This mound is carved on the stone platform in the center of the Yellow River, and it appears in the cracks in the road, as if this stone platform is a behemoth in the Yellow River, revealing one of its vigilant eyes to us.

This mound eye was several times larger than anything I had seen before, about the distance of an adult's arms outstretched.

The old bustard came to his senses from his surprised expression, and suddenly smiled, "Such a big mound eye, it seems that this time it is really the mound of the old monster of the charming woman!" I've been looking for so long, and this boiled duck has finally been delivered to my mouth. ”

Tang Haitang and I are also delighted. We were worried about finding the whereabouts of the Demon Mound, but we didn't expect that the place brought by the cypress tree really happened to be right.

The cypress tree should know more or less what we are talking about, and its eyes are constantly looking at this "eye" with curiosity.

"Don't be stunned, hurry up and the guy and get down to business!" The old bustard threw the duffel backpack on his shoulder on the ground, opened it and flipped through the dick, "Hurry up and open the mound eye and go down." lest the Spies of the Buddha's Hand Society be one step ahead. ”

The old bustard took a five-emperor coin and walked to the mound in front of him, squatted down, and according to the previous routine, he used this Manchu coin that "has the essence of the five elements of heaven and earth, yin and yang, and solves the defects of the six gods and no owner" to carve a "lock" on the mound eye, and used its effect of driving away evil spirits and avoiding evil to force the mound eye open.

But the bustard felt that something was wrong the first time he went down.

As mentioned before, this mound eye is formed by the demon qi attached to a substance, and after years of accumulation, this qi itself has spirituality, which is equivalent to a rudimentary little demon. And most of the demons are yin and afraid of yang, so when the five emperor coins were used to draw a line on its surface, the line drawn would flow blood, just like making this "little demon" injured.

However, the bustard's first stroke did not shed any blood, but only scratched a normal scratch. We and the bustard both felt strange when we saw it, and we didn't know what was going on this time. The old bustard did not give up, and made a few strokes in a row, but it was still the same.

The old bustard felt puzzled, looked at the mound eye again, and noticed that there was something unusual in it, but it just refused to bleed, the old bustard raised his hand and looked at the five emperor coins in his hand again, confused: "Grandma's, what's going on?" There was no response for a long time. ”

I wondered, "Could it be that this coin is a fake?" ”

The old bustard denied: "Impossible, I have used this Five Emperors coin for a long time, how can it be a fake, besides, I have been doing this business for some years, I am afraid that I will not be able to distinguish the truth from the fake of this kind of Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties?" ”

I said, "Why don't you try some more yang-heavy magic weapons?" Let's see if we can scratch the blood. “

The bustard thought that this would work, so he bent down and planned to take out a few more things in his backpack and try it out. However, at this time, he was suddenly stopped by Tang Haitang:

"No need to try."

We turned our heads towards Tang Haitang, and we saw that Tang Haitang's eyes were looking at the mound eye at this time, his brows were slightly wrinkled, and the muscles on his face seemed to be slightly exerting force. Then, she continued, "It's not the coin's fault, it's Tsukame's own problem. ”

The old bustard was curious: "Tsukasan's problem?" ”

Tang Haitang nodded: "Yes, I feel that the mana of this mound eye is very strong, and nine times out of ten it is the demonic aura of the big demon of the Charm Woman, but this strength alone is not to the point that the Five Emperor Qian can't open it even a little." ”

"What was that?"

"The reason why it was like that just now is because this mound has been blessed with a layer of enchantment."

"Enchantment?"

When the rest of us heard this word, we were all puzzled, including the old bustard, and there was a hint of strangeness on his face, and it seemed that he didn't seem to know much about it.

Tang Haitang explained to us: This enchantment is a space to resist foreign enemies formed in the form of a formation to store mana and then form a blessing place, which has means such as gossip, five elements, and tai chi. At first, it was the method used by the Yin and Yang family at the end of the Warring States period to protect their sacred area, but later they were stolen by demon beasts and often borrowed their own demon methods to use them on their own mounds, which was equivalent to adding a door to their mounds and increasing the difficulty of entering the mound.

After that, Tang Haitang had already walked in front of the mound eye, she squatted on her knees, pointed her finger at the "eye" in the center of the mound eye, and motioned for us to look.

We looked at the place Tang Haitang pointed to, and after such a careful scrutiny, we noticed that in the round shape of the mound eye, there were eight holes the thickness of the thumb, arranged in an orderly order in the eight-sided direction.

I curled my head: "What is this?" It looks a bit like a crab hole. ”

Tang Haitang's eyes were still looking at the mound eye, she didn't look up, and said softly in her mouth: "Eight doors." ”

"Eight doors?" I still didn't understand the words that Tang Haitang said, and I was confused again, "What's that?" ”

Tang Haitang did not rush to answer my question, but took out a brass-colored disc from his arms and held it in the palm of his hand. It was a compass printed with dense gossip and other words. At this time, she raised her head and said, "It's the eight gates in Qimen Dunjia." ”

Suddenly, it turned out to be the ancient Chinese art book "Qimen Dunjia"! Grandma once told me about this, it is rumored that this "Qimen Dunjia" was created by the Nine Heavens Xuannu, which is the first secret technique in the three secret treasures of Qimen, Liuren and Taiyi, and is the first of the three styles, and is known as the highest prediction of Huang Lao Taoism, known as the study of the emperor.

