Realistic Longevity

Cheng Chuhua's throat was a little dry after explaining a series of things such as luck disputes and formations. After he coughed lightly, he went to get the water bottle. As soon as he stretched out his hand, Tang Ran stuffed him with a cup of warm water.

"Drink this." Tang Ran said casually.His attention was not on the water, but he was thinking about Cheng Chuhua's extremely informative words, "I understand. The price Yun Shuxia asked God to pay was the luck of the Yun family for a hundred years. When this luck returns to heaven and earth At that time, someone in the Chuhuai City Branch used a special method to intercept it, which angered Heaven and sent down a thunder disaster. Considering that only Minister Yun suffered the most in this thunder disaster, the person who intercepted the luck should be He—does that mean it?"

Be concise and clear.

Cheng Chuhua gave his thumbs up and praised his summary.

Zhuang Shuai wrote down Tang Ran's summary in his own notebook: "If this is true, then half of what we need to investigate will be solved?"

"It's half solved, but it's just a conclusion, and we need more evidence to support it." Tang Ran grabbed a branch and tossed around in the fire, poking at the gray-black ash in the fire, "So, we have to continue to investigate. .”

"Investigate, of course we must." Zhuang Shuai nodded vigorously.

After exchanging information, Cheng Chuhua remembered the formation materials he found in the ruins, so he took out the wrapped paper ball from his pocket, and asked strangely while doing so, "Tang Ran, what are you digging inside?"

"It's nothing." Tang Ran shook his head and put the branches aside. Seeing him unwrapping the paper balls one by one, he also helped: "What's wrong? Where did you get so many paper balls?"

"Oh, the bread here is something I found in the building. It is the layout material of the formation that was destroyed because of blocking the thunder disaster."

After Cheng Chuhua unpacked the paper balls, he waved to Zhuang Shuai for him to come too, and the three of them put their heads together... Oh no, it was the heads of Cheng Chuhua and Tang Ran, and Zhuang Shuai was at least half a meter away from Tang Ran From a distance, he looked at the eight formation materials.

Bi An jumped off Cheng Chuhua's shoulder, walked to the large empty seat diagonally opposite to the three of them, sat down with a flick of his tail, and looked in sync with them.

These eight pieces are the white jade bead strings in the east, the half-burned dragon green wood branches in the west, the red gold antique tiger charms in the south, the ghost stone in the north, the blue bird holding the wind map in the southeast, and the Four Saints in the northeast. The bronze mirror, the small bronze tripod in the southwest and the pictures of the philosophers preaching scriptures in the northwest.

Among them, the picture of the blue bird holding the wind and the picture of the scholars preaching scriptures are authentic and intact, but there is nothing special about them, as if they were just used to make up numbers.The other six pieces were seriously damaged, and if it wasn't for the well-informed two and one cat present, it would be difficult to recognize what they were.

"The Panlong green wood branch and the red gold antique tiger amulet are antiques, the picture of the blue bird holding the wind and the picture of the philosophers preaching scriptures are authentic works, and the stone of the underworld, the bronze mirror of the four saints and the small bronze tripod are magical artifacts... imitations?" Zhuang Shuai said these eight I made a simple classification of such materials, "There is also this white jade bead string, which seems to be an object of Buddhism, what is it? Are the people who set up the formation thinking so wild?"

Tang Ran squinted at him, then looked at Cheng Chuhua: "Do you know what these things are for?"

"I seem to have heard someone talk about a formation that needs something similar." Cheng Chuhua frowned and searched carefully for memories, "Probably in the fifth year of Qidai Chuping, some strange things happened in the village where I lived, and the villagers were panicked. , So I pooled my money and went to a nearby city to invite a Taoist priest to see what was going on."

"What happened next?" Zhuang Shuai pressed his chin and asked.

Cheng Chuhua continued: "After the old Taoist came, he walked around the village a few times, saying that the ground veins in our place were broken, and the earth's air was chaotically rushing. It merged with some evil spirit and collided with the nearby mountain gods, which led to a series of strange things. Think about it. There are two ways to solve it. One is a radical method, which needs to connect to the earth veins and direct the earth's energy; the other is a temporary method, which can only maintain a hundred years of peace, and that is to deploy formations around the village."

Zhuang Shuai asked curiously: "Which method did you choose? The first one?"

"It's the second one. The first one is too expensive. The war had just subsided at that time, and we didn't have the money to do such a big thing, so we had to choose the second one." Cheng Chuhua told too many stories, and now he can't speak smoothly Less, "After the money was in place, the old Taoist priests began to set up the formation. I helped prepare the materials, and there are these things inside."

Hearing this, Bi An suddenly asked: "What's the name of that formation?"

Cheng Chuhua scratched his head and thought for a while: "I heard from him, it seems to be called...obey orders and pray for life formation."

"Observe the life prayer array?" Tang Ran and Bi An repeated in unison.

"What's wrong? Do you know?" Cheng Chuhua and Zhuang Shuai looked at the abnormally synchronized two people in puzzlement.

Tang Ran looked at Qu An, hesitantly said: "I don't know if what we know is the same thing, but I have seen an introduction about this formation in the headquarters database."

According to legend, the Obedience Prayer Formation that Tang Ran knew was a protective formation formed by a practitioner during the Dayue period based on a long-lost ancient formation.The ancient formations are attacking and attacking together, but the improved obedience prayer formation only has a defensive function, which is equivalent to giving up all attack power and strengthening the defense ability to the extreme. It often appears in various places of practice.

After listening to Tang Ran's introduction, Bi Yan nodded his chin: "As far as I know, the Prayer Formation of Obedience to Orders was mostly used for defense in the ancient times, but the more important use is to fortune the spirit and support the Luan."

