Chen Yang: "Everyone calm down." He patted Kou Xuanling on the shoulder: "We understand, it's the normal needs of adults. Stop making trouble, be mature." Chen Yang pretended to be very mature and secretly asked Kou Xuanling: "Did you spend a day and a night to get a room?"
Kou Xuanling felt that if he hadn't had a sore back, he would have fought Chen Yang to the death at this moment. He gritted his teeth and said, "Don't I need to rest?"
"Oh." Chen Yang nodded, hesitated for a while and asked again: "Do you need red eggs?" The next moment he jumped up and quickly jumped behind Du Shuo, jumped on Du Shuo's back and said to the angry Kou Xuanling: "Just asking, forget it if you don't need it."
Lu Xiuzhi hurried over to appease the angry Kou Xuanling, while Du Shuo patted Chen Yang's buttocks and asked, "What are you asking?"
Chen Yang hugged Du Shuo's neck tightly, put his head on his shoulder and said, "Ask him if he wants red eggs." Then Kou Xuanling asked why they wanted to eat red eggs, and he replied that it was congratulations on growing up.
Du Shuo: "Naughty."
Chen Yang laughed a few times, and when he saw that everyone else had gotten in the car, he said, "Everyone else has gotten in the car, let's hurry over." Du Shuo strode forward with him on his back. After they got in the car, just as the car was about to start, three people from behind caught up with them.
"Driver, wait a minute." The driver stopped starting the car. Zheng Xiaoyu and the other two chased after him and asked breathlessly, "Master Chen, are you guys going to... leave? What about that evil spirit?"
Chen Yang lowered the window and leaned out, hearing what was said, "It's been resolved, don't worry. Unless your fate is determined, there will be no more accidents. I see that you don't have the appearance of a premature death, and there are no spirits with independent consciousness causing trouble, so you will be fine."
Zheng Xiaoyu was pleasantly surprised and asked, "Really? Thank you."
Chen Yang smiled and said goodbye to them. The driver stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the train station. Zheng Xiaoyu and the other two behind him felt like they were reborn. They watched them leave with gratitude, not knowing if they would have the chance to meet again.
It takes half a day to travel from J Province to Sichuan Province by train, and a whole day by train. Zhang Qiudao asked: "Why do you want to go to Sichuan Province? J Province is close to Tianshi Mansion, and Sichuan Province and Tianshi Mansion are adjacent, so it's not on the same route."
Chen Yang: "Because the Taoist Association sent us new 'roadblocks', didn't you receive them?"
"No." Kou Xuanling said doubtfully, "Each Taoist Exchange Association only has one 'roadblock', and there is no second one. Otherwise, who would be willing to participate in the exchange association and let people go through so much trouble? Qiudao, do you know the reason?"
"I don't know either." Zhang Qiudao shook his head and said, "This is not the first time that Tianshi Mansion has been used as a venue for the Taoist Exchange Association. As far as I can remember, there has only been one 'roadblock'. Director Chen, could the information you received be false?"
Du Shuo: "I have confirmed it, it is correct."
Kou Xuanling: "Could it be that it was sent to the wrong person?"
Ma Shanfeng, who was sitting in the front row and teasing Wei Xuan and the baby with his wife, turned around and asked Chen Yang, "What is the second 'roadblock'?"
Chen Yang thought of the request in the message, and his expression became a little strange: "Looking for the dragon."
Everyone's interest was aroused: "Dragon? The legendary dragon? The thunderstorm is dark, and the sound is like a bull's roar. The leader of the unicorns, the breath turns into clouds, and it controls the wind and fire. But dragons are only legendary creatures. Are you sure the Taoist Association is not kidding you when they ask you to find a dragon?"
Chen Yang asked them curiously: "Taoism has detailed records of the dragon's grades and images. The Heavenly Master traces the origins of many things related to dragons. Why do you seem to not believe in dragons?" The "Tai Shang Dong Yuan Shen Zhou Jing" details the grades of dragons, dividing dragons into the Five Emperor Dragon Kings, the Four Seas Dragon Kings, and the names of the fifty-four dragon kings according to directions, oceans, and all things in heaven and earth.
Zhang Qiu said, "I haven't seen one. Different records have different descriptions, but... How should I put it? If you look carefully, you can conclude from different documents that the appearance and abilities of dragons are constantly evolving and improving. From the snakes with scales and horns at the beginning to the image of dragons we are familiar with now, it feels like it was invented by later generations based on their imagination. My grandfather and his family have never seen a dragon, but they believe in dragons. They say that there were dragons in the Yellow River and the Yangtze River in the past, because you can see dragons in these two places."
