Early the next morning, our group had all gotten up, and I took another inventory of the things I needed, as well as some safety climbing equipment, and everyone changed into outdoor hiking shoes and clothing, and everyone looked energetic. The girls carried clothes and toiletries in their backpacks, while the men carried camping tents, headlamps (miner's lamp hats), glow sticks, flashlights, waterproof matches, walkie-talkies, some canned food and necessary medicines, and some life-saving tools. I have the imperial dagger given to me by Ouyang Liu's father, and Yang Tiancong, in addition to a dagger, also has a pistol, of course, he also carries his compass, and each person also carries a compass in case he gets lost.

This "Picture of a Lady in a Neon Dress", which is about one meter long, Yang Tiancong asked his two bodyguards to change their shoulders, and the two bodyguards are also our drivers, and they are very loyal to Yang Tiancong. Just because I have to compare the meridian lines with the river map Luo Shu on the "Lady in the Neon Dress" along the way, and I also need to identify the weft with the fastened celestial star feng shui at night for intersecting positioning. Such a large and precious Danqing Mobao must be transported by someone.

Kunlun Mountain, the first sacred mountain in China, is known as the "source of the Chinese dragon vein". It is a majestic mountain system in central Asia and the backbone of the mountain system in western China. Kunlun Mountain west from the Pamir Plateau, across Xinjiang and Tibet, east through Qinghai Province to the northwest of Sichuan Province, a total length of more than 2,500 kilometers, an average altitude of 5,500-6,000 meters, a width of 130-200 kilometers, the total area of the mountains across the area of more than 500,000 square kilometers. It lies like a long dragon in the western part of China, and is known as the "Asian spine". Kunlun Mountain has a prominent position as the "ancestor of all mountains" in the cultural history of the Chinese nation.

But the above statement is only the geographical Kunlun Mountain, in the long Chinese culture, Kunlun Mountain refers to the sacred mountain Xianling in the southwest of China, for example, there are historical records that the Qinling Mountains also belong to the Kunlun Mountains, Shu Mountain, Minshan is also called "Kunlun Mountain in the sea", those mysterious mountains in the northwest and southwest of China. In ancient classics and myths and legends, it is all called Kunlun Mountain. Even, in some myths and legends, Kunlun Mountain is just a mountain, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas? The sixteenth of the Great Wilderness West Classic says: "In the south of the West Sea, on the shore of quicksand, after the red water, before the black water, there are big mountains, and there are hills called Kunlun. There are gods and men with faces and tiger bodies, and there are texts and tails. It's all white. There is an abyss of weak water under it, and there is a mountain of fire outside it. There are people, hoopoe tiger teeth, leopard tail, hole, name West Queen Mother. There is everything in this mountain", ancient mythology believes that there is a fairy "Queen Mother of the West" living in Kunlun Mountain, with a leopard body. Served by two bluebirds. It is the Taoist god, and the prince of the East is in charge of the male and female cultivation of immortals. Kunlun Mountain has been the birthplace of immortal Taoism since ancient times, and countless myths and legends started here.

The lofty mountains we are in are the mountains in the northwest of the Sichuan Basin. The mountain system here is the eastern branch of Kunlun Mountain, according to the direction pointed by the river Tuluo book in the "Ni Dress Lady", I have been able to know the mountains for a long time, and I can identify the mountain trend of the Ziwei Big Dipper with the number of river maps. This is the "warp"; And the trend of the seven stars of Yuxu Betelgeuse is the latitude, and it is necessary to deduce the number of Luoshu. To perform Luoshu, you need to observe the celestial phenomena, so to determine the specific location of the hanging city at the intersection of longitude and latitude, I also need to watch the celestial feng shui at night.

I found the trend of the Ziwei Big Dipper, which the locals call "the Great Black Mountain", and we started to explore it from a village at the foot of the Great Black Mountain. Although we didn't have a definite destination at the moment, we did find a guide in a local mountain village to try to find the best path to where I was looking. After all, although the destination is set by me, but none of us are familiar with the mountain road, in this kind of vast 100,000 mountains, sometimes you see the destination in front of you, maybe close at hand, but you will find that there is a mountain cliff between them, to bypass this cliff to reach the opposite side, but you have to walk dozens of miles of mountain roads, this situation, in my years of travel, I have also encountered several times.

