Text Chapter 604: Weird Temple

Contrary to Li Yao's imagination, the "Dark" Continent is not only not dark, but the sunlight during the day is particularly dazzling.

The sky here is particularly clear, so blue that it is unreal, as if you can see the twinkling stars directly through the sky.

Five thousand years ago, this was the place that suffered the first wave of catastrophe, and almost all traces of civilization were completely wiped out.

Looking around, the desolate land is like a distant alien star, full of topography and landforms that can only be found in other worlds. The land sometimes rises high, and suddenly sinks deeply, forming ringed mountains, overlapping, and pits. .

These craters were all smashed out by huge meteorites back then. Until now, there are still many fragments of meteorites left in the deepest parts of many large craters as deep as thousands of meters.

For five thousand years, the craters in the depths of the craters have been continuously watered and washed by rain, and the rivers have been diverted, forming patches of circular lakes.

Due to the impact of the meteorite fragments at the bottom of the lake, the lake surface is rippling with seven-color mist, which looks like huge vesicles protruding from the ground when viewed from the ground.

Occasionally, two craters are very close together, and the ridges are squeezed together, and they are as sharp as fangs.

Such a harsh environment makes it difficult for human civilization to take root, yet this place has become a paradise for monsters and demonized plants.

Countless colorful plants grow out of the big lake at the bottom of the crater, decorating the craters with colorful flowers. Thousands of monsters roared in the strange mountains and forests. When Li Yao passed several craters, . He was even attacked by a large group of flying monsters.

Once, Li Yao was still in the mountains and forests, and found some human-like existences.

Their height is about two meters. The skin is gray-white like a rock, and a layer of red moss grows on it, which can change into different luster and shapes.

At first glance, it looks exactly the same as the Giant Spirit Warrior Clan, only one size smaller.

They are all wearing the simplest animal skins, holding bone blades made of monster bones, and communicating with each other. It is like a human language with short syllables, and it is like the deep roar of a wild beast.

They don't seem to know how to cultivate true qi. However, he is powerful, bloodthirsty by nature, brutal and aggressive, and walks like flying in the mountains and forests. You can forcefully tear apart monsters with your hands, then swallow them alive and drink their blood.

Li Yao hid in the dark, secretly observed these savages for a long time, and came to a conclusion.

Five thousand years ago, after the first wave of catastrophe struck, the ancestors of these human races had too few people and the environment was too harsh. Unable to pass on the fire of human civilization.

In the Dark Continent, generation after generation, their civilization continued to degenerate. In the end, he became a savage who drank blood.

Civilization disappeared, but the inheritance of the giant spirit warrior clan was delivered to them in various ways, becoming their only reliance against the harsh environment.

Today, these savages can't speak human language very well. They only communicate with each other with simple and short roars, and blood-colored moss like giant spirit warriors grow on their bodies. These mosses change shape and color and also communicate.

Perhaps, if these savages continue to survive in the Dark Continent for thousands of years, they will completely lose the last bit of their ability to speak, and they will also forget their identity as "human beings".

Perhaps they will regard the meteorite mountains that stand on the ground and can be seen everywhere as the "divine mountains" of their own race, and regard the hearts of the giant spirit warriors unearthed from the meteorite mountains as the inheritance of the "divine race". Is the descendant of "God".

Then, it will completely become a new generation of giant spirit warriors!

Li Yao sighed secretly in his heart, and continued to rush towards the valley where the oasis tribe was located.

Li Yao didn't dare to fly too high, nor did he dare to increase his speed too fast, because he was worried that he would meet people from the Palace of Longevity along the way.

Every time before the wind is fast, the Xiaolong is always dispatched first, enters a stealth state, and monitors along the way to ensure that there is no abnormality before moving forward at full speed.

When he finally arrived near the valley where the oasis tribe was located, it was already noon the next day.

This area is a rare plain in the Dark Continent. Several small craters are strewn across the wasteland. You can also see dots of oases in the distance, where countless fat-headed and big-eared spirit beasts are grazing.

Li Yao found a long and narrow valley between two oval-shaped craters. Looking far away from the Xiaolong, he could vaguely see the traces of man-made buildings.

However, on the other side of the valley, there were flames of war everywhere, and the flames burned the sky, and there was a faint sound of fierce shouts.

A thick black smoke, like a huge stone pillar, pierced into the sky.

Li Yao was secretly taken aback, and hastily took out a gray-white camouflage cloth that was similar in color to the rock and put it on his body, sticking to the ground, driving the Black Wing Sword, and walked around a crater without a sound.

At the same time, Xiaolong was also in a hidden state, slowly approaching the battle zone.

As we get closer to the valley, we can clearly see that leaning against the mountain wall on the left is a towering temple with a strange shape. The construction style is quite primitive, wild and evil.

