I'm just an ordinary Taoist priest

Chapter 291 Astrology and Words

Since the so-called dog king did not allow Gu Yao and his party to enter the village, Yidie took Gu Yao to find a cabin in the ravine again, tidy it up and let everyone stay overnight temporarily.

Jing Yin sat cross-legged on a straw mat, reciting the Heart Sutra silently, but her brows were already unknowingly intertwined, the sores on her palms became more and more painful, and the white bones could already be seen.

Seeing Jingyin's painful appearance, Gu Yao pulled the sullen Yidie away, walked a little further outside the house, and asked her about Banyue Lake.

Yidie seemed to have uncontrollable resentment in her heart because of the matter of King Shen. After muttering and complaining for a while, she said: "That's how Banyue Lake is. The village chief strictly forbids us to approach, and only allows us to wait and see around. Those trees are just like that. The village chief did it."

"Have you ever seen the fierce god in the lake?"

Yidie shook her head: "No, Banyue Lake is a dead lake. It's very calm. It will only spray green fire every 28th night at midnight. We've only seen it in books. There are also older generations who have heard of it.”

Gu Yao was thoughtful: "Is that so?"

28 days a green fire, why is it 28 days?

28 constellations or what?
He raised his head and looked at the night sky.

The night is endless, there is no bright moon, the sky is full of stars, and the four holy stars guard the four directions.

Gu Yao squinted, looked at the Four Saints and counted the seasons.

There are seven star regions in the sky with three walls and four elephants. The three walls are arranged in a triangular shape around the Polaris like a city wall, and the four images are distributed outside the three walls.

As the saying goes, "East Canglong, West White Tiger, South Suzaku, and North Xuanwu", but in fact, as the seasons change, the four elephants are not always there. At the turn of winter and spring, the green dragon probes, the transition of spring and summer, the Suzaku spreads its wings, and the white tiger takes turns in summer and autumn. The tail is exposed, autumn and winter change, and Xuanwu comes out of the water.

But at this moment when Gu Yao looked up, his heart sank.

The blue dragon does not appear, the white tiger, red bird, and Xuanwu triangle stand side by side, and the stars shine on the earth.

Gu Yao only knew a little about astronomy and astrology. Although he didn't know what the strange scene he saw at the moment meant, he also knew that it was not an auspicious omen.

"In the ghost world, the stars can't shine, only the cloudy sun representing Emperor Fengdu hangs high. This place is close to half of the underworld and half of the human world. Although there are stars, it's better not to have them at all." He sighed in his heart.

Why do you say that?
The Qinglong, White Tiger and the Four Sage Xingjun not only represent the stars, they are also applied to the good and bad times of the hour in the five metaphysics. It just so happens that the hidden Qinglong is the only Xingjun that represents auspiciousness, and the three statues on top of the head all represent bad omens.

He looked up at the night sky in a daze. Seeing his appearance, Yidie also looked up and let out a cry of surprise: "Today is really a good day, and I can see the three stars."

"This may be a sign that I will definitely be able to find King Shen and the villagers."

With some joy, she cupped her fists on her chest, lowered her head and made a wish to the night sky.

Gu Yao: "."

After Yidie finished making his wish, he asked, "What was the star pattern in the night sky of the village in the past?"

Yidie let go of her hand, and starlight twinkled in her eyes under the night sky: "In the starry sky of the village in the past, Qinglong Xingjun was always there, and the other three Xingjun took turns."

Gu Yao was a little surprised: "Qinglong is always there, you mean there are only two astrology?"

"Well, I was robbed before, and I am still wondering why the starry sky over there is so strange. The four star kings are all there, but they are only faintly visible."

"Is that so"

Gu Yao's thoughts turned, thinking of the various differences here, his mind gradually raised speculations: "Perhaps this place can always exist because of the formation, and the performance of the formation is this starry sky, where the blue dragon is auspicious, and the white tiger is auspicious." , Suzaku, and Xuanwu are fierce, barely maintaining a balance."

"Earlier, Yidie said that King Shen has the ability to adjust yin and yang. Maybe it was the eye of the formation, or one of the eyes of the formation. It disappeared, which is also the reason for the current astrology."

"Ah, I'm so stupid. Before Yidie said that she read many things in the books in the village, I didn't remember this. I should have gone to the village to read those books first."

Gu Yao realized his negligence, couldn't help feeling annoyed, and turned to look at Yidie: "That yellow dog is the king of dogs, why doesn't it let us enter the village?"

"The dog king said that you people are outsiders and will destroy everything. If the village can be protected, the villagers will always come back, but if the village is gone, the villagers will really be gone."

"The village and the villagers" Gu Yao thought about it and said, "I want to go to the village to see, is there any way to avoid the dog king?"

