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He had already reached the end of the path, which was an incomparably large oval dome. After estimating the size of the hall, Lin Bai was speechless, the Parthenon underground would have probably hollowed out the entirety of the Olympus Mountain.

In the center of the hall, there was an incomparably large sculpture of the gods. Surrounded by the gods, the goddess of wisdom, Ya Dianna, was standing there with golden armor and a gigantic shield in her hands. Looking at these incomparably large gods, Lin Bai couldn't help but feel a kind of reverence for them.

However, this reverence was not directed towards the gods in the hall. It was already the last breath of the gods, so what was there to revere about a godly temple that did not have any divine will enveloping it? What he was in awe of was the skillful craftsmen who had built this shrine back then. They must have expended a lot of effort to build a sculpture of such a large scale in the mountain!

"This is the Parthenon!" Minerva turned his head to look at Lin Bai, and said with a little pride in his voice.

This godly temple's structure was no different from the Parthenon's on the surface. The only difference was that this godly temple had avoided the gunfire of war and the theft of the crazy tombs robbers from Europe. It was still preserved perfectly, just like how it was back then, with every sculpture shining with a dazzling light.

Lin Bai followed Minerva up the flight of steps to the center of the temple. In the center of the temple was a snow white marble, on it stood the statue of the Ya Dianna, it was around 12 meters tall. The statue was made of wood, with gold and ivory as its surface, gold as its garment, and ivory as its skin.

Ya Dianna wore a helmet on his head, looked valiant and formidable, with his right leg upright and his left knee slightly bent, he had a dignified and elegant posture. There were three small statues on top of the helmet, the Sphinx in the middle, Griffin on both sides with the lion's head and the snake-haired banshee Gorgon on the chest. She held the goddess of victory in one hand and the shield at her feet in the other.

Not only was the shield coiled around the serpent that had killed the priest Laocoon, but it was also carved with scenes of the Greeks fighting the Amalek. The shields were also engraved with the statues of the sculptor Phidias himself and the Athens Consul Pericles. The two of them were currently throwing weapons at the enemy.

"According to the historical records, the Ya Dianna statue was already destroyed by the fire of the Byzantine Empire. Why would it appear here?" Lin Bai softly asked Minerva in astonishment.

Minerva knelt in front of the Ya Dianna Goddess, placed both hands on his chest and said in a deep voice, "Mr. Lin, you should know that the things recorded in history are not necessarily correct. Goddess Ya Dianna is a symbol of the Athens, even if all of us from the godly temple were to die, he would not be destroyed, the glory of the gods cannot be blasphemed, the Byzantine people would just destroy a replica! "

"Stop fooling around with me, what exactly did you bring me here to talk about?" Lin Bai turned his head to look at Minerva and said softly, "Minerva, I hope that you won't use your Prophet's name to fool me like you did with those people in the temple. What is most difficult to grasp in this world is the change in fate. Even though you are a prophet, you are still unable to change the fact that your godly temple has been destroyed! "

"You're right. The Prophet can indeed foresee the future, but he cannot change it. Even if I foresee danger for myself, I do not have the power to stop it. "This is because changing the future is something that only the gods can do. If I force myself to do so, what awaits me is the punishment from the gods!" Minerva looked up at the Ya Dianna Divine Statue and sighed.

Lin Bai was confused by the woman, and frowned: "So what exactly do you want to tell me, I hope that you won't lie to me, and that you'll have to tell me the truth!"

"I did foresee something. In my eyes, the flames of war will soon engulf the entire continent, and the darkness will cover the entire world from the Vatican position. However, I can sense that an Oriental dragon has revealed its true form. After I saw you, I knew that you would be the only one who could change the situation in Europe! "

Hearing Minerva's words, Lin Bai massaged his temples with a headache. The things Minerva said were simply too general, and it made him feel a little troubled.

"That's all I can see, but there's one more thing I want you to help me with. I don't know if it will be difficult." Minerva spoke rather shyly, his incomparably calm face revealing a trace of red.

Lin Bai frowned and asked: "What is it?"

"I want you to help me unravel Athens and even the entirety of Greece. I also want you to help me find out what is suppressing this Parthenon!" Minerva bit her lips.

