Chapter 487 The Collapse of the Empire - Silver Snake Clan
Under the night sky.
Feng Qi stepped onto the land again and stepped on the beach.
Feeling the softness of the white sand under his feet, Feng Qi could not remember how many days he had swam in the sea.
At this moment, there was an inexplicable sense of unreality when his feet stepped on the beach. He felt that his feet were soft and could not bear any force.
But after walking a few steps, his body quickly completed the adaptive adjustment.
The floating feedback under his feet disappeared.
Behind him, Xiao You and others also followed him ashore.
Po Jia, who had not landed for a long time, swayed his body and seemed to have difficulty controlling his body balance.
Lei Ting and Tai Hang also landed at this time.
Compared with Po Jia, their state seemed more relaxed.
Only Xiao You continued to hang in the air and was unwilling to come down and walk.
Feng Qi looked up at the direction of the island.
There were no dense green plants on this island. There were strange and rugged rocks standing as far as the eye could see. Countless creatures like fireflies fell on the rocks, lighting up the entire island.
As they moved forward, the frightened fireflies flew into the air, burning and spreading rapidly like a blaze on the grassland. Soon, the whole island was full of fireflies, and the scene was spectacular.
Crossing the area where the rocks stood, and continuing to explore inside, Feng Qi saw many strange statues.
These statues are all carved from rocks.
They have been standing here for who knows how many years, and there are obvious signs of corrosion on the surface. Even many statues have been weathered and their appearances cannot be seen clearly.
The statues have different shapes, but they all have a silver mark on their chests that looks like a coiled snake.
Continuing to walk in, he saw a dilapidated building.
Stepping into it, Feng Qi found that it seemed to be a temple used for sacrifice.
There are many altars for sacrifice in front of the temple, and in front of each altar stands a jade statue.
Under the corrosion of time, the jade has become dim and even the body is incomplete.
There were many rubbles scattered in the temple. Feng Qi looked up at the top of the temple and saw that the top of the temple had collapsed. There was a huge hole, through which he could see the "gorgeous Milky Way" hanging in the sky.
The temple was not big, and they quickly walked around.
Without staying for too long, Feng Qi took Xiao You and others out of the temple and continued to walk into the island.
Through the scenes he saw along the way, he was basically sure that there had been a racial civilization here.
Maybe it was a war, maybe it was migration, or maybe it was a natural disaster... In short, there should be no racial forces on this island now, otherwise there would be no life on the island, and many ancient relics and statues would not be unattended.
Time has almost wiped out the traces of the existence of racial forces on this island.
Continuing to walk in, there are more dilapidated buildings along the way. From these collapsed buildings, you can vaguely see the prosperity that this racial force once had.
When Feng Qi came to the central area of the island, the scene in front of him stunned him.
There were countless metal debris scattered in every corner of the sight. Under the corrosion of time, some of these metal debris have rusted, but the degree of civilization development here can still be seen.
At the end of the metal wreckage, there is a tall and straight square building.
The building is surrounded by a soft silver-white halo. The ancient formation has not yet dissipated, and is still operating slowly and arduously, absorbing the light of the stars.
Stepping forward, looking down, you can vaguely see the ancient spiritual patterns engraved in the metal wreckage under your feet, and you can also see many metal hoses like wires connecting the metal wreckage.
These ancient things reminded Feng Qi of robots.
With curiosity, Feng Qi stepped into the towering building at the end.
What caught his eye was the jade columns with a diameter of three meters neatly arranged inside, and in the center was a staircase winding downward.
When he came to the side of the stairs and looked down, his sight could not penetrate the deep black.
"Will there be a trap below, and will it refine us after we enter?" Taihang, who had been following silently all the time, suddenly spoke at this time.
"Dog, that's your despicable behavior. Don't think everything is so complicated."
Lei Ting looked at the little milk dog Taihang with disdain at this time, his eyes full of disdain.
Facing Lei Ting's ridicule, Taihang nodded depressedly and did not say anything back.
Although he had joined this team, Taihang always thought that he was at the bottom of the team and never quarreled with anyone.
Especially when facing Fengqi, Taihang's face was only flattering.
"Boss, do you want to go down and take a look? There may be a miracle item waiting for us to dig." Xiaoyou analyzed with a serious expression.
"Don't even think about miracle items. It's good to have a treasure."
Facing Xiaoyou's naivety, Fengqi said helplessly.
Walking along the stairs to the bottom of the building, the murals carved on the walls along the way attracted Fengqi's attention.
In order to see the content described in the murals clearly, he walked very slowly.
The mural depicts a race of life with a silver coiled snake mark on the left chest. They use the bright silver moon in the sky of their field as a totem of faith, and the silver coiled snake pattern imprinted on the chest is also improved from the pattern on the moon.
Just like when the ancients watched the moon, they felt that the landforms on the moon looked like Wu Gang cutting osmanthus wood from a distance.
