Day and night tour

Chapter 212 Hidden Dragon
“These little circles on the map look like a picture… like thorn leaves.”

Zhou Xuan carefully identified the shape of the pattern. The more he looked at it, the more it looked like the "yellow broom leaf" near his hometown in his previous life.

The most obvious difference between this leaf and other leaves is the coarse serrations on the edge.

The leaves of the yellow broom can be used as medicine. When crushed, they can repel mosquitoes and can also be eaten as wild vegetables, which are very useful.

"Young man, what are you looking at?"

Huang Xi lowered his head and looked at the map in Zhou Xuan's hand.

"Look at this picture, does it look like a leaf with serrations?" Zhou Xuan didn't know whether there was "yellow broom leaf" in Jing State, so he asked the question in a different way.

"A bit like……"

Huang Xi shook his head, looked left and right, and the more he looked, the more he felt something was wrong.

The Huangmen people are best at gathering information. After gathering a lot of information, they become semi-experts.

In Zhou Xuan's eyes, this pattern looked like a yellow broom leaf, but in Huang Xi's eyes, it was not that simple.
"Like a blade, but more like... a dragon's tail."

"Dragon's tail?" It was difficult for Zhou Xuan to evaluate this metaphor. After all, he had never seen a real dragon.

"It's the dragon's tail. The dragon-seeking Taoist priests are more sensitive to dragon tails than us Huangmen disciples. You can ask one of them."

"Then there's no need to look for it. It's in the old painting studio."

Zhou Xuan yelled towards the back door again: "Yazi, come out, I want to ask you something."

"what's up?"

Zhao Wuya swung the sleeves of his Taoist robe and walked very slowly, trying hard to imitate the feeling of being an immortal.

To put it bluntly, it's just pretending.

"Can you stop pretending and be more natural?" Zhou Xuan felt a little physically uncomfortable when he saw Zhao Wuya's pretentious look.

But think about it, it would be strange if a person who is lying on a donkey reading a book is not pretending.

“I’m already very natural.”

Zhao Wuya walked in front of Zhou Xuan and Huang Xi, shook his head, and his head was covered with ice musk oil, which was shining brightly in the setting sun and was a little dazzling.

"You've been smearing ice musk oil all over your head for such a short while? But it smells really good. Yazi, you may be a bit pretentious, but you have decent taste."

Zhou Xuan criticized Zhao Wuya's humanity, but also affirmed his taste.

"The ice musk oil from the Liu Family Powder Shop in Mingjiang Prefecture is of very high quality."

Zhao Wuya shook his head, getting rid of some of the smell of the ice musk oil.

Huang Xi saw his conceited look and covered her mouth with her hands and chuckled.

"Don't worry about your broken oil. Look at this. Doesn't it look like a dragon's tail?"

Zhou Xuan handed over the map.

Zhao Wuya took a look and said, "It's not a resemblance, it's actually the dragon's tail. Look at the circles you drew. First, the Xiangtai Wood Warehouse, the Yangzhou Construction, and the Power Company along the river, and the Ganjia Town, Donghua Cotton Mill, and Qinglan Road along the mountain form leaf shapes, forming the dragon's tail shape.
Jiaofangju Street, in this leaf, starts from the northeast and ends in the southwest, running through the entire leaf, and can be regarded as the bone of the dragon's tail.
The green mountains look towards the great river, and the great river protects them, creating the momentum of the great mountains and the great river. This is the energy of the dragon’s tail.

The circle you just drew is the dragon tail of Mingjiang Mansion."

Zhou Xuan and Huang Xi were both stunned by this professional explanation. They didn't expect that Zhao Wuya, who loved to pretend, actually had some valuable information.

"Yazi, I have a new respect for you."

Zhou Xuan asked Zhao Wuya again: "You just mentioned the concept of the dragon's tail in Mingjiang Prefecture. Is there a dragon in Mingjiang Prefecture?"

