I saw Baguio solemnly kowtow three times with a pious face, then stood up and glanced at Zhang Xiaofan, only to see him looking away, standing there motionless, frowning, but not saying anything. , said calmly: "Let's go!"
When Zhang Xiaofan walked in with her in the tunnel, he had a certain fondness for this woman in his heart, but now when he saw these two evil gods, he immediately remembered the difference between the sects and the teacher he had taught him since he was a child. After receiving the instruction, his expression naturally turned cold, he nodded slightly and said: "Okay."
Baguio glanced at him and walked deeper. Zhang Xiaofan followed her. This time she didn't go far and entered a spacious place. But this place was not decorated like the stone room outside. Instead, it was a cave with stalactites hanging upside down and weird rocks. The stalactites in the cave were all kinds of strange and colorful. In front of the two of them, there was a huge monument standing at the entrance of the cave, with ten big characters engraved on it: Heaven and Earth are unkind. , treating all things as stupid dogs!
Each of these ten characters is almost half the size of a human being. The writing style is ancient and clumsy, and the writing style is vigorous. It goes straight like a dragon or a snake, and has the potential to come out and roar into the sky.
At first glance, Zhang Xiaofan thought it was nothing, but after staring at it for a moment, he suddenly felt dizzy and took a step back involuntarily.
He was shocked and quickly regained his composure, but saw that the word was still on the monument, motionless, but the aura was really scary.
Zhang Xiaofan was surprised. In a blink of an eye, he saw that Baguio had bypassed the giant monument and walked towards the depths of the cave, so he followed him. After bypassing the monument, he saw strange stalactites everywhere behind it. The two of them walked around in the stone forest. After a while, Baguio, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped and shouted softly.
Almost at the same time, Zhang Xiaofan suddenly noticed that the fire stick he used to fix his arm suddenly glowed with a strange light, especially the bead on the front of the fire stick, which lit up with an unusual green light. But this time But it is gentle, like meeting an old friend or acquaintance whom I haven't seen for many years, with endless longing and nostalgia.
Zhang Xiaofan looked forward in surprise, looking through Baguio's side. He saw what surprised Baguio: the bottom of the cave was a smooth stone wall, and there were tunnels on both sides of the stone wall, leading to unknown places. But under this stone wall, there is a bluestone platform, with a skeleton sitting on it, sitting there quietly.
The bead on the fire stick was facing the skeleton, glowing with a soft cyan light.
Baguio stood in front and didn't notice Zhang Xiaofan's strange expression or the change in the fire stick in his hand. After the initial fright, she quickly calmed down.
After all, she was a member of the Demon Cult, so how could she be afraid of a skeleton? She immediately stepped forward and took a closer look, but she didn't see anything surprising. She turned around and smiled at Zhang Xiaofan, "Maybe this is Where is the black-hearted old ghost who was so powerful eight hundred years ago!"
Zhang Xiaofan naturally didn't have a good impression of the people in this demon sect, so he snorted and said, "Let's look for a way out quickly, right?"
Baguio glanced at him, pursed her lips, and said, "You can find it yourself!"
Zhang Xiaofan was stunned for a moment, feeling embarrassed, snorted, turned around and walked into the tunnel on the left.
Before he had taken two steps, he secretly shook his head at himself, wondering why he could not keep his composure in the face of this demon sect woman, and reacted so violently when provoked. He was afraid that she was seeing it in her eyes at this moment, and might be ridiculing her. .
But thinking about it, once I took the step, I couldn't look back. After walking a few steps, there was no movement behind me. It seemed that Baguio hadn't followed. Zhang Xiaofan felt a little disappointed for some reason, but then he cursed secretly. He said "nothing" to himself, cheered up, and walked carefully into the depths of the tunnel. The tunnel Zhang Xiaofan was now in was no different from the road he came from outside, but it was much deeper and quieter. Looking into the depths , it was almost completely dark, and the road seemed relatively long. I really couldn’t figure out how those people from the Demon Sect’s Blood Refining Hall were able to carry out such a huge project.
After walking like this for a while, Zhang Xiaofan suddenly noticed that the front was gradually getting brighter. His heart was filled with intense heat, so he quickened his pace and walked forward. He saw a soft light coming from the end of the road ahead, which was particularly clear in the darkness, like a gentle light. Its tentacles tempt people in the world.
Zhang Xiaofan took a deep breath and stepped into the light.
