NCCnovel #167 - Unlucky Feng Shui Master Chen Xu
#167 - Unlucky Feng Shui Master Chen Xu
Chapter 166: The Unlucky Feng Shui Master, Chen Xu
Zhang Chen felt relieved upon seeing Xie Lingyun's confident assurance. If Xie Lingyun said so, then there would be no problem.
So, Zhang Chen opened the Shangqing Hand Scroll in his hands and said with a shy, embarrassed, and reluctant expression, "Sister, this hand scroll is very strange. After I finished reading the runes on the scroll that day, three hundred and sixty of the runes disappeared out of thin air."
As he spoke, Zhang Chen handed the book to Xie Lingyun, his eyes full of innocence: "I really just looked at it. I didn't do anything, but the runes on the book disappeared out of thin air."
Xie Lingyun was stunned when she heard Zhang Chen's words. She quickly picked up the book and flipped through the entire book, her eyelids twitching constantly.
She had personally checked that Zhang Chen had not done anything, but that made it even more difficult.
"Could it be that you comprehended something from the book?" Xie Lingyun looked at Zhang Chen and said her speculation: "And then, because you absorbed the mysterious power of the book, it caused the contents of this book to disappear?"
Zhang Chen remembered that after he had completed the entire talisman array, the three hundred and sixty talismans turned into golden light and were absorbed by him. His heart skipped a beat: "Could it really be like this?"
Xie Lingyun looked at Zhang Chen's expression and knew the truth. Looking at the blank talisman in her hand, Xie Lingyun scratched her head: "Few people pay attention to this talisman on weekdays. When I go back, I will quietly send it back. In the future, people may not read it. Even if someone reads it in the future, we can say that the ink has faded over the years, which caused the disappearance of the runes. As long as they don't catch us, no one can blame us."
"I've caused trouble for you, Sister," Zhang Chen said a little embarrassedly.
"It's not troublesome, it's just a little trouble, it's not worth mentioning," Xie Lingyun said.
Hearing Xie Lingyun's words, Zhang Chen quickly poured a cup of tea for Xie Lingyun: "Little brother will offer tea instead of wine to apologize to my sister."
Xie Lingyun was not polite, took Zhang Chen's tea, and then asked, "There are seven days until the day of the Dao Discussion at the foot of the mountain, are you going?"
Zhang Chen hesitated slightly before opening his mouth and said, "This matter started because of me, of course I have to go."
"Now that Huangli Temple has had such a thing happen, I'm afraid they won't let you go down the mountain easily. You should go down the mountain with me later, just say you are going to my mansion as a guest, and then come back in a few days," Xie Lingyun looked at Zhang Chen with her eyes and put forward her opinion.
Zhang Chen hesitated when he heard this. He didn't want to go to the Surveillance Office, and he didn't want to face that old guy Xie Xuan.
Zhang Chen knew that those old guys were all shrewd people, and he was still a bit short of being able to face Xie Xuan directly.
He wanted to go to the mountains to find the flaws in the Feng Shui Grand Array, thinking about how to break the Feng Shui Grand Array, and then take out the treasures in the Imperial Daughter's Tomb.
"I can go down the mountain with my sister, but I still have something to do. How about we separate at the foot of the mountain?" Zhang Chen asked.
Xie Lingyun didn't refute when she heard this, and agreed with Zhang Chen's words.
So, Zhang Chen and Xie Lingyun talked for a while. After eating lunch, Zhang Chen directly hugged the jar that sealed Xie Lingyun's inner demon and went down the mountain with Xie Lingyun.
As for Little Bean Sprout? Zhang Chen always felt that it was not safe for this little guy to stay in the mountains, but thinking about it, there are now great cultivators in the mountains, Gu Mingyue, one of the Twelve Ancestors, is in charge of Huangli Temple, so there should be no danger, so he went down the mountain with Xie Lingyun.
Zhang Chen went down the mountain with Xie Lingyun to play, but the elders such as Liu Feng were secretly happy in their hearts. Although he did not go to the Surveillance Office to take office, Zhang Chen's invitation to go down the mountain as a guest by Xie Lingyun at this time was a great leap forward in their relationship.
Now that he has gone down the mountain as a guest, is the day of entering the Surveillance Office still far away?
Arriving at the foot of the mountain, Zhang Chen hugged the jar and said goodbye to Xie Lingyun.
"Are you really not going back with me? It's good to go over and get to know the ropes in advance, so you don't have trouble finding me in the future," Xie Lingyun looked at Zhang Chen standing at the fork in the road and asked.
"I still have an important matter, and it must be done," Zhang Chen said.
Seeing this, Xie Lingyun could only helplessly nod: "Since that's the case, you should go to the city earlier after you finish your business. I'll be waiting for you at the HSBC Fresh Restaurant in the city."
After Xie Lingyun finished speaking, she led hundreds of armored soldiers away.