Even a priestess like Minerva, who seemed to be an otherworldly person, was actually filled with curiosity towards the object suppressed by the Athens Divine Palace. After meeting Lin Bai who had profound techniques, he hoped that Lin Bai could help her remove the long-awaited seals on Greece, allowing the glory of the gods to protect this land once again!

Seeing that Lin Bai's brows were tightly knitted, and did not answer his own words, Minerva said hesitantly, "Mister Lin, do you have any difficulties? If there are, then just pretend that this little girl has never said such a thing!"

"That's not it," Lin Bai shook his head and chuckled, "In fact, I'm more interested in the matter of Parthenon suppressing the Athens's Dragon Veins. I'll try my best and see if I can solve the mysteries within."

"Thank you! No matter what the final outcome will be, the worshipers of the Parthenon and gods will always remember your name and be grateful to you! " Hearing Lin Bai's words, Minerva's face revealed an indescribably grateful expression, and said.

In the Parthenon, there was a mysterious place. Even the female Priests of every generation would pass it through their mouths, it was a place that was absolutely inaccessible. This place could be said to be the Pandora's Box that had been pressed down on the heads of all the female priests in the Athens's temple. Everyone wanted to unravel the secret within, but no matter which generation of priests they were, they would not be able to face the tyrannical aura of this mysterious place.

"This is the mysterious place!" Minerva took Lin Bai to the left and right of the shrine, after circling around for a while, they arrived at the place behind the female god statue of Ya Dianna, pointed at a cave on the ground that was unfathomably dark, and said softly.

As long as it was built in the middle of the mountain, because the air was not circulating, the temperature would tend to be much warmer than outside. However, the surroundings of this hole were incomparably bone-chilling cold. Moreover, not even a single blade of grass grew on the ground around the hole. There were even some places with snow-white ice crystals on the surface, which was completely different from the weather outside.

Minerva looked at the cave with some reverence: "This is a forbidden place to our past Priests, from the moment I was born, someone told me to not enter, and when I grew up, after I read the books in the temple, I discovered that there was a priest who entered the cave, but in the end, he did not come out. According to the records in the book, this is a punishment given for disrespecting the gods!"

"If that's the case, then why did you still want me to come here?" While walking around the hole, Lin Bai looked at Minerva and chuckled, "Could it be that you plan on bringing me down here, and then sit here and watch the chaos in Europe, and take this opportunity to revive the Athens?"

"If only I had the ability to subdue you!" Minerva smiled bashfully, her originally beautiful face was so beautiful that it could not be described with words, even a person with a strong mind like Lin Bai couldn't help but feel confused!

After he recovered his senses for a while, Lin Bai formed a seal with his hand, slowly opened his Heaven's Eye, and looked into the hole, this time taking a few steps back, wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, Lin Bai muttered: "My mother, this place is actually land of extreme yin! No wonder your ancestors didn't want us to come in, whoever enters the land of extreme yin will die! "

It turned out that with just a single glance from Lin Bai, he could already see the soaring baleful energy, and the Baleful Yin Force seeping out of the hole was already extremely thick and black, to the point that it seemed as if it was about to solidify!

When she heard these words, Minerva couldn't help but be apprehensive. Although she didn't know what 'land of extreme yin' meant, but looking at Lin Bai's expression, she could guess that it definitely wasn't a good place. If he left such a dangerous thing in the Parthenon, what face would he have to face the Gods if something bad happened?

After observing for a while, Lin Bai said with an extremely serious expression: "I was wondering how your temple worked. It turns out you want to suppress the evil aura that was stolen from this land of extreme yin. It was fortunate that the people of the were strict with their mouths, and the temple in the middle of the mountain was not destroyed, otherwise the people of Athens would not even be able to live! "

"What?" Minerva looked at Lin Bai. After a while of trembling, he softly asked Lin Bai, "Mister Lin, do you have any way to eliminate or suppress this place?"

"Suppression is definitely not an option!" Lin Bai shook his head, and said: "The Evil Yin Qi in the land of extreme yin has already begun to show signs, originally we can only rely on the two layers of the temple, but now the one above has been destroyed, if you still want to suppress it, then you can only return to the Parthenon at the top of the mountain!"

Minerva looked at Lin Bai with incomparable shock. She never thought that the situation would become this serious, nor did she expect that the problem that had surrounded the Athens Divine Palace for so many years would be resolved so easily by the man in front of her!