Bright Moon and Cold Thousand Mountains

Liu Shiqi felt that things were developing faster than he had imagined. Ever since he and Wendi discovered "Heaven and Earth Kungfu", they have been obsessed with the highest martial arts of their respective sects.I usually work and rest according to the time of sunrise and sunset. When I am hungry, I eat some wild fruits and mountain rat meat. When I am thirsty, I have clean snow water.

As a result, when Mo Ci came, they first accidentally discovered a stone door leading to the outside world, and then within half an hour, he found out a dark room that had never been seen before!

When Liu Shiqi and Wendi passed by, they were both a little surprised.

Mo Ci always likes to poke and poke around. To put it bluntly, his personality is lively and troublesome, but he restrained himself a little after following Yu Zheng's side, and when he went to a strange place, he couldn't restrain his nature and began to poke everywhere—the result Just poked out a material that was clearly different from the surrounding mountain walls, and digging deeper, immediately revealed strange carvings.

Wendi clasped his arms around and stared at the carving with a serious expression. The grass and vines had just been cleaned up, and some of them were still stuck to the stone wall, but the specific lines could not be seen clearly, only horizontal and vertical cracks.

His gaze was too affectionate, Liu Shiqi and Mo Ci looked at each other for a long time, and finally asked: "Did you see anything?"

Wendi pulled out the broken knife Changhe from Liu Shiqi's waist, and the broken blade cut across the vines, gradually outlining the carved outline.He looked at it for a while, and said, "Using the circle as the square, what is drawn is a chess game."

Liu Shiqi: "Then it's no wonder I don't know, I don't know anything about piano, chess, calligraphy, or painting."

As Wendi's blade moves like a dragon and a snake, the chess game slowly reveals a little bit of clues.Just as Wendi said, "the circle is the square", there is no standard chessboard drawn in the limited space of the stone wall, but a nondescript circular arc. Wendi's last stroke fell, and at the same time he let out a low exclamation Voice.

"This seems to be..." Wendi said in surprise, "It's a rare game."

Liu Shiqi: "Huh?"

Wen Di: "The "Chess Classic" said that the system of chess is "the image of the circle of heaven and earth, the principle of movement and stillness of yin and yang, the order of the distribution of stars, the opportunity of wind and thunder changes, the power of life and death in spring and autumn, and the power of mountains and rivers." Most of the chess games played with one chess piece are Zhenlong games—this kind of chess games can often reflect the ups and downs of heaven and the ups and downs of people. This game looks like Qianbao Pavilion, and I think it is here... …"(*Note)

He exerted some force with his fingertips, and when he was about to forcibly break through the blank space on the lower right, Liu Shiqi suddenly held down Wendi's hand: "Brother Di, I seem to have seen this somewhere—this..."

Besieged on all sides is just an illusion, in fact, there are hidden murderous intentions everywhere, one wrong step and the overall situation is lost...

Liu Shiqi stretched out his finger tentatively, and Liuyang's true energy was slightly opposite to the position judged by Wendi.He frowned, and after a while, he heard the sound of the mechanism starting from inside.

A crack opened from the edge of the chess board, and then the mountain wall fell to dust, making a noise that seemed to collapse!

Wen Di couldn't help taking a step back, and subconsciously pulled Liu Shiqi back.But the opponent was unmoved, shook off his hand, and took advantage of the fact that the chess game had not completely broken down, and immediately made several consecutive clicks on the gradually collapsing endgame.Every time he "falls", the stone wall sinks a little bit, and the vibration of the mountain wall also becomes larger——

"Seventeen!"

Wendi yelled, but finally couldn't help but grabbed his back, pulled him into his arms and hugged him tightly.His heart was pressed against Liu Shiqi's back, and he could feel the other person's pulse speeding up due to tension, so he couldn't help but hug him even tighter.

But the violent movement suddenly stopped!

When the last bit of broken rock landed at Liu Shiqi's feet, he gasped and finally managed to catch his breath.After putting his hand on the back of Wen Di's hand and dragging him away, Liu Shiqi pointed to the mountain wall and said, "Brother Di, look."

The endgame was completely broken, but as the rock wall on the surface collapsed, another stone door was revealed inside, which was exactly the same as the place where Mo Ci drilled out, and there was even an indistinguishable pull valve next to it!

Wendi: "How do you know that this chess game is not meant to survive, but to be broken?"

