Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 63 The Altar
This is a gorgeous and extravagant hall. From the walls to the top of the hall, it is all covered in gold, inlaid with countless pearls, agates, crystal jade, and eight golden columns supporting this majestic building. Looking from a long distance, the pillars more than ten meters high looked majestic and huge. Standing at the door of the main hall, I couldn't help feeling my own insignificance.

The entire hall is brightly lit, and there are beautifully crafted copper lamps placed in every corner. The rising flames are accompanied by the cold light emitted by the gemstone crystals, illuminating the entire hall brightly, making it impossible for people to see that this is a place that lives deep in the mountainside. building.

And in the deepest part of the hall, hundreds of meters away from me, I could faintly see a huge altar, the altar was tall, like a towering and majestic giant in the firelight.

I looked from a distance and seemed to see some figures standing on the altar. Those figures seemed to be talking about something, but because the distance was too far, I could only take a rough look.

And under the altar, in the wide hall, there are countless people standing densely. These people are wearing gorgeous costumes, embroidered with all kinds of strange totem flower decorations, but their faces are all wearing strange masks. , These masks are all made of bronze, with square mouths and big ears, and extremely protruding cylindrical eyeballs. This is exactly the kind of weird bronze mask that has appeared in my life countless times.

I reached out and rubbed my eyes, trying to see if everything in front of me was an illusion, but when I opened my eyes again, what appeared in front of me was still this gorgeous and majestic palace and countless masked people in the main hall. people.

I pinched my arm, and a piercing pain came from my body, as if telling me that the scene in front of me was real, but I was not the kid who didn't understand anything six years ago, I The scene I experienced in the back mountain of Tsing Yi Village is very similar to everything in front of me, plus the strange appearance of the phoenix mark in the corridor just now.

The scene in the hall in front of me may be the same as that in the Qingyi Qiang City Walled City back then. It is just a illusory illusion, or it is a replay of scenes from many years ago.

I stuck out my tongue and licked my dry lips to relieve the tension in my heart, then took a step forward and walked into this splendid and magnificent hall.

In the main hall, countless people dressed in fine clothes stood quietly, silently.They wore masks on their faces, so they couldn't see their appearance clearly, but judging from their movements, they should all be looking at the altar deep in the hall.

I swallowed my saliva, and boldly stretched out a hand to touch a man in front of me. This man had a bronze mask shining with metallic luster on his face. He was tall and very strong.

My hand was getting closer and closer, and finally, when my hand was about to touch the man's back, it passed through his body at once. The man in front of me was indeed just an illusion, or in other words, everything in front of me was just a phantom. I don't know how many years ago the scene was repeated.

After I figured everything out, I immediately felt relieved, and my body felt a lot more relaxed. I swaggered forward and faced the countless people blocking the way in front of me. The feeling of watching yourself pass through someone else's body is also very wonderful.

The palace is about hundreds of meters long, and I don't know how long I walked. When I finally walked through countless figures to the altar in the deepest part of the hall, I was stunned.

This is a tall altar, and its sides and surroundings are decorated with countless glittering gold and jade artifacts, and even treasures such as ivory, agate and jadeite are so dazzling that I am dazzled.

But what shocked me was not the gorgeous and luxurious decoration of this altar, but because of this altar, I have seen it before!
The majestic altar nearly seven or eight meters high in front of me once appeared in my dreams. I still remember that on a daytime six years ago, my grandfather carried me to the back of the mountain. I once had a dream, a short but inexplicably sad dream.

In my dream, I once saw countless people wearing gorgeous robes and weird masks kneeling on the ground. They knelt down and saluted a tall and magnificent altar. Strange gestures, as if performing a sacrificial activity.

And the altar that appeared in the dream is exactly the same as the one in front of me, even the surrounding decorations and placement are simply carved out of the same mold. If the altar in front of me is the same as the one in my dream If the altars I saw were not the same, I wouldn't believe it even if I killed them.

I turned my head and glanced at the densely packed people standing not far away. Their clothes and masks were exactly the same as those in the dream.

Could it be that I have come to the place in the dream when I first dreamed that year?What kind of secrets does this altar hide? Not only does it appear like the strange scene in Qingyi Qiang Ancient Village, but it also appeared in my dream six years ago. What kind of connection does it have with me?
At this moment, voices came from the top of the altar. I couldn't understand what they said, but it was very familiar, because I had heard such language in several dreams, even The language spoken by the Qiang people in the ancient Qiang village in Qingyi also has a somewhat similar taste. It seems that the Qiang people and the Shu people once shared a language, but there are some subtle differences.

I stood at the bottom of the altar and looked up. The seven or eight-meter-high altar was quite oppressive, like a huge mountain lying in front of me, and I couldn't breathe.

I walked up the stone steps of the altar, and the closer I got to the altar, the clearer I could hear their voices, but it was a pity that I couldn't understand the meaning of their words. mood.

