"Old Chen, what are you doing?!" Luo Tianhe shouted again, his voice hoarse.
"The patterns on this stone door are all misplaced. It's actually a large jigsaw puzzle. You can only open the door after you've pieced it all together!"
I shouted excitedly at him.
While shouting, he moved his hands quickly across the stone gate, using the principles of the Five Elements, the Eight Trigrams, and the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches to rearrange the patterns.
I'll look at the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches first.
There are ten Heavenly Stems: Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, and Gui.
There are twelve Earthly Branches: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai.
They correspond to different directions in sequence.
I found the symbols representing these directions one by one and arranged them in order.
Next, let's look at the mutual generation and restraint of the five elements.
Metal generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, and earth generates metal; metal overcomes wood, wood overcomes earth, earth overcomes water, water overcomes fire, and fire overcomes metal.
Take that strange beast that looks like a cow, for example.
Its wings on its back belong to the element of fire in the Five Elements theory, while the ox's body belongs to the element of earth. According to the principle that fire generates earth, I moved it to a place related to the fire element.
Then look at that strange beast with a lion's head, a snake's tongue, eagle's wings, and a scorpion's tail.
In the Bagua, the lion's head corresponds to the Qian position, which represents heaven and belongs to the metal element. Based on the metal element, I placed it in the appropriate position.
I was sweating profusely, my hands constantly fiddling with the patterns.
After a long while, a complete picture was finally pieced together on the door.
Just finished putting it together.
With a deafening roar, as if the sky had collapsed, the whole world shook, feeling like a super-strong earthquake had occurred.
Immediately afterwards, rocks began to fall from above like rain.
A large rock crashed down like a cannonball, landing squarely between Luo Tianhe and the snakes, smashing more than a dozen snakes into mincemeat.
"Old Chen, what's going on? What did you do?"
Luo Tianhe, still shaken, hid behind a boulder and shouted at me at the top of his lungs.
I grabbed him and hid in a relatively safe corner next to the stone gate.
At this moment, the surrounding rock walls shook violently, large rocks kept falling down, and dust billowed, making it impossible to see anything.
"I didn't expect it to be like this either. I just pieced together the puzzle on the stone gate according to the principles of metal, wood, water, fire, earth and the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches."
Just then, the strange beast carvings on the rock wall began to slowly rotate.
The originally messy body parts were reassembled to create many new animal shapes.
With a deafening roar, the seemingly unyielding stone door slowly rose...
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