Chapter 16: The Mirror Lake Array
Waiting for people is generally divided into two situations, one is that the person waiting for him is important to him and is worth waiting for, and the second is that he is in a lower position or has a request for others. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info Xu Feng is the second kind of people at the moment. Wait for Taiyi Dao people to wake up from a nap.
There are many famous allusions about others in previous lives. There was a monkey who had been waiting at the foot of the mountain for hundreds of years, and there was a king who woke up from a nap in the middle of the winter in order to invite his advisers out of the mountain. Xu Feng watched the strange scenery on the Netherworld Island, eating exquisite pastries and tasting fine tea, looking very leisurely on the surface, but a little apprehensive in his heart.
Of course, the most concerned thing is whether you can practice or not, and the second is whether the series of behaviors outside the stone gate just now will bring negative judgment to yourself.
The world outside the island has entered late autumn, and for some reason in the Netherworld Island, it is still warm and intoxicating, Jiang Liao has eaten and drunk enough, reclining on the chair, the warm breeze is blowing, and he has begun to nap.
The boy brushed the dust in his hand and preached loudly: "Taiyi Dao Chief has two people invited!"
The two followed behind the Taoist boy, along the winding stone road, bypassing the pavilions and corridors, and came to the front of the Taoist hall with golden glazed tiles.
The boy stretched out his hand to make a gesture of invitation, then turned to leave, Xu Feng and the two glanced at each other, and walked towards the hall.
The Taoist hall is not big, but the decoration inside is extremely gorgeous, the gilded bronze statue is not clean, the drapery, the futon are all made of embroidery, luxurious and gorgeous, and the colors are distinct. The incense burner and some other magic utensils that Xu Feng didn't understand were all made of gold and jade, and it was clear at a glance that the owner of the Taoist Hall was pursuing the quality of life.
Taiyi Taoist is dressed in a white robe, embroidered with luxurious gold edges, with a clear face, holding a white whisk in his right hand, and holding a bronze mirror in his left hand, a picture of a master. However, the words that came out did not have the slightest appearance of being a high-ranking person: "Since you are asking, you should have the appearance of asking, the tea is drunk for nothing! The dim sum is eaten for nothing! I don't want silver!"
Xu Feng sighed in his heart, Jiang Liao had subconsciously wanted to reach out to cover the money bag, but realized that the reaction was too obvious, and the hand that was stretched out halfway retracted.
The awkward scene lasted for a moment.
Looking at the two young people in front of him, Taiyi Daoren shook his head helplessly. His face changed and he said, "Since you are asking, then the old man will tell you what cultivation is." ”
"Cultivating the Tao is a luxury, and luxury means spending a lot of silver, and an ordinary practitioner spends more in a month than an ordinary person spends in a year. That's why the old man told you that the first thing you do in cultivating the Tao is silver, and that a poor boy like you from a small place, if you want to cultivate the Tao, you have to treat it as your lifeblood. ”
Xu Feng and Jiang Liao looked teachable, and nodded again and again.
Xu Feng understood in his heart that like in his previous life, the more top-level scientific research equipment was, the more bottomless pit it cost a lot of money, and it was not so simple to do things that others couldn't do, and the same was true for cultivation.
The Great Xia Dynasty had been peaceful for 10,000 years, and the wars had only taken place in a small, far distance, and everything seemed to be in order under the solid rule of the dynasty's power. Farmers farmed, craftsmen worked, merchants sold markets, scholars went to school, monks chanted scriptures, and social classes had long been solidified. And the more peaceful and prosperous the world, the more people value the power of money. It is precisely this principle that gold is hidden in prosperous times, and grain is hidden in troubled times.
Taiyi Daoist was silent for a moment, stretched out his hand and pointed to a rockery outside the window and said: "I always feel that this rockery is standing in this direction these days, which is a bit of an eyesore, it is better to change places, you can live on the island for the time being, and when the rockery is moved, I will preach to you again." ”
Looking from afar, this rockery is about dozens of zhang wide, about six or seven zhang high, and it is very majestic. The mountain is made up of different shapes of lake stones, the mountain is planted with green trees, flowers and plants, at a glance there are strange peaks, the mountains and rocks are craggy, the grass and trees are verdant, just like a real famous mountain and river, which has been reduced countless times.
People are poor and short-minded, and horses are thin and long-haired. Xu Feng and the others had no choice but to accept the task without much thought.
A middle-aged Taoist priest who called Taiyi Daoist a senior brother and was a little short and fat led the two of them to go around the rockery and assign specific tasks.
The rockery should be shifted from its current position to the southeast direction for 300 meters, and the side windows of the glazed hall should be staggered. Not only should it be moved to the position, but every stone and every flower and plant on the rockery should be placed in accordance with the original position, and an identical rockery should appear three hundred meters to the southeast.
