I know, this time I will be tested on my professionalism.
Tianmen Stone Formation, this is one of the Taoist formations, and also the art of Qimen Dunjia. I guess it is this Tianmen Stone Formation that has trapped Princess Changping for nearly a thousand years and prevented her from entering the ancient tomb! !
According to "Fa Qiu Secret Art", Tianmen Stone Formation is extremely dangerous. The eight stone pillars represent the eight gates in the art of Qimen Dunjia, namely - Xiumen, Shengmen, Shangmen, Dumen, Jingmen, Simen, Jingmen, Kaimen!
The eight gates were used a lot in ancient military. The Bagua formation and the eight-door golden lock formation were actually all adapted and evolved according to the eight-door cycle in the art of Qimen Dunjia. The same is true for Tianmen Stone Formation.
Generally speaking, Kai, Xiu and Sheng are the three auspicious gates, Si, Jing and Shang are the three evil gates, Dumen and Jingmen are neutral, but when using them, you must also look at which palace they are in and whether they are prosperous, prosperous, imprisoned or not. The ancients had a song saying: Good luck will not come if the lucky door is suppressed, and bad luck will not come if the bad door is suppressed; Good luck will bring great benefits, and bad luck will bring disaster. Good luck will not come if the lucky door suppresses the palace, and bad luck will bring more disasters if the bad door suppresses the palace.
In short, the eight gates are mutually generated and restrained, and it is difficult to break them!
If I am not mistaken, we have not really entered the ancient tomb yet. If we want to enter the ancient tomb, we must break the Tianmen stone formation.
There must be buttons on the eight stone pillars in front of us. Once the button is pressed, if the button is in the three lucky gates, then the Xiumen and Shengmen will not activate the mechanism, and the Kaimen can enter the ancient tomb. In addition, whether it is the three evil gates or the Zhongping, touching the mechanism on the stone pillar is definitely a dead end!
To verify my idea, I walked towards the eight stone pillars with courage and shone a flashlight. As expected, there was a palm-sized stone button about one meter away from the stone pillars. However, the eight stone pillars were exactly the same, and there was no way to tell which door they represented!
In fact, as long as I determined which door one of them was, I could find the door to open, because the eight doors were arranged clockwise as Jing, Kai, Xiu, Sheng, Shang, Du, Jing, and Si, which would never change at any time!
I hesitated in front of these stone pillars for a moment before finally deciding to try the method in "Fa Qiu Secret Art". So I looked back at Zhang Bowen and said in a deep voice: "Brother Zhang, I heard that you have first-class skills in throwing flying knives?"
"Not bad."
Zhang Bowen smiled and said: "I practiced it when I was in the special forces. I dare not say anything else, but within a hundred steps, I never miss a shot!"
How humble!
I muttered to myself, but this is good news, so I pointed to a stone button on a stone pillar and asked Zhang Bowen if he could shoot it with a flying knife while standing at his current position.
"The light is a bit dim, and it's more than a hundred steps."
Zhang Bowen shook his head: "But I can try, what's the problem?"
I turned around and walked back without saying a word, and asked Zhang Bowen to hit the button with a flying knife until I walked to the bottom of the robber's hole.
That's right, I just want to test the waters and determine which door a stone pillar represents! ! If it wasn't that I could only try three times, and if I tried more than three times, the Tianmen Stone Formation would self-destruct and collapse the entire ancient tomb, I would even want Zhang Bowen to try one stone pillar at a time!
As soon as I stood still, Zhang Bowen took out a one-inch long flying knife. I heard about his flying knife skills from Uncle Li. Most special forces now have special skills. Zhang Bowen's special skill is flying knives. He never misses a target. It is said that when he and my father were at a tomb, they encountered a big zongzi. As a result, this man threw two flying knives into the eyes of the big zongzi. It was awesome.
This was the first time I saw Zhang Bowen's flying knife skills, so I stared at him almost without blinking. But I didn't see any fancy moves after watching for a long time. Zhang Bowen just raised his hand and threw the flying knife casually. It looked like he was doing it casually. Then the flying knife made a "swoosh" sound in the air, and then directly hit the button on the stone pillar I pointed to.
