Chapter 381: Eight Formations
Zhao Dong took Lin Haozang with him, and explained: "The Zhao family compound was built by my grandfather, and it has a history of more than 100 years now.
Lin Hao smiled and said, noncommittal, and asked seemingly casually: "Where is the stone lion in front of the courtyard gate?"
When Zhao Dong heard this, he was proud: "That's a must, I heard my old man say that when it was built, you could hire a craftsman who built the palace to carve it!"
Lin Hao suddenly realized, "I see!"
Of course, the interior of the Zhao family's compound is indeed built beautifully, with mountains in the southeast and water in the northwest, surrounded by high walls and deep houses, surrounded by curved corridors. With the central pond as the center, the mountains are stacked to build houses, flowers and trees are transplanted, and bridges are set up to set up pavilions, so that the layout of the whole yard is compact, and it is rich in the artistic conception of "close to the mountains and forests".
Such a layout is completely in line with Feng Shui, and not only that, but the entire compound is also in line with the meaning of Xuanmen gossip.
It turned out to be the case, after some observation, he finally found out that there was really a defensive formation in the Zhao family's compound, and it was also the famous Eight Picture Array.
A formation created by Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms. Legend has it that when Zhuge Kongming resisted the enemy, he piled up stones into a stone formation, and was divided into eight doors according to Dunjia: rest, life, injury, Du, Jing, death, shock, and opening, and there were ten thousand changes, and he could be a hundred thousand elite soldiers.
Since the beginning of the Three Kingdoms, this formation has become very rare, and there are not many people who are proficient in it, of course, there are not many people who can form formations in this world, but in the Ming Dynasty, this kind of formation has appeared, and it is also famous all over the world, that is, Taihu Villa. At that time, the owner of Taihu Mountain Villa, Zhongyuanhua, used this formation to train eight people to stand on the position of the eight gates, and when attacking the enemy, they advanced and retreated freely, coming and going like a tide, which was extremely strange and powerful, and used this formation to trap the eight masters of the eight great talents in the inner hall.
Another example is the rockery trees of Ren Tianwu's house, which are arranged according to the ancient method of the Eight Formations, and ordinary people will definitely not be able to go out if they are not familiar with this array.
These things are all hearsay and nonsense, but it is these things that are spread falsely that make the formation even more mysterious and powerful in the cultivation realm.
Lin Hao himself is not proficient in the formation, but he practices the Taoist exercises, which can be regarded as the same lineage, "Jiuyang Shengong" itself is an exercise evolved from the "Tao Te Ching", which belongs to the Taoist creation, and the so-called eight-figure array is also a Taoist formation.
Among the mysterious forty-nine formations of Taoism, the eight-figure array is also a very powerful existence, and even he himself will not arrange the formation, but he did not expect that he would encounter such a powerful formation in the overseas Zhao family compound, which surprised him, this is the essence in itself, and the power of the Zhao family is revealed just the tip of the iceberg.
However, what made Lin Hao strange was that the descendants of the Zhao family didn't seem to have much talent, not to mention Zhao Dong, a half-guy, who was not comparable to the cultivation geniuses of the younger generation in the cultivation realm today, Dongfang Yun of the Dongfang family or Xie Tianqiu of the Seven Peerless Sects who met in the Qingyun Cave Mansion in the flower market were countless times more powerful than Zhao Dong.
That mysterious Ji Hailian also cultivated to the middle stage of the Quadruple Heaven, and even the female killer Zhang Zixuan, who likes to kill people with guns, also cultivated to the early stage of the Triple Heaven.
Compared with these people, Zhao Dong, a guy who has cultivated to a heavy heaven, is a scumbag, not to mention a powerful killer crow.
Moreover, Lin Hao in his sister Zhao Ke's body does not seem to be able to detect the fluctuation of cultivation power, it seems that he is an ordinary person, if the descendants of the Zhao family are really so young, then marriage is the best choice.
After all, Li Daoming was indeed a very talented young man, and even when he was chasing Jonxi, Lin Hao couldn't see his cultivation ability.
To be able to become the first Chinese leader of ST is not just handsome.
Just when Zhao Dong was leading Lin Hao to hang out, suddenly in the corridor in front of him, a group of people walked by, there were as many as five people, these black suits, although they were not wearing sunglasses, but they were tall and strong, and even their waists were bulging, they didn't have to think about it to know that they were carrying guns, one of them was wearing an off-white linen Tang costume and walked in front, and when he saw Zhao Dong, he asked suspiciously: "Young Master Xiaodong, why are you here, not to accompany the guests?"
Zhao Dong hurriedly replied: "Fu Bo, this is Mr. Lin Haolin, a guest invited by the old man, and a friend of my sister, so my sister asked me to accompany Mr. Lin to go shopping!"
The middle-aged man who was called Fu Bo showed a sudden expression, couldn't help but look at Lin Hao more, and then said respectfully: "It turned out to be Mr. Lin, Li Fu, who has admired Mr. Lin's name for a long time, but now that I have something important to do, I won't accompany you, you can go shopping with Young Master Xiaodong at will first, but the banquet will start in a while, don't go far first!"
From Li Fu's words, it could be heard that he knew Lin Hao's existence, and he also knew that Lin Hao was a guest invited by the Zhao family, so his attitude towards Lin Hao was also very polite, and he also revealed respect.
In fact, Li Fu was also puzzled, he didn't expect Zhao Ke who Lin Hao still knew, but at this moment, he was inconvenient to ask.
"You're polite, I'm busy beforehand, I'm just hanging out with Zhao Dong, Fu Bo doesn't need to care!" Lin Hao said politely.
Others treat him politely, and he can only reciprocate with courtesy, this is etiquette, so he also called Li Fu Fu to Zhao Dong, which is considered a junior.
Li Fu really had it, so he didn't linger, turned around and left, but when the group passed by Lin Hao, he was attracted by the things held by the man in black walking in the middle.
It was an antique wooden box, and Lin Hao didn't know what kind of wood this wooden box was made of, but it looked quite old, and there was still the precipitation of the years here, and the colors were colorful, and even Lin Hao could feel the slightest overflow of cultivation power on the wooden box, and he didn't need to look at it to know what was really a great thing.
And there is also a black-clothed bodyguard holding it with both hands, that professional fan, you don't need to look at it to know that you are escorting the baby.
Although he was a little curious, he wouldn't stop these people from coming down to ask, the old lady of the Zhao family had his eightieth birthday, and it was normal for people who came to celebrate his birthday today to give some precious gifts.
But the more this happened, the more curious he was about the purpose of this trip.
Seeing that Lin Hao's eyes had been on the departing people, Zhao Dong thought that he was curious about Li Fu, so he explained: "Fu Bo is the housekeeper of our Zhao family, and my sister and I were all brought up by Fu Bo!"