"Go ahead, it's up to you whether we can get out of this labyrinth." Qi Chengxuan got up and took her into his arms and encouraged.

"Go ahead and believe in yourself! Don't forget to mark and time to see how many minutes it takes to reach each stone gate. This way we can get a sense of the size of the tomb. ”

Bai Xueying said hello, turned around with a flashlight, and walked into the dark corridor nervously.

Bai Xueying looked at the time on her watch and it was already 2 o'clock in the middle of the night, and she walked for about another five or six minutes. Sure enough, she returned to the stone gate just now, and she did not hesitate for a moment. Bai Xueying immediately drew a number 1, pulled the nylon rope and began to time.

When Qi Chengxuan continued to walk forward for about five or six minutes, he really saw a stone gate, he quickly wrote a number 3, and continued to walk under the road on the right, and a fiery three-legged bird appeared on the wall at the corner. Then the next stone gate is marked with the number 2. He didn't delay, he just walked normally. Bai Xue Ying shouldn't be in any danger, she was really anxious, and when she saw her again, she was resting in front of the stone gate. Seeing Qi Chengxuan coming back, he was overjoyed and ran down.

"Are there really three stone gates here, with a three-legged bird pattern?" Bai Xue Sakura walked towards him with an incredulous gaze.

"Put away your adoring gaze, the labyrinth has been pierced by your eyes!" Qi Chengxuan saw that she was fine, and finally let go of his suspense. He began to take a closer look at the Jizo King Bodhisattva on the stone gate.

Bai Xueying looked at the time, Qi Chengxuan took about twenty minutes. The time it takes to get from one stone gate to another is 10 minutes. The motif of three birds is on the wall at the corner of the two stone gates.

"Let's take another look." Qi Chengxuan dragged Bai Xueying through the three stone gates that had been marked for more than thirty minutes, making sure that there was no other exit.

"Hurry up, let's get in." Qi Chengxuan motioned to Bai Xue Ying to kneel down and kowtow quickly. They returned to the original stone gate.

Bai Xue Sakura sighed, then knelt down and bowed three times to the Jizo King Bodhisattva on the stone gate. After entering the stone gate, Bai Xue Ying hurriedly checked the secret door on the right side that had been opened again, and a stone slab engraved with the Oriental Green Dragon suddenly appeared in front of her.

"Oh yes!" Bai Xue Sakura was pleasantly surprised.

"So what do we do now?" Bai Xue Ying went up and asked Qi Chengxuan.

"You let me start over." Qi Chengxuan began to look around the sarcophagus and carefully examine the Yin and Yang Five Elements Bagua diagram above.

Then he explained to Bai Xueying: "You have A4 paper and pencil in your backpack, and draw me the structure and general outline of this tomb." ”

Bai Xue Sakura answered, picked up the pen and paper with an excited face, and studied the burial chamber.

"It's done." Bai Xueying handed the drawn tomb structure diagram to Qi Chengxuan, Qi Chengxuan picked up the notepad and compared it to the tomb, and nodded with satisfaction.

"The drawing is good, it's about the same as I guessed, if I'm not mistaken, we came across a three-leaf maze."

"What is the three-leaf labyrinth?" Bai Xue Sakura was obviously hearing this term for the first time.

"Do you know the clover kink?" Qi Chengxuan prompted.

"I know this, the three-leaf kink is an evolution of the Möbius ring. It is a three-leaf kink shape that is connected on three sides by coiling one end of a line that is rotated 120 times and then connected end to end. ”

After Bai Xueying suddenly woke up after speaking, she continued: "Assuming that this maze is designed based on the principle of the three-leaf kink, all the corridors are connected, so there is no exit at all, no matter how you go, you still go back to the starting point." If we want to solve this puzzle, we have to start with the first step, which is the first burial chamber we are entering now. ”

Qi Chengxuan patted her little head and smiled with satisfaction.

Then Qi Chengxuan asked Bai Xueying to sit by the sarcophagus together and said: "Now I roughly know what the structure of this three-leaf maze is, as long as it can be confirmed that my guess is not wrong, it will not be far from us finding the exit." As he spoke, he revised it on the basis of the white snow cherry blossom painting.

