Chapter 36. Eight pole seals

Eight pole seals? What's that? I asked Hu Zongren because I had never heard of it. Hu Zongren said that in their Taoist family, the eight poles originally referred to the eight hexagram directions in a broad sense, namely Kan, Li, Dui, Zhen, Xun, Qian, Kun, and Gen, but the eight poles generally referred to yin and yang. Hu Zongren said that our line of people is actually a person between yin and yang, assuming that everything in the universe is a whole, and to maintain it, yin and yang must be balanced, and we are the ones who come to balance yin and yang. He paused and said, whether it is our Taoist, or Xiao Nizi's Buddhist family, or your Wu family, this is the case. If yin and yang are out of balance, the world will be in chaos.

Hu Zongren went on to say that these were some of the theoretical knowledge of Taoism that he had learned when he first began to follow Master Xing Yazi, and he was about to forget it. And this eight-pole seal is actually the outer circle of the emblem of the Xuanyuan Society. Everyone who joins the Xuanyuan Association will be issued a similar certificate in accordance with the rules of the meeting, in addition to the certificate has their own common name, road number, and teacher's school, the place where the payment is complete is this eight-pole seal. He smiled and said, It's like if you go shopping and someone gives you an invoice, the seal on the bottom.

I asked Hu Zongren, according to what you said, this eight-pole seal should only be a thing that represents the group to which it belongs, how can it really be used in metaphysics so concretely, and it still appears in you, what is the principle of this? Hu Zongren pointed to his vest and said, "The eight red flesh moles you see now actually look red, not flesh, but blood. My blood. Hu Zongren went on to say that in Taoism, the eight poles can be arbitrarily interconnected with each other, but they are independent, and each point represents a layer of meaning, but if two points are arbitrarily combined, even if the order is different, it may produce different meanings. I frowned because I didn't understand what he was trying to say. Hu Zongren saw that all of us were at a loss, and he said: For example, if the Qianwei represents one meaning and the Kun position represents the other, if the Qiankun is connected, it will be completely different from each of the two meanings, and will have a new meaning. Moreover, this is still the first to dry and then the kun, if this order is reversed, it becomes the first kun and then the dry, then the meaning is completely different.

Although I understand what he means, but I really know too little about these things of Taoism, and even if I keep asking, it is estimated that in a short period of time, I can't figure it out. Hu Zongren went on to say that the so-called connection means going from one point of origin to another, like the thing on my back that looks like a scar, but in fact it is not a real scar, because since these messy things appeared on me, I have not felt any discomfort at all except for seeing them. Fu Yunni interjected and asked, this looks like a wound, don't you feel pain? Hu Zongren held Fu Yunni's hand and said to her, don't worry, I don't feel it at all, I just don't think it's good-looking, hahaha.

I also echoed and smiled, although Hu Zongren is reckless, he is optimistic by nature, and I am more emotional and susceptible to some emotional influences, so at this point, I should learn from him. I then asked Hu Zongren, so the scar on your back corresponds to the meaning of connecting the two hexagram points? Hu Zongren said yes, this complete eight-pole seal, in addition to the eight poles, there is also a Taiji in the middle, Taiji represents a pair of yin and yang, and the yin and yang correspond to Qiankun, and the dry itself is also the meaning of "Yuan Shi", which is everything. So the first trick that the old monkeys of the Xuanyuan Society gave me was to start from Qian, but that incident made me mess up. When he said this, he looked at me very cleanly and said, "I should have been smashed by the two of us."

I was stunned, why did you get involved with me again, what did we do? Before I could ask, I immediately thought of it, so I said to Hu Zongren, was it some time ago, let's go to get the Haier Road incident? Hu Zongren said, yes, or do you think that with my personality, I can't do it and flash people, why do I have to put so much effort into it, and don't give people a penny to solve the problem that can be solved? Unfortunately, it didn't work, but in their opinion, it was ironclad evidence that I didn't complete the test, because the two of us did it together, and I think that's why you said that the person with the northern Sichuan accent called you later.

I thought about it in my heart, it seemed to make sense, but I never thought that Hu Zongren would change his previous deflated strength and go so seriously to help the client handle the case for free because of this. That is to say, from that time on, he actually knew what was going to happen on the road of Lu Dao, which was the first test that Xuanyuan would give him. But I asked Hu Zongren puzzled, how can the other party know when someone will be killed on the road of Lu Dao, and how can he know that those clients of Lu Dao will definitely find you? Hu Zongren said that these three stinkers beat Zhuge Liang. There are so many branches of Taoism, some specialize in talismans, some study physiognomy, some study martial arts, some specialize in easy arts, those what can be Yu Bazi, purple breeze feng shui, there are too many to count, when I was still with the master in Xuanyuan, those old monkeys have long remembered me clearly, they also have my birthday, if you want to count the physiognomy, and then find a proficient point of easy counting a little calculation, you can know when I will encounter what kind of things, with these things to give me a set, it is very easy.

