After dinner, the Taoist priests left the restaurant in groups of two or three to prepare things for the trade fair.
The previous chairs were not removed but just moved around a little. A small table was added in front of each chair for the Taoist priests to place their things.
Rong Jing's previous seat was also moved to the side of the venue, but it was not too remote.
Xie Xuanqing followed behind him, and saw Wang Boyui and others walking around the venue. His eyes moved slightly: "Mr. Rong, do you want to go first, or..."
Or should we just put the items out there and wait for people to come and trade?
In fact, Xie Xuanqing was not very interested in this kind of activity before.
But now being in this kind of environment, with lanterns and candles flickering all around, that mysterious and remote meaning can really stir up one's hidden curiosity.
Of course, for Xie Xuanqing, it was just a little curiosity. He was looking forward to walking with Rong Jing.
"Then let's go for a walk first."
Xie Xuanqing's eyes were like a deep pool with ripples under the candlelight, with a faint smile. Rong Jing met his gaze, and suddenly his mind flashed back to the time when he helped him out in the restaurant. The words of rejection came to his lips, but he changed them.
Frowning, Master Rong stood up straight and walked ahead.
Just think of it as a walk after dinner.
Rong Jing's talisman-making skills previously amazed countless Heavenly Masters, and even Miaoyin showed great interest in the talismans he brought to the trade fair.
When they saw him find his spot and was about to sit down to set up his stall, many people had already stared at him and walked over. As a result—
The man got up and left again!
With a roar in their hearts, many people chose to go and see what other Heavenly Masters had taken out first, but a few people were curious about what Rong Jing would be interested in, so they followed.
However, such an action would inevitably make people feel that they were "picking up a bargain", so they stayed away from him to avoid Rong Jing's misunderstanding.
Xie Xuanqing looked back and saw a dozen Heavenly Masters following behind them, attracting more attention.
Pursing his lips, Patriarch Xie regretted for the first time the decision he had made.
Rong Jing didn't pay much attention to these. In his opinion, most of the things that the Heavenly Masters took out for trading were ordinary, only some of the magic tools were ingenious, probably combined with the development of modern technology. Rong Jing also saw a magic tool for guarding the house that was transformed from a router.
...It's quite interesting.
But when it comes to talismans and formations, the situation is not so easy to change. However, most of the current celestial masters practice talismans, formations and exorcism, and most of the things they bring out follow the old routine. Rong Jing can see through them with just a glance, so naturally it is not worth his stopping.
But considering that this should be the first time Xie Xuanqing has seen such a scene, Rong Jing paused for a moment, then turned around and asked: "Is there anything you are interested in?"
His tone was indifferent and his expression was calm. When many Heavenly Masters saw him walking by, their bodies subconsciously tensed up and they hid those talismans that were not made well under their sleeves.
Xie Xuanqing: "...I haven't seen anything that interests me yet."
The flickering candlelight cast on Rong Jing's delicate and handsome face, melting away the coldness that kept people away, leaving only the pair of amber eyes, which were exceptionally bright.
His fingertips moved, and Xie Xuanqing came back to his senses, controlling his urge to reach out and touch.
Forcing his eyes away, Xie Xuanqing's voice was inexplicably hoarse, and he whispered in Rong Jing's ear: "The stall in front seems to be different."
Two or three hundred Heavenly Masters walked in one place, which was equivalent to a small market. In addition, there were so many small chairs, so the path for people to walk was a bit small.
The two of them stopped here, but other heavenly masters and people from aristocratic families walked by behind them.
The chaotic sound of voices came with the night wind, but for a moment, Rong Jing seemed to be able to only hear the sound and breathing coming from Xie Xuanqing's chest.
His usually calm and indifferent eyes trembled, Rong Jing pursed his lips and looked away, saying indifferently: "...then go and take a look."
Xie Xuan lowered his eyes and looked at him for a few seconds: "Okay."
Long Tianshi saw the two of them from a distance. She specialized in Gu magic, and generally not many Tianshi would come to buy Gu from her, so she did not sit in her seat, but instead walked around the trade fair with her stuff.
