Ruyi was a little confused: "Did I think wrongly? This mechanism has nothing to do with the art of the five elements?"
"I feel that there is still a connection, otherwise the installer would not have to get five crystals of different colors. Wouldn't it save more effort to make them all the same? Perhaps, in addition to the art of the five elements, this mechanism also corresponds to another
A theory." Qin Xiao speculated.
"What are your thoughts?" Ruyi asked.
"You are also a person who has practiced cultivation. You must know more about such things than me. I just feel that the setting of the village seems to be contrary to nature. I have probably heard of the Four Elephants, which are green dragons and white tigers.
Suzaku Xuanwu is used to represent southeast, northwest, wood, wind, fire, and water. So if we follow the theory of the Four Symbols, the east village should be wood, the west village should be wind, the south village should be fire, and the north village should be water."
Qin Xiao paused and then said: "But you must have also discovered that the four symbols are water, fire, wood and wind, but in the theory of the five elements, they are metal, wood, water, fire and earth. The four symbols lack earth and metal, and have an extra wind.
It doesn’t seem to fit perfectly.”
Ruyi quickly combined these symbols and horoscopes in her mind, and she asked: "What do the four zodiac signs refer to in the earliest times?"
Qin smiled and said: "Of course it is the stars. The ancients transformed the seven stars in each direction into four animals."
"Yes, because it was the first star to refer to, there is more wind but no metal and earth, because the stars are not grounded. But we can consider the affairs of the four villages based on the comparison of the four directions... Wind and metal and wood, let's leave it for now
No matter, let's consider the correspondences in the other three directions first. Let me see..." Ruyi took out the green piece from the spar and inserted it into the groove of the dry well to the east.
Qin Xiao placed the red spar and the blue spar into the south and north grooves respectively.
Only west and middle are left.
"How should I place the gold crystals next?" Qin Xiao asked, "The setter always places them according to a certain rule."
Ruyi directly took the yellow spar and inserted it into the middle well, and the ocher spar was placed in the west groove.
Qin smiled and said, "You figured it out so quickly?"
Ruyi turned her head and smiled mysteriously: "This is a woman's intuition. In fact, it doesn't matter even if you are wrong. There will be no punishment. At worst, you can let it go again."
Qin Xiao felt a little headache and thought that this girl's way of doing things was really completely different from that of a man.
After all the crystals were placed, the well in the middle did not make a "ding-ding" sound.
Ruyi said: "How come there is no sound at all... Is there something wrong with our thinking? The person who set it up didn't think so at all?"
How could she know that before she finished speaking, she suddenly heard a harsh roar from the ground, and then the ground shook, and except for the big well in the middle, all four small wells nearby exploded.
A dazzling white light jumped out from the big well, jumped into the sky, sucked in the turbulent rolling clouds in the sky, and came in the mist.
The two of them took a closer look and saw a person jumping out. The person's clothes were fluttering, his face was like a crown jewel, and his feet were on the clouds. He seemed to have a somewhat otherworldly feeling.
Somehow, the appearance of that person reminded Ruyi of his master, Yan Xuanyi. However, although this person was refined, his aura was far inferior to that of his master.
"Who is disturbing me?" His voice was low, and it sounded in the clouds, like rolling thunder.