Confucian and Taoist scholar

Chapter 537 The Dragon Vein of Southern Xinjiang
With one hand holding the array plate and the other making hand seals, Yun Xiao strolled around the entire mountain, even discovering quite a few newly set up arrays.

Judging from the arrangement of these formations, they are not the methods used by the Taoist sects in Sichuan.

Upon closer inspection, the formation's style appears somewhat outdated, and it even incorporates some techniques from Chu Kingdom cultivators.

Yun Xiao muttered to himself, "Are these barbarians really going to cause trouble?"

There are still barbarian royal families in the southern borderlands. It is not difficult to understand why those people are unwilling to submit to the Shu Kingdom and want to rebuild the glory of their ancestors.

While he could understand, Yun Xiao did not agree with such a thing.

He was, after all, a Taoist master who received a government salary, and as a citizen of Shu, his stance was naturally quite clear.

Yun Xiao wandered around for a while, then stepped back to Lu Zheng's side and saw Lu Zheng looking up at the stone tablet.

He couldn't help but ask, "So, are you satisfied now?"

Lu Zheng tilted his head slightly and said, "This can't be considered the true teachings of Legalism, can it? It's just that someone who practices Legalism has inscribed some of the laws of the Shu Kingdom on it... I can't figure out any true laws or meanings from this perspective."

"Study? You want to study the true methods and meanings within this?" Yun Xiao raised an eyebrow and lowered his voice, "Why would you want to study it so thoroughly? You're a Confucian!"

Yun Xiao felt that Lu Zheng was an oddball, wanting to learn a little bit of everything, not afraid of making himself lose his mind.

He felt that it wouldn't be surprising to see Lu Zheng practicing Buddhism in the north and becoming a monk in the future...

At first glance, Yun Xiao felt a strange sense of unease, finding it rather intriguing.

Lu Zheng couldn't help but say, "The language here is profound and has much to offer. I'd like to learn from it."

"Furthermore, I promised to lend the Taoist priest the silk scroll, but you only showed me this. It's a bit perfunctory. It would be more like an inscription from hundreds of years ago."

Yun Xiao was speechless for a moment, thinking to himself, "So they've really picked a fight?"

Well, he hadn't expected the profound Daoist essence within the stone tablet to be so severely depleted, making it unsuitable for the transaction.

Yun Xiao had no choice but to say, "Alright, alright, I'll find you one or two proper Legalist books later, okay?"

Yun Xiao paused, then whispered, "Now that we're here, we can't just look at the monument and leave. Would you like to see the dragon vein below, the main dragon vein of the Southern Frontier?"

Lu Zheng noticed that Yun Xiao's expression was a little off, as if he was plotting something.

Lu Zheng then asked, "What does the Taoist priest intend to do? Will there be any danger?"

"I'm just showing you the dragon vein!" Yun Xiao said. "What are you talking about? The few of us combined are so powerful, what danger could we possibly face?"

Qingwan, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but remind them, "The barbarian capital is just a hundred miles away. Are there no experts there?"

Yun Xiao said leisurely, "I have already examined the aura beforehand, and I estimate that there are at most a few Transcendent Realm experts, who can do nothing to us. Besides, we are just looking at a dragon vein, and it has nothing to do with them."

Qingwan asked suspiciously, "Are you really just going to take a look?"

Yun Xiao's expression changed slightly, and then he said, "Hey, can't you two just play dumb with me?"

Lu Zheng and Qing Wan looked at Yun Xiao, thinking to themselves that they really wouldn't pretend to be ignorant when they knew the truth.

Seeing this, Yun Xiao said helplessly, "Alright, I just feel there's something strange about the dragon vein here. If anything unexpected happens, we'll just have to react accordingly..."

Lu Zheng nodded and asked, "What does the Daoist Master intend to do?" Yun Xiao took out several jade talismans and handed them to Lu Zheng and the other two, saying, "There are too many restrictions here, making it difficult to find the dragon vein. You should first read the contents of the jade talismans, and then the four of us will work together to cast a formation..."

Qingyi was still in the early stages of learning and couldn't understand anything too profound, so Yunxiao had to personally teach her again.

After some time, the group worked together and used magic to directly enter the earth, passing through layers of seals in the dark earth.

I don't know how deep we went, but there was a faint light flowing deep underground.

Lu Zheng lowered his head slightly and looked closely, seeing that the ball of light becoming clearer and clearer.

Where the light shone, there was a vast gathering of mysterious forces of heaven and earth, the location of the Southern Frontier Dragon Vein.

There was a large, black tortoise coiled up there, eyes closed and curled up, motionless. It was the embodiment of the dragon vein, and it was a thousand feet in size, like a mountain.

The giant tortoise also carried a huge golden stone tablet on its back.

The stone tablet, formed from a mysterious aura, had characters faintly visible on its surface, and those characters were the same inscriptions that Lu Zheng and the others had just seen on the ground.

Looking at the giant tortoise, Qingwan couldn't help but whisper, "Is this what the Bixi, the main dragon vein of the Southern Frontier, looks like?"

Yun Xiao stroked his beard and said, "It shouldn't be in the form of a Bixi. Legend has it that the Bixi carries a merit stele, which is a dragon vein suppressed by the stele... Uh, speaking of which, this stele also records the achievements of the Shu Emperor in conquering the southern border..."

Yun Xiao had never seen a living Bixi, so he couldn't be sure whether the Xuan Turtle carrying the stele that the dragon vein had conjured was actually Bixi.

Yun Xiao waved his hand, "Ahem, anyway, this thing is definitely the dragon vein of the Southern Frontier!"

The group approached the dragon vein and examined it closely with curiosity.

Perhaps because the dragon vein here was under suppression and sealed, and because they were not too close, no one felt a particularly overwhelming aura or felt particularly shocked.

Lu Zheng only felt that the dragon vein in front of him was very large, exuding a dark miasma.

Yun Xiao said unhurriedly, "This tortoise is black mainly because the southern border region is full of miasma, which is yin and water... Although the dragon vein is suppressed, we can still feel the special miasma on its body from a distance. The miasma transforms into the earth's spiritual energy..."

Lu Zheng knew that different terrains resulted in different dragon veins.

Just like the Ghost Continent is full of Yin energy, the dragon veins formed there must also be Yin dragon veins, which ordinary cultivators cannot get close to.

Looking at the giant tortoise in front of her, Qingwan clicked her tongue in amazement and said, "Didn't the Taoist priest say that the dragon vein here is shifting and nurturing in other places? How come I can't see any arrangements? It's being suppressed!"

Upon hearing this, Yun Xiao's expression froze, and his eyes flickered. Indeed, there was nothing unusual about the dragon vein's location here, which was completely different from what he had expected. There were no special formations set up here.

"wrong……"

Yun Xiao stroked his chin. "This dragon vein doesn't seem to have any problems, but the terrain I saw from the sky suggests that someone has made arrangements and tampered with the dragon vein."

Yun Xiao carefully circled the dragon vein, but couldn't find anything unusual.

Yun Xiao couldn't help but look at Lu Zheng, "Have you discovered anything? My Dharma body is still a bit weak; without disturbing the dragon vein, I really can't see anything..."

Faced with this real, colossal creature, which was also the image of a dragon vein spanning thousands of miles of territory, his cultivation level was simply insufficient.

Lu Zheng thought for a moment and said, "It might be a smokescreen."

(End of this chapter)