Chapter 82: Dragon Seeking And Gold Touching Technique, Hu Family Secrets
“Sister Dou’s this adulterer… deceased husband has some background.”
Fang Shu couldn’t help but mutter to himself in a low voice.
In the booklet hidden in that corpse’s bosom, a magic was recorded, named 《Dragon Seeking and Gold Touching Technique》, which was a feng shui secret technique.
According to the booklet’s description, this technique was one of the introductory magic for immortal cultivator formation masters’ inheritance. Learning it allowed one to seek dragons and observe qi, grope for gold and inspect acupoints, making it convenient to survey the trends of mine veins, earth veins, spiritual veins, and various terrains, helping people choose suitable locations to build huts, dig pits for graves, refine pills, and forge artifacts.
What was even more special was that although this secret technique was a magic with numerous secret scripts, if a mortal had unique talent, they could also practice it before entering the Dao without worrying about harming the body or life.
All because this technique emphasized comprehension.
Even slightly mastering it would allow a cultivator to thrive in the mortal world, helping noble families with grave selection and acupoint determination, becoming a honored guest.
With a bit more ambition, the cultivator could come to the immortal cultivator marketplace to seek mine veins and spiritual veins for immortal cultivators, which counted as having a skill to make a living.
And if thoroughly mastering this feng shui secret technique, it meant the cultivator had the talent to become a formation master, and once joining an immortal sect, they could learn the “Divination and Numerology” branch and walk the formation master path!
Fang Shu pondered, his eyes growing increasingly astonished.
He truly hadn’t expected that Dou Su Fu’s deceased husband, who died so easily here, would possess such a secret technique, with an ancestor who was a formation master!
And what made him even more amazed was that according to the messy, hasty blood-colored words at the back of the booklet, Cheng Guanzi and his group dared to leave town and come to the mine to explore for treasure.
The reason was surprisingly that Dou Su Fu’s deceased husband surnamed Hu was secretly instigating and leading them.
It was this man surnamed Hu who, through his ancestral secret technique, claimed to have surveyed the mine vein trends in Qian Shan, and boldly inferred that this abandoned mine vein might still hide good ore or even a treasure mine.
Thus, he led Cheng Guanzi and the others to scout and explore the mine here.
Everyone agreed that if this abandoned mine vein truly had good ore to dig, they would pool money to buy this place and get rich together!
Unfortunately, success through feng shui, failure through feng shui.
This man surnamed Hu was clearly cautious, but he actually wasn’t here to seek mine veins; rather, he used prospecting as a pretext to seek his ancestor’s remains.
Cheng Guanzi and his group were merely pulled together by the man surnamed Hu because he felt alone and weak, and he even pushed Cheng Guanzi to the front while hiding in the shadows himself.
In the end, this man surnamed Hu struck it big.
Leading the group, he truly found a great treasure in the abandoned mine vein, digging straight to the treasure gathering formation left by his ancestor, without giving the group time to coordinate or prepare.
Thus, as expected, infighting broke out among the prospecting group, and in the end, Cheng Guanzi and a few others seized the treasure and escaped, collapsing the mine tunnel and burying the rest in the cave.
Fang Shu pondered this man surnamed Hu’s opportunity and felt quite emotional.
If they hadn’t dug up Purple Lead Mica Milk such a precious medicine all at once, but only some good ore, they wouldn’t have met such a fate.
“Of course, if only he came alone, even discovering such a precious medicine, he wouldn’t have been poisoned by others.”
Fang Shu pondered in his heart.
In the end, it was because this man surnamed Hu was weak, so he had to borrow others’ strength, ultimately harming himself.
If the other party were like him, able to mine alone, or suppress the whole arena, or even turn around and kill Cheng Guanzi and the others, the situation would be completely different.
If one’s foundation is unstable and magic power insufficient, no matter how good the opportunity, it may not be graspable.
Fang Shu silently took this lesson from the man surnamed Hu to heart.
Then he paced in the cave, his eyes flickering uncertainly, not showing relief after understanding the antecedents and consequences here.
He instead pondered even more.
Because in this man surnamed Hu’s ancestral secret technique, besides recording a secret technique and the reason for prospecting, more importantly, it recorded the Hu family’s records about their ancestor:
“Ancestor was an immortal sect disciple, exceptionally talented, entered the immortal sect without a spiritual root, received formation path inheritance, refined essence in one year, broke through in two years to refining qi, became a formation master, but after one cycle of sixty years, stuck at foundation establishment, unable to continue the immortal path, thus descended the mountain to start a family, begetting our Hu family.
Ancestor once observed a small dragon vein in Qian Shan, entered the mountain multiple times to seek dragons, without success, ultimately passing away in the mountains. We unworthy descendants also entered the mountain for generations to seek dragons, all without success…”
“This time Hu enters the mountain, not seeking the so-called dragon vein, only hoping to find where ancestor passed away, obtain his inheritance, revive our Hu family. Now with grand ambitions but meager talent, trapped instead in the treasure formation laid by ancestor, as death nears, fate plays tricks, nearly no regrets.
