173|The Cave of the Ten Thousand GodsThe True Face of the Ten Thousand Gods is Hidden

Hua Cheng’s breath was warm, but the words were chilling to the bottom of one’s heart.

Hiding in the Great Hall?

In a flash of lightning, Xie Ren immediately wrapped her arms around Hua Cheng.

It certainly wasn’t because of fear that they were snuggling. Rather, if there really was someone hiding here without them realizing it, it must be a powerful character. If he realized that they had already found out, he would probably be passive. If only Hua Cheng was hugging him, leaning so close, it would easily arouse suspicion, so it would be more normal for both of them to hug each other.

Xie Ren scanned the surrounding area without any trace, and whispered, “Where do you think it is?”

There was only one door in the entire hall, the one they had entered. The hall was empty and unobstructed, there was not a single pedestal box to hide anyone, except for them, and only those temple attendants who had turned into petrified human beings.

Both whispered at the same time, “Shell.”

These petrified people are hollow on the inside, which means they can hide things.

You can’t hide people, but you can hide ghosts!

After determining that they had thought of going together, Xie Ren was about to speak, when he inadvertently raised his eyes and looked at a petrified person two feet behind Flower City, his pupils suddenly shrunk.

It seemed to be a young man of high status. Because the petrified people recorded the deaths of the Wuyong people, most of the postures were either holding their heads in a long trumpet or scrunched up in a ball, but this one, however, was one of the very few standing portraits. However, what made Xie Ren notice him was not his posture, but his face.

Although the face was blurred, it was still possible to make out that the petrified man’s face was half a crooked smile on the left, and on the right, half a crying face!

Xie Ren said offhandedly, “It’s this!”

He raised his hand and slashed out with his sword, and Hua Cheng said, “Brother?”

The petrified man was chopped to pieces by him, leaving only an empty shell on the ground. However, there was nothing at all inside. Xie Ren didn’t dare to let it go and rummaged through the debris on the ground. Hua Cheng grabbed his hand and said, “Brother! What did you just see?”

Xie Ren held up a few fragments and said, “This petrified man, his face …… is a mask of Bai Wu Xiang.”

Hua Cheng’s face changed slightly, but he still said, “Wait.”

He put the pieces together and put together a complete face. Both men looked at it and were silent.

Just now, what Xie Ren saw was clearly a half-crying, half-smiling ghostly face, while the face spelled out by Flower City now was blurry and not unlike any other petrified person.

A hallucination? Or are you under an illusion?

Sitting in place will not get an answer, the two people in the temple some search, all petrified people are broken to check, did not find more end, deliberation for a moment, think that at this moment maybe there has been someone to go up to the mountain first, decided not to wait for Pei Ming, straight to the top of the mountain line.

The mountain of this copper furnace seemed to have a strange attraction, the two tried, Silver Butterfly couldn’t afford to bring anyone here, and I’m afraid that the Royal Sword wouldn’t work either, therefore, they could only climb on foot. All the way higher and higher, the mountain path is getting steeper and steeper, but also more and more cold. First stepped on a thin layer of snow, the higher you go, the thicker it is, can not be more than half boots. Two hours later, the snow did not exceed the knee, climbing more and more difficult.

Because of the large amount of walking, Xie Ren didn’t feel cold, instead, he was hot with a thin layer of sweat, and his face was full of pinkish-white color, with a little bit of redness. He raised the back of his hand and wiped the sweat, turned back and was about to speak to Hua Cheng, when suddenly the soles of his feet became empty, and his entire body shortened by two feet in thin air!

Fortunately, Hua Cheng had been following him and seemed to be prepared, lifting him up with a smooth pull, saying, “Brother be careful.”

Xie Ren stood to his side, and then looked back at the place where he had sunk down, that place was actually concave down a large piece, revealing a little bit of pitch-black deep hole, not knowing where it leads to. As long as Xie Ren didn’t hold on to the edge in time, or if Hua Cheng was a little slow, he would definitely fall down. Hua Cheng added: “This mountain is full of pits, follow me and walk slowly, it will be fine. Brother just walked too fast.”

It turned out that the mountain under the snow was actually very fragile, and there were large and small pits everywhere, not knowing how many or how deep they were. And Flower City actually even remembered where these pits were distributed. Xie Ren exhaled and proposed, ”Good. Let’s get closer then. You can’t yell on the snowy mountains, and if you accidentally encounter something it’s not good to voice out for help ……”

Who knows, before the words left his mouth, he heard a roar from above, “There’s no end to it–!”

“……”

What kind of human being would dare to yell on such a steep and treacherous snowy mountain?