Looking at Xie Lingyun's departing back, Zhang Chen said to himself: "Xie Lingyun is already a great cultivator in the Possession Realm. She can be regarded as a true master of mystery, but she is still accompanied by hundreds of iron-clad guards when she travels. It can be seen that even if her cultivation reaches her realm, she cannot provoke the secular monarchy."
"These armored soldiers are not simple," the voice of the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon came from the jar.
"What do you mean?" Zhang Chen asked curiously. In his Dharma Eye, he didn't see any blessing or interference from mysterious power.
"These armored soldiers are wearing iron armor, and it seems to involve the operation of Qi and blood. Although what they have trained is similar but not the same, it can already resist the possession of the Possession Realm. As for the cultivators in the Object Manipulation Realm, they can only use things that weigh hundreds of pounds. Facing this group of warriors wearing specially made iron armor, they may be able to deal with ten or eight at a time, but if twenty or thirty of them attack together, even cultivators in the Possession Realm will have to retreat," said the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon.
Zhang Chen thoughtfully heard the words, looked at Xie Lingyun leaving, and turned his eyes to the jar in his hand.
The jar is too big of a target and it's not convenient to carry.
"Old thing, how about I change a house for you?" Zhang Chen patted the jar.
"What are you going to do?" Hearing Zhang Chen's words, the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon suddenly felt an ominous premonition in his heart.
Zhang Chen directly took out a thumb-sized porcelain bottle from his pocket, and then opened the seal of the jar: "Tell me, should I send you in, or will you drill in yourself?"
"Such a small bottle, how can I drill in?" The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon was immediately unhappy and began to resist, his words full of rejection.
"Huh?" Zhang Chen lengthened his tone: "I think, based on our current relationship, you shouldn't ask me to do it myself, right?"
Facing Zhang Chen's strength, how can one not bow one's head under the eaves? The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon felt helpless and could only turn into a wisp of black smoke and drill into the bottle, and then Zhang Chen covered the runes with one hand.
The next moment, Zhang Chen turned into a bat and disappeared into the mountains.
The weather in the Northland is getting drier and drier, the water vapor in the world is getting less and less, and the lives of the people are getting harder and harder.
Zhang Chen came to his secret base, checked the gunpowder that had been made, and found that no one had been here. The number of hornets was even greater, I'm afraid there were tens of thousands of them.
"Could it be that the hornets within a hundred miles have all run over here?" Zhang Chen controlled a large underground snake to crawl out and directly fed it to the goshawk and hornets, and then walked towards the mountains, wanting to find the flaws in the Feng Shui Grand Array.
Although Zhang Chen had cultivated supernatural powers, he was not omniscient or omnipotent. He had no perception of the feng shui before him. In his divine eyes, the mountains in front of him were just ordinary mountains, without anything worth noting. If he hadn't personally dug up the True Dragon Tomb and known the location of the Imperial Daughter's Grand Tomb, he probably wouldn't have believed that such good fortune was buried in this place.
Zhang Chen opened his divine eyes and scanned the heavens and the earth, but he didn't see any mysterious aura flowing. He felt slightly relieved.
Ever since Xie Lingyun appeared before him, he had become suspicious, feeling that Xie Xuan had tampered with his body. Otherwise, how could Xie Lingyun have appeared in the Taoist temple so coincidentally?
Zhang Chen didn't know that he had truly misunderstood Xie Lingyun. The reason why Xie Lingyun went to Huangli Temple was entirely due to the disciples of Huangli Temple preaching and enticing people at the foot of the mountain. At that time, Xie Lingyun was desperate and had no choice but to go to Huangli Temple to seek opportunities.
"Even if I open my divine eyes, I can't see the traces of the feng shui grand formation here. If I can't even see the feng shui grand formation, how can I find the location of the Imperial Daughter's Grand Tomb?" Zhang Chen felt a little troubled.
"As for the place where the twelfth-order mysterious existence is placed, it may be connected to the Imperial Daughter's Grand Tomb. But in my memory, within the Imperial Daughter's Grand Tomb, there are various methods personally arranged by that unknown-level god, and even the major tomb chambers have been turned into copper walls and iron walls. In addition, there is the feng shui grand formation covering it, as well as various mysterious killing powers. If I want to enter the Imperial Daughter's Grand Tomb, the best way is to find the entrance."
However, the entrance was not so easy to find.
Just as Zhang Chen was at a loss, suddenly a scream came from afar, which made Zhang Chen's heart move. Then, he transformed into a wisp of mist and shuttled through the branches. Relying on the trees in the mountains to block him, he was not conspicuous.
When he approached the source of the sound, Zhang Chen transformed from mist into a stream of water, rolling under a dead branch. Soon, he approached the source of the scream. What he saw was actually an old acquaintance of Zhang Chen.
It was the old village chief and the feng shui master named Chen Xu.
