Chapter 19 Stele Shadow Tower Characters
When he came to the northwest corner of the town, he saw a hundred-zhang high tower and a forest of stone tablets.
In the travelogue of "Beizhou Different Towns", which introduced the scenery of Linggui Town, he saw the abandoned tower and stele forest, but he didn't expect it to be a hidden relic in the town.
Sure enough, it's bizarre.
Li Xiangyun and Xiao Qianjun soon came to the ruins and saw that the giant tower was really a ruined tower, although it was more than 100 zhang high, but its tower body had already been eroded by the years, becoming mottled and scattered, and no longer majestic.
At a glance, its interior has long been decayed and collapsed, empty, only a stone staircase leading to the top of the tower, I don't know if it is still intact.
Behind the tower is a large stele forest, the scale is quite small, the number of steles has more than 5,000 pieces.
It's just that most of them are remnants, and it is difficult to find one of them in the intact hundred-mile.
What is recorded in "Beizhou Strange Town Record" is really correct, but I don't know if the words on those remnants of the monument really still contain eternal meaning.
Li Xiangyun and Xiao Qianjun walked down the steps and came to the abandoned tower.
Unexpectedly, I found that there was already a person under the tower, with horns on his forehead, wearing animal skins, and a black coffin parked next to him.
It was the half-demon boy who appeared in the newspaper of the Immortal Mansion.
The second time they met, Xiao Qianjun was still a little scared and hid behind the senior brother, but she was a little curious about him, and couldn't help but poke out half of her little head.
When the half-demon boy saw the pair of senior brothers and sisters, he still didn't say anything, sitting cross-legged under the tower, accompanied by the black coffin, motionless.
Abandoned towers, stele forests, black coffins, half-demon boys.
This picture looks inexplicably a little desolate and lonely.
Li Xiangyun asked out loud: "You don't go to the southwest burial demon land to compete for the opportunity of the heavenly demon?" ”
The half-demon boy didn't raise his head.
Seeing his reaction, Li Xiangyun looked at the black coffin beside him again, and said, "Your black coffin is made of the Nine Shadows Soul Restoration Wood of the Little Netherworld, right?" Someone who is important to you lying inside? ”
The half-demon boy finally moved, raised his head slightly, and looked at him.
"You came to Spirit Turtle Town, not to compete for opportunities, but to save the people in the coffin?"
The half-demon boy frowned slightly, but still didn't speak.
Li Xiangyi understood, and said: "If you want to save the people in the coffin, the opportunity contained in this town may not work, but I know a place that should be able to do it." ”
The half-demon boy finally spoke this time, and asked hoarsely, "Where?" ”
"The Devil Hanhai in the Western Realm, there is a soul-devouring flower, it is rumored that swallowing tens of thousands of souls will give birth to one, if you can resist its companion yin and take its flower heart as medicine, you should be able to resurrect the person in the coffin."
"How do I trust you?"
"There is a used bookstore listening to rain on Dahuaishu Street in the town, and there is a volume of "The Complete Book of Yin Things in the Western Realm", which records this soul-devouring flower, you can go and see it yourself."
The half-demon boy bowed his head and was silent.
After a long time, he got up, put the black coffin on his back, and left step by step.
"Senior brother, I saw him sitting outside a thatched hut, guarding the black coffin, crying all the time, the village was full of dead people, and there was a fire, which set the whole village on fire, and the fire lit up most of the night sky!" Xiao Qianjun looked at the back of the half-demon boy and said suddenly.
Li Xiangjun glanced at Xiao Qianjun in surprise.
Xiao Qianjun, as a genus of spirits, knows some strange magical powers, and can see some things that others can't see.
"Senior brother, he's so pitiful! He was very young, a little older than me. ”
Li Xiangyan looked at the young man who carried the coffin, disappeared out of sight little by little, and said abruptly: "Yes, this is a hard-working young man." ”
Then he took Xiao Qianjun to bypass the abandoned tower and go to the stele forest.
To be precise, this side of the stele forest is the front of the abandoned tower.
Li Xiangyun walked into the stele forest and saw that almost all the steles were damaged, and even collapsed, which was a pity.
