Chapter 35: The Nine Dragons Ask for the Cauldron

After the old Taoist priest was forced back, everyone in the room stood up. Not only Chen Xiong, who knew the strength of the old Taoist priest best, but even Yun Guan and Li Sanyuan were shocked. Although Li Sanyuan and Yun Guan were not very clear about the detailed strength of the old Taoist priest, they knew that the old Taoist priest was very strong, at least not much weaker than their sect leader or Chen Xiong.

Although the old Taoist priest was a foreign disciple of Lou Guandao, his exquisite secular Taoist martial arts alone would not be worse than those practitioners. When Wanhualou and Sanwei Teahouse were competing for the territory of Chen Family Chong, Li Sanyuan and Yunguan fought hard. Later, after the old Taoist priest came, he defeated the two of them by relying on secular martial arts alone, and even some of the Taoist priests could not cause harm to him. This made the two realize that even if Chen Family Chong had no Xu Changqing, they were still not a place where they could do whatever they could do.

"I wonder who is the master outside the house? Since he is a guest, can you come into the house and tell me, Chen Xiong, and let me do my job as my master?" Chen Xiong followed the rules of the world and shouted outside the house. Li Sanyuan and Yun Guan also retreated to both sides of Chen Xiong, and both took out magic weapons. If there was any error, they would take action to kill the enemy.

At this time, a person walked in slowly from outside the house. He saw that the person had hair and beard like grass, covering most of his face. He was wearing an old long gown and was very unfit to fit. His hands were like dead wood with nails several inches long, and he held a bitter bamboo stick in his hand. In addition, he seemed to have been hungry for a long time, and his face was extremely thin. If you look closely, you can clearly see the blue veins floating on the surface and the shape of the muscles under the skin.

"It turns out that he is a senior Beggar's Sect who has achieved martial arts. He is disrespectful and disrespectful!" Seeing this outfit, Li Sanyuan and Yun Guan blurted out naturally.

When the man walked in, the old Taoist priest whispered a few words in Chen Xiong's ear. Chen Xiong then realized that this man was powerful. With his physical strength alone, he had to be the best palm of his outer sect's senior brother, and he also shook him back. According to this strength, if he started to take action, he would definitely not be able to get trapped here, and it might be a loss. So he said that first, he said, "I don't know why this master of Beggar Sect came to my Chen family's house late at night. If there were any difficulties, I might be able to help one or two."

"Do I look like a beggar?" The visitor looked down at himself, smiled, and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "It seems that this outfit is quite successful, and even the lower nine-rate people who are very familiar with me cannot recognize it."

Everyone was stunned for a moment. Chen Xiong and Li Sanyuan felt very familiar with the tone of the visitor, but none of the people they knew fit the image and appearance of the person in front of them. Just when everyone was suspicious, the man found a chair and sat down, then picked up the braid from behind his head, and shook the golden bell on it in front of everyone.

"Xu Changqing!" Chen Xiong and Li Sanyuan were stunned immediately and couldn't help but shout.

Even Yun Guan, who had met Xu Changqing, was shocked. He learned all his appearance as a daughter, took his magic weapon, Yanyunpa, covered his mouth and took a few steps back, looking in disbelief.

"Why are you..." Chen Xiong was about to ask why Xu Changqing became like this, but soon he was stunned again, turned to look at his senior brother. When he saw his senior brother shook his head, his face changed drastically, he was both happy and surprised, and said, "Changqing, have you realized the truth?"

The Taoist Lou Guan Dao is also considered a thousand-year Taoist priest. It has a unique skill in their sects, that is, it is able to observe the depth of human skills. Anyone who practices, as long as they have not cultivated the Golden Elixir Dao, their skills will be hiding in front of the Lou Guan Dao who is proficient in this skill. Chen Xiong could see through Xu Changqing's skills at first glance, but now Xu Changqing is like a layer of gauze, which makes him unable to see through at all. Even the senior brother Lou Guan Dao who is more proficient in observing human skills than him can see through. Then there is only one possibility in his heart, that is, Xu Changqing has achieved the Golden Elixir of the Great Dao and has realized the truth.

Xu Changqing shook his head and said with a smile: "No, you don't know that if I want to achieve the Golden Pill Road, I must use the spiritual objects of heaven and earth. If I have the spiritual objects of heaven and earth, how could I not tell you the Chen family?" As he said that, he picked up a cup of tea beside him, raised his head and drank it clean, and said: "I have just realized a little method and can hide my strength like the Wuxiang Jue, so you can't see the depth of my cultivation."

Although Xu Changqing said this, Chen Xiong always felt that he had concealed some things, but now is not the time to pursue them. Chen Xiong ignored Xu Changqing's just coming out of the mountain and said anxiously: "The situation in the north has become a mess. Since last year's death of Cixi and Guangxu..."

