For the sake of safety, Zhang Guozhong did not leave the cave rashly, but placed a flare into the space outside the cave in advance.
Under the bright light of the flare, Zhang Guozhong finally got a clear look at the big hole inside.
It turned out that the spatial size of this cave was far less than that of Dingchi, and was even smaller than the lobby of the treasure cave in the Later Jin Dynasty.
The statue was underground.
The lake is not as big as expected, and the visual area is even less than a thousand square meters.
"Didn't you say that this is bigger than that pond?"
Before the bright light of the flare went out, Lao Liutou also drilled out a small hole.
"I don't know why I feel that way."
Zhang Guozhong kept looking around with his flashlight, "Brother, have you noticed that there seems to be a layer of something growing on the stone wall here."
"There's a layer of stuff growing on it."
Old Liu Tou looked at it with a flashlight and saw that there was indeed a layer of black and furry stuff on the rock wall behind him.
"What kind of moss can grow on this?"
"Moss" At this time, Qin Ge and Dashou Liu also drilled out of the cave.
They simply set up a high-power searchlight at the entrance of the cave, turned on the power, and a beam of strong light shot straight to the top of the cave.
The rock wall on the top of the cave seemed to be too bright.
There is a layer of the same thing.
"This is definitely not moss.
Moss cannot grow here."
Zhang Guozhong reached out and touched the stone wall behind him.
He felt that his hands were wet, just like touching a handful of rotten cotton.
He put it in front of his nose and smelled it.
After smelling it, there was no smell.
"This is my first time here, and I didn't find this."
"So, these things grew after you left."
Old Liu frowned and reached out to touch the rock wall.
He looked at the palm of his hand carefully with a flashlight, "What the hell is this thing?
You can grow so much in two or three days.”
"Maybe it was there before and I just didn't pay attention the first time I came here."
Zhang Guozhong said.
"This should be a fungus."
At this time, Qin Ge also noticed something growing on the wall.
"In Maoshan Shu, there is only one type of fungus that can grow in such a place."
"What?"
Old Liu was stunned.
"Rush."
Qin Ge smiled slightly.
It seems that this person has been studying Maoshan skills for a long time, and he can actually recognize rushes that neither Old Liu Tou nor Zhang Guozhong knew.
"Don't you know?"
"Rush" Zhang Guozhong's heart moved.
He heard Dai Jinshuang mention this thing back then.
According to the understanding of Mr.
Ma Sijia of Maoshan, this thing has the effect of spreading resentment.
Japan's Peace and Co-Prosperity Society also used this characteristic of rush To create a plague in the Xuzhou war zone, could it be that the Japanese entered this hole?
"Could it be that rushes really have that formation?"
Old Liu Tou's voice seemed to be trembling a little, "Guozhong, hurry up, where is the statue you mentioned?"
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"Right in front of us."
Following the direction of Zhang Guozhong's finger, Qin Ge adjusted the angle of the searchlight and saw a dark shadow standing eerily in the water, which was very scary under the cold blue light of the searchlight.
"Senior brother, what kind of formation do you think there really is?"
"This hole has nothing to do with Zhao Jinzhou."
Old Liu Tou did not answer Zhang Guozhong's question.
Instead, he raised the seven-star sword in his hand and cautiously walked towards the statue.
"Zhao Jinzhou is just a cover.
This formation was not set up for him."
"Brother Liu, if anything happens, use this to chop."
Zhang Guozhong handed the giant sword to the big hand Liu, and he picked up the Qingtai sword and followed behind the old Liu Tou, "Brother, what do you mean by this?
" "Guozhong, Master told you back then that there was a hundred-step soul-returning array," Old Liu Tou said.
"No."
Zhang Guozhong looked around, but there seemed to be no movement, "Why did you call the Soul Resurrection Array to revive the soul?"
"Wrong," Old Liu Tou said, "The key to this formation is not the soul recovery, but the hundred steps."
"One hundred steps."
Zhang Guozhong looked around subconsciously.
One hundred steps is about one hundred meters in length.
At this time, the diameter of the cave is really about the same.
"What is this array for?"
"Becoming an Immortal," Old Liu said with a tremble every word, "Zhao Guanshan, have you heard of it?"
"Zhao Guanshan" Zhang Guozhong was stunned, and the sword in his hand almost didn't fall to the ground.
The biggest goal of practicing Taoism is to become an immortal.
In addition to the traditional theoretical methods of cultivating immortality such as cultivation and alchemy, there is also a widely recognized theory of becoming an immortal, which is "Ten Good Deeds Become an Immortal", which means ten lives.
Good people can achieve immortality.
This statement is tantamount to greatly lowering the threshold for becoming an immortal.
The implication is that even ordinary people can become immortals as long as they are good people for ten lifetimes.
As far as the monastic circles at that time were concerned, this statement was undoubtedly crazy and extremely "reactionary" , since you can become an immortal by doing more good deeds, what kind of Taoism should you practice?
