Chapter 350 - 210 Five-Spice Compass

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Chapter 350: Chapter 210 Five-Spice CompassThe last two Dragon-locking Caves along the Dragon Tail in Mingjiang Prefecture are located at Yangfeng Road and Yue Family Mansion. Zhou Xuan went to Yangfeng Road, while Yun Ziliang headed to Yue Family Mansion. Due to Yue Family Mansion being closer to East Market Street, Yun Ziliang and Li Chengfeng, who set off later, reached their assigned location before Zhou Xuan. Dragon Seeking Hall has two branches: "Sensing" and "Acupoint." The methods for locating Dragon-locking Caves differ accordingly. Li Chengfeng stopped his car in front of the Yihe Glass Factory at Yue Family Mansion. Holding a rolled-up scroll in his hands, Yun Ziliang walked ahead with his hands behind his back, eyes closed. "Let me sense the Dragon Tail’s aura first. If I sense it, the Dragon-locking Cave will naturally appear in my mind." With his eyes still closed, Yun Ziliang’s inner perception gave him clarity of vision, and every step he took adhered to a rhythm. Merely walking seemed imbued with an almost "effortless grace," his movements remarkably light and fluid. His Dragon Seeking seemed relaxed and intuitive, but Zhao Wuya’s side was much more challenging... ... "Either you can make it work, or you can’t. Forcing it is pointless, you know?" Zhou Xuan teased Zhao Wuya. Their car had stopped near Yangfeng Textile Factory on Yangfeng Road. After getting out of the car, they began their search for the Dragon Tail. Dragon Seeking Heavenly Masters of the "Acupoint" branch relied on the compass. Zhao Wuya held the compass, following the directions indicated by the needle. Initially, Zhou Xuan felt assured. After all, with a tool in hand, even if Zhao Wuya’s Dragon Seeking skills and experience were lacking, surely he’d complete the task without any trouble. What Zhou Xuan didn’t expect was for the compass to malfunction. Just five minutes after stepping out of the car, the magnetic needle suddenly stopped working, sticking firmly to the "Heavenly Pool" without budging. Zhao Wuya shook it multiple times, only to find the needle stubbornly glued to the base of the "Heavenly Pool." "Ya Zi, are you capable or not?" "Relax, I’ve got a surefire trick." Zhao Wuya gripped the compass with one hand and gave it a series of sharp slaps with the other, "smack smack smack." This scene reminded Zhou Xuan of his childhood when the household’s cable TV had signal issues, and the solution was to smack the side of the TV casing. The question was — does the compass work using the same principle? Turned out—it did. The compass in Zhao Wuya’s hand finally responded, its needle moving once more. Breathing a sigh of relief, he continued reciting the Dragon Seeking formula, "Compass in hand, Heavenly Pool defines north and south. The twenty-four mountains align one by one. Use directional division to seek the Dragon Tail..." The needle within the compass’s "Heavenly Pool," guided by Zhao Wuya’s chanting, stopped oscillating north and south and instead pointed firmly in a specific direction. "See? The compass works perfectly fine." Zhao Wuya, emboldened by the guidance, began enthusiastically explaining the compass while hyping it up to Zhou Xuan along the way: "Mr. Zhou, this compass is brilliant, you see? This is the outer dial, this is the inner dial, and the center part here is called the Heavenly Pool. The inner dial is engraved with trigrams, twenty-four mountains, the Five Elements, Heavenly Stars... By rotating this inner dial and aligning it with the magnetic needle in the Heavenly Pool, we can deduce countless things—weddings, funerals, births, deaths—no problem at all! In fact, let me put it this way: this small compass here can calculate your entire life from start to finish..." "Shut up, goddammit! Open your eyes and look—do you know where this place is?!" Zhou Xuan pointed ahead, at the direction indicated by the compass. It was none other than the Yangfeng Textile Factory—the exact spot where Zhou Xuan had initially parked. In other words, following the compass’s directions, they had walked aimlessly around Yangfeng Road, only to end up back where they started. A complete waste of effort. "Huh? What’s going on? How did we walk all the way back?" Zhao Wuya scratched his head, unable to figure out why the compass was acting so strangely today. "What the hell is happening today? Could it be that the formula’s wrong? Maybe the ’Gold Division Technique’ isn’t applicable? I’ll switch to a different formula and give it another shot—don’t rush, Mr. Zhou." Zhou Xuan wasn’t rushing. He was just thoroughly exasperated, his desire to smash the damned compass growing by the second—it was wasting time for nothing. Zhao Wuya shifted into a different hand seal and began chanting, "Secrets of heaven in the palm, eight palaces and nine stars deduced. Mark off heavenly stems and earthly branches, inquire on sand and water with precision..." With the new formula, the compass indeed showed a reaction: the needle spun left three times, spun right three times, then abruptly stuck to the bottom again, refusing to move. "Mr. Zhou, is it possible that the Dragon-locking Cave is right beneath us?" Zhao Wuya pointed confidently at the ground beneath them, striking a masterly pose—for about three seconds, until Zhou Xuan smacked him hard on the forehead to bring him back to reality. "Can you use your head for once? If the Dragon-locking Cave were right under us, then why did the compass lead you running all over the place when you were chanting that ’Gold Division Technique’? Shouldn’t it have stayed put instead?" After this sharp analysis, Zhao Wuya was left dumbfounded. If the Dragon-locking Cave wasn’t directly below them, then why did the compass needle drop? For the moment, Zhao Wuya and Zhou Xuan found themselves baffled. Zhou Xuan was utterly speechless. What kind of nonsense was this? He’d brought along a guide for Dragon Seeking, only for the guide to get stuck first... Luckily, Zhou Xuan was persistent. Holding onto the "something’s better than nothing" philosophy, he grabbed the compass from Zhao Wuya and asked, "Ya Zi, this compass moves based on the chant, right?" "Yes," Zhao Wuya nodded, explaining that the compass could produce different effects depending on the type of formula being recited. "Then I’ll just try using the Dragon Seeking Formula." Zhou Xuan gripped the compass and began chanting the formula: "Dragon Seeking divides gold by observing the coiling mountains. Every coil presents a barrier. If the mountain gate holds eight layers of danger, it won’t break the yin-yang trigrams..." This chant came from a movie Zhou Xuan had watched in a past life, named "Dragon Seeking Formula." He recited this formula with a "might as well give it a shot" mindset—a dead horse turned into a live one, so to speak. Maybe it’d work? Zhao Wuya, overhearing on the side, was dumbfounded. The formula Zhou Xuan was chanting clearly had no connection to the Dragon Seeking Hall’s formulas, yet it carried an undeniable air of authority.

Chapter 350 - 210 Five-Spice Compass

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