Qin Bukong said, of course he remembered that under the character "魑" it said "Ying has enlightenment", but this sentence seemed very ordinary. What clues could be found through investigation?
Songzi said, I am just guessing about these four words. Taken literally, "ying" means a flash of inspiration or something special. This four-character word can be understood as "finally realizing something special." So it can be simplified into a two-character word called "Wu Ying".
Qin Bukong and I both nodded. Although his explanation sounded reasonable, I still didn't understand the meaning of the word "Wu Ying" under "魑". Could it be that he finally understood a truth? So it became the meaning of "Zhao"? Obviously that's not the case. As expected, Songzi continued, if that's the case, then I do know a place that overlaps with these two words. As early as when I first came here to investigate, I had a proper understanding of some local places, so I knew it.
Qin Bukong snorted with great disdain and said, Brat, have you been here as long as me? Songzi smiled and said, "Senior Qin, no matter how long it takes, some people who have lived here all their lives may not know it." But we people in metaphysics naturally pay more attention to these things.
What he meant sounded polite, but it was actually an insinuation that Qin Bukong had lived here in vain all these years. I secretly found it funny, and I also felt that although Songzi looked kind and pedantic, he was actually unforgiving with his words. If nothing happened in the future, it would be best not to provoke him.
Songzi went on to say, just across the river to the southeast from here, that’s where we boarded the boat and docked. There is a very magical pagoda called "Wuying Pagoda". The Hongshan Pagoda is next to the Baotong Zen Temple. You should all know this Hongshan Pagoda. It is said that it was built in memory of Master Lingji Ciren, the founder of the Baotong Zen Temple. The Wuying Pagoda is not far away. It's just that because the tower is very small, it is not so noticeable when compared.
Qin Bukong retorted again, "You brat, you don't have to understand, but don't pretend to understand, okay?" The Baotong Zen Temple was founded in the early Yuan Dynasty, and the Qisha Pass we are about to break through was left in the Song Dynasty. Why, do you think the people who set up the formation at that time were so powerful that they could foresee the next move? Is it a dynasty thing? So you chose such a place?
Songzi shook his head and said, "Senior Qin, you don't know something about this." Although the Wuying Pagoda is next to the Hongshan Pagoda, it was the location after it was moved later. In fact, in "Huguang Tongzhi", the Fengshui dragon veins of this place were described in detail, and one of the sentences was "ancient times" The Wuying Pagoda is located on a rock in Huanghuji, and no shadow can be seen at noon every day. The names of the bones are unknown."
This place was once one of the local dragon veins. It is precisely because of this that the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, like a dragon across the river, was built here. The piers of the bridge on the east bank of the river are on Huanghuji. In fact, that place was previously called "Xingfu Temple". It was built during the Chengsheng period of the Southern Dynasty and expanded during the period of Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty. Wuying Pagoda is one of the buildings of Xingfu Temple. It can be seen that the time of Wuying Pagoda , which predates the Hongshan Pagoda by nearly seven hundred years. Xingfu Temple was expanded once during the Southern Song Dynasty, which shows that at the time when the master who built the Qisha Pass was at that time, Xingfu Temple was still on Huanghuji, and the Wuying Pagoda was also there. So as long as we go to Huanghuji and find the original site of the tower, we should be able to unlock this secret.
I didn't speak because I didn't understand anything. Frankly speaking, Songzi's reasoning really convinced me that within the scope of metaphysics, if there are two, three or more coincidences that appear in succession, we can basically deduce it more accurately. As a result, after all, we don’t need to pay attention to any evidence. If we must give examples, those strange coincidences can be regarded as a kind of evidence. But Qin Bukong didn't know whether it was because he was being arrogant or something. He didn't seem to think so. He said, even if it is what you said, this Huanghuji is now the pier of the bridge, and the original things had been razed for construction. Is it possible that you can find flat land just by looking for it?
After hearing this, Songzi laughed and said, if you search with your eyes, you will not be able to find it for a long time, but if you use Feng Shui to find the location of the dragon's veins on a rocky rock, I, the little Taoist, will still be able to find it. Someone who has this ability. He was right. Since the old site of "Wuying Tower" was right above the dragon vein, as long as the dragon vein was found, the old site would naturally be found.
Qin Bukong said, even so, the dragon vein is so big that it is not a small area. Even if you find the dragon vein, it is only a large area. How big can the base of the pagoda be? The location is not accurate and it has to be found. In what month and year do you go? Songzi said, Senior Qin, you have forgotten what I just said, the sentence written in "Huguang Tongzhi" "No shadow can be seen every day at noon". This sentence means that at noon every day, under the sunlight, , this tower has no shadow. Therefore, this tower is also called the "Shadowless Tower". We only need to locate the dragon veins, then set up some straight bamboo poles, and observe at noon. Whichever one has no shadow is the real old site.
