Worried about being scolded, Master Ba continued to pretend to be asleep. Nanfeng ignored him and quickly returned to the stone room below with his baggage.
At this time, the stone door has been opened, and the tunnel appears again. Looking down, it is still the same steps, the same stone chamber, and the same stone table.
"Why is there still more?" Nanfeng shook his head helplessly.
The previous hard thinking took a long time. Yuan Anning was a little tired and walked to the corner and sat down. "These mechanisms are not dangerous. Even if the calculation is wrong, it will not cause any adverse consequences. It is just that you are not allowed to move forward."
Nanfeng nodded. What Yuan Anning said was true. Except for the arrow trap when entering the door, there were no more injurious traps in the stone room. The previous two traps were not so much traps as they were attacks on the two of them. A test of mind and Taoist knowledge.
The stone thrown down before was still there. Nanfeng picked it up again and threw it down.
"Are you sure?" Nanfeng walked to Yuan Anning's right side and sat down. Yuan Anning had refused his support before, and he would not approach Yuan Anning unless necessary.
Yuan Anning shook his head, "If these institutions are testing magic skills, then I am somewhat sure, but they are aimed at Yin and Yang Yishu, which I am not proficient in."
"The Taoist who lived here might be worried that the things he left behind would fall into the hands of people outside the Taoist sect," Nanfeng said.
Yuan Anning didn't answer any more, leaned against the stone wall and closed his eyes.
Nanfeng didn't say anything anymore, but took out the rune-drawing room from the bag. A half-baked Taoist priest was also a Taoist priest. If he was a Taoist priest, he had to draw and write charms, and he had to carry all the household utensils with him.
After writing for a short time, Nanfeng stood up and walked towards Yuan Anning.
Yuan Anning felt it and opened his eyes.
Nanfeng handed over the talisman paper with the writing on it, "Here you go."
Yuan Anning glanced at Nanfeng in confusion, then reached out to take the talisman. After taking a look at it, he became even more confused, "What talisman is this?"
"This is not a talisman, this is a volume of heavenly book," Nanfeng returned to the original place to tidy up the rune room. "The heavenly book is divided into nine volumes, each engraved on nine pieces of tortoise shell. This is one of them."
Yuan Anning was stunned when he heard this. He looked at the talisman paper with the writing on it, and then at Nanfeng, "This... this..."
Nan Feng packed up his things without looking up, "The characters in the Book of Heaven are ancient characters, they should be oracle bone inscriptions. I don't recognize them either. I memorized them by rote. The number of characters on each piece of tortoise shell is different. This is what I'm giving you." It’s not the one with the most words, but it’s not the one with the fewest either.”
"There is no merit..."
It wasn't Nanfeng who interrupted Yuan Anning's words, but Yuan Anning himself hadn't finished speaking. After waiting for a while, Yuan Anning didn't say anything, Nanfeng said, "I promised you that I have to give it to you sooner or later. I'll give it to you early, so as not to You’re distracted.”
"How could it be?" Yuan Anning whispered.
"Put it away and wait until you get out." Nanfeng took out the water bag again and asked, "Are you thirsty?"
Yuan Anning shook his head, looked at the talisman carefully, folded it carefully, took out a porcelain bottle from the bag, poured out the pills, put the talisman in, covered it with a cork, and placed it close to his body.
"Thank you." Yuan Anning thanked him.
"You're welcome." Nanfeng waved his hand.
A long silence followed. Nanfeng didn't drink any water. He put the water bag back into his bag and sat in silence.
It was obvious that Yuan Anning wanted to speak, but also that she didn't know how to speak.
Nanfeng could guess what Yuan Anning was thinking, not to mention whether she could get the Heavenly Book here was still in doubt. Even if she could get the Heavenly Book here, in Yuan Anning's view, she had no reason to get a copy of it. Heaven's Book, as he said before, she owed him a favor and came here to repay the favor. Before the favor was repaid, she asked for a large gift. It was unjustifiable both emotionally and rationally, but she really wanted it. As a result, in addition to the conflict and entanglement in my heart, I should also feel a lot of shame.