Zhao Wuya said, "There should be. I heard from my master that there is a big dragon in Mingjiang Prefecture, running through the north and south..."

"Don't say that. I feel like your "should have" is quite embarrassing. I'll ask someone more professional."

Zhou Xuan thought of Yun Ziliang. Even though Old Yun had suffered an accident and his incense was not very popular, his understanding of finding dragons was definitely higher than Zhao Wuya's.

"Looking for my great-master? Then I'll go and listen to his lectures too." Zhao Wuya said very honestly.

Yazi likes to pretend, but he would never dare to pretend in front of Yun Ziliang. Old Yun really doesn't tolerate him and will beat him up.

"Then let's go together, Miss Xi, you want to go back to Huangmen first, right? I have something to tell you..."

The purpose of Zhou Xuan calling Huang Xi over was to find the church where "God of Willow" and "Hunger" were.

But before Zhou Xuan could finish his words, Huang Xi interrupted him and said, "Don't say that. We in the Huang Sect are looking for a dragon-hunting master. Something strange happened in the sect. I didn't know that Mr. Yun was a dragon-hunting master at first. If I had known, I would have visited him in the past two days."

"Okay, let's go together."

……

At Zhou Ji Jing Yi Shop, Zhou Xuan handed the map to Yun Ziliang and said, "Old Yun, please help me look at this map."

Yun Ziliang didn't understand what was going on. He thought this map was another new thing Zhou Xuan had "realized", so he looked at the marked map for several minutes.
As a result, the more he looked, the more his brows frowned, as if he had seen something extraordinary in the picture.

"Lao Yun, have you figured out what's going on?"

Zhou Xuan knew Lao Yun's abilities. If he just wanted to confirm whether the pattern on the map was the "dragon's tail", he would be able to understand it after taking a look.

If even Zhao Wuya can do it easily, there is no way Lao Yun can't do it.

Since he has been looking for so long, he must have made a great discovery.

After Zhou Xuan asked Yun Ziliang a few more questions, Yun Ziliang put the map down and asked Zhao Wuya, "My little disciple, what did you see from this map?"

"I spotted a dragon's tail."

"and then?"

"No more."

"Snapped!"

Yun Ziliang slapped the table, stood up and walked towards the kitchen at the back of the store, and shouted to Zhao Wuya, "Follow me in."

Zhao Wuya could only follow him resentfully, and before entering the kitchen, he cast a sad look at Zhou Xuan.

Bang!
The kitchen door closed, and after a few seconds, it opened. Xiao Fuzi ran out nervously, and when he saw Zhou Xuan, he said, "Master, Grandpa Yun is beating Brother Zhao with such a thick rolling pin."

Xiao Fuzi pointed to her wrist and gestured.

"Your Grandpa Yun is not beating anyone, he is educating your brother Zhao."

Zhou Xuan saw clearly that Zhao Wuya had made a mistake in finding the dragon, and Lao Yun had discovered it.

When teachers and apprentices teach each other, they often use a single method, and they believe that beating is the most effective method.

"Pah, pah, pah!"

"Ouch, Grandpa, be gentle."

There was a great commotion in the kitchen.
"Young man, what is going on with Mr. Yun?" Huang Xi was not clear about the relationship between Yun Ziliang and Zhao Wuya, and did not react.

"He teaches his disciples. Actually, Lao Yun is a very ethical teacher."

Zhou Xuan spoke well of Yun Ziliang.
Good words are good words, and they actually make sense. At least Yun Ziliang educates his apprentice without beating him in front of outsiders.

After a while, Zhao Wuya came out with a bruise in the middle of his forehead. If you didn't look carefully, you would think he had an extra purple eye.

"Yazi, were you beaten?"

"Alas, those who go to the underworld to worship gods are bound to have some bumps and bruises, but they are just superficial injuries, not worth mentioning."

As Zhao Wuya spoke, he gave Zhou Xuan a smug look that said "it's no big deal".

