Chapter 82: Stargazing

"This array can only find out one location at a time, right?" Mu Lai slightly observed the lines on the snow, and couldn't understand it very much, although the fortune teller taught him a lot, most of them were just scratching the surface.

"Well, you have to fight eight times in total to be able to do the trick. Yang Jian nodded, "I've been here for a few days, and I've already experienced four hexagrams, so this time I'm going to find out where the Zhen hexagram is." Now I'm going to start meditating, and the timing of the formation must be before the noon handover, and then I won't be able to move my words for half a day, so you can just wait nearby, and I have the hides I laid in the east, and I can go hunting in my spare time. ”

After speaking, he picked up the three-pointed double-edged gun on the ground, walked to the middle of the formation and sat down cross-legged, no longer speaking, but his mouth was full of words.

Mu Lai observed the situation for a while, and his drowsiness surged, so he walked to the east for a while, and sure enough, there were a few animal skins on the ground. He put the bucket aside, and the sword in his arms was held, and from time to time he fell into a deep sleep.

When he woke up, there were stars in front of him, and he lay on the animal skin and was slightly stunned for a while, and then ran to the side of the Listening Immortal Array with some anxiety. Yang Jian was still sitting on the snow, and at this time, the eight hexagrams were faintly glowing, and there were several white lights flying back and forth in the lines on the snow.

He looked at it for a while, and was a little bored, so he looked around, but found no trace of the beast, so he had to go back to the skin and lie down, looking up at the dazzling starry sky.

At this time, he remembered that Lu Jian Immortal Elder said that there were many things in the Folding Fighting Sword, so he picked up the sword and looked at it carefully. The wide sheath is engraved with blue runes, which are not complicated, but they look gorgeous. He gripped the hilt of his sword, straining slightly, and drew it for the first time. The blade of the sword is still very wide, but it is transparent throughout, like finely carved ice, reflecting the starlight and snow at this time, like a flawless gem.

Mu Lai touched the light blue blade in amazement, not daring to touch it for a long time, for fear that this flawless piece of ice would be melted. The starlit snow turned light blue through the blade, as did the starry sky above.

Starry sky. He sat up, a little puzzled in his heart, the starry sky he had just seen through the blade was a little strange, but he couldn't tell the difference. This time he put the blade directly in front of his eyes, and everything around him turned a pale blue, and the stars in front of him were no longer as dazzling as if they were close at hand, and the patterns they formed were much clearer and more distinct.

Yes, clear and distinct patterns, no longer complicated and endless. He took the sword away for a moment, put it back in front of his eyes, and finally noticed the strangeness of the starry sky in the sword.

Many stars less.

He confirmed it again. That's right, many stars less. The night sky and the snow were exactly the same through the transparent blades, but the starlight of many stars was blocked.

He took a slight breath and lay back on the ground, continuing to observe through the transparent blade. In the night sky, which is as dark as a light blue, the constellations are clear and distinct, bright and not complicated.

The ancients believed that the starry sky expresses the ultimate meaning of the worlds, but no one can discern all the meanings in it, just as no one can count the grains of sand on the banks of a great river. When Xu Banxian said this many years ago, he still used his usual fluctuating tone. He had always insisted that people call him that, and for a long time not many people remembered his real name. "But some people have come up with a way to take out some of the stars in the starry sky, separate them from the other stars around them, and form some slightly concise patterns separately, so that although they don't get the true meaning after all, they have also explored a lot of knowledge, and there are many departments of Taoism that originate from this, as well as almost all physiognomy. ”

"Did you learn those spells that make people fly or breathe fire?" he still remembered that he asked with such great interest at that time, and Xu Banxian, who was sitting opposite, leisurely spit out a wisp of green smoke from his thin bamboo pole, and replied eloquently: "The types of spells are strange, tracing back to the origin, not contained in the ancient artifacts, the results of the stars and the deduction of the five elements, among which the stars mainly rely on all kinds of maps of the stars, that is, the selection of some interrelated stars from the starry sky, so as to study. The star washing charts were generally made by the ancient sages, the most famous of which are the three empty mulberry leaves of Nuwa Niangniang and the "Commentary on the Interpretation of the Commentary" by the Patriarch of the Mixed Kun, and so far these star washing charts have almost all been lost, and only a few sects have left one or two fragments. Now that the spells are generally passed down from the masters, the entire Yin Shang land, I am afraid that no one has been able to perform the star number deduction method for hundreds of years. I have never seen the real map of the stars, but there is an ancient book, I remember a lot of the meaning of the stars, you might as well keep it in mind, even if you can't meet the map of the stars in the future, occasionally look at the starry sky, and you will eventually be able to get it. ”

Is this the map of the Washing Stars? Lu Jian Immortal is really generous. Thinking of the memories of when he first learned the art of Xiangxing many years ago, Mu Lai's heart became more and more excited. Although the righteousness of the stars recorded back then cannot be exhausted, there is still a general impression. He immediately found the most familiar constellation in the sword, and began to recall a few stars in it little by little.

In this way, the middle of the night passed, and he was finally dizzy and fell into a deep sleep by the entwined points of light. Although I have been thinking about it for several hours and still have not achieved anything, it is as if I have secretly touched something, and the meaning between the stars is as vague as a mirror, but it contains a world-like profundity.

The next day, Yang Jian's Listening Immortal Array ended, and the cave belonging to the earthquake position had also been found. Together, they rounded the area, and finally managed to hit a few beasts. During the rest of the day, they completed part of the gossip shift, and after nightfall, Yang Jian seemed to be extremely tired and quickly fell asleep, while Mu Lai continued to cover the folding sword in his eyes, meditating while looking at the starry sky.

In this way, a few days passed, he helped Yang Jian set up the formation during the day, and if the formation was launched, he would go hunting or sit on the snow to deduce the doubts of the night before. When the stars appear at night, they study it carefully through the folding bucket, which can only last for two or three hours at a time, and then they fall asleep dizzy.

It wasn't until seven days later that Yang Jian's Listening Immortal Array had not yet confirmed the last Xun position, and he could no longer continue to deduce Star Dou. That night was still full of stars, but the same was true in the sword, countless starlight penetrated the ice-like blade, and it was not blocked at all, and the blade at this time was like an ordinary transparent ice sculpture, fainting the entire starry sky with a layer of light blue.

Mu Lai was taken aback, tossing and turning for a long time, but he still couldn't see only part of the star as in the past. Fortunately, he was casual by nature, and he was not too depressed, thinking that maybe it would not be a few days before he was back to his original state, so he put the sword back in its sheath. Before the night was deep, he was stunned for a while, but he still didn't feel sleepy, so he got up and walked towards the Tingxian Array.