57. The Fall of an Ancient Kingdom
“Bam!!!!”
When a massive object rushed towards the entrance with lightning speed, the five guards barely had time to react before they were pinned against the wall by its huge front, unable to move.
Taking advantage of their immobility, Gong Yiling quickly poked her head out of the vehicle and waved at Murong Jing and Murong Yun, then, with Xuan Lingling and Yan Chuyue, she entered the tower’s gate.
It all happened in a flash, incredibly fast.
As Murong Jing passed by the entrance, he glanced at the large, wooden contraption with a bewildered expression, then entered the tower.
As for this large contraption, its name was, of course, a “car.”
Of course, in this world, what this thing was called was still a matter of confusion. After all, its power system, operation method, and mechanical structure were all vastly different. It was just that the final effect was the same.
This thing was something Gong Yiling had accidentally seen on the way to the tower. After seeing it, she deliberately spent some time studying it to see if it was a car—so, the reason she was at the back of the group was because of this thing.
And her research results were satisfactory. Besides its different structure, it could basically be considered a four-wheeled wooden car driven by mechanisms, and its energy source was wind.
Therefore, in her plan to deal with the remaining few guards, she had almost immediately chosen this option.
Create a car accident, pin all these people in one place, and prevent them from making any moves. This way, no one could stop them from going to the tower.
Of course, this wasn’t something she could just do. She had to find a few key moments.
First, to ensure that those people were standing very close together, and second, that they would absolutely not have time to react.
However, these two points could be easily solved with Xuan Lingling.
—Whether it was moving those people’s positions with a small, inconspicuous trick, or deliberately teleporting the car to Murong Jing’s blind spot, but the closest to those people.
After this double insurance, these guards could naturally only suffer this great loss.
And her move actually had a second intention, which was to deliberately make Murong Jing send all his guards away. Now, with only Murong Jing himself left, he couldn’t do anything.
“What was that just now…?”
Even after entering this tower, Murong Jing still wanted to know what that thing that caused all that was.
“You can think of it as a super-advanced version of a carriage.” Gong Yiling shrugged. “I wouldn’t know what it is even if I told you. Instead of caring about this, you should have more important things to find.”
Instead of arguing with this guy about this kind of thing, Miss Gong was more willing to think about the scene just now.
—One of the cavalrymen, due to the most direct impact, was directly hit against the wall, and the helmet on his head accidentally fell off, revealing his true face under the helmet.
This true face was a bit puzzling, but now was not the time to scare people. She still suppressed this appearance in her heart.
As for the other side, since he had said so much, it was naturally self-defeating to ask anything more.
Seeing that Murong Jing had no intention of continuing, Gong Yiling put away her other thoughts and began to observe the interior of this tower.
The interior of the tower was also mainly made of a wooden structure. The walls of the circular hall were engraved with ancient characters and some murals to praise merits, but the style of these things was too ancient, and it was impossible to decipher them.
And in the center of the circular area was a cylindrical closed room. The periphery of the room was a circular upward staircase, which led to the second floor, which was about three stories high.
Well, this cylindrical closed room should be a mechanism room related to mechanisms, connecting and driving the operation of various parts of the entire tower, including that man-made sun, which should also be related to this thing.
However, what surprised Miss Gong was…
Such a high place, such advanced technology.
This place actually didn’t have…
No elevator!
Yes, although electricity was an unrealistic thing in this world, for such a tall tower, there should be a way to go straight up and down.
If they had to climb up, who knew how long it would take.
How about knocking out this Murong Jing and then having Xuan Lingling take them directly up?
“There’s nothing to see on this floor.” Miss Gong suppressed the urge to find a shortcut and said casually to the others, “Let’s go.”
However, after she finished speaking, and everyone was ready to continue upwards, only Murong Yun, facing the characters that no one could understand, said calmly, “The beginning of the universe, the birth of the Dao, the return of heaven and earth. I am the one who will walk the great path, return to the four directions, and suppress the heavenly evil.”
This was…?
Gong Yiling looked at Yan Chuyue, puzzled, and the other party also gave her a stunned expression.
This ancient text had not been passed down, and even if it had, how did Murong Yun know it?
Could it be that… this Death-Severing Pill actually had this effect?
“Yun’er, you can actually read the words on this?” Murong Jing also raised his eyebrows with great surprise. “And what else is recorded?”
Murong Yun seemed not to have heard him at all and showed no reaction, but she did continue to translate these words.
“The body of the heavenly evil is the evil of the human heart. I once led a large army, with my royal sister as the vanguard, and severely wounded the evil of the heavenly evil in the Chongshan Mountains. However, the power of the heavenly evil is strange and unpredictable. Even if I control this land of ten thousand miles, I am helpless against its means. I can only watch as everything I cherish turns into the thing of the heavenly evil.”
What did this mean?
It seemed that everything was as Yan Chuyue had said. That emperor, after taking control of the entire land, had really launched an attack on some deus ex machina-like existence, but in the end, he failed.
It was because of this that this invincible great country suddenly collapsed, and no records were left for future generations, only some unproven legends.
But… this was not right. Could it be that the heavenly evil recorded was the Heavenly Sin, which had caused people to split into hundreds of spiritual bodies to control others’ minds, and then took the opportunity to counterattack and establish a group also called the Heavenly Sin?
But in that case, the story of the birth of the Heavenly Sin was different from this.
What was going on?
