1.

"One counts the bumps, the two counts the kun, the three earthquakes and the four Xun numbers are divided; the fifth is the middle palace and the six cadres are, and the seven to the eight Gen and the nine leave the door. ”

Ye Xin walked to the rockery and carefully observed the pattern carved on the rockery wall, and said: "This is due south, which corresponds to 'Nine Purples of the Hexagram'. In the Nine Palaces, according to the law of 'Dai Jiu Zhi Yi', the separation hexagram forms a straight line with the 'Five Yellow in the Middle Palace' and the 'Kan Hexagram Yibai' in the north direction; ”

Hongchen said, "I'll be in charge of the shift." As he spoke, he got up and prepared to go to the door of the mansion located in the north direction, but was stopped by Ye Xin and said: "Don't worry, there is another hexagram in the nine palaces that is connected to the separation hexagram, which is the 'Gen Hexagram Babai' located in the northeast corner." When you move the hexagram, you can adjust the position of the hexagram along the way. ”

Hongchen flew up with light work, crossed the roof of Haoran Xuan, and went to the patio in the front yard to move the position of the hexagram. Lin Xiao looked at Ye Xin, who was concentrating on analyzing the various palace grids, and couldn't help but be a little impressed: "I really didn't expect that the people of the Demon Sect would not be so disgusting when they got serious." ”

Ye Xin glanced at Lin Xiao with his spare eyes: "It's relative to dislike this kind of thing, if you have a request for me now, you will naturally feel that it is more pleasing to look at me." ”

"Eh, I'm really complimenting you this time......"

"Most of you who claim to be righteous are sanctimonious, and who knows what kind of calculation you little thief has in mind. Ye Xin said coldly, "You have time to talk to me about these things here, you might as well go and do some serious things - the 'Seven Red Hexagrams' in the west direction and the 'Kun Hexagram Erhei' in the southwest direction are exactly opposite to the positions of the Gen hexagram and the Kan hexagram that Hongchen is moving now, Kan Jie Kun and Dui Jie Gen, you go and adjust the position of those two groups of hexagrams." ”

Lin Xiao glanced at Ye Xin, and went to the Kun hexagram closest to his location, only to see that an identical rockery was indeed placed in the southwest corner of the courtyard. Lin Xiao circled around it, pressed his hand on the rock mass, the true qi was natural, and the palm power burst out, and he heard a soft sound of "bang", the rockery shook for a while, and a gray and heavy rock fell off from the top, fell to the ground and smashed it.

Lin Xiao reached out to the ground and picked up a small handful of stone powder, put it under his nose and smelled it, and immediately recognized the smell of lime, and couldn't help but sneer: "It seems that this trick is really tried and tested!"

The place where the fake rock fell off revealed a pattern that was exactly the same as before, which should be the Nine Palaces Diagram that Ye Xin said.

Lin Xiao leaned down and slapped a few times on the ground around the bottom of the rockery, feeling that the soil was very loose, but there was something faintly left there below, and when he used internal force to pass through the soil layer, he could feel the force of the shock from below.

Lin Xiao transported the true qi to his hands, and the palms were infused with internal force, and his fingers were claw-shaped, and he grabbed into the layer of soil with force, grabbing a large piece of the loose soil on the surface. I saw that after the soil layer was opened, it was not the rock mass at the bottom of the rockery that I imagined, but a huge bluestone slab.

Lin Xiao thought about it, and slapped it with one palm, and a layer of dust was suddenly shaken off the rockery, and the big bluestone slab shook slightly under the impact of the two percent of Ziyang True Qi, but there was no sign of cracking;

"Okay, it seems that that's it......" Lin Xiao stood up, clapped his hands, dusted off the sand and dust on his hands, and then put his palms on the rockery to push hard. I only heard a loud sound of metal friction and collision coming from the bottom of the big bluestone slab, and the rockery slowly rotated under the impetus of the palm.

After Lin Xiao returned from adjusting the positions of the two hexagrams in the Kun hexagram and the exchange hexagram, Hongchen had already adjusted the Kan hexagram, the Gen hexagram and the "Zhen Hexagram Sanbi" corresponding to the position of the "Kun Hexagram Two Black", and Ye Xin also set out to move the remaining two hexagrams in the southeast and northwest corners, "Xun Hexagram Four Green" and "Qiangua Six White".

