Chapter 9: Heaven and Hell
I walked on the road for more than a month before I arrived at the Wuyue Mountain, where Tibet and Yunnan meet.
This is fast, the means of travel is Liuhua Palace spent a lot of money to develop and enjoy the patent rights of the hundred miles, specially looking for the Lu family craftsmen to design and manufacture, purely by mechanical power, a bit like the previous dynasty appeared in the "wooden cow flowing horse", but the difference is that the wooden cow flowing horse still has to rely on manpower to push the formation of a driving force to run, and the Liuhua Palace this hundred days does not need external force to apply, purely rely on the internal passenger to move the tail of the car called "clockwork" thing, twist seven or eight times after letting go, This internal driving force can be started to drive the entire internal complex gear structure to operate, and then endlessly, one or two hours can drive on their own, only need to have a person in front of them through the "sight hole" to grasp the direction of travel, until the power is weakened, then you can twist the clockwork afterburner, so repeated, you can travel two hundred to three hundred miles a day, over the mountains and mountains are not a problem.
And the power chariot belongs to the fully enclosed design, the appearance looks like a curled mouse shape, the surface is wrapped with iron sheet and polished smooth, which can not only reduce wind resistance, but also can defend against external attacks, only leave a manhole cover size inlay on the ceiling, access to rely on a small ladder inside.
Such a powerful means of transportation cost more than 1,000 taels each, Liuhua Palace customized a total of four, the palace master Duanmu Lan of course kept one, and the remaining three were assigned to the Yangzhou rudder, Jizhou rudder and Tangzhou rudder that have exceeded the task every year.
Rao is so stable to sit in the car, and the front helm and the back winding work do not have to worry about cutting the wind, she is still dizzy and uncomfortable, blame this body is too fragile, simply can't stand the stuffy environment in the fully enclosed car, from the third day she sat in she began to feel uncomfortable, can't eat, want to vomit can't vomit anything.
Seeing this, Huanxue, who is at the helm, naturally stops and goes strongly, constantly lifting the lid for ventilation, trying to make the wind as comfortable as possible, and the back of the strip is a well-behaved folded flower, naturally there are no complaints, as usual, there are talking and laughing, only endless complaints about shooting the moon: what can sit in this sealed car be comfortable, why stop and stop and delay time, it is better to arrive early in one go; What is this, it always stops and stops, delaying time, and it is nothing if you can't eat the celebration banquet of the main altar, but what if the high-quality handsome guys in the Ecstasy Building are selected by others first; What is the motivation for her annual work is all from the carnival of three days and three nights in the Ecstasy Building, I really want to live in the Ecstasy Building for the rest of my life...... The more he said it later, the more explicit it it became, which really made people red-faced.
After walking for another three days, I finally arrived at the gate of the majestic palace.
The perennial purple mist of Mount Wuyue is shrouded in the light of day, to be honest, let a person who is lost in this deep mountain suddenly bump into this glittering, brilliant and gorgeous palace, and really think that he has strayed into a fairyland, and the eaves of the door frame are knocked on a corner casually, and the unreality that you can sell it for a good price when you go out.
And every time his subordinates come here, they will sincerely feel a sense of pride that "I am so proud to work in this place".
But when I entered this gorgeous palace, it was indescribably gloomy and depressing, and I couldn't even find a chandelier or a candlestick, only the Ning Bi beads inlaid on the four carved dragon beams and pillars, emitting a flickering green light, which made people dizzy. If you look around again, there are only four walls, empty, as if you are in a desperate cemetery, and the extreme feeling of suffocation will make people have the urge to turn around and run immediately, and at this time, the two doors behind you have already closed with a "bang".
Then you will find out where this is a cemetery, more like hell.
In fact, heaven and hell are often only between a line and a thought.
If you can't accurately find out the location of the door within a certain period of time, then the mechanism of the door of death will trigger itself, that is, the four walls will gather in the middle, and finally squeeze the intruder to death, at this time, the mechanism will automatically trigger the homing, and the floor in the center will suddenly shrink to both sides, revealing a black and dark, bottomless hole, and the "broken bones" of the intruder will fall into the belly of the mountain like this, so there will be a rumor that "Mount Wuyue is actually a man-eating mountain".
On the other hand, even if there are people who are familiar with the art of Qimen Dunjia, there are no clues to follow in this empty place, there is no door and no rules to test, and no matter how much thaumaturgy there is, there will be nothing to do. But who would have thought that the Dharma was on the floors of varying thicknesses beneath their feet! In fact, each floor tile corresponds to the five tones of "Gongshang Jiao Zhengyu", and then there are eight hexagrams corresponding to the combination of five tones, so as to find out the door of life and death. Therefore, if you know the number of Qi Men but do not understand the rhythm, or if you know the rhythm but do not know the number of techniques, you will not be able to escape from here and ascend to heaven, you will either step directly on the door of death and fall directly into the belly of the mountain, or you will step on the other six doors other than the two gates of life and death, thus triggering the "meatloaf" mechanism.
Such a tricky and strange mechanism design with no return is really only someone as clever as Duanmu Lan, who can come up with a whimsical mind, regardless of those who have been uninvited or unintentionally intrusion over the years.
According to rumors, the manufacture of the organs of this temple was also ready to invite the craftsmen of the Lu family to do it, but the Lu family refused the order as soon as they heard that it was such a vicious organ, the family still followed the ancestral teachings, only to make beneficial and harmless tools, and finally had to find the Liuyan Pavilion of the Central Plains Sword League to do it, at that time, the four major factions of the Central Plains Sword League had not been forcibly merged into today's Xuanyuan Tai, the four sects still had autonomy, and the Liuyan Pavilion was started by a businessman, and it was invincible, how could such a big single refuse, Even when the project is accepted, the craftsmen who have seen the design drawings and participated in the manufacturing are fed the "difficult to cross the mountain" that may damage their minds, and they are in charge of Ning Buwei and agreed. Therefore, businessmen are heavy on profits and unkind.