Chapter 686: Solving the Riddle
No one knows the name of this dilapidated village for many years, only that it was once an important gathering place for the Lieyang tribe, one of the eight ancient Wu tribes in southern Xinjiang. However, many people don't seem to understand, the eight ancient witch clans in the past, like the five clans in southern Xinjiang today, live in the periphery of the 100,000 mountains, how can this Lieyang clan run to live in the belly of the 100,000 mountains where the old forests and monsters are rampant.
Under the morning sun, I don't know how many years the uninhabited village, like a strange monster that has been sleeping on the side of the boulder mountain, crawling and looking at the ancient mountain in front of me.
Although the style of the houses is very different from the structure of the houses where the residents of southern Xinjiang live now, because of the hills and mountains in southern Xinjiang, there are many miasma and poisonous insects, and the people of the southern Xinjiang people living here, whether it is the ancestors of the Wu people in ancient times or the five ethnic groups in southern Xinjiang today, the houses are built along the mountains.
In order to prevent poisonous insects and snakes, the foundations of the houses are high, and all the houses are overhanging.
Because the whole village has been abandoned for many years, most of the houses have either been destroyed in the catastrophe or have been corroded and collapsed over the years, and only the altar houses that once represented supremacy have not collapsed because they were built of black stone.
On the mountainside, a faint mist gradually rose in the early morning, and under the mist, Yun Xiaoxiao and several others were thinking hard about the four sentences that led to the seal of the gods that Xiao Ya had just said.
The moon in the water, connecting the heavens and the earth.
Flowers in the mirror, open in all directions.
The gods sealed and forbade all things.
The Big Dipper, shining in the sky.
These people are the smartest people in the world, and in the face of these four specious verses, everyone is like a monk who is confused, and no one understands what this means for a while.
However, Yun Xiaoye always felt strange in his heart, if these four sentences were profound, they were not.
Whether it is the moon in the water or the flower in the mirror, it is a relatively common word to describe something that is visible but untouchable.
But this connection, Yun Xiaoxie's first feeling is that it is strange.
Among these four riddles, only the third sentence "The gods seal, forbid all things", seems to have some connection with the seal of the gods, and as for the fourth sentence "The Big Dipper, shine on the sky", it seems to be the only hint to find the seal of the gods, as if to say that if you want to find the seal of the gods, you have to rely on the Big Dipper or something.
These four riddles have been circulated in the world for many years, and only those who have actually entered the seal know the meaning.
Whether it was Xuannu or Xiaoya's master, the ghost king Xue Tian, they couldn't really enter the seal of the gods, so they didn't quite understand what these four riddle-like words meant.
The only thing that is certain is that the Seal of the Gods is near this Blackstone Mountain.
In ancient times, the cultivation of true people was the Hongmeng Qi, which was illusory and powerful, which was very different from the true qi cultivated by today's cultivators. At that time, the illusions and enchantments laid out by the ancient gods were not something that the current cultivators could imagine.
Over the years, the world has experienced several major catastrophes, and many magical powers have been lost for many years, and even Ren Qing doesn't know what the meaning is.
This was three days, and no one left this abandoned village on the mountainside of the Black Rock Mountain, and during the three days, everyone dug out their minds to study the meaning of the four riddles.
Even, even the dozen or so disciples of the Netherworld Sect were called over by Xiaoya to think about it and launch crowd tactics.
But for three days, no one could unlock the secret.
Come to think of it, thousands of years ago, the ghost king Xue Tian once led a group of demon masters to go deep into southern Xinjiang, and spent a full month with many wizards of the Miao nationality without understanding it, how could these people understand the secret in just three days?
Because the fourth sentence of the riddle mentions the word Big Dipper, it is that in the past three days, almost everyone has been looking up at the starry sky outside the stone house, staring at the Big Dipper, but still finding nothing.
On this day, late at night, after a while, the sky was full of stars twinkling, and the sea of stars was hanging in the sky, which made people have endless fantasies and longings for the void universe.
What's in the depths of the universe?
What's in the depths of the sea of stars?
Is the eternal secret hidden in the sea of stars in the universe?
