Dragon's Origin

“Do you think the old Su family was so stupid back then that they would build a city in a place with an underground fire vein?” The old Taoist gave Wang Sheng a direct look, answering in an annoyed tone.

The old Su family, of course, is the current royal family, whose surname is Su. In the capital, everyone has to address them as the royal family, and only the old Taoist dares to call them the old Su family so bluntly.

“If there’s no underground fire vein, didn’t you say there’s something else?” Wang Sheng smiled and asked the old Taoist, “What else can replace the underground fire vein? Tell me, and we’ll go look for it, won’t we?”

“Uh!” The old Taoist looked embarrassed upon hearing Wang Sheng’s words.

“What do you mean?” Wang Sheng saw the strange look on the old Taoist’s face and couldn’t help but ask, “Don’t tell me you don’t even know what else can replace the underground fire vein?”

“Isn’t that a normal thing?” The Lingxu old Taoist was completely shameless, “Isn’t it normal for me not to know what can replace the underground fire vein since I’m not a formation master?”

“You cultivate the 'Action' chapter of the Nine Syllable Mantra, shouldn’t you learn more about the basics of formations?” Wang Sheng asked, pointing at Lingxu old Taoist with a displeased expression.

“You also said that it’s enough for me to learn the basics of formations.” The old Taoist laughed, “In that case, why should I learn so many messy things?”

“Damn it!” Wang Sheng directly gave the old Taoist the middle finger.

The old Taoist had always been using the middle finger to argue with Wang Sheng, even if he didn’t know what the middle finger meant, he still stubbornly returned a middle finger to Wang Sheng.

“Has the terrain of this LaoJun Mountain remained unchanged for thousands of years?” Wang Sheng knew that the old Taoist meant what he said, and if he said he didn’t know, he definitely didn’t know, so he could only help think of a solution himself.

“It hasn’t changed.” Lingxu old Taoist looked surprised and asked Wang Sheng, “Tell me, how can the mountain’s shape change?”

“Ignorant!” Wang Sheng sneered, “A powerful earthquake or volcanic eruption can change the mountain’s shape. What’s impossible about that?”

“Is that so! There haven’t been any.” The old Taoist answered very certainly, “In the past thousand years, the capital has been as solid as a rock and has never experienced any of the things you mentioned.”

“That makes it easier.” Wang Sheng turned towards the direction of going down the mountain and suddenly asked the old Taoist, “Do you think I should say it?”

“Of course, you should say it!” The one who answered Wang Sheng wasn’t Lingxu old Taoist, but the Tongming Head Teacher whom Wang Sheng disliked so much.

Wang Sheng turned his head and saw the Tongming Head Teacher rushing out of the kitchen door, followed by five other Head Teachers and the Grand Master.

When Wang Sheng and the old Taoist were chatting just now, they had already heard movement in the passage on the kitchen side. Some words were deliberately said by Wang Sheng.

At the end of the underground passage, Wang Sheng didn’t even need to look, he could know the situation inside just by using the Five-Character Formula to investigate. That’s why Wang Sheng felt it was boring and retreated with the old Taoist.

“Your LaoJun Temple people have tried so hard to open the land of inheritance, do you want to hide it from the Taoist sects of the world?” As soon as the Tongming Head Teacher spoke, he placed himself on the moral high ground, “Now that the land of inheritance has been opened, we didn’t plan to return empty-handed. You have to say it now, otherwise, you are the enemy of the Taoist sects of the world!”

“This Head Teacher.” Wang Sheng faced the Tongming Head Teacher and asked very seriously, “May I ask what generation you are?”

“What do you mean?” The Tongming Head Teacher was stunned. Isn’t it obvious? His title has already been called out, Tongming Tonghui, of course, is the Tong generation.

“Me, the Xu generation.” Wang Sheng pointed to himself, “I kowtowed and formally became a disciple, my senior brother accepted me as a disciple on behalf of the master, and the Grand Master and a group of Qing generation disciples attended the ceremony. Now you say that I, a Xu generation Taoist disciple, am the enemy of the Taoist sects of the world?”

“Uh!” Only now did the Tongming Head Teacher remember that LaoJun Temple had informed all sects when they accepted Wang Sheng as a lay elder. Wang Sheng wasn’t talking nonsense. Now it was awkward. Not to mention whether one of the only two Xu generation ancestors in the Taoist sect was considered an enemy of the Taoist sect, just the Tongming Head Teacher’s attitude towards Wang Sheng was insubordination.

“It seems that you haven’t saluted me yet.” Wang Sheng smiled again and said to the Tongming Head Teacher.

The Tongming Head Teacher turned to look at the other five Head Teachers, and the other five were looking at him with strange eyes. The Tongming Head Teacher had no choice but to salute Wang Sheng.

“Greetings, Elder!” The Tongming Head Teacher said, bowing down.

He had no choice but to salute. Insubordination and disrespect to elders was a big mistake. The others could join forces and use this reason to cause trouble, or even unite with other disciples of his sect to remove him from the position of Head Teacher. Anyway, to cause trouble, all they needed was a sufficient reason.

As soon as the Tongming Head Teacher saluted, the other five Head Teachers also bowed to Wang Sheng: “Greetings, Elder!”

“En!” Wang Sheng raised his hand in a gesture of support, considering it his response. His gaze went directly to the Grand Master.

Of course, the Grand Master saw Wang Sheng’s inquiring gaze and nodded slightly.

“Besides underground fire veins, there are actually some other ways to provide energy to the inheritance formation for thousands of years.” Wang Sheng got the Grand Master’s approval before slowly opening his mouth, “Since the terrain here hasn’t changed for thousands of years, there are still some traces to follow. For example…”

“For example, what?” This time it wasn’t the Tongming Head Teacher who asked, but the Head Teacher with the fiery temper.

“For example, hot springs.” Wang Sheng smiled and answered gently, “Actually, to put it bluntly, hot springs and underground fire veins belong to the same kind, but they’re not as intense as underground fire veins.”

“Hot springs?” Hearing Wang Sheng’s answer, everyone was delighted, and then revealed a thoughtful expression.

“There really is a hot spring nearby.” A Qing generation old Taoist suddenly interjected.

Originally, it was inappropriate for others to interrupt when several Head Teachers and Wang Sheng Lingxu old Taoist were talking. However, the Tongming Head Teacher couldn’t find fault. The Taoist who spoke was of the Qing generation, and he was of the Tong generation, two generations lower than the Qing generation. Even if he scolded him, he would have to bear it first, let alone talk about something he was interested in?

Everyone immediately perked up. There really was a hot spring here? What Wang Sheng said made sense. Someone understood formations. Since the terrain hadn’t changed, then although hot springs couldn’t compare to underground fire veins, they could still continuously provide energy to the formation for thousands of years.

Perhaps that inheritance formation should be near the hot spring. And it just so happened that there was a hot spring near this broken Taoist temple, probably just as Wang Sheng said. Otherwise, how could there be such a coincidence that there was a hot spring right near the land of inheritance?

“Whether it is or isn’t, I’m afraid we have to go and see.” Wang Sheng didn’t expect that what he said casually was actually true, and immediately suggested.