This flying knife was like poking a hornet's nest. With a click, all the bricks on the wall in front of the eight stone pillars fell off at once. Countless arrows shot towards the eight stone pillars. It was so scary. Fortunately, we hid far away. If we were still in front of the eight stone pillars, we would have been shot into hedgehogs. It seems that the ancient tomb should contain mechanical crossbows that appeared in the late Tang Dynasty. The bowstrings were not made of animal tendons, but spring-loaded ejection devices. In ancient times, heavy crossbows were used for sieges. The force was quite rough and could shoot through several people at once. Therefore, it can still be used after a thousand years!
I stared at the directions where the crossbows were flying everywhere, and used this to calculate what door the stone pillar that Zhang Bowen's flying knife hit represented based on the records in "Fa Qiu Secret Art"!
"In the Yin Palace, it is a tomb; in the Li Palace, it is restrained; in the Kan Palace, it loses its energy; in the Kun Palace, it is reborn; in the Qian Palace, it is in harmony!"
My mind was clearer than ever before, and my eyes were almost completely following the arrows in front of me. After waiting for more than ten minutes, the rain of arrows stopped, and I finally let out a long breath. I rubbed my sore eyes, but I was happy in my heart - according to the direction of the arrow rain, I have determined that the stone pillar that Zhang Bowen hit with his flying knife represents the Jingmen!
As long as the record of "Fa Qiu Secret Art" is correct, then the next door in the clockwise direction of Jingmen is Kaimen! !
To be honest, although it was confirmed, I was still a little nervous. After all, this was a life-threatening business. If I made a mistake, no one knew what would happen. In the ancient army, mechanical crossbows were definitely treasures. So far, very few complete mechanical crossbows have been excavated. Only the tombs of important royal figures in the late Tang Dynasty had such configurations. I don't know how many were installed in this tomb. It can be seen that Li Keyong had put a lot of effort in the anti-theft aspect of Li Cunshi's tomb in order to appease the military. Not only did he invite Taoist masters and skilled craftsmen to create the Tianmen Stone Formation, but he also brought in such important military equipment. I'm afraid there will be more powerful mechanisms. The previous wave of arrow rain only covered eight stone pillars. What if I made a mistake and the next triggered mechanism covered the entire stone chamber? I'm afraid that several of us will die here. For a moment, I was in hesitation.
"Xiaotian, what should we do next?"
At this time, Zhang Bowen turned his head and asked me: "This tomb is really cruel. In the tombs I have been to before, all the crossbow mechanisms have been corroded and can't be used. Only some rolling stones and accumulated sand can still have some power. I have never seen an arrow shot into the stone slab like this!"
A tomb like this with a mechanical crossbow is very rare. If you have seen it, it would be weird!
I muttered to myself, then called the three of them over and told them the truth. I wanted to hear their ideas. Those who didn't want to take risks could just pull the rope and drill into the robbery hole now.
As a result, these three people were also the kind of people who didn't cry until they saw the coffin. After listening to what I said, they all decided to stay and gamble. However, for safety reasons, the four of us stayed far away from the eight stone pillars and let Zhang Bowen open the door with a flying knife. In this way, the risk can be minimized.
I don't know if it was because I was a little nervous after telling the truth, but Zhang Bowen's flying knife was not as accurate as before. The first shot missed, and the second shot hit the stone button on the stone pillar that represented the door.
At this moment, even my breathing stagnated, and there was no movement for three or four seconds! !
"This is not right!"
I muttered: "Whether it hits the right stone pillar or not, it should have some reaction..."
As a result, as soon as I finished speaking, I felt the ground under my feet began to tremble, and it became more and more severe, and finally there was a loud "boom" sound, and the stone slabs under our feet were constantly cracking, like a big earthquake.
"It seems to be wrong, run!"
My face changed at that time, and I called the other three people to pull the rope hanging from the robbery hole to climb up, but it was too late. The speed of the stone chamber collapse was much faster than I thought. Before I could reach the rope, the ground collapsed completely, and I fell directly...