Chapter 284 - The Real Dragon Qi (1/2)

At Wuhou Temple in Chengdu…

“Fatty, shouldn’t we split up? Why are we all here?” asked Feng Tianming.

“Don’t worry. I’ve been observing it for months. I found the converging spiritual strength coming from all directions, and it’s hard to find their source except for this one. This one has a very clear trail,” Yu Wude said with a smile.

“I see. Then let’s get started now so that we can finish it as soon as we can,” Feng Tianming turned around and said.

Yu Wude nodded and agreed. “Yiyi can stay with me. You two should take a few steps back in case there is any protective gear in the tomb that may hurt you.”

Feng Tianming and Misawa Chihiro stepped back. Yu Wude and Shangguan Yiyi were looking each other in the eyes and nodding.

“Let’s build the array!”

When Yu Wude said that out aloud, he and Shangguan Yiyi split up. Dazzling lights flowed out of their fingers, which they used as brushes to draw patterns on the sky.

The two were doing so at the same speed. Complicated patterns and talismanic words came out one after another, merging into the sky.

The light rays from their fingers were joined together later. Their fingers flipped away the lights and then they saw each other’s faces. Both of them laughed out loud.

As they chanted the spells, the color of the light between their fingers turned red. The great array had been summoned. The golden pattern covered the sky above Wuhou Temple, with talismanic words written all over it.

Among those talismanic words, eight of them held the most important positions. The eight words were the Eight Diagrams, which were written as “Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kan, Gen, and Dui”.

The array was a giant combination of the Eight Diagrams. The eight words were blue, and the whole array shone with golden lights. The lines that crossed in the array were red.

“Oh? A post-celestial Eight Diagram Tactic? Why don’t you build a pre-celestial one?” asked Feng Tianming, who was standing behind the two.

Yu Wude nodded and replied, “The pre-celestial Eight Diagrams had been long missing. I researched it for years but found no way to make any breakthrough.

“That was because the last and most important part was missing. I can’t figure out the missing part by simple deduction. So I gave up on it and turned to the post-celestial Eight Diagrams, which I am proficient in.

“It gives me a better way to investigate. I set the post-celestial Eight Diagrams and its reform part based on the pre-celestial kind. Then I’ll do the calculation on that.”

Feng Tianming finally understood. He nodded and murmured to himself, “I didn’t learn much about pre-celestial Eight Diagrams in Shushan either because almost all the arrays there were based on post-celestial Eight Diagrams.

“But I think those post-celestial ones are just as powerful as those pre-celestial ones.”

Yu Wude didn’t agree. He shook his head. “That’s because we’ve never seen any pre-celestial ones that haven’t missed a part.

“We’ve been misled. The truth is, the pre-celestial Eight Diagrams and the post-celestial ones can be used in different situations. ‘Pre-celestial’ stands for ‘Heaven Stems’, and ‘post-celestial’ stands for ‘Earthly Branches’.

“Sometimes when you failed to calculate with the post-celestial Eight Diagrams, you’ll have to turn to the pre-celestial ones because they were created in the remote ancient times and they are much more powerful.

“The post-celestial Eight Diagrams can be used to foretell and to turn ill luck into good. It can also reveal secrets and help you solve difficult problems.

“The pre-celestial Eight Diagrams, however, have the real power that can change the world. It can change the world climatically and geographically, relocate mountains and seas, and diminish thunder and clouds.”

Those words were like booming bombs. Those who heard it were totally stunned and their minds went wild.

Neither of them knew that the pre-celestial Eight Diagrams could be so powerful. Those who could recover them would be able to change the world.

“That’s… impressive!”

“How powerful can they be?” asked Misawa Chihiro, still feeling confused.

Those explanations were too much for her to process immediately. “Tao begets One, One begets Two, Two begets Three, Three begets all things” was a basic Taoist concept, but she hadn’t understood it until years ago. The Eight Diagrams were way more complicated than that.

Those theories were very mysterious and complicated. Even a genius like Yu Wude, who had dedicated himself to arrays, wouldn’t be able to figure it out.

That meant it was impossible for Chihiro to understood it because she knew nothing about Tao Law. She had barely become a sage, which she achieved because she had done Simultaneous Training with Feng Tianming.

“In the evolution of the pre-celestial Eight Diagrams, the Tai Chi produced the yin and the yang, which produced the Four Symbols, which produced the Eight Diagrams. That implies how the universe took in shape.

“You think the universe has ultimate control of everything? It’s actually under the charge of the Eight Diagrams!”

The secret that Yu Wude told Misawa Chihiro just now made her mouth open wide. She seemed quite curious and exclaimed, “That’s impressive! Impressive!”

“Okay, I’ve finished building the array! Let’s search for some spiritual strength!”