"Judging by the tone, it should be crazy...... "Raiko nodded.

"Here! Over here! And here. The fat man suddenly raised his voice, walked quickly to the surrounding wall, and pointed to the looming and innumerable characters under the scriptures.

If there is handwriting, it means that the answer and the truth are not far away.

Looking at the large number of characters that were discovered, everyone also moved quickly with the fat man.

"Look here." Raiko pointed to a piece of handwriting, stepped forward quickly, and shouted loudly.

"There's that too!" As soon as Laizi's words fell, Ye Jiu also found that a large number of Chinese characters had been left on the wall behind him.

"I have that here." Zhang Meng grabbed a flashlight in one hand and said in a trembling voice: "No, no!" My handwriting is different from what I just saw, and it shouldn't have been left by Qiu Chuji. ”

"I'm not here either." Ye Jiu paused for a moment and said.

"I'm ......" Looking at the hesitant gaze beside him, Laizi said, "It's not either." ”

"It's also different from the handwriting of the sword-wielding disciple." The fat man shook his head, his gaze still resting on the 'Gate of All Wonders', and muttered, "It seems that it should have been left by other Taoist priests in the Baiyun Immortal Palace." ”

"Everybody look at what's written on it?" Zhang Meng said to the fat man and Laizi.

Hearing Zhang Meng's words, the fat man and Lai Zi didn't dare to hesitate and read it quickly.

"Master, Master, why did we find this blissful wonderland before we died?"

"No, don't kill me! Don't kill me! ”

"Immortal world, immortal world! I see it...... There are so many fairies, they are so beautiful. ”

"I feel like I'm going to fly."

"A lot of elixir and jade liquid, a lot of fairy fruit and peach, here...... Over here...... Could it be the fairy world? ”

"The poor road has become an immortal, the poor road has become an immortal!"

"Hell, hell! It's terrifying! Don't kill me! No! ”

……

The fat man and Laizi looked a little worse with each sentence, and only at the end did they ask softly, "What's wrong with them?" There is the Bliss Immortal Realm, there is the Abyss Hell, how can the handwriting left by these Taoist priests be different? ”

In the end, it was Laizi who reacted first, and hurriedly said: "Could they also be hit by that nightmare-like thing?" ”

"Contagious nightmares?" Zhang Meng hurriedly carefully inspected every corner, and couldn't stop muttering to himself: "It turns out that the truth of the nightmare is here, fat man!" Fatso! Ah Chen is saved, Ah Chen is saved. ”

Zhang Meng was delighted that after so many days of pursuit, he finally found the source of the nightmare, and it was not in vain that so many people were sacrificed along the way.

"Fatty, fat!" Zhang Meng shouted several times in a row, but the fat man did not respond.

You must know that the fat man, although he seems cynical and doesn't care about anything, Zhang Meng knows that what he cares about most in the fat man's heart is his sister - Ah Chen! For Ah Chen, the fat man can take risks alone, and for Ah Chen, the fat man can give up a qiē.

obviously found a clue, but the fat man is now quiet and a little weird.

Zhang Meng couldn't help shouting at the fat man who was in a daze: "Fatty, what are you doing stupidly?" Come here. ”

"Yes, fat man, looking at these Taoist priests' crazy words, it is a sign of being completely fascinated." Lai Zi also said: "Ah Chen is saved." ”

"No, these arrogant handwritings may just be the gibberish of fanatics." The fat man said.

"Nonsense, true or false, but haven't we finally found a clue?" Zhang Meng said: "Maybe as long as you uncover the truth about why this group of Taoist priests are so crazy, you may be able to find out the root of the nightmare." ”

Without the joy that Zhang Meng imagined, the fat man said unexpectedly calmly: "Religious believers are often very fanatical. In order to become immortals, they can even ignore life and death, let alone just leave some crazy words. What's more, these handwritings are not all nightmares, and there are beautiful visions. Speaking of this, the fat man looked at Lai Zi and continued: "Lai Zi, don't you understand what is going on with those little bronze statues on the outside? ”

"You mean?" Lai Zi was stunned, and immediately understood the meaning of the fat man's words, and looked back at the crazy words behind him, and his face instantly turned pale.

"Those bronze statues may be a group of fanatical little Taoist children." The fat man gritted his teeth and said: "Look at those bronze statues with a relaxed expression, all of them look like they have ascended to Bliss early, maybe they are real people who were martyred." ”

"Even if it is, it can't be said to be a funeral." Laizi thought for a while, shook his head and said, "It should be called feathering!" ”

"Feather Ascension is the way they become immortals." The fat man nodded.

"Feathering?" Zhang Meng asked puzzled.

"Feathering comes from yin and yang, the ancients believed that yang energy was produced when Pangu opened the world, yang is clear for the sky, yin is turbid for the earth, yin and yang are mixed to nurture all things, and the yin and yang in all things are more evenly evolved into people. Those who are yang become gods, and those who are yin are turned into emptiness. Therefore, the ancients believed that the use of silence and the four spiritual seals could improve yang energy, so as to jump out of the cycle of birth and death, birth, old age, sickness and death, and finally become a god. Raiko explained.

"You're saying they're really immortals?" Zhang Meng asked with a surprised expression.

