So everyone simply left, and after eating, drinking, sleeping, and waiting for the sunset to fill the sky and the clouds and fire billowing, they entered the forest again and came to the bank of the cold pond where they stayed during the day.
Just waiting for the last ray of afterglow to fall in the sky.
Dusk covered the sky, and when night fell, they felt that the warmth by the pool was gone. From the pool, the cold air rose up in bursts, as if even the air was about to freeze into ice.
The clear water in the pond solidified into ice in the blink of an eye. Even if you threw the torch onto the ice, it would not melt, which shows how cold it is.
Xia Yuanqiu said: "Qian's Yin Shui, when it comes to winter, Qian is the first of the sixty-four hexagrams. It should mean walking sixty-four steps by the Yin Shui."
Baili Changfeng answered: "The winter solstice is the hour. This year's winter solstice is on the seventh day of the tenth lunar month, at three o'clock in the morning."
Xia Yuanqiu nodded: "Yes, the third quarter of Chenshi is when the sun rises in the east. Walk forty-five steps in the east direction."
Yuan Hao was puzzled: "Why forty-five steps?"
Xia Yuanqiu explained: "At three quarters, there are fifteen breaths in one quarter, and three quarters is forty-five breaths."
Now not only Yuan Hao didn't understand, but everyone except herself didn't understand what fifteen breaths per moment meant. No one seems to understand this algorithm.
Xia Yuanqiu actually wanted to say that one quarter is fifteen minutes, but if he said fifteen minutes, they would be even more confused.
She didn't know why she calculated it this way, but she subconsciously felt it was right.
She coughed twice in embarrassment and changed the subject: "Now that we know how to go, let's get started!"
Led by Xia Yuanqiu and Zhu Yan, Baili Changfeng Xia Yuanhao and Yun Xiangtian followed, counting the steps along the way and walked a total of sixty-four steps.
Stopping at sixty-four steps, the shadows of the woods that were still dimly reflected in the light of the torch were instantly covered by thick fog. It would not be an exaggeration to describe it as being unable to see even one's fingers.
If Xia Yuanqiu and Zhu Yan weren't holding hands, they wouldn't even be able to see the people around them clearly.
Xia Yuanqiu shouted: "Everyone lined up like a train and no one was allowed to let go."
Yuan Hao, who was following her, asked again: "Sister, what is a train shape?"
Xia Yuanqiu secretly cursed himself for speaking quickly and said quickly: "Sister, I said it wrong. I meant we were lining up like a long queue, walking hand in hand and walking forward step by step. We must not let go halfway until we reach the next destination."
Everyone responded, with Zhu Yan as the leader, Xia Yuanqiu behind him, Xia Yuanhao holding Xia Yuanqiu's hand, Baili Changfeng holding Xia Yuanhao's hand, and Yun Xiangtian holding Baili Changfeng's hand.
He couldn't see left or right, so Zhu Yan simply closed his eyes, found the east direction based on experience, and took forty-five steps according to Xia Yuanqiu's order.
When Zhu Yan stopped at the forty-fifth step, the thick fog dissipated again, and the clear sky returned to everyone's eyes. They walked from a dense forest to a green and fragrant grassland in only forty-five steps.
And in this grassland, right in front of them, there was a very huge tree.
The appearance of the big tree is very strange. The trunk is twisted and twisted, and the branches are intertwined. Looking up from the bottom of the tree, it looks like a giant dragon rising up.
Xia Yuanqiu was surprised: "The flying dragon is in the sky?"
Only then did everyone come back to their senses, thinking that in the article Xia Yuan had read before, there was a word about flying dragons in the sky, which seemed to be related to this giant tree.
Baili Changfeng said: "The flying dragon is in the sky, or it is leaping in the abyss. Since there is a flying dragon, what is the meaning of flying in the abyss?"
Xia Yuanqiu said: "Or leaping in the abyss means that the dragon can move freely in the water abyss on the ground, but for us, it may have another meaning."