I was an alchemist in those years

The next day I went to Mount Qingcheng, Xiao Lianshan accompanied Gu Anqi to meet Lan Qing, and the only ones who went with me to Mount Qingcheng were Yue Qianling and Qiu Nuo.

Yue Qianling doesn't like Qiu Nuo, I know it well, but as for the reason, I still don't know, but because Qiu Nuo gave the other Luoxuan magic strategy, although Yue Qianling is holding her breath in her heart, It's not easy to explode, because I was thinking about Wei Yong's matter, so I didn't see the secret war between the two women.

Qingcheng Mountain is famous for its quietness. Since ancient times, people have used the word "you" to summarize the characteristics of Qingcheng Mountain.

Qingcheng Mountain is surrounded by empty and emerald green, peaks, valleys, and temples are all hidden in lush and green forests. Taoist pavilions are made of natural materials without fake carvings, and they are integrated with mountains, forests, rocks and springs, reflecting the Taoist style of advocating simplicity and nature.

However, I have no time to take into account these scenery. According to the display on the map of Tiancang in western Sichuan and the information provided by Fang Yanan, it seems that all the focus is on the Tianshi Cave in Qingcheng Mountain.

Tianshi Cave, also known as Changdao Temple, is the most important Taoist temple in Qingcheng Mountain. According to legend, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Daoling, the founder of Tianshi Dao, once practiced preaching among the cliffs of the third Hunyuan Peak on the mountainside of Qingcheng Mountain, commonly known as Tianshi Cave.

There is a stone niche on the uppermost floor of the cave, in which is enshrined the stone statue of Zhang Tianshi carved in the Sui Dynasty.

There are three eyes on the face, the expression is majestic, the left palm is stretched out, and the treasure of the heavenly master is held in the palm.

Yangping Zhidu Gongyin.

Yue Qianling explained the small Tianshi Cave almost eloquently. According to Yue Qianling, the original view of Tianshi Cave was destroyed long ago and was rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty. Obviously, there are absolutely no clues about the Four Tombs of the Ming Dynasty. will remain within these buildings.

The Tianshi Cave was formed naturally, and if there were any clues, it should be in the cave, but after I watched it carefully for a long time in silence, I still shook my head in disappointment. There was nothing strange in it.

I looked down at the dragon head wood in my hand. I asked Wei Yong to find Fang Yanan to get it. The dragon head wood was found from Tianshi Cave. Those people wanted to take it back at all costs, which showed that the dragon head wood was very useful. It's unusual, but what is the use of this dragon head wood?

"Brother Yanhui, could it be that the calculation was wrong, and the clues to the Four Tombs of the Ming Dynasty are not in the Tianshi Cave?" Qiu Nuo said calmly beside him.

I thought for a while and shook my head with certainty.

"Probably not. According to the reminder of the Tiancang Map in Western Sichuan, the clue should be in the Tianshi Cave."

"What's there to think about? Since there is nothing in this cave, it may not be outside the cave." Yue Qianling couldn't get in for a long time, so she said something boring.

My eyes lit up, I smiled at Yue Qianling, and nodded thoughtfully.

"Tianshi Cave... It shouldn't simply refer to this cave. It seems that I think too simple."

After I finished speaking, I looked around the display in the cave again, and my eyes finally fell on a stone niche on the uppermost floor of the cave, which enshrined a stone statue of Zhang Tianshi carved in the Sui Dynasty, with three eyes on his face, a majestic expression, and his left palm stretched out.

I tried to stand under the stone statue, and looked in the direction my palm pointed, the corners of my mouth slowly turned up.

Walk out of the Tianshi cave and walk in the direction pointed by the stone statue just now. A tall and straight tree in a lush forest is particularly eye-catching.

According to Yue Qianling, this is called Lingshan Immortal Tree, which is actually a ginkgo tree. However, Tianshi Cave is the place where Zhang Tianshi, the founder of Taoism, practiced, created, manifested, emerged, and was buried. This tree was planted by Zhang Tianshi. Taoism is regarded as the treasure of Zhenshan, and it has been 800 years since the Spring and Autumn Period.

