I stared at the bloody hand, raised the pistol with both hands, and aimed at the jade coffin.

No matter what kind of monster comes out, if it dares to come out, I will immediately pull the trigger and blow his head off.

"Chen - Si - Yu -" it called my name, and then poked out a bloody head from the jade coffin.

That's a child's head.

The head of a ten-year-old boy.

"Why did you leave me?" It stared at me with its hollow eyes filled with maggots.

I shouted; "No! No! You are not Shang Qingyun! Qingyun will not die that easily!"

It has climbed onto the jade coffin. That thing can no longer be called a human being. It is not even an ordinary corpse. It is covered in blood, like a skinned monkey. I can clearly see every blood vessel on its body.

It was all beating, and smelly blood was dripping from its body.

Every step he takes is a blood mark.

"Don't try to lie to me!!!" I raised the pistol, pointed it, and pulled the trigger.

As the bullet was fired, the gun handle shook violently.

Bang bang bang, several loud roars covered the fear and guilt in my heart.

Then, the bloody man who looked exactly like Shang Qingyun disappeared.

All that was left in place was the hazy mist, no blood, and no dead bodies. The lid of the jade coffin was intact. I turned around and looked back, and found several clearly visible bullet holes on the deck of the Naihe Bridge.

It turns out that everything I saw just now was an illusion. Fortunately, there is only me and a coffin left. If there were a few more people, they would all be destroyed in an instant due to cannibalism.

I looked around vigilantly, thinking in my mind, what is it about the problem that caused me to fall into hallucination?

Is it a boat? Is it a jade coffin? Is it a river? Or a bridge?

No, neither.

It's fog!

Before the heavy fog came, I didn't have any problems, and I didn't have any hallucinations like in the Sea Eye Dragon Palace along the way.

Have I mistakenly fallen into some formation again?

I remembered that there was a notebook in Er Pang's bag, which he had compiled by himself before, recording various mazes that often appeared in tombs to deal with tomb robbers and intruders.

I hurriedly looked through it to find the notebook, put aside distracting thoughts, and searched for relevant clues without being affected by the outside world.

Finally, I found a similar description in the article Zhuge Ba Zhen Diagram.

What I'm talking about is that there is a passage in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" where it is written that Lu Xun, the commander-in-chief of the Wu Kingdom, chased Liu Bei and accidentally entered the eight formations, almost losing his life. It was Zhuge Liang's father-in-law Huang Tingyan who led him out of the maze.

Among them, it was said that Lu Xun was blinded by the heavy fog in the Eight Formations and could not get out alive or dead. Not only that, they tried to fill the Eight Formations in terms of numbers and moved mountains and seas, but they did not expect that they were rushed as soon as they entered the formation.

After they dispersed, the soldiers who entered the formation encountered many strange things in the formation. In the end, only a few people returned safely, and all the other soldiers disappeared into the formation.

In this way, it is explained clearly. Zhuge Liang's name is engraved under the bridge, and there is Zhuge Liang's formation here. It should be that Zhuge Liang was afraid that outsiders would invade in the future, so he set up a maze formation here.

However, this makes me more and more curious about what is at the end of the Wangchuan River, which is worth Zhuge Liang's troubles.

However, this is not the problem I want to study right now. The current problem is how to break the formation. The reason why Zhuge Liang's Eight Formation Diagram is mysterious is not because it is mysterious or contains weird phenomena.

The most important reason why Zhuge's eight formation diagrams are strange is that the logic of their spells is very complex.

People who have not studied Taoist magic theory often attribute various ancient formations and magic operations to "Qi Men Dun Jia".

This is actually a misunderstanding.

The so-called Qimen Dunjia is actually just one of the subjects in Taoist magic. This is like when we studied mathematics in school and only learned addition, we thought that all operations in the world can be solved by addition. In fact, there are more

There are multiplication, division, subtraction, calculus...

This is the case with Qimen Dunjia. In fact, Qimen Dunjia is the easiest to master among all the disciplines of magic and mathematics, because it has the most logical methods to find. As long as you find the logical tricks, you can master it almost immediately.

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But there are far more than just Qimen Dunjia in Taoist magic. Astronomy, calendar, mathematics, astrology, divination, fortune telling, numerology, physiognomy, Kanyu, etc., all belong to magic.

There are three major secret treasures in Shushu, namely Liuren, Taiyi and Qimen. Among them, Liuren and Taiyi are far more mysterious than Qimen Dunjia, and the Zhuge Eight Formations are based on the two.