Baguio watched Zhang Xiaofan's figure disappear into the tunnel. She was startled for a moment and her face darkened. Her father was a high-ranking figure in the Demon Cult. She had been like a princess since she was a child. No one dared to disobey her. to her.
Unexpectedly, in this desperate situation today, she met a young man with a bad temper in the righteous way, and she couldn't help but feel angry.
Speaking of which, Zhang Xiaofan was also a kind-hearted young man when he was in Qingyun Mountain. Why did he bump into each other when he was with Baguio? Apart from the sectarian differences, I'm afraid he himself can't explain it clearly.
Baguio naturally didn't know about these things, but Zhang Xiaofan really saw it when he had trouble with her several times. He felt uncomfortable in his heart, but since they were both in a desperate situation, it was hard to teach this kid a lesson. He could only snort and keep it in his mind, but it was absolutely impossible for Baguio to be forced to follow Zhang Xiaofan.
Almost without thinking, she turned around and walked into the tunnel on the right.
After walking a few steps, Baguio felt that this was a road similar to the tunnel outside, but there were fewer luminous things on both sides of the stone wall, making the tunnel appear a bit dim.
Fortunately, this road was not very long. Soon Baguio reached the end and once again stepped into a stone chamber.
This is a medium-sized stone room. There are many shelves on one side, and a pile of garbage on the other side. Most of them are iron tools, such as knives, swords, guns, etc., most of which are badly damaged. What is more conspicuous is that they are randomly thrown away at the top. There is an ax head, which is made of iron. It is quite huge and complete. It looks like the whole ax is made of iron.
Baguio looked at it twice and then lost interest. He turned around and walked to the shelves. After taking a closer look, his face showed a look of joy at first, but soon it changed involuntarily to a look of disappointment.
I saw labels placed one after another on the shelves. Some of the words on them had long been blurred, but there were still some words that could barely be seen clearly, but they all made people's hearts beat. They were all like: "Five Mountains Divine Halberd" , "Guanyuesuo", "Liren Cone" and other names.
Baguio grew up in the Demon Cult, and his father is a knowledgeable wizard with extensive knowledge from ancient times to the present. Naturally, he knows that these are the first-class magic weapons and secret treasures rumored by the Demon Cult. How can he not like it? It is a pity that most of them are on these shelves. There is only a label but no real object, which is nothing but joy.
She sighed, but she still felt lucky, and looked at the shelves one by one, only to see that every shelf was empty. Maybe Huangtian paid off and actually found her in the last shelf and still had it. It's a small iron box, but there's no label on the shelf, and I don't know what's inside.
Baguio felt a burst of joy in her heart, and carefully stretched out her hand to pick up the box. She felt that the hand was quite heavy, and she shook it gently a few times, but no sound was made.
Baguio pondered for a moment, then put the iron box on the ground, took a deep breath, concentrated on alert, waved his right hand, and suddenly white light flooded the stone chamber, and a jade-like flower suddenly appeared in the air, emitting a faint fragrance at the same time.
Baguio looked solemn, turned his right hand, and the little flower standing in the sky glowed brightly, flying to the top of the iron box, and the white light enveloped the entire iron box.
Then, Baguio carefully stretched out her hand to open the small box. As soon as she pressed the lid of the iron box, Baguio felt that the box seemed to be unlocked. She frowned, the look of vigilance in her eyes became more serious, and she bit her teeth. , cruelly opened the lid of the iron box.
Then there was only a soft "click" sound, and before I could see what was inside the iron box, a black gas came out first.
Baguio's face changed drastically, and she almost fell over like an electric shock. The small white flower on the top of the iron box immediately rushed down, and the black energy was suddenly covered by white light. Several impulses could not escape. After a moment, Seeing that the black air gradually shrank, the jade-like white flowers gradually turned black, actually sucking in the black air.
After the black energy completely dissipated, Baguio also waited for a long time before walking over. She looked at her little flower with concentration. Her father spent a lot of effort to refine the strange treasure "Sad Flower" specially for her. At this moment, it was originally a white jade flower. The ordinary petals have turned completely purple and black, and they look a bit ferocious.
Baguio's face changed slightly, and he whispered: "'Ancient Corpse Poison'! The black-hearted old ghost is really black-hearted, and he actually refines such a thing!"
While she was cursing in a low voice the black-hearted old man, the predecessor of the demon sect, she cast her gaze into the iron box.
The inside was very simple. There was only one thing in a small iron box: a golden bell that was as intact as a prayer.
