Song Siyuan picked up the map and stared at the Bagua direction they marked carefully. The location of Shennong Peak was not far from Guiyu Forest. She said: "Boss Tan also mentioned that they had to pass by Guiyu Forest when they found Shennong Peak. Lin, the location of Ming Shennong Peak is close to the earthquake position of Gui Yulin. According to the position of the Bagua, the entrance and the Shengmen are represented by the Qian Gua. This position is not too far away from the earthquake position where we are."
Seeing that he had found clues to the entrance to another world, Onikata Mune said excitedly: "Does that mean we can go there now?"
"Not sure yet."
Just when Gui Fangzong felt that there was hope, Xu Xiake's words told everyone to calm down.
"Why?"
Now that the location of the Qian hexagram is clear, as long as you find the strange environment represented by the Qian hexagram, you can find the entrance to the ghost world. As soon as the Taoist priest's words came out, he became confused.
Xu Xiake waited for everyone to look over and continued: "Let me tell you a story first. In ancient times, there was a man crossing a river by boat. When he reached the middle of the river, the sword in his hand accidentally fell into the water. The tourists on the boat couldn't see him. Buhuan became curious and asked him why he was not anxious when the sword fell into the water."
"The ancient man took out his dagger and carved a mark on the hull of the ship where the sword fell. At the same time, he also told these tourists that he had marked the mark. When the ship docked, he would salvage according to the marked position. When the ship docked, he would salvage according to the marked position. Behind the shore, this ancient man was unable to salvage the sword, which caused laughter from the people around him. Some people who understood bluntly said that the hull of the ship has been sailing in the river. What's the use of just drawing marks on the hull of the ship? Of course, you can't salvage anything by carving the boat for the sword. "
"If we look for it according to the directions of the Eight Diagrams, we will be searching for the sword by carving a boat."
At this point, Xu Xiake's expression became serious: "It was probably at the end of the Shang Dynasty when the Guifang people fled into Shennongjia. At that time, King Wen's Hou Bagua had not yet begun to appear. What we are using now is King Wen's Hou Bagua, and we can infer from the latter. Beforehand, there will definitely be problems.”
"In other words, what we think of as the Qian position was not actually the Qian position in ancient times. Even if we really went to the current Qian position, we would probably have to go blind, and it would be impossible to find the real entrance."
"So, what do you think?"
Song Siyuan knew that only Taoist priests like Xu Xiake were the inner school regarding Bagua.
Xu Xiake continued: "The Bagua is divided into the First Bagua and the Later Bagua. The First Bagua refers to the Heluo Bagua from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors until the Xia and Shang Dynasties, including the Lianshan Yi and the Guizang Yi. The Later Bagua refers to the Bagua created by King Wen of Zhou Dynasty. , among them, King Wen of Zhou discovered the secret of the mirror space through the Yin-Yang Jade Pendant. In order to protect this secret, the first Bagua was specially deleted, leaving only the modified Later Bagua handed down to the world."
They already understood what Xu Xiake meant. When the Guifang people fled into Shennongjia, the Zhou Dynasty had not yet begun. Even if it had started, it was only the early Zhou Dynasty. The appearance of King Wen's Bagua would be even later, which also meant that , the Bagua used by Guifang people must be the first Bagua.
Ghost Fangzong sighed: "Then this is troublesome. There are still traces of the Later Bagua, but the Xianbagua disappeared as early as the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Who can find the Xianbagua?"
Yue Guanchao knew in his heart that the ghost old man was really good. The "Lianshan" and "Gui Zang" records of the first gossip had long since disappeared. When King Wen of Zhou discovered the secret of the mirror world, in order to keep this secret, he changed the gossip to the later gossip. , blocking the way for future generations to access the mirror world.
When they were in Zumaihun Palace, they did find the "Lianshan Yi" scroll written by Confucius Chao Feng. However, this scroll was in the hands of the Chao family. It would take a lot of effort for them to just get the Lianshan Yi back at this time.
"Am I destined to not find the soul-capturing bones of the Gui Fang family..." Gui Fangzong has been planning for decades with the purpose of obtaining the soul-capturing bones. It is indeed a pity that he is now stuck in Lianshan Yi.
"Ahem!"
When everyone was feeling uncomfortable, Yue Qingshan coughed a few times: "It's not impossible. When we came out, I asked my brother Chao to go through the Mountain Yi. This man was so stingy that he didn't want to give me the original scroll. He also knew that this business was very difficult. It was dangerous, so he copied all the completed volumes of Lian Shanyi to me."
Mountains and rivers return to doubts and there is no way out, and there are dark willows and bright flowers in another village. Ghost Fangzong listened to Yue Qingshan's words: "Brother, you didn't lie to us?"
"When have I ever lied to anyone?"
The old Yue Tou motioned to Sun Daqiao who was beside him. He found the cloth bag hanging on his body and took out a bamboo tube. When he opened it, he found the Yishan Yi copied in white silk cloth.
Xu Xiake took the Lianshan Yi Scroll, carefully browsed all the words and Bagua pictures, and nodded to Zhongru: "Indeed, this thing is Bagua first."
Having got the things, the Taoist priest compared the Xian Bagua and Wen Wang Bagua. It was exactly as he thought. The position of Qian Gua was completely different. After reading the position of Xian Bagua, he explained to everyone: "According to Wen Wang Bagua, do Qian Gua." The hexagram is not far away from us, but if we look at it according to the first eight trigrams, the hexagram Qian is far away from where we are."
