If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 1329 The Second Ancestral Dragon

"We don't need to search for Baiyun Cave everywhere. Once Baiyun Cave appears, it will be a towering mountain."

Even if celestial clouds swirl around it, obscuring the view of mortals, with our cultivation level, we will certainly be able to sense it directly upon approaching.

After venturing deep into Mangdang Mountain and taking a walk around the marshes, Meng Zhenjun said.

After calculating for a moment, Wu Yazi said in confusion, "This is really strange. Such a big mountain, so many people, and they've made such a commotion."

I could not have known about its existence beforehand, even on a whim.

It is still impossible to calculate the exact time and location without knowing the current location.

Meng Zhenjun laughed and said, "You're not the only one in the world who knows the art of divination. It's normal that your divination skills are not as good as others' and you can't make predictions."

"And you?" Wu Yazi asked.

Meng Zhenjun sighed, "My understanding of celestial secrets is not as profound as yours! You can know destiny and recognize the will of Heaven, but I cannot. Let us wait patiently."

Xi Juan asked in confusion, "Even with the supernatural powers of the two Taoist priests, they couldn't have predicted it in advance. Why would so many extraordinary people have received the news ahead of time?"
From the moment we entered the mountain, we encountered more than a dozen groups of cultivators along the way, totaling over a hundred people.

I can't even imagine how many people will gather after the cave is opened.

Meng Zhenjun pondered and said, "In previous years, at its peak, the number of extraordinary people, heroes and chivalrous figures who gathered here might have exceeded ten thousand!"
Last time, when the celestial being appeared in the swamp of Dazexiang, Chen Sheng led tens of thousands of troops to block the cave entrance, and tens of thousands entered in batches to try their luck at becoming immortals. It's said that at least three hundred people obtained this opportunity.

Xi Juan frowned as she heard “tens of thousands of people blocking the gate,” and suddenly felt that the Ape Lord Immortal Abode was incredibly cheap.

Meng Qi continued, "Now the Central Plains is in complete chaos, and the great calamity has entered its most intense period. Heretics, unorthodox practitioners, and strange people from all corners of the world have entered the Central Plains to support the Dragon Court and earn human fortune."

Three or four thousand people can come easily.

They, like you, heard the news from others and called their friends and relatives, bringing dozens of people with them.

Xi Juan then asked, "Where did the initial news come from?"

Meng Zhenjun said, "If your master can't predict it, and I can't predict it either, it doesn't mean there aren't any great immortals or gods in the world who can predict it."

There's also the celestial ape guarding the White Cloud Cave.

His Taoist name is "Baiyun Dongjun," and he is a renowned sword immortal.

Since he is renowned throughout the world, how could he not have social engagements and acquaintances on a daily basis?
In fact, the long-armed white ape's favorite pastime was drinking and sword fighting with his friends.

I, a humble Taoist priest, have encountered him seven or eight times in the last thousand years.

He's the one who guards the immortal abode. If we encounter him and ask around, we'll know everything, right?

Xi Juan felt increasingly that the immortal abode was cheap.

He said, "If you encounter him, ask him and he will tell you. This Baiyun Cave really does open its doors to business, without any of the pomp and circumstance of a fairy cave, nor any of the mystery of immortals."

Meng Zhenjun shook his head and said, "Those who associate with Baiyun Cave Lord are all great immortals and gods of the immortal realm. They do not need the immortal techniques in the cave."

Those who need immortal techniques are all extraordinary individuals and chivalrous heroes of the mortal world who have no affinity with immortality.

How could they possibly have the chance to enter the blessed land of immortals and meet the Lord of the White Cloud Cave?
If we do meet, it must be fate.

Just like you, how many families live by Zhaoyang Lake, how many shrimp spirits and fish monsters are hidden in the lake, why is it that only you heard the secret?

You received a divine opportunity, but instead of keeping it a secret, you planned to invite all your friends and brothers over.

If you think like that, everyone else will think the same way, and then more people will come, right?

While there was some truth to that, Xi Juan still felt that the Ape Lord's Immortal Abode was too casual.

Can a gathering of thousands of people who "encounter immortals" still be called a "fate event"?

That's a market; they're at a big fair!

However, Meng Zhenjun was only trying to answer his questions. Even though he was somewhat disappointed with the Ape Lord Immortal Mansion, he couldn't complain to Meng Zhenjun.

