Chapter 292: Bamboo shoots

Penglai, these two words have always been associated with sacredness and mystery in the eyes of Chinese people.

According to legend, this is the Taoist temple of the gods. The Eight Immortals got drunk here and crossed the sea, leaving behind the legend of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea and showing their magical powers.

Speaking of this mountain, the first thing people think of is the fairy air, the palace of gold and silver, the trees of Zhuxuan growing everywhere, and the immortals wandering in it. When mortals enter, the immortals touch their heads, tie their hair and receive immortality, and then transcend the world.

But what is the reality? After going through countless hardships and countless life and death tribulations, when we finally set foot on this legendary place, what we see in front of us is simply a ghost place!

At the dock, there are countless large and small boats moored, most of which are fishing boats. Basically, all the models that the old one-eyed man can recognize are available, but they are all scrapped over the years. The paint on the hull has fallen off and is mottled with rust, just like a big iron lump.

Among the numerous ships, there is even a 19th century Western fore-masted square-rigged schooner, but now it has become a pile of waste.

These large and small ships are crowded in the dock, making it look like a garbage dump.

It is dead silent here. On the narrow coastline, the black sea water keeps rolling and sweeping onto the beach. Those places that are often washed away are glowing with a strange dark green, and from a distance they look like they are covered with green algae.

In fact, this is entirely caused by the erosion of the evil spirit in the sea water. The evil spirit soaks the soil, and there is no light all year round. It is gloomy and wet, and it is difficult for yang energy to enter and dispel it. The imbalance of yin and yang has accumulated over the years, and the soil has changed. In our industry, we call this kind of sand "vegetarian corpse". The corpse of a human is a meat corpse. It is self-evident what vegetarian corpse is. The effect is comparable to dead human flesh. Some sorcerers mix this thing into clay and burn it into utensils for sale. Some people buy it and give it to those who want to murder. After using it, it is no different from eating dead people every day. Evil diseases frequently occur, and they will die soon.

Behind the pier, wooden houses of all sizes are scattered all over the place, like a small fishing village. However, most of these houses have been in disrepair for many years, and some have collapsed directly. There is no trace of the paradise that Qi Houzi said, not to mention the strange crops irrigated with salt water. It is obvious that Qi Houzi made it up again. He has a rich imagination and makes it sound very detailed. It feels that this grandson is a waste of talent to join the Hai Gang. He must be a good storyteller!

This is a ruin. There is nothing strange and no people.

It seems that Luo Songyuan had killed all the people controlled by the Poli beast ten years ago. Now only Qi Houzi and his men are left. With the destruction of these people, this place has completely become a ghost village without people.

However, there are also discoveries in this ruin.

We found a huge stone temple. It was very small and empty inside. There was only a pile of stones that looked like a totem or a statue. They were all made of polished square stones. The shape was like a burning flame. In front of it was a stone plate with a groove. I looked at the shape of the groove and it was exactly the same as the magnesium iron metal piece in Luo Songyuan's sailing diary.

If nothing unexpected happened, this should be the holy land that Luo Songyuan said. They stole the strange metal piece from this huge stone temple.

On the stone plate, there was a string of strange words engraved, which was exactly the kind of words of the mermaids that Lao Bai said.

Intuition told us that this sentence must be very important.

Unfortunately, Lao Bai could only decipher the words of the mermaids through dolphin language and other animal languages, but he didn't know the words at all. We had to give up and searched the whole village several times. We were relieved to confirm that there was no danger.

Brother Yaozi left the megalithic temple, climbed onto the roof of a wooden house next to it, and looked out at the giant mountain in the distance.

Monkey Qi is untrustworthy, and he talks a lot. Not even one of his ten sentences is true, but he really didn't lie about the topography of the island.

This island... is indeed divided.

The bare coastline is an area where outsiders controlled by the Poli beast can only move around. After passing through these wooden houses for about three or four hundred steps, the front plunged into the vast jungle.

It can be seen that this is a huge mountain that is so big that it is breathtaking. It is vast and boundless. Although there is no sunlight all year round, the vegetation is very dense. The vines on the ground are crisscrossed, almost intertwined into a large net. The branches of this vine are dark green, but the leaves are somewhat similar to biting nettles. It is a plant we have never seen before.

There are also those trees, which are also very strange. They don't grow straight and neatly. The trunks are twisted and turned, but they are very thick. Two or three people can hardly hug them. The crowns are open like a big umbrella. The towering trees are very close to each other, so that the crowns are connected together to form a huge dome.

This is also something we don't know.

When I came here, I felt like I was traveling through time, as if we were billions of miles away from the world we are familiar with, across the sea of ​​stars, and not even in a galaxy.

But my master smiled and said that this is normal. From the perspective of our Taoist theory, solitary yang cannot be born, solitary yin cannot grow, so the heaven and earth are matched with yin and yang. This place has no light all year round, no yang energy, and extreme yin is the so-called solitary yin place. It must change. This dense forest is a little vitality that has been nurtured to achieve a delicate balance. This is tantamount to the creation of the world. It is reasonable to see some plants that are completely different from the outside, so there is no need to make a fuss.

At this time, Brother Yaozi outside suddenly called us in a hurry.

I thought he had made some great discovery, so I ran out in a hurry, but I saw Brother Yaozi looking into the distance with a serious face.

"You should come up and take a look!!"

Brother Yaozi waved at me: "It's better for you to see it yourself."

I hurriedly climbed onto the roof of the wooden house. The house was already very fragile. When people stood on it, the roof "creaked" and it seemed that it would collapse at any time.

Brother Yaozi pointed to the distant mountain, and I looked in the direction he pointed.

