Chapter 308: Dragon Veins Under the Sea-calming Palace and Entering the Azure Secret Area (1/2)
Chapter 308: Dragon Veins Under the Sea-calming Palace and Entering the Azure Secret Area
Translator: TransnEditor: Transn
Part of the Divine Wind Palace?
Zhou Bao suddenly saw a lot of stars flickering before his eyes as if he was dreaming a dream. Gaping at Golden Rooster with a dull look, after a while, he said, ”Golden Rooster, what the hell are you doing?”
”I'm not making any trouble,” said Golden Rooster with a bitter smile. ”Somebody is whimsical. That's why we're here!”
”Whimsical? Who's whimsical?”
”It's not whimsical. It's Fengshui!” A voice suddenly sounded and surprised Zhou Bao. His nerves were abruptly tightened, like a steel wire. The Internal Qi, like the black flaming, also began to run instantly.
”Take it easy. Just a bad bat!” Seeing Zhou Bao showing a nervous look, Golden Rooster waved hands and added, ”His other skills are useless, but he's good at hiding and mystifying. No one is a match for him regarding these things!”
Taking a look at Golden Rooster, Zhou Bao gradually calmed down.
”Ohhh hehehe, you're that Leopard. I've heard of you previously but had no opportunity to see you. Today, I finally meet with you. Ohhh hehehe!”
A figure slowly walked from the dark with a strange giggle and approached Zhou Bao step by step.
Simultaneously, Zhou Bao saw him clearly. He had a short, small stature and wore a black robe which was used for the 28 constellations of the Immortal Palace to work outside the palace; there was also a black bat pattern embroidered on the robe.
”Earth Bat of Girl!”
Seeing the dress, Zhou Bao immediately realized his identity. It was the Earth Bat of Girl of the 28 constellations.
Although he already knew his identity, he had no idea how to address him, and thus became stiff for a while.
”Ohhh hehehe. You're one of us. Others call me bad bat, jerk bat. You can also call me like they do!” Earth Bat of Girl seemed to know what was on Zhou Bao's mind and said with a laugh.
Zhou Bao gave a wry smile. ”I dare not. Anyway, you're senior to me. I'd better address you as Senior Bat!”
”Interesting. You're so polite. As you like!” Earth Bat of Girl showed a weird smile.
Earth Bat of Girl seemed to be at the age of 50 or 60. He had a darkish face, a slight figure and looked very capable. In particular, his eyes kept rolling around, which easily gave people a feeling that he was a shrewd person.
”I say, Senior, why are you free to visit me?”
”For your sake!” Earth Bat of Girl laughed and pulled the drawing from Zhou Bao's hands. ”Do you know that your territory has good Fengshui?”
”Good Fengshui?” Zhou Bao blinked, he did not get it at that moment.
”Yup, excellent Fengshui. The Fengshui in your territory is dozens of times better than that in Western Capital of the Great Jin. There's only one dragon vein under Western Capital, while your territory is a place where the Nine Strips of Dragon Veins convene. The fate is so strong that it shocks the heaven and the earth!” Saying this, Earth Bat of Girl was seemingly excited and gesticulated with his hands and feet.
Zhou Bao blankly turned his head and had a look at Golden Rooster but that was only to see a bitter complexion. Golden Rooster helplessly spread the hands, indicating that he could do nothing.
”Buddy, you know? As long as you control the dragon veins here, then, if you'd like to, the whole world will be in your hands. Moreover—”
”No no no. Senior, I, Zhou Bao, am not that ambitious!” said Zhou Bao, waving his hands. In this world, there were the martial arts world and the martial arts. When one person cultivated the martial arts to a certain degree, he would possess incredible Divine Senses, plus the magic weapons and the fairy weapons in the legend, which are totally a different world with the previous world. In this world, one could likely gain a long life of tens of thousands years or even hundreds of thousands of years after he culminated in cultivation, broke through Level Nine and finally jumped out of the three realms. However, frankly speaking, when one day another person came to you and said that your place had a good Fengshui, it was still pretty weird. Therefore, Zhou Bao had an emotional resistance right now, especially when an apparently untrustworthy person told him that.
”You don't have great ambition? You don't need that. It's destiny, serendipity, fate. Got it? That's the fate of heaven that falls to you. You need to do nothing. You just build the Sea-calming Palace. Then everything will take its course.”
”Sea-calming Palace?”
”Right. Sea-calming Palace. It's the real Sea-calming Palace. I found it in a damaged pattern in a wall at an Ancient Ruins. Hehe. It should have been the whole pattern of the Divine Wind Palace, but the only intact part is the Sea-calming Palace. Anyway, it's enough to suppress the Evil Earth Qi in your territory!”
”Evil Earth Qi?” Zhou Bao stared at Earth Bat of Girl confusedly.
”Exactly. Evil Earth Qi. The Evil Earth Qi here is too strong that the Dragon Qi is completely covered in the place where the Nine Strips of Dragon Veins converged. So, nobody else ever found it. Thanks to me, I came here and noticed this. Otherwise, you may really waste such valuable land with such good Fengshui. See, once my Sea-calming Palace is constructed, the Evil Earth Qi will be instantly suppressed. Then, nothing could suppress the Nine Strips of Dragon Veins here. Thus, your good fate will pour in from all sides!”