The guide is a strong farmer in his thirties in the small mountain village at the foot of the mountain, and he is still a bachelor, let us call him "Big Tiger", the big tiger has an honest temperament, and there is always a happy smile on his face, and the two big buck teeth are smoked like a layer of yellow paint by the tobacco leaves he planted and rolled in the mountains, looking at the smile on his face, it seems that he has never had any knots and worries, and he can't lose his temper. For two hundred dollars, he would take us a few days of mountain roads until he thought they were beyond his sight. Seeing others so easy-going and honest, and listening to his introduction, he has been herding cattle in these mountains since he was a child, busy farming, farming and hunting, and he is familiar with the mountain roads within a radius of hundreds of miles. I asked Lao Yang to give him 2,000 yuan, 1,000 yuan, which is regarded as the road fare, and another 1,000 yuan, so that he can save it to ask for a daughter-in-law as soon as possible, which is our little red envelope. Dahu accepted the money, and he was even more affectionate to us than his parents. A few years ago, guns were not banned in the mountains, and people in the mountains could still go in and out of the mountains to hunt at any time, and now all the homemade guns have been confiscated and controlled by the government.

The main peak of the Great Black Mountain is not high, and the ground is only seven or eight hundred meters above sea level (the elevation of the Sichuan-Yunnan junction itself is more than 2,000 meters), but the mountain is huge, and the grass and trees are luxuriant, the bluestone on the mountain is dense, and the mountain body is black from afar, so it is named. Walking into the Great Black Mountain, you will be close to some primeval forests, but the big tiger has always hunted and collected herbs here, and is very familiar with the mountain and stone trails between the mountains and forests. According to the "Lady of the Ni Dress", the meridian of the number of the Ziwei Beidou River map of the Hanging City should be from this big black mountain all the way to the north, and the number of meridians of the Ziwei Beidou River Map and the number of parallels of the Yuxu Betelgeuse Luoshu intersect at one point, and the intersection point should be where the Hanging City is. According to the specific displacement ratio between the seven stars of the Ziwei Big Dipper on the painting, the length of the Ziwei Beidou meridian should be four or five hundred kilometers long, but where is the specific intersection with the Yuxu Betelgeuse parallel, and how far we have to go on the mountain road, we can only take one step at a time to "calculate" one step, and I will make a specific calculation in the evening.

At the beginning, the mountain road was still very gentle, and it was rare to cross some ravines, mainly walking on mountain meadow paths, mountain rock forest paths, but the further you went in, the steeper the mountain road became. Sometimes she encountered some small cliffs, Ye Jiaoyi didn't even dare to look at them, so the big tiger carried her on her back and stepped over with a vertical leap.

After a morning of walking on the mountain road, we ate some dry food in an open area, rested for a while, and then resumed our journey. The mountain road is getting steeper and steeper, and there is a section of the road that even requires us to walk with our backs against the rock wall, and there is a cliff more than ten feet high under our feet. Yang Tiancong saw that Ye Jiaoyi and Huang Ying were very frightened, so he tied a lifeline to the two of them, and the two ends of the rope were tied to him and a bodyguard.

So all the way to dusk, Ye Jiaoyi, Daniel, Huang Ying fell behind us a lot, I saw that the sun was about to set, and when I asked the big tiger, the big black mountain was almost at the end. And the mountains ahead are all primitive old forests, infested with wild beasts, and we are currently camping on a lawn here.

Blood blisters had already been ground out on everyone's feet, especially Ye Jiaoyi. She is a wealthy daughter, how can she have suffered so much, while complaining about the hardships, but on the other hand, she swears that she can hold on, she has fine skin and tender meat. Exquisite and beautiful, so that everyone is very pitiful.

The sun was setting, and the valley was filled with the howling of wild beasts. The mountain ape cried, and everyone sat on the mountain rock to chat, or play with mobile phones and tablets. In the valley, the mobile phone signal comes and goes, and even if there is, it is extremely weak, but when I first entered the mountain, I tied a red rope to the big tree along the way, which was what I told Du Bingchan on the phone, leaving a mark for her and the cliff student, and when she found the cliff student, she would follow.

