Atlas of Heaven and Man.

Chapter 1038: Peeping into the Past and Observing the Remnant Image

Chen Chuan took it in his hand and looked at it. He felt that it had some connection with the crack. This thing should be a ritual tool.

In addition to the key, the old imperial family probably intended to use this thing to help stabilize the expanded crack.

He asked Lan Shengu again, and the latter also agreed with this judgment, but he pointed out that this thing should have other functions and it is very likely a tool used to communicate with the old god.

Chen Chuan then put the thing away first, resolved the issues at the Jiao Rong Land, and then dealt with this matter later.

The people on the Dashun side were busy for the whole afternoon. Because it was not suitable for people to stay in the intersection at night, they withdrew in an orderly manner when they saw it getting dark, and returned to the secret treasure through the rift.

In fact, there are still some supplies on the plains that have not been transported away in time, especially the weapons that are enough to supply tens of thousands of troops. Even if they don’t need them, they cannot be left to the old imperial family. However, these are all simple tasks and will be dealt with tomorrow.

The old imperial family suffered this wave of damage and could not mobilize enough high-level forces to be deployed here, let alone compete with them for some supplies. If some people would rather come here at night to detonate these things, that's fine. It will save them some trouble.

After everyone retreated into the rift, Chen Chuan took another look at the large banner erected there that read "Save the World, Punish the Tyrannical Court", then took the phoenix-wing hammer seized from Su Kuo, turned around and walked into the rift.

At this time, a large number of lights had been lit inside the secret treasure house, and the Yangzhi City Civil Affairs Department had organized a large number of personnel and vehicles to come here during the day to help receive and transport the people and materials seized from the old imperial family.

He Fen was waiting there at this time. After watching him put the long hammer away, he came up and saluted, saying, "Director, the search team has found them. Both people are safe and sound."

Chen Chuan turned his head and looked over, and saw Ren Xiaotian and Lu Ke standing there, far away from the others.

He smiled, walked over, greeted, and said, "Brother Ren, Brother Lu, I'm glad you're all right. Thanks to you, we were able to take action in time this time."

Lu Ke was originally very excited to see Chen Chuan again, but when he saw him coming towards him, he felt a little awkward for some reason and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Ren Xiaotian, on his side, was wearing sunglasses, covering most of his face. He said, "It's nothing, it's all within our capabilities." He also said, "Brother Lu cooperated very well."

Chen Chuan nodded and said with a smile: "Brother Lu, well done."

Seeing that he spoke the same way as before, Lu Ke suddenly felt more relaxed. He scratched his head a little embarrassedly and said, "It's mainly up to Brother Ren. I'm just an assistant."

Chen Chuanshuo said: "If anyone knows you, please pick me up as soon as possible. If you need any help, please tell me directly."

Lu Ke nodded heavily, "Okay!"

Chen Chuan added, "I still remember that you liked to drink Shazhen soda the most. I also miss the taste of that time. Brother Lu, let's have a drink together when we have time."

"Okay." Lu Ke didn't expect Chen Chuan to remember this. He was touched and excited and said, "Brother Chen, let's drink together when the time comes!"

Chen Chuan smiled and thought to himself that this is right, there is no thick barrier between us.

He turned to Ren Xiaotian and said, "Brother Ren, I won't say anything more. I will treat you to a meal alone some other day. Also, the reward for this commission will not be small."

Ren Xiaotian said, "More is better. I'm just about to change cars."

Chen Chuan smiled again. This was an easy matter. He would just open up internal purchasing channels in the name of the government's cooperative armed personnel.

Both of them knew that he had a lot of things to do here, so they chatted with him for a few words and then left together.

At this time, Chen Chuan looked at He Fen who was waiting on the side. When the latter saw his gaze, he quickly walked up to him.

Chen Chuan said: "Director He, this time your Yangzhi Processing Bureau did a lot of preparation in advance, so our operation was able to proceed so smoothly. When the investigation team summoned you, you were also very decisive and handled it very well."

He Fen quickly said modestly: "We have limited abilities, so we can only help out and run errands. We can't decide anything. If we have to talk about hard work, it's Director Chen who makes plans, kills enemy generals in battle, and defeats the enemy thousands of miles away. If it weren't for Director Chen, Supervisor Xu, and all of you gentlemen, nothing we do would be of any use."

Chen Chuan said: "Everyone is an indispensable part. I have asked someone to record in detail what you have done. Lao He, I will commend you and your colleagues in the processing bureau later."