Baguio was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect that the iron box contained something as rare and highly poisonous as "ancient corpse poison", but it was just guarding such a small bell. She looked left and right, but she didn't see anything weird. After pondering for a moment, he slowly reached out and picked up the little bell.
"Jingle bell".
A crisp sound, like reverberating in the human heart, resounded in this secret stone chamber that had been quiet for eight hundred years.
Baguio picked up the bell, and saw that the bell's heart was delicate and delicate, and a thin iron rope was tied to the bell body. When he shook it slightly, the bell's heart gently hit the bell body, making a sound again.
"Ding...dingdong."
Baguio saw the girl's character in her eyes and liked it very much. The disappointment just now was diluted a lot. She checked it carefully and found that there was nothing weird about it. It seemed to be an ordinary and well-made bell.
However, the black-hearted old man collected it so mysteriously and carefully, there must be something extraordinary about this bell. I will ask my father when I have a chance to go out.
After thinking this, Baguio calmed down, but looking at the little bell, she liked it more and more, so she tied it around her waist, turned her body, and sure enough, it made bursts of crisp ringing sound, which was extremely pleasant to the ears. Baguio Da was so proud that he nodded repeatedly.
Afterwards, she carefully inspected the stone room, but found nothing. She even inspected the pile of rubbish, but there was nothing noteworthy, let alone any way out.
After finishing her work, Baguio stood up slowly. It was time to go and see what was going on with that silly boy.
Before walking out of the stone room, she took one last look back and saw that the stone room was still messy. After she turned over the pile of rubbish, it became even more messy. All kinds of weapons were scattered on the floor, and the big ax was also thrown away casually. corner.
Then, she walked out of the stone room.
The tunnel on the left that Zhang Xiaofan entered just now is much longer than the road on the right that Baguio entered. Baguio walked for a while before seeing the light turn on, but the situation inside was still unclear, but for some reason There was no movement inside, and she felt a faint worry in her heart. There were so many weird and cruel things in this demon town, which were weird and unpredictable. Could it be...
She subconsciously quickened her pace and walked into the stone room. After taking a closer look, she felt relieved. She saw Zhang Xiaofan standing in the stone room, looking at the stone wall, in a daze.
Baguio breathed a sigh of relief and then carefully observed the stone room. She saw that this stone room was much larger than the one she had just arrived at, but it was empty with nothing. But on the hard stone wall of the stone room, there was There were densely carved stone words, and it was these things that Zhang Xiaofan was looking at with a frown.
Baguio frowned, walked forward, and took a look. His face immediately showed joy, and he saw that at the beginning of the entire stone carving, there were only two characters engraved on it.
Book from heaven!
"The Book of Heaven, this is the Book of Heaven!" Baguio couldn't help but cheer.
Zhang Xiaofan trembled, and then he realized that Baguio was coming to his side, but his attention seemed to be only on her words: "The Heavenly Book? Do you know what this Heavenly Book is?"
Baguio glared at him and said: "How could I not know that this 'Heavenly Book' is a classic of our holy religion. From ancient times to the present, all the disciples of the holy religion have learned their magical powers from this book. "
Zhang Xiaofan was shocked again, with a look of confusion on his face. He turned his head and stared at the stone carvings on the wall. After a while, he whispered: "No, it's impossible!"
Baguio's face darkened and he said: "This is the classic of our holy religion, and it is the top secret of our Taoism. Didn't you say that we are evil heretics? Why are you still peeking at it?"
Zhang Xiaofan seemed to ignore it, and only saw the words engraved on the wall.
"Book of Heaven Volume One"
When the heaven and earth were created, it was said to be a time of chaos, when they were ignorant and undifferentiated. The sun and the moon contained their radiance, and the heaven and earth were mixed into their bodies. The clarity has changed, and the clarity and turbidity have become old.
The reason why heaven and earth can last long is because it does not generate itself, so it can last long. However, all things in heaven and earth have their own characteristics. All living beings are obsessed with and confused by the appearance of me, the appearance of human beings, the appearance of living beings, and the appearance of people with longevity. The three poisons, three fears and three terrors cannot last long.
There are no punishments in the heavenly phenomena, and nameless praises in the Tao. Therefore, it is said that those who have no self, no one, no sentient beings, and no lifespan will reach the light. Those who uphold the right path, the inner body's own nature, and the heaven and earth take the original heart.
Therefore, in the movement and rest of the earth, it is the inner vision of heaven and earth.
