I Can Record Wonders

Chapter 62: Yun Niang's Background, Regarding Scenic Palace

"Scenic Map?"

Fu Ning furrowed his brow.

If even Huo Ya'er knew about it so clearly, it meant that someone was deliberately spreading the news.

"What is this Scenic Map? It has caused the Four Great Alleys to search for it."

Huo Ya'er shook his head. "I heard from others that this map doesn't get wet when submerged in water, and it can even outline a treasure map. By following it, one can find a great treasure hidden in the sea."

"A treasure map... a great treasure?"

"The four major families of the Cheng, Zheng, Qian, and Gong have all announced that whoever can find that map or Cheng Meiniang will be greatly rewarded."

Huo Ya'er smacked his lips. "Fish Brother, where do you think Meiniang could be hiding?"

Fu Ning pursed his lips and shook his head. "Spirit Turtle Island is said to be neither big nor small. If she is determined to hide, it would indeed be difficult to find her."

He had a feeling that the treasure Meiniang stole was likely related to Yun Niang's parents.

Leaving aside everything else, Yun Niang's "Miao Clan" bloodline was definitely inherited from her parents.

Her father was from the Cheng family, so her "Miao Clan" bloodline most likely came from her mother.

"Huo Ya'er, have you heard anything about Yun Niang's background?"

Huo Ya'er's movements froze for a moment, then he nodded. "Fish Brother, if you ask others, they might not know about it."

"But I know very clearly."

It turned out that Huo Ya'er had been an orphan since he was young and was later taken in by an old temple priest in a dilapidated temple.

The old temple priest had told him many stories about Spirit Turtle Island, including Yun Niang's parents.

"Yun Niang's father was named Cheng Ping, originally a steward of Left-foot Lane."

"When he was still around, the Cheng family was the top family on Spirit Turtle Island~"

Huo Ya'er proudly gestured with his thumb.

"This Cheng Ping grew up squatting at the pier, shrewd and capable, with a keen mind. Before he turned eighteen, he had already become the steward of Left-foot Lane."

In five years, under Cheng Ping's leadership, the Cheng family gradually prospered.

And when he was twenty-five years old, he suddenly brought back a woman from outside the island."

"Outside the island?!"

"That's right. It is said that the woman was extremely beautiful, like a heavenly maiden descending to earth."

It seemed that Cheng Uncle had rescued her on his return journey, and she was injured when she first arrived on the island."

"After recuperating on the island for half a year, the woman and Cheng Uncle fell in love and naturally got married."

"After that, the couple had a deep affection, and the Cheng family thrived under their management, gradually becoming the leader among the four major families."

Within two years, they gave birth to Yun Niang."

Outside the island, injured, a beautiful woman.

Fu Ning silently pondered. This beautiful woman was most likely the one with the "Miao Clan" bloodline.

"What happened later? How did they die?"

At these words, Huo Ya'er scratched his head again. "This... I don't know the rest of the story."

"It is said that shortly after Yun Niang was born, her parents disappeared together."

"A few days later, Cheng Uncle returned, but he was already seriously injured and on the verge of death."

"After that, he entrusted his daughter Yun Niang to his brother Cheng An and left this world."

"I see."

Fu Ning pondered for a moment. Yun Niang's parents left together, but only one person returned, and he was heavily injured. It indicated that something must have happened to them.

He didn't know if it was related to that "Scenic Map."

"After Cheng Uncle's death, he left a considerable amount of family property for Yun Niang, but unfortunately, after their deaths, it all fell into Cheng An's hands."

"He truly raised an ungrateful wolf!"

The more Huo Ya'er spoke, the more indignant he became, and in the end, he couldn't help but spit to the side.

Fu Ning saw this and nodded slightly: "Cheng An's family is indeed hateful."

The two of them chatted for a while longer. Seeing that Fu Ning was injured, Hua Ya'er stopped bothering him and hurriedly left the boat bay with the food box.

Watching his departing figure, Fu Ning pondered for a long time before sighing: "Sure enough, there are many troubles down the mountain."

"After this matter is concluded, I will hide back on the mountain and focus on cultivation. If I don't achieve something in my cultivation, I will never leave the mountain!"

He had already repaired the foundation in his body, and there were no more leaks in the Origin Sea. The next step was to condense Origin Qi and open the Little Yellow Courtyard.

Opening the Little Yellow Courtyard actually meant transforming the inner scenery and building the Scenic Palace within the inner scenery.

Before the Scenic Scholar established the Scenic Palace, all the enlightened Origin Spirits would appear scattered in the inner scenery, like homeless children without any fixed connection between them.

At this time, even if one had enlightened many Origin Spirits, they would only be like scattered sand, unable to evolve into a stable Inner Scenic Diagram.

Establishing the Scenic Palace was like placing a drawing board in the inner scenery.

All the Origin Spirits were different colors of ink.

When they landed on the drawing board, they would establish connections with each other and form an Inner Scenic Diagram.

As for opening the Scenic Palace, there were two ways to do it.

The first way was to visualize the Small Scenic Garden.

The Small Scenic Garden was a shared scene that could trigger various wonders.

For example, the "White Pond," "Black Tomb," and "Pill Mound" on Spirit Turtle Island.

The "Whale's Fall" Scenic Palace on Whale Island.

The "Toad Palace" on Sea Horizon Pavilion.

These were all Scenic Palaces opened by visualizing the Small Scenic Garden.

Because the Small Scenic Garden itself contained various wonders, as long as the corresponding environment was visualized in the inner scenery, a Scenic Palace could be opened.

But there was a prerequisite for this process, which was to have enlightened all the wonders in the Small Scenic Garden.

For example, to open the "Pill Mound" Scenic Palace, one had to first enlighten the wonders of "Falling Maple Leaves" and "Jade Rabbit Making Medicine."

If there was a wonder in the Small Scenic Garden that had not been enlightened, then the Scenic Palace could not be opened.

Therefore, in order to open the "Toad Palace," Ancestral Master Ling Cong went to great lengths to revive the "Copper Coin Osmanthus Tree."

The second way was to deduce and create a special Scenic Palace.

Opening the Scenic Palace was actually perceiving a strand of the Great Dao opportunity.

Then, through this strand of the Great Dao opportunity, all the Origin Spirits would be connected.

The reason why the Small Scenic Garden could accommodate so many wonders was also because it contained a strand of the Great Dao opportunity.

Humans were the most intelligent beings, and even without visualizing the Small Scenic Garden, they could perceive this strand of the Great Dao opportunity during the process of deducing the Origin Spirits.

Then, with this opportunity, they could open the Scenic Palace.

The most common ones were the "Golden House" and "Humble Abode" for Confucian disciples.

The "Command Platform" for military disciples.

The "Bronze Sparrow Platform" for royal disciples.

It was the same for all of them.

After opening the Scenic Palace, it could be continuously evolved to improve its rank.

The first method was like copying from a template, the most convenient and quickest.

But future evolution might be limited. For example, no matter what the "Pill Mound" evolved into in the future, it would not deviate from its original form.

In comparison, opening the Scenic Palace through the second method was slow, but it had countless possibilities for the future.

Generally speaking, most people would choose the first method.

But Fu Ning was not an ordinary person; he had a cheat.

So the second method was more suitable for him.

"Sure enough, continuing to deduce the evolution of Origin Spirits is the right path!"

With a determined gaze, Fu Ning sat cross-legged.

But just as he was about to start visualizing, he couldn't help but exclaim, "Huh!"

In the third view of his sea of consciousness, the scene flickered, and a new scene appeared.

(End of this chapter)