Some people also think it looks like a jade rabbit pounding medicine.
The tribe on the island looked up at the full moon and thought it was a silver snake, and regarded it as the totem of the tribe.
It can be seen that the history of this tribe is very old.
He has rarely encountered a racial force that still regards totem as its origin in all his years of travel.
According to the description of the mural, after the totem belief, several tribes that attacked each other in the vicinity gradually abandoned their disputes and merged together.
Thus, the Silver Snake Tribe was born.
The Silver Snake Tribe described in the mural did not practice any exercises, nor did they have any advanced civilization technology. This race was like a primitive tribe, hunting wild beasts in the most ancient way for a living.
Continuing to walk down, the content of the mural changed.
It can be found that the Silver Snake Clan in the murals began to grow. They learned to plant spiritual plants and raise wild beasts.
The progress of civilization increased the channels for obtaining food. After meeting basic needs, the population of the Silver Snake Clan began to grow explosively.
In the murals that continue to go down, the first crisis in the development of the Silver Snake Clan occurred.
The invasion from foreign tribes arrived.
The foreigners in the murals were portrayed with distorted shapes and hideous looks. They ruthlessly slaughtered members of the Silver Snake Clan and plundered a large amount of resources accumulated by the Silver Snake Clan.
After this battle, the Silver Snake Clan suffered heavy losses.
However, it was this battle that gave the Silver Snake Clan a strong sense of crisis.
After the population was greatly reduced, the Silver Snake Clan began to study how to become stronger.
During this period, the first pioneer priest of the Silver Snake Clan was born.
It was it that developed the first cultivation method of the Silver Snake Clan, which could absorb and spit out the moonlight swayed by the "Moon Snake God" and incorporate it into the body with spiritual energy to nourish the body.
This crude method was the origin of the rise of the Silver Snake Clan.
Since then, the Silver Snake Clan has embarked on the pace of rapid growth.
The original social model of men hunting and women planting, breeding and raising offspring was abandoned, and the social system had a clearer division.
At this time, the high priest of the Silver Snake Clan had supreme power and was regarded as the agent of the Silver Snake God in the world, and was also the most loyal messenger and servant of the Silver Snake God.
At that time, both men and women of the Silver Snake Clan would receive blessings from the members of the sacrificial group at the age of 10, and then decide on the positions they would hold in the clan in the future.
The Silver Snake Clan at this stage had extremely strong racial cohesion, and its combat power construction had grown explosively.
The progress of civilization also gave birth to many new concepts in the clan.
Some people began to doubt the existence of the Silver Snake God.
The Silver Snake Clan thus fell into a stage of internal disputes and ushered in the second crisis of extinction.
The civil war lasted for a long time, and the murals were full of corpses, and countless lives died in the civil war with different ideas.
In the end, the faction that believed in the Silver Snake God won the final victory.
The development of the Silver Snake Clan finally ushered in a peaceful period, and the pace of civilization growth continued.
The content of the murals in the future recorded the growth process of the Silver Snake Clan.
The utilization and development of resources, the research and expansion of cultivation methods, the reform of social structure... this race is developing rapidly, and the population has reached 500,000.
The third crisis comes from the increase in demand for resources after the population growth. The Silver Snake Clan stepped out of the territory for the first time and began to expand outward.
During this period, the Silver Snake Clan had its glorious moments, but was also beaten back to the clan territory several times.
The most tragic time was that almost all of the Silver Snake Clan's sacrificial group died in battle, and the order within the clan was close to collapse.
But this difficulty, the resilient Silver Snake Clan once again survived.
During this period, the growth of the race was accompanied by the growth of resource acquisition channels, showing a leapfrog development.
During this period, many scholars were born in the Silver Snake Clan.
They began to study the principles of the world's operation, to explore the origin of life, and the future direction of the development of the race.
At this time, the Silver Snake Clan's sacrificial group no longer had supreme power.
The first clan king was born in the clan.
The sacrificial group is more like a symbol of the old order, but it is still respected by all members of the Silver Snake Clan. It is one of the institutions responsible for the clan king to maintain stability within the clan.
The development of the race has reached this point and has successfully entered the realm of civilization.
The Silver Snake Clan ushered in a period of flourishing.
There are more than 200 professions in the clan, and the murals clearly depict the division of labor of each profession.
The Silver Snake Clan also officially took the steps of conquest and growth during this period.
In order to obtain more resources and territory, the construction of the Silver Snake Clan's combat power became the first task of the clan's development. All members of the Silver Snake Clan are proud to join the clan's war unit and expand the territory for the race.
The murals cannot show the passage of time, but Feng Qi can feel how many years the Silver Snake Clan has spent to get to this point.
The rapid rise of the Silver Snake Clan also ushered in a turning point in the content of the following murals.
With the establishment of the Silver Snake Empire and the large-scale expansion of the territory, this force has always been developing rapidly.
But new crises also emerged.
