The group split into two groups, one going to find the other grandparents and the other going to find the other grandparents.
On the way there, Lu Qing wanted to have her fortune told, but to her surprise, the divination result was all foggy and she couldn't see anything clearly.
It wasn't that Heaven was preventing her from seeing, but rather that someone had deliberately obscured the fates of the four elders, preventing her from calculating them.
Otherwise, Lu Qing wouldn't have remained completely unaware the whole way.
Since her grandparents' house was closer, Lu Qing went to visit the elderly couple first.
They were lying on the bed, seemingly unconscious, but their bodies were stiff and tense, like zombies.
His once rosy cheeks were now a stiff, ashen white, like a corpse that had been dead for a long time but had not yet decomposed.
Lu Qing checked their breathing, then breathed a sigh of relief:
"Thank goodness, he's still breathing!"
"Why is it like this if it's still breathing? Is it sick? Should we take it to the hospital?" Chu Qianlan suggested.
Lu Qing shook his head: "It's no use. This isn't an illness; the hospital can't cure it."
Lu Qing sensed that the souls of the two elderly people were imprisoned, and an unusual power flowed through their bodies. Strangely, she felt that this power only froze them and did not intend to harm them.
At this time, Han Ziyuan, Chu Qianmo, and Chu Qianjue also brought their maternal grandparents over.
Their situation is the same as their grandparents'.
"Qingqing, how are they?" Chu Panshan asked anxiously.
Lu Qing: "They seem to be... fine, but they're sealed away, which is why they're like this now."
"How can we wake them up?" Han Ziyuan asked.
Lu Qing scratched his head:
"To be honest, this is the first time I've ever seen something like this."
She wasn't sure what this force was, so she didn't dare to use her own Qi to fight against it.
The four elderly people were all too old and their bodies simply couldn't take it.
After thinking for a moment, Lu Qing decided to call his master and mistress for help.
However, before the call could be made, a person wearing a black cloak appeared outside the door.
He stood at the door with his head down. Although the sun was shining brightly, he was unusually cold around him.
"Who are you?" Lu Qing asked sharply.
The cloaked figure did not speak, but simply stood quietly.
Lu Qing walked over slowly, but the cloaked figure suddenly ran away.
"Stop! Don't run!"
Lu Qing chased after him, only to find the cloaked figure waiting for her not far away.
He seemed to be leading her to the past.
The others also chased after her, hurriedly asking Lu Qing, "Qingqing, what did you see?"
Lu Qing looked puzzled:
"There's someone wearing a black cloak over there, can't you see them?"
"Where is anyone?"
Everyone looked over, but none of them could see the person in the black cloak.
Lu Qing then looked at Helian Shi, who also shook his head.
“Perhaps only you can see him!” Helian Shi said.
Lu Qing frowned for a moment, then approached the man in the black cloak again.
This time, he did not leave, and Lu Qing saw through his true colors.
He was a man with skin so white it was unrecognizable as human, and a gaunt figure. Because he was so thin, there was no flesh on his face, and his features were so prominent that at first glance he looked a bit like an alien on TV.
"Who are you? Who turned my grandparents and maternal grandparents into what they are now?" Lu Qing asked.
The man did not answer Lu Qing's question, but instead raised his hand and gently pointed at her brow.
The shape of a mountain range was forcibly crammed into Lu Qing's mind, causing him to shudder in pain.
"Find this place before sunset tomorrow, or they're doomed!"
After saying that, the man disappeared.
When Lu Qing came to her senses, the person had already disappeared, leaving not even a trace of breath.
"Qingqing, how are you?" Gu Xicheng's face was full of worry.
Lu Qing shook her head slightly, and then recounted what had just happened.
"So, the black-cloaked figure is responsible for how Grandpa, Grandma, and Grandpa and Grandma on both sides ended up like this? What grudge did this person have against them? Why would they want to harm them?"
Lu Qing frowned and shook her head. She didn't understand either, and didn't even know if the person in the black cloak was a person.
"Let's see what clues he left you first!" Helian Shi reminded him.
Helian Shi was the only one present who could paint; as a former prince, painting was a basic skill for him.
Based on Lu Qing's description, Helian Shi simply drew the clues left by the man in the black cloak with a pencil.
It was a mountain range shrouded in clouds and mist, but the feng shui features were still faintly visible.
The mountain range is winding and stretching, resembling a dragon entering the sea. The vegetation grows vigorously in response to the dragon's energy, making it a place with excellent feng shui.
Where the dragon's tail coils, a mountain hollow is formed. If a tomb is built in the hollow, future generations will prosper.
However, judging from the images left by the man in the black cloak, there was probably no tomb in this place yet.
“This is the place!” Lu Qing nodded, holding the painting.
"Why did this person choose this place? And why did they specifically choose you?" Helian Shi asked solemnly.
"Whatever his purpose is, I must find this place for my grandparents and maternal grandparents."
"It's just that I haven't tried the Dragon Seeking and Qi Observation technique in a long time. I wonder if I can find it before sunset tomorrow!" Lu Qing said helplessly.
Among all the techniques of the Xuanmen sect, the Dragon Seeking and Qi Observation technique is not the most difficult, but it is the one that Lu Qing is least proficient in.
When she was a child, she felt like half of her brain cells would die whenever she took this class.
Just to be on the safe side, Lu Qing called Yu Hengzi for help this time.
"Master, please help me find this place!"
After hearing the whole story, Yu Hengzi blew on his beard and glared at the crowd:
"I won't help!"
"I told you to be lazy when you were learning how to read dragon veins and observe auras, now you know you regret it."
"Master~ This matter concerns the lives of my grandparents and maternal grandparents, please help me! I promise you I will study the art of dragon-seeking and qi observation diligently from now on!" Lu Qing raised three fingers to make his promise.
Yu Hengzi raised an eyebrow and smiled:
"Will you really study hard?"
Lu Qing nodded like a chick pecking at rice: "Really, really!"
"Then let's set a one-month period. I will prepare an assessment for you then. If you fail, you will be punished by copying the Dragon Seeking and Qi Observation Technique a thousand times. Do you agree?"
Lu Qing's face immediately fell:
"Master, do you have to be so cruel?"
Yu Hengzi: "I have laid out the conditions; whether you agree or not is up to you."
Lu Qing nodded through gritted teeth:
"I agree! It's a matter of life and death, how could I dare not agree!"
"Okay, it's settled then!"
Yu Hengzi stood up leisurely, a sly smile on his face.
"Now can you tell me where this place is?" Lu Qing sighed helplessly.
"Go east and you will surely find it before sunset tomorrow."
After saying that, Yu Hengzi hung up the phone.
Lu Qing was speechless.
East? What an abstract instruction! It's practically meaningless.
She felt that her master had betrayed her.
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