After these idle people had dispersed, I explained to the lama that I wanted to go to the ancient tomb of the evil god of the demon kingdom and ask Lama Ake to find a singer and guide for our expedition who was familiar with the history of the demon kingdom and the Ling kingdom.

The Iron Rod Lama said that digging the ancient tomb was originally a matter of harming heaven and reason, but digging the ancient tomb of the demon country was different. The tomb of the demon country is sealed with demons, it is a big threat to the people, there are many monks with advanced cultivation in history, they all want to eliminate the demon protector, completely eradicate the ancient tomb of the demon country, and eliminate the evil gods from coming to the world again, but there is no clue, since you are willing to go, this is a good deed with immeasurable merit. Poets who are well versed in the ancient deeds of Tibet are all God-granted, and do not recognize the form of father-to-son, teacher-to-apprentice, and some people suddenly become able to recite millions of words of psalms after suffering from a serious illness or sleeping. I was a person who was bestowed by God before I became a monk, but I haven't said it for almost thirty years, the world's enemy Jewel Hero, the Great King, and those poems of the Reincarnated Jade Eye Orb, alas...... I'm almost losing my memory.

The Iron Rod Lama immediately decided to go with me and destroy the tomb of the Demon King, as the Iron Rod Protector of the Buddha, this demon eradication is the top priority. Although I haven't sung the poems of the Enemy Orb King for more than 30 years, this heavenly gift is not the result of learning, and if you think about it, you can still remember a lot.

I'm worried that the lama is getting older, after all, he's sixty years old, and he's not as old as he used to be. According to the clues in the scriptures, the demon tower dedicated to the "Glacier Crystal Corpse" is at the top of the snow-capped mountain, what if he has an accident.

The Iron Rod Lama said, "I made a great wish to go around the lake here, but the child still did not get better, and I hope that this time I can do something of great merit and bring the soul of Gema back from the underworld (the Tibetans believe that losing one's mind is a soul disorder), and after the deed is done, I will come back and make a vow around the lake." Practitioners have a completely different view of death and life than ordinary people, and if they die in the process of accumulating merits, they will surely pass away in bliss. ”

I saw that the lama insisted on going, and I also felt that I couldn't ask for it, the iron rod lama is proficient in Tibetan customs, and knows the medical theory of tantric Buddhism, with his guidance and help, I will be able to get twice the result with half the effort. So we packed up and took us from Wangdui to the Ali region under the Himalayas ——— westernmost part of Tibet.

In Senge Zangbo, we joined the fat man Uncle Ming and others, who had just arrived. I have a little number, it seems that there is one more person, in addition to me and the fat man, Shirley Yang, and the iron rod lama, there are Peter Huang, Han Shuna, Ah Xiang, and it turns out that Uncle Ming's horse boy Adong also came.

I asked the fat man why Ah Dong also came, and the fat man told me that Ah Dong's grandson usually runs errands for Uncle Ming, and this time he knew that Uncle Ming was going to do big business, and begged Uncle Ming to bring him with him every day. Later, I begged for the big gold tooth, and asked the big gold tooth to help say something good, and the big gold tooth received the benefits, so he pouted Uncle Ming, saying that the lowest place in Tibet is above sea level of 4,000 above sea level, and you have to bring someone to serve the oxygen cylinder, so don't you let Ah Dong carry the oxygen cylinder for them?

I thought to myself that this time it was really lively, there were more and more people, and I hadn't arrived at Guge King City yet, there were nine people, but there was no way, once I found the clue to the reincarnation of the demon kingdom in the demon tower, I would act separately from them, and I couldn't always get mixed up.

At that time, there was no road to pass on the Guge ruins, so I had to ask the guide to hire a few yaks, and let a few people who were more severe in altitude sickness ride the oxen, but fortunately, there were no heavy supplies. After resting for two days in a small town with only more than 100 households in Senge Zangbo, he set off to the ruins of the royal city to find the Guge Silver Eye.

The road is very desolate, there is no human population, the yellow and sparse wild grass is scattered on the Gobi, there is no wind, looking at the sky, the eyes are full of blue, and the dry soil and wild grass lining the ground are a little dazzling. The brown mountains in the distance look strange and strange, making people dare not look at it.

The speed of our march was not fast, I led the yak for the lama, and the lama with the iron rod told me on the back of the ox the poems that he had been taught by heaven back then, which were all bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods, and the war of soldiers coming and going.