He looked so calm, as if the one being beaten was Yun Ziliang instead of him.

"You're still not hitting me hard enough, Yazi, you're really stubborn."

Zhou Xuan gave Zhao Wuya a thumbs up. Apart from anything else, Wuya was really capable of taking a beating.

After Yun Ziliang finished teaching Zhao Wuya a lesson, he walked to the counter and said to Zhou Xuan,
"The map you gave me is a map for practicing with the dragon energy of Mingjiang Prefecture. The places you circled are mostly dragon tail holes.
There are thirty-six dragon tail holes, and the circles you drew are thirty-nine in number."

"There are thirty-six orifices, so what about the extra three?" Zhou Xuan asked.

Yun Ziliang opened the drawer and took out a pen. The ink in the pen was blue, which could be distinguished from the black circle drawn by Zhou Xuan.

He used a fountain pen to draw three circles at three locations on the map and said, "These three points are called dragon-locking holes in the art of finding dragons. Once the dragon-locking holes are pinned down, the dragon of the terrain cannot move or escape.

There are five dragon-locking caves, corresponding to the five elements of the terrain. The circle you drew on the map is missing the west gold and north water.
Without these two dragon caves, the dragon tail of Mingjiang Prefecture will not be stable, and we need to find dragon caves at the Xijin and Beishui levels."

Yun Ziliang drew two more circles on the map.

The first circle is on Yangfeng Road.

The second circle is around Yue’s house.

"These two circles are the West Gold Dragon Locking Cave and the North Water Dragon Locking Cave. If we nail all five dragon-locking caves, we can completely nail down the Mingjiang Dragon Tail."

At this point, Yun Ziliang pushed the map back. He thought the circles on the map were Zhou Xuan's new insights and he began to delve into the art of finding dragons. He smiled and said,

"You are really good, you have figured out something, and you have mastered the method of finding dragon points so well. You have mastered the thirty-six points and three dragon-locking points without making any mistakes. You are better than my little apprentice."

"This is not something I figured out." Zhou Xuan said, "Those thirty-nine circles are all places where Hunger has committed murders. Yes, Hunger is the offspring of a god. It is not clear whether its parents are gods, aliens, Buddhas, or evil gods. Anyway, it is a hybrid born from these four categories.
Lao Yun, the descendant of the gods, is using the dragon's tail in Mingjiang Mansion to practice. Is there any particular meaning behind this?"

"That would be a big deal."

Yun Ziliang stood up worriedly, leaned against the door frame, and said,
"There were some evil disciples who nailed down a dragon, dug holes in the holes where the dragon was, buried themselves in the holes, and then sealed the holes with soil.

Honey is just a lure, and when the reptiles and ants eat the honey..."

Zhou Xuan's scalp tingled when he heard this. With a little imagination, he could empathize with the untold suffering of those poor people.

"Why do you do these evil things?" Huang Xi asked.

"The dragon has energy and power, but it is invisible and has no real form.

If you want to pin down the dragon, you cannot rely on tangible objects such as magic weapons and forbidden weapons. You can only rely on the overwhelming resentment.

The resentment condensed into a nail, pinning the dragon to the hole.

The greater the resentment, the more powerful the effect of the resentful nails will be. "

Zhou Xuan understood after hearing this: the more tragic a person's death, the greater the resentment.
In order to make the human stake effective, such a cruel torture method was used. Yun Ziliang sighed and said, "This method is too vicious and has been lost for a long time. Now, people only know that this method exists, but they don't know how to set up the formation. It is also very difficult to find the key accurately. I didn't expect that it would reappear in Mingjiang Mansion now. Heaven and earth are cruel."

"I finally understand. No wonder 'Hunger' wants to create so many tragic incidents of family annihilation. What he wants is strong resentment." Zhou Xuan said.

