I was an alchemist in those years

"Ah! How did I forget this?" Gu Anqi pursed her lips and straightened up in disappointment.

"An Qi, it's okay, the Fourteenth Tombs of the Ming Dynasty are such a rare treasure, the clues must be hidden very secretly, don't worry if you can't find it in a while." I smiled and said in relief.

"Why is it just the two of you, Lianshan?"

Hearing Yue Qianling's question, I realized that I hadn't seen anyone from Xiao Lianshan all morning.

"There is a young man at the Bagua Pavilion, who is burning incense and worshiping Buddha devoutly. He has been worshiping for a whole morning." The tourists who came from outside whispered.

I thought of Xiao Lianshan, except for him, few people would stubbornly do something.

When I walked to the Bagua Pavilion, I saw Xiao Lianshan who was stunned while walking. The incense burner in the Bagua Pavilion was full of incense, and there was a large handful in front of it. I knew he bought it without asking.

"Lian Shan, you... what are you doing?" I walked over and asked curiously.

"Brother, the Taoist priest said...the one enshrined in the Eight Diagrams Pavilion is Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism. It will come true." Xiao Lianshan was obviously in a daze, rubbing his forehead non-stop. "Brother... I... I'm very dizzy."

I looked at the incense burner, and according to what Xiao Lianshan said, I walked three times along the Bagua Pavilion, then walked three times backwards, and then offered incense and kowtowed. For a whole morning, Xiao Lianshan circled the Bagua Pavilion without getting dizzy. Strange.

"Lian Shan, you burn so much incense, what are you asking for?" Yue Qianling was dumbfounded.

"Hehe, I'll burn incense for you all, and bless you all safe and sound." Xiao Lianshan smiled honestly.

Gu Anqi handed over a tissue, saw that Xiao Lianshan was holding incense in his hand, smiled delicately, and helped him wipe the sweat off his forehead.

"Brother Lianshan, there are only three of us, you don't need so much incense."

"Not only you...but also my comrades in arms!" Xiao Lianshan took a deep breath with a sad expression on his face. "A lot of brothers who went to the front line together didn't come back alive. I remember the names of 72 of them. I put a stick of incense on them to bless them to be reborn as soon as possible, and the next life will be rich and prosperous."

Yue Qianling and Gu Anqi looked at Xiao Lianshan's dejected look, their eyes were a little moist, I walked over and patted him but couldn't say anything.

I raised my head and looked at the Bagua Pavilion in front of me.

The layout of the Bagua Pavilion is compact, exquisite and generous. The overall building has three floors. It is built on a heavy platform. There are tortoise-patterned doors and cloud-flowered windows, and the south-facing main entrance is a relief of the twelve zodiac signs of Tai Chi, with simple and elegant shapes.The whole pavilion is made of wood and stone, connected by tenons and tenons, without a wedge or a bolt. Instead, holes are chiseled with squares, poles, squares, and jues, which are diagonally pierced through straight sleeves, criss-crossed, and threaded.

Inside the Eight Diagrams Pavilion, there is a statue of Lao Tzu, which looks like it went west from Hangu Pass, with the head of a green bull looking west.

I slowly frowned and said thoughtfully.

"This Bagua Pavilion..."

"There's no way the Eight Diagrams Pavilion will have any clues!" Yue Qianling said with certainty from the side. "In the 12th year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the Bagua Pavilion was burned down because of a fire. It was later rebuilt according to its original appearance."

"No, I mean the location of the Bagua Pavilion is wrong!" I looked around and said in surprise.

"Brother Yanhui, why is the location of the Bagua Pavilion wrong?" Gu Anqi asked curiously.

"I came out of Hangu Pass from the west, so the head of the green ox looks west, but the couplets on both sides of the Bagua Pavilion don't mean that."

Gu Anqi looked up at the couplet I was referring to.

The stars are connected to the wells and the spirits are hanging down, and the hexagrams are Kunwei and the group of immortals.

Yue Qianling walked to Gu Anqi's side and said calmly.

"This couplet is also restored according to the original appearance. F, refers to the degree and order of the constellations; Jing, refers to the well star in the 28 constellations. The meaning of the couplet is: this Bagua Pavilion corresponds to the well star in the sky, and there is always a bright light; The subordinates occupy the positions of Qian, Kun, Kan, Li, Zhen, Xun, Gen, and Dui Bagua, and there are often crowds of immortals."

"But the main entrance of the Bagua Pavilion is facing the earthquake position, and the earthquake is a tree, which belongs to the east!" The more I looked, the more surprised I became, and I said with a frown. "The head of the green ox originally looked west, but now it looks east?"

"Looking east... so what's wrong with looking east, the Qingyang Palace is distributed according to the central axis, maybe it's just a layout requirement, there's nothing to make a fuss about." Yue Qianling spread her hands and said.

"Impossible. Qingyang Palace is a very important Taoist temple. There is no reason why things should not be distinguished. What's more, Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism is enshrined here, so it is impossible to be so ridiculous." I said firmly.

Xiao Lianshan didn't understand what I was talking about, he just felt dizzy and wanted to vomit.

"Brother, the pillars of the Bagua Pavilion are all engraved with dragons. I am very dizzy. Looking at these pillars, the dragons on them seem to be moving."