Bai Xue Sakura obviously still didn't quite understand the true structure of this tomb. For example, "If you imagine the whole spatial structure as three overlapping leaves, the space entered by the three stone doors is the three burial chambers where the leaves intersect, the secret door is the intersection of the three leaves, and the three-sided three-legged bird is actually the top of the three leaves." ”

Bai Xue Sakura nodded in realization.

If this burial chamber is represented by a green dragon, the secret doors in the following order should be the white tiger, the vermilion bird, and the Xuanwu.

"That's not right!" Bai Xueying pointed to the plan of the three-leaf maze drawn by Qi Chengxuan and said, "Even if we are located in the triangular center space with three overlapping leaves, there may not be three burial chambers in it?" Regarding Qi Chengxuan's argument, she felt that it was a bit unreasonable.

"You see, the tomb we are in, in fact, the space is not large, there is only one secret door, if there is only one space after the overlapping of three leaves, then there should be three secret doors here that can gather here."

Bai Xue Ying listened to him so much, and carefully observed every corner of the tomb, there was indeed only one secret door.

"This is the Qinglong tomb, if you use the Qinglong, the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, and the Xuanwu, use these four directions to define the location of each tomb, obviously it doesn't make sense if there is one less."

"Look here." Qi Chengxuan pointed to the center of the plan of the three-leaf labyrinth.

"Oh. I understand! Bai Xueying suddenly realized and said excitedly, "Qi Chengxuan, you are too powerful, you want to get this!" The space is divided into three, but the entire central space of the triangle can actually be seen as an independent large burial chamber..."

"The last big burial chamber is what we are looking for, it should be the entrance to the main burial chamber, which is the exit we are looking for now."

After Qi Chengxuan finished speaking, he added: "The Eastern Green Dragon, the Western White Tiger, the Southern Vermilion Bird, and the Northern Xuanwu, according to these four directions, we can deduce which direction the exit is." ”

Bai Xueying pointed to the floor plan of the three-leaf labyrinth and analyzed: "Suppose No. 1 is the Qinglong tomb, No. 2 should be the Northern Xuanwu, and No. 3 is the Western White Tiger." Bai Xueying pointed to the third burial chamber suspiciously.

"And the core location of the three-leaf maze should be the southern Suzaku, look here." Qi Chengxuan got up and asked Bai Xue Ying to see the scriptures on the back wall of the tomb, and the center of the scriptures was carved with a totem of the sun, and there was a small hole wide in the center of the totem, and he didn't know what it was for.

Qi Chengxuan saw that she understood and continued: "Previously, we analyzed the identity of the tomb owner as a woman, and the Vermilion Bird is an ancient divine bird, and it has always been a representative of women. Suzaku refers to the fact that the south belongs to the fire in the Five Elements Bagua, and if there are also four burial chambers, the fire represents the above, and the upper refers to the sun. In addition, the three-legged bird pattern we saw on three sides at the corridor echoes this sun totem. Therefore, the center of the three-legged bird pattern surrounded on three sides is the southern red bird, which is the location leading to the main burial chamber, which is the exit we are looking for. ”

"So how can we verify that our hypothesis is correct?" Bai Xueying also agreed with his reasoning.

"When I asked you to return to Stone Gate No. 1 alone, I was not idle, and we found the three secret doors of the tomb at the same line and marked them, as long as we successfully verify them one by one, our hypothesis can be established. ”

"What do you say?! What if you encounter danger? Bai Xueying couldn't believe her ears, the young man in front of her had completed this difficult task in more than twenty minutes.

"I'm not okay now, this tomb owner is still very kind. There is no danger in the corridor at the moment, so go and see if there is a sign I made behind the secret door on the right side of the tomb. Qi Chengxuan smiled at her, and he was just as handsome in his dream.

"Hmm" Bai Xueying nodded, she walked to the secret door on the right again, and shone the outside of the Qinglong slate with a flashlight, and sure enough, she saw Qi Chengxuan writing a 'east' character in chalk.

Suddenly, I saw a pair of blue and purple feet swaying under the torn red dress and scattered through the secret door, Bai Xue Ying's frightened flower face was discolored, and she hurriedly shrank back tremblingly, almost having a heart attack again.

"What's wrong?!" Qi Chengxuan slid to her with an arrow and hurriedly caught her, but found that there was nothing. I thought that Bai Xue Sakura might be too tired and too nervous. Take some compressed biscuits and water from her back and feed her. Bai Xue Sakura's face gradually softened.