After that, the map was marked with the location of the first Bagua. The entrance of Qiangua, which was originally not far from Shennong Peak, has now been marked deep in the mountain.
Song Siyuan looked at the newly marked directions. They followed the route of the Later Bagua, from Zhen Gua to Qian Gua, only needing to go through Ken Gua and Kan Gua. Now they arranged it according to the First Bagua and then went through Zhen Gua and Qian Gua. Kun, Ken, Kan, and Xun can reach Qian Gua, which is equivalent to twice as long as the previous journey, which also means that the danger they will face will also increase twice.
"Then, can't we go around from the opposite direction?"
Yue Guanchao stared at the map. If he looked at it from the opposite direction, Zhen Gua and Qian Gua were only separated by Li Gua and Dui Gua, and they were the same distance from Hou Bagua.
Xu Xiake shook his head and looked at him with a look that looked like a fool: "We are just drawing relative positions on the map, not absolute positions. Shennongjia is such a large area, and there is no close connection between directions as we understand it. Next to each other, perhaps, at a very far distance. According to your understanding, it would be more convenient to fly from our position to the dry position. The key is, do we have the ability to fly?"
Xu Xiake's words basically vetoed Yue Guanchao's proposal, that is, they must start from the earthquake position and go through Kun, Ken, Kan, and Xun to the Qian position in order to achieve what they want.
In this case, among the ten big monsters, getting lost without a trace in the mountains, encountering savages in the wild ridges and deep gorges are all empty hexagrams that summarize the whole process. The remaining eight monsters, they have to experience the endless chattering of ghosts in the pillar forest, and the strange cattle plate. Walking on the ground, there are chickens raised in the stone house, the water is bright in the cold and warm caves, the arrow bamboo builds an ownerless nest, the sun rises, the moon rises and the tide rises, all are indispensable.
Song Siyuan looked at the map: "If we have to experience these strange phenomena of Brother Xu, then we have to plan carefully how to survive the danger. I don't think this is an easy task."
When Tan Yanqiu told how they came to Shennongjia to rob the ancient Chu tomb, they already knew how dangerous Shennongjia was. Not to mention the supernatural ghost forest, just the weird animals all over the ground made people's scalp numb. They just wanted to When you leave Shennong Peak and walk deep into the mountains, you won’t even find a guiding stone. From getting lost to a serious situation, your life may be in danger. Don’t take it lightly.
"I see that the situation has changed, and we need to take a long-term approach. The sun has already set, and we must return to the temple as soon as possible."
When they arrived at Shennong Peak, they had already spent a lot of time, and now they were building airs and guessing riddles. It was already getting late, and it got dark very early in the mountains. Seeing the sun setting behind the clouds, they already had the energy of dusk.
Just now, Gui Fangzong's words had already made it clear that Shennongjia was destined to be unstable at night. They were asked to go to the building probably to avoid the beasts and at the same time to avoid severe cold and hypothermia.
When Guifang Zong and others renovated the Shennong Sheji Temple, they mostly lived in the atrium temple. They came to the atrium through the verandah and entered the courtyard.
The ground in the atrium is hardened, and the rammed earth of bluestone is flat and covered with stones. It is extremely strong when you move around. There are no weeds or loose stones. It can be seen that the craftsmen at that time have done enough work. In the embrace of the courtyard veranda, The temple is located in the middle of the palace, with yellow tiles and red walls, an owl-kissed ridge, colorful decorations, exquisite corridors, and towers and flying corridors to the left and right of the palace.
"The palace in front is too simple and it is difficult to keep warm at night. This atrium temple is just suitable for living, so we will temporarily use the palace as a resting place."
As he spoke, Gui Fangzong led everyone to approach the porch of the temple. After the craftsman on the side opened the door, they stepped into the temple.
This temple is a building from the Tang and Song Dynasties. Its shape and structure are no different from other Tang and Song Dynasty buildings. However, since the temple is used as a place for sacrifice, it must be different from other temples, and some changes have been made.
First of all, what comes into view is the huge shrine in front of the temple. This shrine is as big as a house, basically as big as a three or four-meter house. It is as regular as a sedan chair, with carved railings and painted pillars. It rests on a stone wall above the ground. On stage.
In the shrine is a stone statue of Shennong with disheveled hair and horns on his head.
The appearance of this stone statue is very simple. It does not have the splendor and wealth of gods, nor the majesty of human emperors. Shennong just wears very ordinary coarse cloth clothes, with white lower skirts, a belt that goes to the knees, hair hanging on his shoulders, and horns on his head. .
The face is round and natural, benevolent and honest, and the facial features are naturally well-proportioned. There are few sharp edges and corners. Most of the eyes, mouth and nose are carved with rounded arcs. He holds the original farm tools in his hands with his feet on the auspicious clouds.
Around this shrine, there are more than twenty other small shrines enshrining the portraits of emperors of the past dynasties, starting with King Wen and King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty and ending with the founding emperor of the previous dynasty, occupying both sides.
After bypassing the shrines on both sides, you can see the double door openings. Walking in from here, you can not only walk to the second-story attic, but also lead to the verandah and the towers on both sides.
