The mountain gate goes up another ten meters, turns a corner, and the mountain road is divided into two roads here, one left turns up, and one right turns down. The Tokai team stopped here to watch, and could vaguely see the cornices of the houses near the top of the hill peeking out between the mountains and forests, and they chose the road on the left hand side upward.

After going up another ten meters, the fork repeated, this time going to the top of the mountain on the right-hand side and down the mountain on the left-hand side. At this time, the position of the people could no longer see the eaves of the Taoist temple, and they really couldn't judge which path was correct, so they simply continued to go up.

Walking up another ten meters, there are two forks in front of you, which in turn are the same as the first time, left up and right down, and most people have realized that these forks are strange at this time.

"What to do? Still up? For this situation, Huang Zhike was powerless and had to let the captain decide.

"Go on, it's a big deal to get to the top of the mountain, there will definitely be a way." Sima Fuqiang was also very helpless. When looking at the bottom of the mountain, this East China Sea view is located near the peak without hindrance, but after going up the mountain, it becomes hidden in the "clouds and I don't know where to go".

Along the way, they passed through a total of six forks, and the Tokai team walked all the way to the black, and finally came to the top of the mountain. At the end of the mountain road is a cliff, and at the bottom is the West Creek of Jiulongjiang, but it is still impossible to see the Taoist temple that is close at hand, and Sima Fuqiang's extravagant hope of condescending to find the way has been dashed.

Everyone could only obediently retreat to the previous intersection and choose the downward road to take a look. The result was not much better than this, and the fork in the road ahead reappeared. Realizing that if he continued like this, he would inevitably get lost in these inexplicable forks in the road, Sima Fuqiang decided to return to the original starting point.

But the result was devastating, they could not find their way back, and in all the twists and turns up and down, left, right, and right, none of them could remember the route from which they came.

"What is the sixth power of two?" Huang Zhi asked suddenly.

"Sixty-four." Sima Fuqiang immediately gave the answer.

"That's true!" Huang Zhi looked at the fork in the road in front of him with a solemn face, "This mountain is simply a labyrinth array of sixty-four hexagrams, we have already lost our way." ”

Sima Fuqiang hurriedly asked, "Sixty-four hexagrams?" Heard. Have you researched it? ”

Huang Zhi's answer was disappointing, "I still know a little bit about gossip, and I can only know the sixty-four trigrams." And even if I did, I wouldn't be able to find the way, because we didn't know which of the 64 hexagrams was the right path. ”

"So what now?" Xiaofeng asked what the others were thinking.

"If all the way up is to the top of the mountain, then all the way down is naturally to the bottom of the mountain, so let's go down." Huang Zhi couldn't come up with a better suggestion.

Huang Zhi's proposal is simple to say, but in fact it still can't be done. They were dizzy at the next fork in the road, and they didn't know which one to choose. They chose one to go down, and then the next intersection was two upward forks, and they had to turn back and choose the other one.

They went up and down like this, walked countless wrongful roads, rested several times in the middle, and at dusk, they finally came to the lowest point, which was actually a shallow beach by the Kowloon River. The shallows are surrounded by water on three sides, and behind them is a cliff, and the trail they descended from is on the edge of the cliff, which is still a dead end.

"Why don't I swim back and find the boat? Let the boatman drive the boat to pick everyone up. Although Zhao Meng's method is a little unreliable, it is indeed the only way out at this time.

Judging by the topography, the crowd had not passed through this shoal when they came, so the awning boat in Tokai Town must have been somewhere downstream from here, and if you go downstream, you should indeed be able to find a moored boat.

Just when Zhao Meng was about to enter the water, a series of footsteps came from the mountain road behind him, and several Taoist children appeared in front of everyone.

"Thank goodness!" The members of the East China Sea team cheered in unison.

"Are the donors lost?" A leading Taoist boy asked.

"That's right, I hope this Taoist leader will lead us out of the predicament." Huang Zhi stepped forward, showing a friendly smile and quietly activating his "social" skills.