Even if he knew what Yuan Anning was thinking, Nanfeng did not give him any comfort. It was not because he was reluctant to share the Heavenly Book with Yuan Anning, nor because Yuan Anning's help to him was not enough in exchange for the Turtle Shell Heavenly Book, but because of a very important reason. The simple reason was that Yuan Anning had refused his support before, which made him feel very dissatisfied.
After a while, Yuan Anning stood up and said, "Let's go down and take a look."
Nanfeng nodded, stood up first, and walked down the steps, "You are injured, walk slower."
When Yuan Anning was halfway down, the south wind had already reached the stone chamber and wiped away the dust on the stone table. There was also a disk on the stone table, but unlike the two-ring disk in the stone chamber above, this disk had five rings in total. , the inner ring is Yin and Yang, the second ring is the Five Elements, the third ring is the Bagua, the fourth ring is the Heavenly Stems, and the fifth ring is the Earthly Branches.
When you reach out and push, each link can move as a whole.
It was confirmed that it could be moved as a whole. Nanfeng secretly breathed a sigh of relief. This five-ring stone plate seemed extremely complicated, but in fact it was very simple. To be precise, it was not simple, but someone had sorted it out before. Not only had it been sorted, but also by This created the compass.
"The pattern of this disk is similar to that of a compass." Later Yuan Anning also saw the clues.
"Can you understand these words?" Nanfeng asked. In addition to the graphics and hexagrams, there are also some tripod inscriptions on the disk.
"I can make a rough guess." Yuan Anning nodded after looking at it. The tripod text was very different from the current text, but knowing the general scope and possible content, he could still distinguish it.
"Try." Nanfeng walked elsewhere. There were no hidden mechanisms here, and the passage was still below the ground.
The compass is also useful in Gongshu Momen. Nanfeng thought that Yuan Anning could adjust the correspondence very easily, but he never thought that after turning around, Yuan Anning was still turning. After looking at it for a moment, he realized that one of the five elements in the second ring corresponds to one. After the yin and yang ring, the range of activity of the third ring Bagua is only half of the original. After one of the three rings matches the second ring, the range of activity of the fourth ring Tiangan is reduced by half again.
"This thing is somewhat similar to the situation in the stone chamber at the top." Nanfeng said.
Yuan Anning nodded, "The principle is the same, but more complicated."
"Don't be anxious, take your time, I'll go up and take a look first." Nanfeng said.
Returning to the stone room above, I found Master Ba squatting in the corner. This guy has fur on his body. As long as it's not very cold, he won't be afraid of a little wind.
Nanfeng walked out of the stone room and observed the situation outside. It was freezing and snowy outside, and the scenery ten steps away looked blurry. No one would come in such bad weather.
"Gugu." Master Ba wanted to go down with Nanfeng.
"You are not allowed to go down, stay here, watch the door, watch the door." Nanfeng pointed to the half-open stone door.
Master Ba looked at Nanfeng, then turned to look at Shimen, and then stepped back.
Nanfeng thought for a moment, then went out and brought back a big stone, placing it at the entrance of the passage. "If you see someone, push it down. Push it, push it. Yes, if you see someone, push it down."
After making sure that Master Ba understood his intention, Nanfeng went down to the stone room where Yuan Anning was.
Yuan Anning's regular response was not smooth, and he was standing next to the stone table with his eyes closed.
Nanfeng went over and took a look, and found that the entire stone plate was still in disarray. As the saying goes, one move affects the whole body. This thing is either all right or all wrong, and there will be no phased progress.
"It's difficult?" Nanfeng asked.
Yuan Anning opened his eyes when he heard the sound and shook his head, "It's not difficult, it's just very complicated."
"Will learning the key skills of public transmission be helpful in promoting research on correspondence?" Nanfeng asked again.
"Yes." Yuan Anning nodded again, "If he hadn't obtained the Gongshu Essential Technique, it would have taken at least three years to align all the five rings. The premise is that this person can calm down. If his mind is confused, he has already thought about it before. The clue will be cut off immediately.”
"How long do you estimate it will take to complete it?" Nanfeng asked again. In addition to worrying that someone would come, he was also worried that Zhuge Chanjuan would become anxious if the delay was too long.
Yuan Anning thought for a while and replied, "It can take as little as two hours, or as long as three days."
