Chapter 12 The Thousand Gates
Li Taiyi suddenly remembered that when he participated in "Zhou Yi" last night, his soul was even more condensed. If you can release the power of the divine soul in the form of exercises, you may be able to cause unexpected effects.
Just like the woman in Yihongyuan.
After thinking about it, Li Taiyi immediately urged the sandalwood floating board to find exercises related to the divine soul.
Although there are 10,000 volumes of scriptures in the Scripture Pavilion, there are very few exercises related to the direct use of the divine soul to hurt people, and most of them are empirical Taoist books related to the alchemy array.
When Li Taiyi saw a copy of "Qilin Song", he could inject his soul into the sound, amplify the sound several times, and roar out in the form of sound waves to hurt people, which was somewhat similar to the qin sound and singing voice of the Qinglou woman.
It's a pity that this move can't be targeted at a specific person, and once used, it's an indiscriminate attack. He thought about it for a moment and put it back anyway.
Li Taiyi was just about to open the Heavenly Eye, but suddenly thought of the trace of divine consciousness that swept over him when he entered the Thousand Gate Scripture Pavilion, and he still gave up his plan to open the Heavenly Eye.
Chu Lingyan quietly followed behind Li Taiyi, and intimately helped him carefully flip through the scrolls of exercises.
In the midst of the busy search, a few hours have passed before I know it.
Mrs. Li still found nothing, and just when he was depressed, he saw a wall of the Thousand Gate Scripture Pavilion.
He was puzzled, the spatial formation in this Thousand Sect Scripture Pavilion was extremely mysterious. No matter how the monk travels, he will not see an end, but will only go back and forth around these thousand prayer pavilions. If the monk chooses the exercises and wants to leave, he can control the floating board and see the wall in a few moments. And now I see a wall that I have never heard of, so strange.
He urged the sandalwood relief, and came to the wall, and found that there was a wooden door on the wall, and there was no prohibition on it.
Chu Lingyan saw Li Taiyi stop and asked, "Brother Taiyi, what's wrong?"
"Lingyan. Li Taiyi said, "How can there be a wall here? Look at this wall, there is a door on this wall, do you want to go in and have a look?"
"Wall?" Chu Lingyan asked suspiciously, "What wall?" Xiao Yan didn't see any wall?"
"Didn't you see it?" Mrs. Li was stunned for a moment, "You mean there's nothing here?"
"No?" Chu Lingyan shook her head.
"What's going on, is it an illusion?"
Li Taiyi urged the sandalwood floating board to float forward, and something strange happened, both the floating board and Chu Lingyan passed directly through the wall, only he hit it directly, and he couldn't move forward.
"This ......" Li Taiyi and Chu Lingyan were dumbfounded, this kind of thing had never been encountered.
"Why is it that only I can see and feel this wall?" Li Taiyi thought in his heart.
He glanced at the door on the wall and said to Chu Lingyan, "Lingyan, there is a wooden door here, and there may be my chance inside." You go back to the guest village first, I may not be able to go back for a long time. ”
"It's okay," Chu Lingyan hurriedly replied, "Xiao Yan can always wait for you here." ”
Mrs. Li's heart warmed when she heard this, but she still said: "I know, but it's only two days before the Tianxuan Conference, so you still have the "Qingfeng Blade" first, so that you can have a better grasp at the Tianxuan Conference." ”
"Oh well. When Chu Lingyan heard Li Taiyi say this, she could only urge the floating board, "Then Brother Taiyi take care, Xiao Yan is waiting for you in the guest village." ”
"Got it. Li Taiyi pushed open the wooden door and walked in. Chu Lingyan looked at Li Taiyi who disappeared into the air, sighed, and urged the floating board to leave.
The inside of the wooden door is far less spacious than the outside, an ordinary room, only for the whirling horse. There was no more than a table with a chessboard on it, on which it had reached the endgame. There was a stove next to it, and a teapot was burning with a flame. The water in the teapot was already boiling and making a "cooing" whistle. In front of the table, on a chair that had decayed in some parts, sat an old man with gray hair, his left hand supporting his head, his right elbow resting on the table, holding a white chess piece, motionless. In front of the old man, a teacup was steaming white, emitting wisps of tea fragrance.
Mrs. Li closed the door, and the door was hidden in the wall. He stood respectfully beside the old man, but an hour had passed, and he did not see any movement of the old man.
"Senior?" Li Taiyi called out tentatively.
He was still watching the game with his head down, half-holding the white chess piece in his hand.
Li Taiyi said respectfully: "Senior, the junior has no intention of disturbing, but I accidentally saw a wall in the Thousand Gates Scripture Pavilion with a wooden door on the wall. I hope my seniors will let me out. ”
The old man was still motionless, Li Taiyi felt strange in his heart, and stepped forward, only to find that the old man bowed his head not to observe the chess game, but as if to ...... Asleep......
Mrs. Li was anxious, so she gently pushed the old man, "Senior, wake up first." ”
"Huh?" said the old man, who opened his eyes and said sleepily, "who." ”
"Seniors. Mrs. Li saluted and said, "The junior accidentally strayed into this place, and I hope the senior can send me away." ”
"Huh?" the old man looked at Li Taiyi, "There's a doll?"
"No," the old man muttered to himself, "when will even dolls be allowed to come in this place?"
He stretched out two fingers and put them on Li Taiyi's forehead. Mrs. Li felt that an invisible big hand suddenly cuffed her, and a wisp of divine consciousness swam in the sea of Li Taiyi's consciousness to watch.
Li Taiyi was anxious, and the Nine Palaces Bagua Diagram immediately rotated and released two traces of yin and yang breath to confront that wisp of divine consciousness.
