As soon as I said this, Wang Fugui was shocked: "Don't dare to say that! Don't dare to say that! It will be bad if you anger the Dragon King!"
I looked at him and asked, "Has the Dragon King in the mountains ever gotten angry?"
"That's not good!" Wang Fugui said, "There was a guy in our village who was a big talker. He dared to say anything. He got drunk that day and said some irrelevant things in front of the Songlong Monument. As a result, he died the next day. His death was so tragic. It was as if his skin was scratched by ghosts. There was not even a piece of good meat left. Don't talk nonsense!"
Zhihui and I looked at each other, and the latter said, "Donor, you said there is a Dragon King in the mountains. Have any of you ever seen the Dragon King appear in person?"
"Why has no one seen it?" Wang Fugui pointed his hand toward the mountain. "When my grandfather went up the mountain before, he saw with his own eyes a huge green dragon coiled over Dragon King Rock! The dragon scales were as big as a palm, and they shone golden light under the sun!"
I said in a deep voice: "Then let's go to Longwang Rock to take a look tomorrow."
“No, no…” Wang Fugui waved his hands in fear, “No one here dares to go to Dragon King Rock. You guys don’t go either! If you anger the Dragon King, it will be all over!”
I looked at the former king Fugui and said, "If you don't go to Longwangyan, the problems in your village won't be solved. Are you going or not?"
"This..." Wang Fugui hesitated for a long time, "Don't fool me!"
I said with a straight face, "According to common sense, where there is a dragon tablet, there will be no evil ghosts within a ten-mile radius. But look at what the evil ghosts in your village have done."
"There are only two possibilities for ghosts haunting your village. One is that the Dragon King has long gone away, and there is no Dragon King guarding this place, so ghosts come here to fight for territory. The other reason is that you have angered the Dragon King, and the Dragon King deliberately let the ghosts come in to give you a warning. I have to go there to see clearly what is going on."
Wang Fugui was obviously frightened by me. Just as he was about to answer, a monk named Zhixing suddenly interrupted and said, "Mr. Wu, monks don't tell lies. You'd better not deceive this donor."
I was so angry that my eyes widened! Is this monk crazy
Wang Fugui was immediately unhappy: "Sir, what do you mean?"
I immediately got angry: "I want to go to Longwangyan to catch ghosts, that's what I mean! You have to go to Longwangyan whether you want to or not!"
“No…” Wang Fugui had just said two words when Ye Jin put the machete on his neck: “Shut up. If we can’t reach Dragon King Rock tomorrow morning, I will bury you first.”
Monk Zhixing interrupted again at this time: "Mr. Ye, aren't you going a little too far?"
I looked at Zhixing coldly, and he also looked at me, and our eyes met in the air.
We just looked at each other, and Zhihui said in a deep voice: "Zhixing, this mission is mainly based on Mr. Wu's arrangements. Don't act on your own, and don't interfere with Mr. Wu's work."
Zhixing responded firmly, "Brother, I will naturally obey Mr. Wu's orders, but I don't agree with his actions. As a sorcerer, how can I deceive my employer? Especially when I'm threatening my employer..."
Zhihui yelled, "Shut up!"
Although Zhixing kept silent, his eyes were filled with dissatisfaction. Zhihui apologized to me and said, "I have never left Prajna Temple and I don't know the ways of the world. Please forgive me, Mr. Wu."
I said calmly, "I wouldn't mind."
I deliberately turned my head away from Zhihui's gaze, but instead gave a look to Monk Shi standing next to me, asking him to keep an eye on Zhihui.
In the matter of us threatening Wang Fugui, Zhihui's performance was indeed unexpected. According to Zhihui's initial performance, the person who spoke up to stop us should be Zhihui, not Zhixing who remained silent all the way.
I simply took advantage of the unpleasantness caused by Zhixing to avoid the monks of Prajna Temple, waited by the fire until dawn, and took Wang Fugui up the mountain early the next morning.
I originally thought that Longwang Rock should be not far from Beigou Village, but Wang Fugui actually took us for almost an hour before bringing us to a cliff. Wang Fugui pointed at the cliff in the distance and said, "That's Longwang Rock. You guys go up by yourselves. I don't dare to go!"
Ye Jin stretched out his hand and pushed the man forward: "No! Take us away, or watch out for your head."
Zhixing's face darkened: "Mr. Wu, everything should be done in moderation."
I looked at him coldly: "I have not read much, and I don't know what it means to stop when enough is enough."
Zhixing stepped forward and said, "Mr. Wu, are you really going to go your own way and continue to bully the weak?"
I turned to look at Zhihui: "Take care of your junior brother."
Zhihui sighed slightly and said, "Junior Brother Zhixing is not wrong, and Mr. Wu has his reasons for doing so. How about letting me take care of Donor Wang and let him continue forward?"
