Is face or life important?

This problem is not a problem at all for many ordinary people in modern times. Face counts as a fart? My life is gone, and I still have a fart face?

But in ancient times, it was different, "I would rather die than eat the food that came to me", although it is a kind of integrity, at that time, to a certain extent, can it also be understood as face? In fact, for ancient people, many times, face was more important than life.

Fortunately, for Shangguan Jinhong, this question is at most in his head, and it won't bother him for too long.

If he was still the arrogant Shangguan Jinhong at this time, I am afraid that he would basically not use this humiliating way to survive; If he had reached the pinnacle of power now, he probably wouldn't want to win in this way. However, although the current Shangguan Jinhong still maintains the pursuit of power, he does not have that arrogance, so for him, life is much more important than face.

Therefore, Shangguan Jinhong's next action was to take everyone to undress together.

Yes, that's right, undress.

But he didn't take someone to plug those gaps in the first place, because the water that his clothes can hold is limited, and it is better to plug them at this time than to wait for a while for some water to flow out.

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At this time, Pan Li had also successfully ground the wooden machine man to death, and faced the last test-the Five Elements Gate. And the choice he finally made was a wooden door.

Because he didn't think that there might be poison in the wooden door, but felt that it was very likely that there was a formation inside.

In fact, Pan Li was also the kind of luck that was very lucky, in the Five Elements Gate he was facing, the wooden door was indeed not a poison, but a formation.

"It's ...... Relying on the array of plum blossoms to be easily placed? No, no, it's not just plum blossoms that are easy to count, but also crape myrtle buckets. Pan Li stood in front of the formation and muttered to himself.

"But this is very unreasonable, it is often the number of Ziwei buckets embedded in the plum blossoms, why is it the other way around?"

In reality, Pan Li is just an ordinary college student, but he is particularly interested in metaphysical things such as face and palmistry, formation Zhou Yi, etc. And this is also the reason why after he entered Peach Blossom Island, although he chose the Dong Xiao and the formation as a side door to learn, the Dong Xiao technique was so bad - he spent most of his time and energy on the formation.

Of course, he is indeed very talented in formation, but in just three days, his Qimen Five Turns Palm Technique has been completed, and now, his Qimen Five Turns Palm Technique has reached the level of harmony.

Therefore, after reading countless formation books on Peach Blossom Island, he could see at a glance the unreasonableness of the formation in front of him.

"That's not right!" Just thinking about it, Pan Li's eyes suddenly lit up, "This is not the plum blossom easy to count the purple micro bucket, but the anti-plum blossom easy to count the set of anti-purple micro bucket!" ”

"Hahaha, I'm really a formation genius, how can a small formation be hard to hold me!" The complacent Pan Li completely forgot that just now, he was beaten half to death by a wooden machine.

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Shi Guanyin has been hesitating in front of the Five Elements Gate for a long time.

Jinmu, water, fire and earth, she never thought about which door she wanted to enter.

In fact, the Five Elements Gate is different, for example, the Golden Gate chosen by Mu Xiaojiu and the three of them, some of them are mainly puzzle-solving, and some represent the hidden weapon array; For example, the wooden door Pan Li chose had three liquid ingredients to be placed and made into poison in the correct order. Some are to prevent the three poisons, so that people can identify the characteristics of each poison and then pour it into the machine bracket on the door in the correct order, and there are various formations.

Among the remaining three doors, the water gate has a flooded stone chamber that Shangguan Jinhong and the four people touched, and there are also three containers, each with only one opening, allowing others to stretch out one hand to enter. Of the three containers, one is equipped with bone-turning water, the other is equipped with a mechanism, and as soon as you put your hand into it, it will be pinched by the stone basin that closes quickly, and only one has a triangular stone key that can open the door.

The earth gates are all the same, they are all labyrinths, and the only difference is that the mechanism of each maze is different. Qiao Feng and Zhou Botong both chose Tumen, and they both proved this very well.

To put it bluntly, there is basically no fatal crisis in the front Sancai Gate, and they can generally pass through alive. Even if a person enters the gate of the earth alone, relying on his internal cultivation, he will not die in the gate after bleeding.

Sancai Gate is just the simplest test, or plaything.

The real killer move of the master of the stone room was actually placed in the Five Elements Gate.

I have already said the Jinmu Water and Earth Gate, but I didn't say the Fire Gate, this is because what Shi Guanyin entered was the Fire Gate.

This time, at the invitation of Shangguan Jinhong and someone, Shi Guanyin came alone and did not bring any subordinates, so she entered the passage behind the stone slab alone.

Previously, in the Sancai Gate, she chose the human gate and passed easily.

However, the test in the fire gate made Shi Guanyin's whole person a little bad.