Only my wife Dou Su Fu remains, I truly feel guilty toward her. If any reader finds this booklet, please collect my corpse. Now Hu specially reveals the Hu family secrets, gifting you this opportunity. If you truly obtain the Hu family inheritance, I hope in the future when meeting my wife, treat her kindly.”
The content revealed in this will could be summed up as: the man surnamed Hu came out to seek his ancestor’s legacy treasure, but died because of the ancestor’s legacy treasure.
In desperation, he wrote the family inheritance secrets and such on the booklet; if someone happened upon him and collected and buried his corpse, they would get this booklet.
Fang Shu paced, squatting down again to repeatedly flip through the scattered Hu family treasure book on the ground several times.
Until the treasure book was completely damaged, turning into a pile of paper ash, impossible to flip further, he finally put down the booklet, stood up, and only chewed on it in his mind.
At this moment in his mind, 《Dragon Seeking and Gold Touching Technique》 was already ranked first in Dao Talisman Analysis, and had been sorted through.
It was indeed a secret technique, content seemingly complete, but not easy, even harder than Fire Blade Technique, requiring half a year to fully analyze.
The Dao Talisman’s analysis of 《Dragon Seeking and Gold Touching Technique》 also somewhat corroborated the truth of what the man surnamed Hu said in the treasure book.
In this Qian Shan Mine, there was probably truly a refining qi immortal’s remnant inheritance!
And the other party had repeatedly entered Qian Shan Mine to seek dragons and grope for gold; the backhands left behind were likely not just one place!
Thinking of this, Fang Shu’s mind couldn’t help but thump excitedly.
But he quickly suppressed these stray thoughts, not dwelling on it.
Even generations of Hu family descendants couldn’t find the so-called ancestral legacy treasure. Only Dou Su Fu’s deceased husband got lucky and stumbled upon one, only to be countered to death.
The Hu family ancestor’s other legacy treasures, especially the location of his remnant inheritance, should be even harder to find.
And more likely, the inheritance had long been taken by someone. After all, Qian Shan Mine had been mined for over one cycle of sixty years, and even immortal sect disciples had come.
“Even if I luckily obtain that Hu family ancestor inheritance, it is ultimately a formation master’s.”
Fang Shu thought of this and couldn’t help but sigh lightly, smacking his lips: “Why isn’t it a gu master’s inheritance…”
But this regretful mood only lingered in his heart briefly before dissipating.
Speaking truthfully, obtaining a refining qi formation master’s inheritance was already heavenly luck; even if not learning it, selling it would be excellent, how could one be too greedy.
And Fang Shu chewed on a casually mentioned point in the treasure book, his face showing intense anticipation.
He thought to himself: “Although the Hu family is not a gu dao noble family, what they left behind may not be unusable for us gu dao people.”
It turned out that on the treasure book, the reason the Hu family ancestor, generations of Hu family offspring, including Dou Su Fu’s deceased husband, stubbornly sought dragons and groped for gold here, the whole clan fixated.
Was because in Qian Shan Mine, there were truly signs of dragon veins and dragon qi appearing.
And this sign was the Gold Seeking Insect!
The name “Gold Seeking Insect” was the abbreviation used by Fang Shu and other gu dao people, while in the mouths of formation path people, it had another full name—Dragon Seeking Gold Worm!
From feng shui perspective, wherever this insect appeared, there must be a dragon vein underground, just differing in size or timing.
All because this insect was born from dragon qi, thus able to seek dragons and grope for gold, observe qi and survey winds, it was a treasure seeking insect!
Fang Shu pondered in his heart: “Dragon qi, huh. Wonder if the dragon qi mentioned by the Hu family and the dragon qi mentioned by the Dao Talisman are the same thing…”
But regardless of whether they were the same, signs of “dragon qi” appearing, plus clues of treasure bugs like Gold Seeking Insect appearing, he Fang Shu absolutely could not let go.
Pondering the content on the Hu family treasure book repeatedly, Fang Shu found no conflicting signs, and after carefully groping the man surnamed Hu’s body, he gained no more clues.
Thus, he solemnly collected this person’s corpse, even specially carrying it out of the cave, choosing a corner of the underground mine vein to bury him.
Fang Shu then returned to the cave, handled all traces, and only then hurriedly escaped this abandoned mine vein.
Soon, he climbed to a high ground on Qian Shan.
Waiting bitterly until dawn broke and purple qi came from the east, Fang Shu widened his eyes, overlooking most of Qian Shan Mine.
Comparing the terrain and landform sketches outlined on the Hu family treasure book, he truly found that the hills and undulations in Qian Shan Mine had some dragon-like features.
Especially when morning clouds and mists surged, even with acidic water flowing and foul smoke in the mine, it still had an air hard to conceal.
Dazed for a moment, Fang Shu hurriedly used the simple method described by the man surnamed Hu before death, taking the earlier cave as one formation node, simply inferring other formation node locations.
Soon, he roughly estimated places in Qian Shan where formation nodes might exist.
These places numbered seven, areas varying in size.
And among these seven suspected formation node locations, Fang Shu immediately took a liking to one, staring tightly, his gaze greatly moved.
He instinctively felt that this place had the highest possibility of Gold Seeking Insect, or even the Hu family ancestor’s backhand, and it must be explored!
