Chapter 22 Chapter Twenty-Two

Passing through several lakes, I saw a high platform made of huge trees in front of me. The platform was round and surrounded very wide. When everyone went to the platform to compete, it might take twenty or thirty people to hug each other. Said: "Master Di, this place should be the viewing platform. It is the altar set up by Yuan Tiangang in the past. There should be a way to get out of the hole on the platform!" "Oh?" Di Renjie responded and led the crowd up the steps. Di Chun whispered: "These Taoists are also strange, do they have to set up an altar to practice?"

Ayu heard it from behind, and laughed with a "chi", Li Yuanfang was in front of Ayu, turned around and saw Ayu pulling Linyue, she seemed very close, and felt strange in her heart, the faces of the two could not be seen clearly in the dark, thinking it was in this desperate situation , let the two of them settle their suspicions. The wooden platform is very high. When you get on the platform, you can see a large mirror facing the platform. The diameter is more than ten feet wide, and it is slanting towards the distance. Wang Qian first held up the torch to illuminate it, but when the light of the fire shone, the entire mirror surface lit up, and the clouds in the mirror were steaming and rosy, and there seemed to be a shadow of a person.Everyone was curious, and they all gathered around to watch, but Li Yuanfang stood by the stage with Di Renjie, and was not in a hurry to step forward.

In the mirror, there are many palaces hidden among the misty clouds and mists, and there are also pavilions and wonderlands. There are thousands of green branches in the sky, moving with the wind, and the sound of nature can be heard. There are several fairies among them. Dance, until everyone can't turn their eyes away. Di Renjie glanced at him, and felt obsessed in a trance. He whispered unconsciously: "Between Kunlun, there are thousands of miles of cities. There are twelve Jade Towers, the Que of Qionghua, the Hall of Brightness, the Nine-story Yuan Room, and the Purple Emerald Dan Room." , with Yaochi on the left and Cuishan on the right, isn’t this the fairy palace of the Queen Mother of the West?” Suddenly, he realized that he raised his eyes and looked around. There was no Penglai fairy palace. The stage was still dark, but there were countless vines protruding from the top. Then, it danced in mid-air, as if alive, and entangled everyone!

Li Yuanfang only looked at Di Renjie's abnormal expression, and didn't care to look at the thing in the mirror, and shouted: "My lord!" while cutting off the vine with a huge bronze axe, but there were many branches and forks, and everyone stood scattered on the stage Li Yuanfang wanted to protect Di Renjie and save Di Chun, Ayu and the others, he lost sight of the other, and was afraid of hurting others, so he shouted anxiously, but seeing that everyone didn't hear them, he still stood blankly in front of the mirror, letting the vines entangle him up .Wang Qian was the first to bear the brunt, and his head was already entangled by a vine. Li Yuanfang was standing behind everyone. Seeing that Wang Qian was in danger, he swung an ax to save him. Come on, Li Yuanfang saw that his face was purple, his eye sockets seemed to burst, and he was still smiling, with a strange expression on his face, and couldn't help being shocked. At this moment, Di Renjie suddenly heard Di Renjie shout: "Yuan Fang, there is something weird in the mirror." !" Li Yuanfang realized when he heard the sound, he let go of his copper ax and slashed at the big mirror, only to hear a loud "dang" sound, like a thunder in mid-air, and a bolt of lightning flew out of the mirror and shot towards the audience, so dazzling that people couldn't open their eyes. Open your eyes, and instantly a flame bursts out!At this time, everyone woke up, and when they saw it, there was a fire ignited between the opposite bank of the stream and the rock wall, and they quickly moved along the bank of the stream, forming a circle of fire around the cave in a short while.But the mirror surface turned black again. Li Yuanfang raised his head to see the hanging roots and vines, which had shrunk up high, as if he had lost his life and could no longer move. It seemed that he had just had a dream. Wang Qian fell to the ground, stepped forward to check, and was already out of breath.Everyone was still in shock, recalling the scene just now, all of them broke out in cold sweat.

Di Renjie was fascinated by the phantom in the mirror when he thought about it, so he secretly thought dangerously, looked at Yang Ju and said, "Have you ever heard your grandfather mention that this mirror is weird?" Yang Ju stroked the neck strangled by the root vine, his face turned pale, and he frowned and said, "It is said that the mirror made by the Yellow Emperor and dedicated to the Queen Mother of the West is on the viewing platform. I don't know how powerful the illusion in the mirror is." "So that's how it is." Di Renjie murmured: "Existence is born out of nothing, and existence and non-existence regenerate each other. This mirror shows the subtle meaning of Taoism." After hearing this, everyone did not understand what it meant, so they calmed down and looked around.Seeing that the ignited fire is not too high, it is a circle low, just enough to illuminate the cave wall brightly.The entire cave seems to be circular, with densely packed treasure chests hanging on the wall, and the rising water below the stage has already flooded the rocks, and the color of the water has become muddy, and it is impossible to see where it came from.For a while, I heard Di Renjie say: "The black mud between the rocks is really flammable."

