331. Magic Mirror
But Gu Xi showed a strange smile: "Don't you think the atmosphere of this place is familiar?" ”
Familiar? I looked up again, and it was an ordinary passageway, with traces of artificial restoration on the top or on both sides of the walls. This was supposed to be a cave dug out in the middle of the mountain, but the owner may have been afraid of moisture, so the surface of the stone wall was brushed with a layer of material similar to asphalt, and the black and secluded one was probably a specially made waterproof layer.
After looking around, we didn't notice anything special, and by this time we had walked out of the arched doorway, so we were faced with a three-choice question again. Suddenly, I understood what Gu Xi had just said, and this scene was vaguely similar to the one in the Hanging Cave in Yunnan three years ago.
It's just that back then, we were faced with the two gates of life and death, and at this time there were three entrances, but excluding the leftmost entrance that we have walked back and forth many times, isn't the remaining two like the doors of life and death?
Obviously, we have judged that the middle door is the correct way, but this fork is wrong, which is equivalent to forcing us to come back and take the road on the right that we know is a trap.
I turned my head and asked Gu Xi, "What now?" ”
"Two choices, either turn back or continue." He said this, but without hesitation he had already walked into the right lane, and it was naturally impossible for me to stand still.
There is not much difference between the three corridors, and the walls are all coated with a black material similar to asphalt, and the air is very dry. Without the illumination of the light, the corridor became very dark and quiet, but black was not an obstacle at all for Gu Xi, and I used to be, but now although it cannot be compared with day, I can gradually adapt to seeing the outline.
Gu Xi did not take my hand forward as he did just now, but separated himself from me alone. An inexplicable sense of loss arose, and several times I wanted to keep up with him, but he would immediately distance himself from me like an eye on the back of his head, and finally heard him say in a low voice: "Don't get too close to me, this passage may mutate at any time." ”
As soon as his words fell, I felt that the outline of his body suddenly turned into a ghost, I thought it was my eyes that were dazzled, but I blinked, and immediately raised my voice and called: "Gu Xi? ”
Hearing his voice, it seemed to suddenly become farther and longer, and there was even an echo: "What's the matter?" ”
"I can't see you clearly, and why is your voice so far away from me all of a sudden?"
Space paused for a moment before he asked, "Tell me what you saw." I stared at it and said calmly: "Your figure turned into a ghost five seconds before I called you, the visual distance is five meters, the ear hearing should be more than ten meters, and the position is from above." There was another silence, but a strange scene appeared, the silhouette of the ghost was still in front of me, but Gu Xi walked back from the left position. He didn't say anything, but turned around after looking up and down to make sure I was okay, and without explaining what had just happened, he said, "From now on, you follow my footprints, don't take a wrong step." ”
I nodded, but remembered that he couldn't see with his back to me, and just as I was about to open my mouth to admit it, I saw that he was already moving forward, so I had to close my mouth and follow up. This time he walked relatively slowly, and I kept my eyes on his heels at close range, walking at the same pace as him, and finally did not repeat the usual situation just now.
I probably understood that we had encountered some kind of formation, and if I hadn't reacted to call him in time, I am afraid that I would have been separated from him at close range without a sound. I don't know why, the further I walked, the more I felt that the space became hotter, and I was wearing a coat, but after a while, I had a thin layer of sweat on my back, and my forehead began to get wet. I really felt strange, and couldn't help but ask Gu Xi: "Do you feel hot?" ”
He paused, his gaze settled on my face for a moment, then he reached out and pressed my forehead lightly, and then spread his palm in front of me, "Your current feeling is an illusion, calm your heart, and the heat will dissipate." ”
Indeed, there was no wetness in the palm of his hand that wiped my forehead, but when I wiped it, I felt drenched in sweat. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, and after a few weeks, I felt that my mind gradually calmed down, and when I opened my eyes again, it seemed that the heat and dryness were really dissipating, and the damp heat in my back turned into a cold. When Gu Xi turned around, he was exploring again, but found that the clothes inside were a little wet. Somewhat unsure whether this would be an illusion or a reality, Gu Xi said as if he knew what I was thinking: "You are in a cold sweat, there is a horror array in this area, everyone feels different in it, some people are panicked, some people are uneasy, some people have hallucinations, the purpose is to make the people in the formation have no autonomous consciousness." ”
I pursed the corners of my lips and asked softly, "So what kind of feeling do you have?" ”
"I don't feel anything, how can this little formation withstand me."
For a certain person, arrogance is directly proportional to ability, just like Gu Xi. Even though my teeth itched, I couldn't question him.
In fact, after the hallucination disappeared, I felt that the airflow around my body became extremely cold, which made the sweaty fabric on my back seep in layer by layer. I couldn't help but feel anxious, and I couldn't help asking, "How long will it take for us to get out of this passage?" But I heard Gu Xi say slowly: "Silly girl, since we walked in, it means that we can't get out, and the Tao in front of us will extend infinitely, unless it's ......" I hurriedly asked: "Unless it's what?" ”
He whispered word by word: "Break through the void." ”
As his last word came out, my nerves tightened, and I felt a silver flash in front of me, and something came out of his hand. Then there was a dull metallic sound in mid-air, something like something whispering.
Gu Xi raised his hand and silver light broke through the sky again, and this time I could see clearly, it was a lancet.
I wonder how he can put this knife away, how does this work? I saw him pinch the lancet on his fingertips, gently wipe his fingers on the back side, and turn to me and say, "Show you a funny thing, look carefully." ”
The Lancet pulled out of his hand again and shot straight ahead. It was clear to see that between the handle of the lancet and his fingers was a very thin transparent thread, similar to the inside of my beads.
