The Unorthodox Tomb Raider

After exiting the cave, you can see the cave itself. The cave is only about twenty square meters in size, and the terrain is very undulating, steeply sloping upwards like a hillside.

The surrounding rock walls are covered with densely packed symbols, including Muchen Pearls and open human eyes.

In the center of the cave, there is a raised, inverted trumpet-shaped crater, quite similar to the crater we saw before, only about five or six meters high due to the terrain.

Beside the funnel-shaped opening, there is a man-made stone staircase. By following the staircase, you can reach the opening and see what's inside.

Chapter 139 Finally, at the Altar!

"Let's go up and take a look."

After giving a greeting, Fang Yun took the lead in climbing the stone steps, approaching the trumpet-shaped opening, and carefully examining the inside.

Looking inside, there was indeed a passage in the funnel-shaped opening, but this time the passage was not straight down, but steeply downward.

This steep, downward-sloping passage is very long, and at its depths it is all white; looking down from above, you can't see anything inside.

There are steps in the passage, but these steps are badly worn. Heaven knows how many people have walked on these steps, which have worn them down to the point that the passage is almost like a landslide.

Of course...most importantly, the space inside is a crystal cave.

Starting from the steps in front of you and heading towards the unknown below, all you see is white crystal—it's a natural white crystal cave.

However, this white crystal cave was not as eerie as the previous crystal tunnel; there was no sound coming from inside.

Without hesitation, the four of them crawled straight into the cave entrance.

After entering the cave, the ground was covered with crystals, which were very slippery. The four of them had to use their hands and feet to support themselves as they descended, otherwise they would have slid straight to the bottom of the cave.

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After walking half-slipping and half-walking for about two or three minutes, the passage began to level out, losing its previous steepness.

Fang Yun, walking at the front of the group, sensed the change in terrain and knew that the passage was nearing its end, so he turned around and called out:

"Slow down, we're almost at the bottom."

Upon hearing Fang Yun's words, Partridge Whistle, Old Foreigner, and Hua also took out shovels and other sharp objects to wed them in the crystal passage to prevent them from sliding down too quickly.

After sliding down about thirty or forty meters, Fang Yun finally saw what the end of the crystal tunnel looked like.

Ahead was a small platform made of bluestone, with a small bridge connecting it to a place out of his sight.

Soon, the four of them arrived safely on the platform.

This is a very large crystal mine, with a crystal dome tens of meters high from which a large amount of water drips, making it look as if a lake is held above the cave.

Above the crystal dome, there were countless crystal spikes hanging overhead. When the four of them moved below, their shadows were projected onto the crystal spikes.

The group is now standing on the stone platform. Looking ahead along the stone bridge, they can see a semi-circular area with a very well-constructed terrain, which looks like a stone platform.

However, the stone platform was quite far away, and countless white mists floated above it, so the scene on the stone platform could not be seen with the naked eye.

As for beneath the stone platform... there is an entire abyss.

A strange, white mist floated in the abyss, but if you looked closely, you could see some pale white things within the mist.

Those are human bones!

Beneath the abyss lay countless human bones and mummies, filling the entire abyss and forming several mountain peaks of corpses within it.

From the perspective of the Demon Kingdom's values, depth represents nobility, so one can imagine... just how deep this abyss must have been originally.

But this enormous abyss was filled with corpses.

Because of the large number of corpses, will-o'-the-wisps occasionally appear above the cave ceiling.

This gives us an idea of ​​how fanatical the Demon Kingdom's worship of the serpent god was, and how many people suffered cruel persecution at the hands of the Demon Kingdom.

No wonder the faith of the Demon Kingdom people collapsed.

So many lives were sacrificed, yet no benefit was gained; even the demon mother of the kingdom rarely appeared.

"Heinous sins!"

Upon seeing the corpses in the abyss, Partridge Whistle's expression darkened, and he gritted his teeth as he uttered a sentence.

The corpses in this abyss are clearly offerings used by the Demon Kingdom to worship the Serpent God.

Compared to these people, the Zaglama tribe is considered lucky, because the Zaglama tribe still has hope of self-salvation. But the sacrifices here offer no hope; all that awaits them is death, and they can only die in resentment and despair.

The old man and Hua's expressions were also not good. After all, if you put it in a broader sense, every corpse in the abyss was the same kind of person as them.

