Chapter 381: Nine Gates and Eight O'Clock
I asked, this person who borrowed the sword, but his surname is Qin?
Li Laifu smiled and didn't answer, but said, this sword has been in the hands of our Central Plains Dart Bureau for some time, if Su Shaoxia chooses to escape to the capital today, this sword will only be covered with dust. I even said that I deserved it, but Li Laifu said, now that the East China Sea is in danger and the catastrophe is coming, Su Shaoxia has a compassionate heart, but it is the blessing of the Central Plains, please accept the worship of Li!
As he spoke, Li Laifu clasped his hands into fists and made a deep bow.
I even dodged aside, and said, where do I dare to bear it, if there is trouble today, the family and the country will fall, as a citizen of the Ming Dynasty and a son and daughter of the rivers and lakes, I just do my best, as for whether I can succeed, even I don't know. Li Laifu said that he should do his best, and I am ashamed of myself for this courage alone.
I slung my sword to my waist and thanked me again.
Li Laifu said, the capital of the great array to protect the country, divided into one main and two deputy eighteen sides, everyone only said that Lu Zu was built to guard the imperial city, but they didn't know that this amazing array was the world's first-class killing array, its real meaning is to protect the world! Su Shaoxia, the heavy responsibility of saving the people in the world is placed on you.
I suddenly felt a kind of pressure, I promised to activate the Shocking Array, but it was just to save Xu Ruonan, and now I want to activate the Shocking Array, but I just want to use the power of the Shocking Array to stop Xie Junyan's conspiracy, after all, she has become what she is today, and I have an unshirkable responsibility.
I said with a solemn expression, I will do my best.
Li Laifu was relieved to say, about this shocking array, my old friend, I was asked to give you a few words, and you came with your ear.
I walked over, and Li Laifu taught me the method of opening the Amazing Array.
I thought that as I did last time, I could activate the space under the palace from the lock dragon well, but I didn't expect that this main and second deputy and eighteen sides had their own ways to activate. Since the entire Amazing Array was built, it has never fully opened this Amazing Array, and in the event of an ordinary crisis, even if the land immortals come to attack, a single main array is enough.
After Li Laifu left, I went straight to Dongzhi Gate.
Nine inside, seven outside, four imperial cities.
This Dongzhi Gate is one of the nine gates in the capital. Nine gates of the capital go nine cars, when the Ming Dynasty was founded, the timber required for the construction of Kyoto is entered from this gate, so the Dongzhi Gate is also called the wooden door. Twenty years ago, there were warehouses for timber outside Dongzhimen, but later a fire burned these warehouses to ashes, and even Dongzhimen burned a lot, and after the reconstruction, the warehouses were long gone. However, outside the city, there are still some timber trading cities, and most of the timber used by the people in the city to build houses is purchased from here.
The city gate is about ten zhang long, about ten zhang high, five zhang long, and the inner urn city is doubled. When I came to the main gate, I indulged my true qi, jumped into the air, and came to the top of the tower. On the upper floor, there is a door-shaped column, painted with red paint, about one zhang high, and under the doorpost, there is a "point" hanging.
Nine doors and eight o'clock.
In addition to Chongwen Gate, the remaining eight doors each have a point, every day to set the change, up and up, the bell and drum tower sounded, the eighth floor of this inside the knocking point, only the Chongwen Gate rings the bell.
A Taoist priest came out of the tower and said, "Shaoxia's surname is Su?"
I saw that this Taoist priest was not good-looking, with a white beard, although there was no fairy wind bones, but he was also clean and tidy, but his Taoist robe was a little special, so he said, it was Xiao Ke, who dared to ask the Taoist, is it the person who knocked on Longhu Mountain?
Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Longhu Mountain has been established as the state religion, and the Ming National Teacher has always been served by the Taoist priest of Longhu Mountain, responsible for guarding this amazing array.
Thirty years ago, Ye Liangchen, the national teacher of the Ming Dynasty, died in battle, and the head of the empty road gave up his identity as a national teacher and returned to Longhu Mountain. However, I, the defender of the Nine Gates and Eighteen Side Formations, is still served by the Taoist priest of Longhu Mountain.
The Taoist priest smiled and said, It seems that you already know. Poor Dao has lived here since he was thirteen years old, and now he is exactly sixty years old. In the past 60 years, I have never missed a single knock.
Between the words, there is quite a sense of self-satisfaction.
