Half River Autumn Moon and River Spring [Rat and Cat]

Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang, and Gongsun Ce were about to go up the mountain, and a few people followed behind them.

Zhan Zhao looked back and saw that the four people just followed up. Before Zhan Zhao could speak, that Bai Jinyang cupped his hands and said, "Brother Zhan, do you mind if we climb the mountain together? If there is any danger or something, everyone We can also take care of each other."

Gongsun shook his head, thinking that this man is really familiar, he called each other Brother Bai and Brother Zhan, and called him very affectionately.

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang and smiled: "I don't mind, but..." But I don't know if this white mouse is willing or not...

It's just what Zhan Zhao said, but before he finished speaking, Bai Jinyang said seriously: "Brother Zhan, don't worry, although I, Bai Jinyang, love and cherish beauty, I will never win others' favors! People will never straddle branches!"

Zhan Zhao was stunned, then turned to look at Bai Yutang: Mouse, what is he talking about?

Bai Yutang stared at the sky speechlessly.

"I just don't know, what is the name of this beauty next to you two? Look at this brother, he probably doesn't know martial arts, right? In this way, Bai will be at a disadvantage and come to protect you?"

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao followed Bai Jinyang's gaze, and saw him looking at Gongsun with a smile on his face.

Before Gongsun could react, everyone was staring at him.

Nabai Jinyang took a step forward without shame: "I haven't asked for advice yet, what's your surname, brother?"

Gongsun glanced at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, coughed lightly, and suddenly asked solemnly: "Do you know why so many people with high martial arts skills died on this Qiongshan Mountain?"

Unexpectedly, Gongsun would ask this suddenly, everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.

Gongsun smiled, and pointed to the mountain shrouded in darkness behind him: "Look at this Qiongshan, can you see a lot of light?"

Everyone didn't know why, but they still obediently looked up at the Qiongshan Mountain. Sure enough, they saw a lot of bright lights, and they were arranged in a very regular way...

Min Xuewu on the side yelled in fright: "Ah, could it be the will-o'-the-wisps that those people talked about?"

Zhan Zhao stared at the bright light on Qiongshan for a while, and then said: "Generally, the will-o'-the-wisps that people refer to refer to the phosphorus fire, but the phosphorus fire has no fixed place and is scattered with the wind, so it is impossible to arrange them neatly like this... If there is no Guess wrong, this should be..."

"Ash worm." Bai Yutang spit out three words lightly, and then said indifferently: "Ash trees and holly trees are the most popular in this generation, and they are the favorite habitats of ash worms."

Gongsun smiled and nodded: "That's right, it's the white wax worm. Someone smeared the favorite food of the white wax worm on the designated place. There is a parasitic worm in the white wax worm, which glows at night, so this is what happened. Strange light. But do you know what this arrangement represents?"

The crowd shook their heads.

Gongsun paused intentionally, then suddenly smiled and said, "Don't you guys think that the arrangement of white wax worms looks familiar?"

Everyone stared at the white wax worm not far away for a long time, and after a while, Bai Jinyang said inexplicably excitedly: "I seem to see a chicken, ah, there are dogs, horses, sheep..."

The three people around Bai Jinyang were a little puzzled. They didn't understand what it would be like to see the white wax worms arranged in the shape of these animals...

Zhan Zhaozai looked carefully for a while, and saw that although the white wax worms were arranged indistinctly, they could still be seen as a vague outline, so he counted slowly: "Cow, snake, horse, chicken, pig, dog. , Sheep... Hey, shouldn't it be the zodiac sign?"

"Not the twelve zodiac signs." Bai Yutang slowly pointed to each place, "There are only eight kinds, horse, ox, dragon, rooster, pig, bird, dog, and sheep."

"It's not a snake, it's a dragon?"

Bai Yutang said helplessly, "Cat, if a snake has legs, it's not a snake, but a lizard..."

Zhan Zhao nodded: "Okay, then why not a lizard?"

"Have you ever seen a lizard with dragon-like horns on its head?"

Zhan Zhao coughed twice and rubbed his chin: "That... mentioned eight? Why do I feel so familiar? It seems like I just met..."

Bai Yutang sighed, this cat, what turning ability?

Gongsun nodded, and didn't intend to show off anymore, and said directly: "These eight animal totems are the eight hexagrams. The reason why you feel impressed is because you were watching "Book of Changes" before. Horses are dry, cows are kun. , the dragon is Zhen, the chicken is Sunda, the hog is Kan, the pheasant is Li, the dog is Gen, and the sheep is Dui."

Zhan Zhao had a dazed expression on his face: "No wonder it looks familiar."

Gongsun said again: "There are eight gates on the mountain according to the eight trigrams. According to those animal totems, they are divided into rest, life, injury, du, scene, death, shock, and eight gates. 'Death Gate', 'Shut Gate', 'Shock Gate' and 'Injury Gate' each occupy a corner, that is to say, there are dangers ambush on any line, and if you want to go up the mountain, you must pass through this gate first However, among the eight gates, the 'Death Gate' is the most difficult to break through, and if people who don't know the art of strange gates enter it rashly, accidents will easily happen."