Yun Xiaoye raised his head, listening to the chatter of Feng Qiuyu, Li Ziye, Xiaoya, Lu Linlang and others not far away, his expression was a little bitter.
I only heard Xiaoya argue: "Sister Qiuyu's analysis is not right, Sister Qiuyu just said that the moon in the water, the flower in the mirror, is the flower in the mirror, it is completely unfounded, if it is explained in this way, the IQ of the ancient gods is really anxious, and it will not be so many years, no one can solve these four riddles." ”
Li Ziye immediately agreed: "I agree, if it is just a simple mirror flower and water moon, why is there a heaven and earth and a four directions behind the water moon and the mirror flower?
Feng Qiuyu shrugged and said, "Then you say, these first two riddles don't represent the mirror, but what do they represent?"
Lu Linlang said: "Maybe we have all been misled, whether it is the moon in the water or the flower in the mirror, it is not the main thing, the important thing behind is the heaven and the earth and the opening of the Quartet." ”
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then nodded.
Then the chatter began again.
Han Xuemei and Miss Renqing are withdrawn and indifferent, but they are very quiet and rarely participate in the heated discussions between these fairies.
Yun Xiaoxiao listened and listened, and suddenly felt that these women were really bored, turned his head to take a look, and found that Zhu Gou was sitting stupidly in the darkness not far away, looking at the ancient sword in his hand, as if he didn't care about the seal of the gods, as if, even Lu Linlang, such a pretty beauty, could not attract his heart more than the sword in his hand.
Yun Xiaoye didn't want to listen to these women here, so he stood up and walked in front of Zhu Gou.
said: "Senior Brother Zhu, you don't seem to be interested in solving puzzles." ”
Zhu Gou raised his head and said with a wry smile: "You are all brilliant people, if you can't even solve it, why should I waste time." ”
Yun Xiaoye nodded and said, "You have a good heart, but then again, do you think these four riddles are a bit strange?"
Zhu Gou shook his head and said: "I don't feel anything strange, the moon in the water and the flowers in the mirror are all relatively common words." ”
Yun Xiaoye nodded and said, "Well, it seems that I have thought too much, by the way, I see that your breath has been long in the past few days, and it seems that your cultivation has been refined again, which is really gratifying." ”
Zhu Gou suddenly smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's just that I was in Shushan a while ago, and I got a senior's guidance and a little understanding." ”
Yun Xiaoxie became interested and said, "Oh, as far as I know, we don't have any senior elders in Shushan who are highly respected, and what we have comprehended is the sword intent of the wind, with your Taoism, most of the elders of the House of Elders are no longer your opponents, so who can guide you?"
Zhu Gou said: "It's a nun who looks young, but ......"
Before he finished speaking, Yun Xiaoye had already said: "Don't be kidding, our Shushan is a Taoist sect, and we are also Taoist aunts when we become monks, how can there be nuns?
"What is the matter!"
Zhu Gou's face turned red, and he hurriedly defended: "Little evil junior brother, don't talk nonsense, if you let Linlang hear it, I won't be alive?"
Seeing Zhu Gou's appearance at this moment, Yun Xiaoyi suddenly sighed in his heart, and couldn't help but think of Li Tielan, seeing Zhu Gou's happy appearance at the moment, it was inevitable that he would be touched by the scene.
He was a little depressed, and after saying a few words to Zhu Gou, he didn't bother Zhu Gou to continue watching the sword, and found a secluded place to sit down, ready to continue to study the meaning of the four riddles.
He grabbed a broken white bone from the ground casually, and he didn't know if it was a human or a demon beast, about a foot long, and slowly wrote those four sentences on the ground in front of him.
Before he finished writing, a faint fragrance wafted from the air behind him, Yun Xiaoxiao looked back, but saw that it was Senior Sister Han Xuemei, who was dressed in goose yellow clothes, standing quietly behind him at some point.
When Han Xuemei saw him looking at herself, her gaze moved to the four sentences that Yun Xiaoxiao had written halfway on the ground, and said softly, "Can you understand the meaning of these words?"
Yun Xiaoye shook his head silently.