At this time, some wooden stakes protruding from the ground appeared on the side of the road, which Shirley Young said looked somewhat like the remains of an ancient tomb. As soon as he heard about the ancient tomb, even Uncle Ming, who was lying on the back of a cow and had difficulty breathing, came to his senses and craned his neck to look at the roadside.

The guide said that those ancient tombs have long been deserted, and the things in them are gone, don't look at the desolation here, in fact, around the time of the Tang Dynasty, this place is full of Qilian juniper. The structure of the ancient tomb is paved with the whole Qilian juniper, this strange tree likes drought and does not like tide, only in the mountains at the junction of Qinghai and Tibet, it is given to the king of Tubo by the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty, and it was transported all the way, but then the civil strife in Tubo, these tombs were destroyed, but the ruins have been preserved to this day.

After walking through the ruins of this desolate mound, it took about a day of walking to reach the ancient city. It has been discovered for a long time, except for a large number of murals, carvings and statues, and the ruins of the city, which did not attract the attention of the autonomous county government at that time, and it was not like a few years later when it was installed with an iron gate and guarded by people. At that time, no one had traveled far and wide to see the ruins.

From the bottom of the mountain, there is a drop of about 300 meters from the slope to the top of the mountain, and there are buildings and caves in the same color as the earth. Except for the temple with a relatively strong structure, most of the rest of the houses have collapsed, and some only have some earthen walls, and there are remnants of city walls and watchtowers on the periphery. The entire royal castle was built on a hill, with the royal palace at the top of the hill at the top, the temple at the middle, and the dwellings and defensive buildings on the perimeter below.

I said to Uncle Ming: "The Guge ruins are not big, but it will take some time for us to find these hundreds of houses and caves. ”

Due to altitude sickness, Uncle Ming's thinking has become very sluggish, and it took him a long time to remember that it was probably in the temple, not in the palace. According to the scriptures, there should be a temple of reincarnation here, and it should be there.

In the ruins of the royal city, several temples stand out from the crowd, you can see at a glance, of course, there are temple ruins such as the Red Temple, the White Temple, the Reincarnation Temple, etc., which is right and which, we can't tell the difference, so we have to ask the Iron Rod Lama. Of course, the lama could tell which temple was the temple of reincarnation from the structure outside, so he pointed out the direction and passed through the temple of the protector of the Dharma, and behind it there were several red pillars of the temple site of the temple dedicated to the silver eye of Guge.

Explorers had visited this place back in the thirties, and I had never heard of any danger, but for the sake of safety, I gave the fat man a shotgun, carried one myself, and led the team around the layers of earthen walls and climbed halfway up the mountainside. In the ruins, the houses are basically not well preserved, if they are just dry, and in the rainy season, heavy rains here are poured in, and the weathering and erosion of the soil year after year make the once dense soil become brittle, crushed little by little, and become a cloud of dust when an external force is applied. The ruins and ruins and other parts that should be protruding have been damaged and worn away, and the once vibrant city is being silently digested by nature.

We were afraid of being hit by the collapsed pillars of the house, so we tried to find an open place to go around. Uncle Ming and his wife can barely support it, but the thin Ah Xiang can't bear it anymore, and it is necessary to climb to a higher place, so Uncle Ming had to let Peter Huang stay at the bottom of the mountain to take care of her, and the rest of the people continued to move forward, and when they climbed to the Dharma Protector Temple, most of them were already panting.

I was comfortable with the thin air, but when I rested against the wall, I saw the murals in the temple, and my breath immediately became heavy. The fat man gasped and said to me: "Old Hu, I didn't expect that this place is actually a sanitary blind spot of spiritual civilization, and there are such powerful yellow pictures." If you want to take a look in Beijing, you have to detain them. ”

The murals here are all tantric double cultivators, the painting style is pungent and the colors are strong, which makes people look red-faced. Going further inward, the content of the mural takes a sharp turn, full of the suffering of hell reincarnation, depicting the torture in hell layer by layer, and the scene is horrific. The lama said that this temple was forbidden for hundreds of years, and that ordinary people could no longer go inside when they reached the door, and that the king could not enter it except for the clergy.

The former glory and forbidden land have collapsed and weathered, and we have taken a breath and rushed in. The reincarnation temple behind the shrine, due to its recess in the interior, is slightly smaller and is well preserved. The most prominent in the temple are several large red pillars, the pillars are embedded with layers of lamps, the top of the top has been damaged, leaking several large holes, statues and other ornaments are gone, I don't know whether they have been stolen, or they have rotted into dirt.

