Chapter 71 Shaman Immortal Gate
"Are there any taboos?" Chen Duo asked in a low voice.
"What?" Xu Lai was puzzled.
"It's your magician's code of conduct. Is there anything you should follow at a time like this?" Chen Duo said.
"Oh, and don't touch things carelessly. Don't make a fuss about anything that happens, and don't be careless at any time." Xu said.
"Okay!" Chen Duo nodded. Just then, the phone took a picture of something and she was caught off guard. She couldn't help but scream out in surprise.
However, when I looked at it more closely, I realized that although the thing looked like a human, it was not a real person, but a statue carved out of wood. I immediately felt very embarrassed.
"It's okay. This is quite normal. You'll get used to it once you get used to it." Xu said.
Chen Duo calmed down and saw that there was more than one statue here. In addition to the one just mentioned, there were also some wooden statues of various human figures and some wild animals.
"Don't you find it weird?" Chen Duo looked at the strange things in the room and was extremely shocked. But looking at Xu Lai, he was the same as usual and didn't seem nervous at all.
"As a wizard, it's inevitable to encounter strange things. I'm used to it." Xu said.
Chen Duo was silent. It turned out that being a mage was not something that ordinary people could do.
Although she was very curious about everything in the room, she also strictly followed the mage rules that Xu Lai had told her. She did not move or touch anything. She just followed Xu Lai obediently and only used her eyes to see.
I saw that this basement was not made of reinforced concrete, but large bluestone slabs, both the walls and the floor.
Many incomprehensible patterns were carved on the stone slab, which were twisted and curved and had a very complex structure.
"Is this the rune you mentioned?" Seeing Xu Lai looking carefully at the patterns on the wall, Chen Duo went over and asked in a low voice.
"It's not a rune, it's a forbidden pattern, used to form a ban." Xu said.
Chen Duo seemed to understand what , but she had heard him mention it before. He thought that the restriction was probably a kind of formation.
She stared at the wall for a while, turned around, and used the flashlight on her cell phone to shine other places. She saw that apart from some square or round stone pillars on the ground, most of them were some strange wood carvings.
A closer look reveals that these wood carvings are not only meticulously crafted and lifelike, but also have some crooked symbols carved on them that are blood-red and shocking to look at.
"This is a rune carved with cinnabar." Just listen to Xu.
Chen Duo leaned in closer to take a closer look: "So this is cinnabar?" She had only read about cinnabar in books before, saying that it was bright red in color and was a thing that could ward off evil spirits.
She straightened up and took out her cell phone to take a picture of the ceiling. She saw a large pattern carved on the ceiling, with layers upon layers of colors, black and indigo, like a big blooming flower.
The light moved sideways, and a reflection was seen on a corner of the ceiling. Chen Duo was startled, and looked closely. It turned out to be a bronze mirror with a yellow surface, tilted at an angle, shining right into the center of the stone chamber.
Looking down through the bronze mirror, I saw a dark leather drum placed on the ground, with a wooden frame dyed with indigo.
The more she looked, the more strange it seemed to her. She felt uneasy. Seeing that Xu Lai had moved to the other wall, she hurriedly followed him. When the light was turned on, she saw that there was also a bronze mirror hanging in the corner on this side, and there was a leather drum underneath. She guessed that there was probably one in all four corners.
She turned around and looked at the wood carvings in the center of the stone chamber. After examining them carefully for a while, she really could see some clues.
Turning back, I saw Xu Lai had already finished looking at the strange things on the wall, so I asked him quietly, "Why do you think that person carved so many animals underground?"
"Animals?" Xu came to see her.
"Yeah, you see, that should be a pig, right? And is that a dog?" Chen Duo said, pointing at the pile of wood carvings on the ground.
Xu Lai smiled: "Those are the Twelve Shaman Immortals."
"What is that?" Chen Duo didn't understand.
"Have you heard of the Shaman Sect?" Xu Lai asked while gesturing something with his fingers against the wall.
"No." Chen Duo shook her head.
After a while, Xu said, "Does the spirit know about this?"
"I know this!" Chen Duo was happy. Finally, there was something she had heard of.
As for the spirit mediums, they are mentioned in TV dramas and novels. There is also a saying "Nan Mao Bei Ma", which refers to the orthodox Maoshan in the south and the spirit medium disciples in the north.