Liu Shiqi frowned and said, "I don't know! The arrangement in it is the same as the trees on Wangyue Island. Back then, my senior brother warned me not to walk around, otherwise I would lose my way because of the strange art of dunjia. I will follow along." Pointing to the northeast line on the chessboard, point out the usual road from the ice room to the Qingfeng Pavilion—and it turned out to be..."

Wen Di: "Ice room?"

Liu Shiqi explained: "The previous owner of Wangyue Island died in the ice room. Master said that it was the burial place of previous predecessors. There is also such a stone gate with a mechanism, and the bamboo forest planted in the south is too strange, like The scene around the Qingfeng Pavilion, so I tried it, but I didn't expect it to be exactly the same!"

The name of the place he mentioned is not very clear, but is the agency here still related to Wangyue Island?

One is a deep-rooted integrity, and the other is an unheard of secret place. Ningzhou and the East China Sea are almost separated by thousands of miles of mountains and rivers.If it wasn't for Liu Shiqi's blind cat to meet a dead mouse, it wouldn't be explained by a coincidence.

After the stone wall fell off, there was a stone gate, and the valley was silent, Wendi held the pull valve with one hand, observed carefully and said: "Under normal circumstances, even if someone comes here, if they are extremely clever, they can't break the trap even if they play this game alive. Although it is enough to block most people, but the chess game is only the first line of defense... Who left behind?"

He looked deeply at Liu Shiqi: "Would you like to go and have a look? Anyway, I have to go."

After saying that, he stopped hesitating and pulled down the valve suddenly. Then, a big hole appeared out of nowhere in the mountain——

The ash that had been covered in dust for an unknown number of years gushed out, Wen Di covered his mouth and nose and turned his back, it took a while to open his eyes.He brushed away the floating dirt on the surface and found that the cave was just big enough for a grown man to enter and exit.

Liu Shiqi lit up the fire folder and handed it to Wendi, and the two went in one after the other.But Mo Ci was afraid that the two of them would not be able to open it from the inside and be sealed after entering, so he volunteered to stay outside to help.

Young people's curiosity about unknown things instantly surrounded Liu Shiqi, and the more he walked in with a little light, the more excited he was.It was the same cave as last time, in which he saw Yi Chunqiu's collapse and the long-dead Wang Qian'an, and learned a fateful whisper.

The space gradually opened up, he took a step forward, Wendi covered his nose with one hand, and poked the fire pocket forward——

What he saw caused the fire folder in his hand to fall to the ground with a "shua".

Wen Di hurriedly picked it up and lit it again, this time not only him, but even Liu Shiqi was dumbfounded: "This...this...how could this be? Could this be...a tomb?"

I saw that the open space was narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, a sarcophagus was placed in the middle, and there was a gap in the coffin lid.But the strange thing is that there is only a dull smell that has been sealed for a long time, but there is no smell of corpses.

Wendi, who was still calm just now, swallowed, and silently recited "Zibuyuweiweifushen" three times, then forced himself to walk over, and looked into the palm-wide gap——

"what--!"

With a cry of surprise, he took three steps back and looked at Liu Shiqi with a pale face.The two stared at each other in silence for a while, and Wen Di miraculously calmed down again. Perhaps what happened this day was unexpected, and his endurance had exceeded the limit. He suddenly comforted himself, and took a hard look at it again. .

But this time, he vividly saw the clue from the dim light.

Wen Di pretended to be calm and said: "It's a corpse."

Seeing that Liu Shiqi didn't speak, he thought he was stunned, and quickly comforted him for no apparent reason: "Well... I read in the book that usually only when you die for no reason... weird things happen. The repair here is quite like that, it should...it should be a natural death, the owner of the tomb may have entered reincarnation, don't be afraid."

These words made sense at first glance, so Liu Shiqi said "Mmm" and moved his eyes slightly.Then, when Wen Di was thinking hard about how to persuade this foolish boy to go out, he thought of it and said innocently: "Then, did he keep anything for burial? This person may have a lot to do with Xixiu Mountain."

The hairs all over Wen Di stood up: "You encouraged me to dig out the coffin?!"

His voice changed, and all the consolation he had tried so hard just now flew out of the nine heavens with this scream, and he wanted to curl up into a ball and engrave the words "I'm afraid of ghosts" on his forehead.

Unexpectedly, Liu Shiqi seemed to be dispelled of all fear by his prevarication "has entered reincarnation", he took a steady stride, then supported the tomb owner's coffin lid with both hands and dragged back——

After the "boom", he lifted the lid of the coffin half a person's height, and the universe inside finally saw the light of day again.