The wizard who had shared his witchcraft was her first target. After chatting with him for a while, Master Long Tianshi successfully exchanged a portion of poisonous insects for several tips on practicing witchcraft.
After carefully noting down the information he had received, Master Long Tian turned his gaze and saw the figures of Rong Jing and Xie Xuanqing.
After calling them, Long Tianshi saw the growing group of Tianshi following Rong Jing, and couldn't help but: "..."
Rong Jing also replied to her "Master Long". Xie Xuan glanced at her lightly and then nodded.
Long Tianshi: "Did Rong Tianshi get anything in exchange?"
She looked at the expressions of the two people, then smiled: "Yes, with Master Rong Tian's methods..."
The things at this trade fair probably wouldn't catch his eye.
Shaking her head, she noticed that Rong Jing and Xie Xuanqing seemed to be heading towards the Heavenly Master's position, and couldn't help but look up.
"Isn't that where the Lan and Huang families are?" Tianshi Long recalled the rumor before the metaphysics exchange event began, and raised his eyebrows slightly. "They brought two excellent magic weapons this time. I don't know what they want to exchange for."
But if Rong Jing is interested... with the methods he has shown, he might be able to win her over.
After thinking about it, Master Long didn't say this out loud, but just smiled and said, "Master Rong, are you interested?"
After all, they had worked together once before. Rong Jing retracted his gaze but shook his head: "Just taking a look."
Rather than being interested in magical instruments...
Rather, he was somewhat interested in the strange, somewhat familiar aura emanating from it.
His eyes dimmed slightly, Rong Jing lowered his eyes, and quickly covered up his thoughts.
Master Long Tianshi indeed didn't notice anything wrong.
Ever since she met Rong Jing, he seemed to have such a cold personality, and he showed that he was very advanced in cultivation. Those two magic weapons might be very tempting to other Heavenly Masters, but for Rong Jing who could transform spirit energy into objects...
But it's still a little bit worse.
"Yeah, it's good to join in the fun." said Master Long Tianshi.
There were already quite a few Heavenly Masters standing next to the Lan family. When they walked over, before they even got close to the small table, they could feel the hidden and heavy fluctuations of spiritual energy coming from it.
Master Long Tian was surprised: "They actually took out a top-grade magic weapon..."
There are many people who share the same sentiments with her.
When the trade fair just started, the Lan family and the Huang family did not directly display their magic weapons, so after everyone saw them, they thought they had changed their minds at the last minute, or that the rumors were wrong.
Until just now, Lan Qinghong had walked around the trade fair and had an idea of what most of the Heavenly Masters could bring out. Then he and the Huang family took out the magic weapons they brought this time.
As the soul-trapping talisman was taken down, the spiritual energy fluctuations flowing in the magic weapon leaked out instantly, instantly attracting the attention of many heavenly masters.
The two magical instruments were a peach wood sword and a pair of bronze bells.
The peach wood sword was carefully engraved with the bright and righteous "Golden Light Mantra". The whole sword was brown in color, with a restrained spiritual light. When held in the hand and stimulated with a little spiritual power, an extremely powerful breath would come out, like an invisible sword energy, cutting off all the gloomy air.
The pair of bronze bells had a chilly aura, but not cold. If you felt it carefully, you could also sense a lingering and gentle soul power inside.
Lan Qinghong had a gentle smile on his face, but there was a hint of coldness in the depths of his eyes. He lowered his head and gently stroked the two magic weapons with his fingers, then said: "These two magic weapons were discovered by our disciples when our Lan family and Huang family were training together, and then the two family heads personally took them back."
"The place they originally guarded was a mass grave. Due to changes in the geomantic omen and topography, the mass grave was transformed into a corpse-raising ground fifty years ago. But according to tests, the time these two magic weapons have been guarding there is much longer than the time the mass grave was transformed into a corpse-raising ground."
“So after my father and Patriarch Huang converted dozens of evil spirits raised in that corpse-raising land, they deduced that these two magical instruments must have been left behind by a great celestial master who was good at divination a hundred years ago.”
