Chapter 168: Underwater Temple
The gap in the underground waterway is 100 meters long, in a regular circle, and the influx of river water has driven the silt at the bottom of the river, but the sediment at the bottom of the river is very thick, and it is impossible to see what is hidden under the sediment at the bottom of the river in a short time, but one thing is for sure is that this gap was dug by man, and the monitor lizard just dug it again.
At present, all the two can do is wait quietly, the upstream river water is still flowing to this area, and the river water that has existed in this area will flow into the deep pit together, and the amount of water poured into the deep pit will be slightly greater than the amount of replenishment, so that the river water stored in this area will be exhausted in two hours at most, and only the river water flowing upstream will be left.
"The pit is three miles deep, and the four-legged snake was washed down, and it is being quickly swept downstream at the moment." Jade Whisk frowned and spoke, the monitor lizard's body was attached to Gu poison, and Jade Whisk could feel its position
"You're being washed down." Zuo Dengfeng turned his head and asked, if the distance of three miles is a flat road, it is nothing, if the drop reaches three miles, it will be terrifying, it is very sad to enter the underground three miles to find the earth branch, but if the monitor lizard is washed down, it proves that there is nothing in the underground waterway, and the owner is under the mud and sand in this area.
"Yes, it's moving faster than it was swimming before." Jade Whisk nodded and said.
"Great." Zuo Dengfeng nodded and smiled, his mood relaxed, and then he noticed that he was still carrying a rabbit in his hand, and walked to the fire and roasted the rabbit stick.
As the river quickly fell into the pit below, the sediment deposited at the bottom of the river began to loosen, and the river water washed into the deep pit in pieces, and a huge temple appeared under the riverbed.
In China, the place where the monk lives is the temple, the Taoist priest lives in the Taoist temple, the word temple is misinformed by later generations, the temple in China refers to the place to worship various gods, the age of the appearance is earlier than the temple and the Taoist temple, the gods are not the same, the style is similar to the Taoist temple, and the eight treasures of the Buddhist temple are completely different, because the temple rose when China did not have Buddhism.
The temple appeared below, Zuo Dengfeng and Yufu were not strange, what surprised the two was that the temple at the bottom of the river was not soaked in water, there was an invisible barrier at the top of the temple, and the sediment was deposited on this invisible barrier, at this time the sediment on the barrier was not completely washed away by the river, and the thick sediment was suspended out of thin air, and the situation was extremely strange.
Within five miles below the barrier are all flat bluestone, only the middle area is a lonely temple, the temple is also a bluestone pile, covering an area of about two acres, the four corners are upturned, each squatting gold cast owl kiss, the owl kiss is one of the nine sons of the dragon, non-royal buildings are not available, the statue of the owl kiss here shows that this temple was built by the royal family or princes, the image of the owl kiss seen today is the head of the dragon and the tail of the fish, but before the Tang Dynasty, the kiss of the owl is not the image of the fish tail, but has four limbs, It can be seen that the age of this temple building is before the Tang Dynasty.
"Something is wrong, something is wrong." Zuo Dengfeng frowned and shook his head again and again.
"Isn't it normal to have a formation?" Jade Fu responded.
"The formation can indeed produce invisible power to isolate a certain area, what I am strange about is not this formation, but the building inside is wrong, the dragon gave birth to nine sons of the first appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period of China, the four corners of this temple below are squatting kisses, and the kisses have limbs, which indicates that the age of the construction of this building is between the Spring and Autumn Period and the Tang Dynasty, not the Shang and Zhou periods." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said.
"You mean to say that this temple was built later than the Shang and Zhou dynasties." Jade Fu asked.
"At least five hundred years later, this building is not a building of the Zhou Dynasty." Zuo Dengfeng frowned and shook his head.
Yu Fu didn't speak again when he heard this, because the situation in front of him was diametrically opposed to what the two of them had expected, this formation was not laid by Jiang Ziya, but by someone else, but it was the earth branch that was trapped inside, otherwise it would be impossible for the monitor lizard to appear nearby, so the clues were extremely messy, and the whole thing not only had the overlap of historical years but also the overlap of different purposes, and the only thing that was certain at present was that there were still people in the future who used this earth branch.
"No matter what, it is certain that there is an earth branch trapped in it, and it doesn't matter whether the earth branch is dead or alive, the most important thing is that its inner dan is inside, otherwise it is impossible for that monitor lizard to stay in this vicinity, let alone dig a waterway to use the drop of the river to take away the sediment deposited in this area." Zuo Dengfeng spoke again, the inner dan is the root of the interconnection between the earth branch and the poison derived from it, if the earth branch loses the inner dan, the poison may not recognize it.
"What are we going to do now?" Jade Fu nodded and asked.
"Wait, wait for the monitor lizard to come back and see what it does." Zuo Dengfeng Zhengse said that what the monitor lizard did naturally had its purpose, and he could only continue to observe it at present.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the iron shoes came back and brought back the news that the river gushed out under the waterfall three hundred miles away, and continued to rush along the river path, and the monitor lizard was also washed out there, and was now returning quickly in the woods on the west side of the river.
After reporting the situation, Iron Shoes began to complain that Zuo Dengfeng had roasted the rabbit, but this did not affect his appetite, and it was okay to be paste.
At about five o'clock in the afternoon, the monitor lizard also returned, and it went around the upper reaches of the river, and when it reached this area, it dragged a dead elk in its mouth, but when it came back, it was not able to enter the barrier, but lay on its stomach above the barrier and looked around, by this time the river had been diverted and slowed down, and it lay in the middle of the river and exposed most of its body.
