Ghost Blowing Lantern II

On the other hand, the bronze figure wrapped in black wood has no face at all. It is just a large copper lump that resembles a human figure. Bronze tempered with yin fire can retain its copperiness even after being underwater for thousands of years, and its green color is impressive. Muscles and bones, the countless bronze slaves we saw under the sacred tree on the seabed were all cast in lifelike shapes, but this bronze man was extremely simple, and even the texture and outline were not very clear. But the most surprising thing is that the bronze man’s whole body is It's a honeycomb-like hole filled with copper-rich black sea sand. I really can't imagine what the hell it could be.

Guchai stretched out his hand to help the bronze human figure up. He saw that the bronze statue had four arms stretched out, holding a jade plate at an incredible angle. There were several jade pillars under the plate, and there were grooves inside the pillars that could rotate. This The jade plate and jade pillar appear to be extremely exquisite. They are engraved with ancient seals of insects and fish, all of which are the numbers of Yi hexagrams. They seem to have endless mysteries. However, even though I was surprised, I couldn't see any meaning in them for a while. It looked like An ancient secret weapon for divination.

Looking inside the wooden coffin, there was nothing else. However, there was a raised copper stake hidden under the fossilized coral iron tree, which seemed to be able to fix the bronze figure on it. Fatty, Guchai and I He poked the bronze figure under the water, and saw that the bronze figure was holding the jade plate full of hexagrams in the dim water waves. The shape was indescribably weird and bizarre, and no one could tell what it was doing. It is said that it is a question of divination, but it is not the same.

I thought to myself that I had gone deep into ancient monuments and tombs many times before, and had seen many strange and strange things, but now the old revolution has encountered new problems. There are too many secrets under the coral tree. Staying here and making random guesses is not the answer. I have to go back. Let Shirley Yang help her think about it. She always thinks clearly and may be able to solve the mystery.

But I guess I couldn’t accurately describe the complicated hexagram plate to Shirley Yang, so I had to take it up together and take it apart to see what happened. So I made a gesture, and the three of them, Fatty and Guchai, floated out of the water holding the bronze figure. Shirley Yang and Ming Uncle, Duoling and others had been waiting impatiently on the coral reef above. When they saw us dragging a strange-shaped bronze man out of the water, they all hurried over to help.

Everyone dragged the bronze statue and hexagram plate ashore, took a breath, and recounted what they saw and encountered underwater. When they got to the important point, Uncle Ming and others' faces changed color. How could there be so many "storks" underwater? fish"? Fortunately, the ancestor had blessed me. If I hadn't taken those stillborn babies into the water, I'm afraid they would have been dead by now.

Finally, I mentioned that there is a coral iron tree fossil at the bottom of the water. It is not much smaller than the largest one in the coral spiral. It is stuck in a boulder that looks like an ancient tripod. It is surrounded by several copper tripods. Deeper there are also water-absorbing ones. The cave is filled with swirling water and only fish and dragons can enter. People are not fish, so there is no way to see what is inside.

Uncle Ming couldn't help but feel frustrated when he heard that we couldn't find a way to survive under the water. He sighed and said that it seems that whatever we wear and eat in this life is destined. Success never comes back. Although I have gained so many "green heads", in the end, it is just a flower in the mirror. It is just a dream. If I had known this, it would be better to go back to Hong Kong. Although I am bankrupt and have no money, I still live on the streets. A stall selling mixed noodles, at least I can have a stable meal.

The fat man suddenly discovered that the gold watch he fished out from the Mariesian Nu was missing. The fat man valued real gold and silver the most and kept it on his wrist. He wondered if he had just dropped it in the Shenmu Tunnel in the dark. He felt lost. After getting the gold watch, I couldn't help but feel very bad. After hearing Uncle Ming's depressing remarks, I became even more angry and immediately scolded: "Fuck your mother's bitch. After we go back, you won't have any of your green hair." Anyway, Uncle Ming, you have looked away. In the future, you can just sell your noodles..."

I advised them: "Forget it, now is not the time to regret and lament the fate of people. What we do is not so much about making a living by crafts. In fact, it is all nonsense. I think it is life-threatening. How risky is it for us?" It was clear before I came that if I dared to come, I would have already made up my mind to put my head in my belt, but when the sacrifice is not critical, we must not sacrifice lightly."

At this time, Shirley Yang looked over the bronze man's hexagram plate carefully and asked: "Old Hu, do you know what this is for?"

