"What do you mean by missing a few?" Wu Dongfang asked puzzledly.
The prince tilted his head and pondered, but did not answer.
"Do you mean to say that what appears in the north is not the Five Stars Lianzhu?" Wu Dongfang asked again.
"It's possible." The prince nodded.
"Impossible, you can't see Uranus and Neptune, let alone Pluto." Wu Dongfang shook his head and said.
"What did you say?" This time it was the prince's turn to be confused.
"You don't understand even after I tell you," Wu Dongfang waved to the people waiting outside the hall, "Come back and continue reading."
After hearing the sound, everyone returned to the main hall and started reciting again, and then they recited some trivial things. Wu Dongfang was preoccupied and absent-minded. He left work early as soon as it got dark and ordered the handyman who had previously been responsible for delivering the message to confirm. Let’s know when Lao Qi will be here.
Soon the errand boy came back, "Reporting to the Holy Wizard, Master Pingtian has personally gone to pick up Master Aoqi. He will be here before the second update."
"Go down." Wu Dongfang waved to the handyman.
After dinner, the prince went out for a walk. He didn't like to live in seclusion. He liked to roam the streets and be lively, and there was a night market in the summer capital at night.
Not long after the watch, Yun Ping arrived, followed by a hunched-over old mage with white hair and beard, holding a staff. He looked to be in his nineties if not a hundred years old.
"Old Luo Qi, pay your respects to the Holy Witch." The old mage trembled and knelt down.
"No, no, it's really inappropriate for you to travel thousands of miles at such an old age." Wu Dongfang hurriedly helped the old mage up. He didn't use you based on your identity and status, but based on your age. Only when he is older can he use you.
"I'm so scared. The holy witch summoned me here because of the five-star continuum?" Lao Qi raised his head and asked. Although he was very old, this guy's eyes were bright and full of aura.
"Come on, come on, sit down and talk." Wu Dongfang helped Lao Qi to the seat beside him and sat on his head. Before sitting down, he pointed to Yunping where Lao Qi's head was.
"This matter is of great importance. I sent someone else to invite him to avoid any omissions, so I went there myself. The old mage was very bumpy along the way." Yun Ping cupped his hand at Lao Qi.
Although Luo Qi is older, his cultivation level is not high. He only has the cultivation level of Yuxu, while Yunping has the cultivation level of Taixuan and is a very popular minister. When Yunping said this, the old mage was extremely frightened and hurriedly got up and humbled himself.
Wu Dongfang smiled on the sidelines. Yunping's words seemed to be addressed to Lao Qi, but in fact they were spoken to him. The implication was that he was only responsible for picking up people, and did not try to trick Lao Qi on the way back. .
"Old man, you are right. I invited you here to learn more about the details of Five Stars. What do you think of this?" Wu Dongfang asked Lao Qi.
Luo Qi stood up tremblingly. Just as he was about to speak, footsteps came from outside the hall. There was an area outside the hall with a void under the stone slab. People who approached the hall would actively step on that area to make clear footsteps. Let the people in the palace know that someone is coming from outside.
After the maid serving tea left, Wu Dongfang closed the palace door from a distance of more than 20 meters, then helped the old mage back to his seat and listened to his story about the Five Stars Lianzhu.
What Luo Qi said about the Five Stars Lianzhu was similar to what the prince had said before. The appearance of the Five Stars Lianzhu was a good omen, heralding the prosperity of the country and the victory of the war. However, the Five Stars Lianzhu usually appeared in the east and west, never in the north. , he had doubts in his mind, so he tried divination, but the tortoise shell did not crack when exposed to fire and showed no good or bad luck.
Wu Dongfang knew nothing about divination. Seeing his doubts, Yun Ping intervened and explained that it turned out that at this time, tortoise shells were mostly used for divination. After the sacrificial ceremony, the tortoise shells were burned, and the cracks in the tortoise shells were used to predict the good or bad luck of things.
"Can Master Pingtian know divination?" Wu Dongfang asked Yunping.
"Rough communication." Yun Ping nodded.
