Gu Xicheng comforted him, "Master must have his reasons for saying that. Why don't we start by looking in that direction?"
"Okay!" Lu Qing nodded slightly, then packed her things and set off.
Not the whole family went. Lu Qing only invited Gu Xicheng and Helian Shi, while the rest stayed behind to take care of their grandparents and maternal grandparents.
Gu Xicheng drove eastward, while Lu Qing and Helian Shi studied the mountain range on a map.
"Helian, do you understand feng shui?" Lu Qing asked.
Helian Shi shook his head: "I don't understand, but I have a good sense of direction, and if there is a dragon vein nearby, I can sense it within a hundred miles."
"Are there any around here?" Lu Qing asked.
Helian Shi: "No."
Lu Qing sighed, looking at the map on her phone with her brows furrowed.
Her master only pointed her in a general direction; she had to figure out the exact location herself.
Lu Qing frantically searched his mind for the few remaining points of knowledge he had about the art of dragon-seeking and aura-observation.
After looking for an unknown amount of time, she suddenly spotted a mountain range.
"This place seems to have the potential to become a dragon vein!"
Lu Qing opened the compass and glanced at it; the direction was east.
"Gu Xicheng, go take a look here!"
Lu Qing turned on the navigation, and Gu Xicheng drove along the way following the navigation instructions.
About an hour later, the car passed through the village and entered the remote mountains.
Gu Xicheng parked the car on the side of the road:
"If we go any further, we'll be going uphill. There's no suitable place to park, so we'll have to walk up."
Lu Qing took out a compass, formed hand seals, and tried his best to explore the surrounding mountain terrain.
"Helian, can you sense the aura of a dragon vein nearby?" Gu Xicheng asked Helian Shi.
Helian Shi carefully sensed it and pointed to the mountaintop:
"There seems to be something unusual going on over there. We can go up and take a look."
Lu Qing's compass also pinpointed the direction Helian Shi was pointing.
The hillside next to them was steep, but climbing it was not a problem for the three of them.
Gu Xicheng had been cultivating for a long time, and his use of talismans had become increasingly proficient.
Reaching the top of the hillside, gazing at the distant, rolling mountains, and feeling the cold wind blowing, my restless mood was largely dispelled.
The clues left by the man in the black cloak are similar to the mountains here, but not in this area.
“There is indeed a hidden dragon vein here, but it seems to be the dragon’s tail, while this picture shows the dragon’s head,” Helian Shi said.
“Then if we follow the dragon’s tail, we should be able to find the dragon’s head,” Lu Qing said.
"It's getting dark, we need to hurry. Once it gets dark, the fog will roll in and we won't be able to see anything."
Gu Xicheng glanced at his watch. There was still an hour until sunset, and at most an hour and a half until it was completely dark. They didn't have much time.
The three immediately followed the direction of the dragon vein towards the dragon's head.
Shortly after they left, the man in the black cloak suddenly appeared in the same spot.
"Master, I have found the person you mentioned, but why can't I sense your presence even when I'm with her?"
After hesitating for a moment, he followed after them.
The sun slowly set, its remaining light lasting only half an hour, but Lu Qing and the other two still hadn't found the dragon's head.
"Strange, we've walked for so long, why are we still stuck on the dragon's tail?" Lu Qing frowned.
"After so long, we haven't even seen the dragon's spine. Have we been going around in circles the whole time?"
Helian Shi turned around and looked behind him, only to see a gray expanse behind him, as if the sky had darkened in an instant.
"It seems we haven't gone very far!"
After Helian Shi finished speaking, he found that no one responded.
Turning around, they found that Lu Qing and Gu Xicheng had disappeared.
His brow furrowed immediately, and he shouted:
"Gu Xicheng, Lu Qing, where are you?"
The echoes reverberated throughout the empty mountains, but no one responded to him.
The same applies to Lu Qing.
"Gu Xicheng, Helian Shi, where are you?"
Seeing that there was no one around, Lu Qing's heart started pounding.
Gu Xicheng was in the same boat. He searched for Lu Qing and Helian Shi for a long time but couldn't find them, so he could only cautiously continue forward.
Helian Shi was the first to realize that he had fallen into an illusion.
He sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and kept chanting the mantra.
Suddenly, he heard a familiar voice:
"Helian, what's wrong?"
Helian Shi opened his eyes and saw Jiang Jin standing in front of him.
"Ah Jin?" Helian Shi's eyes flashed with surprise.
"Helian, what's wrong? Why do you seem not to recognize me?" Jiang Jin asked with a gentle smile.
Helian Shi would reread his diary every time he lost his memory, so he knew everything about his relationship with A Jin.
But it was precisely because he knew this that he was surprised by Jiang Jin's appearance.
"Ah Jin, you're hallucinating, aren't you!"
Helian Shi spoke with certainty, but he still couldn't help but reach out and touch Jiang Jin.
To his surprise, he actually managed to run into him.
Just as Helian Shi was surprised, Chu Qianjin's voice came from behind him again:
"Helian Shi! You still can't forget Jiang Jin, can you? I, Chu Qianjin, am just a substitute for Jiang Jin in your eyes, aren't I?"
Helian Shi panicked immediately:
"No! Ah Jin, you're not a stand-in!"
Chu Qianjin looked at Helian Shi with anger and despair, and said, word by word:
"Helian Shi, I will never trust you again. From now on, we have nothing to do with each other!"
"Ah Jin, don't go!"
Helian Shi hurriedly grabbed Chu Qianjin's hand:
"Ah Jin, I didn't lie to you, I really didn't lie to you!"
"Helian, what about me? Does our affection for each other not count?" Jiang Jin asked in a trembling voice.
Helian Shi was caught between Chu Qianjin and Jiang Jin, but he only had to wait a few seconds before he came to his senses:
"Don't lie to me! Jiang Jin is dead. He's a thing of the past!"
"The only person I care about right now, and the only one I want to be with forever, is Chu Qianjin!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Helian Shi shattered the illusion before him with a single palm strike.
When he opened his eyes, he saw Lu Qing and Gu Xicheng looking at him:
"Helian, you're finally awake! I thought you wouldn't wake up!"
Helian Shi came to his senses and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief:
"That was just a hallucination!"
Lu Qing nodded: "Yes! There seems to be a formation here. Once you enter, you'll be spinning around inside and then controlled by your inner demons."
"You've been controlled too?" Helian Shi asked, frowning.
Lu Qing and Gu Xicheng nodded: "That's right!"
"But we woke up quickly, we were only under control for a few minutes, it wasn't completely dark when we woke up!"
"How did you manage to overcome your inner demons so quickly?" Helian Shi asked in surprise.
Lu Qing shrugged:
“I didn’t have any inner demons to begin with. When I went in, I saw that my master, mistress, and family didn’t want me anymore and wanted to kick me out of the house.”
"I immediately realized it was a hallucination and woke up right away."
Helian Shi asked in surprise, "You trust them that much?"
Lu Qing replied matter-of-factly, "If I don't trust them, who else can I trust?"
Helian Shi then looked at Gu Xicheng: "And what about you?"
Gu Xicheng said with a hint of pride, "I didn't have any inner demons to begin with. After I went in, I saw a dark and gloomy place and came out in no time."
At this point, Lu Qing was somewhat surprised:
"Yes, yes, yes! He woke up even faster than I did!"
Helian Shi curled the corners of his mouth: "Someone who has been pampered since childhood, never lacking love or care, how could he have any inner demons!"
Gu Xicheng shrugged: "I'm lucky, there's nothing I can do about it!"
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