"Mazi, you will be six years old after today. What do you want grandpa to give you?"
"Whatever...Grandpa, I like everything you give me."
"Then Grandpa will make you a bamboo dragonfly."
"Okay."
Shu Guan still vividly remembers the scene when the old cripple gave him this bamboo dragonfly on his fifth birthday.
It was a sunny spring afternoon.
By the way, Shuguan's birthday is in spring, when the peach blossoms are blooming.
The old lame man took Shu Guan home from the stream on a day when the peach blossoms had just sprouted new buds.
…
The lame man began to make bamboo dragonflies for Shu Guan.
Shu Guan moved a bench and sat next to it, watching his grandfather make bamboo dragonflies for him. He was bored to death, but his eyes were shining with anticipation and excitement.
He knew that such a look would please the old cripple.
Bamboo dragonfly is a very ordinary and common toy. It is made of a thick piece of bamboo, cut into corresponding bevels at both ends, drill a small hole in the middle, install a thin bamboo handle, and then hold the bamboo handle with the palm of your hand. With a quick rub and a loosening of his hands, the bamboo dragonfly flew into the sky.
Every child in Taoyuan Village will have his own bamboo dragonfly. When the bamboo dragonfly flies up, they will shout happily and excitedly. Who can make the bamboo dragonfly fly higher and fly longer, then Who is the eldest among the children.
It's just that no matter how high the bamboo dragonfly flies, it can't fly over the cliffs around Taoyuan Village. Therefore, when they grow up, the children in Taoyuan Village will no longer play with bamboo dragonflies.
However, on Shu Guan's fifth birthday, the bamboo dragonfly the old cripple made for Shu Guan was a little different.
He actually made a dragonfly out of bamboo.
The bamboo was cut into thin strips, and then magically transformed into the body, wings, and head of a dragonfly between the old lame man's fingers.
The old lame man's fingers were actually thick and short, and the fingertips were covered with calluses, but when the strips flew between his fingers, they were so dexterous.
At that time, Shu Guan sighed in his heart: The appearance of a tractor and the core of a supercar must describe people like Lao Laizi.
The old lame man even used a knife to carve the compound eyes of the bamboo dragonfly as if they were real.
"Mazi, do you know that dragonflies have the most eyes in our valley?"
That afternoon, the old lame man said this to Shu Guan while carving the dragonfly's eyes.
This sentence made Shu Guan stunned for a long time.
Of course he knows that dragonflies are the creatures with the most eyes in the world.
At least that was the case in the world he traveled to. Shu Guan remembered that he saw in a nature magazine that dragonflies have a total of 56,000 compound eyes.
But how could an old farmer in a remote mountain village do this? This is definitely not something that can be observed with human eyes.
At that time, Shu Guan still didn't understand the old cripple's magic deeply enough, so the old cripple's words gave him a great shock.
As for the other words the old cripple said immediately, Shu Guan didn't pay much attention at that time.
"If an object's eyes are much longer, then what it sees will always be more real, and maybe it can even see something that we humans can't see."
The old lame man smiled and stuffed the finished bamboo dragonfly into Shu Guan's little hand.
This sentence was purely like the casual conjecture of an old farmer in a mountain village, at least that's how Shu Guan felt at the time.
The bamboo dragonfly made by the old cripple also made Shu Guan very proud in front of Wang Dahu and Zhang Yadan for a few days. The bamboo dragonfly made by the old cripple not only looked like a real dragonfly, but also flew like one. Just like a real dragonfly, fast, tall and stable.
However, the bamboo dragonfly could not fly out of the cliffs around Taoyuan Valley, so after two days of showing off in front of Wang Dahu and Zhang Yadan, Shu Guan never played with the bamboo dragonfly again.
Not once.
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Today, after many years, the bamboo dragonfly flew in front of him again.
But this time, Shuguan did not rub the bamboo pole inserted in the belly of the bamboo dragonfly. The bamboo dragonfly flew over on its own.
Four wings made of extremely thin bamboo slices fluttered rapidly in the air, making a slight buzzing sound.
The wings are also flapped by the bamboo dragonfly itself, so it can control the direction of its flight. As the bamboo wings constantly adjust their angles in the air, they circle the portrait of Emperor Gengshi, constantly going up, down, and left. It was spinning right and left.
Shuguan opened his mouth wide and was in a daze for a moment.
The past years flashed through his mind.
Then Shu Guan was extremely surprised for a moment.
Of course, it's only for a moment.
Because he already knew that each of the birthday gifts the old cripple gave him had hidden mysterious powers, but he could not find a way to unlock these mysterious powers in the past.
Each gift displays its mysterious power under certain special circumstances.
