Day and night tour

Chapter 365 A Bone Between the Eyebrows
When Gui Qiansui saw the ancestor of the black turtle in Zhou Xuan's "Long River of Destiny", he suddenly realized how superficial he was.

For nearly nine hundred years, he had been living in the "inferiority complex of a turtle body" all the time, but today, the clouds have finally cleared and the moon is visible.

For a moment, he even felt that the bright moon hanging in the sky had also taken the shape of a "black turtle".
The domineering black tortoise, which was so majestic and powerful that it showed the demeanor of a "divine hexagram" in every move, seemed to have become a holy priest. It shook its head towards him and said in a divine voice, "Come with me, and travel in the endless river of fate, and experience the impermanence of fate in the world. Our ancestor and great-great-grandson should just stare at it quietly."

"Turtle Ancestor! My Turtle Ancestor!"

Gui Qiansui's eyes were already filled with tears, and on his tortoise shell, which was as big as a small island, the "Nine Palaces" pattern appeared.

There are nine square grids, and strange runes are prominent in each grid.

In the long river of Zhou Xuan's destiny, Gui Qiansui and the "Mathematician" seemed to have attained enlightenment.

He cruised more relaxedly in the long river, feeling as comfortable as a fish in water, an experience he had never had before.

"Shu Chang, the ancestor of the black turtle, has shown me the way out of the maze."

He waved his front paw and wiped away the hot tears from the corners of his eyes. This tear also made him bid farewell to the past that he could not bear to look back on.

"This is my good fortune. For many years, I have been a vegetarian at the bottom of the river. I didn't even dare to eat a small shrimp. This must be the good fortune I have cultivated."

Turtle Qiansui continued to swim, following the long river of Zhou Xuan's destiny, and swam until he reached the scene of "Today Zhou Xuan appeared in the Turtle God Water Village", and then he didn't know where to swim to.

The fortune teller uses coins, tortoise shells, planches and cups to predict one's fate. He can know the past and foresee the future.

But Zhou Xuan’s “future” seems very strange, because there are as many as nine long rivers representing his future.

Kame Chitose was floating in front of the fork of the nine "Rivers of the Future", not knowing which river to choose to cruise.

He had encountered this phenomenon in his previous deductions.

The merman chief of the Guishen Water Village once suffered from a strange disease and came to the water area to ask him for deduction. He saw that the chief had three "long rivers of the future".

In his sudden enlightenment many years later, he realized that there is "impermanence" in human destiny, and one impermanence is the direction of destiny.

For some people, the "long river of the future" is filled with black air. If one swims into this river, Turtle Qiansui can smell the odor of corruption, which represents the impermanence caused by "disease".

If there is a "long river of the future" with a bloody color, after swimming into it, one can hear the sound of "swords clashing" and see wronged souls wandering in the river.
This impermanence comes from "enemies".

The three long rivers of fate of the mermaid chief were: one was normal, one was the unpredictable "disease", and one was the unpredictable "enemy". Gui Qiansui judged at that time that the old chief had offended his enemies and was cursed, which led to his contracting of a strange disease.

The number of "Impermanence" of the mermaid leader is easy to judge, but Zhou Xuan's nine impermanent rivers are not so easy to determine.

Because these nine long rivers are generally smooth, there are no signs of abnormality, and even no traces of "impermanence" can be seen - the reeds on the river banks are illuminated by the setting sun, and in the far distance of the river, there are some fishermen's songs in the distance. The songs are optimistic, and when they touch the surface of the river, even if the river is empty, there is no feeling of loneliness.

"It should be impermanence, but it doesn't seem like impermanence."

After Gui Qiansui lowered his head and pondered for a moment, he decided to choose the most central river channel and swim there. Unexpectedly, just as he was about to swim through the fork, he suddenly heard the slightly warning voice of the Black Turtle Ancestor behind him: "My great-great-grandson, you can't swim in the river of this great master's future destiny. If you swim, you will never be able to turn back."

Hearing the voice of dissuasion, the old turtle turned around, but only saw a bit of the black turtle's shell exposed on the surface of the river.

He made up his mind immediately. Since the ancestor advised him to return, he really couldn't stay away - Zhou Xuan's fate was not something that someone like him was qualified to see.

Thinking of the drop of Zhou Xuan's blood - the drop of blood that he dared not look directly at, he immediately stopped deducing.

