Chapter 39: The "Abyss" That Penetrates the Center of the Earth
Pangu opened the world, Nuwa created people to make up the sky, and Fuxi created gossip, these are all myths and legends. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info But the immortals all know that although these things have been completely spread in the mortal world, they still have their roots - although they have not been able to ascend to the immortals, but Nanhua Immortal Yu Ji, who stands at the top of the mortal cultivators, is naturally very aware of this.
But there are more myths and legends than that.
Yu Ji asked Zhang Lu: "In the Chinese Language, King Zhao asked Yu Guan's father: 'Zhou Shu's so-called heavy and Li Shi make heaven and earth incomprehensible, why else?
Zhang Lu replied that I knew - he and Jingmur were on top of the mountain, and they often looked through Pei Xuanren's collection of books in their spare time, including of course, "Chinese".
Yu Ji first asked, "What is the reason for this?"
"In "Shangshu Lu Xing": 'It is a heavy life, Li, a Jedi Tiantong, and there is no degrading. ’”
It is recorded in the "Lu Xing" that the Chi You made a mess, and the Miao people created evil and made a mess of the earth, so the "Emperor" (should refer to the Emperor of Heaven) ordered Chong and Li Erchen to cut off the passage between heaven and earth, and the gods no longer descended to the human world. Therefore, in the Spring and Autumn Period, King Chu Zhao asked the father of Guan Archery about this, if he pushed this back up, could it be said that before this, the human beings on the earth could directly go to the heavenly realm?
Yu Ji asked again: "What's wrong with shooting my father?"
Zhang Lu replied: "The shooting father said: 'If it is not like this, it is ......'" After saying this, he was stunned for a moment - you must know that "Shangshu" is a classic that scholars must read, and it is normal to memorize it, but "Chinese" is not, and besides, the answer of the shooting father is too long...... I simply don't endorse it, I organize the language myself according to the meaning of the text: "The intention of shooting the father, the worship of the heavens, the gods are descending, to possess the witches; It's called 'Jedi Sky'. ”
It was in ancient times, and the gods descended on witches and witches to guide people on how to live and reproduce. But then the world was in turmoil, and human beings sacrificed indiscriminately, so naturally they couldn't get the true divine will, and they didn't know where to go. Therefore, Zhuan Xuan sent a special person to be in charge of the sacrifice of the gods, and Li was in charge of the administration of the world, clearly distinguishing between theocracy and political power - this is the original intention of "Jedi Tiantong".
Yu Ji smiled and shook his head: "I don't take what my father said as true......" I have never agreed with the explanation of the father of Guan - "According to the ancient books, the people can't ascend to the sky, and the witch can often ascend to the sky, isn't the witch human?" There is a record in the ancient books, although it is not mentioned that the common people can go to the sky casually, but those wizards who are still human beings and have not become gods can climb to the heavenly realm - King Chu Zhao's question is well-founded.
So how did the wizards ascend to heaven? It is recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas": "Wu Xianguo is climbing Bao Mountain, and the witches are also from top to bottom. He also said: "In the east of Huashan and Qingshui, there is a mountain named Zhaoshan, and some people are called Baigao, and Baigao is up and down here, as for the sky." It shows that there are some peaks in this world that reach the sky, and if you climb along, you may climb to the sky.
Yu Ji said, I have been practicing for nearly a thousand years, and I have been an earth immortal for hundreds of years, but I am just a little bit, and I have never been able to break through the bottleneck and ascend to the sky. So I wondered, can I find those "ladders" mentioned in the ancient books? If I can go to the sky and take a look, maybe I will become an immortal.
Zhang Lu asked: "Since you have been a Jedi Tiantong, Hu Ke Dengye?" Didn't you say that Zhen Xuan sent Zhong and Li to cut off this passage?
Yu Ji smiled: "You can't believe the legend, and you can't believe it." For example, there is no concept of "immortal" in the classical texts, only "gods", but we cultivators all know that the so-called "gods" are the spiritual nature of all things in heaven and earth, but this spirituality is very low, and it lacks sufficient autonomy, so it is impossible to protect living beings as mortals generally believe. Since there is no god in the true sense, of course there will be no Emperor of Heaven, whether this guy really exists, that needs to be a question mark.
Zhang Luxin said that the Emperor of Heaven may not have it, but the Heavenly Prince, there are still ...... The two are probably the difference between the emperor and the CEO of the company......
