Li Jinglong explained the whole process to everyone, including the process of not being recognized by Fudo Mingwang's magic weapon. Everyone was silent and their faces were solemn.
"But we have Hong Jun." Li Jinglong signaled Hong Jun to demonstrate, Hong Jun pulled away the rope that bound the demon, and everyone was shocked. It was unexpected for a moment that Hong Jun was actually recognized by King Fudo Ming!
"This..." Ashinaqiong seemed to have heard some whimsical joke.
Hong Jun suddenly became playful, and directed the rope to stretch and stretch. Artest immediately picked up the piano and began to play and sing.
"I'm a snake charmer who walks everywhere... only with him..."
Hong Jun volleyed with both hands to control the demon-binding rope to twist left and right.
Everyone: "No, yes, play!"
"That is to say." Only then did Mo Zhigen realize, "If you find all the magic weapons, you will be Fudo Ming?"
Hong Jun looked bewildered, and finally had no choice but to nod reluctantly. As it turned out, although he was still swayed in his heart, he had to accept it.
"It's easy to handle this way." Artest stepped forward, lined up the symbols left before on Datang's map, and said, "These days, we are also thinking about how to find the magic weapon, you may wish to take a look. "
Another symbol that Hong Jun and Li Jinglong found in the abyss of Zhenlong Pagoda was the "door", so all the addresses where the magical artifacts were hidden were finally collected. Lake, gate, eye, slope, moon, river, the six areas are very clear. The lake is the sword of wisdom, and the gate is the rope that binds demons.
"As for the rest..." Lu Xu frowned, "I still have no clue."
"At least we still have regional characteristics." Li Jinglong kept staring at Datang's map and said, "Can you confirm the intersection of land veins?"
Artai nodded, and said, "In the waterway of Poyang Lake, the ground veins were dug, and then the work stopped. It was also recorded in Di Renjie's handbook back then."
The meridian of heaven and earth is the channel of energy circulation in the world. After death, the three souls enter samsara, the seven souls dissipate, and reincarnate between the meridians of heaven and earth. Digging through the exit of the underworld, I was terrified.
"It turned out to be like this." After listening to the deduction, Li Jinglong fully understood, but his eyes never left the map for a moment.
"Di Renjie didn't know much about this back then." Artai said, "This is part of what I learned from Hong Jun, and combined with what I saw from the land veins, I guessed."
"So like Zhenlong Pagoda and Poyang Lake Waterway, they are all great outlets of the land veins." Li Jinglong mused, "Di Gong realized this back then, so he took the flow direction of the land veins and established Qique, the capital of the gods."
"So there must be a natural exit." Mo Zhigen said, "Being restrained by a magic weapon may be to suppress the soul in the leylines, or..."
The carp demon interjected: "So that's how the 'Fudo' in Fudo Mingwang comes from?"
"This explanation is quite curious." Lu Xu said with a blank face, "'Moving' means solid compassion."
Li Jinglong stared at the map and said, "What are the common characteristics of mountains, rivers, and the exits of land veins?"
Everyone was waiting for Li Jinglong to speak, but Li Jinglong frowned deeply, as if he had become stupid after losing his heart lamp. There was no sound in the hall. After a long silence, Li Jinglong said in surprise: "Think about it, everyone, you can't rely entirely on me."
The rest of the people immediately discussed each other with each other.
Hong Jun suddenly felt a little sad when he heard it, and asked, "Why don't you ask the monsters?"
"I suggest asking a dead person." Lu Xu said, "Can you summon souls?"
Mo Zhigen said: "That's right! The dead know better than the living."
"Where do you go to summon the soul?" Ashina Qiong asked.
"You forgot?" Hong Jun immediately understood what Lu Xu meant, and said, "Liu Fei back then..."
Everyone fell silent for a moment.
Hong Jun was deeply impressed by the scene of Liu Fei sacrificing to all things in the world and recalling his soul. Maybe the King of Ghosts also knows the mysteries of the world.
With a look of approval in Li Jinglong's eyes, he said, "Hong Jun is getting smarter and smarter."
