In the ninth year of Wude, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, was appointed as the crown prince, and ascended the throne in the same year, changing the Yuan Zhenguan.

The words say: "The way of heaven and earth, the chastity of the viewer." "There is common sense between heaven and earth, but if we want to explore this, it is often superficial and far from fallacious.

Zhou Yi is a Confucian sacred text, which is rumored to have been written by Confucius. However, the study of numbers and meanings has also absorbed a lot of Taoist thought.

Li Shimin believed that although he had the help of the Sangha in his early years with Li Yuan's army, he had many Buddhist temples after he ascended the throne. However, even if he became an emperor, he was still just an ordinary man. Years of natural disasters and his frail wife and children made him more ambitious, not only renovated hundreds of monasteries that had been abolished by himself, but also gave up a few palaces to become Buddhist temples.

Yuan Tiangang is a Taoist priest. During the reign of Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty, he was a salt commander in the Qiongzhou area. This is not a serious official position, it is an errand used to monitor the local private salt trade and ensure the interests of the imperial court. In the Tang Dynasty, Sui lived in the world, and the first time in the United States was determined, so he was naturally a great hero. It is said that the position that can be taken is not his turn, but before Dezong, Tang Lu couldn't help but take salt, but Yuan Tiangang, the salt commander, was gone.

He was unofficial and light, and traveled all over Yizhou during the Wude years. With his palmistry skills, coupled with insight into the world, he has made a name for himself. Not only did the dignitaries believe in his assertions, but even the emperor had heard of his abilities. When Li Shimin ascended the throne, the big people who inherited Yuan Tiangang's auspicious words showed their magical powers, and Yuan Tiangang returned to his hometown as an official to serve as the county magistrate of Huojing County.

Huojing, belonging to Qiongzhou, Zhongxia County, the county order from the seven products. Tea, palm, bamboo, wood and, of course, well salt.

In the first year of Zhenguan, two days after the mango planting, the county government of Huojing County, Qiongzhou, the main house of the inner hall.

At noon, Yuan Tiangang, who was full of gray temples, sat on a futon, holding a book of Taoism in his hand and studying it. The clothes are often dressed in green shirts, the heavenly court is wide, the bearing is long, and the complexion is ruddy and shiny. In the past few months as the county magistrate, he has been very free. While the weather is still cool, you can read a few more Taoist books.

The books are still those books, but every once in a while I come back to read them, because I have seen more of the world, I can read more different perceptions.

Huojing County is a middle-lower county, with a population of less than 2,000 households, and there are few lawsuits that need to be personally interrogated by the county order. Teach planting agriculture and mulberry, prosecuting non-violations, urging and driving enslavement, there is a village Zhengli Zheng, and Guo Cheng County Cheng. The respect of a county only needs to know how to make the best use of people. As a master of seeing people's faces, Yuan Tiangang has a lot of experience in this regard.

"Newspaper - Qi Ming Mansion (Tang Dynasty's honorific title for the county order)! At the end of today, when some salt workers were boiling salt, they found that there was no fire under the kettle, and there was no leakage along the pipes. Went down to the fire well to explore, and the leather and bamboo tube on the fire bucket of the earth fire have been eroded, and there is a strange egg floating on the brine. The salt worker reported it to Lizheng, who reported it to the county government, and now the strange egg has been taken out and presented in the lobby. A servant passed through the inner door at this moment and stopped outside the main door to make a prayer.

Well? When Yuan Tiangang heard this, he immediately became interested. As a Taoist priest, I have heard a lot about all kinds of strange and strange things, but I have always seen them. He is already a divine master in the eyes of others, but his own family knows his own affairs. Looking at people's faces by themselves, more often than not, it is just a matter of pushing the situation and asking for a lip service for others, which is not so magical.

Now that he heard about the strange eggs that had been fished out of the well, and the location was still a fire well, his curiosity was completely aroused. Why the fire well can make a fire is an insoluble mystery in all dynasties. Because you can't see the flame during the day, you can only see a little light blue at night, so it is also called the Hellfire or Divine Fire. The local villagers believe that it was a hellfire leaked out of a hidden spring dug through a salt well, and it is mysterious.

