"Xiao Ang, Xiao Yan, you two come here quickly, there is a bottle here that seems to be made of jade."
"Let me take a look. It's really a jade bottle."
"Sister Qingqing, this was dug out of the Fan Temple. It must not be an antique."
"Xiaoyan's guess is correct. It must be an antique. Sister Qingqing, how about we sell it."
"Haha, we are going to get rich."
"Wait, there seems to be something in the bottle."
"Open it and take a look. Maybe there is something more valuable inside."
"This lid is so tight."
"Xiao Ang, you are really useless, you can't even open a bottle cap."
"Sister Qing, it's really tight... Xiaoyan, come and help."
"It's finally opened, let's see what's inside...ah!"
"Xiao Ang, why were you so careless and broke the bottle? What should I do?"
"Sister Qing, this smell is really unpleasant."
"Sister Qing, Brother Ang, it's okay. The bottle is not broken, and there are no scratches at all."
"Then let's go, go to Tailai's pawn shop to find Li Chaofeng and let him see how much this bottle is worth. Xiaoyan, you can hold this bottle on the way. Xiaoang is too careless."
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A past event more than ten years ago has been kept in Jin Ziang's heart, and then at this moment, scenes like a movie appeared before Shu Guan's eyes.
Fu Shapo is like a documentary director, faithfully recording the entire incident that Jin Ziang experienced, whether it was what Jin Ziang saw or what he didn't see, the details he paid attention to or ignored. .
The cause of this incident is that there is a temple in Huancheng. It was in disrepair more than ten years ago. The county magistrate who had just taken office at that time raised a sum of money to repair the temple. It can be regarded as pleasing the local people.
At that time, Qingqing, Qu Chaoyan, and Jin Ziang were all in their teens. One day, the three of them ran into the renovation site of the Huan Temple together. They didn't want to do anything, they were just bored. I was wandering around, and when I passed by the Fan Temple, which was under renovation, I sneaked in and took a look around out of curiosity.
Then the three of them found a jade bottle in the dug foundation and buried among the rubble.
Then they opened the alabaster bottle.
So the fate of the three of them was changed.
This is how the whole thing happened.
Of course, in Jin Ziang's eyes, this matter was just a common thing in the boring days of his youth, but in the eyes of a practitioner like Shu Guan, it was completely different.
First of all, the jade bottle that the three young men and women found back then was actually a magic weapon.
Although it was just a memory scene recorded by Fu Shepo, the details were extremely clear, so Shu Guan could identify the simple mutton-fat jade bottle at a glance, as it was a high-grade magic weapon.
The body of the bottle is also covered with many complicated and mysterious runes.
This jade bottle must have been buried underground for an unusually long time, so long that the spiritual power contained in the runes has been exhausted.
Otherwise, the next three young men and women will definitely not be able to open the jade bottle, and if they cannot open the jade bottle, their fate will not be changed.
Whether it is runes, magic circles or restrictions, the spiritual power contained in them will dissipate with the passage of time.
This is related to the cultivation level of the practitioners who used these methods in the first place, as well as the level of the runes, magic circle, and restriction itself.
For example, the most basic invisibility talismans, divine walking talisman, and forgetful talisman drawn by the fifth senior brother will generally dissipate in about a hundred years, and lose all Taoist effects.
The talisman papers in the Sutra Pavilion will be preserved for a longer period of time, usually around a thousand years, but if they exceed a thousand years, they will basically become a pile of waste paper.
So at the beginning, Master Qi regarded those talismans as treasures and felt distressed for a long time after using each one. In fact, it was just an old man's money-keeping mentality.
Shu watched the memory picture, Jin Ziang and Qu Chaoyan worked together to open the cap of the jade bottle.
The moment the bottle cap was opened, a wisp of extremely weak golden energy emerged from the bottle. In the blink of an eye, it was divided into three rays, each of which penetrated into the bodies of the three young men and women.
Then Jin Ziang accidentally dropped the jade bottle to the ground.
He seemed to smell something, and that smell was quite unpleasant to him.