"It's not just resentment." Yun Ziliang counted on his fingers: "The murder caused by "hunger" itself has indeed created a strong resentment, but this is only one of the resentments.
After the bloody incident spread, the people in the towns near the scene were all panicked and terrified.
The two energies of shock and fear will combine with the resentment, and the three energies will combine into one, and the effect will be far more than just two plus one.
The dragon of Mingjiang Mansion is not a dragon in the ordinary sense, it can be called the ancestor dragon.
No one dared to touch the dragon energy of the Ancestral Dragon. Unexpectedly, this "hunger" actually set its sights on the Ancestral Dragon.
However, only the horrific murders he committed could condense into the air nails that pin down Zulong."

"The big dragon in Mingjiang Mansion is actually the Ancestral Dragon?" Huang Xi asked on the side.

"Of course, otherwise how could Mingjiang Prefecture be what it is today? The economy is prosperous, and the people are very popular. Among the gods in the sky alone, Mingjiang Prefecture has five, and one has fallen."

Yun Ziliang said.

When Zhou Xuan heard this, he began to calculate. There were only four god-level halls, even if the White Walker behind the tattoo was counted.

The city god "Shuiyong", the bone god "Tianguan", the witch goddess "Fuhou", and the tattooed ghost "Penghou".

Where did the fifth one come from?

"Behind the Thief's Hall, there is a connection to the god-level White Walker - the "Ghost Hand". "

"So the Si family was so glorious in the past?"

Zhou Xuan thought that the "Thief" was just a small gang, but he didn't expect that there were god-level White Walkers behind them.

"Don't underestimate the Si family. When a master thief reaches the ninth level, he or she will be nicknamed the Heaven's Secret Stealer. If they can steal Heaven's Secret, what else can't they steal?"

Yun Ziliang sighed and said, "It's just that the Si family has declined now, but just like the Zulong of Mingjiang Mansion, it has been weakening since three hundred years ago.
Now, it is the weakest ancestor dragon in Jing Country."

"By the way, Lao Yun, you said that a god-level person in Mingjiang Mansion has fallen. Is he the "Seven Leaf Reverend"? "

"Who else could it be if not him? Among the twenty-four god-level statues in the sky, gods and white walkers occupy the majority of the positions, leaving only two positions for the Great Buddha. Of these two positions, Venerable Qiye even lost one. Now, there is only one Great Buddha in the sky."

Yun Ziliang added hot water to the teapot, took a sip of tea, and said, "Mingjiang Prefecture is also considered a dragon-riding prefecture. At its peak, it produced six gods, occupying a quarter of the sky.
It is an indisputable fact that Zulong is weak now, but no matter how weak it is, it is still Zulong. It would take a lot of effort to pin Zulong down. Once the dragon energy is absorbed, it will cause great disasters. "

"What specific disaster happened?" Zhou Xuan asked.

Yun Ziliang unfolded the map, pointed at the Mingjiang Dragon Tail, and said, “If all of this dragon energy is absorbed by ‘hunger’, the people in this land will gradually die, disasters and epidemics will quickly arise, and it won’t be long before this land becomes a wasteland.

Fortunately, you discovered it early. Now, only three of the five dragon-locking caves in the Dragon's Tail Land have been nailed down. Before the remaining two are nailed down, it won't be a big problem to catch the cultivator "Hunger" and kill him.

But the premise is that Hunger must be killed and not allowed to return alive."

"Okay, Lao Yun, I'll go out first."

Zhou Xuan put the map away.

"You want to catch hunger? Do you know where hunger is?"

"It doesn't matter if you don't know, just sit back and wait..."

Zhou Xuan originally wanted to go through the Yellow Gate to find the church where "Hunger" and "God of Willow" were.

Now, there is no need to look for this church. Since "Hunger" has to rely on the Dragon Tail of Mingjiang Prefecture for training, it still lacks two dragon-locking caves that have not been nailed down. So it must be nailed down. Find the locking caves in advance and guard them.

