This is actually a ploy deliberately laid out by Sima Danyun, regardless of whether this secret place will be used or not, just with Xue Huaiyi, a male pet plaything who can't ascend to the hall of elegance, he shouldn't engrave his name there without knowing whether he is alive or dead.

Sure enough, after all this was done, first Xue Huaiyi's three thousand personal soldiers, who were given the imperial wine by Wu Zetian, were all given in this. Immediately afterwards, Sima Danyun was also on the way back from the edict, and suddenly fell ill and died violently.

In the end, only this Xue Huaiyi was left to go back happily and happily, Wu Zetian was very happy at that time, and rewarded him with great grace, but strictly ordered him not to leak a word at will.

But it didn't take long for this Xue Huaiyi to be executed by Wu Zetian under the pretext of an excuse. It is said that the cause of his death was related to the secret report that Wu Zetian received about his inscription on the pedestal of the Maitreya Buddha statue in Sumeru. It may also be that he knows too many things, or because he is too public, and in the end, Wu Zetian had to endure the pain and poison him.

And that Sima Danyun, people have long seen through all the mysteries here, and deliberately deceived that straw bag Xue Huaiyi under the pretense of deception. Then he sneaked back to the Xuandu Temple, took everything that should have belonged to him, and never disappeared. Since then, he has remained incognito and worked as an old pedant in a very remote mountain village.

The fourth piece, Tang Wu destroys the Buddha, roughly means the following.

When Wu Zetian was in power, in order to maintain the orthodox authority of her divine mandate, she vigorously promoted and promoted Buddhism, and clearly stipulated that the status of Buddhists was above that of Taoists.

Of course, in terms of their essence, Li Shimin and Wu Zetian are the same kind of people, they do not believe in any religion themselves, they only believe in and worship themselves. Wu Zetian's revival of Buddha was just to subvert the sacredness of the Li Tang Dynasty and create the rationality of Wu Zhou's usurpation of the Tang Dynasty, nothing more. But in any case, during the time of Wu Zetian's reign, Buddhism was greatly developed.

In the late Tang Dynasty, because the land of Buddhist monasteries was not taxed, and monks were exempted from servitude, the economy of Buddhist monasteries expanded excessively, which greatly damaged the income of the state treasury. Moreover, there are certain contradictions between them and the ordinary landlord class, which has a certain impact on political stability. At that time, Tang Wuzong, like the early Tang Taizong, believed in Taoism and hated Buddhism.

In addition, during the Huichang period, because of the crusade against Zelu, the finances were urgently needed, so at the instigation of the Taoist priest Zhao Guizhen and the strong support of the famous minister Li Deyu. The campaign to destroy Buddhism began gradually in the second year of Huichang (842) and reached its climax in the fifth year of Huichang (845).

At the same time as destroying the Buddha, even other Nestorianism and Yuanjiao were also affected to a great extent. Most of the Buddhist temples in various places have been damaged to varying degrees, most of the temple property has also been forcibly requisitioned into the warehouse, and many monks have been displaced and forced to return to the world.

In the text of the stone carvings, there are also some examples of local temples being destroyed, which will not be described here.

In addition, after that Xue Huaiyi was personally ordered to be executed by Wu Zetian, the secret of the Seven Punishments Mountain disappeared. Later, after Wu Zetian got old, I don't know if she suddenly discovered her conscience or suddenly realized it, she slowly realized that some of her earlier practices were a little too much, and finally understood the stakes between her own son and her nephew.

In the end, with the support of some important ministers, he made a decisive decision - to return the throne to Li Tang. Later, for unknown reasons, until she died, there was no mention of the great treasure.

I just don't know, the fall of the Wu Zhou Dynasty and the revival of the Li Tang Dynasty

, in the end, is there any inevitable connection with the layout of Sima Danyun's Seven Punishment Mountain. I'm afraid that only Sima Danyun, who is missing, knows this best in his heart, and others can't know about it.

The fifth, the delicate jade girl, roughly means the following.

It turned out that after Sima Danyun died and went into hiding, he had been obscure, and there was no difference between him and ordinary people. While doing the old pedant in the village in a daze, he quietly hid in an extremely secret cave alone in the middle of the night, and continued to secretly do his own metaphysical research.

In addition, he also compiled the advanced martial arts he had cultivated without a teacher, as well as those magical medical skills, as well as some Taoist talisman knowledge, and compiled them into an independent book, named "Xuan Yong". and the three metaphysical monographs "Xuanwen", "Xuantian" and "Xuanlu" that he originally compiled independently, are collectively called "Sima Sixuan" - asking, heaven, recording, and using.

Immediately after the actual completion, he sealed the four books in a small stone letter and never showed them. In the end, he secretly buried the little stone letter in his very secret cave.

In addition, during the years of seclusion, in order to cover people's eyes, he also married an ordinary country woman and gave birth to three sons and four daughters for him. However, I don't know if these children were not selected by him because of their limited talents, or for some other reason, not only his wife didn't know all about him, but even these children didn't know anything about him, and everything was in an extremely dull and muddy life.