Around the temple, there are dozens of simple stone buildings scattered around, as well as some disorganized tents. At first glance, it looks like a tribal town with a low level of civilization.

Here, it should be the so-called oasis tribe.

In the town, there are quite a few men with bare upper body, wearing only bone armor, and disheveled hair. They have extremely thick lips and rough faces. There are bone rings on their lips, ears and bridge of nose. Pigments, drawing hideous tattoos.

Judging from their houses, clothes and demeanor, their level of civilization is much lower than that of the Six Parts of Cheorwon, but they are still higher than the other savages that Li Yao saw in the Dark Continent.

They are probably the residents of the oasis tribe.

Apart from them, Li Yao also saw some people wearing excellent battle armors, driving Zhenqi chariots, and holding the three battle flags of Scorching Sun, Feathered Serpent and Giant Axe.

They are probably the first implementers of the "Oasis Project".

At this moment, no matter whether it was the qi refiners of the six tribes of Cheorwon or the barbaric warriors of the oasis tribe, they all screamed and rushed towards the other side of the valley.

"These bandits from the stars want to destroy our towns, kill our wives and children, and occupy our homes!"

"Fight! Fight with them!"

"Cheorwon Liubu, together with the Oasis Tribe, defend our homeland!"

Li Yao secretly yelled in his heart that something was wrong, and stretched his eyesight to the limit, but he could see that on the other side of the valley, there seemed to be a spar warship that had been severely damaged, and fell down in the valley, billowing black smoke.

A large number of cultivators wearing crystal armor fought with the Tieyuan people, killing them inextricably.

The cultivators are assisted by crystal armor, and their strength is higher than that of the Cheorwon warriors. However, their number is only about a hundred, which is far less than that of the barbarian warriors.

"What's going on, has a fight started?"

Li Yao was anxious in his heart. He manipulated the Xiaolong to keep approaching, but he saw a battle flag waving in the wind among the cultivators on the opposite side, and on the damaged spar battleship, there was also a very familiar battle emblem, which was under the scorching sun. shining brightly.

That is

"The battle emblem of the Great Horn Armor Division!"

Li Yao was dumbfounded, ten thousand doubts emerged in his heart.

"Why, the Great Horned Armor Group appeared on Iron Star, and how did they find it here?"

"Besides, they were full, why did they clash with the Tieyuan people? They fought so fiercely, as if desperately wanting to break through the Tieyuan people's defenses and rush into this town of the oasis tribe!"

Li Yao's first reaction was to show up immediately to stop the conflict between the two sides.

However, the two sides are in a deadly battle, how can they listen to him calmly?

What's more, Li Yao felt more and more that this was full of strangeness, as if there was a huge conspiracy behind it.

"The Great Horned Armored Division was just outside the Iron Plains Starfield a few months ago and was almost completely wiped out. Even if they regained their vitality so quickly, how could they somehow conflict with the Iron Plains people?"

"Why did they appear here, and insisted on storming the town of the oasis tribe?"

"What secrets are hidden in this town?"

With a thought in Li Yao's mind, he simply let the Xiaolong go around in a circle, and sneaked into the oasis tribe when most of the alchemists and barbarians rushed to the front and the rear was empty.

In the towns of the Oasis Tribe, almost all the buildings are stone houses that are ventilated on all sides. Li Yao glanced over and couldn't see anything unusual.

Only the temple built against the mountain revealed a chilling and cold air no matter how you looked at it.

On the huge stone pillars supporting the temple, there are engraved patterns of demons dancing wildly and grotesquely.

In front of the temple, there are still four huge statues, which are four green-faced fangs, half-human, half-demon monsters.

Among primitive tribes, worshiping ghosts and gods was a very normal thing, but Li Yao always felt a little weird.

After thinking about it for a long time, he found that the construction technology of this temple seemed to be far beyond the level of civilization of the oasis tribe itself.

Those lifelike monster reliefs, as well as these four statues, don't seem to be carved by oasis people.

The Xiaolong stuck to the ground and sneaked into the temple without a sound.

The interior of the temple was empty, surrounded by huge black stones, but in the middle stood a huge black stone monument, covered with a huge white cloth, which seemed to have been covered for a long time, and it was covered with dust.

Li Yao manipulated the Xiaolong to sneak into the white cloth, trying to figure out the pattern on the stone tablet, but only found a line of flamboyant characters:

"The Dao of the Heavens, with billions of supernatural powers, I just ask if you can live forever?"

Li Yao's pupils shrank suddenly: "It really is the Palace of Eternal Life!"

But when I think about it carefully, I feel very awkward.

This temple is a little too ostentatious. The strangely shaped statues outside and the stone tablet engraved with the inscription of the Palace of Longevity inside seem to be afraid that others will not know that this is the stronghold of some evil organization. (to be continued)