But Shu Guan knew that what changed the fate of these three young men might be the golden air that emerged from the jade bottle and was inhaled by the three young men and women.
That's how the whole thing went.
After looking at the memory scenes preserved in Fushapo, Shu Guan roughly understood why the fate of the three young men and women back then had been changed.
Of course, this is only a rough outline. In the entire incident, with Shu Guan's current perspective, there are still many things that he cannot understand.
For example, he couldn't understand which school of magic the mysterious runes on Yu Ping Ping belonged to. Shu Guan could only see that they didn't look like their Taoist sect at all. They were nothing like the runes of the Nanyang Head-Bending Technique that he had seen. It's also completely different.
In addition, Shu Guan had no idea what the "gold energy" coming out of the jade bottle was.
Being able to be contained in a jade bottle with all kinds of runes painted on it, which is quite high quality in itself, that wisp of "golden energy" is naturally not an ordinary thing.
But what it is, Yi Shuguan has no idea at all.
Even whether the fates of Qingqing, Qu Chaoyan and Jin Ziang were changed because of that "golden energy" is ultimately just Shu Guan's guess.
Of course, Shu Guan felt that his guess was not wrong.
After all, this matter was retained so deeply by Jin Ziang's Fu Shi Po, so it must be something that had a very important impact on his destiny.
You don’t have to believe your own eyes, but you must believe in Fu Shao Po’s spiritual sense.
After all, even immortals sometimes rely on their spiritual senses to avoid disasters and seek good fortune.
As for the jade bottle, it was finally sold to a pawn shop named Tailai in Huancheng by Qingqing, Qu Chaoyan and Jin Ziang.
The mutton-fat white jade bottle they brought was belittled by Li Chaofeng in the pawn shop, saying things like, "This kind of old jade that has been buried in the ground for many years is not valuable at all" and "The color of this jade bottle is too bright." "Poor", "The workmanship is rough and definitely not by a famous artist, and there are so many ghost symbols painted on the bottle, it is even less valuable" and so on.
In the end, the mutton-fat white jade bottle was pawned for five silver dollars.
It is naturally impossible for three ordinary teenagers to know the value of this bottle.
That Li Chaofeng probably didn't know either, but the pawn shop's rules stipulated that the cut would be 90% when meeting.
Even Shu Guan couldn't determine what grade of magic weapon the mutton-fat white jade bottle was.
But for the three young men Qingqing, Qu Chaoyan, and Jin Ziang at that time, five silver dollars was already a considerable amount of wealth, which brought them a lot of happiness, such as eating a lot of food that they could only watch and squander before. Mouth-watering goodies.
For Jin Ziang, the happiness that those five silver dollars brought him was far greater than the happiness of making so much money later.
Regarding this, Shu Guan felt it very clearly deep in his memory.
Then Shuguan quietly retreated from Jin Ziang's dream.
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Two hours later, Shu Guan's figure appeared in front of the Huan Temple, which held a very important position in the hearts of the people in Huancheng.
The mysterious mutton-fat white jade bottle was dug out from the old site of the Huan Temple. Naturally, he must come here to take a look.
This is what traveling is all about.
Before that, he had already gone to the Tailai pawn shop and found Li Chaofeng, who had taken away the mutton-fat white jade bottle from Jin Ziang and the others more than ten years ago.
This court minister is already very old, but he is still in this pawn shop.
Shu Guan used some Taoist means
, I learned from his mouth that the jade bottle from back then had already been bought by a foreign customer.
Sold for fifty silver dollars and made ten times the profit, which was considered a good business.
Then Shu Guan left with some regrets. It was almost impossible to see the mysterious jade bottle with his own eyes.
Then he came to Huancheng Temple, which is located in the center of Huancheng City.
On the way here, he also bought a copy of the county chronicle of Huancheng.
Originally, if it weren't for the purpose of helping the Four-legged Snake seek the seal, Shu Guan would not have stayed in this small town at all, and he had no interest in learning about the humanities and history of this small town. The focus of his travels was on extraordinary things.
