Yan Shu was hunted by people from the martial arts community in the Central Plains, and thought to herself: "I am not the leader of the martial arts alliance, so what is the benefit of killing so many people in the martial arts world? Besides, I am outnumbered and have no allies to help me. If I kill too many people and consume too much power, I'm afraid it will be difficult to ensure your own safety." At this thought, Yan Shu mainly avoided the martial arts people because of this, and would only attack the opponent if she couldn't avoid them.
That night, Yan Shu was forced into a forest. The path in the forest was winding here and there, and Yan Shu walked for a long time without being able to get out of the woods. Yan Shu jumped up the branch and looked into the distance. There was a light in front of her. Yan Shu estimated the distance and rushed towards the light. After walking for a long time, Yan Shu realized that she had arrived near the light. She jumped on the branch again to check, and found that the distance was not close, and the light was behind her.
Yan Shu thought for a moment and realized that the road in the forest was an artificial formation. When Yan Shu was in Emei, she read military books in order to fight against the Yuan Dynasty, and she also understood the magic of the Five Elements. As soon as I tried it out in the forest, I immediately knew the correct path.
In less than a moment of tea, Yan Shu was already out of the woods, and the lights were already in front of her eyes. Yan Shu walked a few more steps and found that there was a sludge lake in front of her. There were two thatched huts on one side and one square built in the sludge lake. The lights were shining from the huts.
Yan Shu shouted loudly: "I am a passerby. I am asking the master to do it for you. I can stay for one night and ask for some soup." A woman's voice in the hut said: "Since you can come here, you are naturally capable of entering." Do you still want me to come out to greet you?" His voice was unusually cold, showing that he didn't like being disturbed by outsiders. Yan Shu didn't want to deliberately irritate people and embarrass Xiang Yan, so she retreated to the forest and slept rough for a night.
"First Evolution"
After dawn the next day, when Yan Shu was about to leave, a woman with gray hair and a linen shirt came to Yan Shu and said, "It turns out to be a little girl. Why didn't you come into the house last night? You wanted me to greet you. You?" This woman has a beautiful face, but she is only about forty years old, but she has beautiful hair on her temples. The forehead is full of wrinkles, but the cheeks are like fat. The upper half of the face is half older and the lower half is younger, but there seems to be a difference of more than 20 years in age.
Yan Shu said: "I think senior seems to like peace and quiet, so I didn't disturb him." The woman asked again: "Is Qiu Qianren, the leader of the Iron Palm Gang, chasing you?" Yan Shu said: "Yes." She secretly increased her vigilance. The woman said: "Why did Qiu Qianren personally lead people to chase a little girl like you? Who are you?" When asked this question, her voice was extremely stern.
Yan Shu was unhappy and said, "I poisoned the emperor of the Song Dynasty. Because of this, people in the martial arts community are chasing me to avenge their emperor. In order not to implicate the seniors, the little girl said goodbye." The woman smiled lightly. , said: "You are so young, but you are so stubborn. Qiu Qianren has led people to surround the area tightly on three levels inside and outside. Can you get out?" Yan Shu couldn't help but hesitate for a while.
The woman said again: "Qiu Qianren and the others can't find the way in and can't get in. Just stay in my hut for a few days. When Qiu Qianren and the others disperse, you can go out again." She turned around and walked towards the hut, followed by Yan Shu. The woman came to the hut.
I saw a long table in the hut, with seven oil lamps on it, arranged in the shape of the Big Dipper. There are countless bamboo pieces on the ground. Those bamboo pieces are about four inches long and two inches wide. Yan Shu knows that they are counters for counting. As soon as the woman saw the hut, she squatted on the ground and looked at the bamboo pieces intently.
After the woman finished calculating an arithmetic problem, Yan Shu said: "Senior, this junior also knows a little about arithmetic problems. I wonder if there is anything I can help you with." The woman hummed and said, "You are just a little girl. What do you know about arithmetic? What are you talking about here?" Yan Shu smiled and stopped talking. Since the woman doesn’t believe it, forget it.
After a while, the woman stood up and said to Yan Shu, "Follow me." She took Yan Shu into the inner room. I saw that the walls of the inner room were surrounded by a circle, and the ground was covered with fine sand. Many horizontal and vertical symbols and circles were painted on the sand, and some words such as "Tian Yuan", "Di Yuan" and "Ren Yuan" were written on it. Yan Shu knew that the characters on the ground were difficult problems in arithmetic and were the "Tianyuan Technique" in arithmetic.
The woman said: "Since you said you understand arithmetic problems, then try solving these arithmetic problems." Yan Shu wrote on the sand with her fingers as she thought, and in a moment, she had written the seven or eight numbers listed on the sand. The arithmetic problem is solved. The woman was extremely surprised. She stayed for a long time and suddenly asked, "Are you a human?" Yan Shu thought to herself, "What's so difficult about this? If I don't even understand this, how can I arrange troops and direct the battle?" He smiled and said: "Senior, if you dare to be interested, I would like to discuss it with you."
The woman turned pale with frustration, swayed a few times, and suddenly fell into the fine sand. She held her head in both hands and thought hard. After a while, he suddenly raised his head, with a happy face, and said: "Your algorithm is naturally a hundred times better than mine, but I ask you, arrange the nine numbers from one to nine into three columns, regardless of the vertical, horizontal and oblique angles, each three characters should be in phase with each other. In addition, the sum is fifteen, how to arrange it?"
Yan Shu was stunned and said smoothly: "Nine palaces count? Zhen Luan in the Northern and Southern Dynasties once made it clear: two and four are shoulders, six and eight are feet, three on the left and seven on the right, nine shoes on one, and five in the center." While talking, he drew, A picture of nine palaces was drawn on the sand. The woman's face was ashen and she sighed: "I only thought this was my original secret method, but I didn't expect that the song had already been passed down to the world."
The woman stood up tremblingly, and suddenly held her heart in her hands. A look of severe pain appeared on her face. She hurriedly took out a green pill from the vial in her arms and swallowed it. After a while, his expression softened and he sighed: "That's it, that's it!" Two tears fell from his eyes. Yan Shu only felt that the woman's behavior was extremely strange, and whispered: "Senior, are you okay?"
In the woman's tears, Yan Shu finally understood the whole story. It turns out that the woman's name is Yinggu, and her husband is Zhou Botong, the uncle of Quanzhen Seventh Son. Zhou Botong was imprisoned on Peach Blossom Island by Medicine Master Dongxiehuang more than ten years ago. Yinggu went to Peach Blossom Island to rescue Zhou Botong. However, Peach Blossom Island was cleverly arranged, and Yinggu was not familiar with the Five Elements. She was trapped for three days and three nights and almost starved to death. Later, it was Huang Yaoshi who sent a mute servant to send Ying Gu off the island.
After Yinggu left the island, she began to study the Five Elements Qimen and the Nine Palaces Bagua. Today, she found that after more than ten years of painstaking research, she was not even as good as a little girl. She was immediately discouraged - how could she go to Peach Blossom Island to rescue her at such a level? Zhou Botong?
After listening to Yinggu's story, Yan Shu suddenly thought of Xiang Yan, and tears instantly flowed down her face. This Yinggu still knows where her husband is, but she doesn't even know where her husband is.
Yan Shu choked up and said, "Senior, this junior also has some understanding of the Five Elements Qimen and the Nine Palaces and Bagua. How about I accompany my senior to Peach Blossom Island to see if I can rescue our senior husband."
