At this point, Yang Daoye glanced at us, and then asked in a deep voice: "Everyone, do you believe that people have eternal life?" ”

As soon as Yang Daoye's words came out, everyone was shocked, and then they saw Bai Long shaking his head and saying, "I don't believe it." People are human beings, not immortals, let alone demons and monsters, how can there be immortality? From ancient times to the present, how many people have blindly pursued eternal life, both alchemy and Qing cultivation, and even Qin Shi Huang worked hard for immortality, and in the end, he was not deceived by the warlock Xu Fu, and in the end he didn't get anything......"

"But what if there really is?"

Yang Daoye said: "In the past hundreds of years, Tianzhufu has been secretly studying two words, the first is eternal life, and the other is also closely related to this 'eternal life', you may not believe it when you say it, that word is ...... 'Dragon Gate'......"

"Longmen? Are you sick? ”

After listening to Yang Daoye, I couldn't help laughing. And he said, "The dragon gate, the dragon gate where the carp jumped over the dragon gate?" ”

"That's right, it's that dragon gate." Yang Daoye nodded firmly, and I laughed again.

I heard this story when I was a child, and it is like such a popular fairy tale, just like the fairy tales of Snow White and Cinderella, which have long been ingrained and believe everyone should know.

The so-called 'Yellow River three-foot carp. Ben is in Mengjinju, the amount is not a dragon, and he returns with all the fish'.

I remember the story of 'Carp Jumping over the Dragon Gate', which tells the story of a big mountain called Longmen Mountain, and a god built a dragon gate in front of the mountain, and the dragon gate is located on top of Yishui, and the huge pedestal under the dragon gate blocks Yishui, so it accumulates into a large lake on the south side of the mountain. To rejoice in the garbage.

The carp gate in the lake began to jump on the dragon gate, trying to jump over, but no one could jump over, and in the end most of them gave up, except for one carp that was unwilling to give up, let the companions block and laugh, it kept jumping and jumped, and finally jumped from the dragon gate. As a result, it fell into the clouds behind the dragon gate, and was burned off by a heavenly fire that fell from the sky, and then fell into the lake behind the dragon gate......

When the other companions saw it, they thought it was dead, but they didn't know that it had turned into a golden dragon and soared into the air.

When the companions saw this, they all rushed to jump up the dragon gate, but this time no one could jump over.

Because of this story, it also leads to a very interesting anecdote, which is that the carp in the Yellow River have a black spot on their foreheads, and the source of this spot is because the carp fell into the lake and fell out alive when they jumped up the dragon gate......

I remember when I was a child, my mother told me this story a lot, and then after telling it, she taught me to be motivated, to work hard, and never give up halfway. My ears are calloused when I hear it......

And when he saw me smile contemptuously, Yang Daoye smiled and said, "Boy, I know you don't believe it, but what if I tell you, then the Dragon Gate is real?" ”

Yang Daoye's smile was bright and mysterious, and as soon as he spoke, I was stunned.

Then I only heard Yang Daoye say again: "The mystery of eternal life has indeed been buried in the world for thousands of years, but the great Confucian king Yangming of the Ming Dynasty accidentally discovered the location of this dragon gate, and then Tianzhu Mansion has been investigating, and gradually has some eyebrows ......."

"You mean, this dragon gate does exist?"

After I finished asking, Yang Daoye nodded, and the next sentence surprised the three of us even more -

"The Dragon Gate not only exists, but it is also the gate of the fairy palace in myths and legends - 'Nantianmen'."

Yang Daoye's Arabian Nights made us even more stunned.

Nantianmen should be familiar to everyone. Because it has almost been mentioned in many novels of gods and demons in ancient times, especially the part of "Journey to the West" where Sun Wukong made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, which directly hit the Lingxiao Treasure Hall from the South Heavenly Gate, stirring up the Heavenly Palace of the Jade Emperor.

I remember that the South Heavenly Gate should be the main gateway to the Heavenly Palace in various legends and stories, since ancient times, not only have the stories of the Four Heavenly Kings guarding the South Heavenly Gate, but even in a certain version of the story of the God List, Jiang Ziya, who finally ended the sealing of the gods, was sent to the South Heavenly Gate to guard forever, which shows the importance of this portal to the Heavenly Palace.