A whirlpool immediately formed in the river, pulling him out of the "River of Destiny".

When Turtle Qiansui opened his eyes again, he was surrounded by the real world. Zhou Xuan was still standing at the bow, waving his hand in the wind, as if greeting an old friend: "Old Turtle, how is my life going?"

"The fate of the great master is not worth counting on a little turtle like me."

Turtle Qiansui smiled bitterly and said, "However, Master, I will remember your kindness in my heart. If Master passes by here in the 900-li waters of Turtle God Water Village in the future, I, the old turtle, will ensure that the wind and rain will stop and no one will dare to disturb you."

"Don't say such nice things first."

Lady Red Coffin waved her hand, and the red robe that had been floating in the water flew up and was put on her shoulders again. She put her hands on her hips and looked at Gui Qiansui: "Gui Qiansui knows what we are doing here. If you really want to thank the master for his kindness, then hand over the tortoise shell."

Gui Qiansui glared at the coffin lady and said sullenly, "Of course the turtle shell must be handed over, but I haven't completed the process of thanking you yet."

There was a lot of resentment in his eyes, blaming the coffin lady for interfering with his thoughts.

"Then please continue with the process." The coffin lady made a "please" gesture.

"Master, you really didn't lie to me. The Dunjia lineage has the Black Turtle as its ancestor. In the long river of your destiny, I have also learned some of the ways of arithmetic and the Nine Palaces Formation. I, the old turtle, have no other way to express my gratitude. I would like to thank you for your great kindness with a tortoise shell."

Gui Qiansui's preparation was somewhat lengthy, but it also represented his sincere gratitude to Zhou Xuan.

He didn't need Lady Red Coffin to urge him anymore. He raised his front paws and used his tortoise claws to dig at his own brow bone, which made Lady Red Coffin stunned.

She hurriedly tried to dissuade him, "Turtle Thousand Year Old, we want the tortoise shell you wore when you were a master of Dunjia. What are you doing?"

Before he turned into a turtle, Gui Qiansui was also a "human walker" in Dunjia Hall. He was not only elegant, but also had a tortoise-shell magic weapon in his hand, which was extremely effective.

After it turned into a turtle body, he swallowed the turtle shell and kept it in his stomach for many years.

Time and the tortoise's belly, for nearly nine hundred years of nourishment, have made the tortoise shell extremely spiritual. Lady Red Coffin brought her disciples here this time to demand an explanation, all for this tortoise shell.

But now, Gui Qiansui did not open his mouth to spit out the tortoise shell, but instead dug at his own brow bone, which made Coffin Lady a little confused.

The tip of the turtle's claw had already dug into the brow bone. While prying the turtle bone, he growled in pain, "That turtle shell is a human turtle shell. How can it be worthy of my great master? My turtle body is nearly 900 years old. My brow bone is the most effective turtle shell. Only this bone can allow the great master and the Dunjia School to understand the way of the great fortune teller of heaven and earth."

"Thank you, old turtle brother."

Zhou Xuan clasped his fists in the lake breeze and first thanked Turtle Qiansui for the brow bone.

"A piece of bone between the old turtle's eyebrows is worth more than ten thousand taels of gold in the world. Sir, please set the bone."

The bone between Gui Qiansui's eyebrows had been pried off. With the blood and bone hole on his forehead, he threw the piece of bone towards Zhou Xuan.

Zhou Xuan stretched out his hand to catch it, and a piece of white bones as big as a basin flew towards him. As it moved in the lake breeze, Zhou Xuan's folding fan, wake-up stick, bone teeth, etc. flew out together.

These "little things" were like children playing in the wind. After chasing and fighting each other for a while, they finally stopped. The folding fans, bone teeth, and wake-up sticks were all pasted behind the "brow bone" and shrank proportionally with the wind.

By the time the bone fell into Zhou Xuan's hand, it had become half the size of his palm.

"Good turtle bones."

The tortoise bone felt like skin when touched, and its spirituality was naturally very good. After moving a few inches in Zhou Xuan's hand, it suddenly gained speed, went into his sleeve, slid up his arm, and stopped on Zhou Xuan's shoulder, clasping tightly on his shoulder peak, fitting perfectly.