Years of use of earth fire have gradually faded people's fears, but their incomprehensible visions have become doubts that have always haunted their hearts, and can only be relieved by believing in the ghosts and gods. Now that he learned that a strange egg suddenly appeared in the fire well, even the bitter brine changed color, so strange that Yuan Tiangang's breathing couldn't help but be a little shorter.

"Quick, bring this county over!"

……

Earlier.

The six fire wells are spewing bubbles all day long, and it seems that they never stop. One of them is particularly ancient, and it is said that it was opened in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Suddenly, there was a throbbing that came out of nowhere, as if the whole world had been chiseled.

"Success: Success once again anchors the world of sampa...... The coordinates have been determined: the first year of Zhenguan...... Ancient fire well of the Han Dynasty in Huojing County, Qiongzhou, Jiannan Province, Datang Dynasty. ”

"Time offset, -1390, spatial offset, 4 meters."

"Warning: The voter is seriously damaged, the material residue is 3 per 10,000, and the information residue is 97 percent, please repair it immediately."

"Error: Failed to repair, the system has not bound voters, and has no right to connect to the server, please bind first."

"Error: Failed to fix, the system is not bound to voters, and there is no right to use reserve energy, please bind it first."

"Warning: Voters have unconditional access to real trials, current trial mode: Virtual Illusion. Trial Mission: Reject the system and preserve humanity. ”

“……”

"Success: Voters pass the trial, successfully bind the system, and obtain user rights."

"Success: The summoning altar has been successfully launched, and the sacrifice ...... is being transformed"

The water of the well suddenly boiled, everything was clouded with a glimmer, and various substances were dismantled and reassembled. There are faint microscopic metal elements formed, but they react with the well water and melt instantly. The leather buckets and bamboo barrels used to collect the natural gas melted rapidly, and even the walls of the shafts changed color as metal ions were extracted.

The whole fire well is like a glass of soda that has been tossed with cola candy.

A web of flesh gradually coalesced from the well water.

"False: Phosphorus is insufficient, 67% of the remaining energy is left."

"Success: The re-planning is complete, and the sacrificial elements in the altar can rebuild the three-year-old body of the elector."

The web-like mass of flesh began to glow and dissipate, and the stars coalesced into another child's form.

"Success: The rebuild is complete, and the cross-compilation of the host personality begins...... Done, creating the programming process......"

"Success: The Starter Pack has been successfully unlocked, receive Purple Gear: Dark Shelter."

A sudden burst of light erupted from the child's position, and obsidian-like polygonal scales quickly emerged from the void, and the well water was discharged, and the scales formed into a football-shaped giant egg to envelop the child.

"Burning in progress...... Estimated completion time: 3 hours......"

As if someone had suddenly cut the rope that held it around, the giant egg accelerated towards the mouth of the well......

A quarter of an hour later, it was scooped up.

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"Yuan Ming Mansion!"

Seeing Yuan Tiangang's arrival, everyone in the county hall saluted at this time. In addition to the chief bookkeeper Wang Shouzheng and Gong Cao Muquan, as well as the three or five officials, there are also salt workers and foremen who discovered the vision of the fire well, and the other entourages have been dismissed, and the county Cheng did not come.

"No courtesy." Yuan Tiangang waved his hand and walked straight to a basket covered with straw and linen in the middle of the lobby. He had seen that the so-called strange egg was placed on top of the linen cloth in the basket, and it seemed to be inlaid with pieces of black jade as smooth as a mirror, but there was not a single crack in it.

"Huh?" He was suddenly shocked: this piece of mirror was clearly visible, extremely smooth, brighter than a bronze mirror, but there was no reflection in it! Moreover, this slightly arc-shaped hexagonal and pentagonal surfaces are intermingled and inlaid to form such a perfect sphere, which is really eye-opening.

If someone who knows the goods is here, then he will definitely shout: "This is absolutely black!" This shape is called a football! ”

He couldn't help but step forward and gently stroke it with his hand. The tentacles are smooth and unfocused. With two taps of his fingertips, a feeling of coldness and hardness came to his mind, as if he was striking a stone of fine iron, giving people the illusion that the force transmitted back was much greater than his own.

Maybe it's not a delusion!

