Chapter 1217: Ghost Crossing
Most of the formations in Maoshan are based on Bagua, including the Five Elements formation.
This is because in Taoism, Bagua represents all changes in the world and means the evolution of all things.
Bagua seems to be illusory. In fact, the earliest innate Bagua has nothing to do with "Tai Chi produces two yangs, two yangs produce four images, and four images produce Bagua." The following theories are the theories of Xuanmen Jiang Daomen and Bagua, Yin and Yang. The theories are combined and summed up, so Bagua is also known as "Innate Bagua" and "Nurture Bagua".
Nowadays, the Bagua used by Xuanmen to occupy urns and set up formations to ward off evil spirits are all acquired Bagua, which are "exclusive to Xuanmen".
Why not use innate gossip?
Because the invention of Xiantian Bagua was not for some illusory thing at all, but a very practical thing.
It is recorded in ancient books: "In ancient times, Fu Xi, the king of the world, looked up to observe the images in the sky, looked down to observe the laws on the earth, observed the patterns of birds and beasts, and the suitability of the earth. Make the Eight Diagrams. Use the virtues of the gods to imitate the emotions of all things. Make a knotted rope to catch fish."
This passage makes it very clear. Why did the human ancestor Fuxi create Bagua?
It is to "make knotted ropes and make nets."
Human beings in ancient times did not have writing, so they could only "knot and rule".
But knotting ropes cannot be tied randomly. There are two basic conditions for it to be used to record events and convey information, that is, the way to tie the rope, and the meaning of different ways.
What do you mean by tying a knot? What does this knot at the top mean?
This requires explanation.
In order to explain these meanings, Fuxi summarized a set of "translation rules". This translation rule diagram is the earliest innate Bagua.
With the cooperation of the innate Bagua, anyone can understand the meaning of Fuxi's knotted rope, understand what he recorded, understand his instructions, and thus help him better manage the tribe.
This is actually a very magical thing. An innate gossip can explain everything in the world through combination and arrangement. It is not easy to do this.
Therefore, the earliest Xiantian Bagua was actually a "note-taking system software", a very practical tool with no special meaning.
Nowadays, no one has been able to understand the meaning of the innate gossip, and what later generations have summarized are basically conjectures and inferences based on the acquired gossip, which are not accurate, and their meanings may even be completely different. Related.
So something innate is not necessarily a better thing. Perhaps like Bagua, nature and nurture are completely different things.
The Seven-Star Nailed Soul Formation also uses the Bagua as the base of the formation, on which the directions of the seven stars are compared to derive the directions of the seven levels.
There is a book in Maoshan called "General Principles of Tianyan Bureau", which specifically talks about the knowledge of Feng Shui and Kanyu. Su Yi has read this book completely and is very familiar with the contents.
So when Uncle Feng said that he had not yet had time to find the seven levels to set up the formation, Su Yi immediately took the initiative to ask Ying to complete the process.
"Okay, you go to Qiquan, and I will set up the formation flag." Uncle Feng also knew that it was not too late, so he said simply.
Just like there is no donkey in a donkey's roll, and there is no lion in a lion's head, there are formation flags without flags.
Formation flag is just a general term, and all materials used on the formation base in all directions are collectively referred to as formation flags.
The flag of the Seven Star Nailed Soul Formation is the seven crowing bones, but it is not just a matter of placing the crowing bones in a specific position. This requires some more complicated steps and procedures.
Uncle Feng took the soul-binding talisman from Su Yi's hand, put a layer of yellow paper underneath, took out a wine bowl, threw the shaking talisman paper in, then took out a jar of smelly viscous liquid and sealed it At the gap between the mouth of the bowl and the yellow paper, he finally bit the tip of his tongue and dripped three drops of blood on the bottom of the bowl. Then he reached out and called Xiao Ming over: "Hold it, don't let go no matter what!"
Bang bang bang!
Bang bang bang!
The wine bowl vibrated together with the yellow paper, constantly jumping up and down.
Although Xiao Ming was frightened, he hurriedly stepped forward and held down the wine bowl with both hands. Although the wine bowl was still shaking violently, it could no longer jump up.
"What is this thing that smells so bad?" Xiao Ming retched, frowned and turned his head and shouted.
What stinks is thick liquid. Su Yi knows this and looks at Xiao Ming sympathetically.
This is a mixture of child urine and wax water, refined through a special method, and its final form is like a shapeless jelly.
The longer this thing is left, the more it smells.
Withdrawing his gaze, Su Yi immediately began to search for the seventh pass.
Maoshan also has the art of stargazing, but it is not as mysterious as "watching the sky at night and counting with fingers." Maoshan school of stargazing is also to determine things on the earth.