On the bank of the Yellow River, a carp leaps over the Dragon Gate, and the fire from heaven burns its tail and turns it into a dragon. It takes a snake 500 years to turn into a Jiao, and a Jiao turns into a dragon after a thousand years. A snake becomes a Jiao when it enters a river, and a Jiao turns into a dragon when it enters the sea. So when it first turns into a dragon, it swims from the Yangtze River to the sea, encounters thunder and lightning and heavy rain, soars straight into the sky, and turns into a dragon after overcoming the calamity. Therefore, according to legend, there are dragons hidden in the Yellow River and the Yangtze River.
Wei Xuan knelt on the chair, leaned on the back of the chair and said to everyone: "I have seen a dragon when I was still alive. One time, my father took me out to meet a distinguished guest. When we passed Hexi, we saw a dragon in the Yellow River. It was completely different from the image of dragons described in many documents now. Its face was like a pig's head and its body was like a slippery snake. It had no horns or claws on its head, like an earthworm with a pig's face. But it was more than ten meters long, and I knew it was a dragon. When it jumped over the Dragon Gate, there were lightning, thunder, wind, thunder and rainstorms."
Big Fatty lazily swung his tail and said, "I've seen it too, in the Yangtze River during the Sui and Tang dynasties. It wasn't a dragon yet, but a Jiaolong. It already had the rudiments of a dragon, with claws, scales, antlers, a snake tail, phoenix eyes and a long beard. It was black but pretty. Its angry eyes were majestic, and its momentum was already quite powerful and amazing. It was just waiting for the sea to meet wind and thunder and turn into a dragon." After a pause, it said to Wei Xuan, "What I saw was a dragon. What you saw must be a mutated monster. How could it be a dragon when it's so ugly?"
Wei Xuan was angry and wanted to pounce on Da Pang and pull the hair on his head. Da Pang quickly dodged and turned back to complain about Wei Xuan, but was hit by Zhang Qiudao. Zhang Qiudao's face was calm and he said in a pinched voice: "Don't run around." Da Pang wanted to struggle, but when he saw the driver in front occasionally looking at the rearview mirror in fear and suspicion to observe the back seat, he stopped struggling, stayed still and meowed twice.
Wei Xuan said disdainfully: "It sounds terrible."
Da Pang stared at Wei Xuan with dead eyes. Zhang Qiudao said to Wei Xuan: "The dragon you saw is too ugly, it must be fake."
Hearing this, the driver finally breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "What you said is really interesting." He thought that everyone in the car was teasing the child, and it was really cute to see the child talking so seriously. "Little sister, you are still alive now, how can you say 'while you were still alive'? And the real dragon has nine similar shapes."
Wei Xuan puffed his lips and looked at Chen Yang pitifully: "Chen Xiaoyang, I didn't lie."
Chen Yang quickly coaxed: "Okay, I know you didn't lie. But the dragons you two saw are indeed different, aren't you seeing things?"
Wei Xuan pointed at the fat man in Zhang Qiudao's arms and said, "It must be him who saw it wrong, not me." The fat man kept rolling his eyes at her.
Chen Yang was in a dilemma. The two insisted that they saw a dragon, but the images they described were different. Although the image of the dragon described by Da Pang did conform to people's current understanding of the dragon shape, the dragon shape described by Wei Xuan was very unique and not nonsense, because when she was alive, people did describe the dragon shape as a pig face, snake shape and scales.
If this is true, does the dragon really have different appearances? He looked at Du Shuo in confusion: "Have you seen it?"
At the same time, Kou Xuanling also looked at Lu Xiuzhi and asked him if dragons really existed. Lu Xiuzhi gave an affirmative answer: "They do exist. And they are not wrong. They must have seen dragons before. In the past, when floods were rampant, people believed in the existence of dragons and offered sacrifices to them every year. The emperors of the human world would also issue decrees to enfeoff dragons as kings and order the people to offer sacrifices to them. The existence of dragons is mysterious and powerful, and the belief in them is also strong, so they often walk in the world of the living, and there are many cases of dragons turning into dragons."
"I have seen it." Du Shuo nodded and answered Chen Yang's question: "They are not lying. The dragon's shape has not remained unchanged since ancient times."
Chen Yang: "How do you say that?"