Shu Guan has not found the pattern yet.
Just like at this moment, he had never imagined that the bamboo dragonfly would fly on its own a second ago.
This may be the real reason why he was surprised just now.
Now, it seems that another gift is about to reveal its mysterious power in front of my eyes.
So why did this bamboo dragonfly that the old cripple gave to him on his fifth birthday "wake up" at this time, and what kind of mysterious power does it possess?
Shu Guan's eyes were fixed on the bamboo dragonfly flying in front of the gold silk painting.
Then after a few seconds, he slowly opened his mouth again.
This time, Shu Guan truly felt the huge shock and surprise.
Because as the bamboo dragonfly flew around, the portrait of Emperor Gengshi on the gold silk painting slowly began to disappear.
This scene feels like a bamboo dragonfly turning into an eraser, slowly erasing the original drawing on a piece of paper.
Shu Guan even noticed that the two eyes on the top of the bamboo dragonfly's head were carved bit by bit by the old lame man with a knife. The sections like compound eyes all seemed to be rotating rapidly, and there were faint wisps of them. Pale yellow light shot out from those compound eyes and hit the gold silk painting.
Wherever the pale yellow light shone, the original portraits of Emperor Gengshi began to slowly disappear.
It's just that the portrait of Emperor Gengshi disappeared, but the gold silk painting did not become blank.
Instead, there is another painting slowly revealed on the gold silk painting.
Just like this gold silk painting, there were originally two paintings, one painting covering the other. Now under the light yellow light emitted from the bamboo dragonfly's compound eyes, the portrait of Emperor Gengshi disappeared. But it revealed the true appearance of the painting below.
That painting is a door.
...Another door...
The moment he saw the true appearance of the painting, Shu Guan had an inexplicable thought.
Because some time ago, he also encountered a very mysterious door, which was the wonderful stone door under the Rong family manor.
Of course, what appears on the gold silk painting at this moment is not a stone door, but a golden, heavy wooden door.
The golden wooden door is painted with auspicious clouds, the sun and the moon, dragons and phoenixes.
The auspicious clouds are the base, the sun and the moon are in the sky, and the dragons and phoenixes are on the left and right.
It is indescribably solemn and majestic.
The golden wooden door exudes golden light.
Not a painted golden light, but a real golden light!
When the golden wooden door was fully exposed, the bamboo dragonfly finally stopped flapping its wings. It turned around in the air, slowly flew towards Shuguan, and landed on Shuguan's shoulder.
At this moment, the bamboo dragonfly seemed to have turned into an ordinary children's toy again.
Shu Guan took the bamboo dragonfly off his shoulder and held it in his palm, suddenly something moved in his heart.
He recalled what the old cripple said when he handed the bamboo dragonfly to him.
"If a thing's eyes are much longer, then what it sees will always be more real, and maybe it can even see something that we humans can't see."
Now Bamboo Dragonfly allowed him to see the truth.
This wooden door has been hidden under the portrait of Emperor Gengshi for five thousand years. Perhaps today is the first time that the veil covering the truth has been removed.
So, why is there such a door in this gold silk painting?
A door always means leading to another place.
But first you have to be able to push the door open.
For example, Shu Guan was unable to push open the stone door at the bottom of Rong's Manor, so he didn't know what kind of world that stone door led to.
So what about the current wooden door?
Can this wooden door be pushed open?
Shu Guan took a deep breath, then raised his other arm and slowly reached towards the golden wooden door in the golden silk painting.
Can a doorway in a painting be pushed open?
This seems like a ridiculous thing.
But Shu Guan had a strong feeling in his heart at this moment, that is, this door was meant to be pushed open.
He pressed his palm on the golden silk painting and the golden wooden door with a little force.
Then the wooden door in the painting slowly opened.
Behind the wooden door is a long golden brick staircase.
The same gold bricks on the ground in Emperor Gengshi's palace.
The steps are extremely long and I don’t know where they lead.
At least Shu Guan, who is standing outside the painting, cannot see where the steps inside the painting lead.
But Shu Guan knew exactly where this staircase led.
It must lead to the underground palace under Zhongshan Mountain.
Because the moment the wooden door was pushed open, he clearly felt that the Feng Shui energy of the entire Zhongshan Mountains was gushing out from the wooden door.
But all the earth energy that flowed in from outside the dormitory disappeared inside the wooden door.
This is the starting point of the Qi of the Zhongshan Mountains and the end of the Qi of the Zhongshan Mountains.
This is where the loop ends.
This is the entrance to the underground palace!
Sure enough, as Shu Guan had expected, the entrance to the underground palace was not an entrance in the ordinary sense.