Liu Shiqi fixed the sarcophagus lid without changing his expression, walked to the front and glanced at it. After confirming that it was only a skeleton and there was no risk of fraudulent corpse, he resolutely stretched his hand in.

Wen Di couldn't keep his eyes open.

"Huh?" Liu Shiqi seemed to have grabbed something, and he pulled it out silently. After finding that the thing was not moving at all, he put one hand on the side of the coffin and pulled it out again.

The light was blown by the wind caused by excessive movement, and Liu Shiqi was carrying something soft, and it fluttered to Wen Di's eyes—the light was dim, the scene was supernatural, and Wen Di was frightened to death Pinching his own thigh did not jump eight feet high on the spot.

His good self-cultivation ended here, and when he was about to scold, Liu Shiqi said excitedly: "It's silk, there seem to be words on it."

So Wendi couldn't swear anything, and his calves were still shaking a little, because the word "silk silk" suddenly threw all the fear of strange powers and chaotic gods out of the sky.Wen Di didn't care about disturbing the owner of the tomb at the moment, stepped over hurriedly, and took the things in Liu Shiqi's hand.

The light of Huozhezi reflected a few groups of blurred characters. Wendi took a closer look and said "Huh": "This seems to be the handwriting that never tires, and it is exactly the same as the bamboo slips...Could it be that in this coffin..."

Having said this, the two couldn't help turning their heads to look at the pile of bones in the sarcophagus at the same time, and they both shuddered.

A generation of masters and the former head of the twelfth floor, Zhong Buyi, is he just lying here?The so-called nowhere he left in the book on the twelfth floor, just became a skeleton alone in the unknown cave of Quefeng?

Wen Di was in a complicated mood, feeling that the thin roll of silk in his hand almost weighed more than a thousand catties.He continued to look down from his head, and the flickering yellow fire suddenly became warmer.

There is no trace of pen and paper here, the words are probably written in blood, and the color has faded after so many years, but the man's impressive skills can still be seen from the sharp strokes.

"At that time, I boasted that when I went to Haikou, I would never touch the tenth level of the heaven and earth exercises for the rest of my life. Now that I am alone, I can still live in seclusion, so I have a bit of leisure time to study. The classic of "breaking love" in the world and the same life is ridiculous, and martial arts There has never been a supreme word. Where there is guidance, there must be a solution. Karma and reincarnation are like life and death in a chess game, only in one thought.

""Heaven and Earth Kungfu" is the essence of Twelfth Floor, and "Flower Folding Hand" claims to have no flaws. After decades of painstaking research in Quefeng Xiaopenglai, I finally got the method to crack the two. Whether it is possible to work behind closed doors, I am not tired There is no chance to prove it in this life, if the descendants of Xixiu Mountain are destined to come here, since they have already broken the Shimen mechanism, they can still find this book, which is considered courageous and resourceful. Why don’t you take it, so as not to bury your blood.”

Most people covered the cheat book like something, wishing they could crush it and stuff it into their throats.When this senior wrote these words boldly, it probably wasn't because he was about to run out of fuel, right?

What kind of obsession and love can clearly be brought to the grave, so that he can contribute unreservedly.

The last word fell gently in my heart, Wen Di only felt something flash past his eyes slightly, his fingers trembled, and when it was time to catch it, his nose was a little sore.

He raised his head and looked at Liu Shiqi. He tried his best to restrain himself when he spoke, but he still couldn't restrain his excitement: "What follows is the solution to "Heaven and Earth Same Life" and "Folding Hands" - so this place is called 'Little Penglai' .”

Liu Shiqi uttered a monotonous syllable "Ah" for a long while, and then took a step back.

This seemed to be the biggest surprise of their trip. Wendi glanced at the coffin, but this time he was not afraid at all.He seems to be able to see through the cold stones and bones, the predecessors who built a resting place for him here decades ago, as if once a person has sustenance, he will no longer return to the same kind as the wandering spirits of heaven and earth.

His spirit will follow this sustenance—be it real objects or just a few words—through a long period of time, and then fall on future generations and become a meaningful inheritance.

When they walked out of the tomb, Mo Ci was about to go crazy outside. He greeted him with a pale face, and hurriedly said, "Brother Wen, are you all right? I see that you don't come out all the time, and you still want to go in—"

"It doesn't matter." Wendi said, and blew out the fire, "Have you studied that mechanism clearly, can you go up?"

