Chapter 473: Two Brocade Bags for the World, A Piece of Dao Heart Never Forgotten

Thinking of meeting the number one person in the human world from five thousand years ago, Qian Chen still felt a bit nervous.

Qian Chen borrowed the "Feng Hou Wo Qi Jing" and was able to comprehend the Dragon, Tiger, Bird, and Snake arrays from it, and slightly dabbled in the Heaven, Earth, Wind, and Cloud arrays, allowing him to compete with Xie Daoyun, the most proficient in array formations among the younger generation of the Southern Jin and one of the twenty-eight characters of the previous generation in the Central Lands.

And that person?

He was a figure who had mastered the military strategist's heritage, connected the Heaven, Earth, Wind, Cloud, Flying Dragon, Soaring Bird, Tiger Wing, and Snake Coiling, and merged the eight arrays into the array-path treasure, the Eight Arrays Diagram.

The array essentials Qian Chen had dabbled in probably wouldn't even count as a three-year-old child's in front of him.

This person had the talent to manage the world, mastered the Dao of Yin and Yang, and Sima Yi—the number one Primordial Spirit of the Central Lands, whom the Sima family relied on to suppress the Central Lands—had only been able to fight and lose repeatedly in front of him in the past. If it weren't for his insistence on going against heaven and being burdened by the collapsing national destiny of the Immortal Han, this person would have been the number one figure in the Central Lands for ten thousand years.

"As the 'accompanying grandpa' of the Supreme Dao Ancestor, and at the very least a symbol of the Supreme Dao's lineage, if I rashly go to ask for an autograph, a photo, or advice... would that be too shameful for the Supreme's face!"

Qian Chen rubbed his hands in embarrassment, feeling a bit of foolish excitement in his heart.

As a zither enthusiast, and with the Sima family's great enemy in front, how could he not ask the Zither Demon for a tune?

What Sima Yan, Sima Shi—if he asked that person to play a "Guangling San," under the zither sound, would they be able to escape with their lives after running for three hours?

However, he had laid out his layout to this point, and relying entirely on the Prime Minister—was that a bit bad?

Qian Chen didn't have time to think more. Starlight flew, and he had already landed in front of the Southern Dipper Star Palace. Passing through the wide and majestic Heavenly Mansion Star, which was like the Emperor's hall, and walking through the side corridor, he caught a glimpse of the Emperor enshrined in the hall—ears large and fleshy, face broad and thick, hands hanging down to his knees.

Qian Chen sighed: "Emperor Emperor Zhao Lie!"

Walking past the Heavenly Mansion Star, he reached the Heavenly Beam Star Hall, which housed the weapon racks.

The layout within was like an armory. In the hall, several divine weapons were enshrined, still retaining the tragic aura of the battlefield. Although they were illusions formed by the spiritual imprints left in the Luo Tian world, they still exuded the tyrannical aura left by the peak of martial arts!

One of them, a snake-spear of eighteen feet, had a dark, heavy luster and an extremely violent aura; next to it, a long spear, rusted and mottled, had an aura more than a hundred times stronger than the bright silver spear in Liu Yu's hand; and there was an old bow that had been drawn countless times—even though the string was empty, it still made Qian Chen feel like he had thorns on his back...

But the most terrifying one was the weapon at the very head!

Its aura was calm, like a person closing their eyes and lying dormant, but behind this closed-eye state, there was an unmatched tension once the cold light was revealed, and it even exuded the vast aura of martial arts becoming holy!

If it weren't for the fact that this was just an illusion of residual aura, Qian Chen would almost suspect that the spirituality within this divine weapon had already cultivated into a god!

Qian Chen walked past it, feeling like he was walking under a blade with his neck exposed, and actually felt a sense of panic, fearing this weapon would wake up.

Walking past this hall, Qian Chen was drenched in cold sweat. If Liu Yu could come here, he would probably have unimaginable gains in martial arts.

Passing through the wide martial arts field after the Heavenly Beam Star Hall, Qian Chen gradually calmed his scattered mood and became solemn. When he arrived at the Heavenly Machine Star, Qian Chen originally thought it would be a great hall like the Heavenly Mansion or Heavenly Beam, but to his surprise, what met his eyes was a thatched cottage like that of an ordinary family.

Outside the thatched cottage, Qian Chen couldn't help but stop and gaze for a long time at the couplet in front of the door: "Be indifferent to fame and wealth to clarify one's ambition, be quiet and tranquil to reach far."

