Chapter 9: The Palace
Standing outside the palace gate, looking up at the huge plaque above the gate. On the plaque, there are three simple and vigorous big characters "Tianxuan Palace", which reveal a sad and unyielding meaning, which makes people feel heavy.
In these three words, there seems to be an infinite Heavenly Dao Truth contained in it. And this feeling always makes people feel a little out of place compared to the grandeur of the whole palace.
"The master here must be a person who has cultivated to the heavens. These three big characters seem to contain the truth of heaven and earth. Roughly speaking, although there seems to be infinite sadness, it is so stubborn and unyielding. If you take a closer look, it seems that there is a kind of sorrow in your heart that you can't bear all the hardships in the world, and it seems that you have suddenly understood the reincarnation of heaven. ”
Retracting his gaze that stayed on the plaque, Long Xingyu felt a little powerless as he looked at the huge palace door. I didn't expect that after I was transformed, in this holy ring, it still seemed so small and powerless, as if any place would bring a powerful crisis to me. At the same time, the world in the ring is like opening a new door for me, and it also allows me to truly let go of the somewhat complacent mentality.
Just when Long Xingyu was standing in front of the palace gate and feeling helpless, the gate slowly opened inward. A huge temple came into view, and no one was in it. Sixteen pillars support the whole hall, and the pillars are not the traditional neat columns, but are arranged according to the law of chaos, yin and yang, five elements, and eight trigrams. On each pillar of the temple, a lifelike beast is painted. Looking around, it was like an enclosed space, with no other entrances and exits.
There was a monster carved on the pillar of the central hall, but unfortunately Long Xingyu didn't seem to have seen any record of this beast in his impression, but he couldn't remember it for a while. Flush with the pillars of the central hall are the other two pillars, the same, the two beasts depicted on it, one of which resembles a dragon, but has nine claws, soaring for nine days, swallowing clouds and spitting mist. The other is like a flying phoenix, with feathers stretched and soared straight into the sky.
When Long Xingyu put his eyes on the surrounding five temple pillars, he found that what was depicted on them was the five divine beasts of Huaxia: the green dragon, the white tiger, the Xuanwu, the vermilion bird, and the unicorn. However, it is not divided into the five directions of the earth, but in the order of the five elements, around the three pillars in the center.
On the eight pillars of the temple outside, they are arranged according to the position of the eight trigrams. Because he was born in an ancient martial arts family, Long Xingyu was very fascinated by the legends of the ancients, and because of this, there were many records about the ancient beasts, and he still recognized these eight kinds of mythical beasts after thinking about the ancient books.
One is Bai Ze: the divine beast on Kunlun Mountain, snow-white, able to speak human words, understand the feelings of all things, rarely haunted, unless there was a saint governing the world at that time, only to come to the book.
"Xuanyuan Benji" has the story of the mythical beast Bai Ze: "The emperor patrols and hunts, goes east to the sea, climbs Huan Mountain, and gets Bai Ze's divine beast on the seashore, which can speak and reach the love of all things." Because he asked about the ghosts and gods in the world. Since ancient times, the essence is the object, and the wandering soul is the change, there are 11,520 kinds, Bai Ze said, and the emperor's decree is written in pictures to show the world. ”
The first is Kunpeng: Zhuangzi's "Getaway" records that "there is a fish in the north of the underworld, its name is Kun, the size of the Kun, I don't know how many thousands of miles; "This Kunpeng is good at change, channeling all things, helping the Emperor of Heaven to clarify Yuyu, and was enshrined as the Nine Heavens Kunpeng.
The ancients had a poem: Yunkai Hengyue wind and rain stopped, Kunpeng hit the waves from the beginning;
One is the Bifang Divine Bird: in the "Three Classics of Mountains and Seas in the West", in the Zhang'e Mountain, there is a bird that is shaped like a crane, with one leg, red stripes and a white beak. It's called Bi Fang.
"Overseas Southern Longitude": "Bifang Bird is in the east, Qingshui is in the west, and there is only one foot. ”
And in "Huainan Zibian's Commentary", it is said that Mu Sheng is bi. Therefore, it is said that Bifang is changed by wood spirits, and the shape is a bird, one foot, and does not eat grains.