Du Shuo: "Dragons are not creatures that have existed since ancient times. They are images created by animal worship and nature worship. Later, the existence of dragons originated from the transformation of snakes, carps, thousand-year-old turtles and other animals. When they transformed into dragons, their understanding of dragons came from the images imagined by people, so the dragons they transformed into were what people described. The difference in the image of dragons in different periods lies in people's improvement of the image of dragons. In the early days, dragons had pig faces and snake bodies, some were footless, and some had two or three legs. By the Sui and Tang dynasties, the shape of dragons was not much different from the current shape, so the shapes of dragons we see are different."
Chen Yang: "In other words, dragons do not actually exist, but animals such as snakes, carps or turtles that have cultivated and survived the thunderbolt catastrophe and then transformed into dragons. They choose to transform into dragons because of people's worship and faith in dragons, which can protect them and make them more powerful."
Du Shuo: “Yes.”
The driver was also interested in their conversation. "What you said makes sense. In my hometown, there is a saying called 'a dragon asking for a title'. I heard from the elders in my family that there was a man in the village who was asked for a title. He answered correctly, and the dragon was grateful to him and came back to repay the favor. Later, his family prospered and developed in the city. I heard that he opened a big company, and his family is safe and healthy, and has good luck."
Wei Xuan asked curiously, "What is 'asking for a title'?"
"It means you can confer the title of the dragon." The driver made a detour and answered straightforwardly, "Humans are the most intelligent creatures in the world. If humans recognize that a Jiaolong is a dragon, then it is a dragon. If humans do not recognize it and think it is a snake, then the Jiaolong's thousand-year cultivation will be ruined. This is called conferring the title of the dragon. If you call a Jiao a dragon, you are confirming its identity and helping it become a dragon. If it successfully overcomes the calamity and becomes a divine dragon, it will certainly repay you in return. However, if you destroy its thousand-year cultivation, that would be terrible. Its revenge will definitely be to destroy your family."
Ma Shanfeng nodded in agreement: "I have heard of this. Many animals that become immortals will ask for titles from people. Jiao snakes turn into dragons, yellow foxes become immortals, and so on. However, although spirits are spiritual and easy to open their intelligence, it is difficult for them to become immortals. Some yellow foxes or foxes will turn around and ask people: 'Am I a human or an immortal?' If you answer immortal, then you will become a minor god or immortal like Huang Daxian. If you expose it, it will run away in embarrassment, and the revenge it returns is just to tease the children at home. These are not like Jiao snakes. Snakes take 500 years to turn into Jiao snakes, and 1,000 years to turn into dragons. If you answer wrong, 1,500 years of Taoism will be gone in the blink of an eye. Naturally, they will hate the person who harmed them and eat the person who asked for a title."
Wawa and Wei Xuan listened attentively, and exclaimed at the end. Wawa asked, "Isn't it unlucky for the person who was asked to be given a title? Anyone with a little courage would be scared."
The driver suddenly felt a chill down his spine. He looked back and forth between Wei Xuan and the baby in doubt: "You, your baby can talk? Like a human?"
Wei Xuan picked up the doll and said proudly, "Of course. My doll is specially customized and made. It can simulate sounds based on my sound waves and deduce and practice what I want to say based on my sentences. This is the most expensive and popular doll. Many children like it."
The driver breathed a sigh of relief. "Really? I saw it talking like a human. Today's technology is incredible. It made a doll that looks just like a human. I wonder if it's scary at first glance."
Wei Xuan: "If you are familiar with it, you won't be scared."
"Haha, that's right." The driver stopped talking and concentrated on driving.
Ma Shanfeng nodded at the two little cuties and said silently, "Be careful." Then he explained the doll's problem, "A Jiaolong can only ask one person for a title, so they pick and choose, and most of the time they don't choose children or young people, but choose the elderly. Because the elderly are knowledgeable and believe in these things, when they see a dragon, they will directly call it a dragon, not a snake. Once they call it a snake, it will break its Taoism. When a child sees a Jiaolong, the first reaction is not a dragon, but a snake. Therefore, Jiaolong will choose the elderly when asking for a title, and when it has a premonition that it will transcend the tribulation and become a dragon, it will have a dream a few years in advance to remind it. If unfortunately a timid person is chosen, he will faint when he sees the Jiaolong, and will not be able to escape the title when the thunder suddenly falls, and most of the time he will not be able to make it."
Kou Xuanling: "I didn't expect there were such legends about dragons, but Chen Yang, why did you go to Sichuan Province to look for dragons?"
Chen Yang: "After I received the message, Witch Chief Yi called me at the same time and told me that if I wanted to look for dragons, I should go to the Dragon Locking Platform in Longxia Valley in Sichuan Province. She said there were dragons there."