Han Xuemei took a few steps forward, she had always had a habit of cleanliness, and she didn't dislike the dirt on the ground, so she sat directly next to Yun Xiaoxie, no more than two feet apart, holding her knees with both hands, and looking at Yun Xiaoxiao and writing half of the words.
Said: "If you don't understand it, forget it, the so-called Heavenly Dao cycle, if the demon sealed by the gods really escaped, it was also fate." ”
Of course Yun Xiaoye wouldn't think so, the common people in the world were too illusory for him, and his Dao was also 108,000 miles away from dealing with that peerless demon, he was eager to crack these four sentences and find the seal of the gods, most of the reason was for Hongmeng Guo.
According to what Grand Wizard Ganu said, Ren Qing has not suppressed Senior Sister Han Xuemei's Heavenly Dao backlash at all in the past ten years, and now if she wants to save Senior Sister Han, the Hongmeng Chaos Fruit is missing from the Four Flavors Miracle Medicine, and of course Yun Xiaoye will not give up.
The two of them suddenly didn't speak anymore, just sat quietly together, looking at the beautiful starry sky unique to southern Xinjiang.
The night breeze blew, gently swaying between the two, the silver hair danced slowly, and because the two were sitting side by side, there were a few strands of hair, which were blown by the wind and fell on Yun Xiaoxie's side.
The white silver hair, like a vast snowflake, is so exciting.
Yun Xiaoxie seemed to be aware of it, and glanced at Han Xuemei lightly, and suddenly, a familiar feeling broke through the dusty memory in his heart and surged into his heart.
Looking at Han Xuemei's delicate side face, that familiar face made Yun Xiaoxie's heart flutter.
But at this moment, he suddenly felt that this indifferent face seemed to be exactly the same as his deceased wife Li Tielan, and a sentence of Tielan was about to burst out.
He froze, and his body suddenly stiffened.
Silently turned her head and no longer looked at Han Xuemei, those hands unconsciously clenched into fists, as if they were suppressing something.
In a trance, I saw the four riddles that I had just written on the ground with white bones.
The moon in the water, connecting the heavens and the earth.
Flowers in the mirror, open in all directions.
...... of the gods
I wrote the word gods just now, and I felt that Han Xuemei was standing behind me, so I stopped.
At this moment, his eyes were attracted by the word gods, as if he had grasped the spiritual light in his mind, his stiff body suddenly trembled, and his eyes, which had been indifferent for many days, were shining for the first time.
Han Xuemei looked at Yun Xiaoxie's strange appearance and said strangely, "What's wrong with you?"
Yun Xiaoye didn't answer, he suddenly stood up, looked in the direction of the Big Dipper, and muttered, "I understand, I understand." ”
Han Xuemei also stood up and said, "What do you understand?"
Her voice was a little louder, and Ren Qing and the others not far away heard it and looked towards this side.
Xiaoya said from afar: "Yun Gongzi, have you cracked the meaning of these four riddles?"
Yun Xiaoxie came back to his senses, pulled out the nameless short stick on his waist, and saw him dancing and waving the short stick, and the green mangs of the Tao shot out from the top of the short stick, and gradually, on the hard bluestone ground, words appeared one by one.
It's those four verses.
Everyone came over one after another, and even the dozen or so disciples of the Netherworld Sect in the darkness not far away also gathered around, looking at the words that Yun Xiaoyi had written on the ground with a nameless short stick.
Yun Xiaoxie is so Taoist, urging with true qi, entering the stone for three points, and the words are deeply engraved on the bluestone floor, and will never be erased again.
Ren Qing glanced at it and said, "What do I understand?"
Yun Xiaoxiao said: "I understand why these four sentences are so weird. ”
Everyone looked down, these four sentences had already been engraved in everyone's hearts, and they didn't seem to think anything strange.
Seeing this, Yun Xiaoxie suddenly waved the nameless short stick again, drawing a dividing line on the first two words of each sentence.
"You're looking." ”
Li Ziye read: "In the water, the moon connects the heavens and the earth." In the mirror, the flowers bloom in all directions. Gods, forbid all things. Beidou, the stars shine in the sky. ”
Everyone was stunned.
