The little Taoist priest said: "This is just a possibility, but after repeated deductions with Hou Ye, I still feel that this place should have a deep meaning, and it is definitely not a simple layout." Moreover, the atmosphere of this place is strict, and there is a mysterious and unpredictable aura of kingship, and it is not difficult to see that the senior who placed the ban here back then was by no means an ordinary side gate warlock and the like, but should be a grandmaster with a great background. And now, we have only comprehended the superficial surface of his prohibition, and we have not touched his core essence at all, which is also the reason why our Hou Ye looked depressed and was not in good spirits just now. ”

After a slight pause, the little Taoist priest continued: "In addition, the two of us have been thinking about seeing if we can find any stone inscriptions around the deep pool, if we find the relevant stone inscriptions, then the mysterious prohibition here may be truly broken." This is also the consistent behavior of some grandmasters, in the vicinity of their proud works, they often like to leave some kind of hidden words or prophecies expressed in the form of inscriptions for future generations to refer to. Let their secret prohibition that cannot be seen in the chronicles and notes can one day see the light of day and be known to future generations. ”

Jing Xin said: "Since Master Hou and Brother Tiancripple both said so, then let's go down and take a look after eating and resting." Anyway, today's weather is also very good, and we don't have anything important to do when we go back, just go back before the sun sets, so as not to encounter any unnecessary trouble. ”

Laughing Maitreya said: "I think so, to be honest, I am still the same as my second brother, and I am still haunted by the first ghost hitting the wall." I'm thinking about walking the valley north again in the afternoon, and I don't believe that the first time will happen. When I was in a hurry, I cleaned up all the shrubs and weeds in the valley with a machete, and I wanted to see what the situation was, and whether there would be hallucinations as Hou Ye said. ”

While drinking, everyone casually expressed their thoughts, but in the end they unanimously agreed with the decision of Xiao Qingfeng and Jingxin.

Soon more than an hour passed, everyone was already full of wine and food, and Jingxin and the doll also cleaned up the garbage left by everyone. After resting for a while, seeing that the time was almost three o'clock in the afternoon, the seven of them walked to the back mountain again.

Just when everyone was talking and laughing and was about to walk near the deep pool, suddenly the doll that had been jumping happily in front of it seemed to have tripped over something, and suddenly fell to the ground in embarrassment, and almost fell directly into the mud.

After the angry doll got up, she suddenly scolded: "I'm going to go, his grandmother's, didn't I look at the yellow calendar when I went out today, fortunately Miss Ben still has two strokes, otherwise this time she will disfigure me." I want to see what kind of thing this is, how dare you plot against my aunt and grandmother!" As he spoke, he squatted down and looked at it directly with his hand.

At this time, Jingxin walked quickly to the doll's side and gently helped her inspect her body, but fortunately, her clothes were only stained with some weeds and soil, and there was no other damage on her body.

Jingxin was just about to say a few words to her, so that she would not always be so reckless in the future, when suddenly the doll screamed loudly, but the careful jump beside her was jerked. I heard the doll scream loudly: "Come and see, everyone, I found a half-cut stele!"

Jing Xin heard that he quickly squatted down, took a serious look, and excitedly shouted to the others: "Yes, this is really a broken ancient monument, it looks like it should be very old!"

Hearing the two shouting so loudly, Xiao Qingfeng and the little Taoist priest also walked quickly to the location where the doll was tripped over. At this time, Jing Xin and the doll had carefully cleaned out the half-cut stele that was about 20 centimeters high and 40 centimeters wide.

According to the shape of the stele, it can be seen that this is the upper half of a complete square stele, and from the two rows of eight ancient seals that are faintly left on the stele, it can be roughly judged that this is an ancient stele of the Qin and Han dynasties. It is a pity that the lower half of this stele is gone, and it is impossible to really determine and identify its age and engraver, which can not but be said to be a huge loss.

Xiao Qingfeng leaned down and took a closer look with a magnifying glass, and suddenly smiled very happily: "That's right, that's right, it turns out that the stone inscription we have been looking for just now was kicked out of thin air by an inadvertent wrestling of our doll, it seems that this is really providential, hahaha......"

The doll said: "I said my good marquis, look at you, don't be happy and sad, laugh to death all of a sudden, then my doll's sin will be great." I think you'd better tell me what the bird characters are written on it, which is barely legible. ”

Xiao Qingfeng stopped laughing when he heard this, but instead of answering the doll's question directly, he handed the magnifying glass to Jing Xin beside him, and walked over to the deep pool alone.

