"Er Yang, how can the test of your Taoist holy land be like a joke, and the first puzzle is so easy to solve?" Seeing Guo Huaxing's confident appearance, Yang Lei said in surprise.

"It's not that simple, he just saw a general direction, the area in the northwest is larger, it's useless to just know the direction, how far should he go? Where to go? I don't know any of this, but I think there should be further hints. Chen Ziyang also said with great certainty.

"Liu Cong, bring me the map." Because he found important clues from the stars, Guo Huaxing was so excited now that even when he gave orders to Liu Cong, there was a trilling voice in his voice.

Liu Cong hurriedly took out the map and spread it on the ground, and at the same time took out a black raincoat and covered Guo Huaxing's body lying on the map, so as to ensure that the light source of the flashlight would not leak when Guo Huaxing looked at the map.

The other people looked at the raincoat and scratched their heads anxiously, but no one dared to disturb Guo Huaxing, although everyone was very curious and wanted to put their heads into the raincoat to see what Guo Huaxing was looking at, but no one had the guts.

"This place is located in the northwest of Xi'an, between Jingshui and Weishui, this area was formerly known as Chang'an Bashui, Xi'an is the capital of the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an, so it seems...... It is really possible that the Taoist holy land has something to do with the Tang Dynasty. Guo Huaxing looked at the map and muttered to himself.

Suddenly, Guo Huaxing violently pulled off the black raincoat draped on him, and this action came very suddenly, startling all the people around him.

Liu Cong hurriedly stepped forward and turned off Guo Huaxing's flashlight that was still on the ground. And Guo Huaxing opened his big mouth and looked up at the starry sky. He looked east and west, shaking his head quickly, as if he were comparing something to the starry sky.

Now Guo Huaxing's appearance is like a demon, he doesn't care about other things at all, only the stars in the sky are reflected in his eyes.

Chen Ziyang thought in his heart that only a person like Guo Huaxing, who is so obsessed with the stars, can become a qualified Maoshan Star Master and solve the first puzzle of the Taoist Holy Land. Compared with this old man, his ability is a little worse, and I don't know if he can pass the test of the Taoist Holy Land about the Maoshan Land Master.

At this time, Guo Huaxing, who had been staring at the starry sky for a long time, suddenly took out a huge compass from a large leather pocket he was carrying.

As soon as this compass was taken out, Chen Ziyang was so surprised that he almost bit his tongue, good guy, this compass that Guo Huaxing took out was too big.

Originally, the largest compass Chen Ziyang had ever seen was the bronze compass made by Zhang Taixu that his grandfather had left behind and contained information about Taoist holy places, but the side length of that compass was only more than 40 centimeters.

And now the outer side of the compass that Guo Huaxing took out is at least 60 centimeters long, and it is even likely to be longer. Seeing that this compass was so huge, Chen Ziyang leaned in and stared at this compass carefully.

This compass is still divided into three parts, and there is a circular heavenly pool in the center of the compass, but there is no magnetic needle in it. There is a square outer disc on the outside of the compass, but unlike ordinary compasses, this compass has more than one inner disc.

There is only one traditional compass inner disk, although there are concentric circles on the inner compass inner disk, which divides the compass into levels, but the inner disk is still a whole, and when the inner disk is rotated, the whole inner disk rotates together around the central Tianchi. However, the inner disk of the compass in Guo Huaxing's hand is not a circle, but dozens of rings set together.

These rings are large or small, and the large rings are covered with small rings, layer by layer, squeezing the square outer plate to the brim.

In addition to the difference in style, the pattern on Guo Huaxing's compass is also different from that of ordinary compasses. The inner disc of an ordinary compass is divided into fan-shaped areas by straight lines radiating from the center of the circle, but the patterns on this compass are disorganized, giving people a feeling of being dazzled and unable to look down.

The entire inner disc is filled with countless dots and countless line segments, each of which has at least one line segment connected to each other, and even seven or eight line segments at most from the same point.

