Chapter 80: Maoshan Taoist
Everyone walked slowly up to the stone platform, only to see a big black flag standing around the stone tower, looking at the characters written in cinnabar on the flag.
Uncle Li was very surprised: "How can there be a Maoshan Gathering Yin Banner here, although the head-lowering technique is passed down from Maoshan, but this Gathering Yin Banner is an authentic Maoshan Dao technique, and it is definitely not used by the local head-lowering master, could it be that this black-clothed old man is a master of the Maoshan faction?"
"Is it powerful?" I asked.
"Yes, although it is not aggressive, it can indeed gather the nearby Yin Qi in one point, and every time the flagpole grows a foot, the area where it gathers extends outward for a mile, and the height of these four flagpoles is about fifteen feet.
It shows that it can gather all the yin qi within a radius of fifteen miles on the Tower of Death, and it seems that the Tower of Death is worthy of its name!
It seems that the characters in the tower must be extraordinary, we must first break these four flags before we can enter the tower, otherwise the guys inside will have endless strength to convey energy to him with these flags!" Uncle Li explained slowly.
"Okay, just cut off the flagpole!" Iron Pillar asked.
"Yes, but there is a better way, since the people in the tower like yin energy, they must be afraid of yang energy, I want to use the formation to convert all the yin energy here into yang energy and gather it on the stone tower, I believe it will be of great help to us!"
After listening to the master's words, my eyes lit up, "Are you going to use the Five Turns Gathering Yang Array to transform the Yin Qi here?"
Uncle Li smiled, "That's right, hurry up and prepare!"
It turns out that in the space we live in, each direction has two auras with the same attributes, one yin and one yang, among which A is yang and B is yin in the eastern woody aura, C is yang and Ding is yin in the southern fire aura, Geng is yang and Xin is yin in the western golden aura, the northern water-based aura is yang and decay water yin, and the central earthy aura is yang and self is yin.
The Five Turns Gathering Yang Array is a transformation formation that transforms all the negative aura in each direction into another positive aura of medium nature according to the five elements transformation law of aquatic wood, wood fire, fire and earth, earth and gold, and gold and water.
First, use the compass to move the power of the north* decay to the east to generate armor and increase the power of Yangmu.
Secondly, the power of the Eastern Yin Mu B was moved to the south to generate C, which increased the power of the Yang Fire.
Then the power of the central yin earth self was moved to the west to generate Geng, which increased the power of Yang Jin.
Then move the power of the western yin jin xin to the north and turn it into non, increasing the power of yang water.
When the last compass that converts Yin Huo Ding into Yang Tu Wu is opened, the entire Great Array will be activated, and all the Yin Qi in the array will be converted into Yang Qi.
Soon, the compasses in the four directions of the south, east, and west were already in place, and the last compass had to be placed in the center of the Great Array, that is, the Tower of Death, in order to activate the array.
Uncle Li asked me to take this compass with me, and enter the tower for a while, looking for an opportunity to activate the big array.
After the qiē was ready, the three of us took each of us and walked slowly towards the tower gate.
The bottom floor of the stone tower is much higher than the tower layer above, and the tall tower gate is in disrepair and is very bad, but this does not affect its majesty in the slightest, standing there like a weathered old man, always guarding this stone tower.
Seeing that the master and my brother were ready, I stepped forward, and pushed hard with both hands, accompanied by the sound of squeaking and turning the door shaft, two tall wooden doors were slowly pushed open, and a dazzling light immediately shot out from the inside of the tower, I hurriedly covered it with my hands, and after a while, my eyes got used to it.
Directly in front of the gate, a gourd-shaped crimson lamp was placed on the offering table, and the top of the lamp was a phoenix lamp head, which spewed out a dazzling golden flame.
And around the phoenix's mouth, there are also nine golden dragons, the dragon's heads are evenly distributed left and right, and the dragon's kiss soars to the sky, spewing out nine soft green flames, like nine green leaves, next to the golden flowers in the center.
