Day and night tour

Chapter 463 Tells the Story of the Giant Egg
The more aloof and unapproachable the star-gazing plaque appeared, the more the gourd-wielding Taoist priest believed the burial site was genuine.

His attitude became increasingly devout, and he repeatedly kowtowed, begging for the "earth god's" forgiveness.

A gust of wind swept through the car.

The wind was quite mischievous, deliberately swirling around the gourd-wielding Taoist's back, forming a palm-sized tornado.

But the gourd-wielding Taoist priest was completely focused on praying to the land, so he had no time to care about a passing breeze. He ignored it and just kept kneeling and praying.

After dancing for a while, perhaps getting bored, the gust of wind also broke out of the carriage and flew straight towards the stands of Xiejia'ao.

……

A gust of wind bumped into Li Changxun, who was "sound asleep," waking him up.

Yun Ziliang, who was standing next to him, asked, "What's the progress on Xuanzi's side?"

"The progress was quite rapid."

Li Changxun was the same gust of wind from before. He said smugly, "Our Master is really something. His skill in deception is unparalleled."

"What do you mean?" Yun Ziliang asked.

"That group of Taoist priests with gourds have already fallen into the master's trap. They really think of him as a god, and they're kowtowing to him like crazy."

The scene was so solemn; even kowtowing to one's own father couldn't be so devout. Every kowtow made a loud thud.

Recalling the scene of the gourd-wielding Taoist kowtowing, Li Changxun muttered to himself, "When will I be able to become a figure like the Great Master, who can subdue the enemy without fighting and make the bangbang on the other side kowtow with just a few words?"

"Think about something practical, like what to eat for supper tonight."

“…” Li Changxun.

"I'd also like to hear what kind of opera Xuanzi is performing."

Yun Ziliang was also itching to try it, so he used the "Dragon Seeking" method to connect his mind with the earth and eavesdrop on Zhou Xuan's "deception" techniques.

……

After the gourd-wielding Taoist priest kowtowed three times and bowed nine times to the star-gazing sign, the sign finally moved, standing up at an angle and leaning against the corner of the carriage.

It's just a sign, yet it somehow gives off a lazy vibe.

"Have you seen anyone hiding in this land?"

The voice of the Star Gazing Card was extremely lazy, as if the impending crisis for the Calabash Taoist and the Dunjia Sect had nothing to do with him.

"I see it, I see it, the leader of the Longevity Cult, the Crippled Monk, and the people from the Buddhist Kingdom, a temple bleeding."

"Can you win?" the Star Gazing Card asked.

This time, the gourd-wielding Taoist dared not speak recklessly and honestly admitted, "If it were only the Longevity Cult Leader and the Crippled Monk, there might be a chance of winning, but the chances would be extremely small. However, with the addition of the Buddhist people from that temple, the chances of winning are gone."

"Oh dear, little gourd, you weren't speaking like this not long ago!"

"I remember how arrogant you were when you stomped that stargazing tablet on the ground! You said you would get rid of my control if you took down Zhou Xuan, and you had to cut the dog leash I put around your neck."

The word "dog leash" was quite offensive, but the gourd-wielding Taoist priest accepted it.

“Deity of the Earth, those words were just what I said when I was confused and bewitched. Please forgive me, the entire school of Dunjia has always followed your orders without question.”

“You’re an old dog, loyal most of the time, and most importantly—you have sharp teeth that can help me bite some people.”

"I really feel bad watching an old dog like you die. Fine, I'll show you a way out."

"Thank you, Earth God, for your magnanimity."

The gourd-shaped Taoist priest's expression showed delight, and he quickly responded.

The Star Card says, "You're not a perfect, loyal dog, but I am a generous and good master. I reward you for your work, and I've never treated you unfairly, have I?"

"That's natural."

Even though the Calabash Taoist disliked Di Zi's behavior, he still appreciated the rewards Di Zi had given him.

The "Earth Child" wields immense power. Treasures, magical artifacts, fame, wealth, and women are all too abundant for him to be truly precious. Naturally, he generously bestows them upon the earth child.

