"Seems that Xiandong Mountain has something, Juqu Mountain also has something. Wu Jinluan can contact you but did not contact, this matter is not urgent, but important. Juqu Mountain should be unable to contact you, directly send someone to deal with it, things will be much more complicated." Huo Youtian said in a few words that detailed differences between the two mountains.
"Whether or not you want to deal with the matter at Juqu Mountain, and how to handle it, you can consider it. If you, the young apprentice, are unwilling to go, I can take over the task," said He Youtian again.
"I'm fine, Master Brother." I took a slight breath of impure air and scattered the distraction in my mind again.
"Where are the Second Uncle, Mr. Wu, and people from Juqu Mountain?" I asked Kuī.
Kuī immediately gave me the two hall names.
"You go back first, let Mr. Wu take a short rest, and I'll meet with the people from Juqu Mountain," I said.
"The purpose of both parties is definitely to find me, but Master He understands the importance and urgency of the matter. Juqu Mountain is more serious."
After Kuī withdrew, I first entered the Shangqing Hall and washed the dirt on my face with a basin of water.
Afterward, I met with the people from Juqu Mountain.
Master He naturally accompanied me.
The visitor from Juqu Mountain was a green-robed Daoist, with a square face and thick eyebrows, who was quite unfamiliar.
It's normal that he looks unfamiliar. The elder monks and disciples I was once "familiar" with are almost all dead. Only a small batch of people who hid away back then are left, those who originally received the inheritance from me. They should be the backbone of Juqu Mountain now, guarding the mountain gate without going out, which is reasonable and logical.
"Junior Xu Yang, greetings to the little uncle of the four principles mountain, greetings to Master He," the green-robed Daoist bowed respectfully.
In the hall, there were actually other disciples of the Four Principles Mountain around, all of them stood silently with their hands folded, showing no other movements.
From their demeanor, they appeared slightly cold. Although the sentence mountain was destroyed, the things that sentence mountain did in the past were too much to criticize, so the disciples could not feel sympathy for it. This is also understandable.
"What's wrong with Juqu Mountain that it cannot be solved?" I directly cut to the chase and addressed the issue.
Xu Yang's face tightened slightly as he said cautiously, "Reporting to the little uncle of the Four Principles Mountain, there is a problem with the array in the mountain. The array was meticulously arranged by the sages from the Ascent to Immortality School before, and it was supposed to be very solid with the assistance of feng shui. We disciples have been guarding it daily, but unexpectedly, there are parts that have been damaged, beyond our ability to repair. And since Juqu Mountain wants to ascend to the Shendong Mountain, we were blocked by the Taoists of Leiping Tao Guan. They did not listen to our explanations and believed that Juqu Mountain should govern itself and not disturb the Ascent to Immortality School..."
I was taken aback.
It turns out that it's not any other problem, but just an array?
They are quite clever to know to go to the Ascent to Immortality School first.
Just, the reaction of Leiping Tao Guan is always much greater than that of Juqu Mountain.
This is not strange, because it was on that day at the Ascent to Immortality School that Juqu Mountain attacked me. This incident has evidently been remembered by Shenxiao.
"It's quite coincidental that the owner of the Ascent to Immortality School, Mr. Wu, is here. Although Old Gong is proficient in feng shui, with Mr. Wu's presence here now, it would be quicker for us to find out where the problem lies," I said straightforwardly.
Xu Yang's square face showed a faint smile, and his thick eyebrows also lifted.
"Thank you, the little uncle of the Four Principles Mountain!"
"Haha, you don't need to keep calling me respectfully all the time. I don't have such a big ego, you can call him Luo Daozhang or Xian Shen Daozhang, as there are quite a few connections between Juqu Mountain and him," He You Tian smiled and stroked his short beard.
"Yes! Thank you, Luo Daozhang!" Xu Yang was still thanking.
My gaze fell on a disciple standing beside the wall on the right and nodded, saying, "Go and invite Mr. Wu to come. He is in the ancestral hall."
The disciple immediately left the hall.
About ten minutes later, Mr. Wu Jinluan came.
The time I have been separated from him is not too long. Including the delay on the road, at the Five Sutras Temple and Heicheng Temple, at most one and a half months.
Mr. Wu Jinluan's aura was much more reserved, and after being tempered by several major feng shui sites, he had visibly become deeper and more profound.
"Luo Daozhang, Master He!" After Mr. Wu Jinluan bowed respectfully and greeted, his gaze finally fell on Xu Yang, and he frowned and said, "Impossible. Those arrays have all been checked and corrected several times by us. It's not the work of one person. There must be something else."
Pausing, Mr. Wu Jinluan changed his tone and said, "The law image of the Third Miao True King is also pressing down the array below. It's impossible that the array has been broken by your zombie ghosts below. Even these arrays are stronger than when Juqu Mountain was not in chaos."
Mr. Wu Jinluan's skepticism was evident as he continued, "Could it be that your disciples gathered from all directions have ulterior motives and someone deliberately destroyed the array?"
My heart slightly trembled.
I had indeed overlooked this, Juqu Mountain now has a larger population, but it is mixed and most of them come from various supervising Daoist schools.
Even within the same Daoist temple, it's impossible to have a monolithic group. Even in the Four Principles Mountain, there were traitors like Wang Shi who wanted to recruit disciples going down the mountain to use them as a stepping stone for the Tian Shou Dao Guan.
Iron Mountain has even internal strife and traitors.
Juqu Mountain is definitely not monolithic.
The array couldn't have been broken from the inside; it must have been destroyed from the outside!
"This..." Xu Yang's face contorted, his eyebrows were tightly knitted together, and his forehead was almost a spiral.
"It's true that it has been intentionally damaged, and the damage is not just a simple array. There is an entrance channel..." Xu Yang's words were startling!
Mr. Wu Jinluan's expression changed abruptly.
"He's gone crazy!?" His voice was particularly angry.
Xu Yang looked bitter and said, "Indeed, it is unclear who has damaged the array, nor do we know whether he has entered that passage. The sacred hall has been destroyed, leaving only a single red-robed elder who knows some information. There is an infernal tomb below Juqu Mountain, and that passage should be the tomb entrance."
"Perhaps the person who destroyed the array didn't go in. He's not completely crazy; he wouldn't be willing to risk his life." Xu Yang's tone was slightly more confident.
"What are you doing now?" Mr. Wu Jinluan immediately asked.
"We have dispatched all our disciples, divided and stationed at various arrays, leaving no opportunity for any riffraff. However, due to the destruction of one array, the stability of the other arrays has begun to falter." Xu Yang replied.
"Like a screw in its hole, destroying one array loosens the whole layout, of course causing instability." Mr. Wu Jinluan's expression showed a hint of uncertainty.
"How troublesome is it, Mr. Wu?" I asked.
"The trouble is not too troublesome. The arrays of Juqu Mountain are good in that they don't require a few core points. All the arrays share the suppression pressure equally, and we just need to repair them." Mr. Wu Jinluan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The delay in managing the affairs of Juqu Mountain will be caused by another matter."
"Haolin An and the others have been at Iron Mountain for a long time, Luo Daozhang should know that."
In these words, Mr. Wu Jinluan's eyes were bright and sharp.
He didn't continue with the rest of the words.
My heart jumped suddenly, realizing the reason!
Mr. Wu Jinluan didn't explain it in detail either, after all, Xu Yang was an outsider.
