Under the guidance of the compass, everyone found another cave.

Walking into the cave, there is still a wide passage ahead. What is different from the previous cave is that this passage did not take long before there were many branches.

On the stone pillars between these branches, someone used cinnabar to draw some symbols, like some kind of mark.

Judging from the height of these marks, they should have been artificially placed, and the colors are relatively fresh.

When everyone was hesitating which passage to go through, the golden python that had been wrapped around Xiaoxiao's wrist swam down with a message, entered the first passage on the right, and turned back to look at everyone.

"Is it trying to lead us?"

The four children followed the snake and took a few steps forward, looking into the passage.

Everyone decided to follow the python.

Not far away, another fork appeared ahead. The further we walked, the more forks there were, and the cinnabar marks on the wall began to become confusing.

Everyone felt a little nervous at this time. The forks in the ground had begun to cross. It felt like a maze in front of them. Can they get out soon?

But looking around, I saw that Demon King Xiaosizi and Lin Yehuo were both there, and I felt quite reassured. I shouldn't have gotten lost...

The snake seemed to know the way and swam forward calmly.

After walking for a while, there was a light and the sound of wind ahead.

When I walked out of the passage, a large hemispherical cave with an opening at the top appeared in front of me...

The bottom of this cave is a perfect circle, and it looks like it was dug manually. There is a raised pattern on the ground, distributed in a ring, with a flat circular brick floor in the middle. Looking up, there is an identical circular shape on the top.

The exit is facing the sky. Light shines into the dark stone cave, forming a pillar of light.

Everyone felt that the raised pattern on the ground looked familiar.

The demon king walked to the middle of the perfect circle, compared it with the compass, and said with a smile, "This is a big compass!"

Zhan Zhao jumped onto the circular exit above. Looking down, he saw that it was indeed a big compass. Looking above again... the entrance of the cave was in a valley, surrounded by mountains, and the valley was also circular.

Around the entrance of the cave, there is also a circle of square stones piled up, which is the same as the raised pattern inside the cave, but on a larger scale.

Zhan Zhao raised his face and looked around the mountain wall, and found that on the stone wall surrounding the valley, there were four stone caves facing the four sets of patterns.

Everyone in the cave came up one after another. Standing in the valley, it felt like the terrain was like a huge compass. The valley was the cover of the compass, and the ground of the cave was the inside of the compass after the cover was opened.

"Although I don't know why this was built." Lin Yehuo sighed, "But it's so spectacular!"

Others nodded in agreement, like some kind of historical relic.

The Demon King pointed at a cave on the mountain wall not far away, indicating to Zhan Zhao to take a look.

Zhan Zhao jumped up the mountain wall with three leaps and bounds, and flew into the cave like a bird.

After a while, Zhan Zhao ran out, waved to everyone, and said there were murals inside.

Bai Yutang Zhao Pu and Lin Yehuo visited the other three caves respectively and found that they all had a large number of murals.

Tianzun and Yin Hou were more interested in the huge piles of stones at the bottom of the valley. These stones were square and square. Each stone was almost as tall as a person. They weighed over a thousand kilograms by visual inspection. They were piled neatly and arranged into patterns. They were probably those "

"Giant" did it.

The Silver Demon King asked Zhao Zhen, who was looking up at the sky, what he thought?

Zhao Zhen said that it looked like an ancient altar. It should not be an ordinary place. It had a solemn feeling.

The Demon King nodded and seemed to agree.

Gongsun walked to the mountain wall, waved to Zhao Pu above, and said he wanted to see the murals.

The Ninth Prince jumped down, took Gongsun up and entered the cave entrance.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang from next door also came over, while Lin Yehuo and Zou Liang went to the cave that Zhan Zhao looked at just now.

Several experts visited the four caves and found that the content of the murals in each cave was similar. They painted the same large-scale sacrificial scene. There were four bird-headed giants surrounding a huge sacred tree.

They were bringing animals to worship, and the animals were standing on four huge piles of rocks.

Gongsun walked to the entrance of the cave and pointed to the bottom of the valley below, "The layout of the boulders is the same. Was the elder's sacred tree in the cave in the middle before?

Zhan Zhao and the others also felt that the mural depicted scenes in the valley, except that a huge sacred tree was missing.

The four giants in the mural all hold things in their hands, including stone tablets, spears, and snakes...

"Huh?" Zhan Zhao poked Bai Yutang and asked, "Yutang, is the layout the same as the one we saw in Taibai Mountain?"

Master Wu also discovered it - it was indeed the same.

The only difference is that the sacred tree does not have ten birds and ten days, but nine birds and nine days. On the top of the tree, there is a person standing, and a circle of light is drawn behind the person. I don’t know if he wants to indicate that there is someone behind him.

A sun, or this person is shining.

There are four animals on the stone next to the giant, namely fox, tiger, deer and...snake!

"It's a snake?!" Gongsun was surprised, "There's no bear!"

Lu Xiaoxiao and Ouyang also noticed this.