Although the legend cannot be verified, it is an indisputable fact that the Taoist afforestation of Qingcheng Mountain has been inherited from generation to generation, making Qingcheng Mountain a famous mountain in the world.

We stood in front of the tree, and all three of them opened their mouths at the same time. Perhaps I had never seen such a big tree before, and I was a little shocked.

I frowned, and quickly took out the map of Tiancang in western Sichuan from my bag, pointed to the map and said excitedly.

"Look, there is also this tree on the map of Tiancang."

"What's so strange about drawing a tree in the picture? This is a landscape painting, so why do you make such a fuss about the tree on it?" Yue Qianling glanced at it and said disapprovingly.

"Judging from the overall layout of this painting, although it is a landscape painting, this tree is obviously a bit overwhelming. From the artist's point of view, the person who painted this painting should be proficient in landscape painting, but this tree is clearly the fault." Qiu Nuo After reading it, I said it with confidence.

I smiled and nodded in agreement.

"My thoughts are the same as Qiu Nuo's. Before looking at this painting, I always felt that something was not quite right. Now that I see this tree, I finally understand that this tree does have the meaning of distracting others and completely destroying the artistic conception of the whole painting. "

"Brother Yanhui, how could there be a failure in such an important painting!" Qiu Nuo said happily, his eyes brightened. "Could it be that the failure was left on purpose, and the clue is related to this tree!"

I smiled and looked up to Tianshi Cave and said.

"I thought so too, because in the cave of Tianshi, the direction Zhang Tianshi's palm pointed to happened to be the location of this tree."

"Then ask this tree where the Ming Tombs are." Yue Qianling asked with a pouted mouth.

I walked around the ginkgo tree and looked at the other trees around. Judging from the size of the trees, the surrounding trees are obviously much smaller than the ginkgo tree, but even so, it is estimated that the planting age is very old.

I climbed up without saying a word. I grew up in the mountains. I have been doing things like climbing trees and digging out bird nests since I was a child, so I climbed to a height of more than ten meters in a while, and then looked down. These ginkgo trees are not planted randomly. From my height, I can clearly see that these trees are centered on the ancient ginkgo tree and arranged according to the five elements and eight trigrams.

"It's nothing to be curious about. This is Mount Qingcheng, the birthplace of Taoism. Planting trees according to the Five Elements and Eight Diagrams is also reasonable. Why are you so excited?" Yue Qianling raised her head and said loudly.

I climbed down from the tree and said with a smile while raising the dragon head wood in my hand.

"Of course, I'm not only happy because these trees are arranged according to the five elements and eight trigrams. Judging from the texture and color of the wood, this dragon head wood is made of one of the trees. We really found the right place!"

Qiu Nuo just smiled happily, but looked around and said sadly.

"If it's really related to these trees, there are at least a thousand plane trees, big and small, so how do you know which tree it is?"

"Let's make a calculation based on the clues we already know." I lowered my head and thought for a while and said calmly. "The person who left this clue hid the secret in this forest, but the one pointing to this forest is the stone statue of Tianshi Zhang in the cave of Tianshi... the stone statue of Tianshi Zhang..."

"Just now I took a closer look at the Tianshi Cave, and there is nothing special about the stone statue."

"Yes!" I interrupted Yue Qianling. "The seal held in the stone statue's hand!"

"Yangping Zhidu Merit Seal?!" Yue Qianling asked curiously.

"Yangping Zhidu Merit Seal is one of the seals used by celestial masters of the Zhongzheng School of Taoism. It is said to be left by Zhang Daoling, the ancestor celestial master. Five buckets of rice once set up 24 rulers. Yangpingzhi was the celestial master's resident. The celestial master received all the merits, so its seal It is a symbol of Zhang Tianshi's status and power." Qiu Nuo has always been familiar with cultural relics, and blurted out without thinking.