It is even mentioned in the story that the outside of the Nantian Gate is ordinary, and after the Nantian Gate, it is already the realm of the gods, so there are often demons and monsters who want to break through the Nantian Gate, but they all end up in ashes.

And the dragon gate, since ancient times to the present mentioned dragon gate story seems to be only one, that is, the legend of "carp jumping over the dragon gate", although the "dragon gate" and "Nantianmen" are both doors, but classified together, it is inevitably a little strange, because in the story of "carp jumping over the dragon gate", the dragon gate is on the ground, and even blocks the river on the ground; And the South Heavenly Gate is on the side of the Heavenly Palace standing high above the nine clouds, how can the two be confused?

But before we could react, Yang Daoye had already come in-

"Dragon Gate, the legend is that it was opened by Dayu, although no one has seen it, and no one can be sure whether it exists, but Tianzhu Mansion has been secretly investigating this matter for hundreds of years, and finally has an eyebrow-"

According to Yang Daoye, there are only two reasons why Tianzhu Mansion connects the legendary Dragon Gate with Nantianmen:

For one, the two doors serve the same purpose.

Longmen, we know very little about it, and even Tianzhufu only knows that it was built by Dayu during the period of Dayu's water control.

Dayu, because of our gradual understanding of Guishan during this time, this name is no longer unfamiliar to me, because it was he who once launched the war of slaughtering gods and brought earth-changing changes to the world.

According to the "Three Qin Records", "Longmen Mountain is in the eastern boundary of the river, Yu Chisel Mountain is more than one mile broken, the Yellow River flows down from the middle, and the two banks are not open to vehicles and horses." Every year in the spring, there are yellow carp from the sea and the rivers to compete for it. In the middle of a year, the person who climbs the dragon gate is only seventy-two, and when he first climbs the dragon gate, there are clouds and rain that follow, and the heavenly fire burns its tail from behind, and it is resistant to turning into a dragon', similar records, and it is also more common in ancient documents......

Subsequently, Yang Daoye briefly told us the story of Dayu's excavation of the dragon gate.

Roughly speaking, when the water of the Yellow River passes through the gate of Dayu, it is confined between the mountains and valleys, and the end is Longmen Mountain, which is impassable, so the river rises and floods many surrounding villages, making life miserable.

Later, Dayu knew that after digging the river near Longmen Mountain, and cast a dragon gate, the closer the river is to Longmen, the wider the riverbed, the roaring Yellow River is constrained by the canyon, and then it became furious, and began to rampage to crash the canyon, but it was squeezed in the riverbed by the mountain valley, the wild waves can only fly out of the dragon gate along the river channel dug by Dayu, the river rushes to the sky, and then trembles from the air and falls into the valley bottom, forming a waterfall, like an angry, huge yellow dragon in general, therefore, Dayu saved the lives of hundreds of people on both sides of the strait......

After telling this story, Yang Daoye said: "It is also recorded in the "Three Qin Records" I just said, after Dayu opened the dragon gate, every year under the dragon gate there will be countless carp want to jump over the dragon gate, because jumping over the dragon gate can become a dragon and soar, but there are very few who can successfully pass through the dragon gate. It can be seen that the "Dragon Gate" mentioned in the story of "Carp Leaping Dragon Gate" is the same as the "Dragon Gate" dug by the legendary Dayu when he controlled the water, and through the story of "Carp Jumping Dragon Gate", we can also make a preliminary assumption: Why can the carp fly into a dragon after crossing the Dragon Gate? Could it be because of ...... The inside and outside of the Dragon Gate were originally two different worlds, and these two worlds were originally only separated by one door? ”

When Yang Daoye said this, everyone had already fallen into deep thought-

Dayu, Longmen, the battle of slaying demons, Guishan ......

As I thought of this, I thought again of the line of poetry I had found in the sarcophagus.

A farewell to Mangdang, two degrees of life, three stars will gather sometimes, and the Qilin Cave will live forever......

Could it be that there is some mysterious connection between all this?