Chapter 13 Entrance
And so it was!
After Chunting's intentional or unintentional prompting, I looked ahead seriously, and after careful observation, I could finally confirm that the place where this breath first appeared was the gazebo where Chunting told me the story of what happened back then!
Although there was only a brief conversation at the gazebo, I was very impressed with the gazebo.
At first glance, the gazebo is the same as the gazebo seen in daily life, the same is divided into octagonal, four pillars are erected, there is a stone table in the gazebo, three or two stone benches, from a distance, it seems that there is nothing special.
However, after a careful look, it is not difficult to find that on the octagonal of the pavilion, there are craftsmen who carved the eight heavenly dragons in the Buddhist gate, and on the four pillars of the pavilion, they are carved with the four protectors of the Buddha gate.
Whether it is the Eight Heavenly Dragons or the Four Heavenly Kings, both of them are the gods used to protect the Dharma in Buddhism, and no matter what, they should not appear in that small pavilion.
And here is the Great Xiangguo Temple, the Buddhist rules and precepts are very strict, it is impossible to let the craftsman make such a mistake, in this case, what kind of mystery is there in this small pavilion, can actually work the eight heavenly dragons and the four heavenly kings for its protector?
At this moment, the strange aura became thicker and thicker, and as this aura corroded, a bold idea suddenly appeared in my mind.
Could that gazebo be the entrance to the path of the Yin Soldiers?
Daxiangguo Temple is a royal temple, and there will certainly be no deviation when the craftsman builds it, and taking a step back, even if there is a deviation when it is built, then in the thousands of years of its inheritance, as long as someone finds this non-compliant place, it will definitely be rebuilt, and it will never be retained.
I believe that in these thousands of years, it is absolutely impossible for me to be the only one who has discovered the strangeness of this pavilion.
Obviously, this pavilion has not changed at all, and we can still see the eight heavenly dragons and the four heavenly kings in this pavilion.
This invisibly proves to us that the regulations in this pavilion are indeed the original intention when it was built, and it is by no means a mistake or omission on the part of the craftsman.
And just after Chunting and I left the pavilion and returned to the meditation room, Juekong asked where we went, Shen Lang spoke quickly, and told him that the two of us were returning from the pavilion, and after getting such an answer, Juekong's eyes suddenly appeared a glimmer of essence.
At the same time, Juekong said inexplicably, Chunting and I are dragons and phoenixes among people, so we know that nothing can be hidden from us.
At that time, I was still quite puzzled by this sentence, Chunting just told me the story that happened back then, why would someone say that the dragon and the phoenix were in the middle?
And if my bold conjecture is correct, and the gazebo is the entrance to the path of the Yin Soldier, then everything becomes reasonable.
We already knew that the person who built the Great Xiangguo Temple in the first place was the same descendant of Xinling as Juekong, in other words, this person must have known where the true entrance to the path of the Yin soldiers was.
Either to highlight the importance of this place, or he used some secret method to set up a formation and seal for this place through the Eight Heavenly Dragons and the Four Heavenly Kings, in short, this unruly pavilion was made by him, and it has been passed down here for thousands of years and has never changed.
Maybe Chunting guessed that the pavilion was the real entrance to the way of the Yin soldiers, so he chose to tell me the story of the year there, but he didn't tell me at the time, because this is the secret that Juekong has guarded for generations, so he didn't overstep his bounds.
And when he learned that Chun Pavilion and I were returning from the pavilion, Juekong naturally knew in his heart that among the two of us, someone already knew the true entrance of the way of the Yin Soldier, so there was something that could not be hidden from us.
At the same time, such speculation can also reasonably explain why after we returned to Daxiangguo Temple again, Juekong, who said that he would go with us, never showed up.
Juekong didn't have any other plans, and he didn't regret his decision, the reason why he didn't come forward to meet him was because he now had a more important task, that is, to race against time to open the entrance to the path of the Yin Soldiers.
And the reason why the steps under the feet of the Spring Pavilion were still so firm when no one led the way was because he already knew that the real entrance to the path of the Yin Soldier was in that pavilion!
Although this is just my speculation, it is reasonable, there is no contradiction, and after some careful combing, I am more firm in my opinion, and at the same time, I have also clarified what the strange atmosphere we are feeling now.
This breath is not the evil breath mentioned by Chunting before, but the Yin Qi contained in the way of the Yin Soldier for thousands of years, Juekong should have opened the entrance to the Yin Soldier Dao by now, and after the entrance is opened, the Yin Qi contained in the Yin Soldier Dao leaks out, which will be noticed by us.
Just when I was excited to tell Chunting my guess, I saw him wave his hand lightly at me.
I hadn't said anything, but he seemed to have a complete grasp of what was going on in my mind, and though he didn't say anything, he nodded at me, suggesting that everything was as I had guessed.
Although I thought about it a lot, it was actually only a moment, although I was a little puzzled by Chunting's approach, but I could see that he seemed to be worried, so I didn't ask too much, tried to pretend that I didn't know anything, and continued to follow him.
Soon, under the leadership of Chun Ting, we came to the source of the gloomy and cold aura, and sure enough, as I expected, it was the same pavilion that he and I had come to before.
And Juekong, who has never been seen, is standing in front of the gazebo at this time, waiting for our arrival with a smile on his face, and in his expression, four big characters are written unabashedly.
Fortunately, he was not dishonored.
My gaze crossed Juekong, looked at the pavilion, and found that the eight heavenly dragons and the four heavenly kings were completely different from before, before these two were just mortal clay sculptures, but now, these two look like living existences, and the treasure is solemn, so that people dare not look at it directly.
And in the middle of the pavilion, that is, the location where the stone table and stone bench were placed before, there is no trace of the stone table and stone bench now,
Perhaps due to the mechanism, I saw that the ground in the middle of the pavilion had now been split in two, and in the open ground, a series of dark black stairs were revealed, which meandered downward, as if leading to a deep and invisible netherworld.
Seeing this, I knew in my heart that we were about to embark on this path of Yin soldiers that had been silent for thousands of years!