"Teacher, while we wait, I can ask you some questions!" He looked at Wuyazi with anticipation.

Wu Yazi understood that he wanted to hear her explain the great principles of heaven and earth, just like he had last night.

She did not refuse. Immediately, she created a small celestial abode in the mountains near the marshland.

She began her lecture, continuing the discussion of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth that she hadn't finished the previous night.

Although no lotus flowers bloomed from his mouth or golden lotuses sprang from the ground, it was indeed the sound of the Great Dao. Not to mention Xi Juan, even Meng Qi was mesmerized by it.

Only Xi Juan's cousin, Di Hua, found it profound and difficult to understand, like a book written in the heavens.

I couldn't understand anything at all. I forced myself to listen, but my mind went blank, and I felt sleepy.

Even so, after listening for a day and a night, he discovered that his true energy had increased by more than 30%.

The internal energy techniques that were previously incomprehensible now seem effortless and simple to grasp.

Knowing that such a serendipitous opportunity was rare, he became even more attentive and increasingly prone to dozing off.
Two days later, Wu Yazi suddenly had a very strong impulse.

The spiritual impact was even stronger than the death of one's parents.

Her expression turned serious, and she paused her sermon.

Xi Juan and Meng Qi were still savoring the moment and had not yet noticed anything amiss.

Wu Yazi directly took out the white jade tortoise shell bestowed by the Holy Emperor Fuxi and used the Hetu Luoshu to deduce the secrets of heaven in front of him.

The intense fluctuations of Daoist energy immediately startled them awake.

"This is the Hetu and Luoshu?" Meng Qi was greatly shocked as he looked at the lines that were evolving on their own in mid-air.

After watching for a while, Xi Juan felt dizzy and lightheaded. "Senior Meng, what's wrong?"

The Hetu and Luoshu are connected by lines, forming grids that appear very simple.

Even the simplest line has five or even six dimensions.

Di Hua couldn't see any higher dimensions at all, and didn't feel anything. He only felt that the lines and grids floating above the tortoise shell were very mysterious.

Xi Juan can see higher dimensions, but she can't understand them, which makes her feel particularly distressed.

Meng Qi could see and understand the evolution of the celestial secrets at this moment, and he was filled with awe.

He continued to stare at the evolution of the latitude and longitude map, explaining, "Your master is using the Hetu and Luoshu to deduce the secrets of heaven."

She probably had a sudden whim, a premonition that something big was about to happen.

Let's not disturb her; let's just watch quietly.

"It's actually the legendary Hetu and Luoshu? How does my master even know these?" Xi Juan exclaimed in surprise.

"It seems to be the Luoshu given to her by Emperor Fuxi of Huoyun Cave."

Meng Qi pointed to the lines on the tortoise shell that shimmered with spiritual light, "Look, this divine tortoise shell is the Emperor's treasure, and the Luoshu is inscribed on it."

"My teacher only taught me Zi Wei Dou Shu (Purple Star Astrology), without revealing any of the secrets of the He Tu and Luo Shu (River Chart and Luo River Writing)," Xi Juan muttered to herself.

—When she took you as her apprentice, she didn't even know how to do it herself, so how could she teach you?

Meng Qi asked, "How well have you learned Zi Wei Dou Shu? Have you reached the level of observing celestial phenomena and discerning the changes in the world?"

Xi Juan said awkwardly, "Let alone observing the world situation, I get four or five out of ten fortune tellings wrong, even when I do it."

He was originally very talented, but unfortunately he studied too much and too many different things.

Learn a little bit of everything, know a little bit of everything, but master nothing.

"Then what are you complaining about? You haven't even mastered Zi Wei Dou Shu yet. If I gave you the He Tu and Luo Shu, would you be able to understand them?" Meng Qi said.

"This disciple has no complaints. This disciple just did not know that Master was so powerful that he could receive the Holy Emperor's teachings."

That wasn't entirely a pretext.

Xi Juan previously genuinely believed that her teacher was just a "little fairy".

Back then, Wu Yazi was too frank. He told Xi Juan, Liu Ji, and others that he was just an insignificant wandering immortal.

“Sigh, your teacher is quite something,” Meng Qi sighed. “Clang~~” The thousands of silk threads suddenly disappeared, and the tortoise shell fell from mid-air. Wu Yazi picked it up, stuffed it into his sleeve, and said, “Xi Juan, the three of you continue to meditate here. Meng Zhenjun and I will go out and take a look at the celestial phenomena.”

