Tomb Raider: The comprehension is against the sky, and the achievement is indestructible

Chapter 40: Seven-story Black Tower, Seventh-level Buddha Skill
The distance from the mountain pass to the ancient city of Jingjue was not too far, and Su Mo and his friends soon arrived at the ruined ancient city.

Ye Yixin is still in a coma, but she has regained some consciousness. Although Su Mo used his Qi to help her escape from danger, her forehead is still a little hot.

This dehydration is very serious and clean drinking water is essential.

Su Mo glanced at the ruins of the ancient city and said:
"This kind of kingdom in the desert is often built near underground rivers. Especially near the royal city, there must be sufficient groundwater resources. If we find the royal city, we should be able to find groundwater!"

Professor Chen nodded, and then he and Hao Aiguo used their archaeological knowledge to quickly determine the approximate location of the royal city.

Everyone followed the ruins to the center of the ancient city, but there were no other buildings except the leaning and dilapidated black tower. There were not even decent houses, only weathered earth walls.

Professor Chen thought for a moment and said:

"The royal city here may be built underground. Let's look down from the black tower and see if we can find the entrance to the underground palace!"

Su Mo glanced around.

His Ziwei visualization method could only find the location of the underground palace and tomb through the visualization of the sun, moon, stars, or the earth's veins. However, at this moment, the sun had just risen and was covered by a gray cloud. The ancient city was covered with yellow sand and broken walls, and it was impossible to find any traces from these weather conditions.

If you stand on top of the black tower, you may be able to see clues to the geographical energy through the Ziwei visualization method.

So Su Mo nodded, and then took Hubayi and Fatty Wang towards the black tower.

At this time, Ye Yixin finally woke up, but was still a little weak. Shirley Yang then fed her some water.

After drinking the water, Ye Yixin's condition improved a lot. Although he was still very exhausted, his life was no longer in danger.

With proper care and feeding with salt water and other things, she will slowly recover.

Su Mo was afraid that something unexpected might happen if they stayed down there, and Professor Chen and the others also wanted to go into the stone tower to take a look, so they all walked into the Black Stone Tower together.

There were many densely packed ghost cave characters engraved on the stone walls of the first floor of the tower, and stone sheep were carved between each layer of characters. It looked very strange, and even Professor Chen and his team found it difficult to understand.

On the second layer there is a stone statue, which is the same size as an ordinary person, but with a high nose and deep eyes, the distinctive features of people from the Western Regions. On the third layer is a stone statue with huge pupils like the one in the ancient city of Xiye.

Satipeng couldn't help but feel a little strange when he saw the third floor:
"Professor, what is this tower used for? Why are there stone statues on every floor?"

Professor Chen thought for a moment and said:

"This black tower should show the status of the Ghost Cave Clan. Each layer of stone statues represents a different level."

"The characters and stone sheep on this first layer represent livestock. If I'm not mistaken, there should be another layer underground, representing slaves and local evil spirits!"

"The stone statues with high noses and deep eyes on the second layer are ordinary Hu people from the Western Regions. The stone statues with huge pupils on the third layer are a kind of worship of eyes!"

Fatty Wang laughed and said:
"Even with my skill level, I can guess that the fourth floor must be the statue of the queen!"

Then he rushed to the fourth floor.

However, the scene on the fourth floor was beyond everyone's expectations.

The stone statues in this layer are very strange, with snake bodies and human heads, but with thick limbs. Their hind legs are as thick as beast ladders, but their forelimbs are human-shaped. They hold swords and shields in their hands, and their heads are those of ferocious men, looking like the angry Vajra in the Buddhist temples, but with a round ball like a black bun behind their heads, just like the fleshy crown on the head of Jingjian Agama!
Professor Chen and others came up and couldn't help but marvel at the stone statues:
"It seems that this layer represents the patron saint of the ancient Jingjue nation. It is very similar to the image of the black snakes in the mouths of those corpses. It should be a kind of snake god!"

Su Mo nodded.

Professor Chen was right. The strange stone statue on this floor was none other than Jingjian Agama, who guarded the ancient kingdom of Jingjue. However, in this tower it appeared as a snake with a human face.

Fatty Wang listened to Professor Chen's words and said with a smile:
"The fifth floor should be the statue of the queen!" Everyone came to the fifth floor, but was surprised to find that the fifth floor was empty, with only many ghost cave secret codes carved on the wall.

Hubayi was very surprised and asked Professor Chen:

"Was this floor robbed by tomb robbers? Why is there nothing on it?"

Professor Chen was also a little confused and hesitated before saying:

"Let's see if there's anything up there first!"

Everyone then came to the top floor.

However, there was a black throne standing in the middle of the top floor, and on it sat a statue of a woman. She looked very gorgeously dressed, but there was a veil carved on her face, so her appearance could not be seen at all.

However, the image of this woman is exactly the same as the image of the Queen of Jingjue in the mural in the tomb of Prince Gumo.

Hubayi couldn't help but look confused:
"Why is it that even her own statues are veiled? Doesn't she dare to show her true face?"

Fatty Wang sneered:
"In my opinion, she is just being mysterious. She is probably too ugly to be seen by others! But judging by the statue, she has a good figure!"

Professor Chen looked at the statue carefully, thought for a while and then said:
"This seven-story black tower is clearly a representation of the hierarchy of the ancient Jingjue Kingdom. The queen is at the top of the stone tower, representing the supreme status in the ancient Jingjue Kingdom."

The fat man couldn't help asking:

"Then why is the fifth floor empty?"

At this time, Su Mo, who had been silent, smiled faintly:
"It's an imaginary space!"

Hubayi and Fatty Wang were confused again after hearing this.

Professor Chen, Hao Aiguo and Shirley Yang have done some research on Jingjue culture. They couldn't help but nod after hearing Su Mo's words.

"Above the guardian god with a snake body and a human face is the imaginary space, and the queen's position is above the imaginary space, which means that she completely controls this mysterious power. There is also an eye on the top of the tower, which means that the queen's power comes entirely from her eyes!"

Everyone couldn't help but feel a little scared when they heard this.

Is it true that imaginary space exists in this world, and that the Queen of Jingjue can control the opening and closing of imaginary space through her eyes?

Su Mo naturally knew the existence of imaginary space, and his ability to move around came from his understanding of imaginary space.

At this moment, he looked at the scene in the stone tower, and seemed to have some new insights in his mind.

This black tower has seven floors including the underground floor, which is very similar to the seven-story pagoda in ancient times.

Seven is a very mysterious number.

The rainbow has seven colors, the earth has seven continents, and the Yi Jin Jing in Buddhism also has seven major circulations!
And this black stone tower of the ancient Jingjue Kingdom also has seven floors!

Su Mo looked at the scene in the stone tower, and inspiration gradually began to flash in his mind.

"You watched the seven-story Black Stone Tower and gained new insights, and suddenly realized the seventh level of Buddha Skill!"

(End of this chapter)