Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 40
We walked in front of the stone wall and found that the stone wall blocked the corridor tightly without leaving any gaps.

There is a relief of a flying dragon on the stone wall. The flying dragon stretches its teeth and dances its claws, its beard flies, and it is connected end to end to form a circle.

The dim light shone on the relief, and the flying dragon seemed to come alive. It was so vivid and lifelike.

I stretched out my hand and gently stroked the flying dragon. Even through the tactical gloves, I seemed to be able to feel the powerful breath of the dragon.

Gu Meidi suddenly said: "Tuobagu, you stand back!"

I took a step back, and Gu Meidi let out a low exclamation, pointed at the center of the circle surrounded by the flying dragon and said in amazement: "Look quickly, there is actually a Tai Chi gossip inside this flying dragon relief!"

I took a closer look and found that the circle around the flying dragon was indeed a big Tai Chi Bagua diagram. Under the illumination of the light, the Taiji Bagua diagram seemed to be slowly rotating.Visually, it looks like a space-time vortex.Once we are sucked into this space-time vortex, it seems that we can travel back to the Western Xia Dynasty where the iron horses fought thousands of years ago.

I analyzed and said: "Such a thick stone wall must be controlled by a mechanism. I'll go and see the two bronze lamps on the wall. Maybe they are the mechanism to open this stone wall!"

I walked back while talking, stretched out my hand to hold one of the long-burning lights, and turned it around vigorously, only to find that the long-burning light was still motionless.I walked to the opposite side again, held another long-burning light and turned it around, but there was still no response.I was proud of my analysis just now, but the reality poured cold water on me. I scratched my head depressedly. Could it be that my analysis was wrong?
I turned around and wanted to ask Professor Ye for his opinion, but I saw Professor Ye standing motionless in front of the stone wall, like an old monk in meditation.He put all his attention on the Tai Chi Bagua diagram in the middle of the stone wall, resting his chin with one hand, wondering what he was meditating on.

"What's the matter, Professor Ye?" Gu Meidi asked.

Professor Ye shook his head and said to himself, "No! It's all wrong! No!"

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Professor Ye's words made me and Gu Meidi feel confused.

Professor Ye let out a sigh of relief, pointed to the Tai Chi Eight Diagrams diagram and said, "The positions of the Eight Diagrams are all wrong!"

Professor Ye reached out his hand to touch the middle of the Tai Chi gossip, and suddenly shouted excitedly, "Look, the hexagrams above can be moved!"

I leaned forward and saw that the hexagrams on the stone wall were all made of long stone strips, some were long and some were short, and they were arranged one after another, which made me dizzy.

Professor Ye moved the position of the hexagram while silently reciting the mantra: "Qian San Lian, Kun Six Duan, Shaking Up the Bowl, Gen Covering the Bowl, Li Zhongxu, Kan Zhongman, Die Up Short, Sunny Down Break!" After reading the formula, All the hexagrams were moved back to their original positions by Professor Ye.

At this time, the Tai Chi circle in the center of the Eight Diagrams suddenly cracked a gap along the boundary line between Yin and Yang and Tai Chi.With a dull sound, the stone wall slowly opened towards the two sides, and the dragon head and tail of the flying dragon relief also separated, revealing a hole for one person to enter and exit.

Gu Meidi and I gave Professor Ye a thumbs up at the same time: "Amazing!"

Professor Ye wiped the sweat from the tip of his nose: "Western Xia culture is deeply influenced by the Central Plains culture, and I am also very interested in the mysterious cultures of the Central Plains, such as Fengshui Xuanshu and Qimen Dunjia, and have deeply studied and used them. For many years I visited the Xixia King’s Tomb at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain with a team before. When we took aerial photos of the Xixia King’s Tomb on the plane, we unexpectedly found that the Xixia King’s Tomb was built according to the arrangement and layout of the Eight Diagrams and Beidou. So Said that there is a Tai Chi Bagua door here, which did not surprise me very much.”

The cold and damp wind poured out from the gap, and we were surprised to find that behind this stone wall was a brightly lit revolving corridor.

We passed through the Tai Chi Eight Trigrams Gate, and in front of us was a corridor that spiraled downwards.

Turning the corner, we were immediately stunned by the sight in front of us.

At our feet, a volley plank road is like a long dragon hovering and flying, extending from the bottom of the tower above to the bottom of the tower, which is majestic and magnificent.The plank road is about five meters wide, paved with bluestone slabs carved with reliefs, one side is suspended in the air, and the other side is leaning against the stone wall of the tower body.There are semicircular caves every three meters above the stone wall, like showcases.There is a stone carved Buddha statue in each window, and the most amazing thing is that these Buddha statues have various postures, and each Buddha statue has a different shape and posture. This place is like a temple full of ancient charm and strong Buddhist atmosphere. Buddha corridor.

An ever-burning lamp is placed in front of each Buddha statue, illuminating the window brightly.Inside this dark ancient tower, countless ever-burning lights are like sparks in the night sky.Looking from the top down, hundreds of long-burning lights are connected in series, like a circling and burning fire dragon, connecting the bottom and the top of the tower, which deeply shakes our hearts.