"He probably calculated that the mass grave would evolve into an extremely vicious corpse-raising ground in a few decades, but he was afraid that he would not be able to get there in time to resolve the situation, so he simply used a few magic tools to set up a feng shui layout and directly suppressed the evil spirit of the mass grave."
Lan Qinghong said slowly.
A hundred years ago, the great celestial master suppressed the corpse breeding ground and dozens of evil spirits.
Even though he did not explicitly say how powerful these two magical weapons are, just by looking at the key points mentioned in his words, one can tell that the origins and power of these two magical weapons are definitely not bad.
The eyes of the Heavenly Masters standing nearby became brighter and brighter when they heard this. They looked at the two magic weapons carefully placed in the sandalwood box and padded with fine silk, and they couldn't wait to touch them.
However, the Lan and Huang family members were all present, and a formation was set up on the sandalwood box. Everyone looked at it with envy, but no one really took action.
Seeing this, Lan Qinghong's smile deepened, and then he threw out the biggest bomb.
"However, my father and Patriarch Huang later looked through the clan's classics and compared them with the traces of the Heavenly Masters who had passed by there. Finally, they found the Heavenly Master who was most likely to have suppressed the two magic weapons there—"
He lowered his voice a little, but the range of his voice did not decrease.
The Heavenly Masters standing nearby all heard his next words: "My father and Patriarch Huang speculated that the Heavenly Master was most likely the Imperial Master of the Great Zhao Dynasty, Rong Jing!"
"——What?!" As soon as Lan Qinghong said this, the Taoist priests standing around couldn't help but burst into an uproar.
It can be said that everyone who has embarked on the path of metaphysics will be familiar with Rong Jing, the imperial teacher of the Dazhao Dynasty.
Even though hundreds of years have passed, the story of how the other party resolutely stood up and fought against the will of heaven when so many lives were lost has been passed down.
Words like brilliant and gifted are not enough to fully describe the talent and accomplishment of this national teacher.
Everyone only knows that under him, all the Great Zhao Heavenly Masters must bow down, and all Heavenly Masters of the generation respect him.
It is a pity that the monarchs of the Liang and Ping dynasties were violent and worried that someone would imitate Rong Jing, the imperial teacher of the Zhao dynasty, so they ordered the ban on metaphysics and also burned many metaphysical books, magical instruments and talismans left by Rong Jing.
To this day, Rong Jing is still respected in the metaphysical world, but things related to Rong Jing are very rare, so few that everyone almost thinks that it is just a distant legend.
Now Lan Qinghong suddenly released this big one, how could it not be shocking? !
But after everyone was shocked, they quickly raised doubts: "These are just your words, Master Lan Tian. Without solid evidence, I'm afraid it's a bit..."
I can't convince the public.
When the title of the imperial teacher of the Dazhao Dynasty was mentioned, Lan Qinghong had anticipated that someone would raise such doubts.
Facing everyone's suspicious gazes, Lan Qinghong smiled and said, "To be honest, I, Lan, had the same idea at the beginning."
"The traces left by that person had long been cleared up by the Liang and Ping dynasties. How come there are still some magical instruments left in this mass grave that have not been dealt with?"
Lan Qinghong directly expressed the biggest doubt in everyone's mind, and then said, "But my father, Patriarch Huang, and I went to the mass grave again and carefully checked the two magic weapons again... Everyone, please take a look."
He reached out and picked up the peach wood sword, turned the sword, and the "Golden Light Spell" on it flickered under the influence of Lan Qinghong's spiritual power.
But what attracts people's attention most is not the complete "Golden Light Mantra" carved on the sword, but the small seal-script character "Jing" engraved on the hilt.
Lan Qinghong rubbed it lightly with his fingertips, and seemed to sense the aura of the ghost servant on him. The small rune-like font suddenly lit up, and in an instant it burned a black mark on his fingertips.
Lan Qinghong withdrew his hand immediately, but his expression remained unchanged, still with that gentle smile.
"All of you Heavenly Masters should know that Master Rong has never liked to use magical instruments, but occasionally he would personally make a few magical instruments to suppress or stabilize the Feng Shui situation."