To his astonishment, there was no writing on these monuments.
Not a single one, let alone a lasting one.
This is different from the travelogue in "Beizhou Different Towns".
Why is it so different?
Xiao Qianjun had heard the senior brother talk about the travelogue, as well as the ruined tower and the stele forest, and he was very surprised at this time.
"Let's go inside."
"Uh-huh."
Xiao Qianjun turned into a green shadow and flew to the depths of the stele forest.
Li Xiangyi also looked for it from another direction.
Soon I heard Xiao Qianjun's surprise call: "Senior brother, there are words on this stone tablet, and the stone tablet and the words are not broken!" ”
Li Xiangyi immediately rushed over, and sure enough, he saw an intact stone tablet with words engraved on it.
This stele is three feet tall, and the material is like white marble, but it is more profound, and the specific material is not recognized.
What surprised Li Xiangyun even more was that the inscription on this stone tablet was not a common text today, but a kind of text that existed in legends.
That kind of legendary writing, there are ancient books mentioned in the library of Hanshan Academy, but the language described in that ancient book is not clear, and the content is not much, even if Li Xiangyi has studied it specially, he has not been proficient in this kind of writing.
At this time, it is difficult to interpret the inscriptions on these tablets.
This point was not mentioned in the travelogue of "Beizhou Different Towns", I don't know why.
"Xiao Qian'er, you go and see if there are any other stone tablets with inscriptions, and I will rub these words down."
"Okay!"
Xiao Qianjun flew up and quickly searched for it in the forest of steles.
Li Xiangyun began to print the inscriptions, preparing to take them back to the academy, and then look for ancient exegesis documents, or invite knowledgeable Confucians to jointly study and interpret them.
An ancient and rare script that is extremely important to the entire Hanshan Academy, and even to the entire world.
As a scholar, Li Xiangyun naturally knows the meaning of this.
He began to rubbing, but instead of copying like ordinary scribes, he directly used [Heaven and Man Induction], using heaven and earth as paper, and Haoran righteousness as the pen, rubbing and printing.
After a few breaths, a phantom of a stone tablet exactly the same as the stone tablet in front of him, as high as three feet and three feet, appeared in front of Li Xiangyi.
This is Li Xiangyi's original rubbing method, which is more complete and real than ordinary scribes' rubbing, or asking the painter Danqing to trace.
After rubbing, he put the phantom of the stele into the sea of qi.
However, as soon as the phantom of the stone tablet entered the sea of qi, he raised his eyebrows slightly, revealing a hint of discoloration.
Because he found that this stone stele phantom actually contained a mysterious power, this mysterious power came from the Chinese character of the stele, so that it was no longer a phantom, but had unpredictable power.
Li Xiangyi couldn't help but be surprised.
Could it be that this is the ruins of the Abandoned Tower Stele Forest, where the opportunity for cultivation lies?
Unintentionally planted willows and willows, before this, he really never thought that there would be any opportunities hidden in this stele forest.
It can only be said that it should be his.
Later, Xiao Qianjun found thirty-five stone tablets that were intact and inscribed with words.
With the addition of this piece, a total of thirty-six fast, Li Xiangyun rubbed them one by one, turned them into a phantom of the stone tablet, and put them into the sea of qi.
These 36 stone tablets and more than 3,000 words, Li Xiangyi finally only struggled to interpret two words:
Biluo!
can't connect with the context, Li Xiangyi doesn't know what the meaning of the word "Biluo" is, but it is good to be able to interpret it.
After putting away the phantom of the last stone stele, Li Xiangyun and Xiao Qianjun prepared to leave.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew, and stone chips and dust poured down from the abandoned tower, revealing a clear and smooth area
Xiao Qianjun's eyes were sharp, and he immediately pointed to the tower and shouted: "Senior brother, there are words on that tower!" ”
Li Xiangyi raised his eyes and saw that on the top of the giant tower, there were really two columns of words that I didn't know if they were poems or couplets:
The Tao spreads outside the sky, the sword falls into the galaxy, and it is not a fairyland;
Waking up from a dream and returning to the void is not the world.