Yidie was stunned for a moment, and fell into thinking, as if she was wondering whether to go against the dog king's intention and help Gu Yao sneak into the village.

Gu Yao didn't say anything, but was thinking about whether the magic weapon in his hand could help him avoid the dog king.

"It is said to be the king of dogs, but it is just a magical dog. Logically speaking, it is enough to avoid the ears."

"The lightness technique, the wind-fixing talisman is not good, that dog can resist the wind, and the wind in this space is also very dark."

While he was pondering, Yidie made up his mind and said: "Gu Daochang, in fact, there are ways to avoid the dog king, but it is very difficult."

"Huh? Ask the girl for advice."

"In addition to the extremely strong sense of hearing and smell, the dog king actually relies more on qi to distinguish who comes."

Yidie explained: "The dog king's eyesight is very bad. Once, brother Li - he grew up with me, accidentally got some wet mud on the bank of Banyue Lake, and was expelled by the dog king. It wasn’t until the village head grandpa washed him away with the juice of blood ginseng, and that’s when I realized that the dog king can tell whether we are from the village or not by relying on our special qi.”

Gu Yao was a little confused: "But you haven't cultivated, don't you? When you say Qi, do you mean smell?"

Seeing Gu Yao's half-knowledge, Yidie didn't know how to explain it, so she thought for a long time and said, "No, alas, Daoist, you feel it yourself."

She stretched out her hand, took out a leather-wrapped knife from her boots, then cut her wrist, squeezed out two extra red drops of blood, and dripped it on Gu Yao's palm.

Gu Yao glanced at her knife before looking at her blood.

Like a flowing ruby, no, more like red mercury, it gathers and rolls naturally, feeling it carefully, Gu Yao squeezed Yidie's wrist again, and felt her pulse.

The pulse is the same as that of ordinary people, but this blood is very special, especially the blood energy.

As the saying goes, the three treasures of the human body are the spirit, energy, and spirit. The energy here is not the qi produced by practice, but more like the product of the mixture of spirit and spirit, flowing in the flesh and blood of the human body. It is not as pure and magical as the innate "qi", but it is also the same. Nature contains the genus of the five elements.

If a person is ill, is possessed by evil spirits or lost his soul, he can feel the change of qi in his blood.

But Yidie's blood is very pure, natural yin, without yang, and the five elements are all eliminated, so it rolls like a red bead with its tail in Gu Yao's palm.

He let go of his pulse, and looked at Yidie: "Is this the blood in your village?"

Yidie nodded: "It's all the same, so the village chief repelled us from interacting with outsiders, for fear that we would be found to be different. The village chief's grandfather told us when we were young that those outsiders found out and would tear us apart. , swallowed it alive."

Gu Yao nodded, not only doubted whether the people in this village were human, but also asked on the face: "Are there many outsiders?"

Yidie nodded, then shook her head again: "There is a regular group of people who come here a lot, but the time interval between their visits is long, and usually after leaving once, it will take a long time before they come again."

"Besides, occasionally some lost people will stray here. We will rescue them outside the village, give them food, and then send them away."

"However, there are very few people who strayed in, the last time."

As she spoke, she recalled: "About a few years ago, a ginseng picker strayed into our place and exchanged a plant of ginseng with us."

Ginseng picker.
Could it be the one in Luoyang? In exchange for ginseng, it could be that you exchanged the king of ginseng to him. Thinking of the ginseng harvesters in Luoyang before and the endless supply of blood ginseng, Gu Yao felt that the possibility was very high.

It's just that the time doesn't match up, but this place is so special, maybe the speed of time flow is also different, just like the underworld.

But he didn't say, because the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. If not, he is not sure if Yidie can bear the blow of joy.

"When the matter here is over, let's take a trip to Luoyang to have a look. I didn't think about extra problems at first, and I didn't go to see the blood ginseng, but I missed it."

He laughed at himself, and sprinkled the blood in his hands into the soil: "I already have a general idea of ​​how to hide from the dog king. I plan to go into the village and have a look around. Do you want to go with me, or stay here?"

Yidie thought for a while and said, "I'll go with you, with my guidance, maybe we can save a lot of trouble."

"it is good."

Gu Yao went into the room and talked to Die'er, asking Die'er to retrieve her ghost master's power from the robbery sword. The place is half yin and half yang, so there is no need to worry too much about the side effects of the ghost master's law.

After explaining clearly, Gu Yao took Yidie with Yujian and flew towards the village.

When he was about two miles away from the village, he took out the pure yang flow beads left by the old Taoist priest. With force, a round of black moon loomed on the forehead, and the power of extreme cold came out from the body.

The pure yang robe covers the whole body, and it happens to interact with the power of the cold, preventing the uncontrolled chill from drifting away.

