One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 263: The Battle of the Venerable Patriarch

The wind suddenly blew in the mountains.

The spring breeze brings fragrance and blows open the green flower buds.

The summer breeze brings rain, moistening the valleys and turning them into lakes.

The autumn wind is cool,...

The winter wind is cold,...

This is the wind of the four seasons, but the mountain wind at this time comes without season, as if it only responds to the season, just responding to the breathing of something in the mountains.

There is a dragon in the mountain. When the dragon rises, it brings wind and rain.

Zhao Fuyun felt the wind suddenly surge up from the void, swirling on the surface of the lake, rolling up the lake water. A black shadow in the water rose up into the sky with the wind and waves.

The originally clear and green sky was covered with dark clouds in the blink of an eye.

The green dragon flew into the clouds, tumbling with no head or tail visible, just like it was tumbling in the water, and heavy rain poured down.

Strong winds were howling in the mountains, and rain was hitting Zhao Fuyun's body like steel nails, making him feel some pain. Some of the trees in the mountains were blown down, and the lake water surged over the embankment and went down.

The green dragon in the sky was tumbling, and in the wind and rain, the roar of a dragon could be heard, and it seemed very excited.

About half a day later, it came back into the lake from the sky, and the wind and rain dissipated along with the blue dragon.

Zhao Fuyun stood on the rock in that corner. Flames flashed on his body and his wet clothes dried immediately.

He couldn't help but marvel in his heart.

He looked to other places again. Perhaps it was the heavy rain just now that caused fog in the forest, making it even harder to see clearly. This made the entire Tiandu Mountain seem even more mysterious.

Since Zhao Fuyun entered the Purple Mansion, his name has been recorded in the Secret Wall. He thought he had learned a lot about Tiandu Mountain, but now he feels that he knows too little.

He used to think that although Tiandu Mountain was big, it did not feel boundless. Now, after seeing the lake and the fog in the vast mountains, he felt that Tiandu Mountain was very unfamiliar.

He walked in the direction that the beautiful woman had left. There was a small path in the mountain. The path became smaller and smaller, and as he walked, the path disappeared.

There was only a foggy valley ahead, and he looked around but could not find any signs of human habitation.

So he came back and went down the mountain from the lake. As he went down the mountain, he saw that the grooves on the road were wet. He realized that this road was washed out by the lake water. It was because of the wind and rain brought by the Blue Dragon that the lake water overflowed the dam.

After Zhao Fuyun came down the mountain, he came to the huge foot of the mountain and passed by some formation nodes. There were either halls, caves, or small houses. Some of them were inhabited, while others had closed doors.

He originally wanted to return to his Lihuo Palace, but Xun Lanyin's words suddenly appeared in his mind.

During these four years of refining treasures, Xun Lanyin was also refining treasures, but the one Xun Lanyin was refining was the Xuanyin Pearl. Zhao Fuyun had once seen it, and the Xuanyin Pearl vaguely gave the feeling of transforming into a world of its own.

He came to Xun Lanyin's Lanyin Cottage, the door was ajar.

Xun Lanyin was watering an old root there, and there was a new leaf on the old root. It was like this many years ago, and it is still like this now.

"Master Xun." Zhao Fuyun saluted.

Although everyone in Tiandu Mountain called each other brothers or sisters and brothers, Zhao Fuyun felt that many of his lessons were taught by Xun Lanyin, and often called her Master Xun in private.

"Were you at the lake just now?" Xun Lanyin asked.

Zhao Fuyun was a little surprised that Xun Lanyin knew about this, but he didn't delve into it. After all, it wasn't particularly strange that she knew about this.

"Yes." Zhao Fuyun said.

"Have you seen the green dragon in the lake?" Xun Lanyin asked again.

"I saw it." Zhao Fuyun said again.

Xun Lanyin looked at Zhao Fuyun, making Zhao Fuyun feel a little nervous.

“Many of us couldn’t see the lake after we went up the mountain. Even if we saw the lake, we couldn’t see the blue dragon in the lake. You saw it the first time you went up the mountain.”

"Master Xun, what you mean is what they let me see?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"Maybe." Xun Lanyin said.

"Why?" Zhao Fuyun found it incredible. He didn't think there was anything special about himself.

"Maybe it's because of your blood." Xun Lanyin said.

"My blood?" Zhao Fuyun asked in surprise.