Just two meters in front of us, the lancet buzzed as if it had hit something. As Gu Xi's hand drew in mid-air, the lancet two meters away made a frequent sound and sparks appeared, and the traces of walking were in a straight line.
In a blink of an eye, I saw that the place was cut by the lancet in the shape of a door, but it was obviously vacated, and the sight could still be in the shape of the door frame, and I couldn't think of what the lancet was slashing into.
I only heard Gu Xi whisper "break", and in an instant, the shape of the door cut by the lancet was like glass shattering, and the originally penetrable vision scene in the middle was also split into pieces at that moment, and the fragments disappeared out of thin air with a bang.
I was really stunned by this scene, and it was clear that there was a sound and a sound, but even if I opened my eyes wide, I couldn't see any material shattering on the ground. Was the darkness limiting my eyesight, or was the scene just an illusion?
The silver light swayed, and the lancet steadily withdrew from Gu Xi's fingers, and I looked back at him blankly, only to see that although there was no smug look on his face, the light in his eyes and the silver light of the lancet reflected each other.
He asked, "What was that broken just now?" ”
Gu Xi hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled back: "A magic mirror." But I don't understand, "What's that?" ”
Gu Xi didn't answer and asked: "If I hadn't used a knife to draw the shape of it just now, wouldn't you have seen that there was something in front of you?" I shook my head, and it was. And he changed his tone and said: "Actually, it's not like there's something to cover it, if you don't break this magic mirror, you can still walk through, but you have entered a real road of no return." ”
"What is the point of no return?"
Gu Xiqing's sultry voice rang in his ears: "Yin and Yang Road." ”
In my stunned state, Gu Xi explained the origin of the magic mirror.
Legend has it that the magic mirror is a mirror that can lead to the yin and yang path of life and death, and it has no real appearance, but is condensed by the formation of magic weapons. To be able to set up such a formation is not something that ordinary people do, it must be a person whose magic has reached a certain level of cultivation.
Originally, the existence of this magic mirror was unknown to the world, and it is said that during the Song Dynasty, there was a marquis named Liu Changyuan who was rampant and occupied the king, which caused the king of the Song dynasty to be suspicious, and he was summoned to Kyoto several times to avoid it on the grounds of prevarication. Gradually, the king became murderous, but the people sent to assassinate him several times did not return, and even a group of troops sent to a few thousand people disappeared without a trace. Now the king's heart is furious, what kind of secret trick does this Liu Changyuan have to make all the soldiers disappear?
After a secret visit, it was finally found out that Liu Changyuan had recruited a group of warlocks and formed a killing array around his territory, as long as someone entered the killing array, there was no entry or exit. How could such a distress allow the king to sleep peacefully, and then a eunuch next to him proposed to recruit capable people to break the killing array, this plan was adopted, and a few months later, a person recommended himself to go, he said that not only can break the killing array, but also let this Liu Changyuan cut himself off.
He had traveled to the territory with his army, and all the soldiers had watched him enter the slaughter. Before this, he bluntly told the general who led the troops to wait for him outside for three days, and if he did not come out after three days, he would withdraw his troops immediately, and if he came out, he would take the capital directly.
The general waited until noon three days later and did not see the man come out, because he had made a military order before he came, and if he did not take the capital and return to Beijing, he would die. The general had to grit his teeth and ordered to attack the capital at night, and rushed to the city gate without realizing any murderous aura around him, and the city gate was also open. The general led his troops all the way to the Duhou Mansion, but saw the warlock sitting in the middle of the courtyard with his eyes closed, a few oil lamps lit around him, and strange patterns painted on the ground.
The general stepped forward to summon, but the warlock did not respond even after several calls. So he put his finger to his nose, but he was astonished to find that the sorcerer was dead. During this period, the soldiers searched the Duhou Mansion, except for Liu Changyuan, the rest were there, and then found a secret passage in Liu Changyuan's room, and the general led people to chase and kill, but when he chased out more than a mile, he saw Liu Changyuan's figure in front of him. But no matter how much they sped up, they couldn't catch up with Liu Changyuan, so they could only watch him go farther and farther away, until the general saw with his own eyes that two vague figures tied Liu Changyuan left and right.
The general returned to the top, only to be told that the warlock had woken up before he died. He hurriedly asked the Warlock what had happened, and the Warlock told him that he had almost fallen short. Originally, the general was asked to go out in the evening three days later, but unexpectedly, the general was half a day ahead of schedule, just when the warlock was doing it. At that time, the magic mirror he had formed in the dark passage had just been formed, and Liu Changyuan had not been lured in, because he sensed that someone from the outside world was disturbing him, so he had to enter the soul formation and urge Liu Changyuan to speed up.
The general asked what would happen if he got inside? The warlock replied: The magic mirror leads to yin and yang, and the two vague figures you see are the yin that took him away. The general was shocked when he heard this, isn't Yin Si black and white impermanence? He remembered that there was indeed a white shadow and a black shadow at that time, and when he thought of this, he couldn't help but shudder and break out in a cold sweat.
Originally, the warlock had made a great contribution this time, and the general planned to report to the higher authorities after he returned, but the warlock left quietly that night. So the story of the magic mirror has been handed down, but because of the long time, to the Cultural Revolution to put an end to all feudal superstition, so few people know such legends.
After listening to Gu Xi, I also felt a little exaggerated, and couldn't help asking: "If you walk into the magic mirror, will you really enter the netherworld?" ”
The Yin and Yang realms always seem to be talked about, and even most of the countryside still have some folk customs, but it is really unknown where people will go after death. It may be invisible, or it may actually go to another place.
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