"You go and prepare, we will do the divination again later." Wu Dongfang said.
Yun Ping nodded in agreement, stood up and left.
When Yun Ping stood up and stepped out of the threshold, Lao Qi turned his head three times. Wu Dongfang watched clearly from the sidelines. It seemed that Lao Qi had not told the truth before, at least he had reservations.
Sure enough, after Yun Ping left, Lao Qi turned to look at Wu Dongfang, "Holy witch, there is no need to divine anymore. I have already divined good and bad luck before, but I can't reveal it to others."
"Old mage, it's just you and me here. If you have anything to say, just say it." Wu Dongfang nodded and said, Lao Qi's surname was Si. The Si master wizard and the Yun family wizard had always been in harmony with each other in appearance and heart. It was normal for him not to believe Yun Ping.
Lao Qi looked around carefully, then with trembling hands, he took out a small bag from his arms, carefully placed it on the wooden table between the two of them, and slowly opened it. The bag had three layers in total, the first layer was thick Linen, the second layer is blue fine linen, the third layer is yellow silk, open the yellow silk, inside is a tortoise shell, this tortoise shell is the back carapace of a tortoise, it is about the size of a palm, gray-white in color, it has already moved from the middle to the middle. Divided into two, the cracks are unusually neat.
"Holy Witch, look." Lao Qi picked up the two pieces of tortoise shell and slowly handed them to Wu Dongfang.
Wu Dongfang took the two pieces of tortoise shell and looked at them carefully. He didn't know how to divination, so he could only see that the cracked positions of the two pieces of tortoise shell were originally one piece, and there were no lines of bone armor.
Just when he wanted to ask for advice, Lao Qi actually took out another cloth bag. The cloth bag was not big. This one was placed in his right inner pocket. It was also wrapped in three layers. When he opened it, it was also a tortoise shell. It is also divided into two. The difference from the former is that this is the turtle's plastron, which is the carapace on the abdomen.
"Old mage, I am not proficient in divination. Please clarify my doubts." Wu Dongfang took a piece of plastron and connected it with one of the back armors. He found that they matched, indicating that the pair of carapace came from a turtle.
"To determine the sky, use turtle back armor, and to occupy land, use turtle belly Kun armor." The old mage pointed to the back of a piece of armor, "The spine of the turtle is the pillar of heaven. The left side of the pillar asks about east and west, and the right side asks about north and south. There are twenty-eight pieces on the back of the armor, and the twenty-eight constellations of the four images can be used to predict heavenly events."
After finishing speaking, Lao Qi picked up a piece of plastron, pointed to the front of the plastron and said, "There are twelve pieces of turtle belly Kunjia. It corresponds to the month of December and the twenty-four solar terms, which can be inferred from the earth."
"Is it rare for a tortoise shell to split in the middle?" Wu Dongfang asked.
Lao Qi nodded, pointed to the back armor and said, "This is the turtle spine. It can be broken anywhere else, but the break here is unusual."
Wu Dongfang held the half piece of tortoise shell in his hand and looked at it carefully. There are bones on the inside of the turtle's carapace that are similar to the human spine. The fragmentation of the tortoise shell here is equivalent to the human bone splitting in two from the spine.
"Old Master, please clarify, what does this mean?" Wu Dongfang asked.
"I dare not say it." Luo Qi shook his head slowly.
"It's just you and me here, but it doesn't matter." Wu Dongfang said, if it was a good thing, Luo Qi would have said it long ago and would never hesitate. Such hesitation is definitely a bad thing, and it is a big bad thing.
"Please ask the Holy Witch to pardon my innocence." Lao Qi said.
"No matter what you said, I will not punish you." Wu Dongfang said seriously.
Luo Qi let out a long sigh and pointed at the tortoise shell with his trembling right hand, "This is a sign that the sky will collapse and the earth will break apart, and all living beings will perish."
"I guessed it right!" Wu Dongfang stood up suddenly. After listening to reports for so many days, what he wanted was to find the precursor to the Ghost King's revolt. Although the divination result of Luo Qi was not optimistic, it was exactly what he was looking for. clues.