Its nature is simply like the theory that "you can go to heaven if you don't believe in Jesus" in medieval Europe.
However, the person who proposed this crazy theory is the legendary Zhao Guanshan.
After proposing the crazy theory that "Ten Good Deeds Can Become Immortals", Zhao Guanshan began to confirm this theory under pressure from all sides.
However, how could a person spend his whole life to prove the results that will happen after "Ten Good Deeds"?
Tao Men Bao While paying attention to Zhao Guanshan's test results with the mood of watching a joke, Zhao Guanshan actually announced that this theory had been verified, and invited dozens of Taoist figures including his teachers Xiao Baozhen, Wang Chongyang, Li Xianzhen, etc. to Cangyan Mountain for observation. fruit.
Three months later, these dozens of Taoist masters without exception affirmed Zhao Guanshan's experimental results, and unanimously came to the conclusion that "it is reasonable and irrefutable", which means that it is indeed the case. , nothing to discuss.
When the news came out, the Taoist sect was shocked.
Firstly, everyone was shocked that this ridiculous theory turned out to be true.
Secondly, they were shocked that Zhao Guanshan could actually verify what happened after ten lives in a short period of time and obtain the information of these Taoist sect leaders. unanimously approved.
In addition to being shocked, speculations abounded about Zhao Guanshan's experimental methods.
Even Song Zhengzong Zhao Ji, who was obsessed with Taoism research at that time, did not hesitate to issue edicts three times to announce that Zhao Guanshan had entered the palace to find out what happened, but he was never able to find Zhao Guanshan.
Yamamoto.
However, at this moment, in stark contrast to the commotion outside, the great masters who were invited to the scene were tight-lipped.
These people were obviously unwilling to disclose the details.
The reason was without exception that they were "shocked by the shortcut."
"It will not lead to lack of Taoism and true cultivation."
The implication is that Zhao Guanshan's experiment can indeed prove that "being an immortal for ten lifetimes" is a shortcut to becoming an immortal, but the experiment itself should not be an excuse for people in today's Taoist sects to take advantage of others.
If so, it only takes a few months of practice to complete ten lives.
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Who will practice Taoism in the future?
Of course, this is just a one-sided statement by these masters.
Later generations have even speculated that these masters may have only seen the test results but not Seeing the test process with their own eyes, some angry young people even speculated that these masters and great sages probably watched the test process from beginning to end, but no one understood it because of their limited skills, and they were embarrassed to say that they did not understand, so they were forced to Recognize Zhao Guanshan.
All in all, until these masters returned to immortality one by one in the end, Zhao Guanshan's specific method of verifying the theory of "ten good deeds become immortals" has always been a mystery.
According to legend, shortly after the theory of "ten good deeds are immortals" was verified, Zhao Guanshan took advantage of his victory and put forward the supporting argument of "ten evils are demons", just like Chen Jingrun first confirmed "123" and then attacked "112" again.
But unlike the theory of "ten good deeds turn into immortals", "ten evil deeds turn into monsters" was not as powerfully verified as the former.
Even Zhao Guanshan himself disappeared from the world after proposing this conjecture.
However, due to the fact that the theory of "Ten Good Deeds Are Immortals" has been verified, so although "Ten Evils Are Demons" is still in a state of conjecture until now, people have put it together with "Ten Good Deeds Are Immortals" and regarded it as a mature concept.
The theory has been passed down for thousands of years.
"Could it be that the Hundred-Step Soul Resurrection Formation was the formation that Zhao Guanshan experimented with?"
Zhang Guozhong had already guessed it.
"That's what they say," Old Liu Tou said, "the name of the formation was coined by Tong Kuchan, a wanderer from Longhu Mountain in the late Qing Dynasty.
During the Daoguang Period, that boy Kuchan discovered a cave while traveling in Cangyan Mountain.
The rock wall There is the founder of Taiyi Sect Xiao Baozhen's poem is clearly the cave where Zhao Guanshan proved that the ten good deeds were immortals.
The cave is a hundred paces in diameter and should be similar to this cave.
Moreover, like this cave, there is water and a lot of rushes growing there. " "There are also statues and a pool of dead jade in that cave," Zhang Guozhong asked.
"I haven't heard of that."
At this time, Old Liu Tou had already walked to the statue.
"If this hole is also filled with a hundred-step soul-returning array, then the secrets should be in this statue."
After saying that, Old Liu Tou said He put the Seven Star Sword on his back, took out his flashlight and started searching the statue inch by inch.
"Brother, what are you looking for?"
Seeing Old Liu Tou picking up the jade pieces in his jade clothes with his hands and looking for them with great enthusiasm, Zhang Guozhong couldn't help but start looking for them, but he didn't know what he was looking for.
"Idiot, this statue can't be a solid lump of iron," Old Liu Tou said.
"There must be something inside, and it must have been put in after the statue was cast.
I'm looking for a secret door or something that can go in.
Put something in it
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