"This." Lai Zi hesitated, shook his head, and said, "I'm not sure yet." ”

However, the fat man, who had been unusually calm since he entered the lobby, said in an unusually firm tone: "Only Qiu Chuji discovered the truth of immortality before he died, and only Qiu Chuji had the opportunity to become a god, ......what about the others?"

"But why did he say that in the end it was just a basket of water?" Zhang Meng asked.

"Perhaps, he doesn't have enough time to put the truth of immortality into practice." The fat man said.

"The truth, which is the truth?" Zhang Meng looked at the extremely calm fat man, and suddenly found that there seemed to be something wrong with the fat man in front of him.

"The answer is in these four words." The fat man pointed to the four big characters of 'Gate of Wonders' illuminated by the ever-bright lamp.

"Qiu Chuji said that what he had painstakingly planned for seven years in exchange for was actually far inferior to what Dao Ancestor said in the past!" Lai Zi chewed the handwriting in front of him, looked at the people around him with some puzzlement, and said: "In the past, a word should have referred to this wonderful gate, and Qiu Chuji's painstaking planning was just to seek immortality, isn't it ......?"

Looking at Lai Zi, who was shocked, Ye Jiu, who was also puzzled, stared at the four words in front of him motionlessly.

What's behind it?

Dark grid?

Or is it a secret room?

Or is it a vague philosophical theory like Zhuang Shengxiao's dream of a butterfly?

Seeing that Ye Jiu didn't seem to have discovered anything, Zhang Meng said, "It seems that this wonderful gate is also part of the secret of immortality!" ”

"This wonderful door is from the Tao Te Ching, that is, Lao Tzu." Lai Zi continued: "Like the Analects, although it is impossible to determine whether Lao Tzu was written by Li Er himself, the words and deeds recorded in it must have been written by him. ”

"The Tao is the way, the very way; The name is famous, and the name is not very famous. Nameless, the beginning of heaven and earth; Famous, the mother of all things. Therefore, there is often no desire, in order to observe its wonder; There is always desire, in order to observe it. These two are the same and have different names. The same is called the mystery, the mystery and the mystery, the door of all wonders. The fat man chewed on the origin of these four words repeatedly, as if he wanted to understand something.

"In other words, the part of the immortal secret that Qiu Chuji obtained in Central Asia is actually in Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching". Lai Zi extended Zhang Meng's speculation to the entire Tao Te Ching.

"It's hard to say." Zhang Meng shook his head and said: "For thousands of years, there have been countless people who have studied the Tao Te Ching, but I have never heard of anyone who has been immortalized because of this. ”

"That being said, aren't cultivators just for immortality?" The fat man looked at Zhang Meng and said, "Of the emperors of the past dynasties, only a few emperors believed in Buddhism, and the rest were all cultivators. Emperor Jiajing of Ming Shizong personally became a Taoist priest, although there were no immortals, but those emperors were not fools, but they were all dragons and phoenixes among people, and they were cunning. If the Taoists really didn't have the art of immortality, how could they go on to the alchemy and cultivation of the next generation? ”

Hearing the fat man say this, everyone couldn't refute it.

"The fat man's speculation is not unreasonable, if the Daomen is really just a bluff, then for thousands of years, there will already be emperors who eradicate the Daomen like the 'Three Martial Artists to Destroy the Buddha'! But instead of such a thing, there are more and more emperors who ask immortals to take pills. Lai Zi said: "Emperor Qin and Han Wu, Tang Sect and Song Ancestor, which one is not seeking the Tao in his twilight years, intending to gain immortality, who succeeds in the end?" And among the Taoist priests who are respected as national teachers, how many of them have ended miserably? It's not a combination of glory and wealth. ”

"It seems that these emperors are mistaken, the real immortality technique of Taoism is not in the elixir, but in this Tao Te Ching." Zhang Meng nodded.

Lai Zi remembered the previous handwriting and added: "It seems that the great conspiracy mentioned by the previous sword disciple should be related to the Tao Te Ching!" In other words, maybe it has something to do with Dao Ancestor Li Er, maybe this Baiyun Immortal Palace is the Dao Palace handed down by Li Er. ”

"Could it be that Li Er also knows the secret of immortality?" Zhang Meng was taken aback by his conjecture and hurriedly said, "Wait, if I'm not mistaken, Li Er is a figure who predates Confucius, right?" ”

"Well, it should be when the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was divided by the Spring and Autumn princes." Yoriko nodded and replied.

"It's ahead again?" Zhang Meng said dumbfoundedly: "I thought that the secrets of Yiqiē came from Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms period, but I didn't expect that this matter would go back a long way!" ”

"Maybe farther away." Ye Jiu suddenly looked at Zhang Meng and said, "Sky City, but it is a place that has guarded Chiyou for generations. ”

"Shhh

Zhang Meng took a deep breath, full of doubts: "How many people still know this secret?" ”

"Anyway, it's not just us." Ye Jiu calmly looked at the hall when he came, and said, "The purpose of this group of people in front of me is not simple. ”

As he spoke, the large army left behind had already poured into the lobby, led by Mike with a surprised face.

(Note: 'Three martial arts to destroy Buddhism' refers to the three eradication of Buddhism during the period of Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty.) ）