The Star Gazing Card then said, "This time, I'm still generous. Do you want Zhou Xuan?"

"Yes."

The gourd-shaped Taoist priest did not deny it.

"Once you catch him, he's yours."

"Guanxingpai said casually."

"Is this true?"

"With a deity like myself by my side, how can I not be careful with my words and actions? Now that I have spoken to the deity, how could I possibly deceive or cheat you?"

As soon as the stargazing card finished speaking,
The gourd-shaped Taoist priest immediately beamed with joy, and at the same time, his body swayed involuntarily twice.

Zhou Xuan's promise aroused the deepest interest in the gourd-wielding Taoist, triggering the first level of the magician's technique, "catering to his preferences."

The gourd-shaped Taoist priest had now completely believed Zhou Xuan's false identity as "Di Zi"—and activated the second level of the magician's technique, "bluffing."

Seeing that the gourd-wielding Taoist had taken the bait, Zhou Xuan pressed his advantage, saying, "Little gourd, there's something secret I need to tell you tonight. Do you know what Zhou Xuan is up to?"

"Aren't we just waiting for reinforcements to arrive, and then killing us?"

"it's not true."

The stargazing tablet said mysteriously, "That Zhou Xuan has a very strange origin. He is not born from a womb, but from an egg."

"Laminated?"

The gourd-wielding Taoist priest had never heard of Zhou Xuan having such a wondrous background. Besides, chickens, ducks, and geese are oviparous, but aren't humans born from their mothers' wombs? How could someone be oviparous?
Do you know why Zhou Xuan lectured?

The way the Stargazer talks is increasingly reminiscent of those folk tale tellers in the countryside, lowering his voice by half a point with each sentence.

"Isn't it all for the purpose of rebuilding Mingjiang Prefecture?"

"Can't you use your brain?"

The Star Gazing Tablet immediately rebuked the gourd-shaped Taoist priest: "Mingjiang Prefecture has been rebuilt. Will Zhou Xuan receive even the slightest benefit?"

"No, not at all..."

"There's no benefit to it! In this world, people will do business that could cost them their lives, but no one will do business that loses money. When it comes to business, if you don't make a profit, you lose money."

The Star Gazing Card said, "In a great dream, I saw Zhou Xuan's true background. His lecture today is related to this background."

"Just because he was born from an egg, not a live birth?"

"To be precise, the person inside Zhou Xuan's body is an oviparous species."

The Star Gazing Card lowered its voice to an extremely low hue and said, "The person inside Zhou Xuan's body has a very close relationship with the will of the Jing Kingdom."

"Oh?! It's related to willpower?"

The gourd-wielding Taoist priest became extremely interested, his ears perked up, listening intently for fear of missing a single word.

And he wasn't the only listener like him.

"The people from the Buddhist kingdom have also arrived."

At this moment, Zhou Xuan's mind was half in the real world and half in the "spiritual realm".

Therefore, he could clearly see what was happening inside the spiritual realm.

He saw a giant statue emerge from the temple of that Buddhist kingdom.

This colossal statue has six ears, suggesting it possesses supernatural abilities.

At this moment, the six-eared giant was lying prostrate on the ground, its six ears flapping incessantly, as if listening to something.

"What else can you listen to? Of course, you can listen to me tell stories."

Zhou Xuan thought to himself with amusement.

He wanted to "invite" the Calabash Taoist and the Dunjia Sect members to be actors in his "battle arena stage." The prerequisite for the invitation was that he had to deceive them—the Calabash Taoist and the Dunjia Sect members were naturally easy to deceive, because Zhou Xuan knew what they wanted to do, and he also had the Star Gazing Tablet as a "medium" to get close and perform his tricks.

But those Buddhist people are not so easily fooled.

The main reason is that Zhou Xuan cannot get close to them.

So Zhou Xuan came up with an idea: If I can't get close to you, then I'll find a way to make you come to me.

His method was put into practice not long ago by having the Calabash Taoist release his senses to check on the people hiding nearby.

The six sages joined forces to discover the existence of the Buddhist people.