"You are a very practical boy." Yun Ziliang was somewhat impressed by Zhou Xuan's keen sense of smell. He turned around and scolded Zhao Wuya again.
"You should learn from Xiao Zhou. You've been searching for dragons so much that your brain has become useless. For someone like you, you won't be able to find the dragon even when the Dongshan Fox Lady becomes the Dongshan Grandma!"

"Lao Yun, don't scold your apprentice so much that he becomes stupid. I still need him. Yazi, come with me later."

Zhou Xuan gave instructions to Zhao Wuya.

"You went to find "Hunger", why did you come to me?"

"Nonsense, if we want to find hunger, we have to find the remaining two dragon-locking caves. I don't know how to find dragons? How can I find them?"

Although Yun Ziliang drew circles at the remaining two dragon-locking caves, a circle on the map represents a large area. In order to find the dragon-locking cave accurately, he had to bring a dragon-hunting master.

There are two Dragon Locking Caves, one in the west and one in the north, which are quite far apart. Zhou Xuan hopes to secure both Dragon Locking Caves as soon as possible, and then have the City God and Gu Lao's men guard both places in advance, waiting for Hunger to appear.

Therefore, Zhou Xuan needed two dragon-hunting masters, splitting their forces into two groups. In addition to Yun Ziliang, Zhao Wuya had to be brought along.

"Do I have to go out later? It's almost time for my Dahei to eat?"

"Let Xiao Fuzi feed straw to the big black donkey."

After Zhou Xuan finished speaking, he called Li Chengfeng.

The approximate locations of the remaining two dragon caves are one at Yue’s house and the other on Yangfeng Road.

He asked Li Chengfeng to come to the store to pick up Yun Ziliang and take him to Yue's house, and then bring the night watchman with him.

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Xuan called Gu Ling again and asked her to meet him at Yangfeng Road.

"Young sir, just go to Yangfeng Road. I will be on night duty soon. The parade lanterns can allow me to land anywhere in Mingjiang Prefecture."

"it is good."

Zhou Xuan hung up the phone and hurriedly pulled Zhao Wuya into the car.

"Wait a minute, I haven't got the dragon-hunting compass yet..."

"You are the only one who has so many things to do..."

……

Zhou Xuan and Zhao Wuya went out, and Xiao Fuzi went to the old painting studio to feed the big black donkey.
The only people left in the store were Huang Xi and Yun Ziliang who was waiting for Li Chengfeng.

"Mr. Yun, a big thing has happened to our Huangmen, and we need your help to find a solution."

"What happened to you Huangmen?"

"There have been some unusual movements at the Huang family's ancestral tomb recently... The tomb mound is cracked, the incense is turned upside down, and the ancestor of the Huang family had a strange dream. He dreamed that all the disciples of the Huang family in Mingjiang Prefecture were pinned to the ground and beheaded. The ancestor suspected that the feng shui of the Huang family was broken, so he sent the disciples in the sect to find Master Long..."

"Well, I don't have much time today. Come back to me tomorrow. The matter of 'hunger' is a bit more serious, but your matter of the eunuchs can still be dealt with for a while."

Yun Ziliang agreed to what Huang Xi asked for, but he still knew the importance of "hunger" and Huangmen's strange phenomenon.

……

"Landlord Zhou, you asked me to go to the Dragon Cave with you. Is it because you trust my dragon-hunting skills?"

Zhao Wuya asked Zhou Xuan in the car.

"What do you guess?" Zhou Xuan asked back.

"I guess so."

"Guess again?"

Zhao Wuya: “…”

Zhou Xuan held the steering wheel with one hand and his cheek with the other, saying, "We are going to capture Hunger. The situation is changing rapidly. I am afraid that I can't take care of Lao Yun. Li Chengfeng is different. He has a high level of incense and can take good care of Lao Yun. By the way, how many incense sticks do you want?"