"Sometimes I really can't help but doubt, is all this real or illusory... Supreme, are you really just repeating my memories?"

Qian Chen felt complicated for a moment, but still looked up and pushed open the half-hidden thatched door.

Inside the thatched cottage, Qian Chen first saw a scholar standing proudly in the hall, currently gazing at the couch in the hall, his gaze distant, as if he were the only person in the world!

He stands eight feet tall and wears a silk headscarf. One can see his temples are streaked with gray; although he has the posture of a young man, the crane-feather cloak he wears hangs loosely, as if he possesses the bones of an immortal.

If the many weapons before had given Qian Chen a powerful sense of presence, sharp like a blade on his back, then this scene gave him a feeling that this person was about to drift away with the wind, yet it was also like looking up at a high mountain. Standing in front of him was an indescribable depth and grandeur.

"Greetings, Prime Minister!" Qian Chen bowed solemnly, then smiled: "I thought the Prime Minister would be lying high in the thatched cottage, I didn't expect you to be up..."

The thatched cottage was empty, with four bare walls and no furnishings. In the center of the hall, besides the couch and a few bamboo and wooden utensils, only two things caught Qian Chen's eyes.

One was the long bag on the desk, which looked like an ancient zither, and the other was the Seven Star Treasure Sword hanging on the wall. Although it was in its scabbard, gazing at the sword body, one still felt like climbing a high mountain and looking down into an abyss—ethereal and deep, as if a true dragon were lurking deep within!

Just observing the sword shape, Qian Chen's sword embryo vibrated vaguely, sensing the sincerity and high integrity of this sword through sword intent!

"Seven Star Long Yuan... but it's just a residual aura, the true body is not here!" Qian Chen's color changed slightly.

The ancient zither in the bag, the divine sword on the wall, plus the residual chess game on the couch desk and the feather fan in the Wu Hou's hand, were the four means left by this predecessor.

In this tiny thatched cottage, besides the four Dao Lord hidden moves 'brocade bags', there were actually two Crouching Dragons (true Lord Lord Wolong) and a Phoenix Fledgling (referring to himself shamelessly), truly immeasurable!

What did the mere Sima clan count for? Sima Yan could be destroyed with a flip of his hand!

"The old country has turned to ash, what Prime Minister is there? Just call me Lord Lord Wolong!" The Wu Hou seemed to see through Qian Chen's little thoughts and smiled slightly: "In the past, when visiting Sun Wu in the south, climbing the Stone City to reflect on the past, and exploring the old site of Jin Ling, I unexpectedly discovered the relics left by the Immortal Qin. The Luo Tian Immortal Artifact is profound, and I dared not take it for myself, so I left this residual shadow here to wait for future generations. Meeting a fellow Daoist here is also a pleasant surprise!"

"Mr. Lord Lord Wolong, junior..." Qian Chen pondered slightly, deciding to speak as the future Sect Master of the Profound Heaven Sect.

To his surprise, just as he opened his mouth, Mr. Lord Lord Wolong raised his hand to stop him: "Hey! I dare not!"

Qian Chen was truly shocked at this moment! Could the split spirit left by this person recognize his true identity just by looking?

"Fellow Daoist is of Innate body, your origin is comparable to a Luo Tian Immortal Artifact. The owner of this place would not dare to be negligent and would respect you as a brother. How could I, Liang, have the virtue and ability to dare to claim to be an elder?" Mr. Lord Lord Wolong bowed slightly, his demeanor truly admirable.

The shock in Qian Chen's eyes could no longer be concealed.

What is this?

My grand plan of being the black hand behind the scenes, my Pangu vest, my layout to subvert the Heavenly Court and stir up a bloody storm in the Heavenly Realm—had it been seen through before I even started?

The Wu Hou only pointed out Qian Chen's identity and didn't go deeper. Otherwise, if he had said anything about the Dao Dust Bead, the Supreme Three Treasures, or Innate Spiritual Light, Qian Chen wouldn't be thinking about asking him about the Sima clan's layout, but how to silence him!

Mr. Lord Lord Wolong stopped at the point and didn't mention it again, turning instead to say: "Leaving this split spirit in the past was also to continue a shred of national destiny for the old country. Because I had the Immortal Qin relic and the creation of the Luo Tian Immortal Artifact, I was fortunate enough to preserve four 'brocade bags'..."