"Master, I just learned today that the Dunjia Hall originally had two branches. One branch is the way of fortune tellers, who are good at deducing the long river of fate, and the other branch focuses on setting up formations."

"You were personally led into the Dao by the Black Turtle Ancestor, so you must follow the Dao of a fortune teller. My turtle bone will be just right for you to use."

"Secondly, this tortoise bone came from me, and it contains my understanding of the Dao of Calculation over the years. Although you have perfected the Dunjia Incense, to be precise, you have not yet mastered the means of Dunjia. This tortoise bone can help you master the Dao of Dunjia Calculation and reach the Nine Palaces."

"Thank you, Old Turtle Brother. From now on, I will definitely treat your bones well. If there are any troubles in Turtle God Water Village in the future, you can come to me for help. There is love but no hatred between you and me, and gratitude but no resentment."

"If that's the case, you will have to rely on the protection of the Master in the future. Although I haven't calculated your fate accurately, based on that drop of blood and the long river of fate that even the ancestors dare not enter, I know that you, the Master... are not an ordinary person. One day, you will surely rise to the top..."

Gui Qiansui was extremely satisfied with this deal. Like the ancestor of the Black Turtle, he also recognized Zhou Xuan's future. Getting Zhou Xuan's promise was like a talisman of protection.

He roared, as if to see Zhou Xuan off, then sank to the bottom of the water to try to comprehend the "Nine Palaces Calculation Diagram" on the back shell.

……

The lake wind died down and the anchor was raised.

Lady Red Coffin smiled at Zhou Xuan and said, "Master, I originally wanted to take off a piece of tortoise shell and give it to you as a gift. Unexpectedly, Master, you acted in a very extraordinary way. With just a few words, the tortoise remembered your kindness and gave it a piece of brow bone."

Before the brow bone was dug out, the Coffin Lady didn't understand, but when the tortoise bone randomly grew and shrank, and even interacted with Zhou Xuan's palm, she understood.

The more spiritual the creatures in this world are, the more friendly they are to humans, just like a baby you raise.

In comparison, the tortoise shell she originally wanted was inferior and not worth mentioning.

"I appreciate the coffin lady's kindness."

Zhou Xuan pointed to the gold watch on his hand and said to Guan Niang, "When you came to Mingjiang Mansion, you gave watches and gold to the people in my shop. At that time, I knew that you must have something to ask me for help."

"That...that..."

"Don't hesitate. I heard from the painter that the poor ghosts of Huangyuan have been searching for the Huangyuan River God. Although I don't know what the river god is, I will definitely go to Huangyuan Prefecture after the reconstruction of Mingjiang Prefecture is completed."

Zhou Xuan said loudly.

His frankness made the hot-tempered Coffin Lady feel a little embarrassed. She waved her hands hurriedly and said, "The River God has been missing for more than a year or two. Master, don't be anxious. The disciples of Huangyuan Kugui can wait. We will wait until everything is ready for you..."

"I was going to Huangyuan Prefecture as well."

Zhou Xuan had never forgotten the vision of Daozu that he saw when he was promoted to the fifth incense stick. Before it disappeared, it said to him: "Young man, you are a young man to be feared. After the war is over, if you are interested, follow me to travel to the west of the Quicksand."

According to the scenery seen in the secret realm illusion, the west of the quicksand is Huangyuan Prefecture.

The invitation from the Taoist Patriarch is guidance, guidance on the path of incense.

In addition, Zhou Xuan now knows that there has always been a passage "from the Buddhist Kingdom to the Well Kingdom" in Huangyuan Prefecture. He must go and take a look and send the Mother of a Hundred Ghosts in his body back.

"If it's convenient for you, sir, the poor ghosts in Huangyuan Prefecture will line the streets to welcome you." The coffin lady was very excited after hearing what Zhou Xuan said.

"But, Lady Coffin, I have a favor to ask of you... To rebuild Mingjiang Mansion, we need six gods to respond. I calculated that I can gather five, but I still need one..." "I'll set up an incense hall on the boat and connect with the "bitter ghost", asking it to respond for you."

"That's great. I have something important to attend to, so I'll take my leave now."

Zhou Xuan bid farewell to the coffin lady, and his soul wandered around and changed form, returning to Mingjiang Huifeng Medical College.