Although he has been pretending to be crazy and stupid in troubled times, he can see the opportunity to avoid evil, and the family lives very stable. And by the time of his grandson's generation, his family gradually improved, and he seemed to have become a big local family.

In this way, another few decades passed, and he lived until he was in his nineties. At that time, this age could almost be said to be extremely rare, which may have a lot to do with his tranquil attitude towards life and his perennial practice of internal strength. Until one day, he suddenly felt that his time was approaching, gathered all his family together, and after leaving a strange suicide note, he passed away peacefully.

His last strange suicide note was like a book from heaven, and everyone couldn't see the mystery in it, everyone thought that he was old and confused, so he didn't do anything deeper. But after all, this is the last relic of the old man, so everyone collected it properly and stored it on the side of his tablet, which can be regarded as a respect for his old man.

It wasn't until more than a hundred years later that the strange suicide note left by Sima Danyun was inadvertently opened again by a girl named Sima Ruyan among his descendants.

This Sima Ruyan is not a simple ordinary woman, she has been reading since she was a child, not only familiar with the traditional subset of scriptures and histories, but also prefers bitter and esoteric metaphysics. In addition to reading, he is also proficient in other piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Although she is a woman, she has a very strong personality, and in today's words, she is a woman who is materially independent and spiritually strong.

However, her long fairy jade appearance is exquisite, as holy as a fairy in the clouds, which makes people inexplicably feel ashamed of themselves at first sight. When she was twelve or thirteen years old, she was often called a delicate girl.

In addition, she often sighed and said to herself, saying that she was born at the wrong time, and it would be nice if she was born a hundred years early. Fortunately, in the Tang Dynasty, the status of women was still relatively high, and she was born in the family of the official eunuch at that time.

When she inadvertently opened the strange suicide note, she didn't look at it, and at first glance, she was stunned by the contents. original

This strange suicide note turned out to be written in esoteric metaphysical terms, and I couldn't understand it without considerable metaphysical knowledge.

This is her ancestor Sima Danyun's explanation of his life, he not only concisely and clearly told his legendary life, and clearly stated the location of the cave where he buried Xiao Shihan, but he also told in great detail about his proud work in the Seven Punishments Mountain.

In it, he systematically described the situation pattern of the Seven Punishments Mountain and the magical underground river, and described in detail all the processes of investigation, excavation, and treasure hiding at that time. In particular, he focused on the message mechanism and the correct way to open the crack.

It turned out that when he finished it in the end, he reserved a hand from the straw bale monk. He made a move on the top of the most critical giant stone portal of the Golden Cave, and no one could open the portal at will except for his own guidance.

In other words, even if that Xue Huaiyi turned back immediately, it would be impossible to really open the boulder portal. In addition, he also pointed out that the Tianshu Peak at the back is actually the most critical place, as long as anyone can continue to dig deep along the underground river below and complete the most critical closing there, then they will be able to truly achieve a great cause.

In fact, this Sima Danyun had already calculated that after a hundred years of him, their Sima clan would definitely produce a truly powerful person. In his hexagram, it is shown that if this descendant is a man, then he will be like the ancestor Sima Yi in the Three Kingdoms period, and eventually seek hegemony for his descendants and revive the imperial majesty of the Sima family.

But if this descendant is a woman, then she will set off a bloody storm in the world, and thousands of people in the world will go crazy and perish for it. And this extremely yin and evil Seven Punishment Mountain and the huge treasures in it, as well as their own "Four Xuan" writings, are precisely the indispensable and important basis for them (her) to achieve great causes.

However, the mandate of heaven cannot be violated, just a hundred years later, the character calculated by Sima Danyun turned out to be this exquisite jade girl - Sima Ruyan. In this way, all this is also due to the providence in the power, and no one can stop everything that should happen.

The sixth picture, the grand exhibition, roughly means the following.

After reading this suicide note, this Sima Ruyan immediately followed the instructions above and found the hidden cave where Sima Danyun was meditating, and successfully dug up the small stone letter that had been sealed in the dust for a hundred years. After seeing the "Four Secrets" strange books inside, she couldn't help but be surprised, like a treasure.

Since then, she has often secretly gone to that hidden cave and studied it without asking about the world. Fortunately, that place was not very far from her home, and the restrictions on women in the Tang Dynasty were much more relaxed at that time, and this Sima Ruyan himself was extremely careful, anyway, he had not attracted any special attention from others.

Time came to the second year of Tang Wuzong's Huichang, at this time Sima Ruyan had only studied for less than five years, and the first three parts of the "Four Xuan" books had just been introduced. At this time, her father, who was an official in the court, was inevitably deposed because of his public opposition to the Buddha destruction movement in the court. Immediately afterwards, he was directly arrested and imprisoned by the internal guards for slandering the court in private, and even insinuating against the emperor, and was executed not long after.

Not only that, but even his family was implicated, except for Sima Ruyan, who saw the opportunity earlier, and took his young brother away from home, almost all of the rest of the family suffered. At that time, Sima Ruyan's ability had not yet reached a certain level, so he could only reluctantly escape with his young brother, and he had no extra ability to help the remaining relatives.