My intuition told me that it was the magic lamp that I had longed for for a long time.
Before the door opened, even if I were asked to guess a hundred times, I wouldn't have guessed that the magic lamp was behind the door.
Facing the magic lamp, I was extremely excited, and I couldn't help but walk forward.
"Be careful, don't go in!" But Uncle Li still said that it was too late, I had already taken this step, and when my foot stepped on the ground in the tower, I did not stop, but continued to fall and entered the dirt.
I felt that this foot was like stepping into the air, and there was no resistance at all, but at this time, the center of gravity of the body had fallen forward with this step due to the effect of inertia, and it was too late to retract, as if walking down from the edge of a cliff, the whole body fell into the dirt at once, and I secretly said that it was not good, and I was ambushed.
At this critical moment, my strong hand grabbed my left hand, which was about to sink into the earth, and pulled him up from the soil with all his might.
It turned out that when Tiezhu saw that I had suddenly fallen into the dirt, he hurriedly reached out and grabbed me and pulled me up.
After coming up, I was shocked into a cold sweat, and then looked at the seemingly safe room in front of me, as if it was full of infinite murderous intent.
"Master, the ground in front of me is so strange, how could I fall into the dirt?"
The scene just now also made Uncle Li startled, but fortunately, there was no danger, and no one was injured, so he slowly walked to the door of the tower.
Suddenly, I noticed that the magic lamp was gone, and it suddenly became very dark.
"Everyone be vigilant, the magic lamp is gone!" Because of the panic just now, everyone didn't see who took the magic lamp.
After Uncle Li finished speaking, he began to carefully search every corner of the room with his eyes, only to see that behind the offering table where the magic lamp was placed just now, there was a tall statue of the Buddha of the Immovable Hades, which occupied almost the entire wall.
The wall on the left is covered with frescoes, all of which are allusions from the scriptures. On the right are steps leading directly to the second floor.
The whole room was simple and clear, there were no dark corners to hide people, and it seemed that the person who took the lamp must have gone up the stairs to the second floor.
Uncle Li looked carefully at the square bricks on the ground, and then looked up at the roof, his expression became a little dazed: "Shifting things and changing scenery to obstruct eyes! It seems that there is indeed a Maoshan master here!"
Thinking of this, the master took out cinnabar and yellow paper from Tiezhu's backpack and spread them on the ground to draw a few talismans.
"You two have to be more careful from now on, the other party has a master of the Maoshan faction, and the tricks are vicious, and this door is Maoshan's method of moving objects and changing scenes"
"Blinding, was that a blinding?" I asked, surprised.
"That's right, take a good look!" After Uncle Li finished speaking, he pinched a seal with his left hand, and held the freshly drawn charm with his right hand with his index finger and middle finger, and said in his mouth: "Oh, toot, sheng, li, well, huh!"
Then I quickly threw the charm in my hand into the room, only to hear the sound of "plop", a puff of white smoke rose from the place where the charm fell, and after the smoke dissipated, I looked inside, and I was shocked into a cold sweat.
I saw that the ground was still covered with bluestone just now, at this time it was like an abyss, from the door to the inside of the offering table, there was a big pit five or six meters deep, the bottom of the pit is a row of upside-down sharp knives, if you fall, you must be pierced into a sieve, there is no reason to survive, I am afraid of seeing it.
"Look up again!" After Uncle Li finished speaking, I immediately looked up and saw that the roof above the pit was the same as the ground I had just seen.
"See, use the formation to map the opposite scene to yourself, this is the Maoshan faction's method of shifting objects and changing scenes!" Uncle Li explained.
"It's because I'm so anxious that I forget about the danger when I see the magic lamp, it seems that this is what the other party has designed a long time ago!" I couldn't help but sigh, and once again told myself in my heart: steady, you must be steady.