"Witch Master Yi called personally, which means the Taoist Association was not wrong. So why did we have two 'roadblocks'?"
Du Shuo: "It's not you, only Yang Yang has two 'roadblocks'."
"Why?" everyone wondered.
Du Shuo stopped there: "Vice President of the Taoist Association."
As soon as they heard it, everyone understood. The driver stopped at the parking lot of the train station and said, "We have arrived. By the way, you all believe in Taoism. No wonder you are so knowledgeable when talking about these things."
Chen Yang scanned the QR code to pay the fare: "Yes, we all know a little bit about Taoism." He smiled and was gentle and amiable. When he got off the car, the driver gave him a peace charm because he helped them carry their luggage: "I wish you peace and health."
The driver took the amulet and laughed loudly, accepting Chen Yang's blessing. In their job as drivers, safety is the most important thing, so receiving such a blessing is the most joyful thing for the driver. And for some reason, when he took the amulet, he felt that all the turbid air in his body was swept away, and his originally uneasy heart suddenly calmed down, and the panic that lasted for a whole day finally calmed down.
The driver patted his head with a smile, and hung the amulet in front of the car after getting on. He subconsciously turned his head to look at Chen Yang and others entering the train station. Suddenly, he saw that the sun hat on the little girl's head was almost knocked off, but the ugly doll in her arms reached out and grabbed it. No one saw this. He was stunned for a moment, hesitantly muttered to himself: "How come the high-tech dolls now react so quickly?"
Ma Shanfeng said with a smile: "The driver just now had a car accident today."
Chen Yang also smiled: "It was a close call."
I ordered the train tickets in advance and calculated the time, so I didn't have to wait long to get on the train. I took the train for four hours and arrived at the station. It was almost two o'clock in the afternoon. When leaving the station, Chen Yang suggested: "Let's go have a meal first. Wu Chang Yi said that Longxia Gorge is located in a remote area. There are only two trains every day. The second train leaves at four o'clock. It has to pass through the jungle and mountain roads. It takes four or five hours to get to Longxia Gorge."
Wei Xuan said, "It's so far."
Wawa immediately said, "It's not far. We can get there after a good sleep."
Wei Xuan: "How did the baby know?"
Wawa: "Because Dragon Canyon is where I was born."
Everyone was also surprised and asked, "Weren't you born in the Wu Clan? Why did you end up in Dragon Canyon?", "Is there really a dragon in the Dragon Locking Platform in Dragon Canyon? Does the Dragon Locking Platform mean that there is a dragon imprisoned in the canyon?"
Wawa answered one by one: "The Wu Clan is in the Dragon Canyon Valley. We are different from the Longmu Ghost Clan who live underground. We live in the rocks. There is a tourist attraction near the Dragon Canyon. We Wu Clan go there to set up stalls and make money when we have nothing to do. But ordinary people can't enter the Wu Clan village. They will get lost, and outsiders cannot be allowed in. But the witch chief said that Yangyang is not an outsider, hehe." At this point, Wawa lay down and danced with joy: "Xuanxuan, I will take you to see my collection when we get to the tribe. I can give it to you."
"Okay. I can also take you to see my tomb. There are many collections in it. I can give you one then." Wei Xuan, who owns thirty-six ancient tombs, said it was not an exaggeration and she was also very rich.
Wawa said to Chen Yang again: "Yangyang, I will also give you a lot of my collections."
"Thank you, baby." Chen Yang accepted with a smile: "But are there really dragons in Dragon Canyon?"
"I don't know." Wawa said, "But it is said that there is a dragon locked up in the Dragon Locking Platform in the Dragon Canyon, and the Wu people worship it every year. But I have never seen it, nor have I heard the roar of a dragon."
"Okay. Let's talk about it when we get there. Let's go eat first. Let's go!"
The group went to eat first, and after eating and drinking, they even wanted to go to the foot bath, but - "Wake up, it's almost four o'clock. Wawa said there are only two buses a day, and if you are late, you can only walk there. And even if you walk there, it's useless because you can't find the way in."
Chen Yang burped a little, Du Shuo patted his back and said, "It will be the same if we go tomorrow."
Zhang Qiudao was speechless, and suddenly he began to doubt whether they were going to attend a Taoist exchange meeting or taking the opportunity to travel. Eating and drinking to their heart's content, taking a hot spring bath and foot bath, sightseeing or shopping in the mall, it was clearly a trip.
Chen Yang burped every once in a while, and grabbed Du Shuo's left hand and said, "It's not a good idea to have a foot bath after eating. Ha - I'm a little sleepy."
