Chapter 1436: Chapter 534: Lotus Graveyard
Lotus Mountain, as its name suggests,
is made up of several mountain ranges that converge from the outskirts, surrounding the main peak. If viewed from an aerial perspective, one would think that this mountain range truly resembles a lotus emerging from the water.
Zhou Xuan, Zhao Wuya, and Little Brain were walking in the mountains, observing the changes in the mountain’s position that brought about the mountain’s force.
"How is it, Brother Xuan, can you tell the difference?"
Zhao Wuya asked Zhou Xuan.
Their trip into the mountains was purely to find the alternate reality created by the "Hundred-eyed Child" in this real space.
Finding this space was incredibly difficult; even Danzi had no solution. Zhou Xuan ventured into the mountains, partly on a stroke of luck, and partly to seek inspiration.
What if an idea struck him that could separate the "Hundred-eyed Child" from real space?
But after he and Zhao Wuya skimmed rapidly through Lotus Mountain with the wind, the confidence they had built quickly faded away.
"It’s really hard to find."
Zhou Xuan’s Perception was fully unleashed, continuously scanning the Lotus Mountain,
detecting every living thing in the mountain, down to the subtle breathing of hibernating bears and snakes, which he perceived clearly,
however—beyond these, there wasn’t a single strange occurrence.
"Found nothing?"
Zhao Wuya asked again.
"Nothing."
Zhou Xuan replied.
Zhao Wuya sighed and said, "Then we came into the mountains for nothing."
"Not exactly for nothing."
Zhou Xuan said again.
"Why." Zhao Wuya asked.
"As the saying goes, when the unexpected occurs, there must be a demon." Zhou Xuan pointed to the cemetery on the eastern side of the mountain and said, "Ya Zi, look over there, the cemetery is everywhere, but there are no ghostly presences in this mountain, which is very unusual."
In the mountains, there are usually many Wangling and mountain goblins, yet in Lotus Mountain, there’s a scene of peace, which in itself is highly unusual.
"If you put it that way... Brother Xuan, I also noticed something quite unusual."
Zhao Wuya’s mind usually didn’t work too quickly; he tended to take things at face value rather than think deeply about strange occurrences,
but as long as he worked alongside Zhou Xuan, his clever little brain would also start spinning.
Zhou Xuan asked, "What is unusual?"
"There shouldn’t be so many cemeteries here." Zhao Wuya said.
"The landscape here is wonderful, it’s a feng shui treasure trove, why shouldn’t there be cemeteries?" Zhou Xuan asked again.
In terms of reasoning, Zhou Xuan belonged to the Dragon Seeking Sensing Sect, where the Dragon Seeker of this sect was formidable against enemies but didn’t highly value feng shui and acupoint determination.
Dragon Seeking is to seek people—this was the tone set by Yun Heavenly Master of the Ganying Sect.
Since he set this tone, the skills of acupoint determination, examining mountains, and surveying water veins were considered minor paths among the Dragon Seekers of this lineage.
For instance, Zhou Xuan, his abilities to leverage mountain force, water force, and Dragon Force far exceeded those of Zhao Wuya.
But since he hadn’t specifically studied "acupoint determination," his understanding of geography and watercourses was not as profound as Zhao Wuya’s.
Zhao Wuya said, "This is indeed a feng shui treasure, but it’s too much of a treasure; on the contrary, burying graves here is profoundly absurd."
"Great achievements appear insufficient yet their utility is unimpeded, great fullness appears empty yet their utility is inexhaustible. The best things in this world are imperfect; that little bit of imperfection makes it perfect. To the people of the world, that is the most perfect thing."
He pointed to Lotus Mountain and said, "But here, the surrounding mountains, the verdant Qingshan, the force of the mountains is gathered so tightly that it’s impermeable, not a single bit of mountain force leaks out, which is overly perfect,
Such a place, in our Dragon Seeking and Acupoint Pointing Sect, is called ’Immortal Valley.’"
This valley is a place destined to produce Immortals, over time, a great Immortal is sure to be birthed here.
The nurturing of a great Immortal requires enormous nourishment, and all the living beings and the deceased within this mountain must become his nourishment."
Zhao Wuya counted on his fingers, explaining one by one: "The construction of these cemetery mounds is phenomenal, the scale of the tombs is grand, and the grave mounds are meticulously crafted; those buried here are undoubtedly affluent and noble,
People of wealth, seeking a feng shui treasure ground to lay their bones, hope to gather fortune force to benefit their descendants,
But in this Immortal Valley, all their fortune force is fed to the Immortal; who could they benefit then?"
"Perhaps it was because those wealthy individuals heard of Lady Lianhua’s Great Buddha’s name and thus chose to have their coffins buried here?" Zhou Xuan said again.
"Impossible."
Zhao Wuya shook his head and said, "I may not understand poor people, but don’t I understand the rich?
Which wealthy family doesn’t worship a ’gate master’? Those gate masters are proud disciples of Dragon Seeking, Heavenly Eye, and Dun Jia,
These disciples, as soon as they visit Lotus Mountain, would definitely recognize this Immortal Valley... and would never agree to those wealthy families burying their coffins here."
"If you put it that way, I must go and take a look at the cemetery to find out."
Zhou Xuan felt that Zhao Wuya made perfect sense, so he used Shifting Form and Shadow to move to the noble’s cemetery immediately.
"Brother Xuan, wait for me, my wind is not as swift as yours."
...
The cemetery of Lotus Mountain resembled a modern cemetery.
In this era, poor families made funeral arrangements by simply burying their dead on a visually appealing mountain, these mountains being generally not very high so as to save labor when carrying the coffin.
Saving labor was akin to saving money.
Middle-class families would begin choosing higher mountains, carrying the coffin up the mountains, and for this, they hired a considerable number of porters at great expense to carry the coffins up the mountain.
However, they’d merely bury them on higher mountains, without embellishing the graves post-burial.
Wealthy families, on the other hand, were entirely different,
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