Mo Ci's attention was suddenly diverted, and he didn't bother to ask them what was inside, and obediently replied: "I wiped it with snow, and then tried to scrape off some of the rust. Now I can move, but it will take a while It's only a few days. I'm sorry, Senior Brother Wen, we still need to be wronged for a few days."

Wen Di squeezed out a smile: "It's been so long anyway."

Then he didn't say anything, just went to the side silently and found a clean place to sit down, took out the warm silk from his arms, spread it on his knees, flipped it back and forth, looking for it. Go to the section "Folding Hands".

The flower-folding hand has been in the same line for a long time, and Wen Di easily recognized every move and style he knew by heart from the lines in his words.Zhong Buyi first wrote down the outline of Zhehuashou concisely, and then pointed out how to decipher them one by one. Occasionally, there were breaks in the handwriting, so he had to rely on guesswork to make up.

Wen Di was sitting in the distance, Liu Shiqi knew that he must be very blocked, and thought to himself: "I said earlier that I learned so many things because I hated Zuo Nian, but when I saw Zhong Buyi's bequest, Brother Di might still be a little confused. Look forward to it."

He and Mo Ci chatted one after another, trying to find a way to get rid of the rusty mechanism together so that no one would disturb Wendi.

The man seemed to be about to collapse, he didn't move for the first three days, then he got up and asked Liu Shiqi to feed him.When Mo Ci didn't know, she went in and said hello in her spare time, just for fun.

But Liu Shiqi, who was feeding the move, saw the clues. Thanks to Wuxiang Gong, his sensitivity to every move and style is far more than that of Wendi, and he immediately noticed the opponent's rapid progress.

But this refinement only stays at the level of moves, and the inside is still "Heaven and Earth Kungfu", which may not be able to maximize its power.Liu Shiqi mentioned it to Wendi once, but the other party said that the two deciphering methods left by Zhong Buyi are also external and internal, without that inner strength, he cannot thoroughly understand the moves, and the current situation does not allow him to practice more.

Liu Shiqi took it for granted, practiced martial arts step by step, he couldn't rush, he was happy, he stopped asking Wendi what kind of mood he was after getting this treasure, and just happily followed him every day.

The heaven and earth skills are yin, and the stars turn into yang. Liu Shiqi and Wen Di have been the subjects of each other's competition for more than two months. While they have thoroughly grasped each other's flower-folding hands and six-yang palms, their own internal skills are also constantly grinding. A step up in the middle-but none of them was aware of the harmony at that time.

Mo Ci fiddled with it for five days, and finally finished repairing the organ.

Wen Di and Liu Shiqi were about to become immortals these days, and when they heard that they were able to go out at first glance, they didn't say anything, but joy still radiated from the corners of their brows and eyes.Before he left, he re-sealed the tomb of Zhongbuyi, and did not set up a monument for him. He stood outside respectfully and saluted as a junior, and took away the priceless scroll of silk.

After finishing all this, Wendi pushed aside the dangling vines along the path with overgrown branches, and walked to the place where Mo Ci was found that day.Liu Shiqi was already there, the tall and thin boy holding a ball of plush in his arms...

Wen Di frowned: "What are you doing with a rabbit?"

Liu Shiqi rubbed his fat gray rabbit ears: "If it weren't for it, we wouldn't be able to live now. It just kept biting the heel of my shoe, but it stopped when I hugged it. Brother Dee, what do you think it is? I don’t want to go out too.”

Wen Di couldn't refute, so he smiled lightly and left a sentence "It's up to you".

He glanced back with nostalgia, this place was unprecedentedly vast, and even the warmth and humidity brought by the hot spring did not seem unbearable.Knowing that it would be difficult to come back in the future, Wen Di gripped the silk tightly and sighed.

That being the case, there should be no more nostalgia.

"Little Penglai", Wendi closed his eyes, and suddenly had a doubt inappropriately: "Penglai seems to be in the East China Sea?..."

Not allowing him to think about it, with a bang, the stone door slowly opened, and Wendi was the last to get in.Before he had time to adapt to the darkness, there was a little light on the wall of the pit that Mo Ci was talking about!

The three of them looked over one after another, the bright light was approaching them, Wen Di subconsciously clasped his hands on the scabbard, and just waited for something to happen in his life, he immediately drew his sword and faced each other——

There was a familiar fragrance on the tip of the nose, Wen Di was thinking about where he met, but Mo Ci shouted: "Brother Zheng!"

A man came out of the darkness in response. He first grabbed Mo Ci, then raised his hand and patted him on the back. The fire folder in the other hand illuminated the not-so-wide space.

