Chapter 44: The Inner City
In ancient times, it was far from being as simple as people thought now, and the ancients attached great importance to it at that time, no less than life and death! And when I caught the week, I didn't catch anything that was placed randomly, but I started preparing as early as three months ago! And the so-called preparation is to prepare nothing!
When the child is three years old, choose the corresponding hour in the eight characters of his birthday, put the child in the corresponding direction, let him move on his own, until he takes the lead in catching something, it is considered to be a success in catching Zhou, the reason why it is selected at the age of three, first, three-year-old children have been able to act on their own, second, since ancient sayings, before the age of three children are not popular, can see things that ordinary people can't see, and catch Zhou is also known as trying and divination!
At the end of the capture week, no matter what the child catches, he must put it back again, and as for what he catches, the child's parents will never mention it to outsiders, because what is found means that the child's life is inextricably linked with his fate! Definitely not like today's parents, and even take the caught things on their children as decorations, so they won't expose their children's lives to outsiders in a grand manner!
And the saying of the life weapon is the same as the way to catch Zhou, but the method of testing the life weapon has been a secret since ancient times, and even the grandfather is not clear, and the life weapon is only available to the powerful in ancient times, and most of the people who have changed their families are looking for the life weapon!
As the word says, it is to determine what its main destiny belongs to, whether it is an animal, a plant, or other artifact, or even a text, not necessarily! After the results are measured, this thing will be tattooed or engraved on the easy-to-carry utensils, worn by the person, it is rumored that it can stimulate the potential, change the number of lives, avoid disasters, and the hidden utensils are naturally the more precious the better, and, but also with its subjectivity! And the means of such a life-seeking device are also called in ancient times and even in modern times!
In ancient times, it was called - tattoo!
In modern times, it's called a tattoo!
Of course, this is only the most popular name, and even it can only be said to be a similar means, the real method of life weapons is by no means comparable to the art of tattooing, the latter is just an evolution from it, after all, in ancient times, the children of the poor wanted to ask for a life weapon is really a fantasy, so there is the art of tattooing, retreat to the second, and stab it directly on the body!
Therefore, even tattoos, in ancient times, were far from being as purely for decoration as they are now, they were a real means of determination and luck, and they would never be easily stained!
After listening to my grandfather's long talk, I couldn't help but be more curious about this means of life weapons, and asked, "Grandpa, is there really such a means in this world that can change lives?" ”
"Yes! Father! I've never heard you say that! This tattoo has so much power! I knew I was going to learn tattoos too! ”
When Grandpa heard this, his face turned dark, and he reprimanded: "Tattoos, the art of inferiority, only have its shape!" How can there be a real skill, this real means has its own name, and it is called - Carving and Dyeing Life! ”
Dye: One finger dyes the destiny of heaven, and the second finger dyes one's own destiny!
Although the means of dyeing the body is to change the number of lives, the ancients respected the sky and did not dare to speak out to fight for their lives to the sky, and they did not even dare to borrow words, only take a dyeing word!
"Carved body dye!"
I couldn't help but murmur and asked, "Then this Zhu Qingyun's pendant necklace is the life weapon she begged for by carving her body!" ”
"Now it seems that it should be!" Grandpa explained: "The weight of the life weapon, unless it is a last resort, no one will easily ask for it, just because this thing is competing with the sky, and the power of its heavenly luck is not something that ordinary people can resist, even if it really changes the number of lives with this thing, the price of dyeing the heavenly way is not something ordinary people can bear!" ”
In the hanging coffin tomb, there seems to be a giant python sacrificed in this pendant, which may be the manifestation of Zhu Qingyun's life, and now she is so shocked, is it possible that it is the price after dyeing the way of heaven, in the hanging coffin tomb, although this life weapon saved her life, but she also wants her to become like this at this moment, even if she returns to normal after taking the life weapon, but at the same time, it also means that her life weapon is gone, and the life weapon is entangled with the number of life, I am afraid that her life is almost the same as Zhu Feng, and it is rare to have a good death!
This is also the reason why even if the ancients measured the number of fate, they would never easily ask for a fate! And thinking that Zhu Qingyun should have seen the fate of several other companies in Beijing that violated the covenant of the national warriors, so he had to ask for a life weapon, but he didn't expect that the fortune of this life weapon was so large, even if it was dyed, it was not something that Zhu Qingyun could easily bear!
All the doubts finally came to light at this moment, but the third uncle asked again: "Dad! This thing is so godly, where do you say she asked for it! ”
When Grandpa heard this, he sighed again, and seemed to be a little reluctant to mention this matter, and said in a deep voice: "Looking at the world, the only person who can still have this means should be my old friend, Sun Liuzhi!" ”
"Sun Liuzhi?"
"Could it be that he is really a guy with six fingers?"
Grandpa nodded lightly, and couldn't help but sigh again, his expression was indescribably complicated, and he said in a deep voice: "Alas! In the whole world, the art of carving the body, except for the six-fingered monkey who is known as the reincarnation of Lu Ban, I think there is no one else in the world! Little Nizi, I'm right! ”
After the pendant was taken off by Grandpa, although Zhu Qingyun collapsed instantly, she had already returned to normal, and in the expectant eyes of me and the third uncle, she nodded lightly, and a weak voice sounded: "Grandpa Zheng is right, it is Master Sun Ban." ”
"Sun Ban?"
"Sun Liuzhi?"
