City Primordial Witch King

Chapter 288 New Discovery of the Funeral Picture

Although he has been here once, Wei Xiao actually didn't have time to carefully examine the contents of the petroglyphs. Many of them were just glanced at and then skipped in a hurry, and he couldn't understand the meaning contained in them at all.

But this time, he finally had a lot of free time to study seriously.

Coming under the rock wall, Wei Xiao first opened his supernatural powers, and then scanned the entire petroglyph area, imprinting all the petroglyphs in his mind, and had a preliminary impression.

He has the heritage of the Wu family, and he can understand a lot of Wu scripts. The text parts in all the rock paintings are not difficult for him at all. Basically, he can understand the meaning after a little thought.

Only the graphics part is a bit difficult. After all, many places need to be understood in conjunction with the environment, society, beliefs, etc. at that time. It is impossible to know the meaning at a glance.

Wei Xiao surveyed the entire petroglyph area, and spent about an hour and a half before finally sorting out the context and roughly understanding the content of the petroglyphs.

If you want to understand petroglyphs, there are several major problems that cannot be avoided.

First of all, what is the content conveyed by the rock paintings?Whether you want to celebrate a victory, record sacrificial scenes, pray for good weather and social prosperity, or depict life scenes for future generations to watch.

The second question is: how were these images painted on this towering and steep rock wall thousands of years ago when the level of productivity was underdeveloped?Did they climb up from the bottom up, or fell from the rope from the top down, or built a big shelf and stood on the shelf to draw.

The third question: Why do they risk their lives to paint?What is the purpose and significance?

Painting on such a steep and vertical rock wall is obviously dangerous. What made these people risk their lives to complete such a magnificent and huge rock painting?
The last question is: Huashan rock paintings have a history of more than 2000 years, why are the colors still so bright today?What kind of paint did the ancients use?
Professor Yao and the others didn't know anything about the previous questions, so they could only guess at one or two scenes and try to understand one or two.But for the last question, they have many ways, especially since modern science is very developed, there are many ways to identify pigments, and the result can be easily known.

At that time, the reason why Professor Yao had to climb the rock wall himself was to take some paint back for identification, so as to confirm the approximate age of these rock paintings.

These questions were difficult for Professor Yao and others to understand, but in Wei Xiao's opinion, it only took an hour and a half to roughly understand what they meant.

First of all, there is no doubt that the author of this rock painting is a member of the Wu clan, and not just one or two people, but the whole clan, men, women and children. Almost everyone has participated in it, so the whole rock painting is rich and varied. It's jagged and looks a bit chaotic.

Thousands of years ago, this valley was a settlement of the Wu people, so the petroglyphs recorded the life scenes of the Wu people, including dances, sacrifices, funerals, eating, and fighting, which are colorful and diverse.

As for how to draw it, it is actually very simple.Every member of the Wu tribe is a practitioner. There are no ordinary people in the Wu tribe. These steep rock walls and a height of more than 40 meters are not a problem for the Wu tribe. They can go up and paint on them There is no difficulty at all.

Since there is no difficulty, there is no such thing as risking one's life.

As for the significance of recording these scenes, it may be that Wei Xiao did not understand it well enough and did not see it directly from the rock paintings.

He speculated that it might be for the sake of passing on to future generations, or just because of a hobby, people here like this way of painting, so everyone drew a few strokes on the rock wall.

Of course, the most likely guess is that after a certain great witch painted petroglyphs on the rock wall, later generations rushed to imitate them and left paintings on them, so there is such a large area.

This guess came to Wei Xiao after he saw one of the paintings, and that painting was a funeral picture that Professor Yao and the others had studied for two days.

After studying the petroglyphs as a whole, Wei Xiao discovered that this funeral picture is not simple!
Especially the "Fire Characters" among them. In addition to one in the funeral picture, he also found eight others in other places, but the other eight were drowned by other messy rock paintings and hidden in the corners. It's not conspicuous at all. If he didn't have supernatural powers and knew the word "fire", he wouldn't have noticed it at all.

Eight fire characters, combined with those in the funeral picture, exactly nine.

"Nine" also means an extreme number in the culture of the Wu clan, which means infinite.

The nine fire characters faintly form a specific combination, which is very similar to a certain formation. When Wei Xiao saw this, his scalp immediately went numb, and he had a vague premonition of something very important.

Just when he wanted to continue his in-depth research, a sudden pain in his head interrupted his thoughts immediately, making him unable to think any further, his memory was blank, and he didn't know anything except the severe pain.

"Hiss..." Wei Xiao took a deep breath and pinched his swollen head, feeling extremely painful.

He had thought of something just now, but suddenly there was a force that stopped him, not giving him a chance to think. Obviously he was afraid that problems would arise if he continued to think about it, and the power that stopped him came from his mind. "Witch Code"!
"Could it be that the Witchcraft suddenly appeared to stop me from thinking about it in order to protect me?" Wei Xiao couldn't help but wonder.

But this idea is too taken for granted. If it is for protection, why should it be protected?Is it possible that if you continue to think about it, you will find a big problem?Or will you indulge in it and destroy yourself?
Or something else bad?
If it wasn't for protection, then what was the reason that made "Witch Code" appear to judge himself and suddenly shot to stop him?
There were so many unknowns here that Wei Xiao had no clue for a while and could only simply think about it and give it up.

Since I got the "Witch Book", there are too many unsolved mysteries in it, and there is no way to explain it from a modern point of view. Many things that seem unreasonable now are normal in the "Witch Book".

But the secret that could be stopped by the "Witch Code" was definitely not an ordinary secret. The more this happened, the more curious Wei Xiao became, and he even felt itchy in his heart, wishing to know immediately.

Wei Xiao did not give up on this plan, but continued to observe the rock paintings.

He found that the petroglyphs in this area were indeed as guessed before. The first painting painted on the rock wall was a funeral picture, and the rest were painted behind it, so to speak.

The funeral picture was made by a great shaman, and the nine fire characters were also part of it.

(End of this chapter)