CH 345

"Gao Zhijian, what are you talking about? Are you sure you're not reading it wrong?" Chun Xiaoman looked at the brown book in the other's hand with a puzzled expression.

The content that came out of the other's mouth was all mixed up, she couldn't understand what was being said. What was meant by no life or death, and something growing out of the dantian? How could one's own son climb out of their own corpse, was that still human?

A strange thought popped into Xiaoman's mind. "Could the person who wrote this book be a lunatic like Senior Brother Li?"

Feeling doubted by her companion, Gao Zhijian put his hands in his pockets and silently continued walking along the wall. "Hmph..."

Xiaoman was about to pull Bai Lingmiao and follow, but as soon as she touched Lingmiao's hand, she felt how cold it was.

"What's wrong? Miao Miao?" Hearing Xiaoman's inquiry, Lingmiao, who had a poor complexion, shook her head and followed Gao Zhijian's back in the distance.

As they walked, they came across another book after a while. This seemed to be a place for books, but the content of this book was even more obscure and difficult to understand than the previous one. It was better not to read it at all.

"Miao Miao, why does your ancestral hall have these strange books?" Xiaoman asked the only living member of the Bai family.

This place didn't seem dangerous, but whether it was the white lotus banner or the content of the previous book, everything felt very strange.

Who would dig such a large space under their ancestral hall and make such a mess of things? Were they not afraid of disturbing their ancestors and being scolded in their dreams?

Lingmiao paused for a moment before answering, seemingly trying to recall something. "I...I don't know. I'm a woman, and I was never allowed to come in for ancestral worship."

Just then, Gao Zhijian stopped again. His tall body stood stiffly there, making the two behind him unsure of what was in front of them.

"Horse." Gao Zhijian spoke without stuttering, a rare occurrence.

Suddenly, Lingmiao let go of Xiaoman's hand and walked up to Gao Zhijian, looking up at the ceramic horse head that was even larger than her own body.

The horse head was lifelike, as if it were real. The two eyes of the horse were staring straight ahead, making anyone standing in front of it feel immense pressure.

Lingmiao walked under the horse's body and touched the smooth and hard horse body with her hand. A hint of confusion appeared in her eyes. This feeling was so familiar.

"This ceramic horse is really big. It must take a huge furnace to burn it." Gouwa exclaimed."Uh?!" Chun Xiaoman turned her head in surprise to the sudden appearance of Gouwa. "When did you come?"

"Why can't I come? I thought you guys were hiding the spoils from me, seeing everyone running over here," Gouwa circled around the ceramic horse.

"Bai Shimei, was your family in the business of selling ceramics? Selling such a big horse should fetch at least twenty or thirty taels of silver, right?"

As he spoke and turned around, he bumped into a figure in the darkness, causing him to shiver in fear.

When he looked at the figure, it was just a ceramic person without a head or arms, and he cursed and kicked it.

"I've been here before," Bai Lingmiao's voice attracted everyone's attention to her.

Bai Lingmiao stared at the tall ceramic horse, trying to recall those very vague memories. "My grandfather brought this here when I was very young."

"I cried that day and wanted to ride a horse, but my grandfather said it was too dangerous to ride a real horse, so he brought me here to ride this ceramic horse. That day...I had a lot of fun."

As she spoke, Bai Lingmiao's brow furrowed. "I seem to remember...this horse flew up and took me to a painting where it was lively, with many adults and children playing with me! Yes! There's a painting here!"

Remembering something, Bai Lingmiao quickly turned and ran towards the darkness, and the others were shocked and followed.

After walking a few steps, they saw Bai Lingmiao stop in front of a wall. There was a painting on the wall, but it was full of pure white lotus flowers blooming on a black water surface, and there were not many people as she had said before.

"Where...where is this place?" At this moment, Bai Lingmiao remembered that Li Shixiong seemed to have said something to her before, as if the Bai family had done something bad.

But she was completely overwhelmed by the huge despair of her entire family's death before, and her emotions almost collapsed, so she didn't pay attention to these things at all.

"No, it's impossible. My grandfather...my father and mother..." Bai Lingmiao remembered the perfect image of her family in her heart, her face showing a hint of hesitation.

"Look, that little lotus flower on the wall is actually a lamp," Gouwa took out a firebox and lit it up.

As each white lotus flower gradually lit up, everything around them gradually became brighter, and the entire underground hall gradually appeared in front of them.The first thing that caught their attention was a huge mural at the front of the hall, accompanied by an incense burner in front of it, proving the importance of the mural in the original owner's heart.

The mural depicted six lifelike galloping black horses, each holding a blooming white lotus flower above them. Surprisingly, there was nothing on the lotus flowers.

The background color of the mural was bright yellow, but above the lotus flowers, a twisted area was very strangely devoid of any color, directly exposing the uneven mud wall, making it particularly abrupt.

After looking at the inexplicable mural, they began to look around the entire hall.

The hall was rectangular in shape, with a height of two zhangs. It was connected in all directions, and there were many openings around it leading to unknown places.

It seemed that there was another underground village beneath the entire Niu Xin Village.

Various exquisite patterns were painted on the top of the walls, most of which were dominated by white lotuses and contrasted with dark black at the bottom.

Paired with the three huge ceramic black horses in the center of the hall and the hundreds of unfinished ceramic figures around, this scene made Gou Wa's jaw drop in amazement. "Wow, this must be as grand as the emperor's palace, right?"

Seeing that there was no danger around, Gao Zhijian put down the wolf-tooth club in his hand and scratched his head, looking puzzled at Bai Lingmiao beside him.

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"Miáo Miáo? What's wrong? You look so pale. Are you feeling uncomfortable? Do you want to go back up first?" Chun Xiaoman softly asked, supporting Bai Lingmiao.

Bai Lingmiao shook her head gently, pushing Xiaoman away, and looked around with a complicated expression, searching for the faint memories in her mind.

As Bai Lingmiao was thinking, she saw a blurry figure of a child among the ceramic figures around her.

The child was wearing a tiger head hat, tiger head shoes, and a cotton-padded jacket, with big pink eyes that were very cute.

"Da... Big Ah Da~!"

The child stumbled forward, and just as she was about to fall, she lunged into the arms of a smiling old man.

"Ah~ Good girl~ Do you like grandpa?"