Chapter 177: On the banks of the Dadu River
A black Land Rover off-road vehicle was parked on the road, Ling Feng leaned on the front of the car and smoked a cigarette, looking at the rushing Dadu River.
Dadu River, with the names of Beijiang, Jishui, Shushui, Moshui, Tonghe and other rivers in ancient times, originates from the southern foot of Guoluo Mountain in the Animaqing Mountains in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai, and is the largest tributary of the Minjiang River, a tributary of the Yangtze River in China.
More than 100 years ago, the Taiping army led by Shi Dakai, the winged king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was wiped out in the Dadu River, according to legend, on the eve of the destruction of the Taiping army, a huge amount of gold and silver jewelry was buried in a secret place along the Dadu River, and a treasure map was also circulated at that time, which was written on the map with the hidden words of "facing the water and leaning against the mountain, and the treasure in the meantime".
During the Anti-Japanese War, Liu Xiang, chairman of Sichuan Province, obtained Shi Dakai's treasure map and secretly dispatched thousands of sappers to excavate it. At the foot of the hill behind Gaoshengdian on the south bank of the Dadu River, the sappers chiseled dozens of meters from the mountain wall and found three large caves built with huge stone bars. Liu Xiang's sappers dug two holes, only found scattered gold and jade and a large number of broken weapons, and began to dig the third cave, Liu Xiang received an order to go out of Sichuan to resist the Japanese, and was forced to stop digging treasures. In order to prevent others from discovering the treasure, Liu Xiang ordered the cave to be blown up. During the Anti-Japanese War, Liu Xiang's treasure map was lost, and most of the soldiers who participated in the excavation of the treasure died on the front line, and the excavation site at that time also suffered landslides and mudslides, and the specific location of the treasure is no longer known.
Jiao Daren is operating a laptop computer placed on the front car cover, which scans the topography map along the Dadu River from the thirties of the last century to the present. Today, most of the place names marked on the map no longer exist, and the level of map surveying and mapping was limited at that time, and many subtle places on the map were very different from reality, which caused great trouble to the specific positioning work. In addition, in recent years, there have been frequent earthquakes in Sichuan Province, which have caused many changes in the terrain and landforms, and it has become almost impossible to find the location of the treasure with the help of old maps.
"Tiger, show me the treasure map in your hand again." Jiao Daren said to Ling Feng without raising his head.
"Didn't you already scan the treasure map into your computer?" Having said that, Ling Feng still took out a drawing from the satchel he was carrying. The drawings are old, the surface is full of tiny cracks, there are traces of smoke and fire, and in some places there are still mutilations, but they are still basically intact. The ancient drawings are clamped with a special film designed to protect ancient paintings and calligraphy, and they appear quite flat.
"Ah Ye, do you think this treasure map is real?" Jiao Daren glanced at the ancient drawings and carefully compared them with the drawings scanned on the computer screen, don't look at his developed limbs, but his mind is by no means simple, and doing technical work is his strength.
The ancient map simply outlines the topography of a place, and the upper right corner of it is written in small block letters with the words "facing the water and leaning against the mountain, and the treasure is in the middle", which is the treasure map of the Taiping Army that Shi Dakai.
The treasure map was given by Han Han, and it is said that someone stole the original product from the collection room of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, and it was accompanied by a codex recorded by Liu Xiang when he excavated Shi Dakai's treasure.
This time, what Ling Feng and the three of them were looking for was a staff called "Angelic Blessing", which was a holy relic of the Holy See.
The predecessor of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was the Worship of God founded by Hong Xiuquan, who had studied doctrine in the West when he was young, and because of his outstanding talent, he was trusted by the high-level of the Holy See at that time, and was received by the Pope many times. Later, Hong Xiuquan was ordered by the Holy See to come to China, which was still a wild place in the eyes of Westerners at that time, to spread the doctrine, and before leaving, the Pope gave Hong Xiuquan two holy weapons, one of which was the "Angel Blessing" staff. The other, which Ling Feng had seen before, was the "Cloak of the Holy Spirit" on display in Beijing.
The "Cloak of the Holy Spirit" contains a strange power, Ling Feng has personally experienced it, and it is the same to think that the "Angel Blessing" is the same, so that he can become one of the holy weapons of the Holy See. It's just that this kind of power and the internal force that Ling Feng cultivated were a power of a completely different nature, faintly echoing the power contained in the magical rainbow in his mind. At the top of the pyramid in the belly of Jiuzhaigou Mountain, the magic rainbow urged the divine giant sword to deliver a shocking blow, sweeping away the massive evil monsters on the top of the pyramid, including two long-horned demons. After that, Ling Feng could no longer mobilize the power contained in the magical rainbow in his mind.
Ling Feng had also speculated about this.
In ancient times, monks were divided into three categories: mages, warlocks and samurai, and whether it was external fists and feet, or internal kung fu, they all belonged to the category of samurai. The lineage of mages and warlocks is gradually submerged in the torrent of history for unknown reasons. Warlock Ling Feng has never seen it, but the mage has seen one, the black-robed shaman of the Holy See, Winster? Gaff, because Ling Feng doesn't know Winster? Gaff's cultivation, so it's not certain whether the so-called mage today refers to a mage who was one of the monks in ancient times.
The samurai pay attention to refining and refining qi, refining qi and transforming gods, refining gods and returning to emptiness, and pursues the unity of heaven and man, and the exchange of life. People have upper, middle and lower three dantians, the upper dantian is in the place of the Dumai Yintang, also known as the "mud pill palace", which is hidden by the gods, the middle dantian is in the middle of the chest, and it is the gathering of the sect qi, and the lower dantian is in the Ren Maiguan Yuan acupoint, three inches below the umbilicus, which is the place where the essence is hidden. The upper dantian is the root of sex, and the lower dantian is the lifeline, and if the life is handed over, you can get through the big and small Zhoutian, and reach the realm of refining the gods and returning the void. People have the three treasures of essence and spirit, and the dantian is a place where the essence is hidden and the spirit is collected, which is like "the root of life".
Ling Feng's internal kung fu has reached the realm of Yi Jin's first glimpse of the gods, and he can be regarded as a small master, and he can be said to have entered the house in terms of cultivating internal skills. Regardless of whether it is congenital or acquired, the internal energy obtained from cultivation is stored in the lower dantian, and although the middle and upper dantian have qi veins, they are not the place where the internal breath is stored.
People have the three treasures of essence, qi and gods, and the internal strength is obtained by refining and refining qi, which is called "essence", which is stored three inches below the umbilicus, so whether "qi" and "god" should be stored in the middle and upper dantian, this should be the difference between mages, warlocks, and warriors.
Of course, these were just Ling Feng's guesses, but in the final analysis, whether it was a mage, a warlock, or a warrior, no matter where the power was stored, the final difference was just the way the power was used.
Thinking about it this way, in fact, mages and warlocks are not as mysterious as they imagined.
Hearing Jiao Daren's question, Wu Di looked at the endless Dadu River and the vast jungle on the riverside, and remained silent. It's just that he didn't wander outside, and there was a trace of worry in his eyes, although it was shallow, it couldn't be erased.
The Night's Watch have guarded the night of the world since ancient times, and they have many inheritances that ordinary people cannot understand, and they can keenly perceive danger, although vague but absolutely correct.
Only, where does the crisis come from? (To be continued.) )