Soon, I finished the seven or eight-meter-long stone steps and reached the top of the altar. Above this is an extremely wide platform, which is very large and covers an area of ​​at least a hundred square meters.

There are eight huge bronze fire pillars standing around the platform, with raging flames burning inside, illuminating the entire altar brightly.

I looked at everything on the altar, and was stunned for a moment, staring blankly at the scene in front of me.

The first thing that catches the eye is a coffin placed in the middle of the altar. This is a white coffin with fine scales. It is different from the two coffins I saw at the bottom of the Snake Temple and the Qingyi Qiang Castle. In terms of style, they are basically the same.Could it be that this coffin is also made of a piece of white snake skin?
I licked my lips nervously, and I had a faint premonition in my heart. The thing in this white coffin is probably...

At this moment, a chirping sound came from the front, which interrupted my thoughts. I woke up from my contemplation, and then I began to notice the few people standing beside the white coffin.

Standing in front of the white coffin are three men in fine clothes and a woman in a golden phoenix gown. The three men are standing opposite me. They are wearing extremely gorgeous clothes with various birds and beasts embroidered on them. The robes, the face is not wearing a mask like the people under the altar, but revealing the real face.It's just that the positions of these three men are a little strange, the two men next to them have to stand a little behind, and their expressions are somewhat respectful.They highlighted the middle-aged man in the middle, as if their status was lower than the man in the middle.

But the woman in the golden phoenix robe is facing me with her back. Her hair is loose, her figure is graceful and exquisite, and she looks extremely alluring.It's just because she was turning her back to me and the middle-aged man seemed to be talking about something, I couldn't see her face, but there was always a strange feeling in my heart.

Could this woman standing on the altar wearing a golden phoenix robe in front of me be the one with the same imprint as me?But if it was her, what was in the white coffin? Could it be that my previous guess was wrong?
There was a faint expectation in my heart, and I hurried forward a few steps, wanting to go around to the front of the woman and see her appearance clearly.The altar is very flat, and the ground seems to be made of a material similar to marble, which is smooth and very comfortable to walk on.

But in the blink of an eye, I bypassed the white coffin that had been covered all the time, and walked to the side of the three men. I widened my eyes, trying to see the face of the woman in front of me carefully.

Pink face and red lips, black hair loose, and an oval face with exquisite and attractive features, this is a beautiful woman who looks like a country, with an exquisite phoenix headdress on her forehead, and a gorgeous and beautiful robe, Just standing there makes people feel a kind of elegant and luxurious atmosphere. In front of this woman, I seem to be like a bumpkin from the countryside, but she is a goddess of the sky.

I swallowed my saliva nervously, and felt a little dazed in my heart for a moment, and couldn't help saying to myself: "Who is this woman in front of me?"

I was a little apprehensive, because I had seen such a woman in a golden phoenix robe in previous dreams, she had a curvy head and a beautiful face.From the white coffin dug out under the Snake King Temple at the beginning, to the white coffin in the environment of Qingyi Qiang Castle, and finally to the bloody battle on the Minjiang River that Nielonghun made me dream of.

That woman has the same imprint of a phoenix bird as me. She keeps appearing in my life. I can feel that she definitely has a great relationship with me.

It's just that that woman is by no means the noble lady wearing the golden phoenix bird robe in front of me. Even though their clothes are extremely similar, and even their faces are very similar in some places, no matter from the temperament or the mysterious feeling , I can tell that I don't know the woman in front of me.

Just when I was struggling in my heart, this luxurious woman said a few words to the three men. Her voice was sweet and pleasant, and it seemed to have some kind of strange magic power, which made me fascinated for a while.

At this moment, the middle-aged man snorted coldly. He seemed to be irritated by the woman's words, and he yelled at the woman in the phoenix robe. I saw a trace of anger on the woman's face. , but she glanced at the middle-aged man, then lowered her head silently, as if her status was lower than that man's.

I looked at the middle-aged man in front of me with some surprise. He was of medium build, and his body looked a little strong. He had two eyebrows, thin and black, and a pair of narrow, thin eyes. His eyes were like torches. Feel.

But why does this middle-aged man in front of me look familiar to me?

I widened my eyes and looked at this man carefully, trying to find the familiar place on him.Gradually, my eyes opened wider and wider, and a thought crossed my mind.

Isn't this middle-aged man the same man who, in the dream of Nielonghun, had countless soldiers obeying orders with a wave of his hand, and made thousands of soldiers submit? Back then, he was the one who slaughtered Nielong with a single order The predecessor of the soul, grabbed the woman who has thousands of relationships with me.

Who is he?What kind of identity do you have?
squeak!
At this moment, a piercing voice sounded, and when I was in a daze, the two men behind the middle-aged man stepped forward and opened the white coffin that had been covered up.

I was suddenly awakened by the actions of these two men, and hurriedly stretched my head to look into the coffin, inside...

(End of this chapter)