"In the Anthology of Zhang Heng (Tokyo Fu)" said: "Bi Fang's old father God, like a bird, with two wings and one foot, often causes strange disasters in others. ”
"Piaoya": "Bi Fang, Zhao Firebird also." ”
The first is the snake: "Xunzi Persuasion": "The snake flies without feet, and the five skills of the sycamore are poor." ”
"The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Zhang Heng": "Xuanwu shrank in the shell, and the snake meandered and corrected itself. ”
One is a roar: "Yan Exposure Talk" is loaded, shaped like a rabbit, with long ears and long ears, only more than a foot long. The lion is afraid, and the roar of the cover is rotting.
One is the hedgehog: a famous mythical beast in ancient times, also known as the "law beast". According to the "Treatise on Balance" and "Huainanzi Cultivation Chapter", it is as large as an ox and small as a sheep, and its appearance is roughly similar to that of a unicorn, with thick dark hair all over its body, bright and bright eyes, and usually a single horn on its forehead. He has a high level of wisdom and can understand people's speech, and he will use his horns to resist those who are dishonest and disloyal. In later generations, ordinary sheep were often kept in temples to replace pigs.
One is Kui Niu: according to the record of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Great Wilderness of the East", Kui Niu is a mythical beast in ancient times, born in the East China Sea Liubo Mountain in ancient times, "its shape is like a cow, pale and hornless, one foot can walk, in and out of the water that is wind and rain, the eyes are like the sun and the moon, its sound is like thunder, the name is Kui." The Yellow Emperor killed him, took the skin to make a drum, and heard it for 500 miles. ”
In "Gods and Demons and Strange Spirit Beasts", the cow is described as an ancient strange beast, shaped like a green ox, three-legged without horns, and roaring like thunder. Living in the deep sea for a long time, three thousand years is a birth, and the birth is wind and rain, thunder and lightning, and the world is called the thunder god mount.
"The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" contains: "The Yellow Emperor cut down the Chi You, and the Xuannu made 80 cowhide drums for the emperor, with a shock of 500 miles and a continuous shock of 3,800 miles. It means that the Nine Heavens Xuannu ordered the sergeant to slaughter Kui Niu to make eighty war drums, so that the Yellow Emperor led the troops to fight with Chiyou in Zhongji after being assisted by the Nine Heavens Xuannu. When the Yellow Emperor put down the "Qimen Dunjia" array, he ordered the sergeant to use the bones of the thunder beast to hit the eighty-sided Kui cowhide giant drum, and the drum sounded loudly for a while, a blow shook five hundred miles, and a shock of three thousand eight miles, only to see the whole battlefield shake the mountains, the sky swirled, shouting to kill the Chong Xiaohan, so that the soldiers of the Liang Chi You were fascinated, rushed to kill the Yuanmen, and fell like a mountain. "Chiyou copper-headed stone", that is, the stone is used as food, and can "fly in the air." "But in the sound of the bull drums. "Nine blows to stop, especially if you can't go, kill it. Later, the Yellow Emperor punished Yu for ignoring Hanquan, and after this bloody battle, the world was decided.
The last type is the nine-tailed fox: in classical legend, the nine-tailed fox is a four-legged monster with fiery red fur all over its body. Good change, demagoguery. Sex likes to eat people, and often its baby crying voice attracts people to explore. When the nine-tailed fox comes out, there will be chaos in the world.
"The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Classic of Nanshan" records, "The mountain of Qingqiu, there are beasts, its shape is like a fox and nine tails, its sound is like a baby, it can eat people, and the eater is not Gu." ”
In traditional Chinese culture, the nine-tailed fox has always been an image of both good and evil. According to the "White Tiger Tongde Treatise on Feng Zen", in the stone carvings and brick paintings of the Han Dynasty, the nine-tailed fox and the white rabbit, toad, and three-legged black are often listed next to the throne of the West Queen Mother to show auspiciousness, and the nine-tailed fox symbolizes the reproduction of descendants. It has also become a symbol of the beast.
The world thinks that these mythical beasts are just like the records, but they don't know that in the real ancient times, these mythical beasts really existed.
With these sixteen hall pillars and the divine beasts on them, Delong Xingyu was very puzzled, and he had the idea of wanting to meet the owner of this palace. However, with this empty hall, Long Xingyu himself felt that this idea was a bit unrealistic. "Just this palace is sinking at the bottom of the lake, you can guess that it is already an ownerless thing, and the owner of this palace is estimated to have been buried in the loess a long time ago!"