"Are you alright?" Qi Chengxuan said worriedly.

Bai Xueying shook her head and leaned against the dark doorway, resting for half an hour.

"I'm fine, what are we going to do next?" White Snow Sakura stood up.

Qi Chengxuan saw that she was fine, and he felt a lot more relieved. Pointing to the delicate sarcophagus, he said, "It should be necessary to unravel this yin and yang five elements gossip diagram." ”

Bai Xueying got up and walked to the sarcophagus, leaned over and looked confused, and said, "I don't understand this, isn't the Yin and Yang Five Elements Bagua Diagram only available in Taoism?" ”

"This is not true, the Five Elements Bagua Diagram is derived from Taoism. But the Taoist Manjushri Guangfa Tianzun brought it to Buddhism and became the Manjushri Bodhisattva of Buddhism. I also read the diagram of Zhou Yi's sixty-four hexagrams since I was a child, although it is very mysterious, but the most basic thing is to understand something. Like this five-element Bagua diagram, it is divided into yin and yang, five elements and gossip theory. This sarcophagus is only part of the body. "Five elements" specifically refers to the line of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, the "five elements" doctrine and today's mathematics, physics, chemistry, has been the ancient Chinese sages engaged in various research tools and methods, and such as soldiers, easy learning, calendars, Confucianism these can see the figure of the five elements of yin and yang. The Five Elements Bagua doctrine is usually applied to disciplines such as orientation, hexagram measurement, and feng shui. So it's normal to see it in the tombs. ”

Qi Chengxuan stepped forward and carefully looked at the Five Elements Bagua Diagram on the sarcophagus and analyzed: "This Five Elements Bagua Diagram should be the key to guiding us out of the Trilobulous Labyrinth. ”

"At present, the tomb we are in is the Eastern Green Dragon, if we walk out of this tomb through the secret door on the right side, we will pass through the next tomb Northern Xuanwu. Going out through the secret door of the White Tiger Tomb will pass through the last burial chamber, the Western White Tiger. "Then only if we collect all the clues in the three burial chambers can we enter the fourth burial chamber, the Southern Suzaku, right?"

Bai Xue Ying looked at the five elements of the gossip diagram on the sarcophagus with a word.

"Qianjin Jiazi Wai Ren Wu, Kanshui Wuyin Wai Wu Shen.

Gentu Bingchen outside Bingxu, Zhenmu Gengzi Gengwu Lin.

Xunmu Xin ugly and Xin Wei, away from the fire has been self-seeking.

Kun Tu Yi did not add ugly, and exchanged gold Ding Ding Ding Haichen. ”

"What do you say?" Bai Xue Ying looked at Qi Chengxuan and muttered curiously in a low voice.

"You don't understand." Qi Chengxuan still lowered his head and studied it carefully.

"Teach me, if you don't say it, how can I understand?" Bai Xue Sakura also followed him around the sarcophagus.

"Then I'll test you, do you know the orientation and elemental attributes represented by the four divine beasts?" Qi Chengxuan said with a wicked smile.

"I know the direction of the representative or what you said, how can you know so much?" Bai Xue Sakura retorted with a pout.

"Look here, Kun (represents the earth), Zhen (represents thunder), Li (represents fire), Dui (represents swamp), Qian (represents heaven), Xun (represents wind), Kan (represents water), Gen (represents mountain), the same dry is gold, Dui is gold, Li is fire, earthquake is wood, Xun is wood, Kan is water, Gen is earth, Kun is earth, we now have to find the hexagram corresponding to the Dongfang Qinglong."

"The green dragon in the east is wood, the white tiger in the west is gold, the vermilion bird in the south is fire, the Xuanwu in the north is water, the earthquake in the gossip is wood, and Xun is wood, which one is it?" Qi Chengxuan was also a little confused.

"If the Qinglong is the east according to what you said, the direction corresponding to this earthquake hexagram should be due east, and Xun should be southeast below the earthquake." Bai Xue Ying said in a word.

"yes, I didn't think of that!" Qi Chengxuan was annoyed.

"So what do we do now?" Bai Xue Sakura was excited.

"Find the location of the Oriental Green Dragon." Just do it, Qi Chengxuan looked at the surrounding walls, and his suddenly handsome face showed a look of surprise.

