Dragon's Origin

The old Daoist couldn't help but take it seriously. This Nine-Character Mantra was an incredibly pure Daoist mental cultivation method. Based on the old Daoist's knowledge of Daoist scriptures, there was no way he could be mistaken.

Although it was created by Wang Sheng and he was the first to successfully cultivate it, this did not prevent the old Daoist from planning to pass down the Nine-Character Mantra as the most orthodox traditional mental cultivation method of the Old Lord Temple.

The only problem now was that Wang Sheng had only comprehended eight characters of the Nine-Character Mantra, still lacking the 'Action' character. The old Daoist was even worse, not only were the effects of each character worse than Wang Sheng's, but he hadn't even grasped the 'Array' character.

These days, after returning to the Old Lord Temple, the old Daoist immediately began to read those medical books, learning medicine from several skilled junior Daoists in the Old Lord Temple.

In the Old Lord Temple, the old Daoist was the absolute authority. Naturally, no one would stop him from learning medicine. The abbot even scoured several famous doctors from various places to teach him. And so, in just over a month, the old Daoist was able to treat minor ailments like headaches and fever for some old farmers.

These were all minor matters. The most important thing was that the old Daoist had a feeling for the 'Array' character. Just like Wang Sheng, he had touched the edge.

While he was happy, the people of the Old Lord Temple discovered the great commotion in the capital. Hundreds of people were beheaded, and the homes of four important officials were confiscated. Upon investigation, it turned out that Wang Sheng's arrival in the capital had caused such a big commotion.

How could the old Daoist not come and see when he heard the news? However, he didn't catch Wang Sheng's fleeing in embarrassment when facing Mei'er on the first day. He only went to Wang Sheng's mansion last night, saw that scene, and also saw Mei'er's face.

"Speaking of which, where did your vigilance in the Perpetual Killing Land go?" The old Daoist strode forward while still nagging, "I watched in your Marquis's residence for a long time, and you didn't notice at all!"

This was also what puzzled the old Daoist. In the Perpetual Killing Land, Wang Sheng could almost detect any disturbance at the same time as the old Daoist. Why did Wang Sheng's vigilance drop so much in his Marquis residence in the capital?

"Don't mention it! It just fills me with anger." Wang Sheng replied angrily, "It's true that our Emperor gave me a Marquis residence, but he also stuffed hundreds of people inside. I think half of them are the royal family's spies. None of the beautiful servant girls in the bedroom were spared. Every single one of them is reporting information. What am I supposed to guard against? What's there to guard against?"

Listening to Wang Sheng's answer, the old Daoist immediately understood. Simple logic, when there are too many lice, one doesn't worry about them; when there is too much debt, one doesn't worry about it either. Since they are all spies, Wang Sheng wouldn't care about one more or one less, right? He must have ignored them all. It was normal that the old Daoist wasn't seen while peeking.

"By the way, come to my house less often to peek in the future." Wang Sheng suddenly warned the old Daoist unceremoniously, "Those beauties are all mine. What's the matter with an old Daoist like you always peeking at beauties? Mei'er bathed and changed clothes before seducing me, didn't you also go to peek? You old lecher!"

"Tch, if this old man wants beauties, what kind of beauties can't I find?" The old Daoist retorted smugly, "Only a fool and incompetent person like you wouldn't dare to touch the warm and fragrant jade in your arms. If it were me, I would have flown away together long ago."

This was mocking his low cultivation level and not daring to touch beauties? This was unbearable! Wang Sheng was instantly furious and argued with the old Daoist all the way. Unconsciously, they arrived at the Old Lord Temple. Looking at the time, it was just past noon, saving at least half the time.

Neither of them had eaten anything, so they simply started eating and drinking in the Sutra Depository Hall. The Daoists responsible for managing the Sutra Depository Hall had seen this scene more than once, but they didn't dare to say a word to the Lingxu Ancestor, and could only watch them be so presumptuous.

"Tell me, what exactly happened? Tell me the details." The old Daoist drove out the few Daoists who were in the way, leaving only Wang Sheng and him. Only then did he put away his playful and scolding face and became serious.

Wang Sheng didn't hide anything and told the story. The old Daoist already knew the cause, he was present at the time, but he was single-mindedly thinking about returning to study the 'Array' character, so he didn't follow Wang Sheng.

Hearing about the internal strife in Baoqing Remaining Hall, the old Daoist was not surprised at all. At his age, he had seen too many such things, even more outrageous cases of fathers and sons fighting each other, let alone a struggle between a son and an adopted daughter.

He didn't mention what happened on the way, only saying that when he entered the underground palace and heard Wang Sheng running across the earth fire veins while carrying Mei'er, the old Daoist was moved.

"If those people followed you across, what would happen?" The old Daoist was also pondering the principles, not forgetting to ask Wang Sheng for advice. The old Daoist was good at this, he never pretended to understand what he didn't, and was willing to ask questions humbly.

"Burned to ashes!" Wang Sheng replied without hesitation, "Even if they could run across, they would definitely be severely burned, and whether they could survive would depend on luck."

"Running across the earth fire, what's the principle behind this?" The old Daoist began to get to the bottom of it.

Wang Sheng laughed. Wang Sheng wouldn't easily tell this life-saving method, not even to the old Daoist. The old Daoist clearly wanted to record it to add another inheritance to the Old Lord Temple. Wang Sheng wouldn't teach it casually. In the old Daoist's words, this was called not lightly passing on the Dharma.

"Speak, what are the conditions?" The old Daoist asked lazily. As soon as Wang Sheng acted like this, he knew what Wang Sheng wanted to do, so he asked directly.

"Your Old Lord Temple has to find some pharmacists to teach me how to identify medicinal herbs." Wang Sheng mentioned unceremoniously.

"Okay!" The old Daoist agreed without saying anything. This condition couldn't be simpler. Isn't it just identifying medicinal herbs? Among the highly skilled Daoist doctors in the Old Lord Temple, at least two hundred could crush Wang Sheng into渣 in this regard. Anyone could teach Wang Sheng until he vomited.

So Wang Sheng began to explain the principle of earth fire, how to distinguish the temperature, how to run across quickly, how to quickly create moisture to lower the temperature of the earth fire while running, and so on. Of course, the most important thing was that the time couldn't be long.

"It's very simple!" The old Daoist listened and felt that it wasn't complicated, and suspected that Wang Sheng was extorting his conditions with this.

"There are many simple things." Wang Sheng ignored him and continued, "But some people thought of it, and some people didn't. This is the difference."

The old Daoist pondered for a while, and it was indeed the case. Some things are really that simple, but no one has ever thought of them. Like earth fire.

Wang Sheng continued. When the old Daoist heard that Wang Sheng was trapped in the underground palace and used the 'Array' character to resonate with the formation in desperation, he couldn't help but stand up: "So that's how it is!"