Lao Qi was startled by Wu Dongfang and looked at Wu Dongfang in shock.
Wu Dongfang sat down again and said harmoniously, "Old Master, don't worry, the sky cannot fall, the earth cannot sink, and we will not be exterminated and die miserably."
"Has the holy witch already spied on the matter?" Lao Qi asked in confusion.
Wu Dongfang nodded. Divination is a very emotional thing and needs to be understood flexibly. Lao Qi misinterpreted the results of the divination. In fact, this is not a real collapse of the sky and the earth, but the gates of heaven and underworld will open, and the three realms will be connected to each other. , which is roughly consistent with the previous speculations of him, Prince Fei Xuan and others.
"Does the Holy Witch have any countermeasures?" Lao Qi asked anxiously.
"Now that the world has been settled and the five races have returned home, no matter what happens, we have a way to deal with it." Wu Dongfang said. His words were purely to comfort Lao Qi. He was not even sure what would happen when the three realms were connected. Is there any way to deal with it.
Lao Qi didn't know what Wu Dongfang was thinking, but he felt calm after hearing this.
"Old Master, can you point out the current location of the Five Stars?" Wu Dongfang asked.
"Go back to the Holy Witch and ask, the five stars appear at different times and cannot be seen at the same time." Lao Qi shook his head and said.
Wu Dongfang knew very little about astronomy. Except for the Big Dipper, which was used to identify directions, the other stars could not be named, let alone their trajectories. Fortunately, only Lao Qi was present at this time, otherwise it would have been a big shame.
"According to your observation, when will the Five Stars Lianzhu appear?" Wu Dongfang changed the question.
Lao Qi did not answer immediately, but integrated the two pieces of back armor into one, pointed at the inner spine and said, "Holy Witch, please look, one, two, three..."
Lao Qi counted to eight. There were eight pairs of ribs attached to the spine of the tortoise shell. "Eight ribs correspond to eight stars. These five pairs correspond to the five stars of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. There are also three stars that have not been seen so far. One is auspicious, and two are good luck." It is bad for death, the north is water, it is the netherworld, it governs life and death, and the five stars are a good omen. They should not appear in the north. Since they appear in the north, they are definitely not five stars. They should be an even number. Since the sky pillar is split, it should be a series of eight stars. A great evil that will destroy the world."
"To be honest, I know very little about the sky. I don't quite understand what you said. If what you said is true, when will the Eight Stars appear?" Wu Dongfang asked harmoniously.
"Let me think about it for a moment," said Lao Qi.
Wu Dongfang nodded, wrapped the two pairs of tortoise shells, and handed them to Lao Qi, who took them and put them in his arms.
What Lao Qi is thinking about is the trajectory of celestial bodies, which involves geometric principles and is very complicated.
Tens of seconds later, Yunping returned. He did not come back by himself, but brought Siruo. Siruo was a holy witch from the Tu tribe. Yunping had always been very cautious in handling his relationship with her, lest Siruo would feel that he was disrespectful. Bullying crosses the line.
When the two arrived, Lao Qi stopped calculating and saluted Si Ruo. He was afraid of Yun Ping, but respected Si Ruo. He could clearly feel the closeness.
There were preparatory activities before the divination. Yun Ping sang and screamed outside the hall and danced like a god. Wu Dongfang and Si Ruo waited nervously for the calculation results of Lao Qi inside the hall.
Ten minutes later, Lao Qi opened his eyes, "Since there are no other three stars, I can only calculate based on the five stars. The Taibai star is arching in the west, the year star is rising, the Chen star is falling, Yinghuo..."
"When?" Wu Dongfang interrupted Lao Qi's analysis process. He didn't understand the calculation process and just wanted to know the final result.
"Connect the dots to form a line at the twelfth hour of the month, and break the line and return to the dot at noon at the end of the month, for fifteen days." Lao Qi said in a low voice.
"In the middle of which month?" Wu Dongfang asked.
"The middle of this month." Lao Qi said.
"Ah? Isn't that tomorrow..."