I shook my head and said: "It's hard to say, it seems to be a secret weapon for divination and hexagrams. But from what I see under the water, it does look a bit like an ancient mechanism. If the records on the Nine-legged Cauldron are correct, the ancients would definitely regard it as The matter behind my death is so big that I have tried my best to arrange a secret path to the moon after death to seek immortality. However, it has been too long and has been corroded in the water. We can't find some important clues. Moreover, I can't imagine it. I can’t tell what the function of this hexagram disk is. There are no signs of Zhen hexagrams on it. They are all empty hexagram eyes, densely packed with hundreds of them, and there are no most important hexagrams at all..."

When Shirley Yang heard this, she suddenly looked up at me and said, "What did you just say?" I was startled and replied, "There is no most important hexagram on the hexagram plate... Why?"

Shirley Yang turned the axis under the jade plate, and the symbols representing the hexagram numbers on the plate changed: "You got to the point. There is no hexagram symbol, but I found that the hexagram plate image is a password lock. You need to adjust the password accurately. , the hexagrams will be revealed. Perhaps only by fully displaying the hexagrams, the bronze figure can activate the hidden mechanism under the water."

As I patted my head, I became more and more confused. Why couldn't I think of something that seemed obvious? However, I turned the hexagram disk in my hand a few times, but I ran into trouble again. If it was a password lock, what would the password be? Although I can see that the rotatable pillars at the bottom of the hexagram disk are all coded according to the "three styles", but these "three styles" are the general name of "Taiyi", "Qimen" and "Liuren". It is the highest level prediction machine in the Book of Changes. Its composition principles are taken from the Heavenly Stems, Earthly Branches, Hetu, Luoshu, Bagua, and Xiangshu. After all, they all come from the "Yi". This set of machines was used in the Zhou and Qin Dynasties. It was called "Yin Fu" during the Han and Wei dynasties, and it was called "Liujia" during the Han and Wei dynasties. There are endless changes. If Zhang Yingchuan were here, maybe he could decipher the secrets, but I can't figure it out at all. Shirley Yang doesn't know these mechanisms. No matter how difficult the math is, I thought I could unlock this so-called "code lock".

Seeing that I was staring at nothing, Shirley Yang advised me: "Don't worry, think about it carefully. Many of Hentian's burial vessels have the marks of the Zhen Gua, and the underwater cauldron also corresponds to the Zhen Gua. Maybe this The hexagrams on the jade plate need to correspond to this image, so you first think about how to make the hexagrams that shake the hexagrams appear in the hexagram plate."

My mind was in chaos, but after she calmly enlightened me with a few words, I actually became more awake. Shirley Yang inherited the bloodline of prophets and saints in her family, and she has some indescribable keen intuition about the things she faces. , although it cannot be said that she can predict like a prophet, but she can often find the key points in the mess of clues.

When I heard what she said, I seemed to have thought of something. I quickly told everyone to be silent and silently recited the general secret in "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique": "The numbers are divided into pieces, and the magic is hidden in the ghosts." ..." He lowered his head to play with the ancient jade hexagram disk. There were densely packed symbols on the rotating shaft, criss-crossing them. They were based on various symbolic things in "time" and "space". The holographic symbols deduced are the so-called "machine numbers". ".

Various symbols representing the chaos and disorder of "time" and "space" can be deduced and synthesized into different "times and spaces" through organic arrangement and organization, which are "hexagrams" generated by "machine numbers" , a established "hexagram" must at least include the numbers of "heaven, earth, people, ghosts, gods..." The most difficult to figure out is the "god" in the numbers, which represents the secrets in the world. A mysterious force that can influence success or failure. Most of these hexagrams have been lost now. The sixteen characters in the half of the "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" left to me by my grandfather are exactly the sixteen innate hexagrams. The symbols of each machine number, the "Yi" Tao passed down to the world today, are not as detailed and exquisite as the ancient method. From this point of view alone, this jade plate full of hexagram numbers is a priceless treasure.

An expert in "Yi" who like Zhang Yingchuan is unpredictable, but due to his limited energy and mental capacity, the number of opportunities is often exhausted. However, I held the jade plate in my hand and found that the "opportunities" generated in the plate were endless. "Numbers" seem to be endless. The hexagram numbers deduced by King Wen of Zhou from candles and turtle divination can generate all phenomena in the world. Even modern electronic computers may not be able to calculate them.

Fortunately, I already know that the required "hexagram" is "shock up and shock down", so I only need to find a way to deduce it in reverse. Otherwise, in the "three formulas" as complicated as "the cosmic algebra of Tai Chi biochemistry", Even if a few of us thought about it very hard, we couldn't deduce any "hexagrams".