"Send him a letter." Mo Zhigen said.
From Tongguan to Yadan, the journey is far away, everyone thinks for a while, let mortals pass by, it is always impossible, low-level monsters may not even see the face of the ghost king, so they can only let Chaoyun run there in person. Zhao Yun is very willing, after all, such a big monster as the ghost king, it is not easy to talk to each other on weekdays, it is also an honor for the monster clan.
So the crowd dispersed, and the only hope was that An Lushan would not attack Tongguan so quickly and leave enough time for them. Hong Jun wrote the letter with a pen, and Li Jinglong dictated it aside, and then let Chao Yun send it.
"I can't even pick up a pen." Li Jinglong said.
While writing, Hong Jun replied casually: "You have gradually recovered. Before sitting for a while, you were out of breath, but now you can sit for several hours."
"Your medicine is good." Li Jinglong replied, "Can I kiss you?"
It was also snowing in Tong County, and the brazier in the hall was burning hot and very warm. Hong Jun's face was a little red, and when he wrote a letter with Li Jinglong, Hong Jun turned his head and kissed Li Jinglong.
"Have I become stupid?" Li Jinglong said a little uneasy.
Li Jinglong was very sensitive. At that moment, he felt that his subordinates had always expected him, even Hong Jun, waiting for him to say a certain crucial information node, but he didn't. Different from him who used to "leave it on me, I have an idea", now he has become "everyone thinks about it, it can't all depend on me".
Hong Jun felt a little sad, but replied with a casual smile: "Actually, you have thought of it a long time ago, but you just didn't say it, right?"
Hong Jun's words were just comforting, but Li Jinglong sighed and said, "Every time I'm so unlucky, I don't believe in myself anymore."
Hong Jun sealed the fire stamp, suddenly noticed something, looked at Li Jinglong suspiciously, and asked, "What method did you think of?"
The two just looked at each other quietly, and Li Jinglong said again: "Forget it."
Hong Jun went out with the letter, and after a while, he called the exorcists in again, and everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.
"You..." Li Jinglong said unnaturally.
"Say it." Hong Jun knelt on one side.
Everyone was unclear, so Mo Zhigen frowned suspiciously and said, "Chang Shi, what do you infer?"
Li Jinglong was helpless now, so he had to say: "Okay, I... I remembered, about the leylines... the letter has been sent?"
Hong Jun nodded, Li Jinglong pondered for a moment, and then said: "The Han people once had a saying, which is unique to geomancy, called 'Dragon Vein'."
Everyone suddenly realized, Artest said: "Wait, I'll get the map of Poyang Lake, you can take a look."
Everyone gathered together to look at it again.
"Let's look at Zhenlong Pagoda first." Li Jinglong said, "It would be great if Yongsi was here... He must be more familiar than me."
"Speak quickly!" the crowd urged.
Li Jinglong gestured with his hand: "The Qiantang River and Yuhang show the direction of the dragon, and the Town Dragon Tower happens to be a dragon ball surrounded by the dragon shape."
"That's right—" everyone exaggeratedly said in unison.
Li Jinglong: "..."
Hong Jun hurriedly signaled with his eyes not to go too far, and everyone nodded tacitly.
"Poyang Lake." Artai pulled out a map of Taihu Lake, stacked it on top, and outlined the mountains to the northwest of Poyang Lake with charcoal strips, saying, "The northwest of Poyang Lake is the Maoshan Mountains, and the waterway is...here. Chang Shi, your guess is correct. gone."
The earth veins are full of mysteries and unknowns for all living beings in the land of China. The exorcists never thought that what they all set foot in is actually one of the most profound secrets since the first opening of the world.
"It's hard to say about the rest of the place." Li Jinglong said, "I've been looking for the possible ley lines on the map just now... I thought, maybe here..."
Hong Jun knew that Li Jinglong had indeed thought of it, but he just didn't want to say more. Immediately, Li Jinglong drew possible leylines in several areas. The first place was Longmen Mountain and Luoshui in Luoyang.