As a result, Qin Bukong stopped talking, and seemed to have finally been completely convinced by Songzi's remarks. Now we are at a loss, and any possible clues should not be missed. So Qin Bukong sighed and said, let's do this. We will rest for three more days, and after three days, we can break through the barrier.
These words were like giving an order, but they made me feel inexplicably excited and even excited. My expectations for breaking through the level now even exceeded my expectations for the Witch King's soul. Three days passed in a flash. Three days later, the three of us drilled through the tunnel together and came to the stone pillar at the center of the formation. According to the order we had planned and calculated before, we inserted seven vajra prongs one after another. After each insertion, Qin Bukong paused for more than a minute, alert to the changes around him. Fortunately, everything went smoothly, but after we inserted all seven, there was a click, and the stone brick with the word "魑" on the stone pillar, It actually bulged out as if something had been ejected from the inside.
Since it can be raised, it is true that these bricks were loose just like when we first started looking at these writings. So Qin Bukong reached out and pulled the raised stone brick, and found that it could be taken out completely like a drawer. The strange thing is that the back of the stone brick is not a whole brick, but a groove that seems to have been dug. In the center of the groove, there is a semicircular depression, about the size of a table tennis ball, which seems to be Used to place a round device.
Qin Bukong frowned and said nothing, seemingly not understanding this thing at all. So I opened my mouth and said, since the Seven Evils are the ghosts among them, will it be possible that every time we pass through the First Evil, we can get something, and this thing happens to be in this round shape? Both Qinbu and Songzi shook their heads, saying that they didn't know either. The only way now is to go to the old site of Wuying Tower to search. Moreover, this place is only our speculation. Whether it is here or not, we have to go there to find out. Know.
So Qin Bukong put the stone brick back in place and tried to press it into the stone pillar, but found that something seemed to be blocking it. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't press it all the way, so he had to give up. At about ten o'clock that morning, the three of us started to cross the river. After arriving at Wuchang Pier, we took a small path and went under the pier of the bridge. That place was called "Huang Huji" before the bridge was built. Stone beam in the center of the river.
Now the season coincides with the dry season, so most of the stone beams that were originally submerged under the water surface are also exposed. We can walk along the stone beam to a location about two to three hundred meters away from the shore, just under the Yangtze River Bridge. Standing on a big rock, holding a compass in his hand, he started to calculate the direction. However, it seemed that the position we were standing at was still a little far away. The position that Songzi finally calculated happened to be about fifty meters south of the bridge pier. To the left and right, a wasteland composed of various piles of rocks.
I thought it would be difficult to fix it now. The rubble was obviously dug down when the bridge was built. If there was really something hidden here, or there was some mystery, it would have been discovered long ago. But now that the matter was over, we still decided to give it a try. Seeing that there was still about an hour before noon, we planted nine long bamboo poles in this large circle about thirty meters in diameter according to the Bagua method. The reason why we chose the shape of the Bagua is because Songzi told us that the relocated Wuying Tower has eight sides and four floors. After preparing everything, we waited quietly for the arrival of noon.
The so-called noon hour is a large area spanning two hours, but noon is only a few minutes. So at noon, we began to search back and forth where the nine bamboo poles were placed. Soon, we found that under the bamboo pole where the Qian Gua was located, it was almost facing the sun, so that there was no shadow on the ground at all. As for the Qian hexagram, it happens to be ranked first, and it also corresponds to the hexagram image of the word "魑".
With the overlap of several coincidences, we thought that there should be something under the bamboo pole. So the three of us began to rummage through the stones on the ground one by one. There are a lot of weeds on this wasteland, which means that even in the flood season, this place will not be flooded. In this way, the possibility of something buried underneath is relatively greatly increased. But after a thousand years, will it have been destroyed? But it is unknown.
We dug all afternoon and found nothing but rocks and soil. Qin Bukong began to question Songzi, asking if he had calculated in the wrong place? Song Zi was also a little anxious, so he took out a dragon-seeking ruler. It was a tool used by the ancients to use the lever principle and the unique perception of magnetic fields of metal to locate small areas. In modern society, it is also often used for troubleshooting. Mines, looking for metal ores, etc. But Songzi turned the dragon-seeking ruler a few times, and when it stopped, the position pointed by the dragon's head happened to be the same place we dug before.
So, have we not dug deep enough?
