Chapter 18: The Nine-Star Sacrifice
Matsukumi did not appear until the evening. There was only one person left in the room, and Lin Junxuan felt quite clean. Someone brought me dinner in the evening, and after dinner, I also gave a plate of two large and round peaches. Lin Junxuan has been on the mountain for so long, and he has seen pine trees, and he doesn't know where this peach comes from.
'Squeak!'
Lin Junxuan opened the white papier-mΓ’chΓ© window, and the clouds and mist were misty outside, and a disciple of the Inner Sect was still sitting cross-legged on the rock, motionless. The aura of the Lingtai Hall is very strong, so the disciple absorbs the vitality of heaven and earth, and the strong aura fluctuation can be felt without concentrating.
"It's a pity that with so much aura, my 'Star Receiving Qi Technique' can only absorb the power of the stars, but these auras can't be absorbed. "I looked up at the sky, and the stars were shining brightly, and they were completely dark.
"It's time to practice the formation. "Lin Junxuan laid out a 'one-leaf array' in the room, then stepped into the formation and sat down in front of the window. Everything was arranged, Lin Junxuan took out another nine stones from his arms, raised his head, and the sky was full of stars outside the window, but Lin Junxuan's eyes saw nine stars among the thousands of stars!
This star has three rows and three columns, corresponding to eight directions, which forms exactly a square. In the Dao Gate, these nine stars are very special. These nine stars have a corresponding name according to the order and direction, exactly: Tiancanopy, Tianrui, Tianchong, Tianfu, Tianxin, Tianzhu, Tianren, Tianying, the previous Daomen ruled these nine stars as 'nine gods', and believed that among the nine stars, there were gods at the beginning of heaven and earth living in it.
These nine stars are secretly in the position of the Nine Palaces, and the method of sacrifice mentioned in "Qimen Dunjia" is to use the star power of these nine stars to practice the Nine Palaces.
Lin Junxuan's eyes looked motionlessly at the nine stars in the sky through the window, among the nine stars, one star was the brightest, while the other stars were about the same. Lin Junxuan stared at the star, holding the nine stones in his hand motionless.
Time passed slowly, and Lin Junxuan held the nine-star stone and never moved. In the sky, the brightest of the nine stars was weakening in brightness, and when its light reached the same level as the other nine stars, the adjacent position, another star suddenly shone brightly, and at this moment, Lin Junxuan finally moved.
"Kanyi Palace' - Canopy Star ......" Lin Junxuan muttered in his mouth, and at the same time, with a flick of his finger, a stone flew out, falling on the north, and the position of the canopy star in the nine stars coincided. 'Hum!' The floor shook, and where the stones fell, the power of the stars was shown to form a gossip image, and as soon as the stones fell, they remained motionless, as if they had taken root on the floor, and the shaking quickly stopped.
The stone fell out of the front of Lin Junxuan, a hand's distance away. Lin Junxuan didn't slack off, stretched out one hand and pressed it on the stone, continuously inputting the essence into it, and the mutation protruded, this stone absorbed the essence in Lin Junxuan's body, and suddenly glowed a faint white.
In the formation, the Nine Palaces Bagua must cooperate with the twelve earthly branches in order to achieve the effect of being in harmony with the earth and different from the mountains. The Nine Stars are equivalent to the Twelve Earths. Among the nine stars, when a certain star shines brightly and surpasses the other eight stars, it is called the duty in Qimen Dunjia, and what time is it at this time, it is called the value at a certain time. For example, it is the time of the day, and the canopy star is the brightest among the nine stars, so it is called the canopy star on duty, and the value is at the time of the day. At this time, the 'canopy star' is convenient for the 'Chen' in the twelve earthly branches to coincide, and the nine palaces are tempered with the nine stars, and the nine palaces absorb the power of the twelve earthly branches, so that the future arrangement does not need to fit the twelve earthly branches to perform. You know, the nine palace gossip is arranged with the twelve earthly branches, really
It will take at least an hour to complete the formation. When you are really facing the enemy, who will give you an hour to set up a formation?
The most special thing about the Nine Stars is that it has a special surname of 'duty', and every hour corresponds to a star on duty. This kind of duty is not fixed, but the nine stars take turns on duty, and it may be the canopy on duty at this time today, and the 'sky opposition star' may be on duty at this time tomorrow. The nine stars are said to be on duty year after year, taking turns to be on duty in the starry sky, even during the daytime, there are corresponding stars on duty. According to the statement in "Qimen Dunjia", these nine stars are not affected by the sun, but because the sun's light is too strong, it obscures the light of the nine stars.
Day and night, it does not prevent the Nine Stars from absorbing the power of the 'Twelve Earthly Branches', but for those who practice the formation, the sun still has an influence, and the sacrificial formation can only be carried out at night.
β...... Qianliugong ...... "When the light turned to the 'Tianxin Star', Lin Junxuan popped out another stone, and after a shock, the stone fell in the direction corresponding to the 'Tianxin Star' in the Qianliu Palace-this time is the Tianxin Star on duty!"
Every time a stone is practiced, it is an hour, and Lin Junxuan needs to master the time of falling in the whole process, which must be very accurate, almost not at all, and in the next hour, Lin Junxuan must keep inputting 'essence' into the stone to make the nine palaces communicate with the earth!
β...... Xun Sigong ...... 'Celestial Auxiliary Star'......"
β...... The middle fifth house ...... 'Celestial Fowl Star'......"
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There are twelve hours a day (each hour corresponds to two hours), and six hours a night, Lin Junxuan is only worthy of the sixth stone, and the sky is already almost bright.
