One hundred and twenty chapters, the legend of building wood
Chapter 120, Jianmu Legend
In the antique market, there is a type of thing that experts call "monsters". There is no way to determine which era, which style, and which culture the artifacts belong to. Monsters are usually considered to be fabricated fakes, even if they are antiques.
, or it may be forged by reshaping and splicing. Unless new evidence emerges from cultural research or archaeological excavation, monsters will always be monsters, because they cannot be traced back to their origins and have no "roots".
The blue and white flowers of the Yuan Dynasty were once considered to be monsters, because at the beginning of the last century, a group of antique porcelain dealers in Beijing did not have enough understanding of the blue and white flowers of the Yuan Dynasty, and there were not many historical records and clear physical evidence. Until the last century
At the end of the century, with the in-depth research on the history of Chinese ceramic craftsmanship and the breakthrough new progress in the excavation of ancient kiln sites in Jingdezhen, the historical status of Yuan blue and white porcelain was confirmed. At the beginning of this century, it inexplicably came to be in the international collection market.
A round of speculation.
The carving style and decorative shapes of these two swords have been seen by You Fang before, not only in the Panjiayuan market, but also in Christie's international auction brochures of the same style. But at that time they were called
Monster, because no one can be sure what kind of cultural style it is. In the Christie's album, it was even speculated to be a cultural relic from the Mesopotamia. Almost no one cared about it, and it was snapped up by overseas collectors at a very low reserve price.
In Panjiayuan, almost all such things are meant to fool foreigners.
Only today did you realize that these things probably came from the valley behind Feiju Village in Chuyang Township and belonged to a branch of the ancient Southern Chu culture. Regardless of the identifiable artifacts, so did the indistinguishable "monsters"
Appeared in the past two years. So my brother-in-law's excavation today is so important. He has determined the "identity" of a type of artifact and a cultural style, which is the most direct archaeological evidence.
These two swords also give You Fang a very special feeling. They have been sealed underground for more than two thousand years. After being unearthed, there is no hourglass phenomenon of time. They still have the same sharp luster as before, as if they have been waiting for life for thousands of years.
This moment reappears in the world. Judging from the artifact, it is a standard evil blade with a very special spirituality. Its edge seems to be able to cut into the soul of a person, and the spirituality between the two swords echoes and attracts each other. In the words of the ancients,
Said to be the male and female swords.
But after all, they are ancient swords from thousands of years ago. If they are really used as weapons for fighting, You Fang thinks they are not as useful as Qin Yu in his hand. If they are used to fight each other in fighting, they are not as good as Li Dongping's modern alloy sword.
Swords are very special as they are used to assist sword refining or as spiritual guides for spellcasting. The most important spirituality of the objects must be cultivated by the masters of the secret arts themselves. These two swords may have been cultivated and refined by the masters of the secret arts for many years in ancient times.
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You Fang is a little surprised. Although these two swords are good, they are not irreplaceable for masters of secret arts. If it were him, if he saw it in the Panjiayuan antique market, he would not hesitate to buy it at a high price that he can afford, but
He will not seek to rob in this way at this time. The law is one of the reasons, and the price is not worth it. Real experts disdain to do this kind of thing. It seems that Sun Fengbo is mainly here for other things.
The special artifacts in the main tomb were enough to make him tempted.
If it was just to fight with others, You Fang wouldn't necessarily get two such swords. But the spirituality of the male and female swords inspired him. He used Qin Yu to refine his swords, and his fists also contained sword intentions. In fact,
He is equivalent to another sword refined with Qin Yu, and he found this feeling on his own. But the mutual induction between the two swords describes this state very intuitively, which is a kind of inherited mental method.
You Fang understood it very clearly at the first sight.
The biggest gain so far is that seeing these two swords is enough for him. In the future, sword refining will allow him to enter the true refining state very intuitively.
There was another question that puzzled Chi Muduo. It was about the dating of these three strangely connected tombs. Based on the distribution of soil layers, burial materials, tomb bricks, and mural remnants, he initially determined that they were ancient tombs from the Han Dynasty, but in the two bronze tombs
What is seen on the sword grid is the ancient Chu seal script of the pre-Qin Dynasty.
