Chapter Ninety-Two: The Chess Game
Li Qingfeng looked up at the sky again, looked at Taibai Xing, and said softly: "When I was young, I practiced in the mountains and wilderness, and the art of calculation was all effective. and he held himself very high. At that time, the world had just been calmed, so he went down the mountain, thinking that by using Taoism, he could help the king and stabilize the world. ”
"Didn't you do it? Do your best for Datang. ”
I saw Li Qingfeng shake his head, and then he began to walk towards the bamboo forest, and I followed.
Soon, it came out of the bamboo forest, which was the Xuanwu Gate.
Li Qingfeng still moved forward, and said as he walked: "Daoist Qihui is the advisor of Emperor Li Yuan, and he once made Louguan brilliant for a while because he received the holy car and fabricated the Wei Wei. Louguan is good at stargazing, which is my specialty. Naturally, I was not convinced, and then chose to assist King Qin, using what I had learned, covering the stars and shifting qi, confusing Qi Hui, so that he could not occupy the future, so that King Qin could successfully launch the Xuanwu Gate Change. It's just that the king became a king and lost the king, although he achieved Emperor Taizong, but it also made many people become unjust souls. It's even more because of one of my broken words: Gu Kunlun has the elixir of immortality. Let the people of the Louguan faction go to Gu Kunlun by order and are trapped there. ”
I followed behind, and the scenes of the Illusion Xuanwu Gate on both sides slowly turned into broken mirror shadows and gradually disappeared.
Next, we seemed to be walking down the aisle of Chongbunkan.
Li Qingfeng continued: "Qi Hui was expelled, I inherited his position, took on the heavy responsibility of predicting for the Tang Dynasty, and the world respected me as a national teacher. We are perfectly matched, as if nothing in the world can escape our predictions. Even if Li Jiancheng's unjust soul led the Yin soldiers to attack the palace at night, we used the finishing touch to crack it. We calculate the future for Taizong and revise the past. It was as if I had reached my ideal state. ”
After saying that, the Chongwen Pavilion ignited a fire, which startled me, but the fire was only bright, not scorching.
The surrounding area burned out, and once again turned into a mountaintop that slashed the dragon vein.
I stood on the top with Li Qingfeng, looking at the blood-red mountain.
Li Qingfeng said: "Master Yuan Tiangang, I didn't want to do such a thing as slaying the dragon vein, but I thought that as long as it was beneficial to Datang, it would be okay, so I persuaded him to use the excuse that the world was finally peaceful and could no longer be moved." The master finally agreed, only sighing. Perhaps, he knows the truth that the cunning rabbit dies and the good bow is hidden. Later, he returned to his hometown and died there soon after. ”
Then, the landslide cracked, and the top of the mountain turned into a flat ground with bulging buildings on both sides, turning into a palace.
This is the side hall where Li Junxian was killed.
Li Qingfeng looked at the glow in the sky (Mars), and said with a wry smile: "In fact, the so-called prophecy is just a prophecy made up by people. If others can make up prophecies, why can't we make up false images, what is true and what is false, what is false and what is true? It's just that people's words are terrifying, and three people become tigers, and they always need an explanation. Just seeing the fate of the master and General Li, I also felt: life is like chess, you and I are chess pieces. ”
After speaking, the surrounding buildings are like ink, blown away by the wind.
And we are standing at the foot of Mount Tai, in front of the underground palace.
Li Qingfeng looked at the sky, shook his head, and said: "There are many things in this world, like a chess game, once you come in, it will be difficult to get out. Qi Hui is like this, Yuan Tiangang is like this, Li Junxian is like this, and the last me, Li Qingfeng, will also be like this. Emperor Taizong has allowed me to compile a calendar in Zhongnan Mountain, but Empress Wu still sealed Zen for her own selfish desires, and used my prestige to let me write a book to seal Zen and involve me. At this time, I realized that it was not me who used Taoism to assist the king, but the king chose me to use Taoism. ”
At this time, we had already walked to the entrance of the underground palace, Li Qingfeng turned his head, smiled at me and said: "Emperor Li Yuan, choose Qi Hui's words, Emperor Taizong chose the original Tiangang dragon vein and my calculation technique, and the Empress Wu, what you need is my reputation." Perhaps, whether they really believe in Taoism or not, they don't know it themselves, but they know that the world needs Taoism, and they need someone who can understand the world better than the world. ”
Li Qingfeng looked at the sky and laughed: "People in the world are afraid of the unknown in the world, and Taoist priests are their sustenance, and they believe that Taoism can solve all mysteries. After Taizong Wu, they didn't care whether the Taoist technique was accurate or not, they just needed a Taoist priest who was beneficial to them, as a chess piece, to suppress this chess game in the world. ”
Li Qingfeng looked at me again and said: "There is a hidden place introduced in "Nanhuaizi", which is the place where this underground palace and Qihui are trapped, do you feel mysterious, unknown, and afraid? ”
I understand what he meant: life is like chess, it is already an endgame, how can you break the game? Only one glance.