I looked around, and it was in tatters, and there were no reliefs of the silver eyes of the ancient grid. Uncle Ming pointed to the top of his head: "Probably this carving is what I am referring to." ”

When we looked up, it was full of sunlight, and the sunlight was shining through the holes in the roof, and it was a bit dazzling to look up, and we felt that our eyes were glazed, but we could see that the whole roof was a whole colorful picture, half carved and half painted, although some of it had fallen off, and some of it had been damaged by the collapse of the building, but it was still about 75 percent preserved.

The mural on the top, in the middle is a huge eyeball, the outer circle is a radial totem, divided into eight colors, each is a different divine beast, the outermost circle is dozens of naked empty mothers, the demeanor is all directions, none of them are the same, as expected, this is the ancient tantric feng shui coordinates Guge silver eye.

I said to Uncle Ming, this time we should take out the ancient scripture and let us take a look, if you don't understand it, with this coordinate alone, you can't figure out the specific location of the demon tower.

Uncle Ming found a red pillar to sit down and gasp, Ah Dong took out the oxygen tube and inhaled him a few times before he could speak, and reached into his bag to touch the scripture. At this time, a click was suddenly heard, a pillar in the temple fell, everyone shouted, hurriedly scattered around to dodge, the giant pillar collapsed, and in the chaos, I didn't see whether it hit anyone.

It turned out that the foundation of the pillar that Uncle Ming was leaning on was rotten, and it usually looked like nothing was wrong when he poked it, but when he leaned on it, he fell down, thanks to the fact that he fell outward, otherwise the hall was narrow, and then knocked down other pillars, he had to be stoned to death. Seeing that there was a big pillar missing from the roof, although it had not collapsed, everyone did not dare to stay in the temple, and they all wanted to go out first, and then make plans when they reached a safe place outside.

As we walked outside, we suddenly found that inside an earthen wall that had been knocked down by a pillar, a huge dark space was revealed, which seemed to be a closed secret room. It is said that the Italians have found a large number of caves in this ruins, with different functions, the more famous one is the headless dry corpse cave, and there is a weapon cave for storing weapons, but they are far away from this reincarnation temple, the secret cave in this temple, what is in it?

The fat man took out the flashlight, opened it and shone it inside, and everyone's eyes were immediately attracted by what was inside. The outermost is a bronze statue of three eyes and four arms wearing a crown of Buddha, prostrating on the lotus platform of the beast seat, with three silver shining eyes, shining in the golden Buddha statue.

However, behind the three-eyed Buddha statue, there was a tightly closed black iron door, and the door was covered with countless spell scriptures, as if something could not be released inside.

Everyone was attracted by this strange and mysterious cave, and they all gathered around the place and looked inside with flashlights, what was inside the black iron door? Why are there so many mantras?

Shirley Yang said that Professor Duci, an Italian Tibetan researcher and explorer, made a conservative estimate after discovering the ruins of Guge, and the scale of the ruins preserved here is about 500 houses and halls, 60 blockhouses and enemy towers, 30 stupas of various types, several defensive walls and tower walls, and the largest number of them is the underground cave of Wangcheng, which has almost a thousand eyes.

This shows that the area and scale of the underground facilities of the Guge Dynasty were even far greater than those built on the ground. Everyone asked the lama, there is a silver-eyed Buddha statue in this cave, is it a Tibetan scripture cave, or is it a cave-shaped Buddha hall?

The Iron Rod Lama did not answer, but stepped straight over the broken wall and entered the secret space, and I feared that there was any danger inside, and I followed closely with Remington.

The Buddha statue in the secret cave is not large, only a foot high, and the color is dazzling, but it is not cast of pure gold or pure copper, but is made of hardware and is formed in one piece. Only the Guge people can make this craft, and its secret recipe is now lost, and even fewer Buddha statues with silver eyes and golden bodies have been handed down, which are very valuable.

The iron rod lama worshiped the Buddha statue, and then continued to look at the rest of the cave, the silver-eyed Buddha statue is almost connected with the iron door base behind it, and it is artificially fixed, and the black closed iron door is pasted with the Tantric six-character mantra "Om Mani Horn Moo".

Although this kind of six-character mantra is common, I don't know what it means, but I think it may be similar to Amitabha, and it seems that there is no need to paste such a thing on ordinary doors. I asked the lama what the six-character mantra represented, and whether it was for the suppression of evil spirits and exorcism, and it seemed that the iron door could not be opened.

