Chapter 3, Bagua Mirror
Qi Hufei was a very ordinary person in his previous life, born in general, admitted to an ordinary university, doing an ordinary job, and living an ordinary life.
Looking back now, it's like having a pretty ordinary dream, without the sinister of midnight terrors, and without the sweetness of smiling in the morning, I can think of a lot, but I can't really think of anything.
The mirror was found when I went to the old house in the countryside to sort out things, I thought it was an antique, and I went to someone to identify it. The expert only glanced at it and said that it was fake, and the fake was not at the level, and there was no such style in the bronze mirrors of all dynasties.
Qi Feifei has always put it on his desk as a decoration, and he uses it to play with it from time to time.
One day I stayed up late at work, sleepy and tired, so I looked in the mirror and said, "How nice it would be if you were really one!" ”
I couldn't stay up in the middle of the night, so I fell asleep on the table.
When he woke up, he came into this world and became a street child. A red rope was tied to the mirror, and it hung on his chest like a longevity lock.
Many times he shouted in the mirror: Let me go back! You fake!
The mirror was unresponsive.
He wanted to sell the mirror, but the antique store wouldn't accept it, and the price given by the grocery store was not enough for him to eat a bun.
He had no choice but to keep it, so that it could be a thought.
At that time, he still remembered that dreamlike past life.
Until one day, he met an old man who could fly in the sky with a whisk of dust.
Lao Dao said to him: "Young man, Russia sees that your bones are wonderful, you are a unique immortal cultivation genius, follow Russia, and the task of maintaining world peace will be handed over to you in the future!" ”
Qi Hufei felt that this line was a little familiar.
He only asked one question: "Don't you care about the rice?" ”
Then he followed the old road from Nanbu Zhou to Xiniu Hezhou.
This old way is the inorganic son of the master he later called for twenty years.
The mirror was taken away by the master when he was very young, saying that it was used to pay for his apprenticeship.
Twenty years later, he had long forgotten.
Now that the mirror is back in his hand, it reminds him of many things from the past.
Memories are like a hook, hooked to his heart like a dry well, hanging a bucket of old stagnant water, rippling with a gloomy condensation of melancholy.
Something indescribable came up from the bottom of his heart and choked in his throat.
Qi Hufei sighed softly.
I can't go back. After coming to this life, he has lived a good life, picked up a cheap master, although he is a little unreliable, but he has never treated him badly.
Now that you have entered the gate of the Immortal Dao, work hard, and achieve positive results in the future, with great magical powers, maybe there will be a chance to renew the previous edge and the cause and effect of the previous life.
Since the reform of the Heavenly Court, becoming an immortal has been much easier than in the past. It's not that the difficulty of cultivation has decreased, but the rules of becoming an immortal have become transparent.
In the past, everyone practiced their own methods, each went through their own calamities, and finally the way of heaven indiscriminately thundered you on the head, whether you can resist depends not only on your Taoism, but also on your luck.
If you resist, you will become an immortal, and if you can't bear it, you will be wiped out.
Now instead of thunder, a more civilized way is adopted, the exam, to test the mana and moral level of the practitioner.
For this reason, the Heavenly Court established the Immortal Trial Academy, with the Antarctic Immortal Emperor himself serving as the president.
The Immortal Trial Institute has abandoned the past practice names, what Yuanying, Jindan, Huashen, Anti-Void, Twelve-story Building, etc., which are complicated and non-standardized, and are no longer used, and now the rules are unified, and the immortals are divided into twelve grades:
1-3 products are immortals;
4-6 products are earth immortals;
7-9 products are immortals;
10 products are golden immortals;
11 products are Xuan Xian;
12 products are Yuan Xian.
The Immortal Examination Academy is only responsible for the evaluation of immortals, earth immortals, and heavenly immortals, and the grades of golden immortals and above are determined separately by the saints.
According to Qi Feifei's understanding, isn't this the academic exam corresponding to the previous life, junior high school immortals, high school earth immortals, undergraduate immortals, and then masters, doctors, and postdoctoral fellows......
I'm afraid that the Immortal Emperor didn't do it in the Ministry of Education when he experienced life in the Nether.
But it's also good, it's simple and easy to remember, and you don't have to worry about a lot of names you don't understand.
Moreover, the Immortal Examination Institute also published teaching materials, so that small sects and casual cultivators also had relatively fair opportunities to practice.
Qi Hufei has two books in his hands - "Introduction to Immortal Law" and "Fundamentals of Mathematics".
As for the more esoteric "Heavenly Immortal Dao Method", "Advanced Mathematics" or something, he still can't learn it.
Of course, the big sect still has its advantages, people have secret law inheritance, famous teachers to guide them, and there is no shortage of cultivation resources, unlike Huanghuaguan, where the head disciple has to take a mortgage to buy a flying sword.
Alas, still poor!
He remembered the matter of the Ten Thousand Year Chrysanthemum Bat Demon again, the reward of Heavenly Court, the bonus will definitely not be less!
It's a pity that his strength is not enough, even if it really comes to Pansiling, at most it will call the police and get some informant fees, and the big head must be from the Chenghuang Division or the Immortal Shield Bureau.
It would be nice if I could mix up an official errand, the Immortal Shield Bureau didn't dare to think about it, the City God Division would be very good, even if it was a non-staff person, it would be able to divide some points.
Qi Hufei felt the need to put the plan to participate in the immortal examination on the agenda.
With his current strength, it is not a big problem to take the first-grade human immortal test, but the master has no chance to ask him to boil it, so it is best to wait for the mana to go up and go directly to the third-grade.
Because every time you adjust the grade, you have to ...... Pay a sum of money.