After Qin Shihuang unified China, the chariots tracked the same track, the scripts shared the same text, and the original Six Kingdoms scripts were all rewritten as small seal scripts. During the Han Dynasty, the official script with straighter strokes and easier writing and recognition became popular. The ancient Chu seal script had long since disappeared. How could it appear?
On artifacts from the Han Dynasty?
You Fang saw the two swords, carefully examined their physical properties with his spiritual consciousness, and solved his brother-in-law's question. The tomb was dated correctly, around the Eastern Han Dynasty, but the two swords were not from the Han Dynasty, but were pre-Qin antiquities.
Of course, he didn't explain anything about spiritual consciousness to his brother-in-law. He just explained a very simple truth. Not only are there antiques in contemporary times, but there are also antiques in ancient times.
Those two swords may have been passed down in the tribal lineage until the Eastern Han Dynasty, when they were brought into the tomb by those two people. What exactly were the ancients using a special ritual to protect the things in the main tomb?
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You Fang has a climbing rope tied around his waist, a flashlight tied to his shoulders and left wrist respectively, and archaeological tools such as brushes, bamboo sticks, trowels, knives, tweezers, etc. in his bag.
Slowly slide into the tomb chamber. What archaeologists usually worry about is not the legendary ambush by agencies, but trying to avoid damaging the ancient ruins by entering. You must be careful when landing in this way.
Chi Muduo still very carefully asked You Fang to put on a gas mask and go down. You Fang looked down with his left hand and saw the solid brick floor. He stepped on the stone and shook the rope, shouting upward: "Sister, there is no problem here.
, it won’t collapse, so you don’t have to worry about me and go drink chicken soup by yourself, I’m afraid I’ll have to stay down there for a while.”
You Chengyuan shouted: "I'll stay up there and send me a signal if there's any movement."
When he came down, he had already released his spiritual consciousness to scan the tomb. There was no danger of the tomb collapsing. He needed to investigate the contents inside alone. For archeology, this is a very delicate job, and some ruins may be damaged if not careful.
, such as the traces of ancient silk fabrics found by Chi Muduo in the tombs, which really require concentration and not distraction.
When You Fang landed, he felt very surprised. There was no trace of Yin Qi in this tomb, and the vitality of the entire valley was filled with it. How did it look like an ancient tomb?
After landing on the ground and taking off the gas mask, You Fang just lowered his head and looked straight. He was stunned for a moment, and his whole person seemed to be petrified. There was something really inside. A person who was about two feet away was almost standing face to face with him, but just now
He couldn't detect anything with his spiritual consciousness, and he could see clearly only when the light illuminated it.
Don't get me wrong, that thing is not a ghost or a zombie, otherwise You Fang will only feel frightened, instead of being deeply shocked like now, completely fixed there, almost entering a state of selflessness and emptiness.
This is a seven-foot-tall "tree". If Chi Muduo came down, he would probably be stunned at first sight. His first thought would be the bronze sacred tree unearthed in Sanxingdui. You Fang's first thought was similar. He couldn't help but think of the "Jianmu" in ancient legends.
"Huainanzi" records: "The buildings are in the capital, and the emperors are from above and below." "Lu Shi Chun Qiu" records: "South of the Bai people, under the buildings, there is no shadow in the sun, no sound is heard, covering the sky and the earth. Among them." "The Classic of Mountains and Seas - Hai Nei Jing" records: "The building is a hundred feet tall without branches, with nine vines and nine wolfberry trees underneath. It is actually like hemp, and its leaves are like awns. ." There is another paragraph in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas - Hai Nei Nan Jing": "There is a tree, its shape is like a cow, its bark is like a tassel, like a yellow snake. Its leaves are like Luo, but in fact it is like a luan, and its wood is like a thorn. Its name is Jianmu."
In many ancient myths and legends, the so-called Duguangzhiye is said to be the center of heaven and earth, and Jianmu is the bridge between heaven, earth, humans and gods, and the ladder used by ancient emperors such as Fuxi and Huangdi to travel between heaven and earth.
The "tree" you saw was made of bronze. It had a straight main pole with ninety-nine bronze branches stretched out at the top. It was a very abstract and freehand curved long sheet, covered with various gold inlays. The decorations include images of branches and leaves, mountains and rivers, birds and animals, flowers and fruits, sun, moon and stars. At the end of each branch, there is an ancient Chu seal script inlaid with gold.