The test in the fire gate can be simply called "taking chestnuts from the fire", or "true and false Suzaku", which is also very appropriate.

From the moment Shi Guanyin stepped into the fire gate, a raging fire suddenly ignited around him, and at the same time, in the open space in the center of the stone room, there were three statues, and at the same time, in the middle of the three statues, a stone tablet was erected, which read:

"Vermilion Bird, also known as Vermilion Bird, also has the name of Sun Vermilion Bird. and the green dragon, the white tiger, the Xuanwu, and the four spirits of the sky, and the yellow dragon, the green dragon, the white tiger, and the Xuanwu together called the five beasts of the heavenly officials, but also the totem of the ancient Yue country. ”

"However, the world often thinks of it as a phoenix or a type of phoenix, but in fact, the Vermilion Bird, which is one of the four spirits of the sky and one of the four stars, is very different from the phoenix, one of the four spirits of the Book of Rites."

"The origin of the confusion between the image of the red bird and the phoenix is that a few Taoist scriptures match the phoenix bird, which symbolizes peace, with the fire of the south, but whether it is the south or the fire, it is actually the authority of the red bird, and the red bird is not a phoenix."

"Four Inventories of the Eyes of the Ping Hui Journal" said: Kui Lou stomach Pleiades Bi Ginseng is the god of the white tiger, Jing Ghost Oak Star Zhang Yi is the god of the Vermilion Bird, "Quay Guanzi? Du Wan VIII said: The phoenix, the bird of quail fire, refers to the phoenix with the bird of quail fire, it can be seen that the phoenix belongs to the seven houses in the south, but it is not equal to the vermilion bird god who is the seven houses. ”

"There are three statues, one of which is a red bird, one is a phoenix, and one is a phoenix. Each statue can be rotated three times, and for each statue turned, the flames in the chamber will approach the center once, and after six times, the flames will fill the entire chamber. Only after the real Suzaku statue has been turned three times can the flame be extinguished and the stone door opened. ”

What is it like to be in such a stone room, where a fire is blazing? Shi Guanyin didn't know before, but now she knows. But just by taking the time to read the content on the stele, she was already sweating. She knew very well in her heart that if she couldn't solve the puzzle as soon as possible and turn the real Suzaku statue three times, she was afraid that she would really die in this stone room.

It may be due to heat, burning, or hypoxia.

Since there is going to be a fire in the stone room, there are naturally ventilation holes, but Shi Guanyin can't find it, because there are fires burning all around her.

Now she felt fine, the air was scorching, but at least there was plenty of it. But as she began to turn the statue and the fire grew bigger, the air around her became thinner. By that time......

Shi Guanyin's face couldn't help but show surprise, and he hurriedly took a closer look at the three statues.

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Mu Xiaojiu's mood was not much better than Shi Guanyin's.

He had now figured out that his reasoning had been correct when he pressed the iron rod earlier. But that was only the first part of the test in the entire Golden Gate Stone Chamber. Right now, these five-colored stone slabs are the second test—he must pick the right path to the stone gate in order to successfully exit.

But what exactly is the order? The order of these stone slabs in front of me was chaotic, and they were not sorted according to the five elements at all...... Wrong!

Mu Xiaojiu suddenly discovered something interesting.

Centered on five iron rods, five paths extend around it, each with two stone slabs, and one of them must be golden!.

The beginning of these five paths is gold, gold, gold, gold, blue, gold, red, and golden-brown. That's the best hint!

The beginning of these five paths also has a golden slate, that is, it begins with a golden act. The other five-colored stone slabs are arranged in a clockwise manner, plus the common golden stone slabs, and the final conclusion is that this is actually telling Mu Xiaojiu how to find the path based on the iron rod.

The verses of the five iron rods actually indicate that the iron rod will be pressed several times, each verse actually represents a property, as long as you find the verses of the golden row, and then look at each iron rod in clockwise order, you can know which stone slabs to step on in turn.

Mu Xiaojiu's face finally showed a little smile.

Moreover, these stone slabs also told Mu Xiaojiu a clue - the answer was beside him.

Therefore, the poem "Stone Trench Officer" represents the earth line, "Spring River Flower Moon Night" represents the water line, the two lines of "Lisao" represent gold and wood respectively, and "Long Hate Song" represents fire.

Although the answers to "Lisao" and "Song of Long Hatred" are not as easy to deduce as the first two, Mu Xiaojiu still successfully solved them.

Among them, "Lisao" is still the most difficult......

After solving the puzzle, Mu Xiaojiu looked at the five iron rods, and after finding the gold line, he went clockwise down to metal, fire, water, wood, and earth.

After several tosses, the three of them finally succeeded in leaving the stone room behind the Golden Gate.