Chapter 66 Entering the Mountain Gate
What did I see at this time? I'm not sure what I saw, because I don't know how such a clear mountain gate emerged. As for what is behind the mountain gate, it is shrouded in fog, and I can't see clearly at all.
Therefore, I can only think of mirages, but I also think of what Master told me: mirages may not be real mirages.
I was in shock and couldn't communicate with anyone. I also understood why Gu Xindao told me that this was the only miracle he had seen in his life!
"Chengyi, Chengyi." Gu Xindao's voice kept echoing in my consciousness, and I finally woke up.
After all, they were in a state of soul, and there was no way to touch each other. He had to keep calling me, and I came back to my senses and said: "I'm sorry, brother Xindao, the successive battles have made my soul power a little weak.
I don’t know if this slows down the response.”
"Haha, it doesn't matter. I'm afraid this is not the key. The key reason is that you feel shocked too. It was the same for me for the first time." Gu Xindao could see that I was actually hiding my embarrassing emotions.
I smiled sheepishly, but Gu Xindao said to me: "The mountain gate has appeared, let's go in quickly. The mountain gate maintained by this formation is not stable. If we don't hurry up and enter, our trip will be in vain."
Only then did I notice that the floating figures all entered the mountain gate in a certain order. At that moment, I stopped nagging and entered the mountain gate with Gu Xindao with great curiosity.
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I don’t know how to describe the feeling of entering the so-called mountain gate. I just felt that when I approached the mountain gate, I felt that the mountain gate was very majestic and huge. There was a plaque hanging on the mountain gate, and I didn’t know who it was.
On it are written four small seal characters that are very unfamiliar to ordinary people.
I have learned a lot of ancient characters from my master since I was a child. To be honest, these small seal characters are not difficult for me to decipher, so I recognized them at a glance. The meaning of those four characters is a place of shelter.
This makes me baffled. The history of Xiaozhuan is very old. This mountain gate also looks very old. It is said that the characters written on the plaque above should be the name of the ancient mountain gate. For example, this mountain gate always reminds me of Chinese myths and legends.
Inside - Nantianmen.
But what does it mean to write about a place to stay?
But I couldn't think too much. At Gu Xindao's urging, I could only step into the mountain gate with him. I said that I can't describe the feeling of crossing the mountain gate. To put it simply, it felt like falling into a pool of water.
My entire vision and consciousness became blurry.
Especially in this process, there is no concept of time at all. You seem to fall into a sober sleep or coma, which seems to last an instant and seems to last eternity.
I thought that this feeling would never end, but I thought that waking up was like an instant. When I was completely awake, I couldn't even realize what was going on, and a huge breath of life rushed towards me.
Come.
My eyes widened, and I had no idea where I was or what era I was in - I saw blue bricks and red tiles, a peaceful ancient town, and a clean bluestone street right under my feet.
Is this Jiangnan in ancient times? I found that the sky here is green and misty, as if a drizzle of rain will fall at any time.
But in fact, this is definitely not Jiangnan, nor any historical dynasty that I am familiar with. Although I cannot say that I am very proficient in history, I can at least be aware of the distinctive costumes of the historical dynasties in China.
I can't imagine that in such a street, there are people wearing Tang Dynasty costumes, people wearing Ming Dynasty costumes, and even people wearing Republic of China costumes. They blend together so harmoniously, walking casually on this street.
Walking around, looking calm, even ignoring me as a foreign guest.
Although my soul power was already in a weak state at this time, my spiritual sense was an ethereal feeling that was always there. I was very sensitive to the feeling of all these people walking on the street in an instant.
Great soul power!
This suddenly reminded me of what Gu Xindao said to me, that the "people" here are the souls of my Taoist people! Therefore, it is expected that they have such outstanding soul power.
Standing on this quaint street, I didn't know what I was going to do, or even where I was going. There were no so-called shops here at all. There were only buildings similar to residential buildings on both sides of the street, and the upper reaches of the street
The 'people' who left completely ignored me.
"Chengyi, this is the ghost market, the real ghost market! The rest are just simple transactions between humans and ghosts, not really a ghost market. People who are not the core of the real circle will never think that the real ghost market may not be this at all.
In the world, only some ancient documents have vague records, but they are interpreted as mirages, which is quite helpless." Gu Xindao appeared next to me for some reason, and it seemed that he entered some time later than me.
Regarding this, Master discussed this with me many years ago. I don’t want to discuss this topic here, because people always think that seeing is believing, but they have never considered the limitations of their own eyes.
Even if you see the things below, if you can think of them as hallucinations, just treat them as hallucinations.
Don't treat it as an illusion and force a scientific explanation. Even if the scientific explanation lacks sufficient evidence, most of the arguments are just guesses!
What true science can prove can be applied or reproduced through scientific means. Can anyone reproduce the mirages recorded in ancient documents under certain so-called sufficient conditions? You must know that those mirages do not appear in the desert or in the desert.
At sea, sometimes even in densely populated places.
And people who can 'see' should be people with excellent spiritual awareness. This is my guess.
I even speculate that some mirages are not ghost markets at all, or that I dare not imagine or what, I admit that my knowledge is also limited.
Since I didn’t want to discuss this topic with Gu Xindao, I asked the question I wanted to ask the most: “Brother Xindao, why do the ‘people’ here simply ignore us? So what should we do here?”
Gu Xindao shook his head and said: "I don't know the specific reason. I only know that in this ghost market, you need to meet your destiny. If someone can talk to you here, then your destiny has arrived, and you can start your journey.
trade, or choose whether to trade.”
"Choose whether to trade?" I'm a little confused. According to Gu Xindao's statement, trading in this ghost market is rare, so why should I choose whether to trade?
Faced with my question, Gu Xindao smiled slightly and said: "Yes, in this ghost market, if such a fate comes, you may get any benefits at no cost, but if the fate does not come, you still have such a problem."
By some chance, you meet someone and talk to you, and the benefits that are given to you may come at a huge price."
"Well" I somewhat understood the meaning of Gu Xindao's words.
"But this ghost market isn't really just trading like this. It's actually very big here. There is a huge market here. That's the place for orthodox trading, but don't think you can buy anything here." Gu Xindao
He introduced it to me enthusiastically.
I can't imagine the meaning behind this sentence, and how high the price must be, so that people can't buy anything here.
For a moment, I was a little dazed, but Gu Xindao said to me: "Let's go, this place is actually very big. If you look around, can't you see our people?"
Gu Xindao and I just strolled along the bluestone streets like this. As he said, apart from me and him, we really couldn’t see anyone participating in the ghost market with us.
"It is precisely because I promised my uncle to look after you that I entered the mountain gate almost at the same time as you, so we happened to come to the same place. But almost everyone who participates in this ghost market has their own secrets. In general,
Under such circumstances, I would never choose to enter the ghost market with others." Gu Xindao explained to me.
"It's very big here? How big is it here?" What caught my eyes was the beautiful scenery of the ancient Jiangnan town. Among the red walls and green tiles, I would see peach blossoms and apricot blossoms from time to time. I turned around an alley and there it was.
You will see clear water shrouded in thin mist, slowly flowing through the moss-covered river channel.
All of this is breathtakingly beautiful, but it always feels illusory and unreal, but it does exist.
Chapter completed!