At this time, Chen Ziyang noticed the peculiarity of this compass.

At this time, it was already late at night, and it was pitch black on Jiuzhi Mountain, and there was no light source at all, but the surface of this compass slightly emitted a white light, and even without a flashlight, the dots and lines on the compass could still be seen clearly.

And with the rotation of Guo Huaxing's fingers, Chen Ziyang found that some points on the compass were flickering with white faint light. When Guo Huaxing turned a ring to a specific angle, a few dots on the ring lit up, although the brightness was not very strong, but it was still very conspicuous in this dark night.

But when the ring is turned at a certain angle, the dots dim again. After looking up at the stars in the sky, and then looking down at the compass, Chen Ziyang figured out that this was not a compass, but a astrolabe. The dots on the astrolabe should represent the stars, and the line segments that radiate from the dots should be the lines connecting the two stars.

As Guo Huaxing's fingers kept playing, the circle dots representing the stars on the astrolabe lit up, and as time went by, more and more of these stars lit up. Slowly, after Guo Huaxing had adjusted almost all the dozens of rings, a complete star map was presented on his astrolabe.

Looking at his astrolabe, Guo Huaxing showed a satisfied smile, but then the smile on his face froze.

"The direction is determined, and there is nothing wrong with being northwest, but ...... Where is the hint to this second test? Is it to go down the northwest direction and then look for the dragon point? It shouldn't be that simple, there must be something missing. Guo Huaxing frowned and said to himself.

Seeing that Guo Huaxing was in deep thought, the other six people didn't even dare to come out, for fear of disturbing his train of thought. Liu Cong was also anxious, although there was progress in the stars, but if he couldn't get clues about the next test, it would be useless to understand the stars.

Liu Cong, who was willing to help but couldn't muster his strength, had to look at the map Guo Huaxing had seen before by starlight. After finding the location of Jiuzhi Mountain, Liu Cong continued to move his finger to the northwest, and after crossing the Jingwei Plain, there was a mountainous area in the northwest.

From this point of view, if there is no hint of the next step, it is likely that the next test will be the test of the Maoshan Division. It should be that after entering the mountains in the northwest direction, I should look for some places like dragon's lair.

However, the mountainous area in this direction is too large, and the instructions in the northwest direction are too vague, if you continue to look for it like this, you can only rummage through it in ten or eight years, and it is simply impossible to find the next hint like a blind cat touching a dead mouse.

After staring at the new disk for a long time, Guo Huaxing couldn't see the reason, so he simply sat on the ground, put the astrolabe on his legs, held his chin with his hand, and stared at the astrolabe motionlessly.

Because the astrolabe was placed relatively low, this time Chen Ziyang was able to see the surface of the entire astrolabe. The dozens of bright spots on the astrolabe that shimmered with white light were very conspicuous, and he noticed that these bright spots formed a separate area on the astrolabe.

Although Chen Ziyang couldn't understand the star map on the astrolabe at all, he was very interested in these things, and it didn't cost money to look at them anyway, so he just kept staring at the astrolabe to pass the boring time.

In this small area surrounded by bright spots, countless lines radiating from bright spots are either connected to each other or separated from each other, and these line segments are also densely packed throughout this small area.

"Dry is the sky, Kun is the earth, the earthquake is the thunder, the kan is the water, the Gen is the mountain, the Xun is the wind, the separation is the fire, and the exchange is the ze, Gen represents the northwest direction, and at the same time represents the mountain, the northwest direction of the mountain...... It's a coincidence, it's all Gen. After watching it for a while, Chen Ziyang was also addicted, and he also began to talk to himself.

"Stinky boy, what are you doing here reciting gossip mantras when you're idle." Guo Huaxing's train of thought was interrupted by Chen Ziyang's voice, and he scolded very unhappily.

"Guo Zhenren, I'm sorry, I just looked at your star map and thought of something else, I'm really sorry, I won't speak again." Knowing that he had interrupted Guo Huaxing's thinking, Chen Ziyang apologized sincerely.

