"Do you smell it?" Ding Yi asked me nervously.

While looking for the source of the smell of blood, I nodded: "I smell it, but the smell is very light, and I can't find the specific location." ”

Ding Yi also followed my example, constantly twitching his nose and sniffing around like a hunting dog.

It's a pity that the yin wind just now gradually disappeared, and the smell of blood also dissipated, and I couldn't smell it anymore.

"It's strange, this tomb should be closed, so this yin wind ......"

Ding Yi scratched the back of his head suspiciously, and his brows furrowed into the word 'Chuan'.

I've seen a lot of evil things, and I'm not too surprised by this, it's just that Leng Bingyue is a living person, and he just disappeared into the closed tomb, how can I not worry?

On the tomb wall, the light emitted by the pattern of the four divine beasts gradually dimmed, and soon returned to its previous appearance.

Ding Yi walked around the tomb, and finally returned to me and stomped his feet angrily:

"Damn, no, the old girl disappeared like air, not even a hair left, if we can't find a way out, we will be starved to death and trapped here."

I don't know what he said, but the four divine beasts suddenly appeared, and they only eliminated the devil's head, but they didn't mean to give us the next step at all.

It seems that we can only rely on ourselves.

I turned around in place, staring at the pattern of the four divine beasts with my eyes for a week, and suddenly remembered something in my mind, and blurted out:

"By the way, Brother Ding, I remember that both the Gray Fairy and the Gray Fairy said that this tomb is a place to suppress the evil spirits, right?"

Ding Yi frowned and squinted and thought about it for a while, then nodded and said, "That's right, I said something like this, so what's the matter?" ”

I pointed to the debris of the coffin all over the ground and guessed, "If I'm not mistaken, this tomb existed before the White Yaksha came in before the White Yaksha brought the devil in, so before that, this ...... And what is it suppressing? ”

Ding Yi obviously reacted after I reminded him like this, and slapped his thigh and exclaimed:

"That's right! This was also discovered by the two seniors by accident, and if we knew what was being suppressed here, we might be able to find a way to go back. ”

I looked around the chamber again, and I always felt like I was about to find something, but I just couldn't grasp the fleeting inspiration.

"Brother, when we came in before, did we have these things on the stone pillar?"

Ding Yi walked to the stone pillar in the corner of the wall at some point, looking like he had discovered a new world.

I followed and wondered, "What is it?" ”

Ding Yi pointed to the stone pillar and said, "Look, there are more patterns on it, and it looks like it's similar to those four divine beasts." ”

I looked closely, and then I realized that there were some more black patterns on the stone pillar, and these patterns looked similar to those four divine beasts, but they were a little different.

"What kind of beast is this?" Ding Yi subconsciously touched the pattern with his hand and wondered.

I searched desperately in my mind for the contents of the Chinese medicine encyclopedia, and there was a volume called "Strange Tales of the Ancients", which recorded a lot of mythological anecdotes, as well as legendary mythical beasts, strange beasts, and fierce beasts......

Wait a minute!

Beasts?

I stared at the beast-shaped pattern on the stone pillar, and saw that it looked like a tiger, a face like a human, a foot like a tiger, and teeth like a wild pig.

In my mind, the appearance of a fierce beast in "Strange Tales of the Ancients" gradually coincided with the beast-shaped pattern on the stone pillar in front of me......

"This is 梼杌!"

My brain tensed and I exclaimed.

Ding Yi blurted out and asked, "What is it?" ”

I explained: "Hanqi, one of the four fierce beasts in ancient Chinese myths and legends, the other three are Chaos, Qiqi, and Gluttony. ”

After speaking, I saw that he was still at a loss, so I had to continue to explain patiently:

"In the myths and legends of ancient times, there were four divine beasts, four fierce beasts and four spirit beasts. You also know the divine beasts, they are the Vermilion Bird Xuanwu, and the fierce beasts are the four I just mentioned. ”

"What about the four spirit beasts?" Ding Yi couldn't wait to interrupt and asked.