In the years that followed, the Silver Snake Empire seemed very bloated, and it even took several years for the clan king to convey orders to the border.
Under the pace of expansion, the seeds of racial collapse have been planted.
The first crisis of collapse came from the threat of external forces.
At this time, the Silver Snake Clan was very strong, but there were still stronger racial forces outside.
These forces have an innate suppression on the Silver Snakes. They have excellent bloodline potential and have obtained a ticket to become a strong person since the moment they were born. The foundation of the Silver Snakes was completely crushed.
Encountering these truly powerful tribes, the Silver Snakes have been defeated repeatedly.
A large amount of resources are tilted to the front line, but the front line can no longer feed back to the rear through war, and the development of the Silver Snakes has entered a vicious circle.
In order to solve this problem, scholars of the Silver Snakes began to study how to speed up the construction and development of the race's combat power under the condition of weak bloodline potential.
During this period, many schools were born.
Among them, the most promising school is called "War Machine".
Scholars of this school are committed to the research and development of war engineering weapons, solving the decline of the front line by manufacturing powerful war machines, and letting war machines replace the warriors to fight those powerful racial forces.
In the years when the Silver Snake Empire continued to shrink its defense line, the war school has also grown stronger with the tilt of resources within the tribe.
Finally, foreign tribes invaded the capital island of the Silver Snakes, and the crisis of extinction came.
On that day, endless seawater came from all directions, flooding a large area of the Silver Snake Clan's territory, and many traces of the Silver Snake Clan's civilization sank to the bottom of the sea.
The end of the flood is coming.
The day depicted on the mural was the last hope of the Silver Snake Clan, and the war corps was dispatched.
Countless war machines and puppets fought against the foreign enemy.
Even though the pattern on the mural was very abstract, Feng Qi could still see the cruelty of this battle.
Countless machine wreckage fell from the sky, and the sky was red as fire.
At the end of this battle, almost all the war machines made by the Silver Snake Clan using the clan's heritage were damaged, but the Silver Snake Clan also won the final victory in this way.
It's just that the Silver Snake Clan paid an irreparable painful price in this battle.
The Silver Snake Empire, which was already on the verge of disintegration, could no longer maintain its operation and collapsed.
The Silver Snake territory is still there, but it is divided into different forces.
Although the former capital is still there, it no longer has absolute control over the various forces of the Silver Snake Clan.
The Silver Snake Clan was therefore split into multiple ethnic forces.
Since then, each race has different civilization characteristics under the passage of time.
Some races are still taking the way of cultivation and growth. Their physical characteristics are different from the previous Silver Snake Clan as they practice different skills.
The description on the mural made Feng Qi suddenly think of a passage that Lao Mi once said when introducing the domain race.
He said that in fact, there are many races that seem to have nothing to do with each other, perhaps with the same ethnic origin.
For example, after the collapse of the same race, the remaining tribesmen dispersed and migrated to different environments, and later practiced different growth methods, which would cause the appearance characteristics of the race to change during growth.
Especially the difference in cultivation methods.
The essence of cultivation is to nourish the body and evolve one's life form.
If this length is extended to 100,000 years or even a million years.
Two different cultivation methods will inevitably give birth to two races that look completely different.
After all, the two races are no longer connected, and there is no longer any fusion and reproduction, so it is an inevitable trend to go astray.
Cultivation methods, living environment, ethnic culture... are all factors that change a race.
The Silver Snake Clan on the mural is experiencing the division and change of the race.
During this period, some forces migrated because of foreign invasions, and some forces collapsed because of internal conflicts.
The huge Silver Snake Empire has completely become a thing of the past.
The Silver Snake Clan, which has moved to different growth systems, has different ethnic names in the division and change.
Silver Star Clan, Silver Snake Clan, Silver Teng Clan... Silver Moon Clan.
When Feng Qi saw the familiar silver moon pattern, he couldn't help but be stunned.
Below this pattern, there is also a brief introduction to the Silver Moon Clan.
The Silver Moon Clan described in the mural is the last glory of the Silver Snake Empire and the orthodox successor of the war machine school.
They mastered the creation plans of war puppets, war engineering machines, and were also the last forces to leave the Silver Snake Empire.
At the end of the mural, the only remaining members of the sacrificial group are still holding on to the ruined capital. They use spiritual patterns to carve murals, using this method to commemorate the past glory.
Everything started with the sacrificial group, and in the end, the sacrificial group also wrote the final chapter of the Silver Snake Empire.
At the end of the picture service, the priests gathered in front of a huge semi-finished war machine. They stood on an island submerged by the sea, looking at the silver moon and praying for the last time.
The eyes of the priests were full of expectations, but also full of regrets.
This last mural is full of visual shock, giving Fengqi the feeling of a group of old men in their twilight years, standing alone under the starry sky.
Even though they can no longer walk, they still bless the wanderers who have been separated and separated, and take the inheritance of the former Silver Snake Empire to a better future.
Everyone go to bed early~