An invisible aura of death permeated the village, sending chills down one's spine and even giving one a sense of icy coldness that seeped into one's soul.
Without any hesitation, Hou Wenjie headed towards the Luomen Temple marked in the information.
He walked past the old houses in front of the village, and heard the wailing sound of wooden doors being pushed open from behind him. He didn't turn around and walked straight towards the ridge of the field.
When he actually stepped onto the path in the field, he discovered that the field was shrouded in a thin mist, a thin gray mist that made it difficult for Hou Wenjie to see the road ahead.
If an ordinary person were to walk on such a road, they would probably feel a deep sense of fear in their soul.
At this moment, the rays of the setting sun pierced through the gray fog above Hou Wenjie's head, revealing a pale white color on the ground.
The rice in the field was ripe and looked golden, but Hou Wenjie could not smell the fragrance of rice. Instead, he felt a rotten and musty smell enter his nose.
The wind that seemed to be blowing through the door was blocked by the gray fog. All the rice stalks stood tall and proud, but the field was so quiet that no insects could be heard, which made it seem a little eerie.
Hou Wenjie continued walking forward. Fortunately, the road did not fork, and he reached his destination a few minutes later.
Without hesitation, Hou Wenjie opened his third eye and simultaneously activated the [Snake Eye] ability.
In his three eyes, the world was completely different.
Countless skulls covered the ground before him. Wisps of gray mist drifted from the skulls, swirling in the sky.
Deep within those skulls shimmered a dark, luminous light, densely packed like stars in the sky.
Seeing the black light surging within the skull, Hou Wenjie was certain that it was the eerie thing.
A thought involuntarily popped into Hou Wenjie's mind: what would happen if something strange happened here?
Even Hou Wenjie felt a chill run down his spine at the thought of the terrifying scenarios that might occur.
Hou Wenjie looked up and saw something standing in the distance, shrouded in gray mist.
Hou Wenjie approached cautiously. To the naked eye, he seemed to be entering a complex formation by turning left and right, but to the heavenly eye, he was moving straight ahead.
It was a very strange feeling. Hou Wenjie felt like he was an electron in an atomic orbital that was transitioning between orbits.
When Hou Wenjie was about twenty meters away from the object, he vaguely heard a "pop" sound and felt as if he had passed through a thin membrane.
He walked about ten meters forward and felt a slight tremor in his sea of consciousness. The black python coiled in his sea of consciousness was being pulled by a strong force from the front, and it roared. Hou Wenjie stopped.
He looked closely and discovered that there was a large bronze cauldron with three legs and two handles.
Blue and white light surged above the cauldron, like flowing water, forming a huge vortex in the very center.
The surrounding gray fog was continuously sucked into the vortex.
Hou Wenjie was stunned by the tangible bluish-white light, which was clearly different from the dragon vein energy he had seen in Taiqing Mountain.
The dragon vein energy in Mount Taiqing is as thin as mist, but the dragon vein energy in this bronze cauldron looks like azure water! Surging and surging!
At this moment, Hou Wenjie was ten meters away from the cauldron, where the gray fog was unusually concentrated.
The eerie aura emanating from the gray mist naturally clung to Hou Wenjie.
However, the slight strange aura posed no problem to him, who had just formed his divine embryo and already possessed the Heavenly Eye. With just a thought, it was suppressed at the bottom of his sea of consciousness.
Ten meters away, at the eye of the storm, Hou Wenjie saw the gray fog twisting and howling like a ghostly shadow, emitting a mournful cry like a fierce demon.
"Ahhh..."
Within the gray fog, a woman with purple hair was wailing; she had delicate features and a human head and a leopard's body.
She should have been stunningly beautiful and had an extraordinary presence, but at this moment her features were distorted and her face was grotesque.
Because the whirlpool's waves ripped her hind legs, before she could even let out another cry of pain, another surge of water quickly swept her away.
"Roar!" A monster resembling a tiger but with wings and hedgehog fur let out a deafening roar, a sound that went straight to the soul.
Even though it was just a lingering remnant of a soul, it still caused a ripple in Hou Wenjie's sea of consciousness.
The monster nearly tore through the gray mist and stepped across a pool of water; it was ferocious and seemed to want to overturn the cauldron.
But soon, with the arrival of an even larger wave, it could only let out a mournful wail.
this!
Looking at the two lingering spiritual remnants that had been drawn into the cauldron, Hou Wenjie almost thought he was hallucinating.
A human head and a leopard's body! Doesn't this resemble the Queen Mother of the West from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" he read on Earth?
Shaped like a tiger with wings and covered in sharp spikes! This is not the Qiongqi mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas!
Hou Wenjie suddenly had an idea in mind.
It was from a novel he had read: "When a major historical juncture occurs in the river of time, different historical branches emerge, and each branch represents a world."
Is this world, in some sense, a mythical version of Earth?
Thinking about the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum that has already been excavated, does that mean the Shang and Zhou dynasties still exist in this world?
In the worlds he had traveled to before, Hou Wenjie hadn't paid much attention to history and mythology!
But in this world, at this very moment, Hou Wenjie deeply realized that the history and mythology he knew were very important.
Because those mysterious people and things that appear in myths and history may very well have actually existed in this world.
Looking at the surging waves not far away, Hou Wenjie understood the purpose of the cauldron; it was there to suppress these strange creatures.
Without the suppression of this cauldron, the entire Dachuan City would probably soon become a living hell.
Hou Wenjie turned his gaze away from the vortex of dragon energy and focused it on the body of the cauldron.
A map was engraved on the cauldron, and above the map were three pictographic characters.
After careful examination, Hou Wenjie confirmed that the three characters were indeed "Jingzhou Ding"!
The Jingzhou Tripod?! One of the nine tripods cast by Yu the Great?
Even though he was used to grand occasions, Hou Wenjie still couldn't suppress the surge of emotion in his heart when the legendary artifact appeared before him.
Legend has it that one side of the Nine Tripods is carved with mountains and rivers, while the other side is carved with rare and exotic animals, gods and monsters.
Hou Wenjie, recalling what was written in the book, then went around to the other side.
Sure enough, it was engraved with various strange creatures, including the human-headed, leopard-bodied monster that Hou Wenjie had seen before, and a tiger-like monster.
Legend has it that before the Nine Tripods were cast, stars appeared in broad daylight for nine consecutive days!
Nine days later, the Nine Tripods were cast and regarded as the embodiment of the Mandate of Heaven.
While the legends may differ now, the Nine Tripods can indeed be considered earth-shattering divine artifacts.
The underground was filled with countless strange creatures, yet they were all suppressed by this cauldron!
This made Hou Wenjie imagine the heroic spirit of the ancient King Yu.
Pulling himself back to reality, Hou Wenjie knew that with an ancient artifact like the Jingzhou Cauldron, it would be difficult to escape the strangeness underground in the short term.
What he needs to do most now is to find the location of the Temple of Rome!
His eyes looked elsewhere, where a mountain vaguely appeared not far from the divine cauldron.
Originally, this land had no mountains!
Hou Wenjie was certain that he had entered another space.
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