"No." Mo Zhigen said, "We have been to every ley point."
"Hmm." Li Jinglong nodded and said, "Maybe...it's not a real ley point, what about here?"
The next area is the Shennv Peak in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. Li Jinglong said: "Turn the dragon veins of Poyang Lake and Qiantang so that it can almost match the terrain here."
"It's possible." Hong Jun said, "What else?"
"Here." Li Jinglong turned the translucent rice paper map over again, stacked it on Lishan, and said, "The fourth one, maybe the third one."
"Calculated as the fifth one, there is still here."
The fifth area is the north, a large area of mountains and forests.
Mo Zhigen: "..."
"What?" Li Jinglong asked, "Have you been there?"
"This is my home." Mo Zhigen said, "It's in the mountain where I went when I was a child."
"That's great." Li Jinglong said, "I'll leave it to you, take Hongjun there."
"Wait!" Hong Jun said, "Aren't you going?"
Li Jinglong didn't answer, but said, "Finally, it's here."
Li Jinglong turned the map again and posted it in Qinghai, at the first bend of the Jiuqu Yellow River.
"Six dragon veins." Li Jinglong said.
Everyone was silent, Lu Xu said: "Isn't there a place in it?"
"I still think that Luoyang once existed." Li Jinglong said, "You think, the two dragon veins in Luoyang, the eastern capital, and Chang'an, the western capital, should correspond."
"But we have looked for it." Mo Zhigen said, "There is really no mine in the mine under Longmen Mountain."
"There is another possibility." Li Jinglong said in a deep voice, "It has been taken away in advance."
Now everyone suddenly became enlightened, Hong Jun thought, Li Jinglong is still very smart. However, as for the location of the six weapons, there are too many guesswork elements, no wonder he no longer believes in his own luck.
When Hong Jun was about to ask again, Li Jinglong said: "As long as An Lushan doesn't come over for the time being, we can buy enough time to find the magic weapon and launch a decisive battle with him in Tongguan."
This is already their third decisive battle, and there are only three things. If they fail again this time... Li Jinglong is ashamed to be the head of the Exorcism Division, and he has no choice but to resign.
"Let's leave it to fate." Ashinaqiong said, "If the sky wants to kill us, what can we do?"
Everyone agreed that it must be kept secret, otherwise once An Lushan finds out about it, there will be another branch. This time, Hong Jun had a vague premonition that he might succeed in the end. After all, Kunshen and Liu Fei both said that the only way to destroy the Heavenly Demon is to gather all the six weapons of Fudo Mingwang.
Compared to groping in a fog before, hope has become very close, at least they know what to do.
"I want to talk to Hongjun." Li Jinglong said to everyone.
Everyone knew that Li Jinglong wanted to persuade Hongjun to set off as soon as possible and leave him to find the magic weapon, so they all left temporarily with interest. Mo Zhigen said: "I'll go back and pack my things first."
"Okay." Hong Jun said sadly.
He knew that this matter was imperative, and when he looked at Li Jinglong, his eyes were full of complicated emotions. After all, he knew that when he found the six weapons, he would die. He just wanted to spend more time with Li Jinglong before this day came, even if it was just one more day.
But Li Jinglong's current conditions are no longer able to accompany him on long journeys.
"Help me up." Li Jinglong said with a smile to Hongjun.
Hong Jun stepped forward and supported Li Jinglong, and Li Jinglong said again: "You have to make me a crutch. You are... Sometimes you don't even need to persuade, you just accept it."
Hong Jun did figure it out, but it just brought more reluctance.
"You have grown up." Li Jinglong said, and walked out with Hong Jun's support, and said: "Growing up means knowing how to do many things that you don't want to do."
"I am willing." Hong Jun said stubbornly, "As long as you can be good and everyone can be good, why don't you want to?"
Li Jinglong wanted to say "Hongjun, I'm not good enough for you" but he still held back, he knew that Hongjun wanted him to accompany him, but firstly he couldn't move freely, and secondly, at this juncture, he couldn't leave either Tongguan.