"Oh, teachers, you can go ahead."

"What celestial phenomena are you looking at?" Meng Qi asked, puzzled, as they walked outside the cave.

Wu Yazi asked with a stern face, "What would happen if two ancestral dragons appeared in the Nine Provinces?"

"Two ancestral dragons?" Meng Qi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head vigorously and said, "There can be two dragon veins, but it is impossible for two ancestral dragons to appear."

The reason why the First Emperor is called the First Emperor is because Qin Shi Huang ushered in an unprecedented new era, a great unified dynasty with autocracy.

In the past, the emperor and the kings ruled together.

For example, the Great Zhou Dynasty.

During the height of the Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou emperor possessed a great dragon. Hundreds of vassal kings in the Central Plains each had their own kingdoms and vassal states, and each also possessed its own dragon vein.

Before Ying Zheng died, there was only one dragon vein in the entire Nine Provinces, and even the entire Southern Continent, which was the Qinling Dragon Vein.

The title "First Dragon of Qinling" was not something the Ying clan used to glorify themselves.

The earliest mention of the 'Ancestral Dragon' came from the Taoist Ancestor.

The Dao Ancestor and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of Huoyun Cave all acknowledged this and sent congratulatory messages to Emperor Ying Zheng.

This is an unprecedented honor and grand occasion.

Emperor Qin Shi Huang should have ushered in a great and prosperous era of humanity.

"In the end, Ying Zheng died, the First Emperor passed away, and the world was divided. It was an outcome no one expected." Meng Qi sighed, "This humble Taoist dares to say something treasonous."

In the earliest days, even the Dao Ancestor did not foresee that "when Ying Zheng died, the First Emperor would immediately collapse."

According to a legend passed down by a Great Immortal, after Qin Shi Huang unified the world, the Primordial Heavenly Lord remarked that Qin Shi Huang had laid the foundation for an everlasting dynasty.

Is it possible that the "foundation for ten thousand generations" mentioned by the Daoist patriarch was simply the unified prefecture-county system established by Qin Shi Huang and Li Si? It was a system passed down for ten thousand generations, rather than an imperial dynasty.

Wu Yazi muttered to himself, but had no interest in wasting time on such a trivial matter.

She said, "I can tell you the result clearly now: after the Ying clan's ancestral dragon, a second ancestral dragon will be born."

Meng Qi was shocked and unwilling to believe it. "This shouldn't be, it doesn't make sense! After the ancestral dragon collapsed, at most, there were many dragons vying for supremacy. How could a second ancestral dragon be born?"

Wu Yazi asked, "Were there so many dragon veins in the land of China when Ying Zheng was alive?"

Meng Qi shook his head and said, "When Ying Zheng was at the height of his power, the Qinling Ancestral Dragon was unique."

Some auspicious locations in China may at most have the potential to nurture dragon veins.

Its potential was suppressed by Zulong and never realized.

If discovered by the feng shui masters under Qin Shi Huang, their earth veins would be severed, thus destroying the potential of the land.

For example, in order to destroy the potential of Zijin Mountain to nurture a dragon vein, the Qin Dynasty forcibly dug the Qinhuai River.

Wu Yazi said, "At least during the time I served as Grand Tutor, many great dragons rose up in China."

Even the ancestral dragons that were born and had become corpses still had a faint sense of the birth of those great dragons.

But nothing happens.

Now it begins to struggle fiercely, as if there are two suns in the sky, irreconcilable enemies.

This is a fact, a fact that is happening.

Meng Qi asked, "Where is the second ancestral dragon? Whose dragon vein is it?"

Wu Yazi said, "Don't ask me yet. In the past, when the Western Zhou conquered the Shang and when Tang of Shang conquered the Xia, the dragon veins of the Western Zhou and Tang of Shang were born, the old dragon veins were not yet completely dead. What were their reactions?"

Meng Qi suddenly looked enlightened and laughed, "Oh, so it's the Ancestral Dragon's Coup."

You're making such a big deal out of it; I thought something serious had happened.

"Do you know about the changes in the Qinling Ancestral Dragon?" Wu Yazi asked in surprise.

