Yuan Anning was injured and had difficulty getting up, so Nanfeng helped her up. He originally wanted to help her over, but after Yuan Anning got up, she raised her hand to avoid him.
Nan Feng curled his lips and followed Yuan An Ning towards the stone bench.
When he got closer to the stone table, Yuan Anning lowered his head and looked at the stone table, "It is indeed the Nine Palaces Magic Square derived from the Luoshu River Diagram."
"Are you sure?" Nanfeng asked.
Yuan Anning nodded, "It's not very difficult."
Nan Feng did not accompany Yuan An Ning to look at the river map. Instead, he walked to the left corner and inspected Ba Ye's armpit. This guy had been pecking at a spot under his left wing. He might have suffered from frostbite.
"Did the Taoist who lived here before want us to get the Book of Heaven, or did he not mean to let us get the Book of Heaven?" Although Yuan Anning was talking, he was looking at the Luoshu River map on the stone table.
"Why do you ask?" Nanfeng asked casually. After checking, he found that Ba Ye was not frostbitten, but bitten by a tick. It was such a big tick and it had already sucked its blood. You can't pull this thing out by force, you can only pinch it. Break its blood sac. Once the blood sac is broken, it will die soon.
"If he has no intention of letting us get the Heavenly Book, even if we crack the mechanism, our efforts will be in vain in the end." Yuan Anning pushed the grid on the stone table, "In addition, whether he wants the Heavenly Book to be obtained by others will also affect the organization here. The level of danger.”
Nanfeng wiped the blood on his hands on his clothes. He had never thought about the issue Yuan Anning said before. He needed to think about it temporarily. After thinking for a moment, he said, "The nine Taoists belong to three sects, some are male and some are female." , with different temperaments, but without exception they left all the Heavenly Books in their original places. This should not be a coincidence, but someone ordered or instructed them to do so. The purpose is naturally so that someone can obtain the Heavenly Books and return to them again. Use them."
Yuan Anning nodded.
Nanfeng added, "In addition, some of those heavenly books are easily accessible, and some are very difficult. Whether it is difficult or easy depends on the temperament of the Taoists who promoted them. Different temperaments have different styles of doing things, but I feel that, They should still hope that someone can get it. To say the least, even if they don't want others to get it, they will not put the Book of Heaven in a place where no one can get it, otherwise it will be no different from destroying the Book of Heaven."
"It makes sense." As Yuan Anning spoke, the movements of his hands did not stop, and he kept pushing the stone slabs on the stone table quickly.
"There is another possibility." Nanfeng said again.
Yuan Anning tilted his head when he heard the sound. Just as Nan Feng was about to answer, Ba Ye flashed his right wing again and cooed at Nan Feng.
Nanfeng moved to the right side of the Eighth Master, parted the feathers and searched carefully, and found another tick. He pinched it with his fingers and said, "Maybe the heavenly book hidden here is more important than the other heavenly books. The Taoist back then was afraid that it would fall into the sky." In the hands of others outside the Taoist sect, that’s why we set up the Nine Palaces and other traps that only Taoists can unlock.”
Yuan Anning didn't answer this time, because the Nine Palaces mechanism in front of him alone was not enough to verify Nanfeng's inference.
"Is there any more?" Nanfeng asked Ba Ye.
Ba Ye fluttered his feathers and cooed twice to indicate that there was no more.
"Stop digging in the grass from now on," Nanfeng stood up and walked to the stone table, "How's it going?"
"Seventeen squares gone, there are still thirty-two steps left." Yuan Anning pushed the stone slab very quickly, seemingly without thinking at all.
"Can you look forward fifty steps?" Nan Feng was surprised.
"No, this mechanism has rules to follow." Yuan Anning explained while pushing the stone slab.
Of course he understood what Yuan Anning said about the Qian Kun Zhen Xun Nan Feng, but when it came to the longitude and latitude corresponding to the parallel up and down, he became confused and stopped listening. He began to count in his mind the number of times Yuan An Ning pushed the stone slab.
Just as Yuan Anning said, after thirty-one steps, the Nine Palace Grid is almost completed, and it can be completely completed by simply moving the top stone slab downwards.
After reaching the last step, Yuan Anning stopped and turned to look at Nanfeng.
Nan Feng nodded.
Yuan Anning then returned the last stone slab to its place.
The moment the stone slab returned to its place, a stone slab popped up from the empty space and completely covered several sides. The stone table immediately sank slowly. When it fell to the ground level, a slight vibration came from the ground, and together with it, There was also the dull sound of stone slabs rubbing against each other.