Xie Ren looked upward with a confused face, only to see that in the white snow of the mountains and the world, there were two small black dots were “clanging” chaotically. One of them is holding a long bow, continuous arrows, the other is holding a long knife, swinging a tiger wind, will be those feather arrows all blocked, blade arrow wind all wrapped in a layer of spirit light, both are in the other side of the curse, the knife that person cursed: “I told you that kid is someone else to death! I’m looking for them too!”

It was actually Nanfeng and Fuyao!

Without thinking carefully about why they were also here, Xie Ren wanted to say offhandedly, “Shut up!” However, he reacted in time and swallowed before he could yell out. If he were to yell out as exuberantly as they did, with three people yelling at each other, would this snowy mountain still be able to hold itself together?

Holding his arms, Hua Cheng raised one eyebrow and said, “Are they unaware that roaring in the snowy mountains might trigger an avalanche?”

Xie Ren said, “This …… is not so stupid! It should be known, but they’re just like that, angry and don’t care about anything!”

Nanfeng and Fuyao are extremely annoyed, scolding and fighting, because the distance is too far, intermittently do not hear clearly what in the end in the noise, they also did not realize that the following new people. Xie Ren wanted to rush up to pull away from the two, but the snow sealed the mountain, under the snow and full of deep pits, can not immediately arrive, ran two steps and the bottom of the feet, almost fell into the pit, only to collect the foot said: “do not allow them to let them fight on like this, have to stop them!”

As soon as the words fell, a silver butterfly leapt out from behind him and swept upwards like an arrow, Xie Ren was stunned, then his heart relaxed, secretly saying that it was a good idea! They can’t go up right away, so why don’t they let the Necromantic Butterfly fly up and send a message?

That Silver Butterfly was indeed strangely fast, arriving over there almost three voices later. However, before Xie Ren could deliver his message, he saw Hua Cheng’s face chill. He sensed something was wrong and said, “What’s wrong?”

The smile on Hua Cheng’s lips disappeared as much as possible, his complexion as if this snowy mountain was as cold as the sky. Xie Ren pursued, “Sanlang, what’s wrong?”

Hua Cheng’s lips moved slightly, and before he could reply, Xie Ren suddenly had a heart palpitation for no apparent reason, and jerked his head up to look above, his eyes widening.

A large, white patch of the towering snow-covered mountain wall collapsed in a quivering heap.

Nanfeng and Fuyao, who were fighting fiercely over there, also sensed the silent pressure and both looked up, which finally realized that something was going to happen.

In the next moment, the mountain was like a dike of a thousand miles that collapsed in a thousand miles, and with a wave of monstrous snow waves and whistles, it tumbled and rolled down towards them!

A real avalanche!!!

Xie Ren grabbed Hua Cheng’s hand and turned to run. Running two steps remembered that the two above are closer to the peak of the avalanche, violently braking step, look back, sure enough! Both of them withdrew their troops and stopped fighting, escaping together, Fuyang ran not two steps, a foot stepped into a pit, his body sank down most of the way, the white snow buried over his chest. South Wind ran faster than him, also back, hesitated for a moment, seems to want to go back to save. However, just such a hesitation, a large wave of snow has already killed!

Just before they were about to be engulfed, Xie Ren threw out Ruo Xie. That white damask leaped out in a long length and at once accurately and precisely ensnared Fuyang and Nanfeng, yanking them out of the sea of snow alive. Hua Cheng glanced at them with anger in his eyes and said, ”Brother! Drop them and leave them alone!”

Xie Ren grabbed Ruo Xie tightly and dragged those two as he ran, “No way! If we don’t get it right, we’ll be buried for a hundred years!”

Flower City said in a deep voice, “It’s too late!”

Xie Ren was shocked, “What?!”

When he turned around, he only saw an overwhelming snow-white shadow collapsing over his head.

Xie Ren was still being dragged down by Nan Feng and Fu Yao. The icy, thick waves of snow rushed on, dispersing him and Flower City.

Xie Ren was swept sideways, mixed with the white waves, and tumbled several times, but actually managed to struggle tenaciously. However, the amount of collapsing snow was too great, and the impact was too violent, from time to time it didn’t go over Xie Ren’s head, bringing on sudden bouts of suffocation. Xie Ren finally shouted, “San Lang!” In the end, she couldn’t hold on and was swallowed up by the huge stream of ice and snow.

……

I don’t know how long it took, but the snowy mountains finally calmed down again.

A good long while later, a flat patch of snow arched twice in one spot, and suddenly a hand rushed out.

The hand raked at the snow for a while, and then, burrowing an arm, arching a shoulder, and then a head, with a face full of crushed snow, as soon as it came out, it took a deep breath and coughed repeatedly.

It wasn’t long before the man finally crawled out with great difficulty, shook off his head, and sat down on the snow beside him at once.