Anyway, Yu Ji couldn't find a way to break through, so he had nothing to do, so he simply looked for the ladder everywhere and tried to hit a big luck. Of course, what Zhaoshan and Baoshan on the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", he can't find it at all, think about it, if there is a ladder in the Central Plains, it must have been discovered, and it is necessary to search for those remote places outside the territory that are inaccessible.
So he went to Liangzhou first, and then tried to go to the Western Regions to find Kunlun Mountain. Don't say it, he really found it, and there are four of them...... Including some people say that in fact, Liupan Mountain is the legendary Kunlun. But he climbed every mountain carefully, and for the longest time, he spent more than a whole year in the mountains, but he returned empty-handed and found nothing.
If you can't go to the west, you can go to the east, so he came to Qidi, found a small boat, and began to set foot in the vast sea. Legend has it that there are three immortal mountains of Penglai, Yingzhou and Abbot on the Middle East Sea, and there are immortals living in Yan, but they are floating and uncertain, and ordinary people can't find it. Yu Ji thinks about it, I am not an ordinary person, if you want to say that the entire mortal world dares to go deep into the ocean and have the opportunity to find the fairy mountain, this year is probably me.
He is already an earth immortal, he can cut off diet without causing any adverse effects on his health, and he is proficient in magic and magic, and he can change the weather within a certain range, so he is not afraid of the wind and waves at sea. So he drove a small boat all the way to the east, and he couldn't find it in the east, so he turned his head and searched south, and every small island he passed had to go up to take a look and survey it, and after more than a year, hey, don't say it, he really found an extraordinary place.
Yu Ji said, that place is "Tianyuan".
Zhang Luxin said that you have a long speech...... Directly said that I wanted to find a ladder to the sky, so I ran to the East China Sea and found that the abyss was not knotted? I really didn't care much about what you said earlier......
The small island where Yu Ji arrived is said to be 1,200 miles east of the Huiji Sea. Zhang Lu deliberately asked in detail, where is Huiji - you must know that Huiji County in this year is very big, almost covering the two provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian in later generations, not to mention a thousand kilometers of coastline, it is really a hydrogen bomb thrown at the south head, and the north head can't see the light, such a rough coordinates, how do you let me estimate the direction?
Yu Ji said that I went to sea from Jiaodong, the vast sea, and the navigation was all guided by the sun, moon and stars, so how could I estimate it accurately? However, after leaving the island, I sailed all the way west, returned to the mainland, and finally landed in Zhang'an County, a little south.
Zhang Lu roughly estimated that Zhang An still belonged to Zhejiang Province in later generations, and could not reach Fujian, even if the direction of Yu Ji's voyage was not due east, but deviated, as long as it was not too far, then Haidong was 1,200 miles away...... It's definitely not Taiwan, it's the Ryukyu Islands?
The island that Yu Ji found was not large, close to a perfect circle, with a circumference of about fifty miles—it should be sixteen or seventeen kilometers in later generations, and about five or six kilometers in diameter. The vegetation on the island is lush, and there is a hill in the center, which is only a hundred feet high. Such a low mountain, of course, can't be a ladder to the sky - if this is a ladder to heaven, then the five mountains can give the sky a hole. Yu Ji didn't have much hope at first, but habitually went into the mountains to watch, mainly not to find the ladder, but to find out if there were traces left by immortals.
As a result, when I reached the top of the mountain, I saw a vertical cave, which seemed to be bottomless, but there was a faint light coming out from below...... Zhang Luxin said that your old man didn't see the crater, right? Yu Ji seemed to see through his thoughts, and said with a slight smile: "**** light, its color is not red, but clear as the sky." "There was a light blue light coming out from underneath, just like when we looked up at the sky.
Yu Ji knew something was wrong, so he tried to burrow into the cave and climb down. He can't fly yet, but don't look at the road just now, it seems that his legs and feet are inconvenient, and his movement is staggering, in fact, Zhang Lu and they can see it from a distance, and the old man's absolute pace far exceeds that of ordinary people-Zuo Ci followed him, obviously trotting-so his skills are actually very agile. Zhang Lu estimated that this old man might be able to climb Mount Everest with his bare hands, even if he couldn't reach the top, it was probably because of altitude sickness or poor breathing, and it would not be because of physical exhaustion......
In short, Yu Ji has been climbing down, the **** position is only more than a zhang wide, the more he climbs down, the more open he feels, and the whole person is upside down. Yu Ji estimated that the distance he had climbed down should have gone deep below sea level, and the blue light at the bottom of the cave could gradually be seen clearly...... Although he was an earth immortal, he cultivated physically and mentally as one, and he couldn't help but beat his heart faster at that time, saying that this is the legendary "Tianyuan"?
