Chapter 9: The Cave of the Scriptures

The old patriarch's words contain a lot of information, 'Broken Void', which was completely the words of novelists in the past, the Qin Dynasty has only seen it in Mr. Huang Yi's 'Broken Void' series of fantasy novels, and 'Martial Dao', from ordinary fighting techniques to 'Dao', and even jumped out of the Three Realms, not in the Five Elements, no matter how you look at it, the old patriarch is telling mythological stories.

The Qin Dynasty didn't find it weird.

Since he was able to be reborn and came to this world, it is not unusual for him to hear that the shattered void has jumped out of this world.

But to learn literature is to practice martial arts......

"No!"

"Impossible!"

The fierce Qin Dynasty thought of something, and he looked at the old patriarch with a sparkle in his eyes: "Patriarch Grandpa, the first emperor rules the world, before Qin, can there be martial arts?" ”

The old patriarch glanced at the Qin Dynasty and said, "Yes! ”

"Then did Confucius have internal exercises before? Can you have it before Lao Tzu? Qin Chao asked again.

"Yes, too!"

"Before that, did the Zhou Dynasty have it? Can there be a force? Yin Ke before Shang was martial? Can there be martial arts before Cangjie makes words? The Qin Dynasty asked repeatedly, the old patriarch glanced at the Qin Dynasty strangely, Qin Shihuang ruled the world, before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were eight hundred years of Zhou, before Zhou was Shang, before Shang was Yin...... Not to mention that eight-year-old children don't know these histories at all, even adults and old people know very little, this Qin Dynasty, but the old patriarch only said that some old gentlemen in the private school inadvertently revealed it, and the Qin Dynasty took it to heart, and he frowned slightly.

"Child, I know what you mean, but I let you learn to write, not just literacy." The old patriarch squinted his eyes, "Literacy, memorizing the Four Books and Five Classics, reading through the Confucian classics, and most importantly, making you proficient in the use of words." ”

"Do you know how the internal power comes from?"

"You ask me if Zhou can have martial arts, Yin Shang can have them, and Cangjie can have them before, I can tell you for sure that they also have internal skills, but those are extremely superficial internal skills, and the best exercises at that time are not even as powerful as one percent of the five tigers of my Qin family."

When the old patriarch said this, his eyes lit up, and his eyes stared at Qin Chao like a tiger: "The real great prosperity of martial arts is after the appearance of words. ”

Qin Chao nodded: "Wen Yizai, this is nothing strange." ”

"It's not what you think!"

The old patriarch snorted and continued to say in a deep voice, "Do you think that words can record martial arts and techniques, so that more people can learn martial arts, so martial arts can flourish?" ”

Qin Chao was stunned, isn't that so?

"Wrong!"

"You're completely wrong!" The old patriarch's eyes flashed, "Wen Yizai said, this is right, it can be carried...... He is not a martial artist, but 'three graves, five classics, eight ropes and nine hills'. ”

"Three graves, five classics, eight ropes and nine mounds?" Qin Chao looked at the old patriarch.

"The three tombs are the remains left by the ancient three emperors." The old patriarch said in a deep voice, "And the five classics are the knowledge of the five emperors of ancient times, and the nine hills are miscellaneous folk learning, which are all fragments, and as for the eight suo, it is based on the ancient emperor's "Hetuluo Book" to differentiate and evolve, and there are three "total eight suo", they are "Guizang Yi", "Lianshan Yi" and "Zhou Yi". ”

"The Book of Hetuluo? "Zhou Yi"? Qin Chao blinked.

The Qin Dynasty has never heard of what the old patriarch said about "Returning to Tibet" and "Lianshan Yi", but the names of "Hetuluo Book" and "Zhou Yi" are like thunder, "Zhou Yi" is the "Book of Changes" in the previous life, and the Qin Dynasty knows a little bit about some of the contents, but this really has nothing to do with martial arts.

"Zhou Yi is valued by Confucianism!"

""Lianshan Yi" is valued by Taoists!"

""The Eternal Return to Tibet" is valued by Buddhism!"

"The fragments of "Nine Hills" are valued by all the sons and hundreds of schools!"

"But they ...... What is described is either the operation of the universe, or the nature of heaven and earth, or the cultivation of benevolence and righteousness, and the worship of virtue and propriety...... In short, it is by no means martial arts. When the old patriarch said this, he smiled slightly, and looked at the ancestral spiritual position next to him: "Come, child, grandpa will first take you to see the 'White Tiger Cave', the place where my Qin family has hidden scriptures." ”

"The Qin family's scripture collection?" Qin Chao's eyes lit up.

Shaolin Scripture Pavilion, Murong Family's Huanshi Water Pavilion, Wang's Lang Yu Cave, Tianlong Babu Many martial arts families have Scripture Pavilion, and most of this Scripture Pavilion is a martial arts secret, and the Qin family ...... Qin Chao suddenly looked forward to it.

"Follow me!"

The old patriarch took three steps to the left and passed through the gap between the ancestral spiritual positions, and came to the back of the shrine, Qin Chao's eyes narrowed slightly, and there was a painting hanging on the wall behind the shrine, which was half a zhang high, and the end of the painting actually fell directly to the ground, which was a majestic picture of the white tiger descending the mountain.