"Do you think that Demon Sect girl is reliable?" Hongchen muttered to Lin Xiao with some suspicion.

Lin Xiao looked back at her a little helplessly: "But do we have any other way than to believe in her now?"

Hongchen frowned and said: "You want to say that she is a spy sent by the Demon Sect to plant among us, she shows that she hates us deeply, and she doesn't want to hide her meaning at all, but to say that she has no mind at all, I'm afraid that if she does the opposite, won't we suffer a big loss then!"

Lin Xiao sighed: "Don't think about it yet, I estimate that she is about to finish adjusting the rest of the hexagrams, let's not think about these haves and haves, let's go to Haoran Xuan to have a look, and verify whether the mysterious Luo Shu Nine Palaces she said are true." ”

When Lin Xiao and Hongchen walked to Haoran Xuan together, Ye Xin was already waiting in that place, and she still had that cold expression on her face, which made people unable to see joy and anger, and also made Lin Xiao and the others not know if her judgment about the entrance to the secret room was correct.

Lin Xiao spread his hands: "Your expression makes it difficult for me to convince you about ......"

Ye Xin looked at him coldly, and before he could finish his words, he said calmly: "The secret passage has opened." ”

“...... Topics of cooperation...... What are you talking about?!" Lin Xiao subconsciously made up for what he hadn't finished just now, but then he was choked by Ye Xin's words, and he couldn't react at once, just staring at him in a daze.

Hongchen touched his elbow: "Look at the hall." ”

Lin Xiao stretched out his hand and took out an open flame talisman from his body, and with a wave of his hand, a blue fire light lit up, illuminating the hall of Haoran Xuan. I saw that the floor of the hall was painted with a pattern that was even more complex than the one carved on the rockery rock, which looked more like the astrological charts that those people in the Heavenly Machine Pavilion of the Ziyang Divine Sect often fiddled with.

Lin Xiao touched his chin, and through the firelight of the talisman, he could clearly see the star palace points on the pattern and several interconnected real dotted lines, and couldn't help muttering: "This looks like a star map, I had let Ling Ying come with me if I knew it, and he usually followed his father to fiddle with these." ”

Ye Xin said: "This is the sum of all the patterns on the eight rockeries that represent the gossip, and all the hexagram variables add up to a total of eight eight sixty-four hexagrams, which is the eight trigrams of King Wen who continued to deduce from the Qishan Ji family in the Fuxi innate gossip." ”

Hongchen didn't know this, and was confused: "So what?"

"So what I said is right - whether it is Fuxi's innate gossip or King Wen's gossip of the day after tomorrow, these eight eight and sixty-four hexagrams are all deduced from the number of nine palaces in the Hetuluo book. Ye Xin said, "The rockery blocks distributed in the eight corners symbolize the eight hexagrams of Qian, Kun, Kan, Li, Dui, Xun, Gen and Zhen, which revolve around the position of the middle palace to carry out the operation of the Zhou Tian, and this place is the intersection of the eight hexagrams. ”

As Ye Xin spoke, he walked into Haoran Xuan, stood two or three steps in front of the star map, formed a talisman with one hand, and slapped it the ground.

The originally dark star map on the ground suddenly lit up, and the stars emitted an incandescent light, illuminating the originally dark mansion as if it were day.

Lin Xiao and the three of them couldn't help but stretch out their hands in unison to block their eyes, and the light of the star map on the ground shone on the roof, really like stars in the sky, twinkling little by little. There was only a sound of whirling, and the ground occupied by the star map suddenly sank downward, then split in half and flipped downward, revealing a dark passage that led to the ground. Under the illumination of the open flame charm, you can see the dust flying up with the air pouring in, and a foul air blows towards your face.

Ye Xin turned around, patted Lin Xiao on the shoulder, and said lightly in a voice that made people unable to hear emotions: "Happy cooperation!"

2.

The secret passage has been buried for a long time, and the air inside is turbid, and it is unknown whether it contains any poisonous gas. The three of them had to stay at the entrance of the cave for the time being, waiting for the turbidity inside to slowly dissipate by itself.