Du Shuo: "Then book a room and sleep and rest first."
Zhang Qiudao was too lazy to look at the two of them, and turned back to look for support from Kou Xuanling or Ma Shanfeng. However, when he turned back, his eyes were poked out - Ma Shanfeng held his wife's hand and whispered, "I'm full." Aunt Ma glanced at him, "Just now I kept telling you not to be greedy, but you didn't listen." Ma Shanfeng felt wronged, "You were staring at Wei Xuan all the time and didn't notice me. When you don't pay attention, I can't control myself."
Zhang Qiudao got goosebumps all over his body and shivered a few times. Lu Xiuzhi whispered to Kou Xuanling, "Sweating during exercise, huh?"
Big Fatty seemed to be stimulated, his shiny black fur suddenly stood up, his round fat body trembled three times, and he made two "duangduang" sounds, leaning against Zhang Qiudao's legs lonely and helpless. Glancing at Zhang Qiudao, Big Fatty suddenly regained his dignity: "Fortunately, I have many girlfriends." Poor Zhang Qiudao is alone.
Zhang Qiudao coldly kicked Big Fatty's huge back, sinking deep into the layers of soft flesh. "…"
Chen Yang yawned and said, "Let's get in the car and rest. Witch Chief Yi is waiting for us, don't let her wait too long."
So they finally gave up the idea of booking a room for a foot bath and massage, and found a bus heading to the Wu Clan. There were only a few people on the bus, and Chen Yang and others got on to fill the bus. The driver looked indifferent, staring at Chen Yang and others who got on the bus: "How many people? Where are you going?"
Chen Yang: "Nine people, go to Dragon Canyon."
The driver frowned and was about to drive them off the bus to take another bus. He thought Chen Yang and the others were going to the next scenic spot. But the next moment, Wawa jumped out and greeted him: "Let's go to the Wu Clan."
The driver recognized the baby and immediately responded with a friendly tone: "How did the baby get out? Does the witch chief know?"
Baby: "The witch chief knows." It jumped onto Chen Yang's shoulder and said, "This is Chen Yang."
The driver's expression suddenly changed, full of respect. He even skipped the routine check of the witch tribe's identity documents and asked them all to get on the bus. He said, "The doll represents the witch chief. We won't doubt anyone the witch chief approves of."
After everyone sat down, the bus started moving slowly, heading from the city highway to the suburbs, leaving the provincial highway. Some passengers on the bus secretly watched Chen Yang and his group, most of their eyes fell on Chen Yang. Wawa popularized knowledge: "Although the Wu Clan is the descendant of the Ghost Dao, in fact, most of them are not qualified to learn the Ghost Dao magic because of their limited physical fitness. Therefore, any Ghost Dao descendant is very respected in the Wu Clan, especially the Wu Chief has said Yang Yang in the clan."
After understanding the situation, Kou Xuanling sighed: "The Ghost Dao is indeed not as prosperous as the Heavenly Master Dao. The requirements for learning the techniques are strict and there are many limitations in itself. Fortunately, the inheritance has not been cut off. The Dao follows nature, so there is always a glimmer of hope."
Chen Yang nodded seriously, and then burped. Du Shuo frowned and asked Ma Shanfeng sternly how to treat hiccups. Ma Shanfeng turned around and said, "A scare can cure hiccups."
Chen Yang shook his head: "It will be fine after a while."
Having said that, I still hiccuped all the way to the forest. It was getting dark, and the forest was quiet. Only the bus was moving at night, and the two lights exposed their location, feeling like the only bait in the darkness, attracting unknown things in the forest at night.
Chen Yang turned his head to look out the window, and suddenly saw a small beautiful face outside the window. He blinked, unmoved. It's easy to imagine how strange it would be to suddenly see a beautiful face in the forest late at night, not to mention that the bus was still moving fast. At this time, a bunch of branches passed by the window and scraped away the beautiful face. The next moment, the beautiful face that appeared in front of the window suddenly turned into a smiling skull, which scared Chen Yang so much that he stopped hiccuping instantly.
At the same time, exclamations came from the car one after another: "Yin Yang Ghost Butterfly?!"
The author has something to say: When I counted the people just now, I counted them in pairs, Wei Xuan and Ji Jiang, Yang Yang and the emperor, Lao Kou and Lu Xiuzhi, Ma Shanfeng and his wife, a total of eight people.
So I typed in 'eight people'.
Yes, Zhang Qiudao was missed.
Singles have no human rights.