The middle-aged Taoist explained the requirements, encouraged the two to work hard, explained the daily accommodation and food, and left.
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"It's okay to leave such an important matter to the two of them?" the middle-aged Taoist priest asked.
Taiyi Daoren didn't have any expression on his face: "These two boys don't know etiquette, especially which Xu Feng, digging the door with a sword, not to mention, and scolding me for being an old man." ”
The middle-aged Taoist had a smile on his face.
Taiyi Daoren turned to look at his junior brother, and couldn't help laughing: "Alas, it's been many years since anyone scolded me for my old miscellaneous hair!"
"This is also a test for the two of them, Lao Song has always claimed to be knowledgeable, and I want to see how capable these two descendants are this time. ”
The middle-aged Taoist is still a little worried, he has done this kind of thing himself, and he knows the difficulty and complexity of it, there is a difference between mortals and cultivators, and there is a greater difference between doing things, Xu Feng and the two of them moved to the rockery, maybe a year, or a few years, or they may be doing one thing in a lifetime, and they may not be able to do it.
Since the senior brother has decided, he is not very good at saying anything, but he is a little worried about these two teenagers.
Taiyi Daoren and his junior brother Renkui were originally cultivators of the Sanqing Daomen, and their temperament was a little cold, and they didn't like the noise of the world very much.
Three thousand years ago, a catastrophe struck the heavens, and a great earthquake trembled. The junction of Zhongzhou and Huizhou subsided, eventually forming a huge bottomless sinkhole, which was poured into the river over the years, becoming a lake, which was the Netherworld Lake.
As the orthodox cultivation sect of the dynasty, the Sanqing Dao Sect is naturally extremely concerned about the abnormal natural disasters, and in order to find out the truth, it has been sending people to take care of it on the Netherworld Island for countless years.
Fifteen years ago, the two brothers came to the island and lived in seclusion in this dark world.
At dusk, the sun sets, and the rockery drags out a long shadow, and the night is vast and envelops the entire island. Taiyi Taoist people dine in the hall, a real candlelight dinner, several gilded candlesticks, dozens of candles of different heights, and the scattered candles shine brightly in the hall.
There are more than a dozen dishes on the Nanmu dining table, each of which is very small, and there is only a little bit of ingredients in it, which is different in green and green, and it looks very exquisite. The gossip bronze mirror, only a few inches in size, stands quietly on the side of the incense case, if you look closely, you can see the southeast direction of the mirror, a dragon-shaped carving, in the part of the dragon's head there are a little traces of damage.
Three thousand years ago, it was carefully built by the elders of the Sanqing Dao Sect to protect the Taoists guarding the island and prevent strange things from being born and hurting people under the Netherworld. If you look down from the air, the Netherworld Island is the shape of a gossip mirror, a pond in the center of the island is a mirror, the pavilions and pavilions on the island, and the palace houses are all built according to the direction of the hexagram, and this bronze mirror is the soul of the array.
Xu Feng dug the door with a black sword, stimulated the large array, and damaged the southeast corner of the large array, and moving the rockery was a kind of repair to the large array, so that the heaven and earth vitality was free and smooth in the array. This Mirror Lake Array has the ability to repair itself, but that will take a long time.
Taiyi Daoist picked up the bronze mirror, and injected the true yuan into it, only to see that the gossip bronze mirror suddenly turned into a bright red light, flickering in his hand. A trace of black silk that was so small that it was not noticed was mixed in this red light, and the Taiyi Daoist carefully looked at it.
It's been three thousand years!No one can shake the Mirror Lake Great Array, but Xu Feng's black sword has had an impact on the Great Array, is this a catastrophe?
There have been saints in 500 years! Demons have descended in 3,000 years! Fifteen years ago, the Yunmeng Mountain collapsed, and half a year ago, the Tianfeng Mountain Range in the Western Regions changed. These have aroused the vigilance of the Great Xia Dynasty, but the factional struggle within the court is in full swing, and no one cares about the changes in the world at all. Taiyi Daoist couldn't help but sigh and put away the bronze mirror.
According to the plan, Xu Feng and the two set off from Hengshui Town, asked the netherworld, and then returned to Hengshui for about three months.
Xu Feng and Jiang Liao regretted a little, regretting that they took out the silver without meeting and gave it all, but they were inexplicably assigned a job of moving mountains, which was a bit of a feeling of replacing silver with work, and they were completely reduced to migrant workers.
Middle-aged Taoists come over from time to time, and they are cold and warm on the surface, but they are actually overseers. There is no problem with food and clothing, but the gap between this and the luxurious Dao Hall is too big.
Low bungalows, simple plank beds, rough benzene household goods. At night, a dim oil lamp, two speechless teenagers.