I couldn't help sighing in my heart: "What a great designer can create such a magnificent scene!"

The flames of the eternal lamps are not bright, but the flames of hundreds of thousands of lamps burning at the same time are enough to illuminate the interior of the entire ancient pagoda.In addition to the majestic and amazing Buddhist cave plank road under our feet, we are even more surprised that the interior of this ancient pagoda is hollow, which is a peculiar architectural structure that we never thought of.Generally speaking, pagodas have a hierarchical structure, which goes up layer by layer, but this ancient pagoda standing upside down under the water has no hierarchical structure at all. The middle of the pagoda is empty, but there is a tree with ancient Bronze pillars of the same height as the tower.

That big bronze pillar is like a sea god needle, inserted straight into the center of the ancient pagoda. I don't know if it is the load-bearing pillar of the entire ancient pagoda.The large bronze pillar is tens of meters high and extremely thick. According to visual inspection, at least four or five adults need to hold hands to hug it. The black pillar body glows with a faint blue light, which looks magnificent.

I just don't know why, there are many sharp thorns on the bronze pillar, some are long, some are short, they are like branches growing on the trunk of the tree, and they are like countless open arms.Only at this time did we realize that the shape of this large bronze pillar was originally a huge bronze iron tree.On those outstretched branches, there are some strange ice-blue spots flickering.Seen from a distance, the bronze iron tree looks like a decorated Christmas tree, shining with spooky splendor, both illusory and real.

Faced with this situation, we were deeply shocked from the bottom of our hearts, and we completely forgot that we were inside an ancient pagoda.Everything here is so strange, so beyond imagination, it can be said to subvert our inherent understanding and imagination of normal categories.How many secrets did the Xixia Dynasty, which dominated one side in those days, left to the world?How many vast and endless historical cultures have been left behind?

The cold wind beat our bodies like whips, but our feet seemed to be stuck by something, and we couldn't move for a long time, staring at the deep and strange ancient tower in a daze.Although I have been to many places with Professor Ye in the past few years, at this moment, those places that I thought were weird and bizarre now seem to be trivial and not worth mentioning at all.

I don't know how long we stood there in a daze, but we finally recovered from the shock, and our souls were finally brought back to reality.

Gu Meidi sighed: "My God! Once again, I was deeply conquered by the great wisdom and creativity of the ancients!"

I nodded and said, "Yes! Words such as 'ingenious workmanship' and 'supernatural workmanship' are not enough to describe this strange and weird ancient tower!"

Professor Ye said: "Don't say that you two newborn calves are shocked, even I, an old Jianghu who has traveled all over the world for so many years, is also deeply shocked from the bottom of my heart. This place is more spectacular and mysterious than any place I have been to before! Alright, cheer up, don't stand there in a daze, let's go down and have a look!"

We walked slowly along the volley plank road towards the top of the tower below, and there will be a corner every tens of meters. The corner becomes narrower as we go down. We know that every corner is every layer of the ancient tower. The place.

All kinds of stone Buddha statues continue to catch our eyes. The carving skills of those Buddha statues are very exquisite, and every stroke is lifelike. Even the folds of clothes, the hair on the sideburns, and the belt on the waist can be seen. Be clear.If this is not a life-and-death adventure, it must be an exhilarating Buddhist journey.Walking on this promenade to watch Buddha, the lead dust in my heart seems to be purified and washed, and the whole person gets a kind of ideological and spiritual sublimation.

After walking on the plank road for a few minutes, Gu Meidi, who was walking in front of me, suddenly exclaimed: "Scared! There is something on the top!"

I raised my head subconsciously, and sure enough I saw a black shadow hanging upside down above our heads.I was taken aback, raised my pistol reflexively, and fired several times at the black shadow.Gunshots echoed back and forth in the empty ancient tower, which sounded particularly ear-piercing.

Professor Ye, who was walking in the front, stopped abruptly and asked in surprise, "What happened?"

Gu Meidi pointed to the top of his head: "There is something on it!"

With the help of the dim light, we looked towards the top of the plank road in the direction of Gu Meidi's finger. When we saw this, our scalps were numb, our limbs were cold, and we couldn't move.Above our heads, there was a dry corpse hanging upside down.

The corpse was hung upside down on the top of the plank road, like an upside-down radish. It was wrinkled all over, and it had lost moisture long ago, turning into a mummy.The dress of the mummy is very simple, but it has a strong Xixia style. It should be a commoner of the Xixia Kingdom when he was alive.

I put down the pistol and couldn't help but gasped.On the top of the plank road, I suddenly saw such a mummy hanging upside down, and I was still somewhat apprehensive.

However, what made us panic and horrified was that there was not only such a mummy hanging on the top of the plank road, but hundreds of thousands of mummy hanging densely, which made us terrified and afraid to move forward Move your feet.

(End of this chapter)