I was taken aback in my heart, and quickly thought about how many people know my own Bazi, because Bazi is the most vulnerable and most in need of protection for the masters of the Tao, and even more so for ordinary people, which is also why I have never easily revealed my Bazi to some people I don't trust very much for so many years. At the same time, I thought of the senior of the Mountain Master Sect that I saw at the master's house in the early years, and there was also an eight-pole mark on his stomach, and from the painful look on his face when he found my master, he should have failed to complete this test. In other words, the old master at that time probably didn't know what he had offended the Xuanyuan Society, and the Mountain Master Sect was originally a Taoist lineage, so it was not strange to think about it.

Hu Zongren said to us, I now have eight points on my body, and I am not good at learning skills, so I destroyed one of them, and the scar is connected to "Gen". Gen originally had its own meaning, but starting from Qian, if the two of us had solved the Haier Road incident at that time, I guess that the next point would not be in Gen, but in Xun, because Qian and Xun are in a diagonal position in our common gossip, and the middle is also the easiest to interconnect. But it is precisely because of the mess that it is possible that any hexagram position is now random, and this is the jump to the gen. In other words, if I have a scar on each of these eight points on my back, I guess I'm finished.

I asked Hu Zongren if I didn't understand, what does Gen mean now? Hu Zongren shook his head and said that he didn't know what to do, and he could only wait until the incident here in Gen appeared, and I had to solve it, so that I could speculate that after Gen, it would be Kun Position, which would be relatively easy to judge what would happen on Kun Shang.

Maybe this knowledge is easier for Hu Zongren to understand, but for me and Fu Yunni and others, it is confusing. I asked Hu Zongren, since this is the case, do you want to ask Situ for help? Hu Zongren shook his head and said that the old man Situ is not too young, and besides, he has been idle all his life, and he is such a famous talisman master, what are you letting an old man blindly mix? Fu Yunni said anxiously, how can it be called blind mixing, the relationship between the few of you is so good, Teacher Situ will definitely help. I nodded to indicate that I agreed with Fu Yunni's words, when I was in danger, Master Situ helped me, although he and Wei Chenggang and the others could still get in touch a little, but he could stand by and watch, he took care of me and Hu Zongren. So I told Hu Zongren, even if you don't want to trouble Situ, if we encounter problems that we can't solve, you can always ask him.

Hu Zongren looked at me and said, it's not us, it's me.

I was choked by his words, and suddenly I didn't know what to say. But soon I got angry, I said what do you mean, just because it's your own people who help you to the end, you mean that I just said so many things in vain, you still have to do it yourself, right? Hu Zongren didn't speak, bowed his head and drank. I was angry, so I snatched the cup from his hand and spilled the wine on the floor. He glared at me and asked me what I was doing, and I said that you are such a boring friend, you help me when I am in trouble, and when you are in trouble, you turn away my kindness, and you are embarrassed to sit in my house and drink my wine?

Hu Zongren was also angry, he stood up and yelled at me, "If you don't drink your wine, what's the big deal!" After speaking, he reached out to pull Fu Yunni, looking like she was about to slam the door and leave. I said you stand for me, and you eat this chicken offal, either spit it out for me or keep the money. Hu Zongren began to touch his wallet, and asked me angrily, "Give you money, a lot of money!" I said, a million.

He glared at me angrily, as if he were going to eat me. He asked me loudly, a pot of chicken offal is a million, what kind of chicken? Raised by eating diamonds? I don't show weakness and say, that's no way, I'm a chicken, how much do you think I'm worth?

Fu Yunni and Sister Cai saw that Hu Zongren and I were about to fight, and they hurriedly came to dissuade them, Fu Yunni scolded Hu Zongren angrily, saying that you either let us all help you solve this matter together, or you don't go home from today onwards, the old lady will go back and burn your pair of dirty rags, and in the future, the two of us will be cut in two, if you are really dead and disabled, I don't care at all. Sister Cai pulled me and said softly, you two brothers have come over together after so many tribulations, what do you have to say, how can you fight like a child when you are in your thirties, and ah, why do you compare yourself to a chicken?

To put it mildly, Hu Zongren sat down. Then he grabbed the wine glass, poured a glass, and then said to me defiantly, Lao Tzu wants to drink today!