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Chapter 868: Finding the Dragon Vein and Finding Old Liu's Family

To survive the thunder tribulation, you must find an open and deserted place.

Originally, it was because of the heavy calamity energy in one's body that one needed to endure the thunder tribulation.

If one undergoes the tribulation in a downtown area and causes many innocent people to be struck by lightning, wouldn't the cause and effect be heavier and the tribulation be more intense?
If Xiaoyu was not in Shenzhou China at this time, for example, he had returned to the Liusha Region.

She must choose to survive the disaster in the big rivers.

She is the master underwater, and it is also convenient to set up the "Yu Family Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation" in water.

But this is China, and wherever there are rivers, lakes, or seas with large amounts of water, there are the Ao family's true dragon clan.

You can’t survive the tribulation underwater, and you can’t survive the tribulation in the city. There are also villagers in the countryside.

The best places to survive the tribulation are the desolate mountains and wilderness.

The place where Liu Laosan started the uprising, "Mangdang Mountain and Swamp", happened to be nearby. It was a good place to survive the tribulation, so Xiaoyu chose it.

The mountains and wilderness are desolate and sparsely populated. Liu Laosan hid there and even the Qin government could not control him. It shows how desolate it is.

Secondly, it is large enough and the terrain is complex enough. It is not a completely mountainous area. There are many swamps and depressions around it. Therefore, it is Mangdang Mountain Swamp, not just Mangdang Mountain.

When Liu Bang hid inside, even Sima Ling, the "007" of the Qin Dynasty, couldn't find her; when Xiaoyu drilled inside, even the gods found it difficult to find her in the first place.

Of course, there might be a mountain god in the mountains, and she would definitely "deal with it" first.

The Mangdang Mountains and Lakes have a unique topography with mountains and water alternating between them, which makes it convenient for Xiaoyu to use the terrain to arrange formations.

Finally, Xiaoyu discovered that the dragon vein sprouts found deep in the Dragon Palace of Zhaoyang Lake seemed to be secretly connected to the Mangdang Mountains.

A mountain will not exist alone. There must be mountain ranges and veins beneath it.

The "dragon vein" is not just a deep pit, but a long vein of earth.

In fact, the "pulse" in the word "dragon vein" says it all.

The environment of Mangdang Mountain is special, with both mountains and water. There are often mountains lurking under the water, stretching for dozens of miles, and then rising high again to form another peak.

Xiaoyu estimated that the dragon vein at the bottom of Zhaoyang Lake was a tentacle of the Mangdang Mountains.

This discovery was the direct reason why she turned her attention to the Mangdang Mountains and Swamps: as long as she searched along the underwater veins of Zhaoyang Lake and found the mountains formed by the uplift of the veins, that mountain must have extremely abundant vein power and be a treasure land and a blessed land, which could be the best place to transcend the tribulation.

If the heavenly calamity is really severe and she cannot withstand it, she can use the earth veins to save her life.

It's not that Xiaoyu is worrying too much or being too cautious.

The heavenly thunder in Pangu's world is the manifestation of the power of the Great Dao, not the thunder element. She had already confirmed this.

Therefore, thunder tribulations are tests and punishments from heaven.

In Pangu's world, there is no such thing as "withstanding thunder disasters", only "avoiding disasters and avoiding calamities".

Bodhi Patriarch is such an awesome person, how could he not know about the secret method to withstand thunder disasters in the Three Realms?
If he knew, would he still tell Wukong about "avoiding the three disasters"?
What a realm Wukong has reached, with a head of steel and bones, it seems that health bars and mana bars do not exist.

No blood loss, no kill.

But does Wukong dare to bear the thunder? He still has to "hide" in the face of three disasters and six calamities!
This is the rule of Pangu World. Thunder tribulation is a test. The most correct way to pass the test is not to hide, but to follow the will of heaven.

All our actions in the world should be in accordance with God's will, and we should try our best to help God fulfill his wishes.

If one has only great merits and has never gone against heaven's will, the heavenly calamity will be very weak and can be easily avoided.

After parting with Xi Juan, Xiaoyu went to Zhaoyang Lake first.

He dived into the water again, circled around the Dragon Palace, found the ground vein where the dragon vein sprouted, and then swam all the way to the west.

From the afternoon until the next morning, when it was just dawn, she climbed ashore from the west side of Zhaoyang Lake.

By coincidence, it was right on the small hill where Lu Gong's convoy stopped and Hu Chen looked at the weather at Zhaoyang Lake that day.

Of course, when Xiao Yu met Lu Gong's caravan, they had already left the hill and walked some distance towards Pei County in the southwest.