It was none other than Xie Ren. The feeling of digging himself out of a thick layer of snow in the raw was similar to digging himself out of a grave. Xie Ren’s face and hands were frozen red, almost numb and senseless, he casually rubbed them a few times, puffed out a few mouthfuls of hot air, raised his head, and looked around blankly.

The eye-catching red color was not sought in the blanket of snow.

But you can’t shout where you are even if you can’t find Xie Ren. In case there’s another avalanche, it’ll be over.

He had to get up and walk alone through the freezing snow, whispering as he went, “Sanjuro? Sanlang? Nanfeng? Fuyao?”

Strange to say, it was clearly on the same mountain, but now that he was walking alone, it seemed to be much colder than just now when he was traveling all the way with Flower City. Ruoxi also didn’t know when he took off his hand, Xie Ren was very strange, Ruoxi shouldn’t have taken off his hand, even if he let go, Ruoxi would have wrapped himself around him, how could this happen?

He felt in his heart that something was wrong, but couldn’t figure out exactly where, and still walked in a daze. I don’t know how long he had been walking, but in the middle of the wind and snow in front of him, he suddenly came face to face with a person. White clothes and black hair, hunting with the wind, with his head lowered, he slowly came.

Seeing the pedestrians, Xie Ren’s heart was slightly delighted as she greeted them and said, “This friend! You ……”

As soon as he finished those few words, the man raised his head. On his face, there was a white mask, half smiling, half crying.

Xie Ren yelled out as if he had been stabbed head-on!

And as soon as he called out, his eyes opened and he sat up with a jerk. After a gasp, he realized with a shock that, at the moment, he wasn’t even walking alone in the snowy mountains, but was lying in a pitch-black space.

It turned out to be a dream.

No wonder the dream always felt that something was wrong, Xie Ren took a long breath and wiped away the cold sweat on his forehead.

Groping for a while, found that under the body seems to be padded with grass stone, Fangxin hanging on the side of the waist, Ruoxi also clearly well wrapped in the hand, Xie Ren slightly fixed mind, lifted up a palm flame, illuminated the place, the first time to say: “Sanlang? Are you there?”

Who knows, as soon as the firelight lit up, he immediately realized that in the darkness next to him, there was actually a person standing wordlessly.

This surprise is not small, Xie Ren immediately broke out in a cold sweat, instantly grasping the heart. In this near at hand place stood a person, no matter how he could not be unaware!

However, upon a closer look, that cold sweat subsided again. Turns out, this is not a living person, but a stone statue.

Moreover, this was not one of those petrified statues formed from the remains of the victims of the volcanic eruption, but was clearly a statue from a human hand.

Holding the palm flame and shining it around, Xie Ren became more and more convinced.

This place where he was lying was a grotto for cultivation. He had taken refuge in such a place for meditation and purification, so it was not unfamiliar. What was offered in the grotto, then, was not an ordinary statue, but a god statue.

The idol stood in an arch-shaped cave, with a slender, graceful and elegant posture, his right hand pressed on the hilt of the long sword at his waist, and even the flow of the folds of his coat were carved exquisitely. However, there was one very bizarre thing.

The face of this idol was covered by a light veil.

The light veil flowed like smoke and haze, and although it covered the idol’s face, which was very strange, it did not look ugly, but rather added a mysterious and unpredictable beauty. But Xie Ren had never seen any idol that covered its face, and subconsciously reached out to remove that light veil, when suddenly a voice came from behind him, “Brother.”

Xie Ren turned around violently, only to see that a red-clothed figure had appeared at the entrance of the grotto at some point, and it was none other than Hua Cheng.

He immediately threw the idol’s face to the back of his mind and greeted him, “Sanlang! Great, I was just wondering where you were. Are you alright? No injuries, right? That avalanche just now was too sudden.”

Hua Cheng walked in and said, “It’s no harm. Where is brother?”

Xie Ren said, “I’ve always been nothing. What is this place?”

Only after going out did he realize that this side of the world was much bigger than just a small grotto. There was also a long corridor outside, which didn’t look short and led to nowhere. Xie Ren had long been accustomed to Hua Cheng being able to answer all questions, however, this time, Hua Cheng said, “I don’t know. Mostly under the snowy mountains.”

Xie Ren wondered, “I thought this was the place of refuge you found for Sanlang, I can’t believe even you don’t know what this place is?”

This was really a first. Hua Cheng even remembered clearly how to walk through the several pits on the way up the mountain, but he didn’t know what this place was. This cave wasn’t too small, had he never found it before?

Xie Ren couldn’t help but feel slightly strange, but didn’t ask too many questions, raising the palm flame a little higher and saying, “How did we get here?”

Hua Cheng also summoned a few silver butterflies, letting them carry a pale light, flying ghostly, and said in a faint voice, “The avalanche stepped on the air and fell into the pit, right?”