Meng Qi said, "I don't know what changes the Qinling Ancestral Dragon has undergone at this time, but don't forget that I was also the Grand Tutor of the Great Qin Dynasty and have experienced the Ancestral Dragon's stress response."

On the day you condensed the power of the human king in Western Shu, I, like you today, suddenly felt a surge of emotion, and in a daze, my consciousness merged with that of the First Emperor.

He saw a white dragon in the west, its blood-red mouth wide open, baring its fangs and claws at him.

I share the same feeling as the First Dragon; we both felt an overwhelming sense of disgust and hatred, and longed to pounce on you—oh, I mean, to tear that white dragon to shreds.

Wu Yazi seemed to be deep in thought, "I also felt it at the time; the Eastern Ancestral Dragon was roaring at me."

"Isn't that right? As Grand Tutors, we are closely connected with the fate of the dynasty, like the soul of a dragon vein."

If any being appears in the human world that threatens the position of the First Emperor, the Grand Tutor will sense it.

Aside from the time you condensed the power of the human king, the dragon veins of the Xiongnu, Donghu, and Yuezhi were born in earlier times.

I was so distressed that I was almost going crazy. I nearly had a stroke and couldn't help but want to emulate Grand Tutor Wen and lead troops into battle in person.

Fuqiu Gong dissuaded me and also awakened me.

Later, dragon veins began to emerge across the land, and the ancestral dragon became less agitated and disgusted.

Perhaps it is true, as you say, that the dragon veins of China are the essence of the earth, the children of the earth, while the ancestral dragon is the mother of the earth.

"The First Dragon is the 'stepmother' of all the dragons," Meng Qi sighed.

After a sigh, he looked up at the sky and asked in confusion, "You saw the second ancestral dragon?"

Given this omen, something significant must be happening on earth.

Wu Yazi's eyes flickered slightly as he said, "Tian Dan's son, Tian Shi, has declared himself king with the help of his two uncles."

"Oh, the State of Qi has been restored?" Meng Qi turned to the east, looking at the starry sky and silently calculating, "When Mars approaches Antares, the Emperor of Qin will face a great calamity."

This is a sign that Wu Guang's army is approaching Xingyang.

At the boundary between Xu and Wei, purple aura permeated the air, and an imperial star rose slowly, indeed signifying the restoration of the Tian family's kingdom.

Did the second ancestral dragon originate from the Tian family?
But the Tian family is notoriously cowardly!

In her previous life, Xiaoyu practiced "breastfeeding techniques," but in this life, the practice of "insulting Qi" is popular.

Not only during Ying Zheng's conquest of the six states of Shandong, but only the state of Qi surrendered without fighting a single battle.

The meme of "humiliating Qi" already existed during the Warring States period, before Qin Shi Huang unified China.

The three brothers, Wei, Zhao, and Han, bullied the State of Qi whenever they had the chance, almost causing Qi to be eliminated prematurely.

Back then, even the State of Qi couldn't succeed. Now, the Tian family wants to raise a second ancestral dragon, not only to sweep across the world but also to create a "dynasty that lasts for ten thousand generations" as great as the Qin Dynasty.
It's like saying that France suppressed the Goose, unified Europe, then overthrew the US, forced the Chinese to retreat, and dominated the world.

Wu Yazi said, "I don't know which family the Second Ancestral Dragon belongs to, because the Second Ancestral Dragon has only shown signs and has not fully manifested."

But this was just a harbinger; the First Emperor of Qin was about to truly die.

The death of the First Emperor of Qin was due to someone piercing his sore spot, and he was suspected of being 'committed suicide' by Ying Zheng.

Now the second ancestral dragon is about to cut off the ancestral dragon of the Ying clan, and will cut off the head of the Qinling ancestral dragon with one stroke.

From now on, when I ride the Nine Cauldrons and control the dragon, either the ancestral dragon will be headless, or my head will grow on the body of the ancestral dragon.

The dragon head is gone forever.

"Your head, plus the body of the Ancestral Dragon"—Meng Qi felt a chill run down his spine just imagining that scene.

"The 'cutting off the ancestral dragon's head' should just be a metaphor, right? What exactly happened?" he asked, puzzled.

“I should be asking you the same question! I called you out to speak because I wanted you to provide some past cases of the First Dragon replacing the First Dragon, so I could refer to them,” Wu Yazi said.

(End of this chapter)