Chapter Thirty-Six: The Five Elements Sweep Yang

  A good meal was ruined by Director Li, and I didn't taste anything. After eating a bit, I said goodbye to Jingga's parents and got into Jingga's car, heading towards the new location of Yuqing Garden.

  The mountain range where the Jin Gang Cannon chose to help people is located in the south of the city, and the feng shui is actually quite good. The two of us drove our car to the public cemetery on the halfway up the mountain, and after getting out of the car, I closed my eyes and focused my mind to take a look at the aura here. It's strange, according to reason, every tomb should emit black soul energy, and the thickness or thinness is directly proportional to the grievances of the deceased. However, in such a large cemetery, there wasn't even a hint of soul energy emanating from it, but instead presented a tranquil and peaceful atmosphere.

  "Let's go, up to the top of the mountain." I want to look down from a high vantage point and take another careful look.

  "Oh, Old Yu, what do you think of this place?" Jin Gang Pao asked.

  "The atmosphere is great, it's a bit too good to be true. The dead are buried and there isn't even a hint of yin energy. Where did all the yin energy go?" I furrowed my brow in thought.

  "I've also figured it out, just don't know what the reason is." Jin Gang Cannon glanced at the towering mountain peaks and opened the trunk to take out a few bottles of water.

  I was talking to Jin Gang Pao, walking along the winding path of the sheep's intestine, and later there was no road, I could only trample on the weeds and pull on the branches, moving up little by little.

  "Old cow, have you noticed that we haven't met a single animal on this road?" I said, lighting a cigarette.

  "Who said that? I just saw a crow earlier. Look, it's still there." Jin Gang pointed to the locust tree not far away for me to see.

  I looked up and indeed there was a crow standing on the top of that big pagoda tree.

  I and Jin Gang Pao climbed for nearly an hour before reaching the top of the mountain. The cool mountain breeze blew, refreshing the spirit.

  I stood on a massive boulder at the top of the mountain, pinched my fingers and looked again. I had thought that there would definitely be a grayish-brown tomb gas emanating from an ancient grave here, but after looking for half a day, apart from a light yellow earth gas, there was nothing unusual about it. "Could it be that I analyzed it wrong, and there's no ancient tomb here at all?" I couldn't help but doubt my previous analysis.

  "Lao Yu, come and see, the land energy of these mountains is excellent, it's just too steep, so I chose this one at the beginning." Jin Gang Cannon pointed to the surrounding mountains for me to see.

  I turned around and saw that, apart from the mountain peak under my feet, there were also three other mountain peaks in the east, south, and west directions, all emitting a faint yellow mist. I stretched out my thumb to measure them roughly, and found that the mountain peaks in the east and west were about five kilometers away, while the one in the south was farther away, probably around ten kilometers.

  I picked a cleaner stone to sit on, lit a cigarette and closed my eyes, thinking quickly: although the light yellow python energy is not the best among the five-color earth energy, it is also a relatively auspicious place next only to the golden dragon energy. Why is this rare python energy so abundant in this area of ten kilometers, with as many as four places? If you say it's a coincidence, it's absolutely impossible, because python energy itself has spiritual energy and can't gather together like humans do. If it's not a coincidence, reality is right there, and you can't help but believe it.

  I flicked away the cigarette butt, stood up. Once again I pinched off the Qigong meditation technique, but this time I added the easy-to-use Qigong meditation mantra "Minghun Qingming, Yingbao Jingjing, Qiwu Fa Yan, to observe the original shape. The Supreme Taoist Master is urgent and urgent like a law!"

  With the help of Jing Shen Jue and Guan Qi Zhen Yan, I looked around at the local energy again, and couldn't help but be shocked, breaking out in a cold sweat, and sat back down on the ground with a thud.

  "Lao Yu, what's wrong?" Jin Gang Pao came over with concern and supported me.

  I waved my hand "a bit dizzy."

  "Oh, you scared me to death! Right, what were you muttering just now? Wasn't it the Concentration Mantra?" Jin Gang Pao may be a bit dull-witted, but he also has his clever moments. Seeing me holding the Observing Aura and Concentrating Mind Technique, he naturally thought of the Concentration Mantra I was reciting.

  "Right, remember." I continued and slowly recited the mantra again. If you don't press the seal and recite the mantra, it won't work.

  "What is a fate soul? And what's an English spirit?" King Kong Cannon asked in confusion.

  Due to my previous misunderstanding of him, I didn't teach him many things. Through this incident with the Golden Cannon, I feel a bit guilty for misunderstanding him. So, I patiently explained to him: "The human body has three souls and seven spirits, with the soul being yin and the spirit being yang. The life soul is the main soul of a person and is the only one that always stays in the body. The heroic spirit is one of the seven spirits, responsible for physical strength. The effect of this true statement is to gather the yin and yang souls and spirits of the human body to enhance the range and clarity of observation. Because our ancestor is the Tianxian Sect Master, and Taishang Daodaojun is his title, when using magic, we must borrow the power of our ancestors to increase its power. However, it's best if you don't use it lightly, as true statements consume too much spiritual energy and yuanqi."

  "Go on, don't worry, what did you just see?" Zheng nodded solemnly.

  "You pinch the mantra and try to recite the true words yourself." I didn't tell him what I saw, but instead guided him to learn and use it on the spot. Anyway, it's not a critical moment, wasting some spiritual energy doesn't matter much.