Then there are the four great masters of rituals: Hu, Huang, Bai and Liu, who refer to the Four Great Immortals.
"That's right. The spirit mediums evolved from the shaman sect. What you see are the twelve great shamans. However, until now, many people only know four of them." Xu said.
Chen Duo finally understood. This means that the Shaman Immortal Sect is actually the predecessor of the Chu Ma Immortal Sect?
"The bronze mirrors and leather drums on the four corners are the magic mirrors and sacred drums of Shamanism." Xu Lai continued.
After hearing what he said, Chen Duo couldn't help but take another look at the simple bronze mirror hanging on the ceiling. Xu Lai continued, "Generally, wherever the magic mirror is pointed, there are unusual things."
Chen Duo was startled and quickly turned his gaze to the center of the stone chamber, but the light from the mobile phone could not reach there, and it looked pitch black.
"Can I get closer and take a look?" Chen Duo asked.
"Go ahead, but don't bump into anything." Xu said.
Chen Duo took a few steps carefully and looked in the light. He saw two large pieces of wood in the center. Their diameters were as thick as two people could hug together. However, one piece was placed horizontally and the other was placed vertically, one tall and one short. They were placed side by side and looked dark. A branch had grown out of one of the pieces of wood, but the branch was also black and he couldn't tell whether it was dead or alive.
Chen Duo found it weird, and shone the light next to the two pieces of wood. She saw that in addition to the twelve immortals that Xu had mentioned, there were also many wooden puppets in various postures, stacked together in strange ways. However, the puppets were much smaller, and she had not noticed them piled there before.
When he took a closer look, he immediately blushed. No wonder these puppets had such strange postures. It turned out that they were all postures of men and women stacked on top of each other.
"This must have been done by that damn pervert!" Chen Duo took a few steps back, returned to Xu Lai and said gritting his teeth.
"Did you see it?" Xu Lai asked.
"You must have seen it a long time ago, why didn't you remind me?" Chen Duo said angrily.
I turned around and saw him still fiddling with the wall, so I asked, "What are you doing?"
After a long while, Xu Lai turned around and said, "Landlord, it's your turn to be useful."
Chen Duo was speechless after hearing this. What kind of use is this? He really treated her as a prop!
However, she was somewhat excited when she heard that she could be of use.
"How do we do it?" she asked.
Xu Lai led her around the wood carvings and walked to two pieces of black wood. Chen Duo waved her cell phone and saw a roll of yellow cloth spread on top of the two pieces of wood. There were tiny black characters written on it, so densely packed that it was difficult to see clearly.
"Look, this ink is a bit weird." She noticed that the color of the words was a little wrong, not the normal black ink.
I heard Xu say, "It's normal. It's written like this with human blood."
Chen Duo shuddered when she heard this. She had originally wanted to move closer to take a closer look at what was written on it, but now she didn't dare to do so.
Xu Lai looked around, pointed to an empty space, and said, "Landlord, come over here."
Chen Duo said "oh" and walked over to stand there: "And then what?"
"Look at those dolls. Pick any pose and imitate it. It'll work." Xu Lai pointed to the men and women stacked together.
"Stop messing around!" Chen Duo's face immediately turned red. If this wasn't the wrong place, she would have wanted to kick him.
"I'm not kidding. I'm serious." Chen Duo was feeling annoyed when she heard what Xu said.
Seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, Chen Duo couldn't help but be skeptical.
"Hurry up, hurry up, it's not like you haven't imitated before." I heard the guy urging.
Chen Duo gritted her teeth. It would have been fine if she didn't mention this. Once she mentioned it, she really wanted to kill someone.
"Why don't you come!" Anyway, it was too embarrassing to demonstrate this kind of thing in front of a man.
"I'm a man, otherwise I wouldn't have to look for you. Hurry up!" the guy continued to urge.
Chen Duo burst into tears. It turned out that the reason she could be useful was because she was a woman.
"I know, I know!" Chen Duo still knew the priorities. This was not the time to be pretentious. She looked at the dolls and prepared to choose a pose.
"Pick a woman, men are useless." Xu Lai reminded.
"Got it!" Chen Duo said angrily.
She picked and chose, but felt that no matter which one she chose, it was very embarrassing, so she finally chose the sitting position. This was the "Purging the Heart and Protecting Life Picture" that Xu Lai had mentioned when they first met, one of the thirteen illustrated pictures of the art of sex.