Therefore, there is no reality or emptiness.
Therefore, heaven and earth are left to their own devices, without action or creation.
If the old things don’t exist, it’s not enough to prepare!
…
Baguio snorted and wanted to get angry, but after thinking about it, she didn't say anything and looked at the wall. After only reading a few words, she felt dizzy. She actually admired Zhang Xiaofan for being so boring. He could actually read the text.
But when I turned around to look at Zhang Xiaofan, I was slightly surprised. I saw that his face was full of pain and confusion, and his whole body was trembling slightly, showing an indescribable strange emotion.
In fact, no one in the world would be as excited as Zhang Xiaofan at this moment. This so-called "Heavenly Book", a classic of the Demon Sect, and this paragraph of text called the General Outline, in Zhang Xiaofan's eyes, every word is like a knife, piercing straight through. It penetrated into his heart, and even when he was a child, he found that the Taoist cultivation method of Qingyun Sect was completely opposite to the Buddhist "Brahma Prajna" cultivation method passed down to him by Pu Zhi, which gave him a hundred times greater impact.
From this passage, he suddenly discovered that the Tao that he had secretly thought of since childhood, the Taoism of Buddhism and Buddhism that was fundamentally different, had a faint tendency to reach the same goal through different paths. Even so, even though he was surprised, he could still Accepting it, but as he continued to read, his face gradually turned pale, because he discovered a big secret in this "Book of Heaven", which is known as the classic of the demon sect.
The various supernatural powers and methods in this demonic religion are extreme and idiosyncratic, but their root lies in the "Book of Heaven". Taoism emphasizes the body's control over nature, Buddhism focuses on understanding one's own nature, but the Book of Heaven seems to cover everything. There are Taoist thoughts and Buddhist teachings.
If it were another person like Baguio, he would have no idea after reading these words. He would always think that it was a great supernatural power left by his ancestor. However, in the eyes of Zhang Xiaofan, who is the only person in the world who knows Taoism and the true Dharma of Buddhism, this matter is a big deal. It's terrible.
A thought he had never had before lingered around him.
What exactly is right?
He couldn't help but look at it, his face was pale, his mind was agitated, and he was filled with fanatical and strange curiosity. He vaguely felt that a big secret was right in front of him, but he could not touch it or see it, but it attracted him even more. , run toward that goal.
However, there was also a bit of fear in his heart. Is this appropriate?
Baguio looked at Zhang Xiaofan for a long time, and saw that he was still concentrating on the stone carvings on the wall, with a strange expression, as if he had completely forgotten that she was standing next to him. She felt annoyed for no reason in her heart, and snorted coldly. Unexpectedly, Zhang Xiaofan turned a deaf ear to any movement. No.
Baguio pursed her lips, showing anger, but for some reason she didn't want to teach this person a lesson. She turned around and walked out, making loud footsteps as she left. Unfortunately, the silly boy still didn't react at all.
Baguio angrily walked out of the stone room, returned to the stalactite cave, and became sulky at the skeleton. It was nothing to think about at first, but she didn't like the kid at all. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. Then he looked at the skeleton at hand. The originally beautiful "sad flower" was now completely black, and it immediately turned its anger onto the black-hearted old man.
She pointed at the skeleton and said angrily: "You old ghost, you have been dead for eight hundred years and you still want to harm me, causing my jade flower to...become..."
Unable to continue a sentence, Baguio became more and more angry. Not to mention, he waved his sleeves and the "Sad Flower" flew out and circled around the skeleton. After a while, he could only hear the sound of piercing bones. There was a cracking sound, and where the "crack" sound was heard, the skeleton fell apart in pieces.
After taking action, Baguio's anger subsided a little, and he couldn't help but feel a little regretful in his heart. He didn't know where he got such anger, but when he looked around, he was surprised. It turned out that the stone wall that was covered by the skeleton just now was On the wall, there were actually a few lines of words there. I quickly walked over and took a closer look, and saw only four lines of words written on the wall.
The bells swallow, the flowers wither,
The figures are getting thinner and their temples are like frost.
Deep love is bitter, life is bitter,
Infatuation is only painful without mercy.
Note 1: Bibliography of the general text of this paragraph: "Tao Te Ching", "Diamond Sutra", "Tan Sutra", "Jizhan Biography of Jin Shu Ji Zhan", "Zhu Yi Fu Gua Tu Zhuan Annotation", etc. (To be continued)