Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Come, Warrior, Fight, One, Ready, Formation, Line-up, Position, Move!”
“Om, Ma, Ni, Pad, Me, Hum, Zhen, Qian, Kun!”
The eighteen golden words seemed to come alive as they sparkled and appeared from the city wall. They were like the dead who had just woken up from a deep sleep, exuding an ancient and heavy aura.
“Are these the Daoist’s Nine Symbolic Words of Truth and Buddhism’s Six Symbolic Words of Clarity?”
Ye Chen looked rather grim. The scene that came out of nowhere before him had completely exceeded his expectations.
The full name of the Nine Symbolic Words was the Nine Symbolic Words Hand Seal. It was a secret technique hand seal that was popular among Chinese Taoists and military men. It was also known as the Nine Symbolic Words of Truth.
The Nine Symbolic Words originated from Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty’s book – ‘Baopuzi: Climbing and Crossing’. It was written that ‘Soldiers and fighters marched forward in formation. The nine words of mortals are often used as a secret blessing. There is nothing that cannot be broken through!”
The meaning was that if one read these nine words often, they would be able to dispel all evil. When the later generations copied these nine words, they would mistakenly copy ‘make a formation and march forward’ to ‘set up the formation first’ or ‘breaking the formation’. The mistakes were still being repeated until today.
It could be said that each word contained a great amount of power. It could be understood as a vessel, and the power would be channeled by the experts with spells.
Meanwhile, ‘Om, Ma, Ni, Pad, Me, Hum’ were the incantations from Tibetan Buddhism. It was called the Six-Word Mantra and was the most respected in Tibetan Buddhism. All of the believers found the meaning to be extraordinarily rich, profound, and supreme. It contained the great power, wisdom, and mercy of the universe.
For instance, in Journey to the West, Sun Wukong stirred a havoc in the Heaven Palace and was later suppressed by Rulai under the Five Finger Mountain. The Five Finger Mountain could not trap him initially, but Rulai ordered his disciple to paste a Buddhist scripture on the Five Finger Mountain later on. That suppressed Sun Wukong for 500 years.
On the Buddhist scripture was the Six Symbolic Words of Clarity Incantation – Om, Ma, Ni, Pad, Me, Hum!
“I get it, I get it now!”
Ye Chen’s eyes were sparkling continuously, “The eighteen words in front of me are used to augment the Nine Songs Dragon Formation. It’s also because these eighteen words have the ability to see through the world and distinguish evil that it enables people to pass through. This is the real reason why immortals in the northeast can’t pass through.”
The Nine Songs Dragon Formation was not a formation to kill. It could only be considered a defensive formation. This formation alone could not prohibit entrance, while the appearance of these eighteen words happened to make up for its flaw.
These eighteen words were equivalent to the eye of a formation.
Due to the eye, it determined the entrance prohibition between humans and immortals!
“Effort, so much effort was put into this!”
No matter how calm he was, Ye Chen could not help but be shocked at that moment. “The person drew dragon veins from all directions and used the impregnable pass as a formation. He even got Taoist Almighties and Buddhist Almighties to work together to inscribe the mantra, all that just to prohibit the northeastern immortals from passing through?
Who is it exactly who possesses such great ability?”
He retracted all of his aura as he thought to this point. Subsequently, he landed outside the walls of Shanhaiguan once again. The unforeseen event from before disappeared, as if nothing had happened.
The Shanhaiguan was built in the Ming dynasty during the reign of Emperor Hongwu, who was also Zhu Yuanzhang. He appointed King Zhongshan, Xu Da to build it during his reign. It had a history of over 700 years now.
After more than 700 years of exposure to the sun and wind, much of the skin on the walls had fallen off. One could even see the separated inner and outer layers. The country must have repaired it more than once.
Even though that was the case, there were still many distorted scribbles on it. Most of them were written by tourists, and the content was boring. For instance, there were ‘xxx has visited this place’ written on the wall, and even advertisements asking for a son with handsome reward written on it.