Xun Lanyin put the kettle aside and walked towards the house. As she walked up the stairs, she said, "Although your last name is Zhao, you have the blood of the Yun family in your body."

"The Yun family?" Zhao Fuyun found that he knew very little about the Yun family. He only knew that there was an aunt in the infant transformation period, but this aunt seemed to be wandering around. He had not seen her since he came to Tiandu Mountain.

Moreover, he had a vague feeling that someone was secretly chasing his aunt. This was the feeling he got after he heard that his aunt had disappeared in Longqi Town.

"The Yun family was once a clan of gods, with their own capital. But after the fall of the kingdom of gods, most of the clan members died or were injured, and the rest were scattered. Generation after generation, only your aunt and your mother are left in the entire Yun family."

"Your mother didn't want to live that kind of wandering life anymore, so she married your father, and finally you were born."

Xun Lanyin walked into the house step by step, and the light in the room changed as she walked in.

It became even darker, as if she had walked into the deep sea instead of a house.

Zhao Fuyun followed in. He had a sudden feeling that the room became deep and he seemed to have walked into another void.

Zhao Fuyun suddenly had an idea. How could such an important matter as his Yun family bloodline be stated so simply?
"Why are the number of Yun family members decreasing?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"This is why your aunt is searching for forbidden places. People with Yun's bloodline are cursed. That's why there are fewer and fewer people in the Yun family. Your mother's illness was actually the result of the curse."

Speaking of his biological mother in this life, Zhao Fuyun couldn't help but think of her lying in bed, getting weaker day by day, and the Zhao family's indifference to her.

"No matter if it's a curse or not, or the attitude of the Zhao family, I will definitely go back to find them." Zhao Fuyun said affirmatively. "It's up to you. The reason I'm telling you this now is to prepare you mentally. Your aunt suspects that after the fall of the Divine Kingdom where your Yun family was, someone set up a cursed altar in the Divine Capital, so everyone in the Yun family got a strange disease and died."

"She has been looking for that divine capital?" Zhao Fuyun asked in surprise.

"Yes." Xun Lanyin answered affirmatively.

"She doesn't even remember the ancestral land of her clan?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"More than a thousand years can submerge a lot of things. Moreover, during that period of time a thousand years ago, the gods' kingdoms were at war with each other, and the world was turned upside down. Many gods' kingdoms were destroyed, and many ethnic groups perished. The Yun family was just one of them."

"Is she just going to look for it everywhere like this? Trying her luck?" Zhao Fuyun asked pitifully.

For him, even though he knew the news, he had never thought of looking for the Yun family's ancestral land, 'Shendu'.

"Not entirely. There is a saying about the Yun family's ancestral capital that says, 'At the shore of the vast ocean, where the flowing clouds end, among the overlapping clouds and heavy light, that is where the capital of the Yun Kingdom is located.'" Xun Lanyin said.

"With my aunt's ability as an infant-transformed cultivator, is it possible that she can't find it after so many years by looking here? She can't find it even after circling the vast ocean?" Zhao Fuyun asked again.

"If it were so easy, how could the Yun family have not been able to find it for over a thousand years?" Xun Lanyin said.

"Then, could it be that the gods of the Yun Kingdom were destroyed in that great war?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"That's possible." Xun Lanyin said, "It's also possible that it fell somewhere, so your aunt is looking for it everywhere. Also, don't think that searching around the Canghai is a simple matter. The entire Great Zhou Kingdom is just a corner of the Canghai."

Zhao Fuyun certainly would not underestimate the vast sea. In his opinion, the vast sea and this land were two different worlds. He had not yet been to the seaside of this world, according to the description of the vast sea he had read in books.

There was one sentence that Zhao Fuyun remembered deeply: "It's like seeing the abyss!"

Therefore, some people call this vast ocean the Yuanhai.

Others say that there are no blue sky and white clouds above the sea, only dense dark clouds and occasional flashes of thunder and lightning.

Even Jindan cultivators are unwilling to go deep into the sea.

"Master Xun, why are you telling me all this today?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"I told you all this because you saw Him." Xun Lanyin's words changed a little, and Zhao Fuyun was puzzled.

"I'm afraid the Yun bloodline in you will be touched." Xun Lanyin said.

"What is the origin of the blue dragon? And the woman who feeds the dragon?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"Xiaoqing is the Venerable's child. He is called Young Master Qing, or Prince Qing, or the Seventh Prince." Xun Lanyin said slowly. This is the secret of Tiandu Mountain.