Yu Zheng had a cold face, his expression smelled as if there was a dark cloud over his head: "You are really promising!"

He has always been thunderous and rainy, Mo Ci is not afraid of him at all, and hangs his whole body on Yu Zheng's back quite intimately. Fortunately, it is cold and it is not difficult to see him if he does not change his clothes for a few days.The scratches on his back didn't hurt anymore, he immediately wrapped his arms around Yu Zheng's neck, and rubbed against his cheeks: "I'm fine, and I found Senior Brother Wen."

As soon as Yu Zheng's gaze made contact with Wen Di, the two of them developed a wonderful tacit understanding at some point, and they could see at a glance that the other party's emotions were exactly the same as his own, so they fell silent together.

He pointed to the rope that fell next to him and said: "The two younger brothers came back that day and said that you were lost. We searched Quefeng all over, and it is easy to get lost here. We only discovered this place this morning. Ah Ci, you go ahead Go up."

Wendi also said: "Seventeen, you go too."

Yu Zheng nodded and said: "Wait for us after going up, I have something to talk to Wendi."

Mo Ci had always been very obedient to what he said, and he climbed up after hearing that he followed the rope a few times.I didn't feel this pothole when I fell down, but when I climbed up, I realized that it was really long and deep. If there was no rescue from above, it might be really difficult for the three of them to climb back to the ground by their own ability.

The two small lightness skills were good, and after a while, the figure was already invisible towards the light at the entrance of the cave.

Yu Zheng leaned against the wall of the pit, his usual obsession with cleanliness disappeared without a trace.His eyes adapted to the darkness, and he was able to accurately look at Wendi, and after a while, he said softly: "You bumped into this restricted area by mistake?"

"Maybe it's not a forbidden place," Wendi said with a smile, "I saw that place should be built for the seniors privately, it's very simple, but after searching, I found other things. I made a rubbing copy and put it away Back to the original place."

Yu Zheng frowned slightly, not allowing him to ask questions, Wendi's footsteps approached, and then something soft was stuffed into his hand.

Wendi said relaxedly: "Restricted by the conditions, I can only tear a piece of clothes to write, brother, please bear with me - this matter is a long story, but this thing is the pure "Heaven and Earth Kung Fu Law", which contains the words "Heaven and Earth Together". "Shou" is different from the version in the Cangjing Pavilion. If you are heartbroken one day and want to break your feelings in order to seek relief, you can practice by yourself at that time..."

He spoke with confidence, but at the end he suddenly felt that something was wrong——

Zhong Buyi made it clear in the bamboo slips of "Heaven and Earth Kungfu" that he did not want to practice, nor did he agree with the "Heaven and Earth Live Together" established by the patriarch on the twelfth floor. lover.But in the stone room in a blink of an eye, he thought hard again, first practiced to the tenth floor by himself, and then practiced back to seek a breakthrough...

Passionate blinked and became ruthless, did something happen that made him heartbroken?The casual thought of "seeking relief" might be a mistake?

Wen Di cut off the words by himself, and was about to think about it, but Yu Zheng snorted softly and said: "I haven't reached that point yet, as long as you don't make trouble, life will be easy. I will accept this for now, thank you. "

Wendi: "It's just what I'm supposed to do."

Yu Zheng grabbed the rope, was about to go up from the bottom of the pit, and asked casually: "Are there any other things?"

"Huh?" Wendi asked in confusion, "What else?"

The light was dim, but Wen Di clearly felt that Yu Zheng smiled at him with great tolerance: "I mean, if there are other things, since you found them, you should hide them."

A white shadow flew up along the rope very quickly, Wendi stood at the same spot, shook his head helplessly, and said loudly: "Eldest brother knows the truth, junior brother is no match in this lifetime!"

Yu Zheng's voice came from far above: "You don't need to flatter me, go back and clean up your mess—"

The sky was dim, and when Wendi climbed out of the icy cave, the spring water was tinkling, and the severe winter in Xixiu Mountain seemed to have suddenly opened a hole, and it didn't take long for the spring water to murmur.

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Note:

1. "Zhenlong" is a term of Go. It is inspired by "Tianlong Babu" here, but the principle is different. The "Thousand-layer Treasure Pavilion" mentioned below is a kind of Zhenlong chess game, and it is also one of the four ancient Chinese chess games. One of the chess games.

2. "The image of heaven, earth and circle...the momentum of mountains and rivers" is quoted from Yu Ji's "Xuanxuan Chess Classic Preface"