"Tsk!" The flame talisman in Lin Xiao's hand had been extinguished, and the starlight emitted on the astrological map in the hall had also disappeared, and at this time, standing at the entrance and looking at the dark secret passage, he felt like he was staring at an impenetrable abyss.

"Do you think there's something wrong with that...... Lin Xiao said suddenly.

Hongchen glanced at him from the corner of his eye: "Yes." ”

Lin Xiao turned his head, and his expression was like meeting a bosom friend: "Do you also see what is wrong?"

Hongchen rolled his eyes: "Well, it's obvious - your suspicion is committed again!"

Lin Xiao was speechless for a moment before he said, "Are you serious?"

"I should have asked you this sentence, right?!" Hongchen asked rhetorically, "The passages are really in front of you, what else can be the problem? This entrance mechanism is not like the magic circle that can superimpose the technique of 'chain buckle' - there are real entrances hidden in several fake entrances, and the Wuji family is just building a secret passage, not building an ancient tomb, why do such a thankless thing?!"

Ye Xin, who had been silent, suddenly spoke: "It's too obvious." ”

Hongchen said blankly: "What do you mean?"

Lin Xiao said with black lines on his head: "Even you hurt me?!"

Ye Xin glanced up at him: "I'm not hurting you." Do you also think that this secret passage is a bit ...... here? It's too conspicuous. ”

"The mechanism that seals the secret passage is processed using the layout principle of the Nine Palaces of Luoshu, how can it be obvious?" Hongchen smacked her tongue, and now when she thought of the hexagram patterns of those Nine Palaces Gossip, she instinctively felt a burst of scalp tingling.

That's not what she meant. Lin Xiao said, "The entrance to this secret room is indeed well hidden, but the problem is ...... The process of opening this entrance is inevitably too eye-catching, right-like this, it is moving the rockery to adjust the hexagram, urging the door to open the door, and the star map is shining, unless all the people of the Innocent Family have lost all five senses, otherwise when Hua Feng opened this secret room and hid in, who would not notice it?!"

Hongchen frowned and said, "In this way, it does make some sense. But if Hua Feng hadn't been hiding here at the beginning, where could he hide to ensure that he could avoid the slaughter of the people in the Demon Sect?"

"Maybe he didn't avoid it completely, or the map wouldn't have been torn in half. Lin Xiao said.

Ye Xin said: "The cover made of lime on the rockery is obviously to prevent the pursuers from the Divine Sect from looking for clues and discovering the secret passage, and there is no trace of being touched before this, which means that if Hua Feng hides in this secret room, he will never be discovered by the pursuers again." As for why the map was damaged, either Hua Feng had been robbed and killed before he hid in, or what happened to him on the way to Nanyuan Ningcheng after he escaped, we don't know. ”

Lin Xiao waved his hand and lit an open flame talisman again, and said, "I see that this turbidity has almost dissipated; ”

A stream of red light flowed out of Hongchen's body, and he re-transformed into the spirit sword body, flying in the air, flying around Lin Xiao to protect him. Ye Xin also pulled out the ruthless blade in his hand, followed Lin Xiao and walked into the secret passage with him.

The staircase leading to the underground is covered with a thick layer of dust that has settled due to the silence for a long time, and when you step on it, there is a faint feeling of softness, coupled with the surrounding dark environment, giving people a very unreal sense of vanity.

Lin Xiao waved his hand to sweep away the dust raised by the footsteps, and at the same time raised the open flame talisman in his hand, and took a look around the passage with the blue firelight. There was nothing fancy about the stairway leading to the ground, and even the walls were gritty to the touch. If it weren't for the mechanism of the "Vena Nine Palaces" at the door that supported the whole scene, it would almost make people think that this was just a simple basement dug up by a big family.

Descend the stairs and the view suddenly becomes wider. At the end of the stairs was an open space, about the size of a room, and it looked like a small underground space. At the top of this space are dozens of glittering orbs, even though they have been covered with a layer of gray dust for decades, they still shimmer brightly, illuminating the space beneath the ground.

Lin Xiao was slightly surprised: "This is ...... The pearl of the night?!"

