddenly, exposed A piece of white human bone... Tang Feng thought of this, and a piece of white bone really flashed in front of his eyes. Tang Feng was startled, and when he took a closer look, it turned out that Liang Yuan found a piece of white bone from the mud, which was human. tibia!
"Throw it away!" Tang Feng scolded.

"Seeing how timid you are now, you are also afraid of this! How will you enter the skeleton mandala later!" Liang Yuan threw the severed bone and said with a smile.

yes!Tang Feng felt that his nerves were becoming more and more sensitive and fragile, and there was still such a huge skeleton mandala waiting for him later.

Tang Feng remained silent and continued to walk forward. About 10 minutes later, they walked out of the reeds and came to the road leading to the Skeleton Mandala, which is also the road leading to Mi City.

The avenue is about ten meters wide, like a plank road on the sea protruding from the water. When Tang Feng walked to one side, the water level of the Xiangsheng Sea had stopped falling, but the water level had receded so much. Standing on the edge of the avenue, looking down , Tang Feng still felt dizzy, and the sea of ​​rebirth was still bottomless. "What a miraculous Haizi!" Tang Feng couldn't help sighing again.

Han Jiang also saw the clues, "No wonder Basiba wants to build a mandala here, and Mi City cannot be entered from other places. Only here, when the water recedes to this position, the road leading to Mi City will be revealed."

"I think this is the so-called 'big mystery' of Basiba. The few things he did after breaking through Mi City were all for the long-term peace and stability of the Yuan Dynasty. Here, Mi city was occupied, so he took a series of measures, one is to strictly order the soldiers not to kill indiscriminately, not to loot, so as to appease the hearts of the surviving party members and resolve the decades of grievances between the two sides; It must work, so Basiba took a few more measures. Second, don't let any written records about this war be handed down, even Liu Bingzhong, who is the prime minister, is no exception, so Liu Bingzhong had to record this matter in the cowardly On the stele of Xue Jun, it has been standing in this inaccessible place for hundreds of years; 3. The construction of the huge skeleton mandala in front of us is not only to save the dead, resolve grievances, but also skillfully use the mandala to block the road leading to Micheng I even suspect that the nameless fire recorded in the inscription on the Xuejun stele was also set off by Basipa's secret order. If this is true, then this is also one!" Tang Feng seems to have deciphered the so-called Basiba's secret language Liu Bingzhong Big mystery.

"Is this unlikely? At that time, their people were still in the city of Mi, so setting fire would inevitably cause casualties to their own people, and this also contradicts what you said to resolve the grievances with the party members!" Makarov doubted.

"This... I'm just skeptical. No evidence has been found now, so I can only be suspicious, but I can't rule out this possibility."

"Tang Feng, I also don't understand something." Yelena asked suddenly: "If Basiba wants to block the road into Mi City, then he can just dig up this long embankment, even if it is only a small section. , won’t you achieve your goal?”

"This..." Tang Feng couldn't answer Yelena's question.

"Perhaps there is some mystery in this mandala?!" Makarov said.

"Is there a mystery?" Makarov's words made Tang Feng fall into deep thought.

Tang Feng was thinking about Yelena's question, when Liang Yuan suddenly saw a skull in front of the avenue, "Look, this is water rushing down from the mandala!"

Speaking of which, Liang Yuan grabbed the skull with his hands. Tang Feng tried to stop it, but it was too late. He saw a small snake rushing out of the skull's eye sockets and pounced on Liang Yuan. , Liang Yuan turned pale with fright, and screamed, Han Jiang reacted quickly enough, grabbed the snake on Liang Yuan's body, fell to the ground, then pulled out the dagger, and cut the snake in two with one knife.

Liang Yuan gradually stopped screaming, Tang Feng just wanted to say a few words to her, "Don't touch these things..." Unexpectedly, a scene of surprise caught everyone's eyes, only to see that the road had been divided into two by Han Jiang Duan’s snake, the first half of its body was still wriggling, slowly squirming into the water, and finally jumped into the water, disappearing in the blink of an eye, while the severed second half of the snake instantly turned into a A pile of snakeskin.

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Everyone looked at the scene in front of them in surprise, no one knew what kind of snake it was?Even the well-informed Makarov didn't know what kind of snake it was.

Everyone continued to move forward. Although the road to the Skeleton Mandala was not too far away, they walked cautiously for 10 minutes before they came to the mandala. The hideous skeletons and piles of white bones looked like a castle. Even made a door shape, this is the entrance of the mandala?The five people looked at each other in blank dismay, no one knew what would be in there?
Han Jiang was stunned for a while, then smiled and said: "It seems that I am the first again, why are you still sticking around! Come in!"

"From... Where do you enter?" Tang Feng pointed to the white city gate, as if asking Han Jiang.

"Nonsense, if you don't enter from there, where else can you enter?" Han Jiang said, striding into the city gate made of bones, and the others had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow in.