These six Supreme Beings did not understand Zhou Xuan's "being in harmony with Heaven." Their investigation of the spiritual realm was not as subtle and pervasive as Zhou Xuan's, but rather extremely invasive.

Therefore, when the six sages discovered the people of the Buddhist Kingdom, the people of the Buddhist Kingdom also discovered the six sages.

Now that they had discovered they were being followed, the people of the Buddhist Kingdom naturally wanted to hear what these six sages were plotting.

Upon hearing this, the six-eared giant statue heard Zhou Xuan's "storytelling".

The story told was about "the person inside Zhou Xuan's body, and this person was also closely related to the will of the Jing Kingdom." This was like a blow to the head, making the six-eared giant statue tremble.

He lowered his head and said to himself, "You heard it, Zhou Xuan's background is actually related to the will of the Jing Kingdom."

"We heard you. Please bend down so we can listen carefully."

"That's right, that's right, Six-Eared Warrior, get down right now."

Liu Er immediately lay down, his six ears flapping as he continued to listen to the storyteller.

……

"Little gourd, do you know how many wills exist in this Well Kingdom?"

"Two?"

"It seems your knowledge is also shallow. There are three wills in the Kingdom of Well. Besides the will of the Blood God and the Supreme Will, there is also the Day and Night Wanderer."

Zhou Xuan's words were not exactly a fabricated, street-stall-style story. His conclusion, derived from the deductions of Taoist priests, may not be the truth, but it has its own rationality.

"Is the Day and Night Wanderer also at the Willpower level?"

"That's natural."

Zhou Xuan switched to fabrication mode, saying, "This wandering spirit travels day and night; no one in the mortal realm knows where he comes from or where he goes, just like an unsigned letter."
However, I have already seen in my great dream that a giant egg was once laid between heaven and earth.
This giant egg was supported by the branches of nine ancestral trees.

Within the egg, the Day and Night Wanderer was conceived. This Day and Night Wanderer was born with eight physical bodies, sixteen arms, and sixteen legs.

He was so powerful that he attracted the jealousy of the Blood God's will and the Supreme Will. They then seized most of the Dharma bodies of the Day and Night Wanderer, leaving him with only three Dharma bodies in the end—the forms we see in Taoist paintings.

Zhou Xuan said, "The Sun Soul, the Night Soul, and the Original Soul—we thought these three souls constituted the entirety of the 'Day and Night Wandering God,' but in reality, they are merely his incomplete body."

His storytelling was so vivid and detailed that the gourd-shaped Taoist priest was completely bewildered.

The Six-Eared Warrior from the Buddhist Kingdom was also greatly shocked. He never expected that he, who had only come to steal some human vows and the golden elixir refined by Zhou Xuan, would inadvertently stumble upon such a great secret.

If you hear the whole story and then bring the secret back to the Buddhist kingdom, wouldn't you be greatly rewarded?
Overjoyed, he involuntarily trembled – the "playing to his liking" tactic was activated.

Besides the Six-Eared Warrior and the Calabash Taoist who were engrossed in listening, Li Changxun was also stunned.

He withdrew his wind and asked Yun Ziliang, "Master, what the Great Master said seems a bit mystical, doesn't it? A giant egg gave birth to the Day and Night Wandering Gods, it doesn't sound real..."

Yun Ziliang was also being eavesdropped on.

However, Li Changxun's bugging device was the gale he controlled, while he relied on his connection to the earth and borrowed a foxtail grass near the carriage to use as his bugging device.

Hearing Li Changxun's question, he glared at him and said, "Is he out of his mind? Xuanzi is clearly lying! Do you know what lying is? It's telling lies and never telling the truth!"

He's already lied, and you're telling me it doesn't sound true? You're a pig-brain."

After scolding Li Changxun, Yun Ziliang continued to listen to Zhou Xuan's movements through the foxtail grass.

"However, although it's fake, it's made up to look quite real. It even has a nose and eyebrows. Xuanzi truly deserves to be called a good storyteller. He's really mastered the art of storytelling."

……

Zhou Xuan was still telling ancient stories.

The star-gazing tablet continued to speak: "Little gourd, do you know why Zhou Xuan manifested the 'Day and Night Wandering God' form a few days ago?"