I said, "Don't worry, listen to me slowly." One of the four spirit beasts is said to be the same as the divine beast, and they are also the green dragon and white tiger, and the Vermilion Bird Xuanwu, but there is also another saying that they are the four kinds of Bai Zhen, Teng Snake, Bai Ze, and Qilin. ”

Ding Yi touched the pattern of the pestle on the stone pillar again, and muttered: "It's a fierce beast again, it's a divine beast again, what is it that is suppressed in this broken tomb?" ”

I looked at the other three stone pillars with my spine on my back, and then I couldn't help but raise the corners of my mouth and said, "Sure enough, they are the four fierce beasts." ”

Ding Yi asked: "It's just eight patterns, what can you see from this?" ”

I smiled and lifted my spine, pointed to the sun, moon and stars on the top of the tomb and said, "Didn't you notice that these four divine beasts just correspond to the stars above?" ”

Ding Yi scratched the back of his head and said embarrassedly, like a primary school student who had encountered a problem: "That, brother, your big brother Ding, in addition to driving to earn money all day long, is to practice inviting immortals and the like, for these ...... Hey, hey, hey......"

I didn't bother to bother with him, so I could only continue to explain: "In ancient times, the ancients divided the heavens into four houses, south, east, and west, and then formed them after the seven main stars in each house, and then named them after their shapes.

The horns, kang, di, fang, heart, tail, and kei of the east are shaped like dragons, belong to wood, and are called green dragons;

Kui, Lou, stomach, Pleiades, Bi, Mi, ginseng, the shape is like a tiger, belongs to gold, called the white tiger;

The wells, ghosts, willows, stars, zhang, wings, and wings in the south are shaped like birds, belong to fire, and are called vermilion birds;

The fighting, bull, female, void, dangerous, room, and wall in the north are shaped like turtles, belong to water, and become Xuanwu.

The four divine beasts guard the four palaces of the east, west, north and south, ward off evil, and adjust yin and yang, so they have the purpose of suppressing evil things. ”

Ding Yi nodded as if he didn't understand, turned around and pointed to the center of the tomb and said, "Then according to what you say, the central territory, why is there no divine beast to guard it?" ”

I rolled my eyes and said, "You use your brain, this is the tomb, and the suppression is the central thing." Think about it, where is the coffin buried? ”

Ding Yi was not very stupid, and after thinking for a few seconds, he suddenly clapped his hands and said, "Yes, isn't the coffin buried in the soil!" The four divine beasts were used to suppress it around, it turned out to be like this, but ......"

Ding Yi moved his gaze to the four stone pillars in the corner of the wall as he spoke, and the doubts in his eyes were obviously obvious.

There are divine beasts, but why do you need fierce beasts?

I was also thinking about this question just now, in fact, Feng Shui, formations, and even Chinese medicine, etc., to put it bluntly, all follow one word.

That's it—the Tao!

The beginning of the Tao is infinite, Wuji gives birth to Taiji, Taiji gives birth to two instruments for yin and yang, two instruments give birth to four elephants for four palaces, and four elephants give birth to gossip.

Matter by matter, it is inseparable from the word yin and yang.

The balance of yin and yang is fundamental.

One law, ten thousand laws, Chinese medicine talks about this, and other nature is no exception.

In this tomb, since there are four divine beasts suppressing it, now that there are more four fierce beasts, won't they cancel each other out?

"Brother, it's a ...... that is suppressed here Doesn't seem like a thing? ”

Ding Yi ran to the center of the tomb again, bent over and yelled at me.

I rolled my eyes helplessly, limped over, and looked down the ground he was pointing.

I only heard Ding Yi explain: "I heard what you said just now about this direction and that direction, so I wanted to come over to see what the central government was suppressing." But when I swept away the sawdust from the coffin, I found that there were still patterns on the ground, as if they looked similar to those beasts. ”

I used my spine to pick up some of the surrounding debris and dust, and finally saw clearly the pattern of the beast that Ding Yi said.

"It's ...... Four spirit beasts! ”

(End of chapter)