For example, Su Yi is stargazing now, and what he is looking at is the Big Dipper.
The Big Dipper travels around the North Star, once a year, and its position changes slightly every day, but the amplitude is very small.
How small?
It would take nine days before the minimum amount of displacement could be seen with the naked eye.
This change rule not only applies to the Big Dipper, but also to most of the stars in the sky. Therefore, in Maoshan Technique, every nine days is a stargazing cycle, and this cycle becomes the "number of nines" in Maoshan Technique.
The displacement of the seven Big Dipper stars is actually caused by the revolution of the earth. When the position of the earth changes, the illusion of the position of the Big Dipper stars changes. As it orbits to different positions, the local magnetic field will also change.
Magnetic field is the scientific name, and in Feng Shui it is called aura.
The aura is not static. The direction of the qi veins is always shifting and changing. Generally, it takes one year as a cycle. The amplitude is not large. If it is from the perspective of Feng Shui, it can be ignored. But if it is to set up the array altar, it must be very careful. Because when setting up the array, you must not only pay attention to the position of the stars, but also consider its brightness and darkness changes.
Every nine days, even if you observe the brightness of the stars in the same direction, it will be different. So if you want to set up the array and set up the array well, follow the Chongjiu technique to observe the stars.
Su Yi first stood at the center of the Bagua array with his right finger and thumb at right angles to the direction of the Big Dipper, and began to observe the stars and measure the distance, and calculate the position of the seven passes.
The prerequisite for setting up the Seven Stars Soul Nailing Array is that you must be able to see the stars, so it is impossible to set up this array in Kyoto in the future.
On haze days, you can't see the stars all year round, and you can't set up anything.
In Maoshan Shu, the so-called seven gates, namely Yunken Gate, Shangxun Gate, Zichen Gate, Shangyang Gate, Tianyang Gate, Yusu Gate and Taiyou Gate, correspond to the Big Dipper, Tanlang, Jumen, Lucun, Wenqu, Lianzhen, Wuqu and Pojun.
"Tanlang and Jumen start bright and then dark, Yunken Gate is placed in Li, Shangxun Gate is placed in Xun." Su Yi made marks on the Bagua formation while calculating.
On the other side, Uncle Feng immediately inserted the arranged formation flags in the position Su Yi said.
"Lucun, Wenqu, Lianzhen start dark and then bright, Zichen Gate is placed in Dui, Shangyang Gate is placed in Kan, Tianyang Gate is placed in Zhen!"
"Wuqu starts bright and ends, Yusu Gate is placed in Qian!"
"Pojun starts dark and ends, Taiyou Gate is placed in Kun!"
Su Yi and Uncle Feng calculated the direction and arranged the formation, and the two cooperated very well.
On the other side, Xiao Ming pressed the wine bowl with both hands, and the bowl vibrated more and more violently. His whole body was constantly up and down by the huge force.
"Are you done? I can't hold on any longer!" Xiao Ming's face flushed red, veins popped on his forehead, and he screamed.
On the other side, Uncle Feng had set up the formations in the other six directions, leaving only the Taiyou Pass empty.
He stood in the Gen position, which was the center of the formation.
However, the celestial phenomena were different, and the positions of the center of the formation were also different, so the formation could not be set up mechanically or copied.
Uncle Feng took off the jade pendant he carried with him, muttering something in his mouth. At a certain moment, his eyes suddenly condensed, bit his tongue and spurted a mouthful of blood on the jade pendant, and stomped his feet down three times.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
It seemed that the whole earth was shaking with his stomping.
After three times, a squeak of fear was heard, and a nest of mice rushed out from the position of Taiyou Pass and fled into the darkness.
In addition to mice, there were many insects, some ants, martial arts, and Su Yi could not recognize what they were.
"Ahhh! Bugs, so many bugs!" A Lian happened to be standing nearby, and she was immediately scared and screamed and dodged.
Girls are generally afraid of things like mice and insects, but Uncle Feng and Su Yi had no time to care about her feelings at the moment.
The reason why this happened is that the Seven Star Soul Nailing Formation is actually a variant of the Seven Pass Locking Technique. Once the seven passes are blocked, the area within the seven passes will become a desolate area.
Although this formation only eliminates yin and not yang, once the airflow is blocked, only Taiyou Pass, which represents the exit of the qi channel, is still circulating the airflow in the formation. The magnetic field here has changed so much that the small creatures living here will naturally sense it, just like sensing a natural disaster, and they are panicked.
Uncle Feng stood in the Gen position, which represents the mountain position. He stomped his feet three times just now, which was actually shaking the mountain.