  "My spirit is clear and bright, my heroic soul is concentrated and refined. Open my Dharma eye to observe the true form." The Supreme Old Lord hastens like a law!

  I was glad that this guy could remember the true words, but who knew it would end up like this. I kicked him with one foot: "I let you Taishang Laojun, I let you Taishang Laojun..."

  "Oh no, Old Yu, you said you wouldn't hit me again, oh no......"

  "I'll use my foot, I'll kick you to death." We messed around for a bit. "Cut it out, try again carefully, remember, it's the Supreme Lord of the Tao, you even got the ancestor wrong, what can you see?"

  Jīn gāng pào yòu zhèng er bā jīng de niē zhe jué niàn zhòu: "Lǎo yú, wǒ kàn jiàn le......"

  Translation:

  Golden cannon again solemnly pinched the incantation: "Old Yu, I saw..."

  "Take another look at that small hill between the four mountain peaks." I reminded him.

  "Geez, I'm scared to death!" The Golden Cannon was startled and his fingers slipped out of position, causing the spell to dissipate naturally.

  "What did you see?" I asked knowingly.

  "Four headless long worms." Jin Gang Pao always habitually referred to snakes as "long worms".

  "I said it was a python, not a long worm. What's on that hill in the middle?" I continued to quiz him.

  "A five-headed long... python's aura." King Kong Cannon's face was filled with terror.

  "You've made a big mistake, if I'm not mistaken, these mountain peaks and the small hill in between should be the Five Earths Sweeping Yang Formation. It's the same principle as the Five Waters Gathering Yin Pool we saw behind the ancient tomb on East Mountain, but this one is much more overbearing. Not only does it use mountain peaks as an array, but also uses five mountain peaks where python energy coils and lies in wait..."

  "Lao Yu, how did you know so much?" Jin Gang Pao also had a meticulous side sometimes.

  "Oh, right, ah, it's about time, let's head down the mountain to eat first, and then think of a solution." I really didn't know how to explain to him that my knowledge came from memories of my past life. If I told him the truth, I estimated it would take three days and nights to make it clear. There was no way, so I had to speak evasively, but to be honest, I was also hungry.

  It's said that going up a mountain is easy, but coming down is hard. This saying is not false at all. After much trouble, I finally made it down the mountain and sat in the car, taking a long sigh "I haven't been exercising much lately, my physical strength can't keep up."

  "It's not that, you bled a lot today, so you feel tired. By the way, Old Yu, what were you staring at that crow for when we were going down the mountain?" Jin Gang started the car.

  On the way down the mountain, we met that crow again. In ancient times, crows were called "soul callers" and were ranked alongside the owl driving next to me as one of the two most ominous birds. The difference is that owls call out yin souls, while crows call out yang souls. Yin souls are what we commonly refer to as ghosts, while yang souls are spirits still in the human body. Where owls appear, people will die from illness, and where crows appear, people are more likely to die suddenly. So I couldn't help but take a few extra glances at that crow, even observing it with my fingers clasped together, but ultimately didn't discover any problems - maybe I was just being too sensitive.

  Jin Gang wanted to pull me to his home for dinner, I resolutely refused, not that I looked down on his home, but if I went again, I'm afraid the pig in his backyard would be unlucky.

  I first let him pull me to the hospital to change my dressing, with a big roll of mosquito netting on my head, which wasn't very good. This guy didn't idle around while I was changing my dressing either, pointing at his ankle that had been bitten in the morning and asking the doctor to give him a rabies vaccine, the doctor tried to persuade him otherwise but ended up giving him a tetanus shot in the butt instead.

  "Lao Yu, where are we staying tonight?" Jin Gang was gnawing on a fish head. The fish stew at the restaurant wasn't ready yet, and the fish head was half-cooked.

  "I'm definitely not going home looking like this, I was planning to visit my aunt but that's not possible now, might as well stay in a hotel." I dug into the rice, the bamboo shoots on the table were just what I needed.

  "Old man, why is it that during the day there's not a single soul in that place, but as soon as night falls, it's haunted?" asked Jin Gang Pao, tossing down a bloody fish head.

  "As soon as the sun came out, those guys were all sucked into the ancient tomb in the middle of the four mountain peaks. I reckon it wasn't a pleasant experience for them. As soon as the sun set, the formation automatically sent them back out again. Think about it, if you were beaten up all day, wouldn't you be grumbling at night? The middle hill must have an ancient tomb, I confirmed that during the day."

  "What does it mean?" Jin Gang Pao recited his Three Character Classic again.

  I wiped my mouth and used chopsticks to point at a plate of squid on the table, drawing an analogy. "The principle of this Five Earths Sweeping Yang Array is like this squid, those four mountain peaks are like the squid's tentacles, stretching out to absorb the plundered yang energy. But you've sent several hundred yin spirits to someone else's tentacles! Think about it, they were originally trying to catch fish, but you sent them several hundred turtles instead. How could they not be angry?" At that time, I forgot that among those several hundred turtles was my old aunt's husband, and I made an inappropriate analogy.

  "Oh~" Jin Gang Pao suddenly realized "Lao Yu, you said that ancient tomb absorbed so much yang energy for what?"

  "I don't know, generally speaking, a person's soul after death is yin in nature, so it shouldn't need such intense yang energy. Unless..."

  "What's wrong?" Jin Gang anxiously grasped his head.

  "Unless it's not dead people buried in that ancient tomb!"

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