Wrapping Chunyang Liuzhu around his hands like an old man, Gu Yao landed on the ground, waited for a while, and made sure that his breath was covered by the cold air before walking towards the village.

"Is this useful?" Yi Die followed a foot away.

"I have tried my best. The power of the sun has been surrounded by me as much as possible. If this is not enough, I have to try to see if I can convince the dog with reason."

Gu Yao said helplessly.

Although he tried his best to control it, the bone-chilling coldness was also a side effect.

One step with one frost, three steps with one ice, leaving two lines of footprints, Gu Yao and Yidie came to the gate of the village.

Not seeing the yellow dog, Yidie breathed a sigh of relief: "Let's go, let's go, the dog king is not here."

The two quickened their pace, and Gu Yao said, "Which room did you read in the past, take me there."

"This way."

Resembling a thief, he raised his legs lightly and headed straight for the big earthen house in the center of the village.

"That's it. Dog King, you are here." Just as Yidie was about to greet her in, she saw two green lights inside, and then the yellow dog stood up in the darkness.

"Wang, wang!"

"I want to find the village chief, so I want to come and see if there are any clues."

"Wang Wang Wang!"

"He is... is... also from the village!"

"Ow?"

"This..." Yidie was at a loss as to what to do, and she said in a hurry: "Those people took my flesh and blood, and then he was born, um, that's how it is."

"Ow?!"

The Dog King's eyes widened, and he tried to get closer, but his paws froze when he stepped one foot away, and then withdrew back, standing a foot away suspiciously and sniffing his nose vigorously: "Wow!"

"He's here to find a solution to his own problem, and you see, he's about to turn into a block of ice."

"Ow"

"I let him stay in the cave during the day, but I didn't want to bring him here, because he was too cold and no one could stand it. There was really no other way."

The dog king is a simple dog, and with poor eyesight, he didn't realize that Gu Yao was exactly the same as the person who was driven away during the day. He sniffed his nose again, stepped out of the way, and said, "Wow, woof, woof~"

Yidie hurriedly walked in: "Don't worry, the dog king, I will definitely not do anything to the things in the house."

Get over it!

She felt relieved, and her steps became much lighter. She led Gu Yao into the earthen house, found candles and matchsticks from the cabinet beside the door, lit them up and said, "This house is the village chief's house, and the library is underground. .”

Yidie was familiar with the road, found a black door covered with dust, and pulled it up forcefully: "I'll go down first, you light the fire yourself, follow up."

Gu Yao nodded, watched the dog king outside lay down again, closed the door, and followed with a golden light on his fingers.

When walking down the dirt steps under the black door, all the torches below had been lit by Yidie, and the dim yellow lights shone, revealing all the libraries in front of her eyes.

The room is large, but slightly empty, with only four bookcases and a large table with a pile of books piled on it.

"What are you looking for?"

Gu Yao shook his head and said, "I don't know either. It's about Banyue Lake and the astrology. It's better to have records related to how your ancestors came here."

Hearing this, Yidie scratched her head: "Then it's all here."

"Then I'll scan it as soon as possible."

Gu Yao walked quickly to the bookshelf, glanced at everything from bamboo slips to leather paper to paper, and grabbed a roll of bamboo slips casually.

His eyes were fixed: "Xianwen?"

I changed it to another one, and it was still the same book.

Replaced the bookshelf.

Xiaobian.

Xiaobian.

All the way to the last bookshelf is the Zhou Wen used today.

"This text spans too long."

Zhenwen is an ancient character that was replaced in the Qin and Han Dynasties. There is actually a whole bookshelf here!

"The history of this village is longer than I thought."

Gu Yao glanced at Yidie, who was standing aside waiting, and remembered her weirdness in writing before, and returned to the second bookshelf: "Fortunately, I barely know Xiaozuan, thank you Taoist priests are all intellectuals."

It was quite a bit strenuous to chew on these small editors, and when I finished reading, it was already dawn.

The dog king let out a long cry, announcing the arrival of a new day.

Gu Yao put down the book in his hand, and pressed his brows with some headaches: "I really accidentally discovered something big. This village, no, this space, is actually related to that Qimen master."

"It's no wonder that this place is so weird. It actually happens like this. In a reincarnation on the 28th, everyone will not die, but will only be reborn in the soil according to the hoped way. The memory will be shattered with death, and will be revived at the time of rebirth."

"Well, I guessed the astrology right, but I didn't expect that the calendar they used was the ancient 28th calendar."

"In a certain sense, even the cycle of reincarnation in this space is more complete than the human world."

"Ah, the greatness of the ancients once again exceeded my imagination."

"However, formations are not eternal after all."

A certain generation of village chiefs, you are too greedy.
After Gu Yao sorted it out roughly, he let out a long sigh.

(End of this chapter)