"When making magic tools, Master Rong often engraved his name on them as a restriction. But when someone tried to approach or destroy the magic tool, he would burst out with 200% of his strength and strangle the opponent to death."
This arrangement was originally made to prevent some Heavenly Masters from using magical instruments to suppress the Feng Shui Bureau, and also to prevent the entire formation from being breached by evil spirits.
Putting them here just happens to be evidence to prove that these two magic weapons are indeed the work of Rong Jing.
Many people looked at the word "Jing" that exuded a powerful aura, and their doubts gradually wavered.
"If it is really the work of that person, how could you be willing to take it out?" someone else asked.
Ask yourself, if they had obtained the magic weapon left by Master Rong, let alone taking it out for exchange, they probably wouldn't even want to reveal the slightest bit of information. At most, they would just let people know that it was a pretty good magic weapon.
Lan Qinghong smiled and said, "The magic weapon that person left behind is indeed important, but our Lan family and Huang family, one family specializes in the art of controlling ghosts, and the other family cultivates the mind. For us, these two magic weapons have no greater use except to suppress evil spirits."
But if they are handed over to those Taoist priests who are willing to convert evil spirits or fight against evil ghosts, they can be of greater use.
This statement was actually somewhat untenable, but Lan Qinghong's expression seemed sincere enough, and everyone was half-believing. Finally, someone spoke up, "Then I wonder, Master Lan and Patriarch Huang, what do you want to exchange this time?"
Considering the value of these two magical instruments, it may not be easy to get them.
Sure enough, Lan Qinghong and Patriarch Huang looked at each other and then said, "Magic."
"Our Lan and Huang families will only exchange these two magical instruments for magic books."
Seeing the unacceptable expressions on everyone's faces, Lan Qinghong continued: "Formation, talismans and even Feng Shui divination, as long as you can take them out and verify their authenticity, these two magic tools will belong to that person."
As soon as these words were spoken, all those who were excited before fell silent.
It's not that they don't have it, but the magic book is related to the foundation of their practice. Handing the magic book in their hands to Lan Qinghong just to exchange for two magic tools is a bit...
There were whispers everywhere, almost all of which implied that this deal was not worth it at all.
Lan Qinghong looked calm and composed with a gentle smile, but he was not worried at all that no one would be interested.
Sure enough, a few minutes later, a Taoist priest came up and whispered something to him.
Then, another Taoist priest walked over.
When Rong Jing and the others walked over here, they happened to hear Lan Qinghong say, "This is a magical weapon made by Master Rong himself. Aren't you really tempted by it?"
“……?” His expression changed slightly, and Rong Jing lowered his eyes to look at the two magical instruments placed in the sandalwood box.
——It was actually his work.
But these two magic weapons were his early works. After using them a few times, he gave them directly to Xie Chong for safekeeping.
Later, there were some problems at a mass grave in the Southern Province. He was too busy to deal with it at that time, so Xie Chong handed these magic tools to another Heavenly Master at that time and asked him to take them to kill the evil spirits that were wreaking havoc in the mass grave.
So... the Lan family and the Huang family found the formation set up by the Heavenly Master?
Rong Jing frowned, somewhat displeased.
If that mass grave really turned into a corpse-raising ground later, the formation set up there must not be moved, otherwise the corpse qi would leak out, and not only would the evil spirits suppressed in the mass grave come out in droves, the spreading corpse qi would also erode the vitality of the surrounding area, making the area within a hundred miles full of death.
But after listening to Lan Qinghong's series of words, he did not mention this point at all.
Or, by the time they discovered the magic weapon, the formation had already become ineffective, and the evil spirits and even the corpse qi inside had disappeared completely with the operation of the formation.
Or... they are deliberately hiding it.
Many Heavenly Masters were already excited and had already stated their prices. Rong Jing lowered his eyes but took a step forward: "Master Lan said that these two magical instruments were found by your father and the head of the Huang family in a corpse-raising ground. I wonder what the corpse-raising ground was like when you took these two magical instruments?"