While asking the salt worker concerned about the detailed discovery, Yuan Tiangang and several subordinates studied the giant egg. In fact, as far as you can see, it looks more like a huge stone ball or orb. However, according to the saltman who found it, it can float on the well water, showing a little head, and it does look like a chicken. It makes sense to say that it's an egg. In particular, it is said that after the discovery of such a foreign object, many people watched. The salt foreman was quite insightful, dispersed the idle people, etc., and sent someone to inform the local Lizheng, who had made a preliminary investigation before sending them to the county government. Those who are deaf can smell a pulse beating inside, put it in the water tank, and will move on its own.

Yuan Tiangang listened to Gong Cao's explanation and inquiry, and at the same time carefully consulted this miraculous thing. There are two arc-shaped edges, one hexagonal, which seems to correspond to the hexagram, while the pentagon corresponds to the five elements. The edges are connected, faintly forming the image of the six, but it is plausible. There is always a hidden clue, but it is misty and difficult to clarify.

I thought hard about it to no avail, so I had to put it aside for now. Yuan Tiangang was about to think about how to place this thing, but he suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but be moved.

"The five elements of the river map, this is the five elements of the river map!" Although it is not the same as the river map in the book, it can be corresponded to in many aspects. In particular, it is rumored that the river Tuluo book was originally carried from the water by the dragon horse and the dragon turtle, and Fu Xi has since created the eight trigrams. Aren't these hexagons and pentagons exactly the same as tortoise shells? It's just that the shape here is too regular for people to think of for a while. Now that I think about it, all the inferences come naturally.

This is truly auspicious! Yuan Tiangang, who has been a Taoist priest for decades and has reached the dignitaries with his miraculous physiognomy, is still so excited at the moment that he can't help himself. Regardless of whether this thing is reliable or not, I think it is a natural Hetuluo book, so in the eyes of others, it is still Hetuluoshu. Presenting this thing to the emperor is to boast of the emperor's merits, comparable to Yao Shun, and the world is prosperous. This is a strong excitement for the Tang Dynasty, which has experienced natural disasters for many years since the founding of the country and is experiencing drought in more than 20 states at the moment.

You can also use this official road to prosper!

Although he is old, Yuan Tiangang is middle-aged. His son Yuan Keshi was only fifteen years old, and he had never taken the imperial examination, so he asked his old friend to arrange a job as an envoy to serve in the Chang'an Imperial Temple. Although the position is low, there is still a long way to go, and now there is an opportunity to pave the way for children and grandchildren, so take advantage of it. In addition, once this thing is presented, his reputation will inevitably boil, and becoming a representative figure of Taoism is just a matter of leisure. Now that the new dynasty has been established, the Yuan family is likely to carry forward in his own hands.

Thinking like this, Yuan Tiangang's eyes became more and more intense when he looked at the strange eggs. At this time, there was a report from the official that several of the most famous local households, some people in the clan were in charge of the scholarly family who were officials in the court. said that he wanted to pay homage to the gods fished in the well, and rub the ruiqi. I think I also received the news, although I don't know the specific situation, I can also deduce one or two, and I want to see if I can get it.

Yuan Tiangang didn't care about this, such a happy event should be wet with rain and dew. He is the order of a county, no matter what credit there is below, it is all his own system. Please take credit for the above table, and a few more names will not thin their own rewards.

"Let them in." He waved his hand, people were in a good mood when they were happy, and they felt that everyone was very pleasing to the eye.

Another official of the Russian army led in several middle-aged men who were well-dressed and behaved. As soon as they entered the lobby, they saw several officials of the county government (called officials in the Tang Dynasty) who were surrounding the basket in the middle of the hall, and one of the black spheres was particularly eye-catching. So he walked a few steps, and when he got closer, he saluted Yuan Tiangang.

"Meet Mingfu!" The chief officer was present, and there was no need to salute the other subordinate officials, but only greeted each other, and then couldn't wait to look at the thing in the middle of the lobby.

"Ladies and gentlemen, don't come unharmed?" Smiling and greeting, Yuan Tiangang saw that the newcomers were watching frequently, so he retreated to the main seat, sat down, and motioned to the master to explain the origin of the giant egg first. "Master Wang, you come to explain it to all the virtuous people."