One can only think so, or else it would have to be someone who specifically got them here. Up to here, Xie Ren couldn’t help but think of the dream he had just had, and with a slight chill down his back, he remembered one more thing and said, “We’re here, what about Nan Feng and Fu Yao?”

Hearing him mention those two people, there was a flash of hostility on Hua Cheng’s face, and then he said with full concern, “Buried in the snow. Don’t worry about it, they are Magi anyway, they can’t die.”

Xie Ren cried and laughed, saying, ”Although they can’t die, but in case no one digs them out, it’s not good to be buried for decades. Maybe they fell in too? It’s better to look for them here first. By the way, Sanlang, when your Silver Butterfly went up earlier, did you hear what they said?”

Hua Cheng snorted, “It’s nothing more than arguing and tugging on skin, what good words can I hear?”

Xie Ren, however, always felt that it wasn’t that simple, otherwise there was no way to explain why Hua Cheng’s face suddenly changed after that Necrotic Butterfly flew past. Even now, when Hua Cheng snickered at them, his gaze was extremely unfavorable. But since he didn’t say anything, Xie Ren was not in a position to ask too many questions, and the two of them walked along the long corridor of the grotto.

It was only after walking for a while that they realized that the terrain of this Under Snow Grotto was far more intricate than they had imagined. It wasn’t at all a road leading to the end, but rather had many forks that led to different sized grottoes.

In each grotto, an idol was offered. These idols are juvenile, youth. Posture has a thousand and one, lazy shallow lying, like drunken leaning, sitting upright, holding a sword and dancing …… dress is also a thousand and one, fancy clothes, plain clothes, rags, half bare …… and the standard is not the same, some craftsmanship is poor, extremely rough, and some of them are exquisite exceptionally, fine to It should not come from the same artisan, but the number and richness of the pattern is spectacular. Xie Ren couldn’t help but marvel in awe as he said: ”This is the Cave of Ten Thousand Gods! I wonder who chose to build a cave here? It must have been an incredibly pious believer.”

All of the idols, however, had one eerie thing in common. They all had their faces covered by a light veil. Some were directly covered over their entire body, only revealing their skirts or feet. Xie Ren was really strange and wanted to remove the light veil of one of the idols to see what exactly was on his face, but Hua Cheng said behind him, “Brother, suggest not.”

Xie Ren looked back and wondered, “Why? Doesn’t Sanlang think there’s something odd about these idols?”

Hua Cheng walked up with his hands in the air and said, ”It is precisely because it is odd that it is best not to. Since this face is covered, there must be a reason for him to cover it. The head and face is the place where the human body’s aura is gathered, so if it is removed and these weird idols are allowed to gather the aura, I don’t know what will happen.”

After a pause, he added, “Isn’t brother looking for those two servants of yours? Since we haven’t found them, it’s better not to move them at the moment, so as not to cause more trouble.”

Although these words sound strange, but it is not unreasonable, in case the removal of the veil to wake up these idols and so on, that can not be fun at all. Xie Ren is not a person who owes money, think about it or put down his hand, said: “I’m just a little bit curious about what kind of gods these are.”

One thing he also wondered was that with Hua Cheng’s character, he wouldn’t be afraid of more complications, he could just watch it if he wanted to, and he didn’t think that he would actually use this reason to persuade him.

Hua Cheng said lightly, “This is the border of the Uyong country, so perhaps it’s the idol of Prince Uyong, it’s not unusual.”

Xie Ren, however, said, “I’m afraid not oh.”

Hua Cheng said, “Oh? How can you see that?”

Xie Ren looked at him and said, ”From the murals that we chased along the way, Prince Wuyong and the people of the Wuyong Kingdom had a distinctive style of dress, after all, it was a country that was two thousand years old, it was both ancient and coarse, and a little bit of wildness, which wasn’t quite the same as the elaborate style of dress of these idols. Therefore, I am afraid that these idols have nothing to do with Prince Wuyong. It’s even possible that they didn’t come from the hands of the Wuyong people at all.”

Hua Cheng smiled and said, “Is that so? Brother is really meticulous.”

Xie Ren also smiled slightly and said, “No, no. It’s just that the style of these idols, whether it’s the carvings, the costumes, or the way they handle such details as the flow of clothing, are all more like the style of the latter days, and it’s the style of the …… Immortal Music Kingdom that I’m more familiar with.”

Hua Cheng raised an eyebrow and said, “It seems that brother’s attainments in this area are also quite profound.”

Xie Ren said, “Where, where. Having seen things like idols too much, there’s always a little insight.”

Although he didn’t know why, he intuited that there seemed to be something wrong with Flower City since just now. And speaking of which, he finally sensed what that something wrong was.

It was a vague tension.