"The branch inside should still be alive, and the four-legged snake wants to feed it, but what is it waiting for?" Jade Whisk stretched out his hand and pointed at the monitor lizard in the river.
"Wait a minute." Zuo Dengfeng opened his mouth, he had already understood the gist of the formation, and knew that the formation would be affected by factors such as solar terms and hours.
At eight o'clock in the evening, Zuo Dengfeng's heart was raised, and when it came at nine o'clock, the monitor lizard did not have any reaction, still dragging the elk to lie on his stomach above the barrier, Zuo Dengfeng had been pinching the watch, just after eleven o'clock, the monitor lizard suddenly fell from above the barrier, it fell very suddenly, the elk in its mouth fell off, and the monitor lizard jumped high after landing, dragged the elk above the barrier down, and then dragged it into the temple.
"Waste, a waste of Lao Tzu's time." Seeing this, Zuo Dengfeng was immediately furious, and in anger, he extended his aura and grabbed a piece of bluestone beside him and threw it into the river.
"What's wrong?" Jade Fu looked at him puzzled.
"The formation will be affected by the hour, the twelve earthly branches correspond to the twelve hours, in the hour it corresponds to in the formation to receive the poison that communicates with its breath, if the monitor lizard falls from nine o'clock to eleven o'clock, it means that the temple is the pig, but after eleven o'clock, it is the time of the child, which means that it is the mouse that responds to the monitor lizard, what is the use of the mouse of the yang genus." Zuo Dengfeng threw out a bluestone again, and the bluestone could not enter under the barrier, but rolled into the deep pit on the south side.
"You're sure." Jade Fu asked with a frown.
Zuo Dengfeng nodded, the formation he arranged in Qingshuiguan was similar to the formation here, the pine wood stained with his and the blood of the thirteen was placed by him next to Wu Xinyu's coffin, the pine wood communicated with him and the breath of the thirteen, so the formation of Qingshuiguan was ineffective for them, and the situation here is also the same, the rat was trapped in the formation as an eye of the formation, and it could not move, but the breath of the monitor lizard communicated with it, so the mouse could weaken the power of the formation within the hour that belonged to it, so that the monitor lizard could bring food in.
"What now?" Jade Fu asked.
"Go to the west and look for that water yin pig." Zuo Dengfeng said and picked up the wooden box, no matter how weird things here are, it has nothing to do with him.
"Don't look north." Yufu also picked up the futon.
"According to historical records, the country of Pu and the country of Ji are not on the same river, so there is no need to go north." Zuo Dengfeng nodded and said.
The two of them unified their views, and the iron shoes naturally had no opinion, and carried the wooden box with them.
The three of them did not turn back this time, but crossed the river with luggage and equipment on their backs, the river is not narrow, and it is difficult for the three of them to cross the cultivation, and this formation here is just for the three of them to step on.
The three of them bent their knees together and volleyed, the jade whisk aura cultivation was slightly worse, and he first fell on the invisible barrier to borrow strength, and then the iron shoes fell, and he stepped on the barrier a few feet curiously before borrowing the power to volley, among the three, Zuo Dengfeng cultivated the highest, and he was the last to borrow strength on the barrier, but what he didn't expect was that he was not as solid as the jade whisk and the iron shoes, but went straight through the invisible barrier and fell into the barrier.
The sudden change shocked Zuo Dengfeng, and at the critical moment, he first found that Thirteen had not fallen with him, looked up, and found that Thirteen had fallen into the knee-high river above, and was rapidly fluttering in the water at the moment.
In a hurry, Zuo Dengfeng didn't have time to check the situation left and right, and immediately jumped out of the barrier after landing and hugged Thirteen.
"I can go down." Zuo Dengfeng held Thirteen in the air and temporarily froze his body.
Hearing the sound, the jade whisk and the iron shoes immediately swept back and came to Zuo Dengfeng's side.
"I'm free to come and go in this formation." Zuo Dengfeng said to the two.
"Why can't we?" Iron Shoes asked curiously, they were only half wet of their pants, and Zuo Dengfeng was covered with water stains all over his body at the moment, and the fool also knew that he had indeed fallen before.
"I don't know, I'll go down and take a look." Zuo Dengfeng quickly handed the thirteen to the iron shoes, took off the robe and handed it to the jade whisk, if he wanted to bother to go down, he would definitely not go down, by the way, why not.
"Be careful." Jade Whisk nodded and said.
"It's okay, that monitor lizard is a grandson on land." Zuo Dengfeng's anti-luck aura began to fall, but the strange situation reappeared, this time he couldn't go down to the formation, but stood on top of the formation.
"Give me the robe." Zuo Dengfeng swept to the two of them with his strength, and took the robe from the jade whisk.
At this time, the momentum of the jade whisk and the iron shoe was exhausted, and they fell into the water, and they also stood still, and the question was on the robe.
This situation made the three of them extremely puzzled, especially Zuo Dengfeng, he knew that his robe was just an ordinary robe, and what he valued was only its commemorative significance, and the robe itself did not have any peculiarities.
Since there is no problem with the robe, it can only be that something in the robe is related to the formation, thinking of this, Zuo Dengfeng quickly took out the death-free gold medal that he had picked up in the python's lair from the robe.
After a try, the problem is on this death-free gold medal,