When a few people came, they only heard about it, but now they are surprised to learn the details. After a few people watched for a while, Yuan Tiangang invited a few people to sit down, and everyone sat on the ground and began to listen to the county order to explain his inferences and opinions.

"As you can see, the rest of this thing is the egg of the turtle, the book of Hetuluo. Today's saints, civil and martial arts, can be favored by heaven, and they are auspicious. Although this thing is thanks to the work of the saints, it is also a sign of local prosperity. The prosperity of this place also depends on the work of your education. Yu will return this treasure to the saints, but if there is a gift, do not forget to ask for a reward for you. ”

Everyone was thrilled to learn that this egg was such a divine object. They talked to each other and congratulated each other, and the atmosphere was quite warm for a while. Yuan Tiangang smiled and stroked his hair with his hand, very happy.

……

"Success: Personality burning completed, 95% reproducibility, wake-up program ...... in progress"

In an unknown place, a line of information flashed quietly.

"Warning: The environment is non-threatening, and the dark shelter is being put away...... Awakening progress 1%......"

……

Yuan Tiangang was thinking about how to write the Xianxiang table book, and whether the state officials would be greedy for his merits, when suddenly, his eyebrows froze. At the same time, everyone else in the hall lost their voices, and they all looked at the giant egg that was still surrounded by everyone. I saw that the cold and hard shells that were originally tightly knit began to disintegrate and separate, and they were gradually fading while folding with each other. In less than a few breaths, the Luo Shu in their eyes disappeared completely, leaving only one curled up in place:

Red! Body! Child! Child!

Everyone in the lobby was stunned at the moment, and no one spoke for a long time. It wasn't until Yuan Tiangang got up like he had just woken up from a dream and looked at this strange boy that he came back to his senses. The county officials and the local gentry each hugged each other, and whispered around to watch together.

I saw the boy lying on his knees, just looking at his appearance, it was clear that he was a three-year-old child. Although the eyebrows are delicate and lovely, there are no horn scales, no strange tattoos, and no strange things to speak of. However, everyone clearly saw that the center of the giant egg that had disappeared slowly sank to the linen cloth that had been laid out, that is, when it was still in the egg before, it was suspended in mid-air!

Yuan Tiangang's mind was a little confused at the moment. Although this situation and this scene are much more magical than a hard state of Hetuluoshu, but this auspicious rui has become a child, if the saint does not believe it, but thinks that he is a wrongful person who abducts the son of man, then he will be speechless. Moreover, just now he was boasting in front of the local gentry and his colleagues, but now it seems that the truth is far from it. The dream came to naught and he felt that his face was damaged, which made him a little lazy and discouraged for a while.

"Didn't the Ming Mansion just say that this is the Hetu Luo Book?"

"yes, it seems to say that it is the egg of the turtle...... How to give birth to a human ......"

Listening to the talk around him, Yuan Tiangang didn't know what mood to use to face it.

"It's not good to say, isn't there a thing in the ancient books about the psychic of divine objects and the illusion of alien beasts. I will ask the Ming Mansion later, and the Ming Mansion will learn from the Jing Dao, and I must have been involved in this. ”

"Yes, I heard that there are such allusions in the Buddhist scriptures."

Well? Yes, hearing this, Yuan Tiangang suddenly brightened. Yes, didn't the Yue Nu sword in "Wu Yue Chunqiu" learn from a shape-shifting ape? Isn't the dragon girl in the Buddhist scriptures also a divine creature that has become a human form?

And also...... Thinking about it this way, although this Luo Shu is gone, compared to a dead thing that can't speak and doesn't know whether it is a stone or an egg, or the sacrifice of various places in the former Sui Dynasty is only a relatively large "Rui Beast", a living god, its impact is unimaginable!

Moreover, regardless of whether it has supernatural powers or not, as long as the miracle just now is spread, it will have a great effect on the saint. It is the duty of a courtier to share worries for the king. Thinking of this, Yuan Tiangang had a whim. Sent someone to bring paper and ink, pen to go dragon and snake, eight big characters, with a wave:

"The Book of Heaven has attained the Tao, and the Xuan Tortoise has turned into a human!"