"Wait a minute! Mr. Xiong, what did you say?" Xu Changqing's face suddenly changed, and he stood up and said, "Are Cixi and Emperor Guangxu dead?"

"Not bad! I died in November last year!" Chen Xiong did not expect Xu Changqing to have such a big reaction and said: "After the death of Cixi and Emperor Guangxu, Prince Chun Zaifeng's son Aixing Jueluo Puyi succeeded to the throne, and established the reign of Xuantong. Now Zaifeng is in power as the regent, Yuan Shikai..."

Before Chen Xiong could finish his words, Xu Changqing turned around and rushed out of the house and looked into the sky. Because the dark clouds were covered with dark clouds, he could not see the star sign of the Zhoutian. So Xu Changqing ignored the shock and opened his hair on his forehead. He saw a white light that could be clearly seen with the naked eye, and surrounded by powerful thunder power. In an instant, it broke through the dark clouds in the sky and observed the star doves in the sky directly outside the clouds. At the same time, his hands were not idle, and both hands were lifted up, using the three methods of fortune-telling and observation of Qi by the master's sect and the set of fate-to-sighting and a set of great destiny-to-sighting techniques created by him in this year to calculate the fortune of all parties in the north.

All four of them were looking at Xu Changqing in horror. Although Chen Xiong knew that he had such a strange eye, he didn't know that this eye had such power, which made him sigh at the uniqueness of the Nine-Rank Idle Lineage.

After a long time, the divine eyes slowly closed, and the divine light that only penetrated the sky disappeared, while Xu Changqing was still silently calculating the luck of the north. He could clearly feel that someone was deliberately disturbing the luck of the north, especially in the capital, the luck of the city was even more chaotic. However, now he has surpassed the Golden Pill Avenue and entered the level of the Ascension Avenue, both the two consciousnesses of the mind and the realm of the Tao. The methods used by the master who disrupted the luck of the Beijing people could not stop Xu Changqing's Tianluo Doushu at all. Soon he found the key. Although he could not get a glimpse of the whole picture, it was enough for him to guess what the Xuangang Heavenly Demon in Beijing wanted to do.

Xu Changqing escaped from the Tianluo Doushu, frowned and returned to the house, and said to the person who followed him into the house, "You will finish what you want to say first, and I will tell you what I know. Mr. Xiong, you just said Yuan Shikai, what's Yuan Shikai now?"

"Yuan Shikai has now been removed from all official positions by Zaifeng, and is escorted back to borrow, called "repairing sickness, but actually under house arrest." Chen Xiong said with a solemn expression: "Now Deschamps is in Shanghai, I don't know if he should continue to support Yuan Shikai? And Xiao Si was also monitored by the Qing court in Tianjin. People from the Beiyang New Army dare not contact us at this time."

After hearing Chen Xiong's words, Xu Changqing did not make any statement, turned to Li Sanyuan and asked, "Brother Sanyuan probably wants to ask Yuan Shikai about it, right?"

"Yes, but not all!" Li Sanyuan felt that Xu Changqing's cultivation level had increased greatly. He did not dare to neglect and said respectfully: "In addition to asking Lord Yuan, the young man also had something to ask for help. You have to worry. The Qing court has sent Zhang Xun to Wuchang now, and I heard that Zhang Renjun would be transferred to Liangjiang soon. This is clearly targeting the Beiyang New Army. Moreover, the Qing court seemed to be very lucky recently. I dare to ask if there are any variables among them?"

Xu Changqing can be said to have a look of a torch now. Even if Chen Xiong doesn’t need to remind him, he knew that Li Sanyuan was from Bai Xiangmen, so he asked back: “Who are you asking for? Duan or Feng?”

"Why do you think it's not the king to ask?" Li Sanyuan was stunned and said sophist.

Xu Changqing smiled and said, "You and I know that he is loyal to the Qing court, and the baby emperor is also the one he is loyal to. And I just calculated that he is strong at this moment and has no worries. Why bother asking these questions?" As he said that, he no longer got involved in this issue. He turned to look at Yunguan, frowned, and said, "When did your prostitute also start to get involved in politics?"

"See Mr. Xu!" Yun Guan said with a blessing in his way of a woman, and said, "Although our prostitute is also related to some people in the officialdom, it is not very involved. This time, Yun Guan came here mainly by the sect leader and brought a message to Mr. Xu. Two months ago, Xuangang Tianmo led his demons to the south, sneaked into the alliance headquarters in Suzhou, captured many lower-ranking cultivators, and also captured some monks with merit but no cultivation. He also used the war to collect a lot of living souls, and seemed to have any conspiracy. The gentleman's lineage has always been the military advisor of our lower-ranking people, so the sect leader asked me to come and guard the foot of Taohua Mountain. When the gentleman came out, he asked me how to deal with it?"

