You rascal, stop right there!

I originally thought that Xuanli was the enemy of Daqing.

Now it seems that it was Xuanli who was distorted by his state religion.

The reason why Gu Yang was able to become the national teacher was probably related to the monks of Shanhua Temple!

Several people endured the nausea in their stomachs and finally passed through the "talent" stone prison.

They walked past the doorway and saw handcuffs, shackles, sticks, wrist guards and torture instruments for cramping.

When we reached the new cave, the smell of blood faded slightly.

However, behind the stone gate, there seemed to be a calligraphy and painting room, with scroll paintings hanging on the walls.

It is framed with colorful satin and is exquisitely done. The colors are so bright and vivid that you can see the glittering gold powder from a distance.

Ling Shumo was originally a painter. When he got closer, he could tell that the painting depicted Buddhist gods and colorful scriptures.

Each pattern has traces of gold powder, silver powder, and even agate and cinnabar.

These things are worth a lot of money!

While he was looking at the painting, the other two were looking at the special material of the scroll.

Chen Xingyi suddenly recalled some memories, took several steps back tremblingly, his lips trembling slightly.

"This isn't a drawing on paper, it's human skin!"

Painting with human skin?!

Several people came closer to look, but didn't dare to touch it.

It turns out that these exquisite Buddhist paintings were all painted on human skin.

It is probably through some special method, using sophisticated instruments to peel off all of a person's skin, and then draw on it.

"This is the skin on a woman's back!" Luo Wenqi looked at it secretly, and felt that everything in his mind exploded.

"You can see that too?" Chen Xingyi asked.

Luo Wenqi closed his eyes deeply. "This thing is called a human skin thangka. When I was running a business before, someone wanted to secretly sell this thing, but I refused."

"Although, he told me that the female believer agreed to donate her skin while she was sober and willing."

Jueyuan shook his head: "There is no such thing as voluntary, everyone is saying that suffering in this life is due to sins committed in the previous life.

"It tells people not to resist, but to believe in its teachings so that they can be liberated from the cycle of reincarnation in their next life."

Because human skin is highly ductile and does not rot easily after special treatment, the things painted on it can be preserved for many years without rotting.

Even brightly colored pigments can last for hundreds or even thousands of years.

These secret methods of human sacrifice and exquisite human skin thangka paintings are complicated to produce and require high painting techniques, but they are actually very popular among the Xuanli nobles.

It can be said that there is a human life behind every human skin thangka.

Xuanli's national temple provides doctrines to fool the people, and the nobles return gold and silver power to the common people to gain stable rule. It's only natural!

"Well, it's a good thing Xiaobai isn't here, otherwise, given his personality, he might have burned these paintings right away!"

Luo Wenqi tried his best to look sideways, as if he didn't want to look at these chilling paintings.

"It's better to just kill them than to torture them like this. They're just treating them like animals!"

Chen Xingyi was so resolute that even an assassin like him couldn't stand it.

They think they still have some rationality, but it is hard to say about someone who is fearless and daring.

To do this to the beloved Danqing in this way would not only be extremely painful, but would also make him hate her to the core.

Everyone move forward.

There seemed to be two more rooms in the stone chamber, but one of them was locked and could not be opened, and the other underground cave looked more like a crypt.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a pure copper basement with several bronze Buddhas enshrined on the left and right walls.

The air was filled with chilly winds and the atmosphere was extravagant and luxurious. On the table were many dried human organs or bones made by hand.

The exquisite paintings, lamps, and musical instruments are all made of human lives, and countless skulls are embedded in the walls like mountains.

Even so, there are various exquisite paintings of Buddha hanging on the wall, which is extremely ironic.

Perhaps because they were frightened by these things, no one dared to step forward.

Jueyuan's expression seemed both angry and emotional: "In fact, all the punishments in Jizhen Prison and Tzu Chi Yuan were proposed by the Imperial Master and the abbot of Shanhua Temple."

Ling Shumo thought he was used to all kinds of pain, but he had to lean against the wall and suppress the nausea in his heart.

"In a place like this, even demons and monsters would think they are kind."

Creepy——

It's terrifying!

Half an hour passed.

After wanting to vomit countless times, the few people finally woke up and walked out of the underground palace of the "calligraphy and painting room".

But all he found was a deserted grotto and deserted steps.

A beam of light shot in from the small opening, shining on the ground like pouring moonlight.

From the exit came the sounds of chanting and the beating of wooden fish.

Chen Xingyi had the sharpest hearing among these people, and he quickly recognized more than one voice.

A pair of eyes look out from the cracks in the stone, the golden splendor is eye-catching, with Buddha statues, scriptures, incense burners and candlesticks made of pure gold.

There were many people kneeling on cushions in front of the hall, facing each other.

A group of devout believers put their hands together and prayed and chanted scriptures.

Seeing this, Ling Shumo beside him couldn't help but ask softly, "Brother Chen, what did you see?"

"The faithful bow down!"

Jueyuan immediately stepped forward and looked inside through the small opening, his eyes filled with surprise.

"This……"

His voice began to tremble and he seemed to be at a loss.

Everyone looked at the indescribable strange expression on his face, and for a moment, everyone stared at him in astonishment.

The small stream of light swept down from Jueyuan's eyes and spread little by little to the dark back of his head.

The flickering light and shadow...

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be the location of the Buddha statue in the main hall of Shanhua Temple!"

He tried to control his emotions in his tone.

"Heh!" Chen Xingyi sneered.

"Perhaps these two small openings we are looking at are the Buddha's eyes!"

The Buddha statue in the main hall of Shanhua Temple is relatively large, and its half-closed eyes are originally silver decorations inlaid with gems.

However, for some reason, these two eyeballs disappeared, leaving the eyes hollow without the pupils.

Ling Shumo, Chen Xingyi and others saw the entire hall directly from these eyes, and the believers were devout.

They just found it ironic and absurd.

However, the more absurd things are yet to come!

"Who are you?!"

The man's shout broke the silence.