After Yun Xiaoxie's simple stroke, the entire four riddles left and changed.
Ren Qing whispered in his mouth: "The moon connects the heavens and the earth, the flowers bloom in all directions, all things are sealed, and the stars shine in the sky." Heaven and earth are in all directions, and all things are in the sky...... Could it be...... I'm really stupid!"
She seemed to have figured out the key, suddenly raised her head, looked at the starry sky, and then, despite everyone's surprised gaze, her body swept up sharply, and flew straight towards the night sky.
About thirty miles from this black rock mountain, there is an inconspicuous high mountain, which is quite steep, and the mountain is full of wild black trees.
Suddenly, a graceful figure appeared in the darkness, it was a beautiful woman in snow-white clothes, looking at the starry sky in the sky, suddenly, she saw a strange light flashing in the night, and then, more strange light shot out of the darkness, across the void.
"Why are there so many cultivators in the 100,000 mountains of southern Xinjiang?"
The woman in white had a surprised expression and secretly pondered.
Suddenly, she spread out her palm, and placed an ancient animal skin map in her palm, comparing the directions around her.
"Are they also here for Wushan?"
Just as she was in shock, suddenly more than a dozen strange lights appeared in the sky and shot towards the inconspicuous mountain peak where she was.
Her eyes were full of light, staring at those strange lights, and she snorted coldly, "I want to see who can come here." ”
Whoosh ......
More than a dozen strange lights flashed above her head, and it seemed that she didn't see the woman standing in the mountain forest, but flew directly to the front mountain of this peak.
The mysterious woman in white pondered and hesitated for a moment, then immediately swept up, her body turned into a cloud of mist and disappeared in place.
This nameless mountain peak is about thirty miles away from the black stone mountain where the ancestors of the Lieyang tribe gathered, with a height of two thousand zhang, and the mountain is very large, but among the 100,000 mountains, it is not prominent, and there are many abrupt peaks around it, covering its mountain edge.
Yun Xiaoxiao and a group of people, under the leadership of Ren Qing, flew up from the Black Stone Mountain and soon came to this nameless mountain.
At the foot of this mountain, Yun Xiaoye asked, "Miss Renqing, is this place?"
Ren Qing said lightly: "This is Wushan, which has collected the history of the world throughout the ages. ”
"Wushan?"
"What? This is Wushan?"
Everyone was taken aback.
Not long ago at the Kunlun Mountain Conference, the little fox wanted to find Ren Qing for revenge, and Ren Qing gave the little fox an ancient map, and asked her to go to Wushan in southern Xinjiang to find the answer to the white fox clan being surrounded and suppressed more than 8,000 years ago.
Only then did the world know that a long, long time ago, the historical classics of the tribes of Middle-earth would be sent to Wushan in southern Xinjiang for preservation in less than a hundred years.
Therefore, there are almost no historical records of 8,000 years ago in Middle-earth, which were destroyed in the war and catastrophe, but in Wushan in southern Xinjiang, there is a backup preserved.
Yun Xiaoye and the others didn't expect that the famous Wushan Mountain was actually this inconspicuous small peak in front of them, only two thousand zhang high, more than ten times shorter than the reincarnation peak of Shu Mountain.
I would never have thought that this Wushan was only twenty or thirty miles away from the ruins of the Lieyang Clan, almost facing each other from a distance.
Could it be that the secret of the seal of the gods is in this witch mountain?
Grand Wizard Ganu said in surprise: "It turns out that this is where our Southern Xinjiang Wu Clan's holy land is located. ”
Ren Qing said: "Yes, the Lieyang clan is the most deep in the belly of the eight ancient witches in the southern part of the tribe, its main responsibility is to guard this Wushan, every hundred years, the tribes of Middle-earth will record the major events that happened in their headquarters into a book, send them to southern Xinjiang, and they will be received by the Lieyang clan and sent to Wushan for preservation, I have always known about this, but I didn't expect that this Lieyang clan guards not only the Wushan classics, but also the seal of the gods, you come with me." ”