Tang Haitang held the compass in his hand directly above the "eyes" of the mound eye, and the gossip on the compass happened to correspond to the direction of the eight holes. Tang Haitang stared intently at the changing pointer above, and said: "Qimen Dunjia is divided into Qi, Gate and Dunjia, and the 'door' here refers to the eight gates, namely, "Open, Rest, Life, Injury, Du, Jing, Death, and Shock." ”

The old bustard's eyes were also looking at the compass in Tang Haitang's hand. He told me before that although he had been in the business of stealing demon mounds for several years, what he was not good at was Kanyujutsu, especially the use of the compass, and he only knew a little bit about it.

The old bustard asked, "What are these eight gates doing here?" ”

"It's used to conceal demonic energy. The reason why you didn't respond to the words you used the Five Emperors money just now is because the real mound eye is hidden, and what you just scraped was just a simple stone surface. ”

"Hidden? What do you mean? Could it be that this mound eye has really cultivated into a little demon and hidden? ”

"No, it's the demonic energy attached to the mound eye that has been dodged, and without the blessing of the demonic energy, the mound eye we see is just an empty shell."

"And where is that demonic aura hiding?"

"Dumen. Du Gate inside the Eight Gates. Tang Haitang said as he continued to change the compass in his hand. It seems to be like the gold and gold points described in the Kanyu book, "It's just hiding." ”

The compass in Tang Haitang's hand is different from what I have seen before, the middle pointer is around, and around the outside is the "circle" where the three rings can move, and this "circle" is divided into many small grids in turn, and the small grids are carved with dense hexagrams and characters.

"Dumen corresponds to the hexagram, the so-called Huo Kemu, Gong Lingen, Kun Ergong, no worries about life, and it is a place to hide and hide."

After that, I saw Tang Haitang's hand on the compass from the inner circle to the outer circle in turn, and the upper circle rotated rapidly, making a clattering gear sound. Tang Haitang plucked while chanting the mantra:

"Yin and Yang are obedient and rebellious to rob the demon mound, and the second to return to the first nine palaces. Recognize the nine palaces as nine stars, and the eight doors go by the nine palaces. The nine palaces are the value symbols, and the eight doors are self-distinguishing. ”

(Later, the bustard told me that Tang Haitang was reading this mantra of the Qimen Dunjia technique on the Demon Thief Mound, also known as the "Forty-two Character Mantra", which is often used to judge the direction of "Qimen", "Eight Gates" and "Liujia" in Qimen Dunjia.) ）

The pointer on the compass swirled, and after a while it finally stopped, pointing to a hole in the northwest corner of the mound. This should be what Tang Haitang said about Dumen.

The old bustard pointed to the hole and asked, "Miss Tang, is the demonic energy of the mound eye hidden here?" ”

Tang Haitang nodded. Then she removed the bottle of black dog blood from the old bustard's luggage, opened it, and poured all the dog blood into the hole in the northwest corner.

I know the intention of Tang Haitang's move, before that, my grandmother had used black dog blood to make the mound visible. Because the demon mound and the dog's blood yang are yin and yang. And Tang Haitang's purpose is this, he wants to force the demonic energy hiding in Du Men back into the eyes of the mound.

When the last drop of black dog blood dripped into the hole, I saw that the rocks around the hole suddenly cracked with a click, and then I saw that the lines of the tomb eye suddenly flashed with a black faint light, as if this tomb eye came to life.

At the same time, as I looked at it, my mind suddenly drifted a little, as if the eye was beginning to stare at me.

Tang Haitang turned his head to look at the old bustard: "Take advantage of now!" Lettering! ”

The old bustard immediately fell to the ground, holding the Five Emperors coin tightly in his hand, and quickly carved the word "鍖" on the mound.

Every stroke of this "chain" finally oozes bright red blood! It is impressively displayed above the mound eye.

Thundered!

There was a loud bang on the stone platform, as if a giant was shaking the stone platform. All four of us were a little untenable. I thought that this shaking would only last for a short time, but after ten seconds or so, this movement still did not stop, but became bigger and bigger!

"That's not right!" The old bustard frowned, realizing that something was wrong, and then finally reacted and shouted, "This stone platform is going to collapse!" ”

Before the old bustard finished speaking, he heard a loud click, and the mound eye suddenly split in half from the middle! The cracks crackled and expanded along the original cracks on the stone platform, like a rapidly moving python, and suddenly divided the entire stone platform into countless pieces! Then I heard another click, and the entire stone platform cracked and collapsed!

We suddenly had no place to stay, and fell under the Yellow River in an instant!

At the same time, the originally calm water of the Yellow River suddenly became fluctuating, and the sound of water was loud.

"! It's a whirlpool! The old bustard shouted in surprise, "Run!" It's a whirlpool! ”

Uncle Bai was also flustered, and pandered: "Hurry! Swim towards the location of the wooden boat! Uncle Bai was already in the water at this time, and he wanted to swim hard in the direction of the wooden boat by relying on the perennial water.

But at this time, the river around us began to sink continuously, and the speed of the water was constantly accelerating, and the fluctuations were like a flood becoming bigger and bigger, and finally forming a surging whirlpool!

I panicked and wanted to shout, but by this time the river had already obscured my full vision, and I could not see the slightest shadow of others.

The water of the Yellow River mixed with a large amount of sediment entered my mouth and fell into my nasal cavity. My head buzzed suddenly, and I heard only the voices of the bustards growing quieter and quieter, and finally disappearing as if they had been extinguished, and at the same time my eyes were plunged into endless darkness.