"Is Sun Ban Sun Liuzhi? Father! Who is he? There are such methods, why have I never heard you talk about it! The third uncle couldn't help but ask about the origin of this Sun Liuzhi, and when the grandfather heard this, he walked slowly towards the door of the temple, looked up at the blue void, and seemed to be reluctant to mention this Sun Liuzhi, but said lightly: "Wait a day, you will know!" For now, let's think about how to get out! ”
Seeing this, I hurriedly changed the topic and shook the little jade in my hand: "The demons in the city have been captured, and the next thing is to see if entering the city is as we expected!" ”
Although Xiaoyu has already appeared in its original form, everything is still our speculation, whether we can enter the inner city with this painting, we still dare not make a presumptuous assertion! I can only go and give it a try! It's just that Zhu Qingyun is prostrations too much at the moment, and he can only rest temporarily, and Zhu Feng is completely collapsed, taking advantage of Zhu Qingyun's resting time, my grandfather and grandson took turns to fight in vain, at this moment Zhu Feng seems to have completely lost his soul, his eyes are scattered, his expression is dull, and he just mutters two sentences from time to time to save him!
In the end, there was no way, so I had to hand over the task of appeasing Zhu Feng to Zhu Qingyun, I thought that at first Zhu Qingyun was able to appease the collapsed Zhu Feng by borrowing the power of the life weapon, after all, this kind of means is really strong and weird, not only saved our lives in the hanging coffin tomb, even if the life weapon was triggered, it still stimulated Zhu Qingyun's hidden potential, so that after she entered the underground space, it was like a different person, thoughtful, and sometimes I could think of things that my grandfather and grandson ignored!
However, now that she is out of her body, she is extremely weak, and she slowly holds Zhu Feng in her arms, two lines of hot tears flow, gently stroking him in her hand, and constantly comforting her mouth, this Zhu Feng's eyes are really gradually bright! When he experienced the hanging coffin tomb, his mind was already distracted, and then he experienced Xiaoyu to follow all the way, at this moment, he should have seen Xiaoyu's true face from the beginning, and it is hard to imagine what kind of experience it is to follow a paper figure in the painting all the way! It is a miracle that he has not completely become a psychopathy until now, and in Zhu Qingyun's arms, Zhu Feng is even more incredibly radiant again, Zhu Qingyun kept calling him in his ears, he still looked back and forth on the three of us with some frightened eyes, and then nodded his head hurriedly like a child, and then moved his gaze to other places, Zhu Qingyun called him again, he nodded again, but repeated Fang Cai's movements, as if he didn't dare to see anyone!
Although this demeanor is still a little stupid, it can be regarded as a recovery of some goodness, at least with a response, I can't help but praise the family affection! More powerful than any magic weapon! This is probably the only force in the world that does not exist in Zhou Yi Yin and Yang, but it is real and unpredictable!
Under Zhu Qingyun's signal, I slowly pulled her up, the third uncle lame on the side and joined Zhu Feng with her, I helped my grandfather walk out of the City God Temple side by side, the four of them looked at each other, all of them were as firm as iron, and even though they took a slow but solid step, they walked towards the inner city!
Came to the inner city gate again, still heavily guarded, I went straight forward, the city gate guard drew his knife again to stop me, I immediately raised the scroll in my hand, as I expected, the guard full of cold face suddenly dissipated, the long knife also retracted into the sheath, hugged my fist, and then turned around and a silent snort, the city gate finally slowly opened!
"Senior! Thank you very much! ”
I chuckled at the guard, and he replied with a familiar weird smile, a thousand years of tacit understanding, and the five of us finally passed through the city walls and came to the inner city as we wished! The city gate behind him slowly closed, and the bluestone-paved ground led straight to the main hall at the end! This time, we didn't panic too much, just looked at the inner city scene in front of us with some surprise!
The area of the inner city is not large, but its exquisite solemnity is far from being comparable to the outer city, on both sides are rows of palaces, neatly seated, a quiet corridor connects it, and the main hall in the middle is even more amazing, it is actually a faint fluorescence under the dark blue starry sky, as if the whole body is made of gold and jade, just this glance, I can't help but secretly praise in my heart: "This kind of scene, than I imagined the inner courtyard of the palace is even more excessive!" ”
I turned my head to look at my grandfather and third uncle, they also looked shocked, but we didn't speak, because on both sides of the entire inner city, there were two rows of guards and palace maids standing neatly, from the city gate, all the way to the front of the main hall, at first glance, there were more than a thousand people!
The guards are all dressed in armor and holding halberds, and the palace maids are all standing straight on both sides, but the things in their hands are not the same, some are holding fans, some are holding flower baskets, but like the living dead in the outer city, they are still alive, and their wide open eyes are also pitch black, but with our arrival, these guards and palace maids have no other movements, as if they are still frozen here! Maybe this is the first time in more than a thousand years that someone has entered the inner city, and maybe the living dead in this inner city are a little different from the outer city! That's why we didn't dare to speak!
I looked back at Zhu Feng, he didn't have anything unusual, I thought that there should be no problem with these living dead in the inner city, and then I stepped out first, under the gaze of more than a thousand eyes, the five of us also began to slowly walk towards the main hall at the end, just halfway through, the third uncle seemed to be a little unable to stand the depression and doubts in his heart, although these living dead are the same as the living dead in the outer city, but it is more appropriate to describe them as mud statues, and I have been used to the dead noise of the outer city along the way, Such a scene in the inner city can't help but make us all suspicious in our hearts!