On the Importance of Chinese Characters

After they found the village chief in the square, the village chief took them home.After learning that they were going to ask about the legend about the dark moon, the village head looked deeply at Zhuang Yunzhou for a long time before saying in an old voice: "The legend is true."

The two were shocked: "There are really temples and evil beasts?"

The village head nodded: "It's just that the temple has disappeared from the world since the beast was sealed. It has been 4000 years, and no one has seen the temple again, so history has become a legend."

He smiled: "If it weren't for the secret records handed down from generation to generation in the village, I would probably think that the legend of the dark moon was compiled by later generations."

"Secret record?"

"En." The village chief took out a stone of attention, Zhuang Yunzhou noticed that there were at least three layers of spiritual consciousness locks on it, rubbed the stone, and said, "It is said in the secret record that one day someone will master a kind of 'source' The mysterious power of the spell, find the temple, completely seal the beasts, and eliminate the dark moon."

"Is the power you used the origin technique?"

"Yes." Zhuang Yunzhou nodded.

After getting an affirmative answer, the village chief looked a little excited, nodded vigorously, and said hello repeatedly.

Fang Qiling asked again: "Village Chief, is there any news about the temple in the secret record?"

The village chief shook his head: "The secret record only said that the temple was hidden, but did not mention its location. But..." He stood up and took out a black box from a tightly locked cabinet , "This is something that was handed down together with the Secret Record."

"What's inside?" Zhuang Yunzhou looked at the box and asked.

"I don't know either." The village chief rubbed the surface of the box, "No one can open it. It's just that the secret records say that if one day a spirit clansman who possesses the source technique comes, he will give this box to him."

The village chief patted the surface of the box with his old hand, sighed and said, "It's been 4000 years, I never thought this box would be handed over from me."

He looked up at Zhuang Yunzhou, and passed the box over: "Take it."

Zhuang Yunzhou did not refuse, and took it over to thank him: "Thank you, village chief."

The village chief waved his hand: "Thank you. If you can find the temple and completely seal the beast, then you will be the heroes of the entire Penggui world."

After bidding farewell to the village chief, Zhuang Yunzhou and Fang Qiling returned to the house. As soon as they reached the alley that belonged to them, they found that the door was already full of things, mostly daily necessities, thick mattresses, particularly soft tanned animal skins, food Melons, fruits and vegetables are all neatly packed in baskets, mats and the like.

It's what they need right now.

There was a ten-year-old child guarding the door. Seeing the two of them coming back, the little girl gave a strange salute and stammered, "Mother, mother said, these are for the venerable, uh, everyone gave them. .”

The child's eyes were bright, looking up at the two of them was very cute, Zhuang Yunzhou walked up to her and knelt down, and said softly: "I took the things, go back and tell your mother and everyone, I like it very much, thank you very much them."

The little girl smiled shyly and happily. Hearing Zhuang Yunzhou's instructions, she nodded her head heavily, turned around and ran away, and when she reached the intersection, she turned around and waved at them.

"It's so cute." Fang Qiling sighed.

Zhuang Yunzhou paused for a moment, then said calmly: "Brother Fang's child must be so cute."

"Mine?" Fang Qiling glanced at him sideways, and said three words in a calm voice, "Impossible." Before Zhuang Yunzhou could say anything, he put all the things on the ground into the storage bag on his waist, Push the door and go in.

What this impossibility refers to, Zhuang Yunzhou knew it well, he clenched his fist unconsciously, lowered his eyes and walked in.

It was getting dark soon, but it was still early.Zhuang Yunzhou took out the source treasure of the word 'fire' from the storage bag, slightly sent some source power in, and the bright fire light illuminated the room, he put the box he got from the village chief on the table, and used his spiritual sense to measure it inch by inch. lingering.

The box as a whole presents a dull black color, the four sides are smooth without any patterns, and it looks like a natural one, without any openings or gaps.

"No response to divine thoughts." Zhuang Yunzhou frowned and thought, "It's not a spiritual consciousness lock."

"I'll try the source power." Fang Qiling took the box over, and pressed his palm against the surface. The source force gushed out gently and gently, but when it touched the surface of the box, it was completely blocked from the outside, and could not be delivered at all. go in.

"It's not source power either."

The two looked at each other.Zhuang Yunzhou mused: "The village chief said that he should hand over the things to the person who possesses the source art. Since neither divine sense nor source power is the key to opening the box, we still have to start with the source art."

"But, what kind of origin technique can open a closed space?" He muttered in thought, the word 'open'?However, after such a long time, he has never seen the word 'open'.

Fang Qiling touched his chin, and suddenly said: "I don't think the key to opening the box should be a specific Genesis technique?"