The old man took back his divine consciousness and sighed, "At a young age, the divine soul has reached the real realm, no wonder it can come in." It's just such a strange sea of knowledge, I've never seen it before. ”
Li Taiyi was frightened into a cold sweat, what entered his sea of consciousness just now was only a small wisp of this old man's divine sense, if he forcibly probed more divine sense into his sea of consciousness, and then moved a little bit of his hands and feet, he would become a fool if he didn't die.
"Seniors. Li Taiyi really regretted pushing open the door, "The juniors still have important things to do, and I ask the seniors to let the juniors leave." ”
"Leave?" said the old man, "little doll, don't be in a hurry to go, you can help me see this game of chess." This white child... How can I win?"
"This..."Li Taiyi said stiffly, "Okay, let the juniors take a look." ”
The old man took out a teacup from the void and poured a cup of tea for Li Taiyi with the teapot on the side.
On the chessboard, the sunspots have occupied most of the area, and there is a tendency to encircle and suppress the whites. The few remaining whites are also difficult to protect themselves, so they can only stay in their own corner and wait for the sunspots to entangle and eat step by step.
Li Taiyi frowned and looked at it carefully for a long time before saying, "Senior, this white man will definitely die, it is a dead end." ”
It is not difficult for anyone who knows chess to see that in the face of such a tiger and wolf, the white is just the end of the strong crossbow, and after a few more games, the whole game will be lost.
"Is it a dead end...... the old man said softly, "and many people said it was a dead end. ”
"But, I'm not reconciled to being old... How can it be a dead end......"
The old man seemed to have become more old and decadent all of a sudden, and his unwillingness and disappointment could be seen in his eyes... Or rather, despair.
"This..."Li Taiyi didn't know why the old man was so obsessed with this game of chess, "Can the seniors send the juniors out first, maybe this white chess game will still have a chance to hide between the chess games, and the seniors only need to think more, they will definitely be able to break the dead game." ”
"Hehehe ”
"But they all told me that there was no hope and told me to give up the game. I'm not reconciled, I'm obviously at this point, how can I admit defeat?"
"Fortunately, there is a person who told the old man that there is still a way, there must be a way. He ordered the old man to find out how Bai Zi could live. ”
So the old man locked himself in this place, locked up for a long time, and thought about it for a long time. It's a pity that I'm old and incompetent, after so many years, I still don't have a clue. ”
He touched his snow-like silver whiskers and sighed, "So I thought about it, and fell asleep, and I don't know how long it was." Hehe, at first, my beard hadn't turned gray yet. ”
Li Taiyi was shocked in his heart, he rolled the corner of his eye and glanced at the burning stove on the table, if according to the old man, this pot of tea alone had been boiling for at least several years.
Thinking of this, he lifted the teacup that the old man had handed him and took a gentle sip.
Suddenly, a clear soul power came from the tea, pouring into Li Taiyi's sea of knowledge like a spring, washing away all the dirt of the soul in the sea of knowledge, making him feel refreshed.
Li Taiyi's eyes widened, just a sip of tea just now made his divine soul a lot stronger, as if he had carried out a thorough divine soul purification, making his divine soul refreshed.
"Little doll, come and help me see, if you were a white child, which one would you be?" the old man asked Li Taiyi.
"Uh..." Li Taiyi didn't know why he asked, but he still pointed to one of the white seeds and said, "If you have to say it, it should be one." ”
The white seed fell in the forefront, and the rest of the white seeds were lined up around this white seed, far opposite the black seed on the opposite side.
"This one..."The old man was silent for a long time before he said: "That's it, this game of chess should be powerless... But the old man believes that there will naturally be younger generations who can find a trace of vitality in this dead situation, turn the tide of the tide, and help the building to fall. ”
"You've been here for a short time," said the old man to Li Taiyi, "is there anything I can do for the old man?"
"The juniors don't dare. Li Taiyi hurriedly clenched his fists, "The juniors just want to find a book of exercises that hurt people." ”
"This is easy to say, this is easy to say. The old man touched his beard, "Alas, it's a pity that your realm is too low now." Let the decay find... There you have it, this cheatbook, you put it away. ”
He took out a roll of bamboo slips from the void and put them in Li Taiyi's hand, and the spiritual power lines on the bamboo slips wriggled back and forth like snakes and insects, which was very extraordinary.
Li Taiyi hurriedly put away the exercises and said to the old man: "The seniors are very gracious, and the juniors are grateful. "Then bend down and salute.
The old man hurriedly used his spiritual power to hold Li Taiyi up, preventing him from saluting, and said, "It's okay, you are a doll, you don't need to salute an old guy like me who is dying." ”
When Mrs. Li saw him insisting, she could only clench her fists and say, "Please tell the seniors the names of the juniors." ”
The old man waved his hand: "That's it, I'm afraid that no one in the world will remember my name anymore." ”
The door appeared on the wall again, and the old man smiled: "Little doll, you have been here long enough, it is time to go back." If you don't leave here, you'll never be able to go back. ”
Li Taiyi took a deep look at the white-haired old man and said, "Take care, senior. ”
With that, he opened the wooden door and walked out.
Ying Zhao looked at the place where Li Taiyi left for a long time in a daze, and then raised his head and sighed: "Heaven and earth chessboard, who is the chess piece, who is the chess player......"
Two lines of tears slipped from the corners of his wrinkled eyes.
"Your Majesty, it's great to see you again......"
His body began to become transparent and light, and finally turned into spiritual power fragments and dissipated between heaven and earth, obviously because his longevity was exhausted.
The white piece fell from mid-air and landed lightly on a point on the board. The flame in the stove next to the table was faintly extinguished.