Yu Ji said that he was still just cultivating when he had just heard a senior master mention it, but because of the age, the impression was already very vague, so he didn't think about it in this direction at the beginning of going to the sea - "According to the clouds: there is an abyss in the east of the sea, and the dwelling place of the immortals can be ......"
Zhang Lu was a little confused, and asked as soon as he opened his mouth: "Do immortals have to live in the sky?" "Your old gentleman can't have touched the underworld, right? If there is really an underworld......
Yu Ji pouted and smiled: "I don't understand." Raise your hand and point to the sky: "There are clouds in the world, the gods live in the sky, the moon has a palace, and the sun has a cart to carry it.
Zhang Luxin said that Pei Xuanren really hadn't mentioned the cosmic structure of this world to me, and it was estimated that he had heard me say that human beings would be able to go to the sky in the future, and what kind of aircraft would be able to launch to travel outside the atmosphere, and even land on the moon, so he thought that these were all the knowledge I had mastered......
As far as the knowledge he gained from Zhang Lu's memories in this life—and the common knowledge of mortals in this year—the sky is round, and the sun, moon and stars are all boulders of different sizes hanging on the walls of the sky (except for the sun, which is a fireball). In contrast, what Yu Ji said is one step closer to modern science, he has realized that the distance from the ground to the stars is not basically the same, and the theory of air masses is closer to the nature of stars than boulders......
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but ask, "But what is the shape of the earth?"
Yu Ji said with a smile: "The earth is also a ball, hanging in the atmosphere." The sky is like a chicken's egg, and the earth is like its yellow. In fact, his statement is not the original invention of the cultivators, and there are similar theories in the mortal world, commonly known as the "Hun Tian Theory". Zhang Heng, a famous astronomer in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, expressed it in the "Notes on the Armillary Sphere": "The armillary sky is like a chicken." The celestial bodies are round like projectiles, the earth is like a chicken in the middle yellow, and it lives alone in the sky, the sky is big and the earth is small. There is water in the sky, and the sky envelops the earth, and the shell is yellow. Heaven and earth stand on air, carry water and float ......"
Moreover, Hun Tian said that he did not think that the egg really had a shell, nor did he think that the egg white, which was called "heaven", was the whole of the universe. Zhang Heng said in "Lingxian": "Those who have passed here have not known it." Those who do not know or know the universe are also said. The surface of the universe is infinite, and the end of the universe is infinite. "There's space beyond the sky, and as for what that space looks like, I'm sorry I don't understand, so I'll leave it alone for the time being.
However, this theory was not popularized, and Zhang Lu still saw it from Pei Xuanren's collection, and it is estimated that he would still be a scholar in the mortal world, and he would never have had the opportunity to come into contact with such an advanced (in this era) theory in his life. So he deliberately asked a question that a layman would definitely ask, and also took the opportunity to mislead Yu Ji's thinking, hoping to dig out more information from this misunderstanding: "Since the earth is like a yolk, hanging in the sky, then there is heaven on my head, and there is heaven thousands of miles away under my feet." Immortals have no place to live under our feet?"
In fact, of course, he understood that if the earth in this world was not much different from the earth he had crossed over on the physical level, it was absolutely impossible for a vertical passage that could penetrate the center of the earth and reach the other side of the world.
Yu Ji shook his head and said: "Immortals live in the sky and clouds, this sky is not the sky I see, and this is not the sky I know." He was afraid that Zhang Lu would not understand, so he deliberately made an analogy, saying: "If the people of the island have no boat and cannot cross the ocean, or know the affairs of the land, they will be cloudy: 'Partner, the Son of Heaven of China, is not the god of the gods? It's just a metaphor. ”
The old man explained for a long time, Zhang Luxin said Isn't it a different time and space, I can explain it clearly in a few words when I meet junior high school or above in the future, where do you need such a long speech? Pretending to suddenly realize, I thanked him: "Rely on the teachings of the elders, I know it now." "I guess you've found a space-time gate connecting the mortal world and the heavenly worlds, so have you fulfilled your long-cherished wish?"
Yu Ji sighed softly and said, "I look at the bottom of the abyss, like a frog watching the sky, but I see the clear and empty, and I feel like I see the palace." Suddenly, a huge head appeared, and its voice was like thunder, even the proverbs of Daowu ......"