Tomb raiding: It all started with shocking the archaeological team.

Ultimately, it was not war that led to the destruction of the ancient Gu Kingdom, but a man-made natural disaster!

This was not surprising to Chen Yibai.

Because the greatest enemy that the earliest people faced in terms of survival was natural disasters.

Therefore, continuous migration to adapt to the environment has become part of the evolution of human civilization.

Feng shui and geomancy arose under these circumstances.

According to archaeological experts, the mysterious Sanxingdui civilization was most likely destroyed by some kind of natural disaster, such as floods or earthquakes.

However, talking about these things seems a bit off-topic.

Chen Yibai turned around and looked at the sixth mural.

Before seeing the sixth mural, Chen Yibai made a guess in his mind.

Given the consistent nature of ancient people's beliefs and reverence for deities, this sixth mural is most likely a scene of sacrifice, depicting the setting up of an altar, the offering of living people as sacrifices, and the plea for the gods' forgiveness...

At least in the Shang Dynasty sacrificial culture that Chen Yibai was familiar with, this was basically how it was done.

In fact, Chen Yibai guessed it correctly.

This sixth mural is indeed a scene of a sacrificial ceremony.

In the very center of the palace stood a huge octagonal altar. The two-headed Gu King knelt on the altar, and in the center of the altar stood a priest-like figure holding a skull scepter and wearing a loose animal skin robe.

Priests served as the medium for communication between humans and deities, playing a crucial role in sacrificial rites.

The priest was holding a tortoise shell in his hand.

Divination inscriptions were written on the tortoise shell in oracle bone script.

This involves seeking guidance from deities and predicting good or bad fortune through divination.

It's a pity that Chen Yibai doesn't understand oracle bone script, and the divination inscriptions on the tortoise shells are also obscure and difficult to decipher.

Let alone Chen Yibai, less than one-tenth of the oracle bone inscriptions discovered so far have been deciphered, let alone the entire content of the divination text.

However, judging from the content of the seventh mural, it seems that the ancient Gu Kingdom did indeed receive divine guidance through this sacrificial divination.

Looking at the seventh mural, we see a seventeen-story tower of corpses, and a scene of the two-headed Gu King being buried in a golden coffin in this golden palace through a special ceremony.

To be precise, it wasn't a burial, but rather the two-headed Gu King lying down inside himself under the guidance of the priest!

Besides the two-headed Gu King who was buried in the golden coffin, the seventeen clan leaders and all the people of the ancient Gu Kingdom were also buried in the corpse tower...

Only the priest emerged from the tower of corpses, and he even deliberately drew a picture of himself leaving with his back to the north.

Upon seeing this, Chen Yibai unleashed his imagination.

Judging from the content of the seventh mural, it is highly likely that the ancient Gu Kingdom, through divination and sacrifice, sought guidance from the gods and the solution obtained was for the ancient Gu Kingdom to temporarily lie dormant underground, while the priests went out to find a solution or to seek help from the gods!

When the priest left, he faced north, which was the birthplace of Chinese civilization at that time!

As for the two-headed Gu King of the ancient Gu Kingdom, who is temporarily buried underground, this sounds very far-fetched, but there has always been a legend of 'Gu magic for immortality', and the origin of the legend should have some basis.

Chen Yibai turned back to look at the huge golden coffin behind him.

Based on the above speculations... the two-headed Gu King who slept in the golden coffin is still 'alive'!

What was the final outcome?

The seventh mural depicts the ancient Gu Kingdom following divine guidance.

So the eighth picture, which is also the last picture, is undoubtedly the ending that the ancient Gu Kingdom wanted to achieve through the guidance of the gods.

Filled with curiosity, Chen Yibai turned around and stared intently at the last, eighth picture without blinking.

However, when Chen Yibai held the wolf-eye flashlight and stared intently at the eighth picture, he was instantly so surprised that his scalp tingled and his whole body broke out in goosebumps!

In this eighth picture, the entire ancient kingdom has become a ruin covered with vines, indicating that a very, very long time has passed.

However, amidst this scene of ruins, a giant dragon appeared, riding the clouds from the north!

The dragon had a human body and a snake tail, a naked upper body, disheveled hair, and a single, vertical eye.

Others might not recognize what it was, but Chen Yibai knew it all too well!

Isn't that Zhulong?

The priests of the ancient kingdom of Qinggan went to the north, and the reinforcements they were going to bring back turned out to be Zhulong!

This is not the most critical.

Most importantly, there was a human figure standing on Zhulong's shoulder!

The figure was tall and imposing, clad in scale armor and wielding a long sword. He looked majestic, especially as he stood on Zhulong's shoulder, like a god descending to earth, exuding an extraordinary aura of dominance over the world. Although the figure's face was blurred, he was clearly not a priest from the ancient Gu Kingdom.

Furthermore, due to the rich details of the mural, Chen Yibai found the scales on the person in the mural to be familiar, and the patterns engraved on the sword were almost identical to the crimson ancient sword in his hand!

Do not!

Not exactly the same! Absolutely the same!

The person standing on the shoulder of the Candle Dragon is clad in crimson armor and wields a crimson ancient sword!

This is what Chen Yibai found incredible and shocking.

"Kang Wang?"

Chen Yibai's first thought was that the person who came riding on the candle dragon was the Prince of Kang!

It's the Kang King of Qishan, not the Kang King who removes dandruff...

Therefore, in the seventh mural, the ancient Gu Kingdom received divine guidance through sacrifice and divination, which led them to seek help from King Kang of the Shang Dynasty.

Logically speaking, this is highly likely!

However, Chen Yibai had a feeling that something was wrong.

For example, although the ancient Gu Kingdom was more than 2,000 kilometers away from the Kang Dynasty, it was not particularly far. Even if it took a year to travel back and forth, it wouldn't be necessary to use the "Gu technique for longevity" to sleep underground first, right?

In addition, in the eighth mural, the ruins of the ancient Gu Kingdom palace are covered by dense vines. The meaning here should be that it took a very long time for this 'savior' riding on the Zhulong to arrive here!

In addition, all the carving details in the mural are very rich, lifelike and vivid. The only thing that is blurry is the face of the person standing on the shoulder of the Candle Dragon, wearing crimson armor and holding a crimson ancient sword. There is only one possibility.

That was the sacrificial divination in the ancient Gu Kingdom. All they got was that a person wearing crimson armor, holding a crimson ancient sword, would arrive riding a candle dragon, but they didn't know who it was!

The more Chen Yibai thought about it, the more his scalp tingled with disbelief, and he even got goosebumps all over his body.

Staring intently at the figure perched proudly on the shoulder of the candle dragon in the mural.

Could this person be me?