"When you come back, I can walk." Li Jinglong said, "Look, I can walk much better now. Next time I can accompany you. Although I can't help, at least I won't drag you down."
Hong Jun said "hmm", at this time someone outside suddenly asked: "Is Hou Yadan here?"
But Feng Changqing sent someone to invite him. Seeing that Li Jinglong was holding on, the soldier knew that he was injured, so he hurriedly said: "The little one drove over here."
"It's okay." Li Jinglong said, "Is there any crutches? Bring me a pair."
There are always crutches in the army for the wounded. The soldier heard the words and found a deputy. Li Jinglong insisted on walking by himself. Hong Jun had to support him and let him hold the crutch under his armpit.
"Tie my fingers with a bandage." Li Jinglong said to Hongjun.
Hong Jun did as he did, and Li Jinglong supported the crutches and got into the carriage. Hong Jun went up and followed, and arrived outside Tongguan Duwei's Mansion. At this time, it was completely dark, and Tong County was still noisy at night, Feng Changqing limped out just after eating, leaning on a cane.
The two cousins looked at each other, both leaning on crutches.
Feng Changqing: "..."
Li Jinglong said helplessly: "It's done."
"I've heard about it." Feng Changqing said to Hongjun Qing, "It's thanks to you taking care of Jing Long."
"Just walk around." Li Jinglong said to Hongjun.
Hong Jun nodded and entered the Duwei Mansion. The two brothers limped and entered the garden. Feng Changqing said, "Is it in the way?"
"I'm practicing now." Li Jinglong replied, "The meridians are abolished, and I can't go back to the past."
Feng Changqing let out a long sigh, never thought that this cousin who was always proud of his martial arts and well-known in Chang'an would fall into such a situation.
"It's time to get married." Feng Changqing said, "Take it easy."
"In my whole life, I will only be with Hongjun." Li Jinglong said, "Even if I die, burn to ashes, and a gust of wind comes, I will follow him."
Feng Changqing said: "If you two can know each other and stay together, it will be a good story. To be honest, many people in Chang'an officialdom envy you two, and even His Royal Highness mentioned it. …”
Li Jinglong knew that Li Heng was from the army, and he must have seen that the soldiers in the army admired each other, and he could see through the relationship between the two at a glance.
"...But you have to think about it carefully." Feng Changqing said, "Husband and wife are originally birds in the same forest, and when a disaster comes, they fly separately. It is impossible for a couple, even if they are parents, to have no filial son before the bed for a long time. People, the most difficult Tossing and tossing over time... "
"You asked me to come over." Li Jinglong replied, "I didn't mean to say these things."
"Forget it." Feng Changqing knew that Li Jinglong's stubborn temper was coming up again, so he changed his words, "At least he is a marquis, live a good life."
Feng Changqing was just worried about Li Jinglong, but thinking that this cousin is now a Marquis, even if he loses all his military strength, as a civil servant, he is always low-key and flattering, but he will definitely not be unable to coax the young man. Every time Li Jinglong thinks about the future between himself and Hongjun, he can't help but think about the past when he was a child. The weight of the past was so heavy that he could hardly breathe. He wanted to say it all, even if he knelt in front of Hongjun and begged his forgiveness, but he couldn't say it anyway.
He is both afraid and remorseful. He believes that Hongjun will not abandon him after he learns the truth, but the truth is like a knife, sticking in front of them all the time. So he was extremely tired of talking about his future with anyone, as if everyone's eyes and evaluations were always reminding him of the sins he had committed.
Only when he was alone with Hong Jun did he feel that he had breathed a little bit, and he only wished there was a paradise in the world where they would accompany each other and never mention the past, as if the past had never happened. But he knew better in his heart that this guilt could never be eliminated, and it was unfair to Hong Jun to conceal all this.
"Can we win this battle at Tongguan?" Li Jinglong asked.
"To be honest, I can't win the fight." Feng Changqing replied, "But if I tell you that I can't win the fight, will you stop fighting?"
Li Jinglong: "..."