"Could this be a sacrificial activity for selecting the main god of the ancient Mountain God Palace?" Zhao Pu speculated while looking at the murals, "Not only are there no wolves, there are not even bears. The fourth divine beast is a snake..."

As he said that, everyone looked at the little golden python that had led the way and wrapped itself around Xiaoxiao's arm to rest.

Not to mention this snake's unusual closeness to Xiaoxiao and various manifestations of spirituality, just from its appearance and expression, it is indeed very close to Silver Snow, Gold Leaf, and Fire Fox.

Zhan Zhao also reached out and touched the golden python's head, "So are you the real one? Has the bear been just a deception for so many years?"

The golden python raised its head high and low, spitting out the letter to Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao stared at it for a while, then tilted his head and said, "Oh! It's like a cat among snakes! No wonder grandpa likes it!"

Inexplicably, everyone felt that the title "cat among snakes" was very appropriate.

Under the mountain wall, Tianzun and Yin Hou had already circled the entrance of the cave, but they felt that something was missing.

"Why isn't there a giant here?" Yin Hou asked.

Tianzun also nodded - looking empty.

Both old men think that giants are actually quite practical, especially when it comes to building houses, moving things, and doing heavy physical work and work at heights.

"I feel that the people in the Mountain God Palace are ancient mountain people. They took advantage of the immortal wood of the Mountain God to build giants to work on." Tianzun said as he walked a few steps forward, squatted down, and picked up something.

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Yin Hou also leaned over and took a look, and saw that it was a copper plate... the kind commonly used in this dynasty.

"It seems that someone has already been here." Yin Hou looked at the copper coins and said, "Although this valley is spectacular, there is nothing valuable. Unlike the others, there are giant gold objects everywhere."

Zhan Zhao and the others also came down from the mountain wall and felt that according to the depictions in the murals, there might have been four giants in this valley.

"The giant and those valuable things must have been moved away." The demon king felt a little regretful.

"Why is the altar specially made in the shape of a compass?" Ouyang curiously asked Xiaoxiao, "Aside from finding the legendary golden map, does this compass have any other uses?"

Although Xiaoxiao is a descendant of the Mountain God Palace, she actually knows nothing. Some things were told to her by her godmother Ling'er, and she only met the Mountain God Granny a few times, mostly when she was a child...

Thinking of this, Xiaoxiao suddenly stretched out her hand, pulled Ouyang's hand up, and then drew a pattern on his palm with her fingertips.

Ouyang felt that his palms were numb.

After Xiaoxiao finished painting, she looked up. Ouyang looked at the sky with a red face and kept touching the back of his head.

Zhao Pu and Zou Liang looked on and shook their heads - such a promising thing!

"I remember when I was a child, the mountain goddess Granny would hold my hand and draw a symbol on my hand," Xiaoxiao said.

Gongsun took out a pen and paper and gave it to Xiaoxiao.

Lu Xiaoxiao recalled for a while and drew a very strange group. The pattern was like drawing a bird, with half a circle outside.

The Demon King reached out, grabbed Ouyang's hand, handed it to Xiaoxiao, and asked her to draw it again according to the movements of the Mountain God Granny.

Xiaoxiao drew it again in Ouyang's hand. Everyone discovered that Xiaoxiao first drew a simple bird, then drew a half circle, and finally clicked on a little bit, which is the position of the bird's eyes.

After reading it, the Demon King asked Xiaoxiao, "Has the mountain god's mother-in-law given you anything? Or did your parents give you any heirlooms or something like that?"

Xiaoxiao pulled out a slender short stick like a flute from her waist. The short stick should be made of gold and is slightly longer than an ordinary flute.

Xiaoxiao swung it, and a slender section emerged from one end of the stick. It was square-shaped and had a blade on one side. It was a rather unique knife.

"Oh." Tianzun came over to take a look. He originally thought the girl was carrying a golden flute, but he didn't expect it to be a knife.

"Grandma Hui gave this to me when she taught me Kung Fu when I was a child. She said it was a sacred object of the Fire Fox Palace."

Bai Yutang had fought against Granny Hui before, and the martial arts of Shan Shen Palace was its own style, which was different from that of the Central Plains martial arts.

"Look at this pattern." The Demon King handed her the picture that Xiaoxiao had just drawn, "Does it look like the sword skills you usually practice?"

Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, made some gestures, and nodded, "Yes... there are many similar moves..."

The demon king pointed to the tile floor in the middle of the "compass" under the hole where the light beam illuminated, "Where can I practice this pattern?"

Xiaoxiao nodded and handed the golden python to Ouyang. Ouyang held it for her and she jumped down from the hole.

Xiaoxiao stood in the middle of the circle in the cave, recalled her mother-in-law's action of drawing the symbol, and raised her knife to swing. Ouyang originally wanted to go down, but the demon king waved his hand and motioned for everyone to move back.

Xiaoxiao felt that as her footsteps moved, the bricks she stepped on moved. Finally, she raised the knife and swung it in a semicircle, stabbing the ground. She heard a "click" and the knife actually stabbed.
To be continued...