"I estimate that Qian Kongtian's people will be on their way soon. Should we take some protective measures around the village?"
Hunter Fox shook his head:
"No, I have asked this old man just now. He said that this small village was designed by the ancestors of the Fang family. Although it looks inconspicuous, it has Qi Men Dun Jia inside. Most people can enter it.
Not coming."
"But Qian Kongtian can't be considered an ordinary person. He has been fighting with the Fang family for so many years, and he should have some understanding of the Fang family's techniques. We'd better be careful," Mingzhu said.
"Don't worry," Liehu replied, "the old man has just said that the ancestors have told him what to do. When he tells us clearly what happened, the people here will go to Longmai with us to help us.
."
It seemed that the mysterious 'ancestor' had arranged everything, so everyone no longer raised any objections and followed the old man into the village.
They came to a house in the center of the village. This house looked no different from ordinary houses in the desert, and the layout of the house was not special.
The old man led them through the hall and into an extremely clean room. This room had no windows, so all the light came from an oil lamp embedded in the wall, and the room was empty. There was nothing except the front.
There was an old painting hanging on the wall, which was a portrait of an old man. Mingzhu recognized at a glance that this old man was the man who saved her in her dream.
"Everyone, take a seat." The old man said and took the lead in sitting on the ground.
Only then did everyone see that the floor of the entire room was covered with thick carpets, which seemed to be reserved for special people to sit on.
Everyone sat on the ground, looking at the old man in the darkness, waiting for him to speak.
The old man began to make a statement. He spoke Chinese very well. The conversation he used with Hunter just now should have been a specialized language.
Just listen to the old man say:
"Everyone should already know a lot about the Fang family. Our clan, like the patron saint, also received great favor from the Fang family back then, so we promised the Fang family to stay here and guard the choke point leading to the Dragon Vein.
Tao. When needed, our ancestors will give us guidance in dreams. So I come to this room every day to meditate and wait for the master. But many times, the master does not appear.
The instruction given to us by the master at the beginning was not to let us take the initiative to attack, but to just guard here. This small village is the only way to the dragon vein. And the master used the technique here. Anyone who passes here will walk on it.
There are other roads, so no one has ever walked on the road to the Dragon Vein. If you want to go there, you can't go there unless I personally lead it. By the way, I am the patriarch here. The patriarch is hereditary. There is no one in this village who has the highest authority.
authority. Whenever the old patriarch steps down and a new patriarch takes over, we will inform our ancestors, and from then on, the new patriarch will accept the orders of our ancestors."
Yan nodded secretly. In modern times, he often hears about an ancient address or building. For some unknown reason, it has not appeared on the map for thousands of years. Once discovered by archaeologists, it will cause endless confusion.
Speculation. What is the reason? No one has ever reached there for such a long time. It seems that maybe, like Dragon Vein, some kind of technique was set up in ancient times. In ancient times, there were indeed many.
Miraculous, something that science cannot explain.
The old man continued:
"No one in the Fang family knows about our existence, and we don't have any contact with anyone in the Fang family."
Hunter Fox suddenly interjected:
"Indeed, even we don't know about it. If you hadn't recognized me in secret words just now, I wouldn't have believed these things. It's no wonder that Qian Kongtian has been unable to get the secret of dragon veins for so many years. The ancestors really thought of everything
Already."
"This ancestor of the Fang family is really a god," Li Chengqi suddenly sighed. He sincerely felt that it was a great blessing for the Li family that Emperor Li Yuan could have such a friend and brother.
"That day, the guest from afar saved us. The ancestor told me in a dream that he asked me to take him to the Dragon Vein. This was the first time in many years that the ancestor issued such an order. As for what happened when he went to the Dragon Vein
, I don’t even know. Last night, I received another order from my ancestor. He said that the descendants and patron saints of the Fang family will come here today, and the dragon veins can finally see the light of day again. He also told me that after you come,
, he will bring you here directly, and he will tell you directly if anything happens. Now, please enter meditation."
The old man closed his eyes as he spoke.
To be honest, in such a completely unfamiliar environment, it is a relatively dangerous thing to enter trance like this. Li Chengqi looked at Xinghu and saw that Xinghu and Wangyounu had already entered trance. It seemed that the patron saint was interested in this.
The old man is 100% trustworthy. If this is the case, there should be no danger.
