"If Jiuding is the ultimate weapon to suppress demons, how did they disappear, and where are they now?" Qin Ci said, "I think the two sentences of the master mentioned in this note are worth noting. : 'Jiuding is still here, but not here' and 'Knowable but not visible, visible but not available'. This clearly alludes to the place where Jiuding was after he disappeared, but these two sentences are so obscure and difficult to understand. through."
"The Jiuding is still there, but not here... What does this 'this room' refer to?" Luo Yao asked.
"Not in this place?" Li Xiaochun guessed, "Didn't it say that Jiuding was in the Zhou Dynasty at that time, and then flew into Sishui, and of course it was no longer there."
"...So what the expert said is nonsense?" Wei Dong looked at Li Xiaochun speechlessly.
"Then what do you mean by that?" Li Xiaochun asked back.
"I thought it might mean not in the world." Wei Dong said, "I remember reading some magical stories when I was a child. For example, the sword used by the protagonist is a divine sword. When the protagonist completes a certain After the mission, the sword turned into a dragon and flew into the sky, and there is no trace since then. There are many stories like this. Maybe the use cycle of Jiuding is over, and it will turn into something and go to the sky. After all, Jiuding is an artifact. Well, it is impossible for the artifacts to stay in the human world forever, so the masters said that they still exist, but they are no longer in the human world and have returned to the sky."
"I think Dongzi's idea is right," Ke Xun said, "but the idea of going back to the sky is a bit ridiculous. Where is the sky? Mars or outer space? I don't think this is possible. A Lingxiao Palace is above the Nine Heavens, and there is a Jade Emperor leading the gods.
"Could it be underground?" Wu You said, "Could it be that the ghosts in the underground stole the Jiuding? If they stole it, there would be no infrasound to affect them, so they tried to steal the Jiuding."
"Please, sister, Jiuding was still resonating with infrasound waves at that time, and the demons couldn't come up from the ground at all, so how could they steal them?" Li Xiaochun said.
"Maybe we should start with the phrase 'knowable but not visible, visible but unobtainable'," Zhu Haowen said, "These two sentences have two meanings.
"Knowable but not visible, I think it should mean 'We know they are still there, but we can't see them with the naked eye'.
"And 'visible but not available', I think it refers to people with superpowers like the Great Witch or this master who can see where the nine tripods are, but have no way to get them, or tell them The exact location of others' Jiuding."
"Hao Wen'er's statement is reliable," Ke Xun nodded. "Then what we need to figure out next is where can these superpowers see, but can't tell?"
Everyone was lost in thought, but no one could come up with an answer.
"Eh?" Ke Xun patted Wu You on the shoulder, "Hasn't this expert opened his eyes, you should have the most say!"
Everyone also reacted, and quickly looked at Wu You.
Wu You was at a loss for a while: "I, what kind of expert am I? I only look at the bones, and I can't see anything else!"
"Don't worry, you can try to look around this place by looking at the bones," Yue Cen said. "Maybe you can use this method to observe the rock platform tonight."
"That's right, we actually neglected this point and forgot that Wu You still possesses such an ability," Shao Ling nodded, "Might as well try it tonight, maybe there will be a breakthrough discovery."
"Okay..." Wu You agreed nervously.
"The whereabouts of Jiuding, let's put it aside for now," Hua Jiqiu said, "There are more new clues on these notes, which are related to us, such as the origin of bones."
"Yes, the key lies in the first note, the message of the ancestor who called himself 'Yu'," Shao Ling turned the note to this page and pointed it out to everyone, "It's this master, After the loss of Jiuding, he was the first to discover the underground ghost's attempt to break out of the ground and return to the human world. He also came up with a way to replace the role of Jiuding. body."
"This expert is really awesome," Wei Dong sighed. "If it wasn't because he found out about this incident at night watching the stars, and spared no effort to find a way to deal with it, we might have long been the world of ghosts."
"This posthumous note comes from around the beginning of Qin Dynasty," Mu Yiran said, "It was just when Jiuding was just lost. Fortunately, that era was the era when alchemists walked everywhere, and it was also the era when Taoism prevailed and a hundred schools of thought contended. , the ghost's change happened to be caught by this master, otherwise the consequences would be really unimaginable."
"What's the matter with the Nine Dings, Five Yangs and Four Yins mentioned by this expert?" Ke Xun asked.
Gu Qingqing slammed through her notebook, turned to a certain page, stopped, and read: "'Yu casts nine tripods, five of which are in accordance with the yang method, and four of which are counted by the yin of the elephant. , with Xiongjin as the Yang Ding. The Ding is always full to account for the rest of the weather. When Xia Jie was in the world, the Ding water suddenly boiled. At the end of the Zhou Dynasty, the Jiuding Xianquan shook. All should be a sign of extinction." When I checked Jiuding materials before, I saw it in the "Supplementary Notes", and I copied it down."