……
Qi Hufei thought about it, and fell asleep holding the mirror.
In his sleep, he came to a room in a daze.
The room is octagonal in shape, with a door on each of the eight walls.
In the middle of the house there is a pool about three meters in diameter.
The pool was misty, and there was an ancient smell of desolation. When you look closely, you can see the two air rotations of yin and yang, the black one is deep like the sea, and the white one is as bright as the sky, constituting a primitive Taiji diagram.
Eight symbols are ☰ ☲ ☶ ☱ ☵ ☳ ☴ ☷ painted on the pool platform in the outer circle of the Taiji Pool, which are the eight meridian hexagrams of "Dry Kan Gong Zhen Xun Likundui", which are facing the eight doors of the eight walls.
There are also hexagrams painted on the door, but they are the repeated hexagrams of the six lines, which also correspond to the gossip of "Qiankan Gen Zhen Xun Likundui".
Qi Hufei walked around the wall, trying to push the door, but it was like steel cast in iron, and he didn't move.
Only when pushing the door with the Qiangua (upper ☰ and lower ☰) symbols, the bottom horizontal line segment of the six horizontal hexagrams on the door, that is, the first line of the six hexagrams, flashed.
Well? What kind of organ is it?
I tried to push it again, but the thread flashed again.
He groped around the corner of the door, including the six horizontal lines of the hexagram, but there was no response.
Qi Hufei decided to simply come hard.
No matter what door you have, if you can't open it, just use mana, I, a dignified half-immortal with a C-level imperial weapon certificate, can't I open a door?
He pressed his palms against the door, recited the mantra of the mountain, and the mana continued to pour out from the palm of his hand, and shouted: "Open!" ”
The door, still not moving.
But the first hexagram of Qian, which had just flickered, suddenly emitted a dazzling golden light, starting from the left side of the horizontal line segment, and then slowly moving to the right, as if someone was drawing a line with an invisible gold pen.
At the same time, a set of numbers quickly flashed in Qi Hufei's divine sense: 1, 2, 3...... 43、44、45……
As his mana is output, the longer the thread lights up, the larger the number.
Because of this strange phenomenon, he actually forgot to collect the Fa until his mana was exhausted, his eyes turned black, and he fainted.
Before he fainted, he saw that the changed number was at 250.
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When Qi Hufei woke up, he found himself leaning on the bed, still holding the mirror in his hand.
Did you just have a dream?
But the body is empty, and the feeling of running out of mana is not fake.
As a cultivator with a small success, he hadn't dreamed for a long time.
The so-called people have no dreams.
Controlling the subconscious activity of the brain and reducing unnecessary energy and mental consumption is also a compulsory lesson for practitioners.
Could it be related to this mirror?
Qi Hufei picked up the mirror and looked, and there was indeed a Taiji diagram on the back of the mirror, surrounded by eight sutra hexagram symbols, which was very similar to the Taiji pool in the dream, but it was covered by patina, and it was not clear if you didn't look carefully.
No wonder I felt that place was familiar just now, it turned out to be a vague memory left by the mirror I had carried since childhood.
Turning the mirror to the front again, Qi Hufei saw his face.
This is by no means an optical phenomenon, because the patina on the mirror is so thick that it is impossible to see anything.
But this face is so clear.
Qi Hufei squeezed his eyebrows at the mirror, but he was always motionless in the mirror, with a compassionate look on his face, if he hadn't removed the mirror, he would have disappeared, and he almost thought it was the master's prank, and painted his appearance on the mirror.
Could it be that this mirror can reflect the true nature of the original god?
Qi Hufei somewhat believed that the master had left him a true magic weapon.
But why haven't I noticed it since I was a child? Could it have been transformed by the master?
He looked over and over again, and found that the mirror seemed to be a little thicker than he remembered, but it was only a little bit, and after so many years, he was not sure if this was a memory bias caused by psychological effects.
Probably because the master added some materials for refining.
But if it is not a spiritual object itself, no matter what materials are added, it is impossible to refine it into a magic weapon.
Qi Feifei was a little more suspicious of his crossing.
At this moment, there was a rooster crowing outside, followed by the barking of the old yellow dog.
Qi Hufei hurriedly went out to see.
A red-bellied golden pheasant flapped its wings and flew over the observation wall and landed on the ground in the front yard.
Wangcai screamed and rushed in through the courtyard gate.
Jin Ji yelled: "Don't bite, don't bite, I'm here to report the news!" ”
But Wangcai does not listen to it, and pounces when he opens his mouth.
The golden rooster crowed, and ran away.
The red-bellied golden pheasant is in front, the old yellow dog is behind, a chicken and a dog, and you chase me around the courtyard wall in the yard, cooing, a lively scene of chickens flying and dogs jumping.
Seeing that he was about to be chased by the dog, Qi Hu flew out, and the golden rooster hurriedly hid behind him.
Qi Hufei raised his hand and said to Wangcai: "My own people." ”
Wangcai glared at the golden rooster viciously, in order to warn it to remember who was the identity of the first spirit pet of Huanghuaguan, then slowly turned around, twisted the dog's buttocks, and went out in a hurry.
Qi Feifei said: "Look at you, you scared the chickens again, and told you to be friendly to the children on our own mountain, was the cicada on the tree scared away by you?" ”
The old yellow dog was stunned, and then slipped away, and slipped out of the gate with lightning speed.
Seeing that the old dog was gone, Jinji breathed a sigh of relief and cooed: "Shangxian Shangxian, someone rode a flying donkey up the mountain and came in the direction of Huanghuaguan." ”
"Flying donkey?"
"It's the kind of two-wheeled electric donkey that everyone in the city rides, but it can fly."