”I don't need such strong fate!” Zhou Bao still shook his head and cast eyes on the drawing in the Earth Bat of Girl's hands. ”Also, even if I need fate, it's not now. Besides, your Sea-calming Palace is a really huge project. I can't afford it now. Look at my two subordinates, their faces have paled with fright. So, let's talk about this thing later!”
”Later? What does your 'later' mean?” Earth Bat of Girl cried unsatisfied, ”Do you know what the fate on earth is? Don't you know that once you own the fate of the Nine Strips of Dragon Veins, your future—”
”The Nine Strips of Dragon Veins are here, and they can't run away. Construction of any building results in the same effect. Now, you want to build up such a big palace. Eye-catching. It's not the good time, not the time!” Zhou Bao said with hands waving.
Hearing what Zhou Bao had said, Earth Bat of Girl thought for a moment and nodded with a smile. ”Yes, you're also right. It's really garish to build the palace now. However, it's not good to let the Dragon Qi simply be suppressed by the Nine Strips of Dragon Veins. How about erecting a main hall on it to suppress the Evil Earth Qi and release a little fate?”
”OK. As long as it's not showy and I can afford it, you just build it,” said Zhou Bao, nodding with a forced smile and waving hands to Jiang Xiao and Zhu Ba. ”Em... You two, come here!”
”Your Excellency, what can we do for you?”
”Let me give you an introduction. This is Golden Rooster, the overseer for building the villa. In the past, he obeyed you, but now, you should obey him. So long as we can afford it, just give him what he wants. Clear?”
”Yes, Your Excellency!”
”And, this one. Mr. B-Bat, an assistant to Golden Rooster. Regarding the project, all of you shall listen to him. Got it?”
”Yes, Sir. Clear!” Those two people were dripping with sweat, like the rain.
A place where the Nine Strips of Dragon Veins got together?
What did it mean?
It should be known that, in this world, most people were superstitious. Especially, the fate or the dragon vein, which often appeared in all kinds of stories and legends, as it were, could be deeply rooted among the people, particularly those with underclass backgrounds like Jiang Xiao and Zhu Ba.
Hearing that Zhou Bao's territory was a place where the Nine Strips of Dragon Veins gathered, their heart rate sped up and felt an upsurge of emotion, which made them too excited to do anything.
Western Capital, the imperial capital of the Jin, was known as a Land of Dragon Rising, and thus a vast foundation was launched there. Even so, only one dragon vein was under the land. In contrast, Nine Strips of Dragon Veins were here!
Did it mean that their master, Zhou Bao, was much better suited to be an Emperor because he had more fate than the Emperor of the Jin?
All of them were with Zhou Bao when they were about 13 years old. So to speak, they were the first team. This time, if Zhou Bao really became the Emperor, they would all be senior officials who contributed to the country's establishment!
This thing which only happened in the novels suddenly befell them, making them feel that they were in the dream.
”What daydream are you two dreaming? You believe a charlatan's words?” Zhou Bao scolded with a low voice, awakening his subordinates who were caught up in their daydreams. The two didn't return to the reality until now. Raising their heads, they found that only Zhou Bao was before them.
”Stop looking. Both have already left!” Zhou Bao gave them a black look. ”Did you hear what we just talked about?”
”Yes, Your Excellency!”
”Now that you've already heard it, don't leak it out. I just saw your angry face as if you were ready to eat people. What's up?”
”Yes, yes!”
At this moment, Jiang Xiao and Zhu Ba had no idea what to say and clicked their tongues for a while. Finally, Zhu Ba said, ”Golden Rooster, as you called him, the overseer, suddenly brought that drawing to us and insisted on expanding the foundation based on the drawing and wanting more money and laborers. Em... We didn't know his identity, so we refused him. We just thought he was a common... common overseer, but who would expect that he came to you behind our backs!”
”Hehe. It's not a big deal. Golden Rooster is a friend of mine. He came here for help. He doesn't want others to know his identity, so he conceals himself with the identity of an overseer!”
”Yes yes yes. We know it now!”
Actually, when Golden Rooster came to Zhou Bao and unscrupulously called him ”guy”, they realized that Golden Rooster had a special identity. After that, the old Bat also came here and made a fuss. Even an idiot would understand that they belonged to another system of the subordinates under their boss, Zhou Bao, or another force.
”Now that you already know that Golden Rooster is my friend, in the future, if you encounter something which can't be solved by our forces, just go to him. He's a Level Eight expert. Nothing can't be solved by him!”
”Level Eight expert?” Jiang Xiao and Zhu Ba sharply swallowed the saliva and felt that they had lived in vain for half a life. Several years ago, when they had served as the privates in Jiang City, they had not often met masters of martial arts of Level Four or Five, let alone the experts. The experts, like the Immortals in the legend, flew in the sky instead of walking on the ground.