The Iron Rod Lama said to me, "There are so many meanings that the six-character mantra represents, and ordinary disciples recite this mantra to merge their minds with the Buddha." However, the profundity of tantric skills depends on the accumulation of daily cultivation of the Dharma, just like the quality of milk tea cakes, which depends on the constant stirring of ghee, and it cannot be expected that the recitation of the six-character mantra will achieve positive results. If these six words were translated into your Chinese, the meaning would probably be, Om! The treasure of the lotus, huh! ”

There are many schools of religion in Tibet, even if they are also Buddhism, there are many branches, so the Iron Rod Lama has limited knowledge about the affairs of Samsara Buddhism. According to his speculation, this secret cave hidden next to the reincarnation hall may represent the hell of the reincarnation sect, the soul of the great sin and evil cannot be liberated after death, and will be locked in this black door and go through the torment and torture of hell, so this door cannot be opened, there may be hungry ghosts in hell, maybe there are demons in the underworld.

I was checking in the cave with the lama, suddenly there was something on the surface of my feet, "whoosh" jumped over, I hurriedly raised my feet and kicked indiscriminately, and the people outside the cave also used flashlights to shine on the ground, it turned out to be a small black muskrat, shaped like a kitten, and saw the light of the flashlight swaying, panicked into the black door under the door.

Only then did we realize that there was a big gap under the black iron door, and I shone it inward with a flashlight, but it was too deep to see anything. This secret cave has nothing to do with the coordinates of the silver eye, more is better than less, as for what is inside, it is better to leave it to the future archaeological team or expedition team to excavate.

The fat man and Uncle Ming both coveted the silver-eyed Buddha statue, but with the presence of the iron-roded lama, they didn't dare to come nonsense, so they forcibly held back. Uncle Ming seemed to be comforting himself, only to hear him say to himself: "Anyone who can achieve great things, do not stick to small sections, let's dig up the glacier crystal corpse this time, it is a big deal, although this silver-eyed Buddha statue is also worth a few dollars, but in comparison, it is not worth selling at all." ”

The Iron Rod Lama asked everyone to move some earth and stones, re-cover the broken wall, and then they all stood outside the temple. Because there is one pillar missing in the Buddhist hall of the temple of reincarnation, everyone did not dare to venture into the hall again, and after testing outside, they found that the rest of the giant pillars of this temple are extremely strong, and the collapsed pillar is because the lower side is part of the cave, and a virtual pillar placed for the sake of neat layout belongs to the cold dishes of the Chinese New Year's Eve, there is not much of it, and it does not affect the safety of the entire building.

Uncle Ming took out the ancient scriptures from overseas museums, and compared them with the silver-eyed murals on the top wall to see the mysteries. With the help of the iron rod lama and the feng shui principles I had mastered, there was basically no obstacle, and with no effort, I was able to combine the maps in the sutra scrolls with the coordinates of the silver eye.

The earliest root of the worship of eyeballs in the Reincarnation Sect may be the Demon Kingdom. After the destruction of the Demon Kingdom, there are still a lot of disasters left in the world, and the Reincarnation Sect is also gradually dying out in later history, and its unique silver eye ruins are only retained in the Guge King City, if this place is also destroyed, then even if there is a map in the ancient scriptures, the Demon Kingdom Demon Tower will not be found.

The author and provenance of this ancient scripture cannot be verified, but it is known that a foreign expedition dug it out of a cave in Tibet in the twenties and thirties. At first, it was not taken seriously, but it was only sealed in the basement of the museum, but later a manager who was very interested in religion stumbled upon this scroll, which was always difficult to understand because of the bizarre content recorded in it. It is not until recent years, with the accumulation of information, that it has been analyzed that this scripture is likely to record the information of a nine-story demon tower. This demon tower is a tomb, which seals the crystal corpse of the evil god worshiped and enshrined by the demon kingdom, if it is found, it will definitely be an overweight discovery in the archaeological world, and the mythical and incredible history of Tibet in ancient times will also be cracked.

After their repeated research, this ancient scripture is very likely to be written by the remnants of the Demon Kingdom, and its credibility should be very high, but the only regret at that time was that although there was a map of the territory of the Demon Kingdom, these mountains and rivers were marked with beasts or gods, which was too different from the map in people's common sense, and it was very old, and the names and symbolism of many mountain ranges and water systems had changed to this day, which made it even more difficult to confirm.

