Dragon's Origin

The old Daoist who had mentioned the hot spring earlier took the initiative to lead the way. The others followed behind him, carefully stepping as they made their way towards the hot spring.

Although there was a hot spring, no one was enjoying it. No one ever came here, and there wasn't even a path. Fortunately, the one with the lowest cultivation here was still Wang Sheng, so walking this short distance was no problem at all.

They didn't walk far, only about seven or eight li, before they arrived at the top of a mountain. The old Daoist leading the way pointed down the mountain and said to everyone, "The hot spring is over there."

Actually, everyone had already seen it. A cloud of white mist filled the valley, obviously steam. From the top of the mountain down, it was about two or three hundred meters.

"Let's go, go take a look!" As soon as Headmaster Tongming saw the obvious hot spring, he couldn't wait to rush down, as if he could be the first to discover the inheritance formation if he rushed over. His eagerness was quite baffling to watch.

"How could this guy have sat in the position of headmaster for so many years?" Wang Sheng couldn't help but complain to Old Daoist Lingxu, who had stayed behind, "It's a miracle he wasn't killed!"

As soon as the old Daoist heard Wang Sheng say "this guy," he quickly shielded Wang Sheng and his words to avoid embarrassing the Tongming Headmaster in front. Even so, the Grand Master quietly took a step back, glanced at Wang Sheng, but said nothing.

"He's doing it on purpose," the old Daoist commented sharply. "Feigning weakness, making people think he's stupid, impulsive, and easy to deal with, and then, you know."

"I see!" Wang Sheng nodded, understanding Headmaster Tongming's strategy. "So, he's deliberately here to disrupt things? Who gave him the guts? To play like this with the important matter of Daoist inheritance?"

"We're investigating," the Grand Master's voice cut in calmly. "Once we find the person behind him, he'll be useless. This kind of person is a disgrace to our Daoist sect!"

Wang Sheng was even more relieved now, so he and the old Daoist walked at the very back, carefully observing as they went.

"Elder Wang! Elder Wang?" Wang Sheng and the old Daoist had only walked halfway down the two or three hundred meters when they heard Headmaster Tongming's urging call. But this time, the guy knew to be polite and used the title of Elder.

Ignoring the guy, Wang Sheng and Old Daoist Lingxu continued to carefully observe their surroundings, looking for anything suspicious, and slowly walked over.

"Did you find anything? Did you find anything?" As soon as he reached the hot spring, Headmaster Tongming asked anxiously, his impatience showing, without any of the composure expected of a Daoist master.

If this was a pretense, Wang Sheng couldn't help but admire him. To make the headmaster of a Daoist sect look like this, he must be shameless.

"Didn't find anything!" Wang Sheng pretended to look around for a long time before slowly answering.

"Didn't you say that the hot spring could provide energy for the inheritance formation?" Headmaster Tongming asked Wang Sheng incredulously, "Why can't we find it?"

Not just Wang Sheng, but the other headmasters and the Grand Master also felt ashamed. The level of idiocy that Headmaster Tongming was displaying was simply unbearable. Were they really on the same level as such a person?

Even though the Grand Master and Old Daoist Lingxu knew that this guy was pretending to be crazy, they were shocked by his performance. Can someone really pretend to be stupid so convincingly?

"I said it's possible!" Wang Sheng took a deep breath, deciding not to argue with someone who would soon have no future, and slowly replied, "Besides, even if the hot spring really provides energy, the inheritance formation can't be placed in plain sight. You could stand here for years and not figure anything out."

"Then why were you looking so carefully?" Headmaster Tongming immediately retorted to Wang Sheng without hesitation.

"Because it's my first time here, my first time seeing a hot spring, so it's new to me. Can't I look around more?" Wang Sheng rolled his eyes and replied to Headmaster Tongming.

Headmaster Tongming got nowhere with his question. He probably knew that no one here liked him, so he looked around awkwardly and stopped talking.

"We've been talking about the inheritance formation for so long," Wang Sheng finally didn't have to face the annoying Headmaster Tongming, and was much more polite when speaking to the other masters. "The focus is the formation, the formation! So, look for formation fluctuations!"

The other headmasters had actually been secretly trying to find formation fluctuations, but Headmaster Tongming had led them astray. Now that Wang Sheng reminded them, everyone glared at Headmaster Tongming and continued their search.

Wang Sheng was also carefully observing and calculating. This hot spring gushed out from a spring in the middle of the mountain, flowing down into a pool in the valley. Wang Sheng stood by the pool and reached out to test the water. The temperature was very high, at least sixty degrees Celsius, obviously not suitable for bathing.

Usually, after such a spring emerges, it forms a small stream, but there was no other outlet in this valley. The hot spring water flowed into the pool in the valley and didn't flow anywhere else, but the pool didn't increase indefinitely, indicating that there must be an outlet. Perhaps there was an underground river or other outlet at the bottom of the pool.

Headmaster Tongming seemed to have fixated on Wang Sheng and kept staring at him. Seeing Wang Sheng looking at the pool, he also looked at the pool, frowning for a while. Suddenly, Headmaster Tongming seemed to understand something, and his eyes lit up.

He quietly looked around. There weren't many people present. Besides Tongming himself, there were five headmasters, the Grand Master, Wang Sheng, Old Daoist Lingxu, and five old Daoists of the Qing generation, only that many people in total.

Although the Daoist sect made a big commotion this time to open the land of inheritance, the Old Lord Temple alone sent more than a hundred people. However, those people were concentrated near the previous Daoist temple, some distance away from here, seven or eight li away, and they had to cross several mountains. Even if there was any movement here, it was estimated that no one would notice.

Everyone was checking for formation fluctuations, and several people were holding formation stones to investigate, looking very carefully. No one noticed Headmaster Tongming's actions.

A smile slowly appeared on Headmaster Tongming's face. He carefully walked to the pool near the others, and then, imitating Wang Sheng, reached into the pool as if to test the temperature of the water. At the same time, a wisp of gas with absolutely no smell emanated from Headmaster Tongming's hand. Stimulated by the heat of the pool water, it quickly spread around.

Seeing that everyone was still doing their own thing, Headmaster Tongming smiled and stood up, then shook the water off his hands, already laughing in his heart.

A bunch of fools, being played around by your grandpa. Do you really think you're smart?