"I see, you see there is a small hole in the center of the sun totem on the back wall, I didn't know what it meant at first, but now I understand, it should be to aim the corresponding direction at this small hole." After speaking, Qi Chengxuan began to slowly rotate the Yin and Yang Five Elements Bagua Diagram on the sarcophagus.

When the trigram corresponds to the small hole in the center of the sun totem on the back wall, suddenly only a click is heard, followed by the sound of a crossbow being wound.

"It's not good, hide it." Before the two of them could react, the first arrow crossbow that was shot first grazed Qi Chengxuan's side face like a fiery snake, and Bai Xue Ying hurriedly pulled him behind the sarcophagus. Countless crossbow arrows shot at the location of the sarcophagus from all directions, and the two quickly hid behind the sarcophagus and resisted with their backpacks.

"Did you turn the wrong one?" Bai Xue Sakura shouted.

"No!" Qi Chengxuan couldn't care about the blood oozing from his face and said in doubt, but there was nothing he could do at the moment, countless crossbow arrows pressed the two of them to not raise their heads, and if they went out, they would die.

I don't know how long it took for the crossbow bolts to stop, and at the same time, the secret door on the right side of the tomb began to fall slowly.

"Hurry up, the secret door is about to close!" Bai Xue Sakura hurriedly ran over in fright, trying to stop the falling door.

"Wrong direction?!" Qi Chengxuan's anxious square inch was in chaos, like ants on a hot pot.

"Could it be the five elements?!" Bai Xueying didn't care about the secret door, and hurriedly ran back to the sarcophagus to remind Qi Chengxuan, hoping to give him a little help.

"The five elements are mutually reinforcing? Yes, this is it. Wood overcomes earth, fire overcomes gold, soil overcomes water, gold overcomes wood, water overcomes fire! Qi Chengxuan began to recite the mantra, he was sweating profusely, and he restrained himself from calming down.

"It's Jin Kemu!" Bai Xue Ying reminded him again.

"Jin Kemu, in the gossip, dry is gold, and exchange is gold!" Qi Chengxuan told Bai Xueying.

Bai Xue Ying began to look for the Yin and Yang Five Elements Bagua Diagram: "Here! It is a hexagram, which is due west, and the dry should be in the northwest direction. ”

Qi Chengxuan instantly ran to the sarcophagus and began to turn to the Yin and Yang Five Elements Bagua Diagram, and when the hexagram corresponded to the small hole in the center of the sun totem on the back wall, the secret door stone slab stopped falling and began to rise back.

Before the two of them could catch their breath. I saw that the yin and yang patterns of the yin and yang five elements gossip diagram on the sarcophagus instantly recycled on both sides, and a black feather arrow rose from the center and shone brightly.

Qi Chengxuan stepped forward and pulled out the black feather arrow, looked at it carefully, and said at the small hole in the center of the sun totem on the back wall: "This should be a key." ”

"There's also in the other two burial chambers." White Snow Sakura was overjoyed.

"Well, let's go, when we have all collected, we will come back to this Qinglong tomb and see how to get out?" The two walked out of the secret door one after the other. The thrilling experience just now was vivid, and the two of them couldn't help but have palpitations.

"Hey, little bit, I found that you are very suitable for learning Zhou Yi gossip, just one point. Not to mention that you can be a politician, a writer, and a Chinese medicine practitioner, it is definitely not a problem to tell fortunes. As soon as Qi Chengxuan got out of the predicament, his original form was immediately revealed.

Bai Xueying was about to help him deal with the wound on his face, and when he said this, she pressed the wound on his face hard.

"Ouch, you're going to murder!" Qi Chengxuan's feet were really jumping in pain, and so on Qi Chengxuan couldn't help but feel a trace of worry, now in Bai Xueying's illusion, why did he feel pain?

"Why don't you say that after learning Zhou Yi Bagua, you will learn a few tricks with Hu Bayi to find the dragon trick, and then we will go to the inverted fight together with the entire electronic compass!" Bai Xue Ying stared at her with a sneering expression.

"Aren't we in the tomb now, you can practice slowly!" Qi Chengxuan said with a hippie smile.

Bai Xue Ying was just about to make a move, when suddenly Qi Chengxuan shouted behind her, "That red-clothed female ghost is here again!" ”

Bai Xue Ying was so frightened that she hurriedly hung her limbs on Qi Chengxuan's body, eager to stick to him.

