Chapter Seventy-Six: The Altar

The entire building was made of wood, and by this time the fire had already burned into our building.

Are we really going to sit still?

But if the passage is not located here, then wouldn't we be burned alive?

Through the window next to the inscription, I looked at the fire of Chongwenyuan, and saw in the sky in the distance, the stars were bright.

In order to study the celestial phenomena, the ancients once assumed that there was a star in the sky, called Tai Sui, and Tai Sui and Sui Xing were just the opposite. The ancients timed, sixty Jiazi, it was one Tai Sui. In fact, the murder of Tai Sui in our lives refers to this Tai Sui. Later, it evolved and said that on the ground corresponding to the Tai Sui Star, there was also a piece of meat Ganoderma lucidum, also called Tai Sui, so the ground on Tai Sui's head refers to this.

I think this year, I'm just a prisoner of Tai Sui, all kinds of disadvantages.

I wanted to let the fire burn me to death, but slowly, it felt like the fire was real, and my face hurt and I couldn't breathe.

Senior Brother Hong was the first to hold back and shouted, "No, I can't stand it." ”

He was about to jump off the stairs and into the pool, and I watched him go outside through the window and hurriedly called out.

He stopped and looked at me.

It occurred to me that if we were burned by this fire, we would really die, because the passage designed by illusion was this window.

I've been thinking about why there are all the divination charts around, but here is a poem.

According to Li Qingfeng's previous hint in "Pushing Back Pictures", this should also be a painting like pushing back pictures, but where is the painting?

When Senior Brother Hong walked out, I thought of an ancient poem: On the blue waves, people swim in the painting.

Then this window, that's the painting.

Through the window, you can just see the fire of Chongwen Pavilion, which is explained as: Suiren planted trees, and Afang Palace bore fruit.

Chongwen Hall is on fire like Abang Palace.

And the next sentence: There is no truth or falsehood in illusion, and there is no death and no life.

The ostensible meaning is that the fire in the illusion is both true and false, and only when it dies can it be brought back to life.

However, in this case, the bet between Li Qingfeng and Yuan Tiangang in front of him will become worthless. I think the illusion he refers to is not the fire in the illusion, but the window, which is picturesque and false.

In this way, it can be compounded with the metaphor of the water mirror of Yuan Tiangang.

There is no life without death, and the sentence is no death, nothing, to live. There is no need to die, the painting of nothingness is the exit.

Then the passage of this illusion is through this window, and the secret of passing through is which hand to climb first.

But which hand is it?

Yuan Tiangang used his right hand, but Li Qingfeng used his left hand. Anyway, give it a try.

Seeing my excitement, Senior Brother Hong guessed that I should untie it, and I didn't have time to explain, so I hurriedly climbed through the window with my left hand, but I was still in this fire.

Senior Brother Hong chose to climb first with his right hand, but still did not go out.

Am I still wrong?

I stood outside the window, lost in thought.

By the way, the mirror, Yuan Tiangang used the water surface as a metaphor for a mirror, so this window is also imagined as a mirror.

The angle outside the window is the angle at which I stand in reality, and it is the angle of Li Qingfeng, climbing with my right hand.

The angle in the window is from the perspective of the painting, the angle of Yuan Tiangang, and the left hand in the painting is actually my right hand (the right hand of Li Qingfeng, the reflection in the water).

In this way, it is unified.

I climbed up the window and got inside.

When he fell, he found himself in a secret room.

Then Senior Brother Hong and the others also followed in.

This illusion, we finally passed.

I was tired and didn't know when I would be able to finish the illusion. I don't know the purpose of Li Qingfeng's illusion.

And every illusion is not only dangerous, but also brain-wrenching, Li Qingfeng seems to be sworn to trap us here.

But now that he has come in, it is difficult to get out, so he can only continue.

I lit the candle in the middle of the sundial again, and the sun on the dome finally rose again, and in a few moments reached the top of the dome, and stopped there.

Time has changed again, and it is time to break through new illusions.

The good news is that if you look at the sun in the middle of the dome today, the first two times are the sun rising, and then there are two more times later, which is the sunset.

We only need to go through this and the next two illusions before the sun can set.

At that point, we should be able to get out.

We passed through the lit door again and came to the third illusion space.