Qian Chen looked at the simple thatched cottage and pointed remotely at the zither in the bag and the sword on the wall: "Could it be..."

"Exactly this zither, this chess game, this sword, and this fan." Mr. Lord Lord Wolong shook his feather fan lightly and smiled: "They can only be used four times. After four times, this split spirit will end!"

Qian Chen knew without being told that the four hidden moves left by a Dao Lord would surely be earth-shattering means.

Even if limited by various reasons, they might not truly have the power of a Dao Lord's strike, but in today's Earth Immortal Realm, they already had the ability to turn the world around and change fate, offsetting one or two Primordial Spirit True Immortals, or even killing one or two Primordial Spirits! Today, Sima Yan probably wasn't worthy of one of them...

Qian Chen recalled slightly and could guess that the hidden move left for Sima Yan probably wasn't to deal with Sima Yan, but to reverse the remaining qi of the Immortal Han, purify the infinite resentment left by the Demonic Path on it, and even...

The Demonic Path was going to be miserable!

Qian Chen felt a moment of silence for the Demonic Sects involved. They had schemed against the remaining destiny of the Immortal Han, defiling the Han lineage with barbarian seeds, but they hadn't expected that the hidden moves left by the big boss of the Shu Han were still there!

The smarter a person is, the more petty they are. Qian Chen simply didn't know how they were going to die.

The Primordial Spirit big bosses of the Demonic Sect didn't rashly enter the Cave Heaven, which counted as them being cautious. Otherwise, there might have been a Primordial Spirit Heavenly Demon falling today!

"I don't know which of the four 'brocade bags' left by Mr. can resolve the current crisis?" Qian Chen said sincerely: "It was my negligence that led to Liu Yu, who carries the Han lineage, being captured by the Demonic Path."

"Seven Star Lamp sacrifice, using him as the main sacrifice, supplemented by the two most outstanding people among the current noble families, Wang and Xie, plus the Southern Jin's own 'Crown Prince'—many noble family children here, and catching any two others, are also people of outstanding destiny."

"Using the starlight of the Nine Heavens to shave off their fate, and blood-sacrificing the Seven Stars as a sacrifice, not only can it help Sima Yan impact the Primordial Spirit, but the Southern Jin national destiny consumed when he previously recovered from his Dao injuries and shed the Yin from the ghost object will also be replenished..."

"And the Demonic Path has already made moves on the remaining qi of the Immortal Han! Whether the Sima family wins or Liu Yu is lucky, their destiny will definitely have half belonging to the Demonic Path. If such a malignant worm is allowed to sneak into the new dynasty, it will surely become a heart-and-gut trouble in the long run!"

"Liu Yu!" Lord Lord Wolong looked up slightly, pinched his fingers to calculate, and sighed: "So that child is named Liu Yu? His childhood name is Jinu, quite like the style of the late Emperor!"

"In the past, the late Emperor was famous for his benevolence and kindness, but few knew that his martial arts were also unparalleled. The Five Emperors Dragon Fist he created had the atmosphere of opening peace for the world!" Mr. Lord Lord Wolong held his feather fan, pointing at the couch, and smiled: "Back then, the late Emperor brought Generals Guan and Zhang to visit my humble thatched cottage. The wild man of Nanyang was lying high, General Zhang below glared with anger, making my back sweat, and General Guan closed his tiger eyes slightly, not daring to let them open!"

"The late Emperor's spirit suppressed the two generals, and when he approached my humble self, he had no overbearing aura!"

Mr. Lord Lord Wolong's words reached this point, suddenly becoming heavy, and the words were hard to speak.

Qian Chen also fell silent, letting this wisp of split spirit reminisce for a long time. Only now did he suddenly understand why this peerless Dao Lord suddenly retracted his foot before ascending, and fell like a star in the autumn wind at Wuzhang Plains!

He was originally of immortal posture, ethereal and extraordinary, but he couldn't let go... of the three thousand feet of red dust.

After a long time, Mr. Lord Lord Wolong walked to the couch and stroked the chessboard: "This residual game is left for Liu Yu. As long as seven pieces are placed on the chessboard, the Seven Star blood sacrifice will be self-resolved, and one piece will kill one demon! It will make the demons under this God-Sacrificing Platform tremble with fear, and Sima Yan will end up making wedding clothes for the new dynasty!"