The coffin lady rubbed her hands, suppressed her excitement, and said: "With the help of the great master, the bitter ghosts of Huangyuan Prefecture will surely be able to find the river god."

"Mr. Da, he is really a man of character. If he is in a relationship, he will take the initiative to help you even if you don't ask him. He is very graceful, very graceful."

The Lady in the Red Coffin leaned against the boat's side, looking at the direction Zhou Xuan left, and said infatuatedly.

……

Inside Huifeng Medical College, the condor was still circling in the sky, and the victims were receiving food, medicines, and beddings in an orderly manner.

Many craftsmen also spontaneously organized themselves.

Those who were skilled in carpentry cut bamboo and felled trees to make tables, chairs, beds and stools, giving priority to the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled.

She knew the art of sewing, so she hurriedly started to sew some cotton-padded coats for the children and the elderly to wear first, to resist the increasingly strong cold wind in Mingjiang Mansion.

Bullet makers, bamboo makers, blacksmiths, etc., all used their skills to provide convenience to the victims and bring some warmth to the dilapidated Mingjiang Prefecture as the winter gradually approached.

Two or three days had passed after the disaster, but Zhou Xuan did not call on everyone to truly rebuild Mingjiang Prefecture. However, everyone was not in a hurry. They already admired this young man from the bottom of their hearts.

Since Zhou Xuan said he wanted to rebuild it, he would definitely rebuild it. Everyone should just be patient.

After Zhou Xuan returned to Mingjiang Mansion, the first thing he did was to go to Diyuan to see how "Chaos" was dealt with.

As soon as he entered the depths of the abyss, he smelled a strong smell of blood.
In this deep cave, once the walls and ceiling were chiseled open, chaotic corpses were revealed, with flesh and blood bubbling.

There are many evil gods, some appear as three-headed evil tigers, some appear as nine-headed monster birds, facing the pits in the abyss, biting bloody hulacha,

The disciples of the sixteen Yin Halls of Mingjiang Prefecture gathered together and beat drums to cheer for the evil gods they believed in.

They never imagined that one day they would be able to enter Mingjiang City openly and eat blood food legally.

Outside the Yin Hall disciples, King Xishan moved a stool and sat down drinking tea.

He was just enjoying himself when he suddenly saw a familiar figure. He immediately stood up, hunched his chest slightly, nodded and greeted: "Mr. Big."

"Sit, sit."

Zhou Xuan sat aside and said to King Xishan, "Is the progress of the Chaos Dividing going smoothly?"

"Listen to the arrangement of the Great Master. These evil gods are treating Chaos well. That three-headed evil tiger can swallow a mountain in one bite. We have deliberately emphasized that they should eat in small bites and pay attention to their eating manners."

"Not bad."

Zhou Xuan nodded. At this moment, he could even hear the voice of Chaos's remaining will: "Zhou Xuan, you have my blood in your body! How dare you do this?"

"Hundun is still a little stubborn. We need to do this job more carefully. Sharing the food is not the main purpose. The main purpose is to torture the demon."

Zhou Xuan turned around and said to King Xishan.

chaos:"……"

When King Xishan heard this, he stood up and said, "The master has ordered that torture is the main purpose, and sharing food is not the purpose."

After these words, the evil gods became much more careful when eating.

Zhou Xuan also stood by and watched the "food-sharing scene". He was very satisfied with the effect. However, he did notice that among these Yin Hall disciples, there was a large group of people wearing the robes of ancient Confucian scholars, each with a feather fan and a green scarf.

The disciples of Yin Hall are all mountain barbarians, born and raised in the mountains. As for their dress, it is not quite appropriate to say that it is too primitive, but their dress has a sense of "mountain folk customs".

Suddenly, a group of people wearing Confucian robes came and stood out in the crowd.

"Those people... aren't here to cause trouble, right?" Zhou Xuan pointed at those "scholars".

"Oh, sir, those are also disciples of Yin Hall, from Liuyun Village." King Xishan said.

Zhou Xuan was stunned at first, but after he calmed down, he said, "I've been to Liuyun Village, and they didn't dress like this."

"Sir, you are a forgetful person. The old belief of Liuyun Village was the Nine Snake God. Nine snakes entangled Xu Jingshan, the great literary saint of 200 years ago."

"In the chess game of heaven and earth, you used three ancient altars to peel off the nine snakes, allowing the great sage of literature to appear again..."