If Xiao Yu knew that Lu Gong specifically chose that small hillside to let Hu Chen observe the energy of the Dragon Palace, he would definitely become suspicious.

What a coincidence.

That small hill is the mountain range where the dragon vein sprouts from the bottom of the lake!

Leaving the hill and heading west, the mountains disappear again under the earth and hidden in the water.

The mountains are hidden and cannot be seen with the naked eye, so Xiaoyu really needs a compass to help determine the direction.

Now she didn't have a compass in her hand, so she could only walk while looking up to scan the surrounding Feng Shui and secretly calculate.

There are many veins crisscrossing under the earth. If you don't measure carefully, it's easy to go astray and mistake other veins for mountains connected to dragon veins.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, Xiaoyu had walked along the dragon energy vein towards the west and south for forty or fifty miles and arrived at a village.

She was busy with work today and had no intention of exorcising evil spirits or treating illnesses for the villagers. She looked up at the sky, then down at the ground, calculating with her hands. Sometimes she walked as fast as the wind, covering several miles in the blink of an eye; sometimes she hesitated and wandered for a long time without moving forward a single step.

Before she knew it, she came to a village. She did not enter the village, but just walked around the end of the village.

"Old Taoist priest, what are you doing wandering around my house?"

An old man holding a sickle pushed open the wooden door and walked out of the earthen courtyard. He looked alert and said rudely, "You are a monk at such an old age. Are you going to learn from the bad boys in the neighborhood and do some sneaky things?"

Xiao Yu was stunned, turned around and looked at him and said, "Old brother, I am such a sage, how did you know that I want to learn from the evil boy?"

The old man is not young, but he is very strong. He has more black hair than white hair. He has practiced martial arts for several years. There is true energy flowing in his body and his eyes are very sharp.

"Old boy, don't think that you are a Taoist master just because you put on a Taoist robe and dress like a decent person. I have seen many liars like you."

The old man pointed his sickle at Xiao Yu, who was wearing the guise of Wuyazi, and said, "I saw you half an incense stick ago.

Seeing that you are a Taoist priest, I originally wanted to invite you in for a drink of water.

But you have shifty eyes, strange whereabouts, and your eyes are rolling around. When you saw me, you immediately disappeared.

When I wasn't paying attention, he sneaked back and kept staring at my house with a very evil look in his eyes."

Xiao Yu was a little embarrassed and said, "Is it really that obvious? I was gathering energy! I was a little engrossed and didn't notice there was a family over here."

"Gathering Qi? What Qi? Are you an old pervert who practices the art of endurance warfare? Gathering the wind during the day so that you can gather flowers at night? Are you targeting my old wife?" The old man stared, his expression becoming more and more alert.

"Dad, what did you say? There's a flower thief?" A middle-aged man walked out of the house, glanced at Xiaoyu nervously, shrank behind his father, and whispered: "Should we call the third brother back?" "It's just an old bone stick that is about to be buried in the ground. I can chop it down with a knife. Why do we need to find the third brother?"

The old man spoke with contempt, but his other hand quietly gestured behind his back.

Xiao Yu sighed, "I thought that a noble person would appear in a blessed place. I didn't expect that the noble person would be a mean villain. It's really disappointing!"

After saying this, she flicked her sleeves and turned to leave.

The old man's heart moved, and the vigilance and suspicion on his face instantly turned into a flattering smile.

He grabbed his son who was about to quietly call out "Old Third", and quickly walked to the Taoist Wuyazi, clasped his fists and bowed deeply, saying sincerely: "Master, please forgive me. I am a rough and uncouth man, and I have offended you just now. You are a Taoist master, please forgive me for my mistakes."

He bowed repeatedly, his waist bent 90 degrees, and gently kicked his son with his foot. His old son knelt on the ground with a plop, kowtowed repeatedly, and said: "Old Immortal, please don't blame me. My father and I are stupid and have treated you badly. Please be lenient."

Xiao Yu did not go to help them, but just said calmly: "Old man, you are so arrogant at first and respectful later, what do you mean?"

The old man laughed and said, "Master, it's not that I was arrogant at first and respectful later. It's really that I am shallow and don't know what Qi gathering is. I misunderstood you and mistook you for a bad guy.

Our Liu family has always respected the three treasures of Taoism.

Whenever a wandering scholar comes to the village, we will at least offer him three bowls of rice as a token of gratitude.

Now that I know I have misunderstood the Taoist priest, I will naturally sincerely repent and apologize to him."

"Your last name is Liu?"