"Because Zhou Xuan's perception has surpassed the 'Day Travel' realm."

"One muscle."

The Star Gazing Card expressed its disdain and corrected the Calabash Taoist's perspective on the mysterious, saying, "Why couldn't it be the remnant will of the 'Day and Night Wandering God' that found Zhou Xuan?"

"Oh?! This perspective from the Earth God is a path I've never considered before."

"Hmph, all you need to know is that Zhou Xuan's appearance was because he was chosen by the 'Day and Night Wanderer,' then the rest falls into place."

The stargazing card began to connect all the events, in order to better deceive the listeners, such as the gourd-wielding Taoist and the Six-Eared Warrior, and to sort out the plot.

"Well, the 'Day and Night Wanderer' has chosen Zhou Xuan to be his mortal follower."

However, the true purpose of "Day and Night Wanderer" is to restore his own strength.

To restore its strength, it needs powerful human willpower. That's why Zhou Xuan gave a grand lecture in Mingjiang Prefecture, accumulating abundant willpower.

Through the power of human wishes, Zhou Xuan hid inside that temple and transformed into a giant egg. Within that egg, the "Day and Night Wandering God" was conceived.

At this point in Zhou Xuan's storytelling, the gourd-wielding Taoist suddenly realized something and exclaimed, "I understand... Earthly Deities, so Zhou Xuan's storytelling, in essence, is the resurrection tale of the 'Day and Night Wandering Gods'?"

"It can also be understood that way."

"However, something's not quite right. Zhou Xuan's lectures were arranged a long time ago, and his appearance as a 'day and night wandering spirit' only happened in the last few days. The timeline doesn't quite add up."

Zhou Xuan exclaimed inwardly, "Oh dear!" He hadn't expected that there was a bug in his description of "ancient." He immediately racked his brains, trying to figure out how to fix it.

Unexpectedly,

The gourd-shaped Taoist suddenly clapped his hands together and said, "Earth God, I understand now—the resurrection of the Day and Night Wanderer has been planned for a long time, and all the events in the mortal world are nothing more than the gears of fate that he casually wields."

It's good that you've figured it out!

Zhou Xuan immediately said, "Yes, that's right. So, little gourd, do you know why I promised you earlier? As long as the matter is settled, Zhou Xuan will reward you, whether you live or die!"

"do not understand."

"Because of the 'Day and Night Wanderer' inside that egg," the Star Gazing Card said coldly. "Just imagine, inside that egg is an unborn will-level being. If I were to seize its body, ha, what would Zhou Xuan be then?"

"A drop in the ocean." The gourd-shaped Taoist priest suddenly realized that the land's plan and strategy were truly grand, actually targeting a will that had not yet been born.

"What do you mean by a drop in the ocean? That's just the tip of a drop in the ocean."

The voice of the Star Gazing Card became impassioned, saying, "The third will of the Well Kingdom! Who is Zhou Xuan to compare with him?"

“Earth God, you are the true mastermind… If you were to seize the body of the ‘Day and Night Wanderer,’ could you… could you…”

"Would you like a small reward?" the Star Gazing Card asked.

"Yes Yes Yes!"

The gourd-shaped Taoist priest nodded repeatedly.

After a moment of silence, the Star Gazing Tablet said, "That 'Day and Night Wanderer' has sixteen arms and sixteen legs. After the deed is done, one of your legs will be given to Dunjia Mountain!"

"Thank you, Earth God. I bow in gratitude to the Earth God."

The gourd-shaped Taoist priest was so excited that he became incoherent. The star-gazing tablet stopped him and said, "Don't rush to thank me. Getting things done is the priority."

"However, getting things done requires a little incentive. Only when the incentive is right will a stupid dog like you, an old dog, be willing to do things wholeheartedly."

"Come, follow my guidance, and I'll show you the giant egg that is giving birth to the 'Day and Night Wanderers'."

The stargazing plaque suddenly emitted a cold light, illuminating a path.

This road leads from the carriage to the gate of the Guishan Taoist Temple...

(End of this chapter)