It's just that this feng shui master named Chen Xu was not having a good time now. How glorious he was when the old village chief invited him, how miserable he was now.
In front of an earthen pit, feng shui master Chen Xu sat in the pit with a bruised nose and swollen face, his eyes filled with horror, and his speech was slurred due to missing teeth: "Village chief, please give me another chance. I will definitely dig out water for you."
Hearing Chen Xu's words, the old village chief stood in front of the pit and smiled coldly: "Chen Xu, it's not that I didn't give you a chance. I've already given you many chances. We've been digging pits with you, and we've probably dug dozens of them in the past few months. How can you say that I didn't give you a chance? It's your own fault for not grasping it well. You can't blame me."
"For more than a month, I've been serving you all kinds of delicious food and drinks, right? All kinds of meat and wine, I haven't filled your stomach less, right?" The old village chief simply squatted in front of the pit, looking at Chen Xu in the pit:
"In this year of severe drought, you said you wanted to take a bath, so you took a bath. We eat chaff and swallow vegetables, and buy you venison to drink with wine, and even find women to serve you. We haven't treated you badly, right? How are you repaying us? We followed you to dig dozens of wells in the mountains, but not a drop of water was dug out. How can you ask me to give you another chance?"
"Village chief, it's not that I, Chen Xu, am incompetent. All the acupoints I pointed to are nodes of water veins, but who knows that the dragon sucking water is too powerful, and it doesn't even wait for us to dig to the groundwater before it sucks away all the groundwater." Chen Xu shouted at this time: "Don't say you asked me to point acupoints, even if you invite someone else, the groundwater is dry, and he can't do anything about it! I and others have the skill to slay dragons, but there is no real dragon in this world."
At this time, Chen Xu was really wronged. Was it because his acupoint pointing technique was not good?
There was no water underground, even if he had thousands of skills, he could do nothing.
"According to our previous agreement, if you can't dig out water, either you take out money to compensate us for a few months of food and drink losses, or we will bury you alive on the spot, which can be regarded as venting our anger. Do you have money on you?" The old village chief said with a smile.
"Where do I have money? Please believe me one more time. Although I don't have money, I know that there is a feng shui grand formation in this mountain. There must be a large tomb in the feng shui grand formation. If you listen to me and dig open that large tomb, you won't have to worry about eating and drinking for several lifetimes." The feng shui master Chen Xu in the pit seemed to have sensed the crisis, and quickly got up and stood in the pit, begging.
He originally wanted to keep this feng shui grand tomb for himself. After he left the village, he would find a way to dig open the feng shui grand tomb. At that time, he would not have to worry about eating and drinking for several lifetimes, and wealth and glory would be in front of him. But who knew that this group of people did not talk about martial ethics, and would not let him leave unless they dug up water.
Now the entire land is drought-stricken and famine-stricken. Where can he find water?
The most important thing is that these people are ruthless. After he couldn't find water, they actually wanted to leave him here. How could he not panic?
"Grand tomb? Keep it for yourself. It's good to bury you here and be buried with your grand tomb." The old village chief didn't believe the other party's words at all. In the past few months, the other party had repeatedly said that he could find water, and asked everyone to dig pits in the mountains, and they had all become earth rats. Who would still believe his words?
"Bury him!" The old village chief stood up and stepped back, saying to the nearby hooligans: "You're swindling food and drink here, do you really think I'm a great philanthropist?"
"Wait! Why can't you believe me one last time? Anyway, I'm going to die, and I can't pay back your silver and food and drink. Why can't you gamble one more time? Gamble one last time? Once it's done, you will recover all your losses, even if it fails, you won't lose anything." The feng shui master in the pit shouted frantically. At this time, watching the mud being thrown down by the iron shovel, Chen Xu was immediately anxious.
"One last time! Just one last time! If it doesn't work, I am willing to be buried alive by you, and I will have no complaints in my heart." Feng shui master Chen Xu frantically guaranteed.
The old village chief on the other side was moved by his words. It was just the last time, what harm would it do to try it out?
After all, he still felt sorry for the silver he had wasted, and wanted to find a chance to make up for the loss.
"Pull him up." The village chief pondered slightly, looking at Chen Xu who was constantly begging in the earthen pit. Seeing that the other party's words didn't seem like lies, he was finally moved.
A group of hooligans stopped their movements and used ropes to pull Chen Xu out of the pit. After Chen Xu climbed out of the pit, he lay on the ground, breathing heavily, rejoicing that he had survived another disaster.
The village chief looked at Chen Xu and urged: "Find a place quickly."
Hearing this, Chen Xu got up and dared not delay, leading the crowd through the mountains, and finally came to a low-lying area:
"It's here, you dig!"
The old village chief smiled yin and yang when he heard this:
"We have said it this time, the last chance. If it succeeds, all our old debts will be written off. If it doesn't work, it will be regarded as the tomb we dug for you. I hope you can rest in peace after death."