"Oh? What did you just say? What Gen? What is the mountain of the Northwest? Let's talk about it, maybe it will inspire me. ”

"I just said nonsense, looking at your old star map and thinking of something else, it shouldn't matter, I still don't say it, I don't have to worry about it in front of you. The gossip mantra I memorized just now can even be memorized by a few years old, and I think it's too shallow. ”

"If you say it, you can say it, nonsense."

"This ...... Well, don't laugh at me. Let's take a look at the area in the middle of this star chart. After saying this, Chen Ziyang simply drew a circle above the shining point of light with his finger, pointed to the area surrounded by bright spots and said:

"Some of these lines that diverge from the bright spots are connected in two, and some are parallel to each other in a straight line, but they are not connected. Just now, I also had a whim, I regarded these straight lines that are connected together as the yang lines in the eight trigrams, and these parallel but not connected lines as yin lines.

If you look at it this way, all these lines in the star chart have become gossip patterns, I counted them just now, there are a total of 129 of these lines, which can be divisible by three, which means that there are a total of 43 gossip patterns.

Among all these gossip patterns, the top one is obviously not in the same place as the other patterns, and should be independent. The top of this pattern is two lines connected together, that is, the yang line in the Bagua, and there are two lines below that are not connected together, which is the Yin line in the Bagua, and the three lines add up to the pattern of Gen.

As you said earlier, the northwest direction is where the purple qi gathers, so the direction we are going next is likely to be the northwest. In the gossip, Gen represents the northwest direction, and at the same time represents the mountain, I think this matter is a little funny by coincidence, so I couldn't help but say it just now. The test of the dignified Taoist holy land will not be such a child's play. ”

"Oh?" Guo Huaxing yelled in surprise, he stared at the astrolabe carefully for a long time, and looked at the lines in each bright spot area, just as Chen Ziyang said, these lines formed 43 gossip patterns in this area.

"Oops!" Guo Huaxing slapped his thigh and stood up, startling the people around him again.

"My silly boy, what kind of coincidence is this, this is the next hint of the Taoist Holy Land!" At this time, Guo Huaxing was extremely excited, grabbed Chen Ziyang's shoulder with one hand and pinched it, and it hurt a little to pinch Chen Ziyang.

"People are old, this brain is useless, I just think that this test is about the stars, so I have been calculating the trend of the stars, but where did I think that the next hint has nothing to do with the image, but is hidden in this star map. You're really capable! ”

"Guo Zhenren, you won the award, it is precisely because I don't understand the stars, so I can only look at the lines other than the stars. It's not me who gets the next hint, it's you.

If you hadn't aligned the star chart, the lines wouldn't have been so complete on the chart. Knowing that he had inadvertently been prompted for the next test, Chen Ziyang's heart was also very happy.

"The afterlife is terrible, the afterlife is terrible. It's really right to let you join, and none of us can compare with the opportunity of the Taoist Holy Land alone.

Originally, I didn't have much confidence in this operation, there are so few things that have been handed down from Taoism, and it is not so easy to solve the puzzles set by my predecessors.

But now it's different, through what I just did, I think the opportunity to crack the holy land of Taoism has come, and the day when Taoism will flourish is not far off. Guo Huaxing said excitedly.

"Guo Zhenren, so we know the next hint? Where should I go? Liu Cong hurriedly asked.

"This ......" Hearing Liu Cong's question, Guo Huaxing was stunned for a moment, and then he looked down at the lines in the star map.

"If the topmost Gen refers to the mountains in the northwest, then the remaining 42 Bagua patterns should be a hexagram. I can't see what is hidden in it, I can deduce the hexagrams below 16, but these 42 are really beyond my ability.

Come on, at least we know who to go to next. Now it's Zhang Linfu's turn to play that stinky and shameless thing, my puzzle has been solved, if he can't solve the next puzzle, see how I bury him. ”

(End of chapter)