Ye Xin jumped up, flew up lightly, stretched out his hand and picked a pearl on the roof, and said: "There are only a handful of night pearls in the whole world, even if it is the mansion of princes and generals, it is impossible to take out such a large number of night pearls to light up a basement that never sees light; ”

"That's weird, the Innocent Family is just an ordinary Xianmen family in Lanzhou City, where can there be such a big hand?" Lin Xiao said as he took the pearl in Ye Xin's hand, and held it in his hand and rubbed it briefly for a while: "But the texture of this bead is not as warm and delicate as that of jewelry, and the color is also a little duller, it shouldn't be a night pearl." ”

Ye Xin said: "This should be the fish eye stone, its name comes from the allusion of 'fish eye mixed pearl', because there is no obvious difference from the night pearl in appearance, so it is often used in the ghost market as a night pearl for trading." ”

Lin Xiao said with a smile: "I have long known that the transactions in the ghost market must be fraudulent, but I didn't expect that things like the Night Pearl would also be imitated, and the Innocent Family actually used these things to decorate, isn't it miserable!"

Ye Xin still said coldly with an expressionless face: "If it's just for lighting, then there is not much difference between the fish eye stone and the night pearl, and the former can save a lot of expenses." Anyone with a little business acumen would not spend that unjust money to decorate an underground secret room with a night pearl - after all, it can't be displayed in a place where anyone can see it. ”

The open flame talisman burned out at this time, and the fish eye stone above the heads of the two of them became brighter and brighter. Through those white glittering lights, Lin Xiao and Ye Xin's eyes looked at a bronze door at the other end of this area.

Lin Xiao stepped forward and lightly buckled the door, and heard that the voice was very dull, but after the strength penetrated, there was a faint echo, and he turned back to Ye Xin and said, "It seems that the real secret room of the Innocent Family is hidden behind this bronze door." ”

Ye Xin also walked to the door, carefully studying the several patterns carved on the bronze door—there were several animals carved on it, neatly arranged in a circle around the lock in the center of the bronze door.

"These patterns, it seems that they can be pressed ......" Lin Xiao stretched out his hand and touched the pattern gently.

"Don't move!" Ye Xin suddenly said sharply, so frightened that Lin Xiao's hands almost trembled and pressed down. "Only one of these patterns should be correct, and if you press it wrong, it will trigger the trap. It's so big underground, if we encounter any traps like crossbows, quicksand, or dragon stones, we'll have to die!"

Lin retracted his hand in a daze, and also carefully looked at the animals carved on the door: "Zi Mouse, Yin Tiger, Mao Rabbit, Si Snake, Wu Ma, Wei Yang, Chicken, and Dog...... Is this the zodiac? But why are there four missing?"

Rao is Ye Xin's heart is like water, and at this time, he can't help but hold his forehead with his hand, and his tone is full of helplessness: "No, come back!"

"What else?"

"Each animal represents a hexagram. Ye Xin said in a very reluctant tone, "This is gossip!"

Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment, and the next moment he couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth: "Fuck! Can't the people of the Innocent Family get tired of playing the same trick?!"

"But fortunately, this mechanism is much easier to crack than the 'Vena Nine Palaces' at the entrance. Ye Xin said, "But there is one thing I just said wrong-that is, the mechanism on this bronze door should be pressed by two instead of one, because only when two hexagrams are pieced together can a living gate be formed." ”

Lin Xiao asked, "Then can you tell it's those two?"

Ye Xin said: "The dog and the horse." ”

"Are you sure you must and for sure?"

Ye Xin nodded and said: "The dog corresponds to the Qiangua, and the Wuma corresponds to the Ligua." Therefore, the encounter between dogs and horses is 'dry and separated', and the upper and lower parts are separated, which can be seen as the birth gate. Yubi stretched out his hand and pressed the pattern of the dog and the afternoon horse at the same time.

At the moment when Ye Xin pressed down, he only heard the sound of a mechanism rotating inside the bronze door, and there was a crisp sound from the closing place in the central position, and then the keyhole opened, and the copper door separated from it and slowly opened.

At the same time, a fishy rancid smell came to my face......

【To be continued】