I saw the big tiger lying on a bluestone slab, leisurely smoking a cigarette with a long pipe, pinned with a long machete, I saw that the sky Chang Gengxing has appeared, Yang Tiancong came over and took out the GPS locator, saying that we have been climbing mountains and wading through rivers since the morning, but only more than 30 kilometers away. However, the 30-kilometer road in the mountains is not as good as the 30-kilometer flat road, and sometimes the steep mountain is a mile away, and the flat road may have walked more than a dozen miles. I immediately asked Dahu: "Dahu, how far do you have to go here, you don't know the road?" ”

The big tiger stood up, looked at the mountain in the distance for a while, pointed to a mountain peak that appeared in the distance, and said, "When I go to that mountain, I can't go any further." ”

"How far is that?" Yang Tiancong asked.

"I don't know how far, I guess it's going to take two or three days." The big tiger spit out the smoke, his homemade cigarettes can be called "scuds", and a burst of smoke made Yang Tiancong and I cough.

"What is that mountain called?" I see that the big tiger seems to have something unspeakable.

"Bun Cliff." Big Tiger blurted out.

"Molars?" Ye Jiaoyi, who was not far away, laughed when she heard it, "How can there be a mountain with such a strange name?" ”

"It seems that there are also people called 'Demon King Cliff', maybe the people in our village are called Shunkou, so they call 'Steamed Cliff', hehehe." Seeing that several girls next to him were laughing, Dahu was also a little embarrassed.

"Big Tiger, why can't you go to that mountain?" I stared at him, "I don't think you have anything to say." ”

"This, this ......" Dahu scratched his ears for a while, "Our people here, our ancestors have never entered that mountain, saying that there are immortals living in that mountain, and there are demon kings living in it, and no one dares to enter it." ”

"No one has ever been in?" Yang Tiancong looked at me, in his opinion, isn't it just a mountain, it is okay to say that there are man-eating beasts in the mountain, and it is nonsense to say that there are gods and devils living in it.

"Decades ago, three old hunters in our village chased a few muntjacs, chased to the mountain, at that time two people did not dare to go again, saying that the ancestors on this mountain did not dare to step in, but another hunter was reluctant, insisted on entering the mountain, two people said to wait for him outside the mountain, but never waited, the person went in and never came out, this is one thing." The big tiger spit out a puff of smoke again, "Another thing, that is, one year, all the wild beasts in the steamed bun cliff ran out, wild boars, leopards, monkeys, muntjac, all the wild things rushed out like running for their lives, this is what I saw with my own eyes, when I was picking herbs in front, that is, the birds in the sky, all flew out of the mountains densely, at that time a few of us thought there was an earthquake, and immediately ran to the flat ground, but where was the earthquake." Later, some people said that these birds and beasts in the mountains disturbed the demon king's sleep, and the demon king became angry and drove all the birds and beasts out. ”

"Just by this little thing, it can show that there are ghosts and gods in the mountains?" Ouyang Linna said on the side, "That old hunter may have stumbled and fallen off the cliff while climbing in the mountains, and those wild beasts rushed out, it may be that there is a mountain fire in the mountain, or some other natural phenomenon, which can be explained by science." ”

"Still. One more thing, this is genuine, it's been in the newspapers! The big tiger's tone rose, and the sky was already dark, which made the atmosphere of the scene suddenly tense, Ye Jiaoyi and Huang Ying hurriedly approached a few of us, not daring to stay far away.

"This was also a few years ago, and there was an oil exploration team in our village, about a dozen people, looking for oil in our neighborhood. I was also looking for someone to lead the way in our village, and I searched for a long time in several nearby mountains, but I didn't find it, so I took a fancy to the steamed bun cliff and let people lead the way, no one dared to go to the village, and no one dared to go to the oil team for a lot of money. The oil crew went on their own, because they had to pull their big equipment into the mountains, and they couldn't get up from our side. They went around to the other side of the mountain, a county on the Yunnan side, and entered from the mountain over there, where some equipment could be pulled up to the Baobun Cliff. Do you know the result? A dozen or so people went missing, only two escaped with blood, one went to the hospital and died, and one went insane. I couldn't say anything, and the matter went to the newspapers, but later it was said that the news was blocked. No one is allowed to spread the word. According to the people in Yunnan, behind the mountain of the Manbun Cliff is the entrance to the palace of the king of Hades, from which all the ghosts come out. Anyway, these things are more and more mysterious, so many years, I have never seen anyone enter that mountain, and I have never heard of anything else, that is, you don't make trouble yourself, don't offend the gods and ghosts there, and the ghosts and gods there don't trouble you, if you drill into it, then you will definitely suffer. When the big tiger said this, his tone changed again, "I see that you have been going in the direction of the Bun Cliff, and I don't know where you are going, I see that when you are almost to the Bun Cliff, you will take a detour, and if I still know the road, I will continue to bring you with it, if I don't recognize it, then I can only come back." Anyway, I don't dare to go in, and you must not go in. ”