Qian Chen stepped forward and looked at the chessboard, seeing the entanglement of the array formation between the black and white pieces.

He stared for a while and felt his head dizzy, with a sense of his spiritual sense being exhausted. Only then did he retreat in horror. Qian Chen could understand the Eight Arrays Diagram in the "Wo Ji Jing," but he could only understand three-tenths of this chess game. But just this three-tenths made some mysteries of the Heaven, Earth, Wind, and Cloud arrays that he had been unable to comprehend before suddenly clear.

The Seven Star Lamp set up by the Wu Hou was the white piece on it, while the various modifications made by Sima Yi and the Demonic Path to usurp the array were the black pieces.

The black pieces seemed to control the situation, but as the Wu Hou said earlier, reversing this game was only a matter of seven steps...

"One game is like this!" Qian Chen looked up and said solemnly: "I really don't know where the remaining three brocade bags will be used?"

"This zither is left for my old friend!" Mr. Lord Lord Wolong smiled frankly.

"Sima Yi is going to be unlucky... I don't know what expression he will have when he returns and faces this surprise!" Qian Chen glanced at the ancient zither in the bag, feeling a bit of schadenfreude.

"This sword is to support the world, eliminate demonic tribulations, and protect the southeast!" Zhuge Wu Hou gazed at the Seven Star Long Yuan Sword, which rang in its scabbard, clanging with the sound of slaying demons.

Qian Chen bowed: "Mr.'s high righteousness!"

This bow was without any hypocrisy.

The means left by the Wu Hou were used one less for every one used. Four arrangements were not enough for his family and country, and the Langya Zhuge clan was still there, yet not one of these four arrangements was left for the Zhuge clan. To be able to bequeath this sword qi to the world and protect the common people!

Qian Chen was willing to give this salute!

"What about the last fan?" Qian Chen had already seen that the chess game was the Wu Hou's heaven-shattering attainment in array formations, and those who entered the array lived or died by his will; that zither was supreme Dao practice, and those who heard it had the Great Dao in front of them; that sword's killing power tilted the world, could shine eighty thousand miles in the Central Lands, and was worthy of high integrity!

The final feather fan is peerless and boundless in the art of heavenly calculation.

A light wave could summon wind and rain, changing heaven and earth...

"This is left to deal with the unexpected!"

Mr. Lord Lord Wolong's feather fan pointed, and Qian Chen looked over, only to see a map of the Central Lands. The feather fan brushed lightly, dusting off the map.

Qian Chen immediately understood. This fan was a 'variable' left by the Wu Hou, which could cover the world, save the common people, and pull the situation back from the brink. It would fall at the most unexpected and appropriate moment.

"If you bring disaster to the world, this fan will be to execute you. If you rise to save the common people, this fan will be a helping hand from me!" Mr. Lord Lord Wolong said sincerely.

"Of course, if you really fall into the Demonic Path, I'm afraid this fan won't be able to stop it..." The Wu Hou sighed: "My Dao practice is still shallow, and the power of this fan is hard to save the grand situation."

Qian Chen dipped his finger in tea and wrote the character 'Xu' on the chessboard, saying: "What about this person?"

"I calculated that he is one of them!"

"Mr. left four hidden moves, one for the old master of the old country, one for the old grievances and karma of the past, and the last two are for the common people of the world. The Langya Zhuge clan is still there, yet Mr. doesn't leave anything for them?" Qian Chen couldn't help but ask.

"Why scheme for future generations?" The Wu Hou laughed long: "Why scheme for future generations! I have great righteousness to teach by word and deed, taking benevolence and righteousness as treasures, then even if I die, it is glorious."

Qian Chen closed his eyes slightly, a wave of heroic spirit surging in his heart.

He suddenly smiled, feeling a sense of relief in his heart, and said: "With such predecessors, why should my petty schemes be so embarrassing? This time, what if I cast aside the schemes for myself? I am also a pillar of the Righteous Path, I am also the Sect Master of the Profound Heaven Sect, for the common people of the world! Why not?"

"Why must there be an excuse for oneself?"

"Today, cast all these aside. Xie An and the others can do it for their families, for themselves, and to help the common people of the world. And I, today, will only fight once for the common people of the Southern Jin!"

