During the conversation with Shi Yuhe, Mo Yan observed the mysterious palace master with his dementor eyes many times, his pupils were empty, and he never found anything abnormal, it seemed that he was a normal person, and there was nothing strange to possess him.

However, the lifespan of ordinary people is only a few decades, and it is extremely rare to be over 100 years old like Jin Danzi, and Qing'er is a green snake that has been cultivated for thousands of years, but he obediently bows his head to his master, which is really unfathomable to the crane.

And the poor mute girl Yu'er, thanks to Shi Yuhe who took her in, otherwise she would have been on the streets and reduced to a beggar. But in the past four years, she has not grown taller at all, and she is still the way she remembers, and by looking at her melancholy eyes and deep eyes, you can see how deeply the abandonment of her childhood has hurt her soul.

Shi Yuhe is a human being, and he is a hidden and scheming outsider, and he is also a compassionate and kind person, Mo Yan thought in the end.

"Senior, have you been in this valley for many years?"

"For decades, this place is called 'Green Snake Valley', it is Qing'er's old nest, when she first arrived, the valley was full of bamboo leaves and green snakes, and the old man later subdued her and became the owner of this palace. ”

"The conditions here are so poor, why do my predecessors live here often, and for the sake of Yu'er, they should also choose to settle in a prosperous and wealthy town. ”

Shi Yuhe smiled and replied, "Just because this Shennongding used to be a passage to the spiritual realm. ”

Originally, Shennongding was called "Wooden City" by the mountain people in the forest area, and it was named because the forest was vast and dense like a city wall. The top height is about more than 1,000 zhang, it is the first peak in Central China in the Central Plains, where it is rare to see the true face of the vast fog. There is a poignant legend in the local area, in ancient times, there was a pair of young men and women at the foot of the mountain who loved each other, and the bully Ma Huang coveted the beauty of the girl and wanted to rob him, and the two fled overnight after hearing the news, and Ma Huang led people to chase them to the top of the mountain and shot them with poisoned arrows. At this time, when the Shennong clan passed here, they scattered arrows and bamboos to trap the horse emperor in the bamboo forest and turned into a leech, and turned the young man into a towering fir, and the girl became a delicate and gorgeous mountain rhododendron, and never separated from each other.

At that time, Shi Yuhe traveled all over the north and south of the river to search for the spiritual passage, and finally came to Shennongjia and found that there was a sign on the top of the wooden city, so he entered the Green Snake Valley to subdue Qing'er, and used it as a foothold to wait for the opportunity to find the secret key to crack in order to enter the spiritual world.

To this day, the old man still has not been able to find the key, and it has taken decades in vain, which is really sad to think about. Shi Yuhe finally sighed and said.

Oh, it turns out that Shennongding is also one of the passages, and Mo Yan of Yuju Peak already roughly knows the two passages to the spirit world, but it is useless to find the secret key.

"I understand," Mo Yan's heart suddenly brightened, "Senior, countless people in the world sit in meditation and cultivate the Tao hard, and after exhausting their lives, they still have no way to find the way in vain. In fact, there is no need to be so hard, as long as you find the passage to the spiritual world, find the secret key and crack it, you can directly enter the spiritual world. ”

Shi Yuhe laughed and said: "The little brother is really smart, but it is a pity that those old monks in the temple and Zen monastery are not as good as you to open your mind, sinking fish and drums, and the ancient Buddha with green lanterns are still dying there, until the oil runs out and the lamp dries up." ”

"Senior, you have told me so much, don't you want to let us out of the valley?"

"Where, the old man has removed all the prohibitions in the Green Snake Valley, when the little brother wants to leave, he will not stop him. ”

When Shi Yuhe said this, Mo Yan hesitated, since he could leave at any time, he was not in a hurry.

"Qing'er once fed me a pill of Shennong Pill, how does it look like the taste of Huanghe Pill?" Mo asked me.

"Haha, that's right, where is the Shennong Pill, isn't it the Yellow Crane Pill that our Jianghu Bell Doctor uses, fortunately, she didn't give you the Green Capsule Pill. Shi Yuhe laughed.

I see, Qing'er was fooled.

"Little brother, do you want to go up to the wooden city with the old man and see the spiritual passage?"

"Okay. "Mo Mo is desperate in his heart.

After breakfast, Shi Yuhe ordered Qing'er to stay in the valley, and he took Yu'er, Mo Yan and the little mountain ghost out of the valley to the top of the wooden city.

The top of the mountain is covered with arrows and bamboos, and the area less than a few hundred feet in radius is covered with tall fir trees and low mountain rhododendrons, and clusters of purple-red flowers bloom in condensation, like the poignant smile of a legendary girl when she looks up at her lover.

The chirping of jays could be heard from time to time in the fir forests and rhododendrons, and there were creeping cypresses, large-leaved thistles and bupleurum scattered on the ground, and countless leeches lying on their wet leaves, and they raised their heads when they felt the sound of footsteps approaching.

Shi Yuhe always held Yu'er's little hand along the way, and his love was clear at a glance, which made Mo Yanwei's heart move.

A cyan boulder several feet high stands in the center of the peak, the stone seems to have been struck by lightning and is full of cracks, countless fine lines crisscross to form a pattern, although after many years of wind and rain has been blurred, but careful identification can still see that it is a night sky star map.

Shi Yuhe pointed to the pattern and said: "This is a 'zodiac sign' astrological chart, you see the north celestial pole and this piece in the middle should be Ziwei, Taiwei and Tianshi 'three walls', on both sides of the ecliptic here are Canglong, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird and Xuanwu, and the rest are twenty-eight houses. Just think about it, these lightning cracks actually constitute the same zodiac diagram, isn't it a natural vision? Therefore, the old man concluded that this is the sign of the spiritual passage. ”

Mo Yan was at a loss for these astrological knowledge that Shi Yuhe said, and he had never even heard of it, but he felt that it was very similar to the night sky scene when he stood in the courtyard of Mo Jiayi's house at night when he was a child, looking up and counting the stars.

The secret key is in this pattern, but the old man has studied it for decades and still can't guess the secret hidden inside. Shi Yuhe said abruptly.

This messy pattern is much more difficult to identify than the "Vulture Landscape Map" of the old monk, Mo Yan looked at it for a while and felt dizzy, and quickly retracted his gaze and looked into the distance.

"Mo Yan, the old man thinks that it is not enough to crack the secret key with extensive knowledge, maybe it is because he has drilled the tip of the horns and can't get out, and someone like you who has never known the stars may be able to find some clues. ”

"No, I was dizzy after staring at it for a while, and the pattern was pasted. Mo Yan shook his head and said.

"Don't worry, the old man has studied it for so many years and has not found it yet, how can he immediately see the way out of the door when he has just come into contact, in short, your ancestors have had contact with the Gu Carving of the Spirit Realm, maybe the little brother has some talents in his bones that ordinary people do not have. ”

Mo was silent.

"In this way, if the little brother is willing to stay in the valley for a while to study this spiritual realm identification map, he will stay for a while longer, and the old man will not stop him from leaving whenever he wants to, and he will also give a generous gift, don't you know what to do?" Shi Yuhe looked at him earnestly.

"Okay, I'll stay for more than ten days, and if I can't see the doorway, I'll go down the mountain and go home. Mo Yan agreed.

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