"This white tiger painting is not just a painting, look at it, it opens the door like this."

The old patriarch stretched out his hand and pressed it on the two eyes of the white tiger, and with a strong push, the whole painting slowly moved, but it was a stone door.

"Come in!"

As soon as he entered the cave, the old patriarch lit the torches on the cave wall, and as soon as the three torches were lit, the whole cave suddenly lit up, the blue bricks were paved, and the walls of the cave were painted with yellow mud.

"So many books?"

The hole in front of me is the size of four rooms, and there are more than ten bookshelves in rows, and the shelves are full of rolled brocade silk, more than ten bookshelves, three rooms are the size, and in the previous life it was a small library, a small bookstore.

But this is the ancient times of the Northern Song Dynasty......

"Haha!" The old patriarch smiled, his face was full of pride, "My Qin family's scripture collection pavilion is almost comparable to the royal library in terms of size, but don't be too surprised, there are many useless here, and some are pictures and the like." ”

The old patriarch held a torch and walked to the first bookshelf, and the Qin Dynasty also walked over, only to see a small yellow paper pasted at the end of each pavilion on the shelf, with small characters written on it.

"This is the book that my Qin family has collected over the generations." The old patriarch picked up a roll of brocade silk and spread it out and placed it on the table next to him.

Qin Chaolian looked over, there were square inches of traditional Chinese characters written vertically on it, and there was no punctuation and teasing, and after a few glances, it was very jerky to read.

"You can't read this volume." The old patriarch smiled and said, "It is a book from the Warring States Period, the original scroll is from bamboo slips, and it was copied on the brocade forging later, and here ......" The old patriarch pointed to a bookshelf on the right, "The articles recorded in the book here were originally from what era, no one can figure it out, in short, it is very ancient, and it is not something we can easily read." ”

The Qin Dynasty turned around twice at random, flipped through several scrolls, and found that each volume was very difficult to understand.

"Look here......" At this time, the old patriarch suddenly picked up a roll of brocade and spread it out.

"Well, this ......" Qin Chao looked at the words on it, his mouth opened slightly, the words on it seemed to be drawing abstract line drawings, some could be recognized as 'birds, insects, fish', but many of them were simply ghost drawings.

"Do you know?" The old patriarch asked.

Qin Chao groaned slightly, then shook his head, and the old patriarch's eyes suddenly smiled: "These words are ancient words, and there are almost no people in the world who can understand them all, so it's strange if you know them." Qin Chao's eyes narrowed and said, "This was originally written on the beast bone turtle shell, or the inscription, right?" ”

The old patriarch glanced at Qin Chao strangely.

"That's right, it's written on the bone shell, how can you see it, kid?" The old patriarch asked strangely, and then smiled, "These are all words unearthed from the Yin Shang cemetery, we have deciphered a few words, but most of them cannot be deciphered at all, so we can only leave it to future generations to work hard." ”

The Qin Dynasty had a strange expression, the Qin family, an ancient martial arts family, actually wanted to decipher the oracle bone inscription.

"Although there are many books in this cave, they have not been sorted out, and it is obscure to read. The old patriarch walked along the shelf.

"And a hole?"

Qin Chaolian followed, and there was a door in the innermost corner, and when he pushed it open, there was actually a lamp inside.

"Huh? The patriarch is coming? ”

A figure walked out of the cave, dressed in a long robe and a gray-white beard, an old man with a clear face.

"Grandpa!" Qin Chaolian shouted, and there were some doubts in his heart.

The old man Qin Shujing is the weirdest and incomprehensible old man in Qinjiazhai, he has never seen him show his martial arts, and he always goes to the main hall of the ancestral hall, sometimes he doesn't see anyone for ten days and a half months.

"Doll, are you ......" The old man looked at the Qin Dynasty suspiciously, and the old patriarch smiled: "He is the Qin Dynasty." "Qin Dynasty?" The old man was even more puzzled. "This child's father is Qin Ledao, my Qin Jiale is the first good man, and his mother is Dao Yufeng, the sister of Princess Zhennan." The old patriarch even said, and only then did the old man show a sudden expression, "Oh, it seems to be a little impressive, patriarch, you brought him here, isn't it ......." The old patriarch nodded.

"Alright, kid, come in." The old man made his debut.

This cave is about the size of two rooms, and there are seven bookshelves, not only brocade silk, but also paper books.

"Son, you know a lot of words now." The old patriarch put a book in front of the Qin Dynasty, and as soon as the Qin Dynasty opened it, it was still in traditional characters, without punctuation, and it was a little jerky to read, but the Qin Dynasty read it carefully, and still understood the meaning inside, which described natural phenomena such as mirages, wind, rain, and snow, and here attributed these natural phenomena to the manipulation of heavenly ghosts and gods.

"Look at this volume again!" The old patriarch put another book in his hand.

But it is a book that describes the laws of the sun, moon and stars, and the description of the laws is not too wrong, but the explanation is equally absurd.

And then-

Rites of passage!

The tide rises and falls!

Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness!

……

It is full of books describing everything in the world, which is like a small encyclopedia, except for novels and martial arts.