When you saw this ancient bronze tree as tall as a man, why did you think of the mythical Jianmu in your first thought? Because Guo Pu, the originator of Feng Shui, wrote a note about Jianmu in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas": "There is no sound under it." , there is no shadow when standing." And "Lu Shi Chun Qiu" also mentioned that "there is no shadow in the sun, and there is no sound when calling."
What kind of sacred tree is it? It makes no sound or has no shadow when standing under it? Isn't it impossible to see or feel it? You Fang suddenly realized that the descriptions attached to the myths by the ancients could be verified with his own eyes in reality. , what exactly is it describing? And what does the note by Guo Pu, the originator of Feng Shui, mean?
You can see this tree clearly from close at hand. You can even smell the unique smell of bronze with your nose, and you can feel the cold air emanating from the bronze leaves on your skin, but there is no sense in your consciousness, it seems to be silent. It is invisible and does not exist. Based on what he saw in his eyes, Yu Fang finally activated his spiritual consciousness to lock on the tree, and then what he saw suddenly entered a strange world.
Why can't your spiritual consciousness detect this tree? It's not because it doesn't exist, because its spirituality is completely integrated with the world, mountains and rivers. A mere seven feet tall seems to stand tall in the sky. You Fang can lock a tree with his spiritual consciousness, but he There is absolutely no such deep skill to lock down this huge paradise surrounded by mountains. No one can have such a great ability!
This is the location of the Earth Spiritual Center two thousand years ago, and this tree is the spiritual guide, stimulating the vitality of the entire mountains and rivers as spiritual consciousness. You Fang cannot lock it with your own spiritual consciousness, and in the realm of ethereal selflessness , the soul merged with it. This feeling was like a heart movement. Not only did he clearly "see" every inch of land and vegetation in this valley, but he also "saw" the original appearance of the mountains and rivers more than two thousand years ago.
If he hadn't activated his heart disk on his own initiative, his heart disk technique wouldn't have been so profound, and he wouldn't have been able to sense it so clearly!
What power inspired this spiritual guide to allow people two thousand years later to see all this? You Fang vaguely sensed that there were corridors on the left and right of this tomb, and the movement of yin and yang stimulated the spiritual guide, thus connecting the earth's spirit and the whole body.
The Katayama River resonated. Could it be the strange ritual of the ancients, in which a man and a woman burned their souls and let strange power attach to this bronze tree to tell future generations?
When the tomb is opened, the power of the ritual is finally touched. It is a secret method that was performed two thousand years ago and is only effective today.
A large hole was blown out of the dome above the tomb, but the tree was not in the middle, but moved inward for a distance, so the falling earth and rocks did not hit it. There are still remaining murals around the tomb, the contents of which are the same as those on the bronze leaves.
The decorations are similar, but there are many more characters.
As the strange "heart disk" rotates, the remaining murals seem to come to life, and Yu Fang's soul understands everything inexplicably.
This is a paradise where a certain Nanchu tribe has lived for generations. Their family made its fortune here and went out of the mountains to make achievements. No matter who ruled, they were rewarded by generations. From the pre-Qin to the Han Dynasty, this was their ancestral place. In troubled times
In this place, they can retreat to protect themselves and multiply, so that the lineage will continue. Based on this, their influence extends to hundreds of miles around. They are rewarded and respected in times of peace, and they plunder and enrich themselves in times of war. No one can do anything to them.
They are local powerful people who have lasted for thousands of years, calling the shots here, and they are also a prominent noble lineage, accumulating power through the ages. However, more than two thousand years ago, a mountain and river earthquake occurred here, and accompanied by thunder and rainstorms that had not been seen in thousands of years, this valley was
Destroyed, the collapsed mountains and the soil washed down by flash floods completely buried this paradise.
At this time, the feudal clan leader was also convicted of a crime against the Han emperor, and the entire clan was implicated and exiled. This time they could no longer rely on God's protection. Before being forced to migrate, the remaining clan members held a ceremony to
The sacred object passed down through the ages remains here forever, which is this bronze sacred tree, symbolizing the blessings of the gods of heaven and earth for thousands of years.
It is difficult to accurately understand their state of mind at that time, whether they were grateful or resentful to God. In short, this ceremony left behind information about everything that happened to future generations. No one could have imagined what happened more than two thousand years later. The power of the ceremony exploded due to tomb robbers.