Looking at this hall, Long Xingyu didn't see anything else except for the sixteen pillars of the hall, and he didn't have the role of this hall at all, "It's strange, the general hall is the place where the main affairs and politics are discussed, if not, they must have their own functions." But there is nothing else here except the sixteen pillars, and there is no use at all, and from outside, the whole palace is so large that it is not known how many people are, and this place is far smaller than the scale of the outside world. There must be some mechanism or secret door. ”
I searched around, but I didn't find any secret doors. So, Long Xingyu stopped, thinking about everything he had seen after entering the main hall. As if he had thought of something for a moment, he raised his feet and walked to a temple pillar, on which the depiction was the Bai Ze Divine Beast.
Reach out and touch the beast engraved on the pillar. I saw a flash of golden light, and two very ancient fonts appeared in front of me, and after thinking about it, it was somewhat similar to the oracle bone inscription, but it felt even more ancient, and the word "Bai Ze" could be vaguely recognized. But after the golden light, no other visions occurred. As soon as his mind moved, Long Xingyu pronounced these two words: "Bai Ze". Immediately, the golden light made a great effort, enveloping Long Xingyu, the golden light dispersed, and there was no longer the slightest figure in the hall.
The golden light flashed, and in a quaint hall full of books, a figure appeared, which was none other than Long Xingyu, who was wrapped in the golden light of the hall. Looking around, there are bookshelves all around, but on the shelves, there are no books, only pieces of jade slips. There was a pillar standing in the center of the hall, which was exactly the same as the pillar engraved with Bai Ze's divine beast in the previous hall, "Could it be that golden light is the so-called teleportation light? With that thought, he walked to the nearest bookshelf.
I took a jade slip from the bookshelf casually, and started it warmly, and there seemed to be an aura in the jade slip. The spiritual power probed into it, and suddenly, a burst of information came from it, and at this time, Long Xingyu's heart was completely surprised, Yu Jian actually had the function of storing information, not to mention that he had never encountered this situation, but he had never even heard of it. Shaking his head, he savored the information that came into his mind.
"Seven Stars Chasing the Moon" is a set of body skills. Long Xingyu only felt that this set of body methods was extremely mysterious, and it seemed to be inferior to the "Easy Walk" in the clan, no, it should be said that it was better. "It's a pity that if you want to practice this kind of footwork, you need not only spiritual power, but real innate internal strength. You can't learn it by yourself. Shaking his head with a wry smile, his spiritual power withdrew from Yu Jian, but that section of his body ** trick had been remembered by Long Xingyu in his mind.
He put the jade slip back on the shelf. After thinking about it, Long Xingyu walked to the bookshelf in the other row, and picked up a piece of jade slip again, this time in the jade slip, it was not the key to the exercises, but a jade slip that recorded the elixir, called "Strange Things, Elixir Chapter, Volume 7". However, except for a few medicinal materials that can still be seen in the outside world, Long Xingyu does not recognize the rest of the elixirs at all.
There are a few more jade slips, but they are spiritual creatures, strange wills, or whether they understand or simply can't practice with their own physique. Helplessly smiled bitterly, the collections that came here are not what I can understand, understand or practice now.
After thinking about it, he turned around and left the bookshelf, "In ancient times, there was an allusion to Bai Ze's pictures, but now this palace is engraved with Bai Ze's pillars, but I have been introduced to this hall full of collections." Could it be that other temple pillars also have such an effect?" walked to the side of the temple pillar, as when he came in, he touched the divine beast carving on the pillar with his hand, and recited "Bai Ze" in his mouth, so he really returned to the original hall.
Looking around the main hall, Long Xingyu couldn't help but sigh: "It's really wonderful, the person who built this palace must be a person with great powers." ”
With that, he walked over to the central pillar and looked at the monster on the pillar. Long Xingyu fell into thought, then turned his eyes around, and thought of the strange change when he first entered the ring space, and suddenly his heart lit up, and he thought of a strange beast in his mind. The name of this strange beast is "Chaos", and it was born before the opening of the heavens, and it has great power. It is comparable to a saint, but after the opening of the heavens, he does not know where to go, so there are very few records about it.
Raising his hand to touch the pillar of the temple carved with the chaos beast, a chaotic and substantiated air flow flashed, and Long Xingyu immediately said "chaos" in his mouth, and disappeared into the main hall again.