"Who is this Venerable?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"In our world, there are four venerables who uphold justice in all four directions. Even when there was a major conflict in the kingdom of God back then, the venerables would be asked to come and administer justice. But later, it was said that the venerables died, and then conflicts between the kingdoms of God broke out. In the end, the kingdoms of God slowly collapsed and perished in the war."

"The venerable I'm talking about is Venerable Jinlin, who once lived in the depths of the Canghai Ocean and was kind to both Grandmaster Peng Yue and Grandmaster Xiyi."

"Three hundred years ago, the ancestor once returned from outer space to Tiandu Mountain, and brought back the Seventh Prince."

The secrets that Xun Lanyin told Zhao Fuyun were a little difficult to digest for a while.

These were things that were not in the books in the Dharma Collection Building, and they were also legends that he had never heard of.

He had never even heard of 'Four Direction Venerables'.

If it is said that Venerable Jinlin lived in the vast sea in the past, then who occupied the vast sea after Venerable Jinlin died?
Patriarch Xiyi brought this "Xiao Qing" back from outer space three hundred years ago, but did not let him return to the vast sea. He only placed him in Tiandu Mountain. Was he planning to keep him there forever, or wait until one day to let him return to the vast sea?

Moreover, this matter is the secret of Tiandu Mountain, which is kept secret and cannot be known to outsiders.

So, what about the other venerables? Are they alive, or have they fallen?

"Has Patriarch Xiyi come back?" Zhao Fuyun was surprised and asked again.

"The Grandmaster came back to send back the Seventh Prince and to tell us that the outer world is dangerous. At that time, the headmaster wanted to go with the Grandmaster, hoping that the Grandmaster could help her break through. The Grandmaster refused, so the headmaster began to retreat and seek a breakthrough on her own. Then something went wrong."

Zhao Fuyun was surprised, but before he could say anything, Xun Lanyin said, "I shouldn't have told you about the Sect Master's affairs. Even if I did, it should be Senior Brother Feng who told you."

"I called you here this time to tell you about the problems in your own bloodline. Secondly, you will know these things when you meet the Seventh Prince." Xun Lanyin said.

"Why is he called the Seventh Prince? Is it because he has seven brothers?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"The ancestor once said that the Venerable fought in the sky, and six sons died one after another, leaving only the seventh son. So ancestor Peng Yue asked ancestor Xiyi to take him back to Tiandu Mountain and hide him." Xun Lanyin sighed.

Zhao Fuyun really wanted to know what happened outside the sky. He wanted to know what happened a thousand years ago. Suddenly, the Kingdom of Gods was in chaos. Why did the Venerable go to the sky to fight again, and fight until the sixth son fell and died, and the seventh son had to be sent back to the realm to hide.

He also thought, if outsiders knew that the Venerable’s seventh son was hiding in Tiandu Mountain, then what would happen in Tiandu Mountain?

Tiandu Mountain seems powerful now, but over the years, he felt that someone in the darkness was testing Tiandu Mountain.

If a hand reaches out from outside the sky, can Tiandu Mountain withstand it?
Also, what exactly happened to the leader?
These thoughts flashed through Zhao Fuyun's mind, and Xun Lanyin said, "You should practice well, refine treasures, practice magic, comprehend yin and yang, and experience the five elements. Don't slack off."

By this time, Zhao Fuyun knew that Xun Lanyin's talkativeness had disappeared.

But when he was about to say goodbye, Xun Lanyin said, "The upper courtyard of our mountain gate will be reopened soon. You can go there and be a Taoist master. Preaching and teaching the Dharma will help you sort out what you have learned, see your own limitations, and reflect on yourself. It will not interfere with your daily practice."

"Then I will go to the Wuliang Palace to register later." Zhao Fuyun said.

He had no aversion to preaching and teaching, and he felt that it was quite beneficial to himself, because everyone encountered different problems, so solving other people's problems was equivalent to gaining enlightenment himself.

So he went to the Wuliang Palace.

Before, the Wuliang Hall was closed, and the entire mountain where the Upper House was located was closed and deserted, but now it has begun to become lively.

Lian Bao turned a deaf ear to the world outside, but the world was still developing. This shows that no matter who is missing, the world will continue to function the same way.

The rotation of the four seasons seems to be able to grind everything in it into powder.

(End of this chapter)