I said that I have worked hard for a long time, can Xiao Ke do the work of knocking on the ground today?
The Taoist chief said, this is not a trivial matter, I don't know if Su Shaoxia will knock on it?
I laughed and said, I know a little bit about it.
The Taoist chief did not speak, but leaned to the side.
I walked over, but I didn't take the hammer that knocked the point, and said loudly: Those who are fighting in front of the army are all arrayed in front, and they should always look at it, and they can do everything!
This nine-character mantra comes from "Hug Puzi", which is used to drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters, and it is also one of the tricks to activate the Shocking Array. Nine doors, corresponding to the nine-character mantra, this Dongzhi Gate should respond to the word "Pro".
While!
The long sword hit the point, and a crisp sound was heard, and the point on the Dongzhi Gate was shattered by the Star True Yuan.
At this moment, there was a rumbling sound under the entire Dongzhimen underground, and after this point was shattered, it seemed that a mysterious power that had been sealed underground was released.
I thought to myself, although ordinary people don't notice it, how can I not know that this power is getting closer and closer, and even I am in awe of this power.
Boom! Boom!
Two sounds, in the two wells on both sides of the Dongzhi Gate, two bright white rays of light rose to the sky, drew an arc, and rushed towards the place where the palace was located.
One door and two formations, two of the eighteen side formations of this astonishing array, have been activated. Between heaven and earth, there was a thick True Yuan, pouring into the palace. Seeing this, the old Dao stroked his white beard with his hand and said, it seems that the poor Dao can rest for a few days.
Now there is still a period of time before dark, I have come to Xizhimen, You'anmen, Chaoyangmen, Fuchengmen, Andingmen, Deshengmen, Xuanwumen and Zhengyangmen, and have used the nine-character Zhenyuan as a mantra to smash the remaining seven points. Every time it was shattered, two side formations were activated, releasing the heaven and earth qi drawn by the Amazing God Array, condensing it into a bundle and gathering it in the palace.
Chongwen Gate.
Different from the other eight gates, on the upper floor of Chongwen Gate, there is a bronze bell hanging. The body of the bell is engraved with Buddhist scriptures, which was cast by Emperor Chengzu and the black-clothed prime minister Yao Guangxiao, who intended to suppress the evil dragon "Pu Lao" who made trouble in the southeast, and was later transformed into a shocking eighteen side formations by Lu Zu.
The one who guards this big bell is the wine man. This drinker is a drunkard, a little crazy, a little short-tempered, and when I arrived it was dusk, and the drinker was already drunk.
Although it is a period of national mourning, drinking alcohol is prohibited in the capital, but where do the wine people care about this, they still do their own thing.
After I explained my intention, the wine Taoist tilted his head, looked at me, and slurred, Lao Tzu has been here for more than 30 years, and no one has dared to hit the idea of this bell, and if he wants to destroy Lao Tzu's bell, there is no door.
I tried to tell him the truth that the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, but who expected it to be in vain, the wine Taoist said, go to the rise and fall of the fucking world, it's my business?
I saw that the persuasion was ineffective, so I had to sacrifice my killer weapon, and said, it is better to do this, as long as you let me ring this bell, I will give you fifty altars of fine bamboo leaf green! When the wine Taoist heard this, his eyes lit up, and he asked, just knock it?
I nodded, yes, just a moment!
The drinker said, "That's not going to work."
I thought to myself, the entire eighteen side formations have already activated the sixteenth road, and since the wine people are stubborn, then I have to force my hand. I made up my mind and was about to do it, when I suddenly heard the drinker ask, wait, what kind of wine did you just say?
I said bamboo leaf green.
The wine is humane, then send ten jars of Shaoxing flower carvings!
I said, no problem!
The wine man gave me a brass hammer. I nodded, poured my true qi on the brass hammer, and slammed it towards the bell.
Rumble!
I used this hammer so hard that I knocked down the entire tower. Two more True Yuan rushed out of the ground, rushed into the sky, and converged with the previous eighteen side formations into the capital, enveloping the entire palace.
Knock knock!
The drum sounded on the bell and drum tower, and it was already the day of the watch.
I looked up and saw a full crimson moon hanging in the sky.
Note: Bells and dots are percussion instruments that were used to tell the time in ancient times. Sanguan has seen a point, it is a circle, the two sides are concave to the inside, the shape is like the Chinese character "work", hit it, the sound is brittle, and it can be transmitted for several miles.