I nodded and said with a smile.

"This seal is the main magic weapon handed down from generation to generation to restrain ghosts and gods. It is the treasure of the altar of Zheng Yizong. It is used for stamping the place where the signature is signed and the seal on the talisman when it is important. Only documents with this seal can be used. It is believed to have the ability to command ghosts and gods."

"Then what does this seal have to do with the clues of the Ming Tombs?" Yue Qianling still didn't understand.

"The seal on the stone statue is carved from stone, but the real seal is not made of stone."

"Yangping Zhidugong Seal, the jade quality is seven cents thick, the horizontal length is one and a half inches each, and the golden button." Qiu Nuo obviously has extraordinary talent in cultural relics appreciation, and he knows this seal well.

"Qiu Nuo is right. The Yangping Zhidu Merit Seal is made of jade, and the stone statue of the Celestial Master points to the position of the finger. And this seal actually tells us where the clues are." I nodded and said. "The other trees around this ginkgo tree are planted according to the five elements and eight trigrams. Jade belongs to gold in the five elements, and the direction of gold is the west, which means we have to go to the west to find it."

"Even if we know that it is in the west, there are many trees in the west, so I don't know which tree it is?" Qiu Nuo said shaking his head.

"How many faces does the stone statue of Zhang Tianshi have in the Tianshi Cave?" I asked back.

"Three... three sides!" Yue Qianling suddenly said with a cheerful smile. "I see, with the ginkgo tree as the center, the third tree to the west! The clue is there!"

According to these deduced clues, I quickly found the third tree in the west, which was no different from the other trees around, except that there was a rock beside the tree, and there was a hollowed out stone depression under the rock, in which flowing water flowed. With crystal clear spring water.

There are dense Taoist scriptures engraved on the rock, reflected in the spring water, there is a stone eye under the stone concave, I touched it with my hand, took out the dragon head wood, compared with the stone eye, the size was just right, carefully inserted the dragon head wood When I went in, it really matched exactly.

The faucet wood is hollow, and after being inserted into the stone eye, spring water flows out of the faucet, and the water level of the spring water in the stone recess drops slowly. The inscription on the rock is completely different from before, and four characters are engraved in the place where the stone concave is exposed.

Mirror flower water moon!

Just now you could see the inscriptions on the entire rock wall reflected in the reflection, but now you can only see the Buddha statue carved in the middle of the rock wall.

Yue Qianling looked up at the Buddha statue on the rock wall, but didn't see anything for a long time.

"I searched for a long time and found nothing!"

I stared intently at the stone statue reflected in the stone recess, and suddenly said casually.

"What do you see in it?"

"Isn't it just a reflected Buddha statue?"

"Through the mirror, the moon in the water... don't worry about other things, just look at the reflection, what do you see?" I asked thoughtfully.

Yue Qianling walked over and looked down for a long time, then tilted her head and said.

"Looking at it like this, it looks like a Buddha statue carved on a mountain."

"A Buddha statue is engraved on a mountain, and its reflection is reflected in the water... Does this refer to a place?!" I said lightly, frowning.

"Brother Yanhui, I...I do know a place that is exactly like this reflection." Qiu Nuo said uncertainly behind him.

"Where?" Yue Qianling and I asked almost at the same time.

"Sanjianghui reflects a world-famous Buddha statue, which is also carved on the mountain. The difference is that the mountain is a Buddha, and the Buddha is a mountain."

"Leshan Giant Buddha!" ​​I said excitedly as I looked at the reflection in the stone recess and suddenly slapped my thigh. "This clue is really ingenious, and the clue is passed down without mentioning it. It is indeed the Leshan Giant Buddha!"

After listening to Yue Qianling, she looked at the reflection in the stone concave again, and finally understood what is called the flower in the mirror and the moon in the water. From the reflection alone, it really is a stone statue carved on the whole mountain, and the reflection is in the water, and the Leshan Giant Buddha is reflected in the Sanjiang River. It coincides with each other.