The heavens start from the bottle mountain

Chapter 333 Guge Silver Eyes
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It was very desolate along the way, with almost no human habitation in sight.

The yellow and sparse weeds are scattered on the Gobi, and there is no wind. Looking at the sky, the eyes are full of blue, which makes the dry soil and weeds on the ground a bit dazzling.The brown mountains in the distance looked tall and strange, as if there were some monsters hiding.

After walking for two days, about a hundred miles, many dilapidated ancient tombs appeared around.

I went forward and took a few glances. Except for the junipers supporting the tomb, there were almost no funerary objects.

"These tombs were built during the period of the Tubo Kingdom. The junipers used to build the tombs were given to the Tubo Kingdom by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Unfortunately, after the civil strife in Tubo, this place was also robbed by the rebellious army, and all the funerary objects inside were plundered. Up to now, only These relics are left."

After a pause, Master Ubo continued, "By the way, aren't you an archaeological team? You can dig here."

Xu Rui shook his head, "We were ordered to excavate the ruins of the Guge King's Capital for protection, and we cannot change it midway."

Master Wu Bo glanced at him and said nothing more.

After these two days of contact, he felt more and more that this team didn't look like an archaeological team, but they weren't villains either.

However, people's hearts are far away, and he doesn't want to ask more when he is away from home.

After another day of walking, a ruin built on a dirt hill appeared in the eyes of everyone.

Looking from down the hill.

The entire royal city is built on the mountain, the highest point is the palace on the top of the mountain, the middle layer is the temple, and the bottom layer is the residential area and the peripheral defensive buildings.

However, except for the relatively solid temples in the middle, most of the rest of the houses collapsed, and some of them only had some earthen walls, and there were relics of city walls and watchtowers on the periphery.

"That's it."

Master Upo said after holding the sitting yak.

Xu Rui inspected it for a while, then secretly urged the Seven Star Stone Plate, and sure enough, a new address appeared.

"It seems that the old lama didn't lie to me."

"Thank you Master for leading the way."

"You're welcome, I've collected your money, so I'm going to take you somewhere. But it's not peaceful here, you'd better leave before dark."

"Thank you, Master, for your warning."

After clasping his hands together and saluting, Master Ubo turned around and left with his disciples and yaks without hesitation.

"This old monk is really not talkative at all, he took us to the place and ran away." Hua Ling said.

"Didn't you listen to what he said, there are monsters in this place, he is an ordinary person, of course he dare not stay here any longer." Yu Sushang laughed.

"Demons? It's probably just a few ghosts. I can take care of them without brother Xu's help." Hua Ling patted her bulging chest and said confidently.

"Hehe, it seems that our little flower spirit can take care of himself." Xu Rui laughed.

"Damn it, brother Xu, I'm already old, not a child anymore."

Taking a look at her already quite stalwart size, Xu Rui said in his heart: "It's really not small."

"Come on, let's go in and see."

Xu Rui was in front, and the others were behind, walking towards the ruins of the ancient city along the rugged mountain road.

There can be no secrets in those cave dwellings.

The royal city and the temples in the middle are the key points.

Going around layer after layer of earth walls, climbed halfway up the mountain.

Among the ruins here, there are basically no well-preserved houses. If it is only dry, it will be fine. In the rainy season, there are heavy rains here, and the weathering and erosion year after year has made the once dense soil become brittle. Crush little by little, and when an external force is applied, it becomes a piece of dust.

Therefore, all the prominent parts, such as broken walls and ruins, have been worn away. The city that was once full of vitality is being silently digested by nature.

Xu Rui and others looked at it, lamenting the power of nature's wind and rain erosion.

At the same time, bypassing a ten-foot-high earth wall, came to the south.

A dilapidated city gate came into view.

The thick door panels have disappeared, leaving only a few thick stone slabs covering the city gate.

Bright sunlight poured down from the gaps between the stone slabs, illuminating the two-foot-long doorway.

On the dirt walls on both sides of the door opening, there are traces of hacking with knives and axes, which shows that this place also experienced a lot of war.

After entering, the wind and sand covered the ground, and several relatively complete temples came into view.

After leaving last time, he knew that he would return to the ghost world in the future, so Xu Rui had carefully studied the description about Gu Ge's silver eye in the ghost blowing lamp.

Know it is in the Samsara Temple.

Of course, Xu Rui didn't know which one was the Samsara Temple.

Fortunately, there are only a few temples here, so you can find them if you look at them one by one.

"It stinks here." The red girl frowned.

"It's the stench of corpses."

The partridge whistled.

He has been digging graves all year round, and his familiarity with this smell is almost engraved in his bones.

"Everyone be more vigilant," Xu Rui reminded.

After everyone nodded, he continued.

"It's the same as last time, in groups of two and two, and explore all these temples. I want to find a mural depicting a giant eye."

After everyone nodded, Xu Rui took the red girl and walked towards a temple with a few red pillars supporting the temple gate.

Passing through the decayed temple gate is the Dharma Protector Temple.

In the center of the hall stands a statue of a six-armed god with grinning teeth.

Although Xu Rui doesn't know much about Tibetan Buddhism, he also knows that the deity of this statue is 'Maha Kala'.

Mahakala is Sanskrit, meaning "big black", that is, the meaning of "protector".Mahakala is the embodiment of the three roots of Buddhism.There are two-armed, four-armed, and six-armed black images, which are the wisdom protectors commonly respected by all sects of Tibetan Buddhism.

The statue in front of me is the six-armed Mahakala, in Tibetan Buddhism, it is the incarnation of Avalokitesvara with thousands of arms and eyes and eleven faces.

"Hey, the monks here are definitely not good people."

The red girl said suddenly.

"Eh? Why do you say that."

"look."

Looking in the direction of his finger, a pair of tantra portraits came into view.

Moreover, the colors are bright, the movements are unrestrained, and even the expressions on the faces are portrayed in great detail, making Honggu blush.

"This is the dual-cultivation method of Tantric Buddhism, which is similar to the Taoist dual-cultivation method we practice."

"Of course I know it's double cultivation, but it's too obscene to put such a grandiose painting on the wall."

Xu Rui didn't say much either.

After all, the Republic of China was not a modern society with an open style.

After a brief glance at the wall on the right, which described the murals of hell and reincarnation, I was sure that this was the reincarnation temple I was looking for.

I didn't stay any longer, and took the red girl around the statue of Mahakala and walked towards the depths of the temple.

The entrance is a courtyard of about [-] square meters, and the buildings on both sides have collapsed.

The main hall directly opposite was built in a sunken cliff, so it was preserved fairly well.

Climb up the steps and go inside through the broken door.

Four big red pillars that are thick enough for three people to embrace support the roof of the hall.

(End of this chapter)