The stones on the cliff above the jar are very smooth, and there seems to be a small cave in the middle, but there is a Bagua mirror hanging at the entrance of the cave, and the mirror faces the inside of the cave entrance.
"You are finally in!" The old and somewhat weak voice rang again.
This time the sound was really real. It didn't just ring in my ears, but seemed to come from the hole in the upside-down Bagua mirror.
"Who are you, and why don't you come out? Didn't you say that you want to teach us how to make poison?" Dongzi heard the sound now and looked up at the hole in the middle of the cliff and asked.
"You open the third jar on the left. There is a herb dew left by the immortal aunt in it. Use the lidded bowls on the jar to take the herb dew and give it to the two of them to drink. The poison will be cured!"
The voice replied: "Don't let Baicao Dew come into contact with bad smells, otherwise it will have no effect. Now the only clean place left in Liuyun Temple is the backyard, so I have no choice but to let you all in."
"Who are you, and why don't you come out? Why should we believe you? What if you are the evil god?"
Dongzi glanced at the row of jars placed against the rock wall, then looked at Yan Na and me. Seeing that we were both hesitant to believe it, he looked at the entrance of the cave and asked.
"Oh, I'm ashamed to say it! I am the mountain god here, and I was tricked by that girl and trapped here!" The voice sighed.
"Who is that girl?" Dongzi asked again.
"That girl Caixia, oh, it's all my fault for being stupid. I didn't guard this place for Fairy Liuyun, so I let that girl take advantage of the loophole and cost so many lives!" replied the voice claiming to be the Mountain God.
Hearing what he said, the few of us looked at each other and looked at you, and we couldn't digest it for a moment.
If the person trapped in the cave on the cliff is really a mountain god, then the person who did these things is the child that Liuyun Fairy took in back then - Caixia.
But wasn't Caixia burned to death by the villagers? Why did she come out to cause trouble again after a hundred or two hundred years?
If it is really her, then she should be a Yin spirit that has been around for a hundred or two hundred years. How did it cover up the Yin evil spirit in her body?
If you don’t think too much, why don’t you just ask the man on the rock wall.
"If we help you remove the Bagua mirror at the entrance of the cave, can you escape?" I asked, looking at the entrance of the cave on the cliff.
"This is a Fuxi Bagua Mirror. It was left here by Fairy Liuyun back then so that I could use it to trap that girl Caixia. I'm afraid it won't be that easy to take down.
Girls, if you are really serious, then help me try it. No matter whether I can remove it or not, I will be grateful!" the mountain god replied to me.
"I'll go up and get it!" Dongzi said, gently placing the old mayor on the ground and lying flat on his back.
I nodded and walked straight to the third jar mentioned by the mountain god, intending to use the herbal dew inside to detoxify the old mayor and Yan Erzhu.
Fortunately, Yan Erzhu was young and vigorous. After being poisoned for such a long time, the two yang fires on the old mayor's shoulders had become significantly weaker, and his breathing became increasingly rapid.
"Hu Ling, do you want us to wait until he comes out and then detoxify the old mayor? What if he is the evil god?"
Dongzi was about to jump up to get the Bagua mirror. When she saw my movement, she stopped and asked me a little worriedly.
"It's okay, he won't be that evil god."
I shook my head and said: "If the evil god is really trapped in the cave by this Bagua Mirror and cannot do so many bad things, you should be careful. The Bagua Mirror should not be taken off so easily."
"I understand!" Dongzi nodded and jumped towards the hole on the cliff.
I lowered my head and opened the lid of the jar.
The jar is filled with mostly turquoise water, like jade, and a fragrance of herbal medicine overflows from the jar, which makes people feel refreshed when they smell it.
I carefully poured the water from the jar into the lid, carried it over, helped the old mayor sit up, and fed him the potion to drink.
The two sun-fires on the shoulders of the old mayor obviously became brighter again.
After a while, the old mayor let out a long breath and said, "I thought I was really going to hand over my life here today. Miss Hu Ling, thank you!"
As he spoke, the old mayor had already sat upright.
I smiled, poured another bowl of potion, and fed Yan Erzhu to drink it.
Yan Erzhu also recovered quickly and regained his strength within a moment.
"Hu Ling, this mirror can't be removed. It seems to be welded to the entrance of the cave. What should I do? Should I just use the Mountain Moving Technique to destroy this mirror?" Dongzi inserted the dagger into the crack of the rock as a fulcrum.
, asked me while sticking to the cliff.
"You cannot destroy this mirror. If the mirror is destroyed, the mountain god inside will also be destroyed along with the spirit god!"
I said to Dongzi: "You come down first, and I'll go up and try it!"
"Did you climb up so high?" Dongzi asked me.
I also doubted my ability.
I rolled my eyes at Dongzi and said, "You come down first and then talk."
"Okay!" Dongzi took off the dagger and jumped down from above.
I stared at the cliff. It was almost a flat cliff with no vines or weeds growing on it. It was almost impossible to use anything except a dagger.
The entrance to the cave is a bit high. Like Dongzi, I definitely won't be able to jump that high, but I can try to use my strength like Dongzi to insert the dagger into the crevices of the rocks, and then climb up little by little.
After spotting a few rock gaps, I started to climb up the cliff step by step.
Of course, the movements and postures are not as cool and beautiful as Dongzi's, but at any rate, every step has steadily found the focus.
When I climbed to the entrance of the cave, I heard Dongzi and Yan Na, the four of them, were nervous and didn't dare to come out.
I looked carefully at the Bagua mirror and found that it was not hanging at the entrance of the cave, but floating at the entrance.
"Grandpa Mountain God, are you sure this is a Fuxi Bagua mirror?" I asked, looking into the cave entrance.
The reason why I ask this is because I remember a passage in the "Shengyuan Heavenly Book" about the instructions for using the Fuxi Bagua Mirror. At that time, I thought that I had never even seen what the Fuxi Bagua Mirror looked like, and I didn't deliberately memorize it.
After reading it twice, I turned it over.
I didn't expect that it would come in handy in this place today.
"I'm sure." The mountain god answered me: "Xiangu Liuyun said when she left this Bagua mirror to me, this mirror was left to her by her grandfather Ji Que."
After receiving the mountain god's affirmative answer, I had an idea in my mind. I closed my eyes and tried to recall the few formulas I had read.
After a while, I opened my eyes, recited the mantra silently, stretched out my hand towards the Fuxi Bagua Mirror, and the void gently closed.
I thought it was useful, but who knew that the Bagua Mirror was still floating in the same place out of thin air, motionless.