Compared with Yiyan, Yun Shi didn't seem to be surprised, at this time they were almost done walking through the crack in the wall, and then Yun Shi pushed away the last bit of stone wall that blocked the way, and came to an empty underground passage before turning to Yiyan and saying, "Are you talking about the inheritance of mothers and babies?" ”

"I also thought that the Holy Maiden Inheritance of the Old Holy See was a way to pass on power through blood, but I reversed this idea by combining the frescoes of several ancient tombs." Yiyan took a step out of the crack in the wall and danced excitedly towards Yun Shi, "What they inherit is not blood, but a kind of power, and it can even be said to be a soul!" ”

"How?" Yun Shi asked lightly, asked Yiyan for a torch, and began to observe the direction of the leylines of this tunnel without wasting any time, and then continued to walk slowly along the tunnel.

"I have encountered the graves of several generations of saints," Yiyan said as he walked as he walked behind Yun Shi, "The image of each generation of saints is that of a pregnant woman, and the body of each generation of saints is also the appearance of a broken belly and childbirth. At first I thought it was a cruel ritual of the old Church, but then I found in the funerary goods some leather manuscripts that had not yet decayed, with some older fonts on them, which I probably recognized, and on which were written the birth of the Holy Woman, her parents, her brothers, etc...... If the saint is passed down through blood, how can there be any parents and brothers? ”

"And how do you explain their pregnancy, and caesarean section?" Yun Shi was in a serious hurry, and asked without looking back.

"I don't know if you have seen the mural that tells the inheritance ceremony of the Holy Maiden, it should be found in every Holy Maiden Ancient Tomb." "There must have been a goddess on it, and two women in white were depicted, and then the older woman was holding a ball of light, and she was passing this ball of light to another young woman, and below the three women's statues, surrounded by a group of singing and dancing warriors." ”

"I've seen it," Yun Shi thought as she walked, since Yiyan said so, then it was leading her to another guess, her expression finally changed, and a serious look appeared, "You mean, that ball of light is the power inherited by the saints of the past generations, and they are not pregnant with the next generation of saints, but this ball of light." Before each generation of saints die, this ball of light must be cut out of the stomach and then passed on to the next generation of saints. ”

"Yes, that's what I thought!" Yiyan said excitedly, "It's just that this way is ridiculous! And I found some manuscripts of the priests, from which it can be assumed that the young priestesses were candidates for the Holy Maiden, but not all of them were rejoicing in it, and although I did not recognize the entire text, I could probably feel a kind of fear in the words.

This makes it even more strange why becoming a saint on high makes them feel terrified. ”

Yun Shi finally stopped, she closed her eyes, gently pressed her hand on her forehead, thinking about the clues that Yiyan had given just now, and stood here silently. Yiyan knew that Yun Shi was thinking, so he stopped talking, and just quietly stood by her side, vigilant like a guard, although there were only two of them in this tunnel, and no sound could be heard.

After being silent for a long time, Yun Shi finally opened her eyes, looked at Yiyan, and said a word: "Because they did not become saints, but only became the carriers of 'saints'." ”

"Carrier?" Yiken doesn't quite understand the meaning of the word.

After figuring out a few things, Yun Shi continued to walk forward, and at the same time explained to Yiyan: "If my guess is correct, the light ball of the mural is the real saintess, or it can be said to be a kind of 'demigod', the fish that slipped through the net in the incident of the human emperor destroying the gods back then. It's just that with the passage of time, the aura between heaven and earth is getting thinner and thinner, and this 'demigod' cannot continue to live, and its body cannot escape the end of decline and corruption. Therefore, it needs to absorb new vitality, and the so-called saint is its new vitality.

If we follow my conjecture, the saints of each generation are chosen among the priests, and these priests meet the two conditions of being 'young' and 'having spiritual talents'. And that ball of light is parasitic on generations of saints through some kind of inheritance ritual. Even to be more daring, those saints were no longer themselves at the moment they were parasitized, but just a walking shell, and her will and thoughts were probably controlled by that ball of light.

Therefore, the so-called inheritance of the saint is just a 'demigod' method of eternal life. ”

Yiyan was completely shocked by Yun Shi's idea, and didn't come back to his senses for a long time, just muttered: "This is crazy, crazy!" ”

"It's not crazy," Yiyan still behaved calmly, "It's like the 'immortality' that the world chases, as long as this goal can be achieved, no matter how strange and weird the method is, it must be used." Even if it's not inheriting their own lives, just inheriting some kind of idea, it's just worth their madness. ”

"No......" Yiyan shook his head slightly, "Although our Yijia has been trying to increase the life limit for generations, we will definitely not take advantage of this method!" ”

"It's just because you want a group to live longer," Yun Shi looked at her lightly, "but as long as one person's desires prevail over the interests of the entire family, everything will be different." Desire is a very wonderful thing, which is not only the weapon of survival of the human race, but also the fatal flaw of the human race. ”

They reached the end of the hallway, where they found it on top of a cliff and in another ravine below. This place is not only the cave where they are, but there are many large and small caves, like entering a beehive.

"Here...... It doesn't feel like it's natural. Yiyan said suspiciously.

"It's like a gladiatorial arena." Yikenhei said calmly.

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In the evening, the sunset falls on the mountains and forests, and the shade of the trees becomes thicker and thicker, and the night is about to replace the day to rule the land, and all the hidden things will be hidden deeper.

A group of people were searching the mountains with torches early in the morning, and it was the strange villagers. Hu Hansan was also in this group of people, his eyes were still bright blue, and he was searching the mountains very hard.

The village chief followed the group with a torch, his eagle-like gaze scanning the surroundings, as if trying to see everywhere he could.

(End of chapter)