Urban Witcher

Ye Shaoyang and the two of them did not go to the mountain gate to find smoke, but bypassed the foot of the mountain and walked towards the middle of the valley.

The grass and trees under the mountain are very suitable for concealment. Ye Shaoyang and Chengzi walked carefully along the way, and after passing between the two peaks, a pagoda appeared in sight.

Ye Shaoyang held on to Cheng Zi, and was not in a hurry to go there. He observed the environment around the pagoda under the cover of a tree:

As Ah Zi and Xiao Jiu said before, this solitary iron tower stands in the middle of the valley, and there are at least a few kilometers of open land on the left and right, full of weeds, and the shallowest one is as deep as a person's waist. Looking around, there are some collapsed walls and broken bricks around the iron tower—just like Yinsi, under the existing space rules, these buildings are also made of the earth here, just like the human world. Then it was built brick by brick. If no one maintains it for a long time, the house will collapse.

There is a circle of foundations in the grass, forming a large circle around the iron tower. Ye Shaoyang guessed that this place should be the Lanruo Temple back then. Judging from the foundation and the remaining walls, the land of Lanruo Temple should be as large as several hundred square meters in the world. , neither small nor big, now there are only a pile of ruined walls, and this iron tower is still standing.

Seeing that there was no one around, Ye Shaoyang took Orange and walked over to the bottom of the iron tower. The iron tower is not very high, only twenty meters at most, and compared with the surrounding mountains, it looks even smaller.

Ye Shaoyang walked around the iron tower, and found that the tower was indeed solid, it looked pitch black, and there was no shape to speak of.

Ye Shaoyang took a few steps back, looked up and down, and then looked around. Except for this iron tower, there was nothing else to study.

"Boss, where is the person you want to save locked up? Isn't it in this tower?" Cheng Zi looked up at the iron tower and asked.

"Don't talk nonsense, this is a solid tower."

"Maybe it's under the tower. That Yan Chixia is not necessarily a human. If it's a ghost, it's natural to be suppressed here. Isn't the tower used to suppress evil spirits?"

Ye Shaoyang nodded slowly. What Cheng Zi said made sense. In ancient times, people believed that the biggest function of the pagoda was to suppress evil, so there was a saying that the pagoda suppressed river demons.

However, Ye Shaoyang thought about it again. He had heard Xiaojiu and Ah Zi say that there were rumors of the Eastern Emperor Bell in Lanruo Temple. After returning in vain, this place was later occupied by the Xingxiu Sea. It is conceivable that not to mention the underside of the pagoda, even if it is a few kilometers around, it must have been dug up.

If there is really something hidden under the pagoda, it must have been discovered long ago, and it will not wait until I discover it by myself.

However, there is definitely a problem with this pagoda standing here.

Ye Shaoyang glanced at Cheng Zi and said: "First, any pagoda has been standing on the top of the mountain since ancient times, unless there is no mountain, only the tower standing on the top of the mountain can be seen from a distance, which looks very strange. High, from the perspective of feng shui, the tower is a spiritual thing. The higher it stands, the more open the surrounding area, so that the wind can blow from all directions and absorb more spiritual energy. This is the first time I have seen mountains all around, but The tower was erected on purpose in the valley.

Second, is this tower made of iron? This is not the human world, the Qingming Realm...does it have the technology to make iron? "

Cheng Zi was stunned immediately after hearing this, and murmured: "There are ghosts."

"But this is not the Yin Division. Think about it carefully. The magical weapons used by the Taoist monks in the Qingming Realm are all brought from the human world. I don't believe that such a big tower can be moved here from the human world?"

"Then...but this is clearly the iron tower?"

Ye Shaoyang stepped forward and touched the body of the tower, it really looked like cast iron. Solid...why do you want to make it solid? Is there something poured in it?

Ye Shaoyang looked up and down the iron tower again, only to find that on the first floor below the spire, there are some symbols engraved on it, which are sunken. There are eight sides of the iron tower, and there are symbols on each side, because there is no color . It was not discovered before.

Ye Shaoyang studied the eight symbols carefully, and they didn't look like words. He suspected that they were some kind of runes that he couldn't understand. The eight symbols looked similar, and each of them looked like the "S" in the English alphabet. However, after Ye Shaoyang's research, he discovered that "S" is the basis of the eight symbols. In other words, there is an S in each of the eight runes, and each one has a different symbol on it, some are dots, some are waves.

It's definitely some kind of rune! !

Ye Shaoyang looked at the iron tower in a daze, guessing the meaning of the eight runes on it, and at the same time searching for various Taoist runes in his memory. Speaking of this matter, there is still a historical background:

In the process of Taoism transforming from the original Wudou rice religion to various sects, due to different understandings of Taoist culture, although the essence has not changed, the difference in form is getting bigger and bigger. This difference is mainly reflected in the runes. In terms of painting method.

The improvement of rune drawing by different factions also has a very secular purpose: to worry about the spells of one's own school being learned by others.

The drawing method of runes is not random. There is a specific law in the coordination of spells, just like different languages. You must first learn the letters and spelling rules before you can understand the meaning of words. To learn the spells of a certain sect, one must also understand the laws behind the runes. Otherwise, it is like a person who does not understand English. Even if an English word is placed in front of him, he cannot pronounce it, let alone understand its meaning.

During the Han and Tang Dynasties, the development of Taoism reached its peak, and various sects were separated, and they were also in competition with each other. Because of the views of sects, in order to prevent their own sects from being learned, the larger sects invented all kinds. My own way of drawing runes. In the late Southern Song Dynasty, various wars and massacres caused many sects to become extinct, and there were many classics about spells. However, because I used my own language, it was difficult for future generations Just like an encrypted file, it is difficult to decipher it without changing the rules.

Among these spells, many of them are unique skills of the sect. As a result, because of the use of "encrypted language", future generations cannot practice them, so they are lost. This kind of loss is like a treasury in front of future generations. I can take it wherever I want, but I can't find the key...

Because of the impact of the war, similar incidents happened many times. For the later Taoist disciples, this feeling was simply broken.

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