Qian Chen's mind was set, and he opened his eyes, smiling at the Wu Hou: "Sima Yan is a clown, and the Demonic Path is just seeking death in front of me. Why need Mr. to take action?"

"In this Cave Heaven, with me and Zhu Jiuyin, the grand situation is already settled. At most, it will just take a bit more effort... Jin Ling old city, Jiankang new capital, were determined by Mr., based on the Eight Arrays Diagram. Can we use this game to exhaust all the white pieces and encompass the whole city?"

Lord Lord Wolong pondered for a moment: "Yes!"

"I know Mr.'s schemes!" Qian Chen stood up and said calmly: "Mr. uses the Seven Star Array as a chess game, but I can use the furnace of the God-Sacrificing Platform to burn it into a Heaven and Earth Furnace. Yin and Yang as charcoal, creation as labor, dragon qi as medicine, refining destiny into a pill."

"One furnace outside the Cave Heaven, using Jiankang as the furnace and all living beings as medicine. Using the life of the Sima family's dragon qi as the monarch, the destiny of the noble families as the minister, and both righteous and evil sides, both Dao and Demon families, as well as a group of cultivation scholars as assistants, born carrying national destiny!"

"One furnace inside the Cave Heaven, using the Cave Heaven as the furnace and the gods as medicine. Using the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demonic Path as the monarch, blood-sacrificing many Demonic Path members as the minister, still using righteous and evil as assistants, and the tribulation as the furnace fire!"

"This is, the Heavenly Emperor Dragon-Governing Pill!"

"This is the pill of the true dragon of destiny... It can open a dynasty, establish a country, create a monarch, and continue the legal lineage of the Yan Han."

"Leave Liu Yu to me! In Jiankang city, although there are three Heavenly Masters sitting in town, the Sima clan will surely threaten the ten thousand families of the city as hostages, leading the Demonic Path Primordial Spirit into the city."

"The Sima family's plot will surely come to nothing, but under this tribulation, there is the danger of half the city sinking." Qian Chen gazed at Mr. Zhuge in white and bowed: "Please, Mr., join me in saving the people of this city!"

The Wu Hou stood with his hands behind his back, facing away from Qian Chen, and sighed faintly: "Heavenly Emperor Dragon-Governing Pill, it can indeed recreate the dragon vein! It can even create a Primordial Spirit clone, a pill of alternative enlightenment, which should be above the sixth turn. It is worthy of being the Supreme Dao's..."

Qian Chen raised his eyebrows slightly upon hearing this, his hand for silencing him itching.

"You have already arranged everything. Sima Yan as the main medicine, the God-Sacrificing Platform as the furnace, the Demonic Path members as auxiliary materials, and even those noble families can be suppressed by you with a wave of your hand, borrowing their destiny! When Sima Yan impacts the Primordial Spirit, that is when you refine this pill. With the Luo Tian Immortal Artifact, even I cannot stop you. A sixth-turn Golden Core, how many people can pay everything to exchange for it? The Sima clan's perverse actions are nothing more than seeking a merit like this pill."

"If the Sima clan knew that there is such a pill that can point out a true dragon of national destiny that is immortal and equivalent to a Primordial Spirit to protect their clan!"

"I'm afraid they could do things ten times, a hundred times more perverse than they are now! And you are just pushing the boat with the current! Why are you willing to give up this pill to fulfill a phantom like me?"

Qian Chen was silent for a long time. Everything since entering the Jin Ling Cave Heaven had made him realize the exploitable aspects. Several layouts were all for the final closing of the net, scheming everything when Sima Yan was at his most arrogant and proud, and taking everything that the Dao and Demon sides, the righteous and evil sides, were fighting for.

As for the people of the Southern Jin, the backlash of declining national destiny, the Sima clan didn't care, so why should he?

But all this... in the end, his heart was not at peace.

The several hesitations when taking action made him understand that there must be something contrary to his original heart.

Although a Dao cultivator should have a firm Dao heart and should ignore everything for the sake of enlightenment, like the Immortal Daoist, like the Corpse-Driving Sect's Duan Ya, like the Yu Yu Jiuyou Path's Fu Fu Lao Mo Fu, like the nameless old demon of the Blood Sea Path, like the Sima clan's Sima Yan...

But this was not him!

"Whether it's Buddha or Demon, the most important thing is always to know what you want!"

"I only wish to be free and unfettered for a lifetime... and not fall from my original heart!" ===== CHAPTER 474 =====