"Reincarnation of destiny, six paths of sentient beings, these two keywords together are six paths of reincarnation, which is a Buddhist explanation of the cycle of life and death of all living things. Since the teachings of the Qingtian Sect have absorbed some Buddhist elements, then the six paths of reincarnation are naturally
The basis for this - I think unless we both guessed in the wrong direction, the theme of this circular corridor should be the so-called [Six Paths of Reincarnation]."
"Yeah, when I heard the answer, I was almost sure that my train of thought was not going astray - but I really didn't think about it in that direction at first, until I saw the lamp in the animal path, I
I realized that this should not be the unique sacred beast totem of Qingtian Sect, so I started to think about other directions." Ye Suling said casually.
"Is this a lamp?" Zhang Ke picked up Zhushengdao's lamp and couldn't help but start playing with it. However, with his sharp eyes, he suddenly noticed a small, sharp object that seemed to be hidden in the four wings of the lamp.
He tried to pull it out with his fingers, but the thing seemed to be stuck and could not be taken out with brute force. Zhang Ke turned it upside down and tried to use gravity to force it to fall, but it was still in vain.
"What's wrong?" Ye Suling asked, "Did you find anything?"
"There is a long object hidden inside. Although it can't be seen clearly now, it is too small." Zhang Ke said, "You were probably only paying attention to the appearance just now and failed to notice the thing sandwiched between these wings."
"There seems to be something -" Ye Suling moved her head closer, and then she also discovered the glimmer of light hidden in the scales and feathers, "Let me give it a try."
Zhang Ke immediately handed over the everlasting lantern to her. After all, Ye Suling was so good at fighting and was good at fighting with bare hands. Her strong hands should make her a rare enemy.
"No, it's stuck too tightly. If you try to pull it out with brute force, I'm afraid it will break directly inside, which will be more detrimental than gain." After trying for a while, Ye Suling came to the same conclusion.
"I just looked at the other lamps... there are no similar long reflective objects. It seems that only this ever-bright lamp of the animal path is special." Zhang Ke asked, "Is there any saying about this in the Buddhist scriptures? Or the animal path?
Do you have any special status among the six realms of reincarnation?"
"All living beings are equal, and the six paths are all suffering. This is the basic principle of Buddhism. As long as you don't become a Buddha and transcend reincarnation, then you are the same as humans and animals, so the animal path should not have any special status." Ye Suling muttered, "Besides, it must be
Speaking of special terms, the highest level of the six realms, the heaven and human realm, and the lowest level of the hell realm, are more special than the animal realm."
"But if you think about it from another angle, the human realm and the animal realm are the only two realms that people in this world can see, right?" Zhang Ke changed his angle and analyzed in reverse, "After all, heaven, hell, asuras, and hungry ghosts are not the real world.
It can be seen that they only exist in myths and stories passed down orally, and only humans and animals are the ones we living people can have personal contact with."
"It makes sense for you to think so... Apart from the human realm that we are most familiar with, the animal realm that we are most exposed to is the animal realm. Therefore, when Buddhist scriptures advise people to pay attention to karma and retribution, they often use reincarnation as an animal in the next life as a threat. Sometimes it has no effect.
On the contrary, hell is more real than the invisible and intangible hungry ghosts." Ye Suling said.
"Speaking of it, I think we seem to have overlooked an issue." Zhang Ke put down his hands to play with a few everlasting lanterns, looked slightly condensed, and looked at a square stone not far away: "Although we have deduced the prototype of the everlasting lantern, the ruins
structure and metaphorical meaning, but the meaning of the existence of those square stones that first attracted our attention seems to be blank."
"Uh-" Ye Suling was stunned for a moment, and after a moment of reflection, he quickly nodded in agreement: "Yes, although you used the square stone as the base point to see the non-returning wheel of life represented by the six-spoke wheel. But the square stone itself exists.
The role of this, whether it is religious symbolism or practical use, has not been revealed at all."
"So, I have such an immature guess." Zhang Ke glanced around and said, "You should have noticed that the trembling and rotation of the ruins have stopped."
"Hmm...then what?"
"This means that all the ashlar stones have stayed in the correct position where they should appear, and will not be changed again."
Zhang Ke walked to a piece of square stone, then stretched out his hand and pointed to the wall in front of him: "Opposite of each square stone is a door leading to the central core sacrificial area, which is what we discovered before.
A door that is locked tightly and cannot be opened no matter what."
"Indeed... this is not a coincidence, but the position has been fixed by the designer of the mechanism." Ye Suling immediately understood what he meant, "Now each square stone corresponds to a door between the sacrifices. This
It probably means that the square stone is connected to something behind the door, or..."
"Or it itself is the mechanism that opens the door." Zhang Ke said:
"Because there are no traditional keyholes on these doors, and we have not found any other mechanisms for opening the doors. If these rooms can only be opened from the inside, wouldn't it mean that someone must always be on duty in them? Otherwise,
People from the Qingtian Sect can't get in by themselves? Even if it is really designed like this, there must be a backup means to forcefully break open these doors under special circumstances."
"This backup method should be these square stones?" Ye Suling blurted out, "With the hardness and weight of these boulders, it should really be possible to use physical means to forcefully break through the stone doors in front of us, and under normal circumstances, square stones are not used, so
They were hidden downstairs where no one knew."
"Then let's give it a try."
Zhang Ke raised the lamp from the Animal Path and placed it on the boulder at hand.
——No reaction, nothing happened. Except for the breathing of the two people, the surroundings were still silent.
"It may not be this stone. There are six square stones in total. I'm afraid the stones corresponding to each lamp are different." Ye Suling said, "You can try the other five."
"Well, I think so too." Zhang Ke walked unhurriedly towards the next stone.
In the second block, nothing happened.
The third piece is still as quiet as death.
The fourth piece - the moment the Beast Taoist Light was placed on the stone, a crisp cracking sound suddenly sounded in the ears of Zhang Ke and Ye Suling.
At the same time, the ever-burning lamp placed on the square stone also disintegrated into a puddle of broken fragments in full view of the public.