Li Chengqi, Tang Lizi, and Yan also all crossed their legs and entered trance. Only Mingzhu was left. Mingzhu basically didn’t know the mental methods of Chinese martial arts, so she didn’t know how to enter trance. She had to follow everyone else’s example, cross her legs and close her eyes, but she
As soon as she closed her eyes, a strong feeling of tiredness came over her, and Mingzhu seemed to fall into a dream all of a sudden.
She found herself walking in a misty wilderness. After a while, she saw Hunting Fox, Wangyounu, Tang Lizi, Li Chengqi, and Yan coming from different directions and gathering around her.
Immediately afterwards, from the place where the white fog was thickest, an old man with an ancient appearance and dressed in white came slowly. He walked all the way in front of everyone. At this time, Hunting Fox and Wangyounu had already kowtowed.
Go down.
The old man looked at them with dignity and kindness:
"You have done a good job. Now it is not you who want to repay the Fang family, but the Fang family who wants to thank you."
"Don't dare," Hunter Fox and Wangyounu said almost at the same time, "My subordinates are incompetent and failed to save the Fang family."
"You don't have to blame yourself. Everything in this world has its own destiny. You won't succeed if it's too late or too early."
As the old man spoke, his eyes fell on Mingzhu again. He stared at Mingzhu for a long time, his eyes full of affection:
"You are the granddaughter of the Fang family, you have suffered."
Mingzhu originally didn't know whether she should salute the old man, or how to salute, but at this time, she no longer thought about that. After listening to the old man's words, she had regarded the old man as a real person in reality.
The elders. Just listen to the old man continue to say:
"You have done a good job and are very brave. You are worthy of being a descendant of our Fang family. It is my greatest joy to have a descendant like you in the Fang family."
The old man looked at Tang Lizi again:
"Are you Mingzhu's friend?"
"Yes." Li Zi replied respectfully.
"Okay, very good. The greatest luck of our Fang family is that we can always meet true friends."
"Are you from the Li family?" The old man asked Li Chengqi this time.
"yes."
The old man stared at Li Chengqi for a long, long time, longer than looking at the patron saint, or even longer than looking at the pearl. After a long time, he nodded:
"very good."
No one knew what he meant by "very good", but no one asked. It seemed that people felt that when facing this old man, they could only obey orders without showing any disrespect. Even Li Chengqi thought the same way.
Li Chengqi bowed very respectfully:
"I would like to thank you on behalf of the Li family. For the sake of the Li family, the Fang family has suffered too much."
The old man smiled and shook his head slightly:
"You don't have to feel guilty, this is all destiny. The reason why I wholeheartedly protect the Dragon Vein for the Li Royal Family and the Tang Dynasty is because I have calculated that the Tang Dynasty will surely prosper, so I do this for the people of the Central Plains.
."
Originally, Yan thought that the old man would not say anything to him, but unexpectedly, after the old man answered Li Chengqi, he actually said to Yan:
"You're finally here. I've been waiting for you for too long."
"Me?" Yan was stunned. He didn't know what the old man meant. "Do you know who I am?"
"You are the flame mentioned in the oracle." The old man said firmly.
"Why me?" Yan really couldn't understand. He was not even Chinese.
"Because you are a descendant of the patron saint."
"Ah!" The old man's understatement made everyone freeze. For a moment, they didn't know what to do.
Just listen to the old man continue:
"The relationship between the Patron Saint and the Fang family is not a master-servant relationship, nor is it even a simple life-saving relationship as you know. I did save an entire sect of the Patron Saint, but this is nothing. The Fang family and the Guardian
God, that is, the ancestor of my lineage and the Guardian God, once made a life-and-death contract together for the Dragon Vein. Therefore, only a descendant of the Fang family can be with a descendant of the Guardian God for some reason.
Only by voluntarily forming a life-and-death alliance can it be most effective, and you two have done it."
Everyone seemed to understand what the old man said, but one thing was obvious, that is, Yan did have a lot to do with this matter.
"But, I still don't quite understand. There is no contract between Mingzhu and I." Yan said.
The old man smiled generously:
"You don't need to understand, I just want to ask you one thing. Back then, the Patron Saint was willing to risk his life for me and the Fang family. Are you willing to die and take risks for the Pearl?"
"Of course I do." Homura replied without hesitation.
"That's good. The form of the contract is not important. What is important is that you are sincerely willing."
"But in order to save the Fang family, each of us can die." Liehu asked strangely.
The old man laughed again:
"I believe you are also willing, but God only gave Yan this opportunity to prove this to God."
Everyone understands that Yan followed Mingzhu to the Tang Dynasty regardless of life and death, so there is already a life and death contract between him and Mingzhu!