With a slight vibration and a dull sound, the two long stone slabs on the ground folded downwards at the same time, revealing a passage leading underground.
The passage leads from south to north, from high to low, and leads to the underground. There are seventy or eighty steps. At the end of the steps, there is also a square stone chamber, and in the stone chamber there is also a stone table similar to the one here.
If there is a way, just go. That is called not choosing the way. Being impatient will lead to disadvantages. Even if a passage appeared, the two of them did not rush to enter. Instead, they looked from the outside of the passage inward. Nanfeng didn't know what Yuan Anning was looking at. He didn't know what he was looking at. Are there any mechanisms hidden on the stone walls on both sides? Upon closer inspection, I feel that there should be no mechanisms hidden on the stone walls.
After looking at the stone walls on both sides, he then looked at the folded stone door. The stone door was not very thick, less than a foot. If a fat man were here, he could break it open with a hammer, and there would be no need to bother with the puzzle at all.
But when his eyes moved to the steps, he didn't think so. There was a lot of white powder piled up on both sides of these steps. If he looked closely, it was stone powder. If the steps were originally here, there should be no stone powder. The accumulation, combined with the slight vibrations from the underground, it is not difficult to find that these steps were originally deep underground. Only by completing the Nine Palaces Magic Square can they be triggered and make them rise upward. If brute force is used to break open the stone door above, look It's likely to be a huge pit.
"Wait for me for a while." Nanfeng turned to the south, pressed the button, opened the door and went out.
Master Ba also followed. After seeing Nan Feng press the yin and yang bulge, the stone door opened. He found it interesting, so he tried to peck it. Once he pecked it, the door closed.
Nanfeng was holding a stone in his arms at this time. He couldn't move his hands, so he shouted outside.
Master Ba pecked again, and the door opened.
Nanfeng ducked in and said, "Go aside and don't touch it."
After saying that, seeing that Master Ba didn't respond, he stepped up his tone and asked, "Did you hear that?"
Master Ba nodded repeatedly.
Nanfeng walked towards the entrance holding the stone, threw it away.
The stone rolled along the steps into the stone chamber below, but no mechanism appeared.
"Let's go." Yuan Anning stepped forward.
Nanfeng stretched out his hand to hold her, pointed to the yin-yang bulge next to the door and said, "There is no opening mechanism similar to this down there. If the stone door closes after we enter, wouldn't it block us inside."
Yuan Anning nodded.
The two waited for a while from above, but saw no movement, and then they felt relieved. The stone thrown by the south wind earlier probably weighed more than 200 kilograms, which was similar to the weight of a person. If it was probed, it would not be possible. Another incident occurred.
"I'll go in first, you stay outside." Nanfeng went first.
"I'll go in," Yuan Anning said before Nanfeng could. "If an accident happens, you can save me outside."
Although what Yuan Anning said made sense, it was not his style to let women explore the way, so he might as well go down with Yuan Anning.
The footing is very stable and the steps are not erratic.
After going down seven or eight steps, I suddenly felt the wind behind my head. I stepped back and looked up, only to see Master Ba pecking at the door mechanism again. Seeing Nan Feng poke his head out, Master Ba quickly tilted his head to the side, pretending to be innocent.
Nan Feng wanted to stop it, but thought for a moment and decided not to do so. This place was very closed, so Ba Ye opened the door to play just enough to get some ventilation.
By the time Nanfeng looked away, Yuan Anning had already walked down dozens of steps. Nanfeng sped up and caught up, and together with Yuan Anning came to the stone room under the steps.
There was nothing in the stone room. To be precise, there was only one thing, a stone table.
This stone table was also covered with dust. After wiping off the dust, a circular stone plate appeared. The stone plate was divided into two rings, the inner and outer rings. There were eight square vacancies in the outer ring, and eight square stone slabs in the inner ring, with inscriptions on them. There are Bagua signs.
The inner ring of the stone plate is slightly higher than the outer ring. If you reach out and touch it, the inner ring can rotate.
"Why is this so simple?" Nan Feng was puzzled. People in the Taoist sect are no strangers to the Bagua, and they also know what directions the Bagua corresponds to. All they need to do is rotate the inner circle and send the eight stone slabs to the corresponding directions. But that's all. Simple but somewhat unreasonable.
Yuan Anning frowned and looked at the stone table, but did not answer.
Not knowing what was going on, Nanfeng didn't dare to move around. He took the opportunity to look at the stone chamber where he was. The walls and top of the stone chamber were all stone walls. There was no round hole for the mechanism. The passage was still on the ground and had two rectangular door-shaped stone slabs.