Entering the gate of the city of bones, there is a wall made of bones and skulls inside. Tang Feng observed it carefully, and then bravely pushed it with his hands, but the wall of bones remained motionless, strange?This wall of white bones does not use any adhesive materials, only relying on these bones and skeletons to pile together, how can it be so strong?Tang Feng suspiciously followed behind Han Jiang and bypassed the wall. Behind the wall was a square courtyard. Of course, the courtyard was also surrounded by bones.

Tang Feng looked at it twice, and couldn't help sneering: "It seems that Ba Siba and Liu Bingzhong are indeed master architects!"

"Master architect?"

"You don't know yet, Liu Bingzhong and Basiba were both masters of planning and architecture in history. Liu Bingzhong presided over the construction of Yuan Dadu, which is today's Beijing City; Basiba presided over the construction of the Sakya Monastery in Tibet and the White Pagoda in Beijing. Temple and many other important temples. Look at this mandala made of bones and made into a courtyard house, which is quite different from the stone scripture mandala I saw in Tibetan areas!" Tang Feng didn't seem to be I was so nervous before coming in.

"It's just that there is no roof!" Liang Yuan muttered.

Tang Feng looked up. Although the skeleton mandala looked like a castle, with walls and doors, it didn't have a roof. At this time, the courtyard they were in was more like a patio.Looking out from the patio, the sun is shining brightly outside. Since yesterday’s heavy fog cleared, the temperature of Xiangshenghai has risen in a straight line. Just before Tang Feng entered the Skeleton Mandala, he was sweating profusely from the blazing sun, but this will But Er seemed to have come to another world, he didn't know why the blazing sun couldn't shine into this mandala, maybe... Maybe it's because the yin here is too heavy!
When Tang Feng was thinking wildly, Liang Yuan slapped him suddenly, frightening him half to death. Just as he was about to explode, Liang Yuan pointed to a large bone beside him and said in surprise: "Look, look, there There are words!"

Tang Feng was also surprised, and looked closely. Sure enough, the pelvic bone was engraved with densely packed small characters, which were written in Xixia script. After roughly identifying it, Tang Feng exclaimed: "It really is a scripture!"

At this time, Han Jiang, Yelena and Makarov also found words on other bones, and Tang Feng recognized them one by one, and was even more surprised, "It's all Buddhist scriptures, and... and I only read these few pieces , four scripts have been discovered.”

"What? You mean that the scriptures carved on the bones were written in different scripts?" Han Jiang glanced at a skeleton next to him in surprise.

"Yes, there are Xixia script, ancient Tibetan script, Basiba script, and even Chinese characters!" Tang Feng looked at everyone in surprise.

"So, what do these scriptures say?" Yelena asked.

"If I want to understand this, I have to take a closer look." Tang Feng said and began to look at the neatly arranged row of skeletons. After a while, Tang Feng seemed to see some tricks, "I picked a skeleton with Chinese characters engraved on it." I looked at the bone, and there are different Buddhist scriptures engraved on it, let me have a look again.”

Tang Feng walked forward, Han Jiang and others followed behind him, and everyone passed through a door again and entered a narrow alleyway, surrounded by skeletons, five people were so close to these skeletons, Tang Feng There was a feeling of suffocation. Along the way, his eyes were full of white skulls and densely packed Buddhist scriptures. Suddenly, he stopped, and the alleyway here opened up. Tang Feng suddenly pointed to the words on one of the skulls and said: " I saw some tricks, just now, apart from looking at the Chinese ones, I also read the Basiba scripts and the Xixia scripts, comparing several languages, I found that the Buddhist scriptures written in these different languages ​​are often the same."

"That is to say, the four scripts are all engraved with the same Buddhist scriptures?" Liang Yuan said.

"Yes, they are all the same. Although I only read this small part, I can already infer that what is engraved on these bones should be a Tripitaka!"

"What? "Tripitaka"! I heard that "Tripitaka" is a collection of major Buddhist classics, and the scale must be very large!" Liang Yuan said in surprise.

"Yes, so we have seen such a large-scale mandala. This is not a mandala built by believers spontaneously. Yes, the scale surprised me. Of course, we didn’t finish reading it, so I don’t know if we had engraved the entire Tripitaka.” Tang Feng said excitedly.

"Why did Ba Siba engrave the Tripitaka on these bones? Is it just to save the souls of the dead?" Han Jiang asked puzzled.

"Maybe this is the power of faith!" Tang Feng sighed softly, and walked deeper into the mandala.

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Tang Feng continued to walk forward, and then entered the narrow alleyway. There were still white skulls and dense scriptures on the skulls.As he walked, Tang Feng suddenly felt that everything here was so familiar, and his heart sank suddenly. Could it be... Could it be that they returned to the alleyway they walked through just now?
After wandering around in the same alleyway in the altar city, Tang Feng's eyes widened, and they entered a circular hall. Tang Feng let out a sigh of relief, and finally walked out of the same alleyway, which was something they had never been before. place, but this is not an exit.

There are four doors made of bones on each side of the rotunda. "This may be the center of the entire mandala." Tang Feng speculated that no one responded, and the entire rotunda was silent, only Tang Feng's short words were heard. echoes here.

(End of this chapter)