"Okay, there is no suspense on this floor, everyone be vigilant and follow me up to the second floor!" After Uncle Li finished speaking, he jumped directly up the steps from the door, and my iron pillar followed.
Standing at the staircase of the second floor, I saw that the entire second floor was divided into a large labyrinth by many one-foot-thick wooden plank walls, up to the roof and down to the ground, without a single gap, and could only find the staircase to the third floor through the passage made of guò wooden planks.
Uncle Li watched it for a long time, and finally shook his head, "Alas, I'm too old to remember these things." ”
Then the master said to me that it's up to you here, in terms of mazes and formations, your brother and I are not as good as you!
"Don't be sarcastic about me, I know, you want to exercise me, okay, then I'll try it first, and if something is wrong, please ask the master to correct it!" I finished speaking, took out the compass and laid it flat on my chest, and spun around in place.
"Now we are in the northwest position of the house, if I am not mistaken, this labyrinth should be the "Nine Curved Corridor", as long as you follow the order of the nine stars flying in Luoshu, you should be able to get out!"
After saying that, I looked at the compass and walked straight to the east, while Uncle Li and Tie Zhu followed closely behind, turning left for a while, turning right for a while, and turning three times and two times to see the stairs leading to the third floor.
"Yes, yes, it's really better than blue!haha!" Looking at me, Uncle Li smiled happily.
Tiezhu also patted me on the shoulder in approval.
Although we are in danger now, the three of us are naturally optimistic, and even if the sky falls, we will smile and face it calmly.
When I came to the third floor, I found that the layout here was even stranger, with a tall wall sealing nearly 90% of the space, leaving only a narrow passageway.
And at the end of the aisle, there is a staircase leading to the fourth floor, the layout is simple and incredible.
There is no need to think about things that there is no way to do, and this has always been an excellent tradition of our sect.
So the three of us went up the stairs and went straight to the fourth floor.
No matter what the structure of the tower, the higher the number of floors, the narrower the area, the Tower of Death is no exception, because the second floor is a labyrinth, and the third floor is closed, so when you come to the fourth floor, you find that the area here is obviously much smaller than the first floor.
But it's gratifying to see two decent people on this level.
Since entering the village, except for the Gu people, who are like dried corpses, there is no normal person, and everyone always feels strange in their hearts.
I saw a tall old man in white standing behind the offering table on the south side of the room, and next to him stood a young young student with a strong physique.
But seeing that this old man had a ruddy face, bright eyes, white hair and long beard, and a seven-star sword behind him, he had the momentum of a Dao bone fairy wind.
Seeing someone coming up, the old man's face showed a slight smile, "Welcome, welcome, since a few people can come to this floor, they must be people in the same way, and they are polite!"
After saying that, he pinched a knot mark with his left hand and nodded slightly at everyone.
Seeing the seal on his left hand, Uncle Li knew that it was a gesture used by the Maoshan faction to greet him, so he also pinched a seal in his left hand and replied loudly: "The poor road has returned the courtesy!"
Looking at the master's appearance, Tie Zhu and I almost laughed out loud, no matter how we looked at him from that angle, we looked like a cynical little old man, and I had nothing to do with the image of a Taoist priest.
The white-clothed old man on the opposite side saw Uncle Li's seal, and there was a hint of doubt in his eyes, "Forgive me for being clumsy, please ask Daoyou is a master of that faction!"
"Hehe, small sect, it's not tasty, may I ask Daoyou what do you want to do here? It won't be that you want to invite the poor Dao to drink!" Facing the Maoshan Taoist, Uncle Li was still very witty.
"Haha, Brother Dao is really a temperamental, it's okay to drink, but you have to convince me according to the rules. ”
As he spoke, he pointed to the two offering tables in front of him and said, "There are two Dharma platforms here, the props on them are all the same, you and I might as well learn one or two, if you defeat me, don't say drink, even drink my blood." But if you lose, I'm sorry, please leave your valuables behind, and I feel free to go!"
The old man in white spoke sonorously and powerfully.