But he didn't expect that the entrance to the underground palace would exist in such a wonderful way. It was actually hidden in an ancient painting that looked normal.
Is this the method used by the Heavenly Court back then?
At this time, he is still a powerful person in the Nascent Soul Realm. In addition to his experience, his cultivation of Feng Shui Kanyu is no worse than that of the original master of the Zouma Sect, Ming Jin'an.
But without the bamboo dragonfly that the old cripple left for him, Shu Guan knew that he would not be able to find the entrance to the underground palace today.
I'm afraid even if a real immortal stood here, it would be difficult to detect the real mystery here!
For the three ordinary people standing behind Shu Guan at this time, the entrance to the underground palace was so wonderful that it shocked even Shu Guan. It was as if they had been frightened.
When the bamboo dragonfly in Shuguan's suitcase flew up on its own, Qian Jing'an, Professor Lai Sheng, and the second young master were already standing there dumbfounded.
Then they saw the portrait of Emperor Gengshi disappear and a door magically appear in the painting.
The most amazing thing is that the door in the painting was pushed open by the fortune teller named Shu Xingyun.
This is something that completely breaks their common sense.
Even Professor Lai Sheng, a senior archaeologist and explorer, looked like he couldn't believe his eyes.
He has had extremely rich adventure experiences in his life, and has witnessed some very strange and strange things with his own eyes, but no matter which experience he had, he felt that it was not as magical as the scene today.
"Mr. Shu, this door... this door... how did you open it?"
Professor Lai Sheng was the first among the three to come to his senses. He asked with a trembling voice.
Shu Guan turned around and looked at the expressions on the faces of the three people behind him, a look of regret and apology flashed in his eyes.
He did not answer Professor Lai Sheng's question.
Because in order to answer Professor Lai Sheng's question, we must explain to him the true nature of the world.
Three yellow talisman papers flew out from Shu Guan's fingers and were attached to the chests of Qian Jing'an, Professor Lai Sheng, and the Second Young Master respectively.
The three people fell limply at the same time.
This matter is no longer suitable for these three ordinary people to participate.
And who knows what is in that underground palace and what dangers it will encounter. Shu Guan will not let these three ordinary people follow him into the underground palace.
Especially Qian Jing'an, if something unexpected happened, he wouldn't be able to explain it to Mrs. Qian.
Then Shu Guan carried the three people with the calming charms on them to the large dragon bed and put them there. Then he took out three more forgetfulness charms.
It is not the ordinary forget-the-god talisman painted by the fifth senior brother, but the higher-grade forget-the-god talisman left by the previous practitioners of Shanjiguan.
This kind of forgetfulness talisman can freely control the length of time that the person who is wearing the talisman needs to forget the memory.
Shu Guan chose to let the three of them forget the memory of what happened after they entered this dormitory.
If they forget about the whole day, it will be difficult to explain to them what they will do in the President's official residence.
Then Shu Guan walked out of the Gengshi Emperor's palace and pulled in Director Chen who had been waiting outside the palace gate. Under Director Chen's inexplicable and panic gaze, Shu Guan also put a calming charm and a talisman on him. Forgotten Talisman.
Because Shu Guan didn't know how long he would stay there if he entered the underground palace. It would be bad if Director Chen came in and saw something abnormal inside.
Then Shu Guan closed the door of the palace, waved his hand, and the copper lock outside the door locked itself.
In this way, people passing by outside would not expect that there would be anyone in Emperor Gengshi's palace.
After making all these preparations, Shu Guan once again came to the gold silk painting in the bedroom.
Looking at the mysterious wooden door, Shu Guan was silent for about ten seconds.
Then he made up his mind to go in and take a look.
After all, this underground palace is related to the Monkey Army, that is, to the senior brother. He wants to go in and find out.
Let’s see what kind of secrets are hidden in this underground palace that Tianting helped Emperor Gengshi build, or maybe Emperor Gengshi helped Tianting build.
What does the phrase "Ordered by Heaven to forever suppress the demon monkey" mean?
Shu Guan closed the suitcase, but he did not put the bamboo dragonfly back into the suitcase. Instead, he held it in his hand, then picked up the suitcase, jumped up, and headed towards the stage behind the wooden door in the gold silk painting. Go step by step.
The next moment, Shu Guan's figure appeared in the gold silk painting. He stepped on the steps and walked forward.
The wooden door slowly closed behind him.
On the gold silk painting, the portrait of Emperor Gengshi appeared again.
Emperor Gengshi was sitting on the dragon chair, with a majestic face, his eyes slightly raised, as if he was staring at the sky, with an unpredictable expression.
(End of chapter)