As I waved my hand, Ye Jin pushed Wang Fugui towards Zhihui. The latter whispered a few words to comfort Wang Fugui, and he reluctantly followed us on the road. As I walked towards Longwang Rock, I found that the wild vegetables along the way were growing very lushly, which could only mean that no one dared to come to this forest.
Most people in Northeast China who live near mountains have the habit of picking wild vegetables. Even if they have enough vegetables at home, they will go up the mountain to pick vegetables in the corresponding season. After living in the mountains for a long time, they should know where the wild vegetables are lush. Except for places that no one dares to go, there shouldn't be so many wild vegetables in this season.
What was even more strange was that the further we went, the heavier the moisture on the ground became. Normally, this kind of place was suitable for snakes to appear, but we walked for several hundred meters without seeing any trace of snakes. According to rumors, only waters where dragons appeared were free of snakes.
While Ye Jin and I were exchanging glances, Wang Fugui suddenly said, "The Dragon King Rock is just ahead."
I looked in the direction Wang Fugui pointed and found that there was no grass at all about 100 to 200 meters ahead. There was only an arched stone road on the ground, which looked like the back of a dragon at first glance.
Just as I was about to move forward, I heard Wang Fugui say, "If you go any further, you will reach the Dragon King's back. Go ahead! The elders said that whoever steps on the Dragon King's back will die a miserable death. I dare not move forward."
I looked at Zhihui without saying a word. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Donor Wang, since you don't dare to step on the Dragon King's back, why don't I carry you up there? If anyone steps on it, I will be the one stepping on the Dragon King's back. The Dragon King won't blame you."
Wang Fugui was stunned for a long time before he reluctantly nodded and said, "Okay then!"
Zhihui didn't say anything, he carried Wang Fugui on his back and walked forward. After we passed the highest point of Longwangbei, the slope in front of us began to decline sharply; after more than ten meters, the slope almost formed a straight up and down state, and a few steps ahead was a protruding cliff.
Although I couldn't see the whole cliff from my position, I could roughly feel that the whole cliff should be like a dragon lying on the mountain with its head sticking out, and the protruding piece of the cliff should be the dragon's head.
I asked coldly, "Wang Fugui, why didn't you take us to the front of Longwang Rock? Instead, you brought us to the mountain?"
Wang Fugui said with a sad face, "I dare not! In front of Longwang Rock is the Dragon Pond. The old people said that the Dragon Pond can bewitch people. If people get close to it, they will walk into the water by themselves. How dare I take you to the edge?"
I took two steps back, took out the telescope and looked down the mountain. Dragon King Rock, Songlong Monument and Beigou Village just formed a straight line. If there really was a dragon hidden under this Dragon King Rock, then Beigou Village should be the Dragon Road.
I was just about to put down the telescope and look somewhere else, but I suddenly turned my head towards the direction of Beigou Village - there I saw several halos of light that looked like knife lights.
Feng Shui formation
If it were more than a month ago, I would not be able to see the existence of the Feng Shui formation here, but after I obtained the Zhan family inheritance in the ghost realm, the hidden formation before me could no longer escape my eyes.
Although our Wu family also has Feng Shui heritage, it is not comparable to the Zhan family. The Zhan family's Feng Shui secrets are unique in the art world.
If I'm not mistaken, what's hidden in the dragon pool is not a dragon, but a python that is about to turn into a dragon. Dragons don't go into the mountains, but pythons can live in the mountains. But pythons must encounter water to transform. In other words, if a python wants to turn into a dragon, it must first dive into the water, so that it can grow horns and claws, dominate the waters, and truly become a dragon. So Beigou Village at the foot of the mountain is not a dragon path, but a snake path.
In the past, a Feng Shui master must have discovered this and set up a Feng Shui formation similar to an upside-down knife at the position where the python should go down the mountain. Once the python walks towards the snake path, its abdominal cavity will be ripped open by the power brought by the Feng Shui formation and it will die on the road.
What's even more amazing is that the Feng Shui master not only blocked the Dragon Path with the Feng Shui array, preventing the dragon from coming out, but also deceived a group of villagers who didn't know the truth to settle in the North Ditch. If the python was really forced to the point of forcibly attacking the snake path, hundreds of lives in the village would be lost. At that time, even if the python could force its way through the Feng Shui array and successfully enter the water, it would be destroyed by the punishment of heaven.
But why did the Feng Shui master insist on trapping the python to death? Trapping a python to death was meaningless to the sorcerer, and it was even more beneficial than directly killing the python and taking away the inner elixir.
As I thought about it, I put down the telescope in my hand and looked down into the pool of water below.
I was now about ten meters above the pool below, but I could still see everything at the bottom of the pool. The first thing I saw was a dozen or so stones standing in the middle of the pool. The stones below were almost the same size, and each one looked extremely flat, and at first glance they looked like a carefully polished tabletop.
I turned to look at Wang Fugui: "What is that in the water?"
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