Chapter 44: The Stone House Maze
"If the two of you can help me break through this ecstasy array, I can consider giving you a strange grass. The patriarch's voice came suddenly. This guy didn't know when he had finished taking the lead in the dancing god, and at this time he had already changed into a suit of clothes, covered the bloody wound, and was staring at the two of us with a serious face.
I hurriedly glanced at the other clansmen, who were already scattered in all directions, collecting the newborn Shennong grass everywhere.
was pinched, and I didn't dare to say anything, so I could only hand him the Shennong grass in my hand again.
"Two, it's almost time to go. The patriarch took the Shennong grass, stretched out his hand and pointed to the valley in front of him.
"Let's go. Zhang Lao said a word, and walked first, and I followed behind, feeling that the patriarch's gaze behind me was hot.
The two walked more than 100 steps, and the surrounding scene became brighter and brighter, as if it was daytime, even brighter than normal daytime, as if they were in a set studio.
I looked back to look at the Yoro, but it was blocked by the trees.
"What's the matter, just walk around, the brightness is the same here, and there is no way to determine the original light source. These people are also big-hearted, so they let us wander around blindly. I said to Mr. Zhang.
"People have a bottom in their hearts, and they estimate that this is where the formation is the most powerful, if it can't be broken, we will have to starve to death here. ”
In fact, I also know what Zhang Lao said nonsense, but I just want to relax my mood through the mouth cannon.
Suddenly, we noticed what looked like a stone building in front of us, so we ran two steps forward in unison.
At this moment, Tao Yuanming's "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" popped up in my mind, "Repeat dozens of steps, and suddenly open up." The land is flat, and the houses are like that", Zhang Lao and I walked a few steps through the woods, and suddenly a building complex appeared in front of us.
The building is very rough, all made of large stones, and there is a room directly opposite. The stone house is not big, it looks like a trapezoid, and towards us is the trapezoidal bottom, which is about ten square meters, and there is a door in the center. said that it was a door, but in fact, it was just an opening that could enter two people at the same time.
Except for the stone house facing us, the buildings are the same on the left and right, and the whole seems to be arranged in an arc.
"Let's take a look at the outer ring first. As soon as I said that, Zhang Lao Blind also nodded, and the two began to turn along the stone house.
"There are sixteen houses in total, enclosed in a circle, and the inside should be the same. "I said, when I passed through the outer circle of the house just now, I could directly see the opposite side through the gap between the two stone houses, as well as the side wall of the inner circle house, indicating that the inner circle of houses is arranged in the same direction as the outer circle where we are currently located, but the stone house inside should be one size smaller, and the whole seems to divide a circle into sixteen triangles, each triangle is divided into a house, and there are gaps between the houses that can be passed by three people side by side.
Zhang Lao nodded and said, "It should be, the distance can only be three circles at most, and the innermost circle of the house is estimated to be only as wide as a coffin." ”
"Sixteen, is there any connection with the sixteen hexagrams?" I asked.
"It can only be said that there is this possibility, but the things here are too concrete, and even if it is really related, it is only a theoretical application of the sixteen hexagrams of Pangu. Zhang Lao squinted his eyes blindly, and reasoned with a matter.
I listened to him and nodded. The basis of this traditional metaphysics, only the words yin and yang, and the rest of the five elements and eight trigrams, etc., are just advanced versions of yin and yang, which is a process of gradually concretizing the theoretically abstract yin and yang. The sixteen stone houses in front of him are absolutely impossible to just arrange the sixteen trigrams of Pangu like a gossip map, and from another point of view, this sixteen hexagrams of Pangu may only be a name, and it has little to do with the sixteen.
"What to do now, try the hard gossip, after all, at most, the sixteen trigrams of Pangu are more than the knowledge we have, as long as ours is correct, there will be no big problems. My tone wasn't quite sure.
"What Brother Dao said is very true, we can only do this now. ”
"Where is the Shengmen?" I said, since the two of us are planning to test this formation by using gossip at the moment, we need to find the location of the Eight Sects Zhongshengmen first.
The eight gates are an important part of Qimen Dunjia, with the direction of the eight trigrams, respectively, for the northwest Qiangong open door, the north Kan Palace Xiumen, the northeast Gen Gongsheng Gate, the east Zhen Palace Injury Gate, the southeast Xun Palace Du Gate, the south of the Palace Jing Gate, the southwest Kun Palace Death Gate, the west of the palace shocking door.
Generally speaking, the three doors of opening, rest, and birth are auspicious, and the three doors of death, injury, and shock are fierce, while the two doors of Jing and Du are flat. However, in the specific calculation of Qimen, it is also necessary to consider factors such as Shengke.
In the ordinary formation, as long as you find the door of life, you can get out of the danger, while the door of death is nine deaths. However, the eight directions in the formation are usually not as simple as the above-mentioned directions, but are disrupted.
Listening to my inquiry, Zhang Laoblind first looked at the sky, then circled left and right, sighed and said: "We can't even distinguish between ordinary south, east, west, and northwest, and there is neither the sun nor the moon in the sky, which is really not easy to do." ”
I've noticed what Zhang Lao said a long time ago, and I was counting on him to show what he was capable of, but the result was also black.
"Then let's not go into the house yet, let's just walk down the alley. I said.
Zhang Lao blindly shook his head: "What you see when you go in is definitely different from what we can see here." ”
"Then what do you say?" I urged, there is no good way at the moment, I plan to give full play to the excellent practical spirit of the socialist successor, but Zhang Lao is afraid at the moment.
"Or," Zhang Lao looked obscene, "Brother Dao, you are tired, take two steps inside, and I will be staring at you here." ”
I wanted to curse, but it was useless for two people to talk about it here. I've heard a lot about this formation, but I've never seen it. The battle formations in the commentary, to put it bluntly, are all nonsense, and the formations in this Xuanmen, I feel that there are more elements of boasting. Even if I have come to the depths of this Ecstasy Ridge, I subconsciously feel that the so-called formation illusions are likely to be miasma, blinding, and even the two words that I hate the most are used by folk liars - magnetic field, and I don't believe that there can really be any formation that tears apart time and space. Although I am also a charlatan, it does not prevent me from having a heart for science.
Now that Mr. Zhang said so, I might as well give it a try. The small alley between the two stone houses is less than 50 meters long when observed by the naked eye.
After making up my mind, I walked up to Zhang Laoblind and held the Yin and Yang Meridian in my hand: "Old Blind, I'll kill you." ”
Zhang Lao Blind also made a salute, I didn't grind any more, a puff of energy, a turn and rushed into a small alley, the outermost circle of stone houses extended inward length is about seven or eight meters, I walked to the second row of houses in two steps, is standing at the intersection, in front of the alley is still a small alley, left and right are two oblique roads.
I stood firm, and immediately turned my head, but I was directly dumbfounded, the back of me was actually empty, and the stone house I had just passed through was gone, not to mention that Zhang Lao was blind, as if I was still standing in the outermost circle.