Li Qingfeng wanted me to be his pawn and go to the next game of chess.
Who are you playing against?
The adversary is mysterious, unknown, fearful.
Or call it: days.
Li Qingfeng smiled: "I don't know if you want to, and I can't force it, because when I waited for you, I was already in this underground palace at that time, and I didn't know what the alienation had become." I just hope that you can know that in that ancient Kunlun, there is a group of Taoist priests of the Louguan Sect, and they are also waiting for one person to rescue them. ”
After speaking, Li Qingfeng turned around, and then sang: "The wind is uncertain, and people are impermanent." It is better to return home than to wander all your life. ”
Finally hidden in the dungeon, the illusion disappeared, and I stood at the mouth of the empty passage.
I walked back to the Moon Chamber and looked at the moon hanging low.
In the Sun Chamber, the sun is originally in the place of the rising sun, which symbolizes the east. With the illusion of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, the sun sets in the west.
Then I blew out the candles after the sun went west, and then I turned the sundial, and the dusk turned into night, and then the sun became the moon, and then rose in the east.
Now, after experiencing the earth, fire, water, wood, and gold illusions, the moon is set in the west, and then if you rotate the sundial again to its original position, the night will become dawn, the sun will rise again, and the exit will reappear.
This not only confirms the code words on the stone tablet on the top of the mountain: the entrance at dusk and the exit at sunrise.
It also hints at the sentence on the back picture: Time goes backwards.
It's just that the time set by this illusion can go backwards, but Li Qingfeng's life can never go back.
Perhaps, that's why he sang it at the end.
If he is allowed to choose again, he may not go down the mountain, it is better to concentrate on being an ordinary little Taoist priest in the mountains. It's just a matter of the world, once you enter the game, it's hard to leave.
At this time, I felt a chuckle in my heart.
It's not that I'm worried about going to Gu Kunlun, with my current strength, going to go is completely looking for death, and what else can I save.
And Li Qingfeng didn't force me.
Maybe, one day, I will go.
Now, what worries me: Senior Sister Xuanji, they changed their lives for me, is it a big chess game, and now that I am in the game, I am afraid it will be difficult to leave.
I just don't know, who is playing this game of chess with?
I rotated the stone pillars, changing time and space, and the sun rose again in the dome, and I waited in the passage for a while, and came out of the Clear Void Cave.
Standing at the entrance of the cave, I looked back again, the word universe on the stone wall.
Why doesn't "Lin De Calendar" calculate the precession, perhaps, in the end, Li Qingfeng thinks that the world is just the old people replacing the new, everything has not changed, there is no precession.
I returned to Zongqingguan, and during the day, I finally began to prepare for the sacrifice of the fairy girl.
At noon, Zong Qingguan came to a Taoist aunt, about fifty years old, very dignified and beautiful, elegant and decent, very cultivated, holding a black feather fan.
The people of Zong Qingguan seemed to attach great importance to her, and they were accompanied by prisons everywhere, and those Taoist elders of the imaginary generation greeted her very respectfully.
I asked Senior Brother Hong who this was.
Senior Brother Hong whispered: "This is the Dao Gu of the Zhongnan Mountain Stargazing Platform, and the dead Immortal Gu is a senior sister, and the Immortal Gu is not mourning, just waiting for her to come." ”
I don't know what kind of background she has that makes the people of Zong Qingguan pay so much attention to her.
In the afternoon, I inquired about the sacrifice of the fairy aunt, which will be held tomorrow, and I spent a lot of energy in the Qingxu Cave, although I slept in it for a while, I still needed to replenish my strength.
I went to bed early.
In the middle of the night, I suddenly felt someone knocking on the window.
I asked a few times who it was, but no one answered, and when I opened the window, I found that it was a crow, falling outside.
I felt bad luck and drove away a few times, but although the crow flew, it never left.
I was so angry that I rushed outside, and then the crow flew a little farther away, and as soon as I turned around, it flew back again, and so on several times.
I finally understood that this crow wanted to take me somewhere.
I followed the crow and came to the courtyard of the fairy girl, there was a lamp hanging on the tree, and under the lamp stood a person, it was the Taoist aunt of Zhongnan Mountain during the day.
The crow flew in front of Dao Gu, turned into a black feather, and floated down.
Dao Gu received the feather, inserted it into the feather fan, then looked at me and said with a smile: "Xuansheng, you are finally here." ”