"I, I burn five incense sticks." Zhao Wuya answered honestly.

"Five sticks of incense, quite high."

"In fact, we are still far from it." Zhao Wuya said: "In our Xunlong lineage, the most respected person is our Grandmaster. He used to be a god-like figure."

Zhou Xuan has always been curious about Yun Ziliang's level of incense, but Yun Ziliang never tells him and always says "four incense sticks" when asked.

"How popular is Lao Yun?"

"My great master's incense is so popular that there is no incense."

“……”Zhou Xuan.

"There really is no incense. Originally, my great-grandfather had four incense sticks. At that time, he was already the number one in the Taoist sect."

"Are they really four incense sticks?" Zhou Xuan discovered that Yun Ziliang did not "lie". When he said four incense sticks, it really was four incense sticks, without any exaggeration.

"Well, our Dragon Seeker is very special. The power of his skills is not determined by the level of his incense."

"If not the level of incense, what else should we look at?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"It mainly depends on... whether there is a dragon hidden in one's body." Zhao Wuya said: "If you find a great dragon, an ancestor dragon, or a true dragon, you can gain a portion of dragon energy and hide it. If you have more dragon energy hidden in your body, you can borrow the dragon's power.

Therefore, our sect looks at how many big dragons one can find in a lifetime. The more big dragons one finds, the more powerful one will naturally be."

"So that's how it is. When Old Yun had four incense sticks, he was able to dominate the Taoist world. How come he ran out of incense later?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"He pulled out his own incense." Zhao Wuya said this with a look of pride.

"Is it because Lao Yun pulled out the incense that he became half human, half ghost?"

"No, the reason why Grandmaster pulled out the incense was because he saw a real dragon in the world and hid the real dragon in his body."

Zhao Wuya made a "pulling incense stick" gesture and said, "Seeing the real dragon will make you realize the way of heaven and earth. The god behind our hall is called "Mountain Ancestor". With the real dragon hidden in his body, he naturally disdains to follow "Mountain Ancestor".
Xunlong Tianshi's incense was made by worshipping the "Mountain Ancestor". Since he no longer follows the "Mountain Ancestor", the incense is useless, so it is better to remove it. "

When Zhou Xuan heard this, he remembered the tiny calligraphy on Yun Ziliang's scroll - Without the dragon spirit, you cannot see the real dragon; by pressing the acupoints you can find the ancestor of the mountain; and in Xuantian you can see the true sect.

Only now did he understand the meaning of these four sentences.

Yun Ziliang has always looked down on the "acupoint pressing" school of Xunlong, but he never explains why.

The last two sentences of these four sentences are the reasons. After practicing acupoint pressing to the end, one can only become a mountain ancestor, but after he saw the real dragon, it was like seeing the real sect.

"If Lao Yun is so powerful, how did he hide in the painting for three hundred years? Has the lineage of Canglong Mountain's induction also died out?"

"I don't know about that." Zhao Wuya said, "But I heard from the great celestial masters in the hall that when Grandmaster Grandpa was at the peak of his powers, he killed many of the Taoists who descended upon him."

"Old Yun was also a ruthless man back then." Zhou Xuan sighed, "If one day, I can help Old Yun return to the top, then I will be in a great position."

……

In another car, Li Chengfeng said to Yun Ziliang with a smile: "The high priest is really smart. The City God and the Bone Elder have been investigating the case of Hungry for so long without any clues. But with his action, the progress of solving the case has been rapid. It seems that Hungry will be caught soon."

"Of course," Yun Ziliang patted his chest and said, "Xiao Zhou is the best among men I sensed. I'm counting on him to help me."

Lao Yun has his own idea of ​​finding dragons.

Searching for dragons is not about finding clay idols, nor is it about finding a Feng Shui treasure land.

The essence of searching for dragons is to search for people.
Find the best among men.

Zhou Xuan is the real dragon he is looking for...

(End of this chapter)