He Fen was very excited. He stood at attention, saluted and said, "Yes, I thank you, Director."

Chen Chuan nodded, and He Fen was very perceptive. After saying these words, he saluted again and left.

Chen Chuan called over the heads of various departments here, asked them some questions, and then let them go about their business.

He asked the people around him to withdraw a certain distance, then took the Xuejun Knife and walked towards the deserted area of ​​the temple. He felt a spiritual barrier here just now, but this time when he walked over, this strange feeling did not appear again.

He thought about it and decided that if there was any difference, it was that he brought the statue with him this time, and this thing might very well serve as some kind of pass.

After walking for more than ten steps, I saw a wide passage in front of me. There were many half-sculptures on both sides. All of them had only the upper body, and the lower body was integrated with the stone wall. They all had distorted and weird expressions on their faces.

At first glance, this thing looked very eerie and scary, but after seeing it many times, it became normal. However, as he walked by, the stone statues seemed to come alive, slowly turning their heads to look at his back, and whispering sounds were heard.

Chen Chuan glanced at the second self and found no signs of blurring, which meant that this was not an illusion and these things were indeed moving.

His brows flashed, and he took a look and saw that these stone statues had bright red lines on them, like human blood vessels.

He saw it very clearly. It was clearly the "divine blood". However, it was not the stone statues themselves that carried it, but some tiny insects. It seemed that these insects had penetrated into the stone statues and the two had merged into one.

He instinctively felt that it was not appropriate to allow such a thing to continue to exist. With a thought, light burst out from his body, and he looked like a small sun moving forward.

The light spread out, and the blood-red things inside the stone statues turned charred and dry in an instant. The stone statues also stopped moving, and tiny cracks appeared on their surfaces, and they shattered and fell from the wall.

As he walked by, the statues collapsed and shattered one after another, and the fragments covered the passage behind him.

After walking for a long distance, Chen Chuan stopped and now he appeared on a suspended platform.

The surrounding area is a spacious space that seems to have been hollowed out of a mountain.

When you get here, the most eye-catching thing is an extremely huge statue. It is impossible to tell what material it is made of, but just looking at the body, it is very similar to the image on the parchment and the small statue.

He was about thirty or forty meters above the ground, and the statue extended from the ground to above him. He had to look up, but the statue's head and many of its outstretched arms had been chopped off.

There are obvious marks and cracks on the statue from being chopped by huge weapons. In addition, it is tied with long and thick chains.

You can see that there are pieces of yellow ritual paper stuck on the chain, each of which is about three feet long. After who knows how many years have passed, some of them have become broken and rotten, and only the incomplete ritual pictures and texts on them can be vaguely recognized. The style seems to have some influence on Zen and Xuanzang.

He observed and from the marks on the chain, it seemed that there should have been countless secret ritual papers scattered all over the place, but now only a few were left. However, this should not be due to the corrosion of time, but was forcibly torn off by someone.

If there are no accidents, it was done by people from the old imperial family.

He glanced down, jumped down, and landed gently from a high altitude. After standing still, he looked back and saw some niches dug out on the cave wall less than a few meters away, with a dried body inside.

Judging from the bones and shrunken flesh on the body, this should be a fighter, most likely the fighter who was in charge of guarding here during his lifetime. His spirit disappeared long ago, and now only an empty shell remains.

He looked around again and found that there were actually many niches here, more than twenty of them, large and small. In the small ones, you could still see bodies, but in the larger ones, there was nothing inside.

There were traces of heavy objects inside, so he suspected that these people might have been taken away by the people from the old imperial family who came here.

He walked around the statue and came to its back. He saw a number of small statues there, which also had traces of chopping. There were also densely packed white bones, which were thrown together casually, and the upper half of the bones had been chopped off. He couldn't help but think of the half-sculptures in the cave.

Judging from the traces, it is not very old. It should be the old imperial family who came here to perform sacrifices. As for why, he did not want to think about it.

He looked up again. The Xuan and Chan sects had bound this statue so solemnly. It seemed that it was indeed a "superior god" as Lan Shengu said. However, even so, the head of the statue was chopped off.

If he were to appear again today, people in this world would also be able to make a deep impression on him.

As he was looking, he seemed to catch a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye. The force field outside his body spread, and his body slowly rose and came to the back of the broken neck of the statue. There was a small hole dug out here, square and neat, with a small box the size of a palm placed inside.

As he looked at it, the thing slowly floated out from inside, came close to him, and was then grabbed in his hand.

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(End of this chapter)