Uncle Ming looked on and didn't dare to express his anger, but after a long time, seeing that I still had no results, he couldn't help but asked: "I said Hu Zai, it's fine if you can't do it, but don't use too much force." I went too far and ruined this jade plate. I think if this thing was auctioned in Hong Kong, it might fetch a sky-high price of hundreds of millions..."

As soon as I had an idea, I was interrupted by Uncle Ming. I couldn't help but get angry for no reason, and asked the fat man to press Uncle Ming's mouth. He really messed with me at the critical moment. I scratched my head and cheeks, and I couldn't remember what I just said. I had no idea, so I had to discuss a few words with Shirley Yang. If the language of numbers in "Yi" does not come out of thin air, but comes from the machine numbers, then it "shocked up and down, and shocked hundreds of miles." , indicating that the "Zhen Gua" implies the number "hundred", but how can this be deduced? If we can really deduce the number from the word "hundred", it would be a dream for us. Otherwise, if there are no numbers in the hexagrams such as "Benefiting from Dachuan" or "Tong Ren Yu Ye", although we know that these are all derived from It was born by deducing the chance, but we don’t know where the chance is at all. Moreover, each hexagram is like a different time and space. It is a relatively closed and independent system. We only know how to deduce a hexagram, but we cannot derive it by drawing inferences. Another hexagram.

I told Shirley Yang that this idea is indeed feasible. For example, "Three heavens and two earths rely on numbers." Three is three, the number of heavens is five, and the number of earth is five. "Three" and "two" just make "five". Only then did we get the number of heaven and earth, and three is an odd number, representing yang, and two is an even number, representing yin. The number "three" is the combination of one and two, and there is even among the odd. The number two is the combination of one and one, and there is odd among the even. It is in line with the principle of Yin and Yang relying on the sky, so it is similar to the saying "Three heavens and two earths rely on the numbers". The meaning is so profound that almost every word has a mystery, and it may all be derived from tortoise divination.

Shirley Yang Xi said: "Don't you say it very well? Since you understand this principle, why not quickly deduce the hexagrams on the jade plate? We can only come up with a solution after reading it." I said helplessly: "The idea is roughly That’s right, but it’s still difficult to reach the blue sky. The three heavens and two places rely on numbers to explain. I happened to hear Zhang Yingchuan once say that it would kill me to deduce the Zhen Gua by myself. You must know that these things start over and over again. How can ordinary people understand the opportunity of resurrection if they don’t get the guidance from the true teachings of the masters and have put in decades of Zen practice in the Book of Changes? I’m sorry for the people and the party, I’m afraid this time I also feel sorry for you. Although this hexagram disk is wonderful, it still needs an expert who can adapt to its changes and use it. In my hands... it is useless at all. If I had known I would have studied hard at the beginning. , it's too late to regret now." As soon as I finished speaking, Guchai, who had been watching from the side, took a step forward and said to everyone unconfidently: "The earthquakes up and down are probably from the innate hexagram... one yang and two yin. The fourth hexagram?”

Although "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" is called "Sixteen-Character", it should be more accurately said to be sixteen chapters. Each chapter is represented by a character, totaling sixteen characters, so it is called Sixteen-Character. These sixteen The characters are "Heaven, Earth, Human, Ghost, God, Buddha, Demon, Animal, Deterrence, Zhen, Escape, Object, Transformation, Yin, Yang, and Void". Each "character" is a special symbol. , in ancient hexagrams, symbolizes "time, space, matter, and life". When combined, they will produce specific "hexagrams" from which good and bad fortunes, past and future can be interpreted.

This ancient book mainly records Yin and Yang Feng Shui. It can be said to be all-encompassing. It not only covers Feng Shui and Yin Yang, but also covers a large number of ancient tombs of various dynasties and generations because it was written by a master who touched gold. The description of the shape, structure, and layout, and its principles all come from the Sixteen Innate Hexagrams performed by King Wen of Zhou Dynasty. The jade hexagram plate under the coral iron tree under the water is exactly a piece of work that uses various mechanisms such as "time, space, and matter." Let’s infer the “divination” of the “hexagrams”.

The discovery of an ancient artifact in China caused a sensation at that time. The secret bronze artifact "Taiyi Jiugong Pan" unearthed from Shuanggudui, Buyang County, Anhui Province. Many people have speculated on its function. In fact, it is an ancient hexagram machine. Precision instruments for numbers. (To be continued. If you want to know what happened, please log in. There are more chapters. Support the author and genuine reading!)