"There seems to be no mechanism here." Nanfeng said.
Yuan Anning did not answer his words, but pointed to the stone and said, "The eight directions and the eight hexagrams have no other way to move except for their respective correct positions."
"Do you know the location of Bagua?" Nanfeng asked.
Yuan Anning nodded, "Zhendong, Linan, Duixi, and Kanbei."
Nanfeng waved his hands after hearing this, "No, no, you are talking about the acquired gossip. The acquired gossip only appeared after the Zhou Dynasty. Before that, it was the innate gossip, Lidong, Qiannan, Kanxi, and Kunbei."
Yuan Anning frowned and looked at Nanfeng, who nodded heavily, "I know this better than you, just listen to me."
Seeing Nanfeng's confidence, Yuan Anning did not hesitate, stretched out his hands and turned the inner circle of the disk. When Li Gua was facing the east, he pushed the stone slab to the outer circle.
After the stone slab engraved with the image of Li Gua entered the outer ring, the stone slab in the inner ring could no longer be pushed.
After a brief period of doubt, Yuan Anning pulled the Li hexagram back to the inner circle and turned it again. He tried the direction of the eight trigrams in the future. When the Zhen hexagram corresponded to the east, he sent it in and turned it again. The inner circle was still stuck.
"Let's take a rest." Nanfeng took out the water bag from the bag and squeezed it. Part of the ice cube had melted. "Here, drink some water."
Yuan Anning waved her hand but didn't take it, staring at the stone plate and frowning in thought.
"Are you sure the eight directions of the Innate Bagua are correct?" Yuan Anning asked.
"Sure." Nanfeng was very sure.
Hearing this, Yuan Anning reached out and turned the inner circle again. This time, the Qian Gua corresponded to due south. When he pushed the Qian Gua stone slab into the outer circle, the disc could continue to rotate.
Corresponding to the Kun hexagram again, the direction is true north. The Kun pattern stone slab is pushed in, and the inner circle cannot rotate again.
"There is no correspondence between heaven and earth?" Yuan Anning looked at Nanfeng in confusion. Most of the Gongshu Yaoshu recorded were mechanism spells, and not much about Yin Yang and Five Elements.
"Qiankun, Zhenxun, Duigen, and Likan correspond to each other according to the relative relationship between yin and yang." Nanfeng took a sip of ice water. "In addition to the relative relationship between yin and yang, there are also four relative images, namely the sun, lunar yin, shaoyang, and shaoyin. .”
"Aren't the four elephants Qinglong, White Tiger, Suzaku, and Xuanwu?" Yuan Anning didn't understand.
Nanfeng nodded, "That's another way of saying it. Among the four images, the southern Suzaku is the sun, the northern Xuanwu is the taiyin, the east green dragon is the shaoyang, and the west white tiger is the shaoyin. You can try again according to this combination."
Yuan Anning didn't move, and the confusion on her face showed that she didn't understand.
Nanfeng had to explain in detail, "The Bagua is divided into four yang and four yin, Qian Zhendui Li is yang, Kun Xun Genkan is yin, Suzaku in the south is the sun, and the Bagua combination is yang plus yang. Xuanwu in the north is Taiyin, and the hexagram combination It’s yin plus yin. The blue dragon in the east is shaoyang, and the hexagram combination is yin plus yang. The white tiger in the west is shaoyin, and the hexagram combination is yang plus yin, do you understand?”
What Nanfeng said was too profound, and Yuan Anning couldn't understand it immediately. He pondered for a long time before slowly nodding his head, reaching out, and moving the stone plate.
Even if you know the general method, you still need to combine the four signs of yin and yang and the innate eight trigrams to make a complicated combination and matching. This is the category of magic, so you need Yuan Anning to try the combination.
Nanfeng couldn't help, so he ran back to the stone room above to get the bundle. When he went up, he saw the stone door was half open, snowflakes were drifting in, and Ba Ye squatted in the southwest corner with his eyes narrowed.
Seeing that the stone door was half open, Nanfeng went over and pressed the yin and yang bulge. He pressed it twice, but there was no response, which made Ba Ye spoiled it.
"Look at the good things you have done." Nan Feng looked at Master Ba.
Ba Ye opened his left eye, glanced at it, and quickly closed it.
Just as Nanfeng was about to go over and fiddle with it, he heard a strange noise coming from below. He ran over quickly and saw that the two stone doors of the stone room below were folding downwards.
"I'm going to go down and do some serious business. Just stay here and freeze..."