The large murals in the temple of reincarnation are the key to interpreting the ancient tantric feng shui, because the orientation in the paintings is extremely precise, and each different color, divine animal, or god points to the corresponding geographical location. With the coordinates of this direction, and then comparing them with ancient and modern maps, even if it is not as accurate as dividing gold and fixing points, it can be regarded as having a general area, which is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

The feng shui science handed down from the Central Plains believes that the ancestor of the dragon veins in the world is Kunlun, which is very different from Tibetan tantric feng shui, but in the final analysis, the essence is still similar. In Tantric Feng Shui, Kunlun Mountain is described as the land of the phoenix, and the other two major mountain ranges are the land of peacocks and the land of Dapeng birds.

The most important nine-story demon tower in the Demon Kingdom is in the Phoenix Divine Palace. According to the scriptures, the Phoenix Palace is a mountain, composed of four precious stones of gold, silver, crystal, and glass in the heavenly realm, and there are four snow-capped mountains on the mountainside, which represent the four guardian gods of the demon kingdom.

The Iron Rod Lama said that if Kunlun Mountain is described as a phoenix, it must be in line with the long poem of the martial arts of the world's enemy treasure pearl king, then the location of the Phoenix Shrine, according to the description in the poem, is in the Karamir Pass, the area where Qinghai, Tibet and the new meet, and that direction corresponds to the white and silver two lines, white represents the snow mountain, and the silver is the glacier.

I told Uncle Ming and the Iron Rod Lama the results of my assessment, the place surrounded by the four peaks, called "Shu Miao" in the Qingwu Feng Shui, and the "Dragon Peak" in the dragon hunting formula, can be the backbone of heaven and earth, the ancestral dragon originated in its place, and the shape shì is very rare. As long as you can confirm that the approximate area is in the Karamir Pass, and with the assistance of a local guide, it is not difficult to find.

Seeing that he had finally confirmed the location, Uncle Ming hurriedly dragged me aside, took out a pen and paper, and before he could speak, I already knew what he wanted to say. I said to Uncle Ming: "Although rest assured, we will never leave your group of people alone, although we have not signed a peace contract, but I have received two pieces of Runhai Stone as a certainty, the gentleman's promise with his mouth, the villain's promise is only paper, the gentleman will not breach the contract if he does not make a promise, the villain will still breach the contract if he makes a promise, whether he can abide by the agreement is in the person, not in the paper." ”

Uncle Ming was relieved at this time, and he was overjoyed, and the altitude sickness seemed to have been alleviated, and he seemed to have held the glacier crystal corpse in his arms. I advised him not to be busy and happy first, this is the first step of the long march of 10,000 miles, and when he arrives at Karamir in Kunlun Mountain, it is not too late to rejoice when he digs out the nine-story demon tower, and before he sees it with his own eyes, who dares to guarantee that the content in the scriptures is true and credible? Maybe that's someone in ancient times, who was full of food and saved to play.

Shirley Young took some more photos as a reference for the future. This time to find the feng shui coordinates of Tantra, it was much smoother than we expected, except for the collapse of the pillar and the collapse of the wall, which made everyone have a false alarm, there were almost no twists and turns, and I hope that the future journey can be so smooth.

By the time we descended the mountain, the sun had set in the west, and the night on the plateau was very cold, so there was no need to hurry back at night, so the group rested in an outpost fortified bunker a few miles away from the ruins of the ancient royal city. The guide arranged dinner and butter tea, and then let a few people with poor physique drink a bowl of cold powder, in this natural environment, the most terrible thing is to suffer from a cold, a cold on the plateau, and even life will be in danger.

Everyone was exhausted that night, there was no danger here, and the wolves had long since been defeated, so there was no one left to keep watch, and two or three people slept in an enemy building. Shirley Yang, Han Shuna, Ah Xiang, these women, slept in the innermost room, and I slept with the fat man in the outermost stone house.

After nightfall, we fell asleep one after another. I haven't slept at night in all these years, and I'm better during the day, and at night I have one eye open even when I'm dreaming, and Shirley Young says it's a "post-war stress syndrome" that requires neurosedative medication. I was worried that I would become stupid after drinking that medicine, so I never drank it.

Just half-asleep, I suddenly heard a series of very small footsteps outside, I immediately opened my eyes, from the watchtower aperture sprinkled cold stars and moon light, through these faint light, only to see a black figure, quickly flashed in front of the door.