To communicate with the way of heaven above, to respond to ghosts and gods below, to predict people and events, and to account for the fate of heaven, this is the real purpose of the birth prayer formation, which is also the origin of its name.

"If there is no accident, the Obedience Prayer Formation in the ancient times is the prototype of the improved Obedience Prayer Formation." Accustomed to having a piece of information fragments in hand, Cheng Chuhua is now much more proficient at putting together puzzles than before, "also a branch The array arranged outside the building."

Bi An raised his paw and patted him, reminding him: "Don't forget, the key materials of this formation are not what we found."

Cheng Chuhua came to a sudden: "Ah, by the way, the life-obedience array is actually set up with human luck. These materials may be the carrier of luck. Now that the luck is deprived, they will completely lose their effectiveness."

Hearing this, Tang Ran and Zhuang Shuai were dumbfounded.

"It's a big deal, use human luck to set up the formation." Zhuang Shuai grabbed a pen and wrote down, "There is another piece of evidence proving that the Yun family is related to the Chuhuai City branch."

"The luck of humanity was originally the luck of the Yun family, but part of it was used to lay out the protective formations of the branch buildings. It seems that the Yun family's plan is not small." Tang Ran put the Qiankun astrolabe in front of Cheng Chuhua, and used the touch screen to The pen writes on the screen to help clear the mind, "Our current goals are three. First, find out what is special about the places marked on the map; second, the origin of the Yun family's moral luck; third, What exactly are the Yun Family and the Chuhuai City Branch planning? If these three issues are clarified, then the Chuhuai City Branch’s affairs will be almost resolved.”

Cheng Chuhua nodded: "Deputy Minister Zhang said that the truth about Lei Jie is related to a bureau jointly set up by the Yun family and the branch. If the answers to these three questions are found out, this bureau will come to the surface."

"Well, after that, the Chuhuai City Branch will also be under the control of the headquarters." Tang Ran added, put down the Qiankun Astrolabe, picked up a branch and continued to pull the ashes in the fire, and after a few seconds, he pulled out a few roasted ash. Sweet potatoes with blackened skin, "It's finally ready."

"Huh? Sweet potatoes?" Cheng Chuhua stared at the rolling sweet potatoes dumbfounded, and finally knew what he was scratching just now.

Zhuang Shuai was also a little surprised: "Brother Tang, when did you bury it?"

"Just a few minutes when you went to fetch the water." Tang Ran picked up the sweet potato and patted off the dust on the surface, first handed one to Cheng Chuhua, then threw another to Zhuang Shuai, and then he picked up the last one and peeled it off. I took a bite, "Well, it's delicious."

Cheng Chuhua has lived for 3000 years, and on average every few hundred years, there will be a period of poverty with sweet potatoes. He has eaten more sweet potatoes than Tang Ran and Zhuang Shuai combined, and he can even peel the sweet potatoes out of a double dragon. Playing with Pearls.

However, most of his sweet potato-related memories are also full of hunger and cold. It was the first time that he sat around the campfire like this tonight, eating sweet potatoes leisurely with friends.

Cheng Chuhua looked at Tang Ran, looked at Zhuang Shuai, and looked at the hot sweet potato in his hand, couldn't help smiling, slowly peeled off the outer skin, and bit it off, his mouth was full of sweetness.

"Master Bi An, do you want to eat it?" He swallowed the sweet potato in his mouth and asked Bi An who was sitting beside him.

Bi An sniffled his nose and nodded his head reservedly.

Cheng Chuhua smiled and squeezed a piece to feed it.

In the temporary camp of the Chuhuai City branch, the general fell asleep all night. After Cheng Chuhua was woken up by the mobile phone alarm clock, he asked the boss for leave immediately, and then went to wash up.

He took the disposable toiletries and walked to the sink, where Tang Ran and Zhuang Shuai had already washed their faces.Tang Ran was very energetic, but Zhuang Shuai was so sleepy that he tottered like he was sleepwalking. When he fell on Tang Ran, he pushed him away with one finger, and walked to the side in disgust.

Well, it's still Brother Tang who doesn't like to interact with people.

Zhuang Shuai, who was sober after hitting the wall, thought so.

"Cheng Chuhua, Sir Bi An, good morning."

Seeing Cheng Chuhua, Tang Ran smiled and raised his hand to say hello to him and Bi An who was squatting on his shoulder. He had completely different faces from when he was treating Zhuang Shuai.

"Morning." Cheng Chuhua smiled back, and Bi An also waved his paw at him.

After washing up, the three of them and one cat returned to the camp, spoke to Vice Minister Zhang, who also just woke up but looked undisturbed, and then drove to the first marked location on the map, which is Fenglin, which is located in the northernmost part of the Eastern District. garden.

"Put on your clothes." On the driver's seat, Tang Ran took out a thin coat from the box under his feet and threw it to Cheng Chuhua who was next to him, "It's raining in Fenglin Park, and the temperature is around [-] degrees today. I caught a cold."

Cheng Chuhua's heart warmed up: "Thank you."

Seeing this, Zhuang Shuai in the back seat grabbed the back of the driver's seat and said, "Brother Tang, give me one too, I'm already getting cold."

Tang Ran pulled out his sweater and covered his face.

The Chuhuai City Branch is located at the southernmost tip of the Eastern District, nearly two hours' drive from Fenglin Park, but with Tang Ran's driving skills like "catching shrimps", it only took a little over an hour to get there.

"Here we are, let's get out of the car." Tang Ran shook his head vigorously, unbuckled his seat belt and got out of the car.

"..."

Cheng Chuhua and Zhuang Shuai looked at each other, leaned their heads against the car window, and said in unison, "Let's take it easy."