It was drizzling in the sky, and it was as if we were in the woods on a mountain, listening to the shouts of people in the distance.

We walked through the woods and noticed a cliff in front of us, and we slowly leaned over to find that under the cliff was a huge quarry, and countless people were working underneath, shouting from time to time.

Construction in a big way?

The most famous in the Tang Dynasty is the Daming Palace, is it here that the stone was quarried and built?

But not far away, there was a big river, and there seemed to be buildings built on the riverside, like an altar dojo, where all kinds of colorful flags were hung, and a circle of drums was placed around it.

The ancients believed that the mountain capital was a mountain god, so the quarrying would also be sacrificed.

But now, looking at the position of the altar and the direction of the flag, it seems that it is not a sacrifice to the mountain god, but on the contrary, it seems to be in the sacrificial water.

In ancient times, it was rumored that there was a river in the water, and my primary school students learned the story of Ximen Leopard Zhiye.

It is rumored that the gentry and witches of Ye County colluded together to endanger the people, and because of the repeated floods, they pretended to marry Hebo in the river, chose a folk woman, and married Hebo.

After Simon Leopard was appointed as the commander of this place, he learned of the situation and found that the witch and the gentry were just doing things to accumulate wealth in the name of Hebo, and throwing the daughters of people who were unwilling to give money into the river was counted as punishment.

Simon Leopard stepped in to stop this, and the witch and the gentry bewitched the people, and threatened that Simon Leopard would be punished by Hebo.

Simon Leopard pretended to be afraid, followed the witch's words, and threw the witch into the water under the pretense of asking Hebo if he was dissatisfied with his previous marriage. The witch drowned and did not come out again.

Simon Leopard then threw the leading gentry into the water, and asked him to ask Hebo again, and by the way, why the witch did not return.

This official gentleman is also gone.

Simon Leopard pretended to wonder: Why didn't you come back?

Then ask the gentlemen, since you can also get the will of Hebo, why don't you go together and bring the witches back by the way.

When the officials and gentry heard this, they knew that the matter had been revealed, and they were very frightened, and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

Since then, the flooding in this place has also been remediated by Simon Leopard.

Thinking about that Simon Leopard, he was originally upright, but he really had Hebo, so naturally he didn't dare to offend him.

And at this time, the altar at the foot of the mountain is also used to worship Hebo?

Just as he was thinking, there was a sound of drums, and the workers in the quarry climbed to the high place next to them, and then suddenly saw that in the big river, there was a huge wave and rushed towards the quarry.

At this time, a Taoist priest appeared on the altar, wearing a black Taoist robe, holding a magic sword in his hand, and reciting a mantra.

The terrible flood rushed to the altar.

The Taoist priest seemed to have generated an aura, like a glass ball, blocking the flood from the altar.

But the flood went around the altar and ran to the quarry, but fortunately the people ran to the heights, and the flood swept away, and because of the terrain, it flowed back into the river.

I see that the Taoist priest has an aura, which is supposed to protect the things on the altar, but now it is far away, although I see that there are things on the ground in the middle, but I can't see it clearly, and it's hard to guess.

Senior Brother Hong raised the front with his eyebrows, meaning that we should go down the cliff.

There was a light rain, and there was moss on the mountain, which was very slippery.

After walking for a while, I heard the drum sound again, and the flood hit again, and the quarry people climbed to a higher place again, and then a person climbed relatively low and was swept away by the flood.

But the people around him turned a blind eye, as if it was a very common thing.

I suddenly felt terrified that the workers must have experienced more cruelty to become so indifferent.

I have heard before that Qin Shi Wang sacrificed hundreds of thousands of people in order to build the Great Wall, including Meng Jiangnu's husband. Nowadays, everyone only sighs at the greatness of the Great Wall, but cannot feel the sadness behind it.

After a while, the quarry suddenly resounded with a loud cheer, as if something had been discovered.

We hurriedly stopped and leaned on the edge of the cliff to observe.

I saw that in the middle of the quarry, many people gathered, and at the bottom of the mountain, a red boulder appeared.

No, it shouldn't be called a red boulder, because I saw that there was a red liquid flowing from the stone.

It should be said that it is a bleeding stone.

So, what is described in this illusion is not Yuan Tiangang slaying the dragon vein?