So after reading the county annals of Huancheng, I was a little surprised to find that this seemingly inconspicuous small town actually has a history of more than ten thousand years.
And there is a well-documented history. As for how many years ago people lived here, no one knows.
If calculated this way, the history of this small city may even be older than that of Jingcheng.
In the legend, the legend here means that before there was reliable history to test, in any case, many, many years ago, there was a flood in the river, and when it was about to submerge this place, the human race living on the riverside was also about to be submerged. The flood swept into the river.
At this moment, a god descended from the sky, drove back the flood with a wave of his hand, and saved the mortals here.
Then the mortals here begged the god to stay here, because at that time, the river would flood every now and then, and the human race living there would suffer greatly.
And the god agreed to the mortals' request and stayed here.
That god called himself Huan, which is the origin of the name Huan City.
If it weren't for the mutton-fat white jade bottle, if Shu Guan had any other chance to read the introduction about the origin of the name Huancheng in the Huancheng County Chronicle, he would have just smiled and regarded it as a legend fabricated by future generations. .
Although he himself is a practitioner, he also knows that the origin of the place names of many places in Dahua is indeed related to the immortals and gods of the previous Yuanhui era.
But Shu Guan felt that the legend of Huancheng was too unbelievable, because no god would be so easy to negotiate and would stay and protect a side when a mortal begged him.
But the existence of the mysterious jade bottle and the even more mysterious "gold energy" in the jade bottle made Shu Guan unable to distinguish the authenticity of this legend for a while.
However, the mutton-fat white jade bottle may have been left there by other practitioners later.
So now Shu Guan is standing in front of the Huan Temple in Huancheng.
He wanted to come and see for himself to see if, besides the mutton-fat white jade bottle, there was anything else here that could prove the authenticity of the legend.
Huan Temple is located next to Huancheng Pier, on a hillside near the river.
It is said that the address of this Huancheng Temple has never been moved for tens of thousands of years, because in the legend, when the God Huan descended from the sky, he landed on this hill, and then stood on the hill and waved his hand to let the turbulent waves flow. The water that came from the river flowed back into the river, and the mortals who were rescued later built the original Fan Temple where he stood.
Of course, the Huan Temple that Shu Guan sees now is no longer the original one.
Over the past ten thousand years, this Huan Temple has been repaired and rebuilt countless times. The only thing that has not changed may be its address.
The most recent renovation was the one that Jin Ziang remembered more than ten years ago, so the temple walls, bricks, gates, and plaques all look quite neat from the outside. Locals in the city came in and out of the gate, and it seemed that the incense in this temple was very strong on weekdays.
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On the side is a basin with a small crescent-shaped lake in the basin.
And directly opposite the gate of Huan Temple is the river.
Behind the temple is a steep cliff.
Shu Guan raised his eyebrows slightly, took out a black compass from his arms, moved the small copper piece on the compass that marked the Bagua directions a few times, then raised his eyes and looked around, with an expression in his eyes that seemed to be enlightened, but with a hint of confusion. A little confused.
After all, he was new to the art of Feng Shui, and Shu Guan hadn't finished learning all the secret books of Zoumamen.
Then Shuguan put away the compass and walked into the door.
Although the incense of Huan Temple has been passed down for thousands of years, it is not very big. After entering the door, there is a screen wall with the four characters "Bo Ping Shui Ding" engraved on it.
Around the screen wall, there is a small meritorious courtyard. In the middle of the courtyard is the main hall. There are a wing on both sides of the main hall for pilgrims who come here to offer incense to take a rest. There are several more after the main hall. This house is where the temple priests who are responsible for various chores of this temple live.
Shu Guan walked directly through the Merit Courtyard and walked into the main hall.
In the main hall, a clay statue stands tall.
Shu Guan looked up, then suddenly started, very surprised.
Because this Huan Shen turned out not to be a human being.
I saw the statue of Huan Shen, with a human body and the head of an ox. There was only one single eye in the middle of the forehead, and there were three tails behind it.
This kind of appearance, of course, cannot be human.