"Oh, that's what happened. Because I peeled off the Nine Snakes, the Hexagram of the King of Hell that Xu Jingshan asked me to tell was solved. That's why I was able to collect a lot of incense for the Dragon-Seeking Incense and the Escape Incense."

Zhou Xuan nodded and said.

King Xishan added: "Once the Nine Snakes were shed, Xu Jingshan, the great saint of literature, became the new faith of Liuyun Village. He taught the people of Liuyun Village to read and write, learn classics, and study. Then everyone in the village became a scholar."

"That's good. We are one of the first group of mountain barbarians to be educated."

Zhou Xuan nodded, and at that moment, he heard the voice of an old scholar lecturing in the crowd.

"I've said it so many times, fine food is the best, and when eating food, you need to cook it properly and swallow it in small sips."

"You should eat properly and sit properly. If you can't walk or sit properly, how can you write a brilliant article? That's going in the wrong direction."

"A gentleman should stay away from the kitchen. Seeing animals alive, he cannot bear to see them die; hearing their cries, he cannot bear to eat their meat. Stay away, stay away."

Zhou Xuan pushed through the crowd and looked over, and saw a scholar in a blue shirt. He was Xu Jingshan, who was teaching a young scholar from Liuyun Village in an elegant manner.

The way Liuyun Village shares "Chaos" is much more particular than in other Yintangs. They specially hire a carpenter to saw the meat, and after it is sawed, they ask the cook to cut it into small pieces, boil it in a pot, and eat it with condiments.

The people of Liuyun Village ate very carefully. They used chopsticks in one hand to pick up the meat and put it into their mouths, and held it with the other hand to prevent the sauce from splashing onto their long gowns.

It seemed as if they were not here to share the "chaos" but to attend a high-end dinner.

Zhou Xuan laughed out loud when he saw this, turned around and gave King Xishan a thumbs up, praising him: "Scholars have many ways to torture people."

This involves sawing, chopping, and boiling, and eating it slowly in small bites, which is basically a torture.

……

The food sharing continued. Zhou Xuan waved his hand and summoned out his tortoise shell.

When he came to Diyuan, in addition to supervising the progress of the "food sharing project", he also wanted to find King Xishan to teach him how to use the bones of the monster clan.

As for why he didn't go to the Turtle God's waters and ask Turtle Qiansui directly... um... the name of the Great Master of Mingjiang Mansion also needs to be more impressive. The monster tribe can't even use bone armor. If it gets out, it will be disgraceful...

When King Xishan saw the tortoise shell, he opened his eyes immediately and asked repeatedly: "Excuse me, sir, where did this tortoise shell come from?"

"In the Turtle God Water Village, there is an old turtle that has lived for 900 years. He gave it to me."

"Then he is very good to you."

King Xishan said, "We demons practice cultivation based on the transverse bone. Apart from the transverse bone, the most valuable thing is the Taoist bone in our body. This bone has the traces of our comprehension. If we take this bone, it is equivalent to hiring a great teacher."

"This tortoise shell is the Taoist bone of the old tortoise. It would never give its bones if it were not for a great favor."

"Okay, we have a little deal."

Zhou Xuan said with a smile.

"That's definitely not small."

King Xishan was also jealous of the bone, but he would not touch Zhou Xuan's things, so he returned the tortoise shell and said, "Master, the demon bone needs to be placed in your body to nourish it, and use the essence of blood and flesh to promote its spirituality. Once the spirituality is reached, you will be able to feel clearly how its means are refined and what are the methods."

"Wait and put it in the body to nourish it?"

"Master, if you put it in your Kongming Mirror to nourish it, it will have the same effect."

Peng Sheng's voice came over.

Zhou Xuan turned around and saw Peng Sheng and Qing Feng coming over.

"Hey, Brother Peng, Qingfeng, why are you here? It stinks everywhere here."

Zhou Xuan said.

Peng Sheng pointed at Qingfeng and said, "Lord Qingfeng has something important to report, so I brought him here."

"Qingfeng, what's the matter?"

Zhou Xuan asked.

"Master, when my Taiping Scale was used to measure the safety of Mingjiang Prefecture, the scale suddenly broke. Mingjiang Prefecture has been hit by a disaster."

Qing Feng immediately said...

(End of this chapter)