I looked at Yang Tiancong, and each other's faces were a little surprised, the steamed bun cliff was not very obvious in the night, but it happened to be on the purple Beidou meridian of this "Ni Dress Lady", if, according to the astrological signs, the jade void Betelgeuse latitude line was found before the steamed bun cliff and intersected with the meridian, that is, the direction of the hanging city was before the steamed bun cliff, then it would be fine. If the warp and weft intersect on the back mountain of the Steamed Bun Cliff, or if they intersect exactly at the Steamed Bun Cliff, then you have to walk into this "ghost mountain" anyway.

has reached this point, all the causal mysteries are in the eternal mystery of the "Hanging City", if you really want to enter the steamed cliff, even if it is a knife mountain, the ghost king mountain where thousands of ghosts gather, I must also break through, this is called "knowing that there are ghosts in the mountain, biased to the ghost mountain".

At that moment, I won't say anything, if the allusions that the big tiger said are true, I'm afraid that in the steamed cliff, either there are some strange beasts and birds of prey hurting people, or it may be that the magnetic field in the mountains is different, affecting the aura of the human body, so that it may confuse the vision and make people unable to distinguish things.

Lao Yang happened to have the same idea as me. This tough guy, for many years, has been running around the world to solve the worries of the women in the family, and now after my resolution, Yang Guifei's ghost rhetoric, suddenly realized that the evil omen of the women in the family is actually related to the Tang Dynasty anti-bone Huangchao thousands of years ago and the Tianting Sect he established! Now it seems that all these causal mysteries can also find some decomposition from the Hanging City, after all, Huang Chao's body was moved into the Hanging City by the Yang Clan's Lei Yan clan, even if Huang Chao's life is alive in the world, it is not difficult to guess that it will definitely have contacts with the Hanging City. At this moment, the truth is equal to being in front of him, even if he is facing a sea of swords and fires, he has to fight his life to break through. What's more, I haven't told him yet: he once gave his mother the Heavenly Pupil Bead he found, and his mother is suspected of being transferred and stored in the Heavenly Hearing Sect's evil life, the key is that according to the record of "Mending the Heavenly Record", the five beads will gather in the Hanging City! This shows that the Heavenly Pupil Bead in his mother's hand will also arrive in the Hanging City - these causes and effects are recorded in the Shadow Heavenly Book "Mending the Heavenly Record", and I must not leak the heavenly opportunity according to the words of the ancients. If Yang Tiancong knew about this, he would definitely have to die in this "Mountain of Ghosts and Gods".

I heard Lao Yang say to the big tiger: "Big tiger, if the place we are looking for is in the steamed bun cliff, then we have to enter the mountain no matter what, no matter what bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods there are, they can't stop us!" When the time comes, if you want to go into the mountains, you can go back, and we will not force you. ”

"Hey, if you really want to go into the mountain, I can't help it, no one has ever gone inside, and I don't know how to go." The big tiger shook his head and lit another smoke cannon.

After everyone ate dry food, they went back to the tent after a short time, it was nearly November, this deep mountain and old forest, the temperature plummeted, and after a while, the cold people shivered, everyone had to add clothes and bedding to sleep, Yang Tiancong arranged two bodyguards to change shifts and keep vigil.

I turned on the flashlight, looked at this picture of "Ladies in Ni Clothes", and deduced the number of Luo Shu against the seven stars of Tianxing Yuxu Betelgeuse, and calculated for a long time, and roughly deduced that the latitude of this Jade Void Betelgeuse is about more than 160 or 70 kilometers away from us. According to the fact that we have only walked more than 30 kilometers in one day today, it is estimated that it will take at least five days to reach the place where the latitude lines intersect!

(To be continued.) )