Jing Xin took Xiao Qingfeng's magnifying glass, and also recognized it seriously, and then read clearly: "The sky is round and the place is full of three talents." ”

Mengshan Turtle said: "The half of the sentence of the round sky is easy to understand, I think it should correspond to this cone-shaped deep pool and the square shaft below;

The little Taoist priest said: "Sancai Hun Xiang, Sancai Hun Xiang, this term seems to have been discussed by my teacher and one of his Taoist friends when I was a child. But I was still young at the time, and I don't remember what they were talking about, so naturally I didn't understand anything. It's just a vague memory, that time the teacher and his fellow Taoist chatted about this topic and quarreled, and in the end, the two even seemed to break up. Since then, his fellow Daoist has really never visited again, and the teacher has never talked to anyone about this three-talent phenomenon since. I also fell seriously ill after that quarrel with my teacher, so I never dared to ask my teacher about the true meaning of this three-talent image again. ”

The dumb said: "I think it's better to let Brother Qingfeng tell us about it, I know from his hearty laughter that he has understood the mystery of this." As he spoke, he walked to the edge of the deep pool with everyone and stood beside Xiao Qingfeng.

Xiao Qingfeng smiled slightly when he saw this, and said seriously: "As the elder brother of the Heavenly Remnant said, this three-talent image was originally a very controversial Qimen term in the early days of Taoism, and it did not belong to the orthodox academic concept. It is precisely because of its own controversy that it has slowly disappeared from some traditional Taoist texts, and only occasionally appears and is passed down in the handwritten notes of very few cultivators. According to legend, it was not until the end of the Western Han Dynasty that Zhang Daoling, the Taoist 'ancestral master', was truly enlightened. And based on the concept of this three-talent humil image, he created a powerful strange door ban, which was specially used by him to subdue demons. This also has a series of brilliant achievements of Zhang Daoling later when he ascended Qingcheng Mountain, met eight ghosts, fought against ghosts, and finally leveled the demons and ghosts in the Sichuan and Chongqing areas, thus establishing his supreme status as Zhang Tianshi in one fell swoop. ”

After a slight pause, Xiao Qingfeng continued to say: "According to legend, the strange gate prohibition that evolved from this three-talent pattern was inadvertently obtained by Zhuge Liang, and under his intensive research and changes, he created the unpredictable Zhuge Eight Array Diagram. His Zhuge Eight Array Diagram has set up eight formations of 'life, death, rest, injury, Du, Jing, shock, and opening' according to Dunjia, which are varied, and trespassers cannot advance and retreat at will, until they die. In this way, in the later generations, the world only knows that there is an unfathomable Eight Array Diagram, and no one knows that its predecessor is the Three Talents. ”

Mengshan Turtle said: "Then where did you learn the secret story of this three-talented unanimous elephant? ”

Xiao Qingfeng said: "The record of this three-talent muddy image, in fact, I also saw it when I was a teenager and accidentally saw it in a thread-bound ancient book that I treasured at home. At that time, out of curiosity, I pestered my grandfather to ask him to explain it to me, but my grandfather couldn't help me, so he explained it to me casually. To be honest, I only remember a few words about it now. The general meaning of my grandfather's explanation is: This three-talent image was originally a set of Qimen thinking deduced by the ancients based on the combination of Hetuluo Book and innate and acquired gossip. And according to this strange thinking, many powerful prohibitions can evolve. And the most powerful thing about these prohibitions is that they will automatically derive endless changes according to the changes in the sky and terrain, so that the people in them will naturally react accordingly with its changes. ”

Laughing Maitreya said: "Then how do you think the ban we encountered in this place came about?"

Xiao Qingfeng said: "As for the prohibition that appeared in this place, I personally speculate that it should be deliberately laid by a senior with high mana back then, in order to try to suppress some demons and monsters in this deep pool shaft, which can be known from the text of that fragment of the stele." Maybe there was really some powerful demon in this deep pool at that time, and that senior used the surrounding valley to lay this powerful ban in order to subdue it forever. Or maybe the powerful demon in it back then could only appear in the night, so the senior deliberately set it for a specific time and banned it in a targeted manner. ”

The little Taoist priest said: "In this way, the current ban in this place should be completely broken for you, right?"

Xiao Qingfeng said: "Yes, I wasn't sure earlier, but now that I have the hidden words of these eight words and understand the core essence of it, I can roughly crack it." It's just that there are some other questions about this place, and I haven't figured it out yet. These problems, then after I go back, I will deduce them in detail, and it is estimated that there should not be any big problems. ”