"Don't be in a hurry, take your time." Nanfeng said without sincerity, but he couldn't rush Yuan Anning. This kind of thing requires extreme calmness. The more you push, the worse it will be, and the more you push, the more hairy you will get.
In order not to put more pressure on Yuan Anning, Nanfeng walked to the corner and lay down. The temperature underground was constant, which was much warmer than outside.
After waking up, he found Yuan Anning still standing beside the stone table, his brows furrowed and his face pale.
"Let's sleep for a while." Nanfeng spread out the only blanket.
Yuan Anning was exhausted mentally and physically, so he came over and lay down with his clothes on.
Nanfeng was still hesitating whether Yuan Anning should reach out to help her when she was lying down because she was injured, but she never thought that although Yuan Anning was in a state of depression, her injuries had improved greatly and she dared to lie flat on her back.
The south wind came up again. It was the fifth watch, the sky was dark, and it was still snowing outside.
Master Ba is not a competent sentinel. He must have been off duty last night, otherwise those snow rabbits would not have been caught by them by running into the stone room on their own.
Master Ba was very smart, but he was only as smart as an animal. When he saw the south wind coming up, he took the rabbits to him, not thinking at all that these prey were evidence that he had left his post.
Naturally, Nanfeng would not blame Master Ba. It would be abnormal if Master Ba fulfilled his duties. He came up first to relieve himself, and secondly to get something to eat for Mr. Ba. Now Mr. Ba took care of his own food and clothing, and returned to the ground after relieving himself.
When I had nothing to do, I sat cross-legged and meditated. After about an hour, Yuan Anning got up. Nanfeng didn't open his eyes. Hearing the movement, Yuan Anning must have gone up to relieve himself.
Not long after, there was a sound of bones coming from above. Hearing the strange noise, Nanfeng hurriedly gathered his breath and went to the sea to check. As soon as he arrived at the stone room on the second floor, he found Yuan Anning standing sideways on the steps leading to the stone room above, and Ba Ye squatting on it. At the exit, he stretched his head to look down. The stone originally placed at the exit had rolled to the second floor stone chamber.
"Are you okay?" Nanfeng looked at Yuan Anning.
Yuan Anning shook his head in confusion.
"I let it look at the door, and the person who came would push the stone down. It didn't understand my intention." Nanfeng carried the stone back to its place, and just when he was about to scold him, Master Ba came over with a shy face and said The posture of asking for credit and reward.
"Okay, very good." Nanfeng patted Mr. Ba. He originally wanted to tell him that someone was coming from outside to push the stone, but after thinking about it, he gave up, saying that Mr. Ba couldn't understand it.
"Are you blaming me?" Yuan Anning walked up, and she was sensitive to the change in Nanfeng's attitude towards her.
Nanfeng tilted his head and looked at her, but didn't answer.
"I shouldn't want your things." Yuan Anning was embarrassed.
"Where are you thinking?" Nanfeng waved his hand.
Yuan Anning hesitated to speak, hesitated several times without speaking, and walked out the door.
Nanfeng wanted to stop her and tell her that the snow outside was more than a foot deep, but he thought for a moment and said nothing. Yuan Anning was a particular person, and she would definitely not relieve herself in a stone room even if it was freezing outside.
In order to avoid embarrassment, Nanfeng went back underground first. Not long after, there was another crunching sound from above. This time Nanfeng didn't bother to go up and take a look.
Not long after, Yuan Anning came back and stood in front of the stone, concentrating on it.
Yuan Anning couldn't complete the puzzle within two hours, but it didn't take three days. By late afternoon, the five-ring stone plates connected and matched, the mechanism was triggered, and the stone door folded down again.
Nan Feng was impatient. He walked over and looked down before the stone door was fully opened. He felt relieved when he saw that there was no longer a stone room below, but a small cave with a large number of utensils inside. In addition to tables and tables, there were also incense tables and bookshelves. There seems to be another passage on the right, but it's not clear due to the wrong angle.
This time I didn't even bother to try, so I went straight down, but the south wind suddenly stopped halfway.
"What's wrong?" Yuan Anning asked in a low voice.
Nanfeng stretched out his hand and pointed, "Look at the lotus stone cluster on the ground."
Yuan Anning followed the direction pointed by Nanfeng and looked down, "Why are there fresh blood stains..."