"It seems that things are good to me." Xu Changqing showed a sneer on his face, and his frown brows were slightly unfolded, saying, "I will tell you what I know. As for what you should do, you can do it yourself!" As he said, he stood up and sorted out his thoughts, and said, "Cixi and Emperor Guangxu are not dead yet..."

"What? Not dead!" Li Sanyuan shouted in surprise.

Xu Changqing, who was interrupted, frowned, glared at Li Sanyuan unhappily, and then continued: "I just observed the celestial phenomena and found the natal stars of Emperor Guangxu and Cixi. I found that their natal stars were not extinguished. Moreover, after my calculations, they had at least two years of imperial fortune and also had two years of life. The reason why they pretended to die was probably because they were forced to put under house arrest."

Chen Xiong's face changed and he said, "Who can still put these two people under house arrest? Could it be..."

"Yes! As the Xuangang Heavenly Demon is the identity of Xuangang Heavenly Demon, it is not difficult to use the entire Qing Dynasty royal family and ministers to put them under house arrest, and it is not difficult to replace the emperor." Xu Changqing said in a deep voice: "The reason why Xuangang Heavenly Demon put them under house arrest was to use their imperial destiny to continue the national destiny of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, under the Xuangang Heavenly Demon, there must be a master who is proficient in changing fortunes against the heavens. The great method of change fortunes used by this person should be the Nine Dragons that Liu Bowen used for Zhu Yuanzhang to win the great method."

"Nine Dragons' Conquest for the Great Dharma?" Young practitioners such as Li Sanyuan and Yun Guan did not know this kind of Dharma, but people like Chen Xiong and the old Taoist priest who came from the thousand-year-old authentic Taoist sect could naturally know the existence of this kind of Dharma that defied the heaven and changed their fortunes from the classics in the sect, and their faces suddenly changed. They knew very well what consequences would cause such Dharma, such as the collapse of mountains and rivers, the chaos of people's minds, the endless wars, the inequality in the world, and other evil consequences.

Xu Changqing ignored Chen Xiong's surprise and continued: "Those practitioners and meritorious monks who were captured by the Xuangang Heavenly Demon are probably already used as life sacrifices to attract the Nine Dragons' energy from the earth. Three months later, the fifth day of the fifth month will be the day when the fortune of heaven and earth changes from yang to yin. By then Cixi and Guangxu will be used as sacrifices to create the imperial tripod that suppresses the national fortune, and then the formation will introduce the Nine Dragons' energy into the imperial tripod, which will change fortune against the heavens."

"What about those souls taken away by Xuangang Tianmo?" Although the country's fortune is a major event, Yun Guan did not care about these major events. In his opinion, no matter how much it affects the prostitute, he would not affect the prostitute. What he cares about is the movement of Xuangang Tianmo, a mortal enemy of the lower nine-rate side sect.

Xu Changqing also knew the mentality of the prostitute and said calmly: "If I guess it is right, the Xuangang Heavenly Demon should use the opportunity to change fortunes to lure the power of the stars to refine those souls into demon pills and restore the power before I was injured."

"What? The Xuangang Tianmo's magic pill was broken by the gentleman?" Li Sanyuan and Yun Guan shouted in surprise, with an incredible expression on their faces.

"What? Old Xiong, haven't you told the lower nine-level side of the sect that I used my entire body to severely damage the Xuangang Heavenly Demon?" Xu Changqing turned to look at Chen Xiong and asked.

"They didn't come to ask me, why should I tell them on my own initiative?" Chen Xiong said with a disdainful smile.

"You..." Yun Guan was so angry that he couldn't speak when Chen Xiong said. Although Li Sanyuan's Baixiangmen did not participate in the alliance, they were also captured by the Xuangang Heavenly Demon this time. If they had known that the Xuangang Heavenly Demon's strength had been greatly reduced, why should they be afraid of him? They were afraid before the battle.

"What about Yuan Shikai? The luck of the Qing Dynasty rose sharply. Will Yuan Shikai..." Chen Xiong ignored the two and asked Xu Changqing.

"Yuan Shikai is fine. As long as the Xuangang Heavenly Demon did not find the Yin house where Yuan Shikai used a python to swallow dragons, Yuan Shikai's qi veins would be attached to the Manchu dragon veins. If Yuan Shikai died, the most damaged would be the Qing court." Xu Changqing said slowly: "So Xuangang Heavenly Demon only dared to imprison Yuan Shikai and did not dare to kill him, so Yuan Shikai's luck is still there."

"Mr. Xu, since you are so clear about the every move of the devils in the north, why not follow me to the Suzhou Alliance General Assembly to discuss major events?" Guan Yun took the opportunity to win over Xu Changqing and said.
Chapter completed!