To use the metaphor of heaven, earth and people, Liuren is the time of heaven, Taiyi is geography, and Qimen is people. The reason why the first two are mysterious is not that they are superstitious and illogical, but that the first two do not follow what we humans have

logic.

Therefore, few people can master it.

Just like you don't know when the wind will come back, or when the rain will fall.

I really like one of Lovecraft's conclusions in his book "The Cthulhu Mythos": humans cannot penetrate and understand the logic of dimensions higher than their own.

Originally I didn't believe such bizarre remarks, but after returning from Sea Eye Dragon Palace, I found that I am more tolerant than before. No matter how nonsense the logic is, I can face it with reason.

So, now I can understand Erpang’s description of the logic of the eight-array diagram in his notes.

I can probably figure out how to break the formation.

The so-called Eight Formation Diagram, many people associate this formation with Bagua, because they all occupy eight, and it is also related to the eight gates in Qimen Dunjia.

In fact, this is a complete over-complication of the eight-array diagram, or it may be said that it has gone astray.

In the final analysis, the essence of the Eight Formation Diagram is the formation method for marching and fighting.

What they adapted to was not Qian Kun Gen Zhen Xun Li Kun Dui, nor was it Hu Sheng Xiu Du Jing Shi Jing Kai, but something more suitable for the battlefield.

The storms of heaven and earth.

On the battlefield, changes in the sky, land, wind direction and cloud currents are far more practical than Bagua.

This is the logic of astronomy and geography in Taiyi.

When you can't identify something, you have to learn to use it.

This is what the Eight Formation Diagram is like.

Even modern meteorology cannot fully explain many astronomical wonders, let alone the ancients who regarded crocodiles as gods.

But the ancients had a clearer attitude towards ecological philosophy than we do. They would not try to explain something forcibly, but would follow the laws of nature and make use of those things.

For example, wind direction can control the range of arrows and the spread of fire.

In the Battle of Chibi, the east wind determined the outcome of the entire battle.

As for me, I was between the Shepan Formation and the Fengyang Formation among the eight formations, and I just arrived by moving forward on the bow of the boat.

I suddenly understood why there was a Naihe Bridge standing here. I didn't know where it led, but when I saw the array points in the eight-array diagram, I understood what it was used for.

The Naihe Bridge is the body of the snake array, and the direction of the Wangchuan River passing under the bridge is the snake's head.

I just happened to be in the position of the snake's head and activated the snake-pan array.

By accident, in order to read the words on the bottom of the bridge, I pulled the boat next to the bridge pier and changed the course, which activated the wind array again.

I once heard my grandfather say a tongue twister, which is called clouds follow the dragon, wind follows the tiger, snakes coil around the mist, and birds combine with the earth.

I never understood what this sentence meant. I thought it was just nonsense that the old man heard from somewhere.

Only now do I understand that this is the change between the Taiyi numbers in the eight formation diagram.

The wind corresponds to the dragon, and the cloud corresponds to the tiger. The wind and clouds collided on the snake and pan formation, and a heavy fog arose.

What does the bird combined with the earth mean?

I didn't find the answer even in Er Pang's notebook, but I saw a printed picture in the middle of a certain page of his notebook.

The above is an interview report from a certain radio news station in a certain year.

It is said that a group of experts and scholars were exploring Wawu Mountain one year. They found a strange shadow on the top of Wawu Mountain on Google satellite and decided to find out.

As a result, as soon as we entered the mountain, heavy fog suddenly appeared in the forest.

So these people prepared to retreat and wait for the weather to improve before leaving.

But when they were about to return home, they found that they couldn't light the road at all.

The mobile phone's GPS system, compass, compass, and all other equipment failed.

At the same time, they also encountered strong winds, black fog and even hallucinations while wandering in the mountains. Later in the interview, those people claimed that they seemed to see an old Taoist. When they walked in, they discovered that it was someone else. The person waved to them and signaled him.

past.

The people on the scientific expedition team were frightened when they looked up close. Some saw their dead relatives, while others saw ancient people wearing ancient clothes.

These people's faces were as pale as dead people, but they showed weird smiles.

The members of the scientific expedition team did not dare to wander around anymore, so they had to camp on the spot and wait for the weather to improve the next day.

Who knows, when they woke up, they found that they were already halfway up Wawu Mountain.

To this day, the foggy area at the top of Wawu Mountain remains an unsolved mystery.

However, some locals also provided them with a legend.

It is said that the fog was an eight-formation ecstasy letter set up by Zhang Sanfeng and Zhang Zhenren, who were obtained by Wudang in the past, in order to protect something.

Unless it is Master Zhang himself, outsiders will only die if they enter.
To be continued...