It turned out that he was looking at the overall shape of the mountain.

Unfortunately, this is not the outside, there is no light, and darkness shrouds the mountain. Only the hazy outline can be seen, which is too majestic and vast.

"I want you to look at the place in the middle."

Brother Yaozi said, "Don't you think that mountain is interesting?!"

I was originally thinking about what you can see in the dark, but seeing him so serious, I calmed down.

In fact, Feng Shui really requires some talent.

It's like artistic creation. The hero Huang Zhan was able to create "Shanghai Beach" when he flushed the toilet after taking a shit. How many people couldn't help but want to sway when they heard the first line of "The waves are running and flowing"? Feng Shui is almost the same.

I am not a geomancer, but my ancestors have been making a living underground for eighteen generations. I have this gene in my bones. At this moment, I completely opened my mind, stared at it carefully for a long time, and really had some ideas.

The mountain that Brother Yaozi said was naturally not the whole mountain, but the top of the mountain.

The outline of a mountain is generally round and complete, very natural.

But this mountain doesn't look so natural! !

How should I put it? The peak on the top of the mountain is not so harmonious compared with the whole mountain. It feels a bit stiff, as if it is independent! !

"It looks a bit like... a grave?"

I hesitated for a moment, and immediately changed my tone: "No, in Feng Shui terms, this appearance should be called a bamboo shoot head, there is a tomb!!"

Bamboo shoot head, this is a term.

The Tang people opened mountains for tombs, and tombs were the most magnificent, but such projects were too wasteful, and ordinary people couldn't bear it. But if they couldn't bear it and wanted to enjoy that kind of style and treatment, they naturally had to think of other ways. This is like luxury goods are too expensive. Many people like them but are short of money, so they can only make high-end imitations. The same is true for building tombs. People can't be suffocated to death by urine, so in the Song Dynasty, there was a genius who combed the earth veins, didn't open the mountain, but only opened the mountain peak, and created a tomb that was both economical and long-lasting.

However, the construction of the tomb is still necessary. The work inside the mountaintop will inevitably destroy the coordination of the mountain. Even the most skilled craftsmen can never compete with the magic of nature. Therefore, the top of the tomb looks a bit stiff, which is called the bamboo shoot in the jargon.

This discovery is not big, nor is it small. At least it makes me feel a little enlightened.

We have few clues about this place. We came here for the Earth Spirit Pearl. We only know that this Earth Spirit Pearl, which was born in the Tang Dynasty, is on the lost body of Yang Guifei. We also speculate that this may be the legendary Penglai.

However, we have no idea what is waiting for us in Penglai!

Judging from the song sung by the mermaid, this seems to be the ruins of an ancient country.

Qi Houzi said that this is the palace of the gods.

Now I understand everything. It's a tomb! !

This result is not unexpected, but I feel at ease.

"Yes, it is indeed a tomb."

Brother Yaozi narrowed his eyes slightly, turned his head and smiled at me: "I have been searching for it everywhere, Jingzhe, congratulations in advance."

I don't understand where the joy comes from.

"This is a fierce burial."

My master touched the back of my head and said gently: "This place is surrounded by the black sea, and the evil spirit in the sea is soaring to the sky, it deserves the name of the dark sea. This mountain is the only place in the dark sea. The tomb is hanging high on the top of the mountain, which is equivalent to being in a yin steam furnace, which is more fierce than the demon tomb we saw before."

Now I understand that a fierce burial is not a suitable place for burial. To put it bluntly, you can't bury the dead. Burying a demon tomb is a polar fierce burial pavilion because the dead buried in it will be suppressed, and this place is also a fierce burial, but the buried person is equivalent to floating on a dark sea, which is a situation that breeds great evil.

When Guo Xun crossed the sea and returned to the mainland, he took great pains to lurk beside Yang Guifei, offering the Earth Spirit Pearl and taking out some fragrant muscle pills to make Yang Yuhuan unable to have children for life, and then stole her body after her death. At that time, Qingzhu said that Guo Xun must have set his sights on Yang Yuhuan and wanted to cultivate her. Now that this evil burial situation has appeared, the answer is obvious - we didn't mess around all the way, Yang Guifei is in the tomb on the top of the mountain!

It's not wrong for Brother Yaozi to congratulate him. He found the exact location of Yang Yuhuan. This is not a needle in a haystack. Finding the Earth Spirit Pearl to save my life is no longer an illusory empty talk!

But I really can't figure out what the relationship is between Guo Xun and the ancient country that the mermaids sang about? And did the Poli beast also come out of the tomb?

These are destined to be difficult to find answers by imagination, and I can only sigh softly and jump off the wooden house.

We have searched this place inside and out, so there will be no omissions. After a brief rest, we plunged into the vast jungle.

The road is difficult to walk on. The vines on the ground are tangled and thorny, and they are extremely hard, which greatly slows down our progress. In addition, there is no light here, and it is difficult to distinguish between day and night. It is easy to forget time when walking in it.

I only know that we walked for a long time, but there was no end in sight. It was so long that it made people despair.

"I can't do it anymore, I really can't do it anymore!!"

Suddenly, Lao Bai shouted and sat down on the exposed roots of a giant tree: "These two legs are like lead, I really can't move..."

"Look at your failure."

Brother Yaozi turned around and cursed: "Shunzi and Lao Duyan didn't say anything, but you are delicate..."

He stopped talking before he finished, but his eyes fell on Lao Bai's legs that he subconsciously raised and placed aside.

Lao Bai didn't care at all. He was about to speak with a smile, but was interrupted by Zhang Xinya's exclamation: "Your legs..."