Li Yuanfang said from the side: "If you think about it carefully, if you didn't enter with the water just now, the sea in the cave has not been filled with water, and the audience below the stage may have already become a sea of ​​​​fire; and if you don't go up to the viewing platform, you can't ignite the ground fire." , showing the panorama of the treasure, cause and effect are intertwined, and every step seems to be calculated by others." Di Chunchang breathed out, and said: "Master, many treasure chests seem to be arranged in a spiral, and the shape in this hole is like a screw shell with the head, bottom and tail. " Everyone laughed, and the life-and-death shock just now seemed to have faded a bit.

"Well," Di Renjie turned to Li Yuanfang and said softly, "Yuan Fang, you see that the water below the stage overflowed so fast at the beginning, if only the water that just washed down just now, it should not be enough, but now it seems that it is no longer overflowing, Haizi There must be a connection between them, and it is very likely that there is a water discharge mechanism such as a water gate under the water." Li Yuanfang nodded slightly. At this time, everyone looked at the densely packed treasure chests on the rock wall, and felt that since entering the cave, the things they had experienced were bizarre and dizzying, their minds seemed to be blank, and they seemed to be troubled.

Di Renjie wandered his eyes around, suddenly clapped his palms and said with a smile: "Yuan Tiangang is indeed worthy of being Yuan Tiangang!" Everyone was confused, so Di Renjie squinted his eyes, pointed at the cave wall, and sighed: "Look at the rocks hanging on the four walls. The treasure chests seem to be numerous and chaotic, and counting the viewing platform in the center, it actually coincides with the number of nine palaces; looking at the top of the cave above, it is crystal clear, it is a full picture of the twenty-eight constellations, and Haizi on the ground. The remote correspondence corresponds, as the saying goes: look up to observe the sky, and look down to observe the earth. Yuan Tiangang was able to build the treasure cave to such a large scale, he is really a Taoist magician!"

Li Yuanfang and the others seemed to understand half of what they heard, and looked up, the fire belt illuminated the roof of the cave and the net-like roots and vines clinging to it. Sure enough, there seemed to be countless crystals embedded in the rock, either bright or dark, or Sparse or dense, just like the sky full of stars, it's a pity that most people don't know the astronomical phenomena such as the three constants and twenty-eight mansions, the division of the four elephants, etc., but a blue-glowing rock belt runs through the sky, like a Milky Way. It seemed to protrude from the Milky Way, and scattered to the top of the cave, everyone was secretly amazed.

Di Renjie suddenly said: "Looking at the setting in this cave, it seems to be a strange pattern." After a moment of pondering, he asked Yang Ju: "When you heard that 'Jia Chen is profitable', did you hear any related words?" Yang Ju recalled it for a while, then said hesitantly: "There is another sentence, which seems to be 'renqiguiba', and my grandfather doesn't know what it means." Di Renjie nodded and smiled, "That's right, it's a term in Qimen. Jiachen escapes under Renshui, 'Ren Qi Gui Ba', Yang Dun three rounds."

Li Yuanfang was puzzled and said, "What does that mean?" Di Renjie shook his head, "This is the technique of Qimen Dunjia, and it is listed as the three techniques together with 'Taiyi' and 'Liuren'. It is said that it is the method of defeating the enemy that Xuanyuan Xuannv secretly taught to Xuanyuan Huangdi. It was later deduced into Thirteen Chapters , the twelve chapters of Guxufa, Qimen Dunjia one thousand and eighty rounds. I don’t know the mystery of it, but if it’s just a direction mark, it should point to the seventh palace in the nine palaces.” After finishing, Pointing to a mountain wall in the distance. Yang Ju suddenly realized it, and said happily: "It was originally used to mark the direction. Now the rocks in the cave are intertwined, and they look like one piece from all sides. I can't find the place where Caichaliu entered just now. The position of Renqi must be the entrance to the cave. .” After hearing this, Di Chun said, "Even if we find the exit, it's not easy to go through the vast ocean below from this viewing platform." "Even if the position of Renqi is Shengmen," Di Renjie looked directly into Yang Ju's eyes, and said slowly, "Can General Yang be willing to let go of this cave full of treasures?"