Only then did I notice the stone pillars around the Bagua Pavilion. The Bagua Pavilion is made of sixteen huge stones chiseled into a double row of stone pillars. The golden dragon, coiled around the pillar, is magnificent.

"There is another legend about the coiled dragon on this stone pillar." Yue Qianling saw my gaze on the stone pillar, and walked beside me and said. "It is said that when the reconstruction of the Bagua Pavilion was completed, the Panlong on the right stone pillar facing the Sanqing Hall in the north was revived, trying to leave the pillar and ascend to the sky, but was discovered by the envoy on duty of Yueyu, and he nailed it to death with a divine fist. On the stone pillar, from some point, the dragon left a fist imprint, which is still clearly visible.”

I raised my head suddenly, a little shocked.

"It is absolutely impossible to make mistakes in the direction of the Bagua Pavilion. The only thing that can be explained is that the builders did it on purpose!"

"Brother, okay, why did you deliberately fix the wrong direction of the Bagua Pavilion?" Xiao Lianshan held the incense with a blank expression on his face.

"All the buildings are right, the only one that is wrong..." Gu Anqi slowly widened her eyes and said excitedly. "The only one who is wrong is the one who left a clue!"

Yue Qianling looked at the Bagua Pavilion in surprise, but there was nothing unusual about it.

"The clues are left in the Eight Diagrams Pavilion? Impossible, this pavilion has been renovated many times, and there are more than ten records in the archives, even if it was destroyed, it would have been destroyed long ago."

I shook my head and walked back and forth a few steps, whispering in my mouth.

"It won't stay in a place that can be destroyed artificially. Where can clues be preserved forever?"

"Sister Qianling, did you just say that this was built according to the original appearance, did it not move at all?" Gu Anqi said.

Yue Qianling smiled unsurely.

"After all, the original site has been burnt down, and it was rebuilt later. Although it is exactly the same, who can guarantee that it will be exactly the same."

My gaze fell on the Panlong on the stone pillar, and I walked around the Bagua Pavilion.

"One, two, three... 37...."

It took Yue Qianling a long time to understand that I was counting the dragons on the stone pillar, and said it very easily beside me.

"Don't count, and don't look at what I learned. There are 81 dragons carved in the whole pavilion, symbolizing Lao Tzu's 81 transformation."

I stopped at the spot and thought for a moment in silence, then said as if I had realized something.

"In addition, there are 64 hexagrams, which are designed according to the Taoist theory of yin and yang and eight trigrams. They are also a philosophical symbol of the Taoist teaching that "the sky is round, the place is, and yin and yang are born together, and the eight trigrams are mated to form all kinds of transformations". Therefore...it is called the Bagua Pavilion."

Gu Anqi suddenly raised her head and looked very excited.

"I know where the clues are hidden!"

"In? Where?" Yue Qianling asked in surprise.

"Brother Yanhui said that the clue must be hidden in a place where others will not pay attention and will not be destroyed. There are 64 hexagrams in this eight trigrams pavilion, and the hexagrams will never disappear. That is to say, the clues are hidden in the 64 hexagrams! "

I also raised the corners of my mouth with an excited smile on it.

"An Qi is right, the secret is hidden in these 64 hexagrams!"

"Hexagram 64... Brother, there are so many hexagrams, how do you know which hexagram has a clue?" Xiao Lianshan asked puzzled.

"Hehe, I already know!" I said with a confident smile.

"Can you finish talking at once?" Yue Qianling urged anxiously.

With a smug smile on my face, I said calmly.

"Didn't you just say that there are a total of 81 dragons on the stone pillar, symbolizing the 81 changes of Lao Tzu. It is rumored that a coiled dragon wanted to ascend, but was discovered by the envoy on duty of Yueyu, and he nailed it to death on the stone pillar with a divine fist. One is missing, and it becomes eighty dragons, the purpose of this rumor is actually to cover up the number eighty!"

"Eighty?!" Gu Anqi pouted and shook her head, looking a little disappointed. "Brother Yanhui, that's not right. There are only 64 hexagrams in the gossip, and eighty... there is no eighty hexagrams?"

I pointed to the Lao Tzu enshrined in the Bagua Pavilion and said with a smile.

"This is where the Bagua Pavilion hides its secrets. As I said just now, the head of the green ox looks west, but the direction of the Bagua Pavilion is just the opposite. East and west are reversed, left, east and right west. eighteen!"

"Eighteen! Eighteen hexagrams are Gu hexagrams." Gu Anqi thought for a while and said seriously. "Yuanheng, benefiting Dachuan; first Jia for three days, and then Jia for three days."

"Gu hexagrams are suitable for sacrifices, and they are good for crossing mountains and rivers. The upper nine of Gu hexagrams are: don't do things for princes, do noble things, and refer to those who protect and uphold the Tao and follow the Tao." I looked back at the statue of Lao Tzu in the hall , Said confidently. "The head of the green bull looks west, and it actually points to the east. If I'm not mistaken, there is a mountain to the east of the Bagua Pavilion where Taoism is promoted and used for sacrifices. The clues to the Ming Tombs are on that mountain!"

Yue Qianling was taken aback, looked at the direction of my finger, and the corners of her mouth twitched a few times.

"East...there really is a mountain you mentioned in the east."

"Qianling, what mountain is it?" Xiao Lianshan asked nervously.

"Qingcheng Mountain!"