However, something caught Ye Chen’s attention.
It was a spot close to the city tower. The wall which two meters wide was occupied and about 60 meters from the ground was uneven. It was irregular, but it was interesting. Nevetheless, it was nothing worth looking at for an ordinary person.
However, a line of bold and powerful words appeared in Ye Chen’s eyes.
“50 laws in Dao, 49 belong to heaven, and humans could escape one. I have cultivated for 60 years, and I believe that in terms of Dao Methods, I am unrivalled in this world. However, I realized that these 50 laws are untrue. They’re untrue, hahaha!
My Mayi Sect has been passed down for 500 years. I realized the things my ancestors believed in are actually untrue when they passed down to me. Fifty is untrue, forty-nine is untrue too. Humans could escape one is untrue, and the Heavenly Dao is untrue. All of them are untrue!
How can the Heavenly Dao be untrue? How can the Heavenly Dao be untrue?
I didn’t believe it, and I didn’t dare to believe it either. I decided to call a few old friends that I hadn’t seen for many years to verify it. Even though we might die during this trip, but so what? What’s more terrifying than the collapse of the Heavenly Dao?
… written by Xiao Buyi!”
In just a few hundred words, the strokes were firm and forceful, while portraying anger, confusion, and unwillingness in them.
Ye Chen frowned slightly when he saw that it was Xiao Buyi who wrote it, “Xiao Buyi? Is it the grandmaster of spells from Hong Kong, Xiao Buyi? Or is it just a person with the same name?
They have the same name and they’re well-versed in Dao Methods. It seems like they’re the same person!”
Ye Chen’s expression changed.
Even though he had never met Xiao Buyi before, he had heard of him on more than one occasion. He was the heir of Mayi Sect of the generation, the leader of Hong Kong’s spell world. Shen Tiannan, Fang Tianhua and the rest who were the renowned masters of regions were merely juniors in his existence.
Ye Chen realized that he was faking his death when he was at the Tang family’s ancestral tomb.
The so-called ’50 laws in Dao, 49 belong to heaven, and humans could escape one’ came from Yi Jing.
The overall meaning was that there were a total of fifty laws governing the movement and development of everything in the world between heaven and earth. Only forty-nine could be deduced, and one of them was nature’s mystery. The nature’s mystery was unfathomable, as well as a metaphor that not all things could be perfect. There would always be a flaw.
“Judging by what Xiao Buyi wrote, it seems he had also discovered something!”
Ye Chen looked surprised. Subsequently, he shook his head and looked at the entire Shanhaiguan again. However, to his disappointment, he did not discover anything else.
In the end, he jumped onto the city wall and stood with his hands behind his back. “I initially wanted to find a geographical vein for the patriarch to break through to Foundation Building, but I didn’t expect to find out that the Heavenly Dao is dead!
I came to the Shanhaiguan with the intention of investigating the reason why the immortals from the northeast are unable to pass this place. However, I didn’t expect to discover an earth-shattering spell formation here, as well as Xiao Buyi’s masterpiece on the wall!”
His expression was slightly grave as he raised his eyes to look at the sky. He gazed at the entire night sky, “Shanhaiguan has a formation. Since that’s the case, does that mean the Jiayu Pass and Zhenbeitai has a formation too since they’re two of the three main passes of China?!
There’s also the Hangu Pass, Kunlun…”
These places are the most mystical places in Chinese history. Are they like the Shanhaiguan before me?
It seems I’ll have to visit these places when I have the time!”
Noticing that the sky was turning bright gradually, Ye Chen took a good look at Shanhaiguan beneath his feet. He then charged a sword gleam and headed toward Tiannan. However, his heart was rather heavy.
“All of these shows that the earth isn’t as simple as I thought. Perhaps something major changed hundreds of years ago that caused the lack of spirit energy. It has also caused the world to enter the age of doom, and even the collapse of the Heavenly Dao.”