His voice was as pleasant as the sound of metal and stone. When it fell into Lan Qinghong's ears, it caused him to tremble in his heart: "Of course it's not good."
“But my father and the head of the Huang family also knew that they couldn’t let the evil spirits in the corpse breeding ground continue to indulge, so after taking out the two suppressing instruments, they joined forces to convert the evil spirits in the corpse breeding ground, and set up a large formation to seal the corpse breeding ground... My father was injured in this operation, so this metaphysics exchange activity was handed over to me to lead.”
He answered in a very organized manner with a frank attitude. Seeing this, many Heavenly Masters felt that Rong Jing's question was a bit abrupt, but due to Rong Jing's previous performance, they only frowned and thought to themselves, he is indeed still a young man with a serious temper.
"Is that so?" However, under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Rong Jing's expression remained indifferent. He lightly tapped with his slender fingertips, and a huge golden hexagram plate suddenly spread out.
The mountains and rivers, the sun and the moon rise together, countless stars are circulating among them, and the eight trigrams fish shuttle between the clouds and mist, which is the Zhoutian trigram!
The two magical instruments began to vibrate violently when the golden hexagram plate suddenly unfolded. Rong Jing casually wiped them and grabbed two auras and merged them into the hexagram plate.
Lan Qinghong subconsciously wanted to stop him, however, Master Rong's spiritual power was so strong, and the two magic weapons were indeed made by him, so he naturally had an attachment to him. With this series of assistance, the hexagram became extremely clear in just a few tens of seconds.
"When Master Lan Tian said to seal off the corpse-raising ground, does that mean to allow the corpse qi in it to leak out and bring disaster to the surrounding villages?" Rong Jing tapped the hexagram with his fingertips and asked in a cold voice.
Lan Qinghong's expression darkened slightly: "I don't quite understand what Master Rong Tian meant by this."
Rong Jing didn't want to say anything more to him.
Under the Zhoutian Gua, as long as the Heavenly Dao or people with similar cultivation as him did not secretly interfere with his divination, there were very few things in the world that could be hidden from him.
The two magical instruments had been used as objects of suppression to guard the corpse-raising ground for so many years. The causal aura on them was extremely strong. He had just extracted two strands of aura as a trigger, and then used the Zhoutian hexagram to deduce. Naturally, there would be no deviation in the calculated result.
Seeing that Rong Jing wanted to continue calculating, Lan Qinghong's face became more and more ugly.
Although he was still trying to maintain a gentle smile on his lips, his eyes were already cold.
Lan Qinghong secretly clenched his fists, lowered his eyes, and finally couldn't help but ask for help in his heart.
Then an indescribable obscure aura suddenly appeared, immediately disrupting the hexagram under Rong Jing's hands.
Rong Jing raised his eyelashes, pressed the hexagram plate, resisted the breath, and continued to calculate.
The golden light flickered and many strange hexagrams flashed by quickly.
Among them, there was a Taoist priest who was well versed in divination and fortune-telling, and he was fascinated by this scene.
What an exquisite hexagram, and what a mysterious hexagram plate!
He wished he could step directly into the hexagram and touch the mountains, rivers, stars, sun, moon and light, even if it cost him everything.
He stupidly raised his foot and bumped into the hexagram plate in front of Rong Jing. The obscure aura paused, and then rushed towards the Taoist priest.
Rong Jing had been confronting that aura, so naturally he realized the other party's intention at the first moment.
Reaching out to block the aura, Lan Qinghong also seized the opportunity to suppress the aura from the two magic weapons again.
Without the guidance of the two causal auras, the hexagram would naturally dissipate slowly.
Lan Qinghong breathed a sigh of relief at first, but then he realized something and his face darkened.
Rong Jing gently dispersed the spiritual power in his hands and looked at him calmly with calm eyes.
"Master Lan Tian, if what Master Rong Tian said was false, why were you so anxious to put away the two magic weapons?"
Rong Jing didn't say anything, but the other Heavenly Masters understood what was going on. They also frowned and asked Lan Qinghong.
Lan Qinghong took a deep breath, then looked at Rong Jing quietly: "Because what Master Rong Tian said is indeed true."
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