Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 157 Geomancer

While Marichi Tian and others were communicating, Lord Mingxia and Lord Feiquan were also taking Chu Tai back to their temporary dojo.

As soon as they sat down, Mingxia and Feiquan asked Chu Tai where he had been before.

Chu Tai did not hide much from the two seniors of Yin Jing Sect. He simply gave a brief explanation of his trip to the Qingqing world, but blurred the information of the Donghuang Bell, saying that after he activated the talisman bestowed by the True Lord, he inexplicably went to that world.

The two elders did not doubt him, especially after hearing about the experience of the Ten Thousand Leaves and Thousand Cores Lotus Mother, they felt that Master Miaoxing guided Chu Tai to that world perhaps in order to save it.

Hearing this, Chu Tai became curious.

"Can't you go directly there?"

Upon hearing this, Lord Mingxia thought for a while and said, "According to the principles of the operation of the heavens, this is not possible."

Seeing that Chu Tai was still somewhat confused, Lord Feiquan explained the secret to him.

"The Ten True Lords are different from the current True Lords Qingshi, Hunyuan, and Yuli. The Ten True Lords themselves are similar to immortals who have ascended to Daluo Heaven. The power they can bestow is limited, and most of the time they are just spiritual responses."

"The strength of spiritual response depends not only on the operation of the laws of heaven and earth, but also on the distance in space. Just like the laws mastered by ordinary fifth-grade cultivators, in theory, they can only affect the surrounding 3,000 miles of the area centered on them. Once they are beyond 3,000 miles, it is difficult for fifth-grade cultivators to interfere."

“What’s more, the Immortal Manifesting Dao and Transforming the Great Heaven is already under the law of a certain extremely powerful person. It will be even more difficult for the power of the True Lord to interfere with the world under his influence.”

Speaking of this, Lord Feiquan felt a little regretful.

"It's a pity that you didn't know this information before. Otherwise, if you had offered sacrifices to the Ten True Lords in that world long ago, or led the creatures inside to believe in the Ten True Lords and follow their laws, perhaps the True Lords would have been able to send down spiritual responses in that world now."

Mingxia Divine Lord also nodded, then looked at Chu Tai and said, "Speaking of which, you obtained an incarnation from the Ten Thousand Leaves and Thousand Stamens Lotus Mother. You might as well use it as a guide and try to sacrifice to the Ten True Lords to see if you can convert the evil thoughts in them and prevent the goddess from leaving any tricks behind."

Upon hearing this, Chu Tai did not agree immediately, but said that he would try it later.

The two men who heard Chu Tai's displeasure did not continue to argue. In their opinion, it was normal that Chu Tai was not prepared to offer sacrifices to the Ten True Lords immediately.

After all, it was a powerful protective statue. Before they knew the problem clearly, and at this special time when they might be targeted by someone, they couldn't bear to give up, so they stopped nagging and changed the subject.

Chu Tai also saw what the two were thinking and asked about what happened after he left.

The two did not hide anything and told Chu Tai everything they knew.

"After you disappeared, the old ancestor did not stay in Chu for long. Afterwards, several fourth-rank cultivators came here and quickly dealt with the aftermath of your fight. They also continued to expel the old ancestor's influence in Chu and surrounding countries."

After briefly introducing the aftermath of the battle, Mingxia took out a broken Ruyi talisman.

"Now, the only one left in Chu is Senior Xun Ling. It is said that he is a good friend of Taoist Cang Xuan among the Five Scattered People. He is a corpse-reincarnated immortal who practices in the East China Sea."

"After hearing about your story, he said that the ancestor might have set his sights on you, so he specially gave us the talisman so that we can find you and rescue you. Speaking of which, he once said that as long as we offer the talisman, he will sense it and come to you soon..."

Just as he finished speaking, a breeze blew in, and a handsome man holding a palm-leaf fan walked in and bowed to the three people.

"It's not that I didn't want to come early, but that Haha Patriarch had a far-reaching plan and set up a trap for me early on." As he said that, the man looked at Chu Tai and said, "I think this is the Taoist friend Chu who was targeted by Haha Patriarch. I am Taoist Xun Ling."

"Greetings, Senior Xun Ling."

Chu Tai stood up and saluted. A breeze blew up and Taoist Xunling helped him up. He asked him about the process and experience of his meeting with Patriarch Haha.

After listening to this, Taoist Xunling looked thoughtful.

"So, you ended up with a fragment of the Marichi Tennuo mask?"

After Chu Tai nodded, Taoist Xun Ling asked again: "Can you show it to me?"

After saying this, Taoist Xun Ling seemed to be worried that Chu Tai might misunderstand him, so he gave another explanation.

"I have fought with the many Nuo masks of Haha Patriarch more than ten times. Ninety percent of them were incarnations of the Twenty Heavens of Buddhism and Taoism. I have broken seven or eight Nuo masks, but none of them have been preserved. So I am a little curious about what is going on with the one in your hand."

Chu Tai did not express any opinion on this explanation and directly handed the fragment of the Nuo mask in his hand to the other party.

"Sure enough, although this Nuo mask can be seen and touched, its essence is neither real nor imaginary. It is not something that actually exists, but a product between the real and the fake, similar to the manifestation of the Dao Fruit of us."

The "Xunling Jingfeng Ruyi Lingshenjing" practiced by Taoist Xunling is very sensitive to changes in reality and illusion. After a simple inspection, he made a preliminary judgment on the Nuo mask.

He waved the palm-leaf fan in his hand, and gusts of breeze blew and swirled, forming a barrier to block the void. He then used the Xun Ling Ruyi invisible Qi that he had cultivated for hundreds of years to explore the power of the Tao fruit left by ancestor Haha in the fragments of the Nuo mask.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the fragment was stimulated by the Taoist Xunling's true qi, a small piece of Taoist fruit fragment immediately flew out from it, wrapped in a little spiritual light, and hit Chu Tai.

"careful!"

"not good!"

Lord Mingxia, Lord Feiquan and Taoist Xunling knew something was wrong the moment the Dao-fruit fragments appeared, and they all raised their hands to stop them.

But the fragment was invisible and intangible, and ignored the constraints of many spells. Even Xun Ling Ruyi's invisible Qi, who was also proficient in the changes of reality and illusion, could not play any role. He could only let the spiritual light hit Chu Tai's eyebrows directly, creating ripples of glow.

The next second, under the Donghuang Bell in Chu Tai's mind, the [Ninth Grade·Face Reading] showed slight changes, and then was promoted to [Eighth Grade·Geographer].

And during this promotion, there seemed to be a force inside that interfered with the power of the Dao Fruit fragments, causing [Face Reading] to inject the [Geomancy Master's] information into Chu Tai's mind at the moment of transformation.

Compared with face reading, geomancers have a deeper understanding of "qi", and they expand the "qi" that is more in line with the concept of "fate" from face reading to the "qi" that connects all objects.

Chu Tai made a preliminary analysis of the memories he had obtained and found that a lot of the knowledge in them was related to Feng Shui. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

'Through the connection between the auras of all things, changes that are beneficial to oneself can be produced, or with the help of special rituals, unfavorable auras can be given to others. No wonder this Dao fruit fragment is named after the geomancer. For ordinary people, this ability can really affect the fate of a person, a clan, or even a place...'

(End of this chapter)