"'Jiuding Xianzhen'!" Wei Dong clapped his hands, "According to our previous speculation, there is indeed resonance!"
"Five yang and four yin are to match the number of yin and yang," Ke Xun touched his chin and glanced at the faces of his companions, "It seems that from the very beginning, the number of men and women who entered the painting has been predestined. , not counting the four terrestrial dimension, people with nine tripod bones are destined to have five men and four women in the painting, no wonder Sister Cen has such an experience from a very early time, and she is destined to let you in the painting, no matter whether you are No way to escape."
Yue Cen smiled: "Perhaps from a certain point of view, I should be honored for this, which shows that I am still quite a person who is recognized by paintings."
"Yeah, it means that we are the strong ones who have been screened." Everyone smiled bitterly.
"I'm more concerned about this sentence," Qin Ci continued to point to the page on Shao Ling's notebook, "'Get the picture of the nine cauldrons, and obtain the power of the magic spell', does this sentence mean that the nine cauldrons The "Shan Hai Tu" cast on the above itself has the power of witchcraft? But we speculated before that the "Shan Hai Tu" cast on the tripod is to change the frequency of resonance, and the "Shan Hai Tu" that is separated from Jiuding is just a It's just a picture, what kind of magic spell can it have?"
"This is indeed a problem," Shao Ling said, "Our previous speculation was more focused on scientific explanations, but the "Shan Hai Tu" that appeared later has the power of witchcraft, and the pictures are transformed into bones and implanted into the human body, which is very important. It's hard to explain it with scientific things. We can only think that the power of gods and ghosts does exist in this world, whether it is witchcraft, bone physiognomy, or events in paintings, only the power of gods and ghosts can do it. thing."
"I still think that what you said can be explained by scientific principles," Zhu Haowen said, "but none of us are scientists, and the limitations of knowledge and cognition prevent us from finding a scientific basis. "
"Brothers, whether it's science or ghosts or ghosts, I don't think that's the point," Luo Yao said, "The point is the things this expert said later, sacrificing himself to be a ghost or something, it's so despairing. …”
Shao Ling and Zhu Haowen both paused, Shao Ling lowered his head, stared at his notes, avoided Luo Xue's words, and said, "This expert speculates on the reason why Jiuding can suppress demons from the perspective of metaphysics, so-called 'Three talents' refers to heaven, earth and man. Jiuding is the metamorphosis of nine celestial pillars. "The witch power, to suppress the ghosts.
"And when the Jiuding was lost, he came up with a way to replace the Jiuding, that is, adding four earth dimensions and implanting the bones in the human body, it still needs the three talents to combine, in order to achieve a small part of the effect of the Jiuding.
"But there is no way to generate infrasound waves in this way, so I speculate that the function of the bones may just be a seal, so that the ghosts can't break out of the ground for a while, and the Jiuding has a striking effect, and the blow and seal can go from the Xia Dynasty to the Warring States period. During the last period of time, the demons were steadily suppressed underground, and there was no need to use human sacrifices in the middle.
"And only the bones that have the function of sealing, there is no way to lastingly suppress the demons, so every hundred years, the power of the bones will weaken or even disappear. Therefore, this master said that after a hundred years, the spirit will be exhausted, and the demons will come back. I I think, the bones have the characteristic of inheritance every hundred years, and it was set up by this master, which caused the incident of thirteen people who should be robbed in the painting every hundred years."
"It was mentioned in the later note," Zhu Haowen continued, "the place marked on the "Shan Hai Yin Jing Tu" painted by this master for his disciple is the place where the illusion of entering the painting occurs. It seems that this "Shan Hai Yin Jing Tu" "Yin Jing Tu" is actually the place covered by the whole piece of 'light' characters."
"That's right." Everyone nodded.
"That's a coincidence," Ke Xun said. "It's equivalent to the so-called 'the weakest point where yin and yang meet' in these posthumous notes. The connection happens to be the word 'light', not because the word 'light' is depressing The power of witches and witches, so the high-level talents chose this word to suppress the ghosts - is this too coincidental? It is like... For example, it is like the connection of the underground oil production sites in my country is exactly the same as the word 'oil' , how is it so coincidental that they are just one word together?"
"I think I can try to explain your question," Mu Yi looked at him. "Also, we have been unable to solve the mystery of the sequence of the four-sided rock paintings, so we have a real answer."