"Lie to you! Lie to you! Qi Chengxuan hurriedly comforted that he shouldn't make this joke in this suitability.

Bai Xueying punched him a few times, and Qi Chengxuan could only say some good things to coax her. Seeing that Bai Xueying's mood was much more stable, the two went to the next stone gate together to enter the tomb.

Qi Chengxuan took her by the hand, peeked behind her, and saw a female ghost with a cloak in the darkness showing an infiltrating and weird smile at him. Qi Chengxuan pretended not to see it, pretending to be calm and pulling Bai Xue Ying away.

The two of them found the black feather arrow in the White Tiger Tomb and the Xuanwu Tomb respectively, and inserted the black feather arrow into the hole in the back wall of the tomb, and then returned to the Qinglong Tomb. However, when the two of them inserted the black feather arrow into the small hole in the back wall, there was no sign of the mechanism opening.

"What's going on?" The two looked at each other, at a loss.

"Do you know why this feathered arrow is black?" Although Qi Chengxuan was asking Bai Xueying, he was also very puzzled.

"Is it related to the three-legged bird?" Bai Xue Ying reminded.

"Have you heard the story of Hou Yi and the three-legged bird?" Qi Chengxuan slowly raised his head and began to say: "According to mythology, there are golden three-legged crows in the sun, and ancient people used "golden crow" as another name for the sun, also known as "red crow" and "three-legged bird".

Legend has it that on the shores of the vast East China Sea, there is a sacred tree, Fuso, with ten three-legged birds perched on its branches. They are both sons of God's Emperor Jun, and they take turns to travel to the heavens every day, and the light radiated by the three-legged bird is the sun that people see (hence the sun is also called the three-legged bird). Later, ten three-legged birds rushed to heaven without listening to God's instructions, and ten suns appeared in the sky at the same time, and the earth was scorched and hot. People had to hide in caves during the day and come out at night to forage for food. Beasts and poisonous insects take the opportunity to eat people, and human beings are in danger of extinction.

Di Yao prayed to the Emperor of Heaven and asked for help. The Emperor of Heaven sent Yi to help Di Yao. Yi, also known as Hou Yi, is a god-man who is good at archery. When Hou Yi said goodbye to the Emperor, the Emperor gave him a red bow and a white quiver full of arrows. Hou Yi brought his wife Chang'e to the world. Chang'e, later known as Chang'e, was a very beautiful woman. When Di Yao saw them, he was overjoyed, gave his warmest welcome, and demanded that his divine power be used immediately to punish the troublesome sun. Hou Yi listened to Di Yao's compliments and requests, and was very proud, and immediately took out the bow and arrow given by the Emperor of Heaven, walked to the square, aimed at one of the ten suns in the sky, and shot an arrow with a whoosh.

At first, there was no movement, but after a while, I saw the sun burst suddenly, and the flames burst wildly, scattering some golden feathers. Then there was a thud, and a bright red mass fell. People ran over to take a look, and it turned out to be a huge golden three-legged crow, with Hou Yi's magic arrow stuck in its body. Looking at the sky, there was indeed a sun missing, and people couldn't help cheering in unison, celebrating with their foreheads. Hou Yi became even more proud, so he shot a second arrow, and another sun fell, causing another earth-shaking cheer. Then, the third arrow, the fourth arrow......

Of course, Di Yao was very happy. However, when he saw that there was only one sun left in the sky, and Hou Yi's interest in archery seemed to be not over, he was in a hurry and hurriedly pulled all the remaining arrows from Hou Yi's quiver. In this way, Hou Yi was reminded that leaving a sun, otherwise, it would become a dark world, but it would be troublesome.

As soon as the three-legged bird died, the fire extinguished, and the people suddenly felt cool and happy, so they cheered. The shouts reached the sky, and Emperor Jun was furious when he saw that his nine sons were dead, and did not allow Hou Yi to return to heaven. At the same time, the only remaining three-legged bird roams day after day without rest. Since then, the scorching heat of the earth has disappeared, and the trees have recovered, and the people of Li have to re-cultivate. In order to commemorate the great feat of Hou Yi shooting the sun, people call the mountain through which the arrow passes through the sun "the arrow over the top".

For this mythological story, see Liu An, King of Huainan in the Han Dynasty, in "Huainanzi Benjing Xun". ”