In the tomb, the bronze sacred tree sensed vitality again and was stimulated.
This process can last for one or two days. During this period, You Fang, who controlled the spiritual consciousness, came in and clearly sensed the message left by the ancients. If Sun Fengbo came in, his experience would probably be the same as You Fang's.
But if an ordinary person comes in, such as Chi Muduo, he can only make inferences based on the remaining murals around him, or he can only have a hazy intuitive feeling as if he has had a dream, but can't tell what is going on. ——During archaeological excavations
There have been some similar mysterious phenomena that still cannot be explained.
This foot of the mountain is where important figures in this tribe have been buried for generations, and the "ancient tomb" that the tourists entered is not a tomb at all, but an altar dedicated to the bronze sacred tree, which is also the last thing they left behind.
Relics. Why did they go to such great lengths to leave this kind of information? Modern people need to understand the mentality of the ancients.
In the concept of the ancient people in this land, death is like life. I can barely use a popular saying to describe it: "How you want to live, then what kind of final destination you should pursue." Life is a short-term experience, and death is a short-term experience.
A kind of return, the beginning of another reincarnation, a summary of life in this world. This not only involves the emphasis on tombs, but also involves social evaluation of life beliefs. When the ancients commented on a person, they focused on everything in his life.
Summary of what was done.
If a person's life is like this, how can the demise of a tribal lineage be meaningless? So they have to hold such a ceremony to seal it all underground, leaving it to future generations to sigh and comment.
At this moment, You Fang's waist tightened and he was almost lifted up. He heard someone shouting loudly above his head: "Are you okay? What are you doing down there?"
You Chengyuan shined a flashlight on it and could see the situation below. When he saw You Fang standing there stupidly after landing, he didn't move for a long time and didn't speak. He was worried that something had happened, so he tightened the rope in his hand and called him.
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Fortunately, she pulled and shouted, waking up You Fang from the dream of thousands of years of soul-losing. If You Fang were left here, he might be in a coma for several days and nights, no matter how good his body was.
You will suffer a serious illness and lose all your skills for a long time before you can recover. This situation is similar to the "divine tiger biting the female demon" you once saw in the Luoyang ancient tomb. You accidentally got trapped in the painting. Fortunately, the Xie family's mother and daughter passed by.
Wake him up.
You Fang later created a picture scroll, which was inspired by that experience in addition to the mental refining method taught by his master.
But today's encounter was even more bizarre. You Fang was still able to alert himself in the Luoyang Ancient Tomb, but his injured spirit could not break free. At this moment, he himself could not wake up at all. He was actively integrating his consciousness into it in the ethereal and selfless realm.
It is equivalent to participating in this ceremony two thousand years later: on the one hand, the Qi machine resonates with the sleeping vitality of the entire mountain and river; on the other hand, the soul is also integrated with the information preserved in history; at the same time, he is also equivalent to operating the spiritual consciousness to inspire
Spirit guide.
Thinking back then, the man and woman completed this ritual at the cost of burning their souls and sacrificing their life force. How could You Fang afford it? The only reason is that he is too capable and has reached the level of transferring the spiritual hub, so he can't help but do this.
If a master of the same level as him came in, I'm afraid he would have the same reaction. Only the contemporary earth master Liu Li could be self-aware, because he has already personally understood the mystery of this "heart disk" operation.
Or ordinary people like Chi Muduo, they will just suddenly feel like a dream, and they will be mentally exhausted afterwards, but it will not be a big deal. There are gains and losses in the practice of secret methods, and you need to be extra careful under some special circumstances.
You Fang came back to his senses and secretly said it was a fluke. In just a short while, the power of his consciousness that had just been restored was almost exhausted again. He raised his head and shouted: "I'm fine! I found something here and it needs to be cleaned up.
Give me two hours and try not to disturb me... There is no place to stay down there, so no more people are allowed to come down."
Why did You Fang stay here alone after waking up? Although the scene just now was thrilling, for those who practice secret magic, it is an excellent opportunity that can only be encountered. They can realize too many unknown realms and experiences, even if
Some of these mysteries are unlikely to be practiced personally even if one knows them, and it is extremely difficult to have the opportunity to witness them.
You Fang also felt that after his own touch, this ancient ritual was almost over. When he looked at the time again, it happened to be the time when heaven and earth were born together.