Zhan Zhao stretched out his index finger and scratched his face: "No wonder Mr. asked us to read "Book of Changes". It turned out that he came here to prepare us...but, Mr. How could you know that there is a strange art of Dunjia on this Qiongshan Mountain? Press It is reasonable to say that those white wax worms cannot be seen during the day..."

Gongsun said: "Do you still remember the poem that old man Zhou read?"

Bai Yutang thought for a while, and then chanted: "The red rain falls immediately, and the blood soaks the Qiongshan soil; Genyu's blemishes are broken, and the sword is broken and the soul is forgotten! Doesn't this poem symbolize that prophecy?"

Gongsun laughed and said, "The prophecy is just the appearance of the poem. In fact, this poem is a big reminder." After saying that, Gongsun picked up a branch and drew a big circle on the ground. Look, I saw Gongsun fill the whole poem end to end into the circle.

"Sir, this should be 'blood', right? Why did you write it as '彐'?" Zhan Zhao asked in confusion, pointing to the circle of words on the ground.

Gongsun tapped the words on the ground with a branch: "That's right, it's '彐'. The pronunciation of Hu and Xue is the same, but if you connect the whole poem, you can understand that it's Hu not blood..." Then , He circled the two characters together with a tree branch. Everyone looked down and saw that he circled "Chuan Li", "Yu Hu", "Tu Gen", and finally "Dian Dao".

The other people didn't understand yet, but Bai Yutang had some clues.

The combination of "Chuanli" is weeping, "Yuhu" is snow, "Tugen" is yin, and "Diandao" is a blade. If they are all added together, it is the weeping snow blade.

It is the demon sword that everyone is looking for - Weeping Snow Blade.

Zhan Zhao tapped the circle drawn by Gongsun on the ground with Ju Que: "Sir, can we see the clue from this?"

Min Wuxue at the side suddenly screamed, and then pointed at Gongsun and said excitedly: "I remember! You don't know... that is, the reincarnated Gongsun Ce of Kaifeng Mansion, the master Gongsun, right?"

Gongsun Ce didn't answer, just smiled, then squatted down, and said: "At the beginning, I just discovered the four words 'Weeping Snow Yin Blade' hidden in this poem, and when I linked the beginning and end of these words When I made a circle, I found that the appearance of the whole poem fits the figure of the gossip, and it has been rumored that the Luoxi ancient house is related to the ancient Fuxi gossip, so I have this association."

Zhan Zhao said: "No wonder let us read books..."

Gongsun Fu said again: "Facts have proved that my idea is correct, but this poem has another most important function."

"What is it?"

"This poem reveals the method of getting out of the hexagram formation on Qiongshan Mountain."

Everyone exclaimed: "What?! Really?"

"Four battalions make changes, eight out of ten changes make hexagrams, and eight trigrams make small successes. Leading and extending them, touching them and growing them, the affairs of the world are completed. The eight characters I circled are the eight directions. There are also eight gates, which can be easily counted by four, and as long as they are calculated according to the derivation method, they can enter and leave Qiongshan safely."

The three people beside Bai Jinyang looked at each other in confusion for a while, and finally said in unison: "Mr. Gongsun, can you speak human language?"

Gongsun nodded, and calmly said something that immediately lifted everyone's spirits: "Yes, just four words."

Everyone stared at Gongsun intently.

I only heard Gongsun spit out four words slowly.

"Follow me."

Everyone wiped their sweat.

Gongsun looked at Bai Jinyang for the last time, and said casually: "Who said just now that he wanted to protect me, and ran forward to lead the way, but... I'm not responsible for what happens if I take a wrong step."

Bai Jinyang wiped off his sweat, and said to himself: In the current situation, it is really uncertain who will protect who. I thought it would be enough to meet the Chinchilla and the Royal Cat, but it turns out that the one next to them seems to be even more difficult to offend... That, Who said nothing is for a scholar?Damn, fart...

The few people were just about to go up the mountain, when suddenly, there was a scream from the mountain, and that hoarse cry tore apart the silence of the night, making people feel the imminent death around them...

Zhan Zhao frowned: "No, someone is climbing the mountain! Mr. Gongsun, please lead the way first."

Gongsun nodded, and walked up Qiongshan with a group of people.

As soon as they left, a few black heads poked out from the woods not far away, staring at the direction Zhan Zhao and his party were leaving with their eyes wide open.

"They're going up."

"The one in white, the one in blue, and the young scholar seem to be very powerful. They know a lot of things before they go up the mountain!"

"Hey, what should I do then?"

"The martial arts of the white clothes and the blue clothes are so high, we can't beat..."

"Why don't we catch that scholar?"

"Okay, okay, if you catch the scholar, they won't be able to get out of here again, hehe, hehe..."

"Catch the scholar, catch the scholar...hehehehe..."

The night is vast.

Zhan Zhao seemed to sense something, and turned his head suddenly, but there was nothing but the uneven tree shadows behind him, he frowned, and sniffed with some doubts.

Seeing that Zhan Zhao didn't move, Bai Yutang asked, "Cat, what's wrong?"

Zhan Zhao turned his head back, curled his lips: "No... I seem to have heard a very strange laugh..."

Bai Yutang listened quietly for a while, then said, "Is there anything else?"

Zhan Zhao shrugged: "Maybe I heard wrong, let's go."

Bai Yutang glanced back again, turned his head, said "En" and left with Zhan Zhao.