Dao Tong suddenly felt that the man in front of him had an indescribable sense of intimacy, and nodded without hesitation, "We are about to go up the mountain, and the donor can go back with us." ”

A total of five Taoist boys came to fetch water, each carrying two buckets of water, and after fetching water from the river, they led the visitors from the East China Sea back. Wanyue was going to help them as a token of gratitude, but was rejected with a smile.

"Thank you, donor, carrying water is our homework, so we won't work with you. Speaking of which, you are lucky to have walked to the water intake of our Donghai Temple, and last time someone went around the mountain for two or three days before we rescued him. This 'Sixty-four Hexagram Mountain Dao Array' in our East China Sea View is not simple, even if you follow it once, you will still not be able to find the right path when you come next time. ”

Facing the intimacy that Huang Zhi brought to them, Dao Tong had nothing to say to him.

"Oh, how do you say?" Huang Zhi didn't want to find out other people's secrets, but he couldn't help the curiosity in his heart.

Perhaps because of his confidence in the "Sixty-Four Hexagram Mountain Dao Array", Dao Tong was not worried that these people knew better. "The essence of this formation lies in change, do you know the innate gossip and the acquired gossip? If you know, you can say it, but if you don't know, you can just say it. ”

Huang Zhi's curiosity was aroused, and he didn't care whether he really understood it or not, so he quickly nodded, "I understand a little, I understand a little." The eight mansions of Dongzhou are arranged according to the innate gossip. ”

"That's right." If Dao Tong met a bosom friend, he immediately continued with great interest. "We have eight gates in the East China Sea Temple, and they are also laid out according to the innate gossip, and the main gate facing south is dry. When you enter the first fork after entering the mountain gate, you will enter the scope of the acquired gossip, the upper is yang, the lower is yin, the left is yang, and the right is yin. ”

At this point, Huang Zhi can still understand it for the time being, but the next thing is beyond the scope of his knowledge, just like listening to a book from heaven.

"Every morning, our abbot would take a hexagram and open one of the doors according to the hexagram, and according to the door opened, there would be only one correct way to enter the temple that day. For example, today the abbot has a lesson in the 'Great You' hexagram, so he opens the door, then you need to take the main road to reach the Taoist temple. As for which door will be opened tomorrow, it is not known, so the next time the benefactor visits, remember to ring the big bell hanging on the mountain gate, and someone will come down to guide you, otherwise you will have to get lost. ”

"I see!" Although he was still confused, Huang Zhi finally understood something, that is, the right road was changing every day, and as for the one who left the door and walked the Kun Road, he didn't understand it at all.

Xiaofeng poked his head out curiously, "Dao Chief, how did you get on this dry road?" Is it all the way up? ”

Dao Tong shook his head, "No, 'Dayou' is away from the top and bottom." Open away from the door, take the dry road, the direction of the congenital gossip is in the south, corresponding to the acquired gossip is away. The mountain gate is congenitally Kun, corresponding to the acquired position. The upper and lower hurdles are for 'unfinished', so the correct way is to go down, up, down, left and right. ”

"Why did it appear up and down, left and right?" Xiaofeng's eyes were dark, his brain twitched, and he felt like he wanted to foam at the mouth.

Huang Zhi and Sima Fuqiang wisely chose to give up, sixty-four trigrams for a while, and innate gossip and acquired gossip for a while, which is much more complicated than the Wuhou Bagua Array that Zhuge Liang played back then. In a word, remember to ring the bell the next time you come, and everything will be fine.

Unconsciously, a group of people from Donghai Town, who were stunned by Daotong's words and the mountain road at the same time, finally arrived at the departure gate of Donghai Temple smoothly.

Xiaofeng asked again in a lot of ways, "Dao Chief, what you just said wasn't down, down, left, right, left, and left, why do I see that it was up and down, left and right, it's different!" "It's also a shame that he can remember the way.

"Of course it's different." The Dao Tong glanced at him, "I said that is the road from the mountain gate to the Taoist temple, but the road from the water intake to the Taoist temple just now, can it be the same?" ”

Sima Fuqiang couldn't bear to slap the back of the head of the chattering guy, causing Xiaofeng, whose brain was already knotted, to fall into a coma completely.

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