Wandering Gods of Day and Night-Chapter 349 - 209 Hidden Dragon Within_4

Inside the shop, only Huang Xi and Yun Ziliang, who was waiting for Li Chengfeng, remained.

"Mr. Yun, our Huang Family has encountered a major situation, and we must seek your guidance to clear the confusion."

"What situation has your Huang Family encountered?"

"Recently, there’s been some disturbance at the Huang Family’s ancestral graves... The graves have cracked, the incense fire has reversed, and even our old ancestor had a strange dream. In the dream, he saw all the Huang Family disciples from Mingjiang Prefecture being pinned to the ground and beheaded. Our ancestor suspects the Feng Shui of the Huang Family has gone awry and has dispatched disciples to search for a Dragon Seeking Heavenly Master..."

"I see, but I don’t have much time today. Come find me tomorrow. The matter of ’Hunger’ is somewhat more urgent, and the issue in your Huang Family can wait a few more days."

Yun Ziliang agreed to Huang Xi’s request, but weighing the urgency between ’Hunger’ and the Huang Family’s anomaly, he was clear on his priorities.

...

"Mr. Zhou, you invited me to determine the Dragon-locking Cave—was it because you trust my Dragon Seeking Skill?"

In the car, Zhao Wuya asked Zhou Xuan.

"What do you think?" Zhou Xuan asked in return.

"I think... yes."

"Guess again?"

Zhao Wuya: "..."

Zhou Xuan, one hand on the steering wheel and the other resting against his cheek, said, "We’re going to capture ’Hunger.’ The situation can change moment by moment. I’m afraid I won’t be able to take care of Lao Yun, but Li Chengfeng is different. His incense fire rank is high, and he can look after Lao Yun thoroughly. By the way, how many sticks of incense are you worth?"

"Me? I have five sticks of incense," Zhao Wuya answered honestly.

"Five sticks? That’s pretty decent."

"Actually, it’s still far from enough," Zhao Wuya said. "In the Dragon Seeking lineage, the highest incense fire level belongs to our Grand Master. He was like a god in the past."

Zhou Xuan had always been curious about Yun Ziliang’s incense fire rank, but Yun Ziliang would never disclose it, always claiming "four sticks of incense."

"How high is Lao Yun’s incense fire?"

"My Grand Master’s incense fire was so high that it surpassed incense entirely."

"..." Zhou Xuan.

"Truly, no incense. Originally, my Grand Master had four sticks of incense. When he had four sticks, he was already the first in the human world Daoist school."

"So it really was four sticks of incense?" Zhou Xuan realized Yun Ziliang was not "bluffing"—when he said four sticks, it was genuinely four sticks, without any exaggeration.

"Yes, Dragon Seeking Heavenly Masters are quite unique. Their prowess and methods are not determined by the incense fire level."

"If not by incense fire level, then by what?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"Primarily by... whether a person harbors a dragon within themselves," Zhao Wuya explained. "Dragon Seeking Heavenly Masters, by finding Big Dragons, Ancestor Dragons, or True Dragons, can collect Dragon Qi to store within their bodies. The more Dragon Qi stored, the stronger their borrowed dragon power."

"So in our Tangkou, greatness is judged by how many Big Dragons one can find in a lifetime. The more dragons found, the mightier one becomes."

"I see. Then when Lao Yun had four sticks of incense and ruled the Daoist schools, why did he lose his incense fire later?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"He removed it himself," Zhao Wuya said, a faint trace of pride emerging as he mentioned this.

"Is it because Lao Yun pulled out his incense fire that he became this half-human, half-ghost figure?"

"No, my Grand Master pulled out his incense fire because he encountered a True Dragon and harbored the True Dragon within himself."

Zhao Wuya mimicked the gesture of "removing incense," explaining, "Upon seeing the True Dragon, he comprehended the Dao of Heaven and Earth. The divine entity connected with our Tangkou, the ’Mountain Ancestor,’ no longer mattered. With the True Dragon within him, there was simply no need to follow the ’Mountain Ancestor.’

The incense fire of Dragon Seeking Heavenly Masters derives from their worship of the ’Mountain Ancestor.’ But once you no longer follow the ’Mountain Ancestor,’ the incense fire becomes useless and should be removed."

As Zhou Xuan heard this, he recalled the small-script calligraphy on Yun Ziliang’s painting: "Without Dragon Seeking Qi, one cannot see the True Dragon. Pinpointing the acupoint to revere the Mountain Ancestor, Xuan Heaven witnesses the True Dao."

Only now did he understand the meaning of these four lines.

Yun Ziliang had always sneered at the "acupoint pinpointing" lineage within Dragon Seeking but never explained why.

And the last two lines of these four sentences were the reason—acupoint cultivation, at its peak, can only lead to becoming a Mountain Ancestor. But seeing the True Dragon meant glimpsing the True Dao.

"Given how powerful Lao Yun was, why did he hide in the painting for 300 years? And why has Hidden Dragon Mountain’s sensing lineage ceased for his descendants?"

"That, I don’t know," Zhao Wuya said. "But I’ve heard from the Great Heavenly Masters in our Tangkou that during my Grand Master’s peak, he slew quite a few Daoists who descended upon him."

"Lao Yun was truly a formidable figure back in the day," Zhou Xuan said with admiration. "If someday I can help him return to his peak, wouldn’t I be latching onto a golden leg?"

...

In another car, Li Chengfeng smiled and said to Yun Ziliang, "The High Priest is truly remarkable. The City God and Bone Elder have been investigating the ’Hunger’ case for such a long time, without uncovering a single clue. But with just one move, he’s advanced the case by leaps and bounds—it looks like ’Hunger’ is about to be captured."

"Naturally," Yun Ziliang patted his chest with a resounding thump and said, "Xiao Zhou is someone I sensed to be a dragon among humans. I’m just counting on him to carry me."

Lao Yun had his own philosophy for Dragon Seeking,

Dragon Seeking wasn’t about locating clay idols, nor was it about discovering Feng Shui treasures.

The essence of Dragon Seeking was finding people—

finding the dragons among men.

Zhou Xuan was exactly the human True Dragon he had been searching for...

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