"So the Demon Kingdom was destroyed."

"Let's go, the altar should be just ahead. Let's shut down the sacrificial ceremony!"

Seeing the grief and indignation on the faces of his three fellow disciples, Fang Yun whispered something, then stepped onto the stone bridge and headed towards the stone platform ahead.

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The three composed themselves and quickly caught up.

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"The Ancestral Dragon Pill...the land where dragons are conceived!"

After walking onto the stone bridge, the scenery inside the crystal mine became increasingly clear.

On the surrounding crystal walls, countless strange patterns emerged, and those patterns gathered together to form a five-dragon pattern. However, those crystal patterns were all naturally formed, not artificially carved.

This is the Dragon Core Land, a place where the vital energy and yin-yang energy of the ancestral dragon vein converge and merge.

This place is the Dragon Core of the Ancestral Dragon. It has only one function: to give birth to the Dragon Vein!

The five dragons in the Five Dragons Diagram are the dragon veins born from the Dragon Pill!

The dragon energy will travel with the earth, nourishing the mountain ranges into dragon veins!

It must be said that the people of the Demon Kingdom are quite clever.

This place is far from Mount Zaglama, and only by relying on the dragon energy and yin-yang energy of Longdan can it be connected to the Ghost Cave from a place thousands of miles away.

Before long, the group of four had crossed the stone bridge and arrived at the stone platform.

The stone platform is not very large, probably less than 100 square meters.

In the center of the stone platform, two pools are arranged opposite each other in the shape of the Yin and Yang symbol.

Beside the two pools, there are rows of white stone statues, numbering as many as thirty or forty.

The white stone statues were only slightly taller than ordinary people, and each of them held a stone cup the size of a large bowl in its hands, which was empty.

Between the two rows of white stone statues, there are not only two pools of water, but also a human-shaped depression.

The crater was shaped like a person with limbs outstretched, seemingly a place for executions and sacrifices. There must have been many people who died inside, as the accumulated blood in the crater had stained the entire crater dark red.

Just one glance is enough to make one feel the cruelty of the Demon Kingdom back then.

At the far end behind this stone platform, there is a crystal hillside that is entirely white. The hillside gradually rises and forms a crystal mountain behind the stone platform.

Chapter 140 The Sacrifice! Mountain Collapse!

"This must be the altar!"

Partridge Whistle's face was gloomy. He said one sentence and walked directly into the human-shaped crater.

After taking a look, Partridge Whistle became even more agitated.

"The blood sacrifice pit..."

"The demons push the sacrifices into this human-shaped pit, and after the blood from the sacrifices has drained, they throw the corpses into the abyss... That's how the abyss came to be."

"There are countless scratch marks in the pit, left by the sacrifices as they struggled. They bled to death!"

Fang Yun nodded, his face grim, and remained silent.

The ritual of this blood sacrifice is recorded on the crystal mountain behind the stone platform.

The priests of the Demon Kingdom escorted the offerings here, fixed the naked offerings to the human-shaped pit, gouged out their eyes, and skinned them.

Before the sacrifice dies, its eyes ("497") and skin are peeled off, and then it is allowed to bleed to death alive.

This ritual, similar to the practice of skinning a cow before slaughtering it, is meant to release its soul and use it as a sacrifice to the snake god.

"This is undoubtedly the altar."

"Brother Dao, let's not delay any longer. Let's complete the ceremony as soon as possible. Something's not right here."

After a moment of contemplation, Fang Yun urged him on.

On that crystal mountain, not only were the blood sacrifice rituals carved, but also the methods for ending the rituals.

The blood from the sacrificial offerings would flow into one pool of water along the human-shaped pit, while the Muchen Pearl would be thrown into the other pool.

These are two keys, two kinds of power, one real and one illusory. One is the real eye of the serpent god, and the other is the illusory soul.

Two keys are needed to begin the ceremony, and two keys are also needed to close it; this is the complete ceremony.

Of course, Fang Yun already knew how to close the ceremony.

What he cares about most right now is a crystal bowl inlaid on the crystal mountain.

The crystal bowl was like a small, transparent bowl, embedded in the crystal mountain. From inside the crystal mountain, a wisp of white powder seeped down and flowed into the crystal bowl.

Clearly, that was an hourglass that symbolized the time of the ritual.

Above that crystal bowl, a human-shaped mural appeared on the crystal wall.