Bang!
Zhu Rong brought one foot down, and a cloud of dust immediately billowed through the light.
No one knew how many years it had been since anyone had come here. Luo Yan looked at the ground and saw a thick layer of dust covering it.
Ahead stood a stone door. A relief was carved into it: a headless giant with eyes on its chest, holding an ax and shield in a battle stance.
"Could this be... Xing Tian?"
A description of Xing Tian from the Classic of Mountains and Seas surfaced in Luo Yan's mind.
'Xing Tian fought the Emperor for the position of god. The Emperor severed his head and buried it on Mount Changyang. Xing Tian then used his nipples as eyes and his navel as his mouth, wielding his shield and ax as he danced.'
Jia Miao's voice rang out over the communications channel.
"Xing Tian was a demon god recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which was written by the Ancient People. But the things in Guixu clearly predated the Classic of Mountains and Seas. So the relief on this door can only be said to resemble the Xing Tian described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. We can't say it is Xing Tian."
"Perhaps the Xing Tian in the Classic of Mountains and Seas was fabricated based on this image."
Luo Yan nodded and walked forward.
Jia Miao continued, "However, for an image like this to appear in an Ancient People fortress, it should have some special significance. Perhaps this headless man was a certain heavenly god worshiped by the Ancient People."
Ding He spoke up as well. "This image looks very similar to those 'Big Head Dolls' we discovered. The difference is that those things had limbs growing directly from