"The cultivation of this formation is really time-consuming and energy-consuming, and after only six hours, I already feel that I can't bear it. Lin Junxuan was sweating profusely, this kind of sacrificial process required uninterrupted output of mana, and the huge mana consumption made him feel tired.
When the 'mana' in the stone is consumed, it loosens and no longer binds to the floor. Lin Junxuan stood up and picked up the six stones. With the help of the faint light shining through the window, Lin Junxuan saw that the six stones were each showing five extremely light six colors.
In "Qimen Dunjia", it is mentioned that the Nine Palace Bagua has five element surnames, and when the Nine Stars are used to practice the Nine Palaces, this Five Elements Surname will be presented.
Among the nine palaces, the first palace of Kan belongs to water and is white, the second palace of Kun belongs to water and is black, the third palace of Zhen belongs to water and is blue, the fourth palace of Xun belongs to wood and green, the middle fifth palace belongs to earth and yellow, the sixth palace of Qian, it belongs to gold and white, it belongs to the seventh palace of gold and red, the eighth palace of Gen belongs to fire and white, and the ninth palace belongs to fire and purple!
A long time ago, when the Tianji Sect existed in the cultivation world, when the cultivators set up the array, they generally used flags to set up the array, called the 'array flag', and most of these 'array flags' showed different colors, not because these cultivators were specially dyed for ease of identification, but in the process of sacrificing the 'array flag', the 'array flag' accepted the tempering of the power of the nine stars, showing their respective five elements and surnames, rather than dyed. As long as any 'array flag' is tempered, it will inevitably show different colors, and this color is the manifestation of the success of the sacrificial formation, the darker the color, the longer the performance of the sacrificial practice, the more successful it is.
Just imagine, if the formation flag is not cultivated, these cultivators will have to use several hours to set up the formation, and at this moment, their heads will fall to the ground. Many cultivators only choose the flag as the 'array flag', mainly because the flag is light and easy to carry, and when walking the world, the array flag is inserted behind the back, and when the array is arranged, it can be inserted on the ground, and there are also aesthetic factors. A person with a fairy wind and bones shook his hand and shot out nine flags, which was obviously more fluttering than shaking his hand and shooting nine stones.
Lin Junxuan's choice of 'stone' as the 'formation flag' also had his own considerations, and there were almost no people in this world who practiced the 'formation'. If you put a few 'flags' on your back, it is obviously easy to attract attention, but the stones are different, the size is small, you can hide them in your arms, and it is nothing to be seen even by others, at least not as eye-catching as colorful flags.
"The training of the formation is very demanding on the hour, each stone needs to be thrown at the moment when each star is on duty, although the order of the nine stars can be estimated during the day, but the actual operation is not so accurate, as long as the sacrifice will fail. You can only practice at night, these nine stones can only be practiced twice in two days, and it will take at least half a month to practice completely, and it will take at least a month to complete the sacrifice of these nine stones after adding the time to recover the mana consumption in the middle. "After putting away the nine stones, Lin Junxuan collected the 'One Leaf Array' again, and the sky was already completely bright at this time.
"I don't know how Ying Donglai is," Lin Junxuan suddenly remembered Ying Donglai, although his assessment this time was not as good as Lin Junxuan, but the overall ranking was still high, I don't know if the fat Taoist would accept him as a teacher.
Before Lin Junxuan entered this world, he had the habit of exercising in the morning, and after entering this world, he was unconsciously affected and used to getting up in the morning for a walk. Coming out along the tortuous passage, Lin Junxuan walked outside the main hall, and in the curling white mist, a disciple of the Fang Cun Sect sat with his eyes closed, motionless.
"It is not unreasonable for the Fang Cun Sect to become a great sect of the Daomen, not to mention the thousands of years of heritage, it can be seen just because of this kind of atmosphere of careful cultivation. Walking around the Lingtai Palace, Lin Junxuan thought about it, and was thinking about it, when he suddenly heard a sound of footsteps in his ears, and when he looked up, he saw a white-robed inner sect disciple walking over with a plate of peaches, and the grinding plate was only three or five peaches.
"Senior brother is polite," Lin Junxuan stepped forward and saluted, and the man also returned a salute.
"Senior brother, where did this peach come from?" Lin Junxuan asked. These peaches were covered in dew and were apparently freshly picked.
"This peach is picked from the 'rotten peach mountain' in the back mountain, you can see it from here bypass, and when you go to the Lingtai Palace. The Inner Sect disciple smiled and pointed in a direction.
"Thank you, senior brother!" Lin Junxuan thanked him, and after saying goodbye to the disciples of the Inner Sect, he walked towards the back mountain according to his words. Behind the main hall, the rich aura turned into a sea of clouds covering the mountain, Lin Junxuan stood behind the big 'Lingtai Palace', only to see the clouds and mist, and in the far distance under the mountain, I vaguely saw a few green treetops stretching out from the clouds.
"That should be Rotten Peach Mountain. "There is a stone step path behind the Lingtai Palace, the path is tortuous, and it is submerged into the depths of the clouds and mist under the mountain. Lin Junxuan stepped down the steps, and after about half an hour, he finally stopped. At the end of the trail, behind a row of hedges, stood a black hill shrouded in mist, and the hill was full of peach trees, their stems curled, their bark mottled, and their leaves three inches wide and dark green. Among the leaves, the peaches are as big as fists. These peach trees seem to have grown for many years, and the furrows and ravines of the bark reveal the smell of long years.
"What a big peach!" Lin Junxuan walked towards the hill with a step, and approached, in front of the fence forming a small door, Lin Junxuan saw a wooden stake that fell to the ground, and three words 'rotten peach mountain' were faintly visible on it.
(To be continued)