The main purpose of his three shocks was to lock the other six gates and shake away the remaining Yin Qi in the gates, but for the small creatures in the formation, it was like an earthquake-like doomsday, so they naturally scrambled to escape from the only exit.
"Send it into the formation!" Uncle Feng nodded to Su Yi with a serious face.
Su Yi didn't say a word, and immediately came to Xiao Ming, took the wine bowl pressed on the ground from his hand and said: "Back off, take them all back!"
"Oh!"
Xiao Ming now knew how powerful it was, and didn't dare to neglect it. He hurriedly called A Lian and helped Uncle Li back off.
Su Yi spurted a mouthful of blood from the tip of his tongue on the bowl, and the originally shaking wine bowl suddenly stagnated. Su Yi took this opportunity to quickly lift the wine bowl, quickly walked to the position of Taiyou Pass, and threw the wine bowl directly in.
Uncle Feng was quick-witted and put the last flag back to its position at the Taiyou Pass almost at the same time Su Yi threw the wine bowl in. However, this flag was not nailed to the ground like the previous six, but only half of it was nailed.
Almost at the same time, the wine bowl thrown into the formation exploded with a purple light!
This was the soul-binding talisman that exploded, and Chu Renmei finally escaped from the talisman!
This soul-binding talisman can trap even a fierce ghost for an incense stick of time, but in front of Chu Renmei, it didn't even last half an incense stick of time.
This was when Uncle Feng and Su Yi temporarily reinforced the seal again, which shows how fierce it was.
The purple talisman exploded, and Chu Renmei, who was freed, roared and was about to soar into the sky.
But Uncle Feng, who was standing in the Gen position, pinched his fingers with one hand, and pointed forward with the other hand like a sword, swung it down suddenly, and shouted: "Yunken Pass, lock!"
As his voice fell, a golden spike appeared out of thin air and fell from the sky, heading straight for Chu Renmei who was soaring into the sky. Chu Renmei wanted to dodge, but the formation suddenly flashed with lightning, turning into "electric whips" that bound her body, allowing the golden spike to sink directly into her eyes!
"Ah..." Chu Renmei screamed miserably, and her whole body stiffened and fell to the ground with a bang. She seemed to want to struggle, but she couldn't move at all.
A trace of resentment surged from Chu Renmei's head and was then drawn out from the position of Taiyouguan.
Chu Renmei kept screaming, and her figure appeared and disappeared as if she wanted to move to the outside world with resentment.
But all this was in vain, because this Seven Star Soul Nailing Formation isolated all the breath from the outside world, and it was a desolate area in the formation!
Now it's just that Taiyouguan has not been nailed to death, so it can still struggle and survive.
Once Taiyouguan is also nailed to death, what awaits it must be that everything is drained away and its soul is scattered!
This is the terrifying part of the Seven-Star Soul-Nailing Formation.
"Shang Xiguan, lock it!"
Uncle Feng once again put his fingers together like a sword and pointed at the formation. A golden cone rose from the ground and sank directly into Chu Renmei's thighs.
Chu Renmei's body suddenly straightened and she let out an even more shrill scream.
Xiao Ming and Su Yi both felt cold in their anus when they saw this scene.
But this is not Uncle Feng being mean, but there is a reason.
The Seven-Star Soul-Nailing Formation is to nail Chu Renmei's ghost body to death with seven gates.
Among the seven gates, Yunken Gate is in the Li position. Li in the Eight Diagrams represents the eyes on the body, so the golden cone will be divided into two and nailed in Chu Renmei's eyes.
Shang Xiguan is in the Xun position, and Xun is the thigh, so the golden cone will nail Chu Renmei's position.
Moreover, ghosts don't have any organs, and the human form is just a form, so there is no need to make a fuss.
Next, Uncle Feng locked Zichen Pass, Shangyang Pass, Tianyang Pass and Yusu Pass respectively, and the golden spikes nailed Chu Renmei's hands, ears, feet and head respectively.
Chu Renmei screamed in the formation, looking extremely miserable.
But it couldn't break free, and couldn't even struggle, just wailing in pain.
The deadly resentment surged out from the place where it was nailed, and then discharged from Taiyou Pass, and the resentment in it was rapidly weakened.
"Aunt Mei!" Uncle Li suddenly got excited and wanted to stagger over first, wanting to rush into the formation.
At this moment, for some reason he suddenly saw Chu Renmei.
Su Yi was startled, and then suddenly realized.
Li Qiang must have Chu Renmei's resentment.
Even if he didn't have it, he had it in his memory, so it was not surprising that he could see Chu Renmei.
But why did he suddenly see it now, but not before?
I'm afraid this has something to do with Chu Renmei's state.