Xiao Yu's heart moved. He first looked at the Feng Shui around him, and then looked up and down at the slick old man.

This family happened to live on the Longqi Mountains.

There are also several ancestral tombs built in the vegetable garden in the backyard, which is located in the perfect location on the dragon vein.

So she met Liu Bang?
No wonder he is still so cunning at his old age!
No, Liu Bang hadn’t married Lu Zhi yet, so how could they have such a big son?
By the way, this “oldest son” just said he was going to call the “third son”?
Could it be that “Old Third” is Liu Ji, Liu Old Third?

"Well, the old man's last name is 'Liu'. What did you see, Taoist priest?"

Old Man Liu looked at "him" eagerly, his wrinkled face flushed with anticipation.

"I have indeed seen that you, an old man, are very dishonest and cunning." Xiao Yu asked with a smile: "What did you see? When I said 'gathering qi', what do you think it means?"

Old Man Liu hesitated for a moment, then smiled and said, "Master, standing outside and talking is not the right way to entertain guests. Please come inside, I will bring you a bowl of water."

As he spoke, he reached out to pull Xiaoyu's sleeve.

Xiaoyu shook off his pull, but did not refuse his invitation. She strode after him into the yard.

Old man Liu took a few quick steps, opened the wooden door of the main room, and shouted at the woman in the room to move to the next room so as not to disturb the guests.

He also found a broom and swept the broken house.

In fact, the Liu family is not poor.

There are three blue brick and gray tile houses, made of the high-quality large square bricks.

The volume of the blue bricks is more than three times larger than the red bricks Xiaoyu used in his previous life.

It's three buildings, not three rooms.

The three houses were connected together, but the yard was separated and divided into two by a fence.

It should be that the family was divided into two families.

In this era, three blue brick and tile houses definitely made a family one of the richest in the village.

However, the house was a bit old and there were a lot of people in the house. The main room was a mess, with many pots and pans, hoes, winnowing baskets, windmills and other sundries.

The fact that there are so many and such a complete range of farm tools just proves that the Liu family is a rich peasant family.

"Master, please take a seat." Although the room was a little messy and there were a lot of debris on the floor, Old Man Liu, who was doing a quick cleanup with a broom, had a frank expression without the slightest sign of shame.

He confidently directed his son to move chairs and fetch water from the well.

They said they wanted to invite the Taoist priest to drink some water, but they really just brought him a bowl of water.

"Master, when you mentioned blessed land and noble people just now, what did you mean?"

As soon as Xiaoyu took a sip of water, Old Man Liu immediately came over with a smile and asked expectantly.

Xiao Yu glanced at him and said calmly, "As you think, I am not looking at your fat chickens and dogs, but at Feng Shui. Do you understand Feng Shui?"

"I don't understand Feng Shui, but I have seen many Feng Shui masters and I know what Feng Shui is."

Old Man Liu became excited, "Could it be that smoke is coming out of our Liu family's ancestral grave, and a noble person is about to appear?"

Xiao Yu glanced at him and his old son, then looked at the women and children who were looking out the bedroom door, and said, "If only one noble person came out, could this poor Taoist be so fascinated by him?
Your whole family, men, women, young and old, all have the appearance of being rich and noble!"

"Really?" Old Man Liu was overjoyed at first, and shouted happily, but then he became suspicious, "Is the Taoist priest still blaming me for my previous disrespect and deliberately making fun of me?

We know the situation in our family, how can we all be noble people? "

Xiao Yu asked: "If you become rich, will you help your brothers?"

"Of course." Old man Liu nodded first, then looked thoughtful.

He moved his chair so that it was almost next to Xiaoyu's chair, and deliberately lowered his voice and asked, "Master, which child of our Liu family do you think will prosper?"

Xiao Yu glanced at him and said, "You have four sons. The eldest passed away three years ago, but the fourth was born to your second wife, right?"

"Master, you are truly a god!" Old Man Liu said excitedly.

The eldest son Liu Zhong standing next to him, however, showed a look of doubt.

Xiao Yu asked, "Who do you think has the most potential among the three of them?"

Old man Liu barely hesitated, and immediately pointed to his oldest son who was waiting beside him, and said proudly: "My second son is a well-known farmer in the surrounding area. He is young, but he has already built up a large family business!"

The old son smiled shyly, with a hint of pride on his dark old face.

Xiao Yu shook her head and said, "Your eldest son has passed away, let's not talk about it. Of the three sons left, you, the second son, are the most useless."

The smile and pride on the old son's face disappeared, his face flushed, and he said with a groan: "Master, I also entertained you attentively, why are you humiliating me?"

(End of this chapter)