"Huh? How do you say it?" Zhuang Yunzhou looked up at him.

Fang Qiling continued: "Think about it. Along the way, there is no danger in this illusion, on the contrary, it is like a puzzle, one link after another. If you really need a specific source technique, we don't have this source technique." , wouldn’t this become a deadlock?”

"Uncle said that this is a secret realm, the secret realm of Venerable Penggui. Master Penggui was recognized as a good person in history. If it was his secret realm, I don't think it would be like this."

What Fang Qiling said was true.

After overturning this line of thinking, Zhuang Yunzhou began to meditate again.

Lost in thought, he began to play with things unconsciously with his hands again - he pushed the box to the center of the table, with the four corners of the box facing the four corners of the table, and then finely adjusted the direction, The distance and angle must be the same.

Fang Qiling watched his actions, but a similar image suddenly popped up in his mind——

Or the two of them.Talking in a room that he felt very familiar with, Zhuang Yunzhou lost his mind when he was talking, and began to play with a tea set unconsciously in his hands.

The teapot must be placed in the middle of the table, and the four teacups must be next to the teapot. Each must face the center of the edge of the table.

However, in that scene, he reached out and took away one of the cups very maliciously, causing Zhuang Yunzhou to come back to his senses suddenly, with a somewhat dazed and anxious face on his face, but he laughed loudly, and then Zhuang Yunzhou showed connivance helplessly. The expression on the whole picture looks extraordinarily comfortable.

That is, their past memories.

Fang Qiling was stunned for a moment, trying to recall more.But there seemed to be a thick fog floating in my mind, with various pictures faintly floating in it, but I couldn't see clearly.

"I think I probably know how to open it!" Zhuang Yunzhou's voice brought Fang Qiling back to his senses, and when he regained consciousness, he saw Zhuang Yunzhou stretch out a finger, and the source power on the finger gradually condensed.

"Tuoyuan?" Fang Qiling raised his voice and his eyes lit up.

Zhuang Yunzhou directly used Xu Yuanli to draw a character of "fire" in oracle bone inscriptions on the surface of the box. Without the source material to carry it, the pattern of the source technique should not last long, but when he made the last stroke, the pattern was stable. It landed steadily on the box, and then sank into the box as if being sucked into it.

With a 'click' sound, a crack opened on the top of the box.

The two were refreshed.

Inside the box is a stone of caution.Fang Qiling took out the attention stone from the box, and tested it with his spiritual thoughts: "No way. This attention stone is strange, it is not locked, but my spiritual thoughts are directly blocked outside."

"I'll give it a try." Zhuang Yunzhou took the attention stone, and entered it easily with his spiritual sense.

After reading the entire attention stone, Zhuang Yunzhou showed a complex expression on his face. He raised his head and said to the other party, "This secret place is actually the real abode of the ghost master."

"You mean the real legacy mansion?!" Fang Qiling's eyes brightened slightly, "Peng Guishi had no children and no disciples in his life. According to legend, he hid his inheritance in the many legacy mansions left behind, but for so many years, there has never been one. People have found it. So, this secret realm is... that legendary abode?!"

"It's not just that." Zhuang Yunzhou pursed his lips, "This illusion is the selection contest for the succession of Peng Guishi. Now we are not the only ones in the illusion, there are many disciples from other sects. As long as any one of these people gets the inheritance, we we can go out."

This sentence made Fang Qiling connect the whole thing from the beginning to the end, and he suddenly realized——

Master Penggui is the rubbing master, so his inheritance must be related to the rubbing master, so nothing in the palace and other forces was found out, because the conditions for opening the real legacy mansion were not met.

As for the selection, it must be selected from a group of people, so when the various sects send their disciples to practice, the rubbing master apprentices who own Xuhai gather in the secret realm, and the number meets the selection requirements. Pulled them all into the illusion.

His master's disappearance is probably inseparable from the widow's residence.

Fang Qiling's guess was not bad at all, not only that, the Yifu also set an age limit, and only apprentice rubbing masters under the age of 40 are eligible to participate in this selection competition.

But this time all the major forces were dispatched together, and after waiting for several days, eighty rubbing master apprentices were gathered to open the real Yifu.

"The temple and the beast... are they just a cover?" Fang Qiling suddenly thought of this.

"I don't know." Zhuang Yunzhou shook his head and frowned, "I always feel that there should be something else involved."

No matter what else was going on, the two of them were relieved to understand what was going on in this illusion.

"Then what's the next step? How do we go?" Fang Qiling asked.

"Wait." Zhuang Yunzhou raised the attention stone in his hand, "This is the proof of passing the primary election, and the re-election will start after the end of this dark moon."