Chapter 833
Three people traveling together
Chapter 833 Threesome
After the ritual to send off the gods concluded, the river of clouds that had flowed down from the ninth heaven gradually dissipated under the watchful eyes of the crowd.
Zhang Ziwang looked up at the sky. The sky was very blue, and apart from the river of clouds flowing down from the ninth heaven, there wasn't a single cloud anywhere else.
Such a strange phenomenon made the already superstitious villagers even more convinced, and they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the sky, muttering incantations.
Once the clouds have completely dispersed, they can stop and rest.
The scattered clouds drifted upwards in clumps, as if heading to deeper places. Some of them drifted and then dissipated. So one cluster of clouds deviated from its course and lingered strangely in a certain place for a while, which made it quite eye-catching.
Zhang Ziwang exclaimed "Eh!" and turned to look at Li Wenying.
Li Wenying also straightened up and looked at it with a frown.
Pan Yun was looking up at the clouds as they rolled by when she suddenly caught sight of a cloud that seemed to be neither flying away nor dispersing, and her brow twitched.
That night, after the students had all gone to sleep, Zhang Ziwang and Li Wenying left the village and drifted away into the distance.
Not long after they left, Pan Yun peeked out, looked around, and seeing no one, she too vanished in a flash.
Zhang Ziwang and Li Wenying arrived at a village and circled around a large house. Just as they were about to talk, they suddenly heard a strange noise. They immediately hid in a big tree and turned to look.
Then Pan Jun appeared furtively, with a black cat perched on his shoulder.
Zhang Ziwang and Li Wenying: ...
Without much thought, the two showed up.
Pan Yun was startled when she saw the two of them, and felt a moment of guilt: "You, what are you doing here?"
Before Li Wenying could speak, Zhang Ziwang began to berate her: "If you want to investigate, then investigate openly. What are you doing sneaking around like this? As a member of the Longhu Mountain Academy, it is your duty to report and investigate any unusual dragon energy found among the people. What are you afraid of?"
Li Wenying quickly said, "You can't say that. Before we know the full extent of the problem, we should be careful. Senior Brother Zhang, don't teach the child bad habits."
Zhang Ziwang then fell silent.
Pan Jun breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out they hadn't discovered that she was the one who did it. What a close call!
With that thought, Pan Yun straightened her back and became more assertive. Yes, she was the righteous person who had come to investigate after discovering the anomaly here.
Li Wenying stood up straight after hearing her say just one sentence, and couldn't say a word for a long time.
Zhang Ziwang was very satisfied, feeling that his education had been effective.
The three of them stood together on the roof. Zhang Ziwang took out a compass, and Li Wenying and Pan Yun both leaned over to look at it.
After looking around for a while, Li Wenying became somewhat suspicious: "This place... has good feng shui, but something is strange."
Zhang Ziwang looked around, then walked around the house for a long time with the compass in hand, before finally putting the compass away and saying, "Wait for dawn."
Pan Jun blinked, also feeling surprised, as if something had changed.
It was getting late, and all three of them were quite powerful, so staying up all night wasn't a big deal. They sat on the roof of Master Huang's house, watching the stars and the moon, and discussing Taoist scriptures and magic.
Pan Yun looked up at the starry sky and announced the time: "It's past midnight."
“On July 13th, the gates of hell will open wide,” Li Wenying smiled. “No one else would dare to go out at night.” Zhang Ziwang scoffed, “Even vengeful spirits wouldn’t dare to bother the three of us. What’s there to be afraid of?”
Pan Yun pointed to the stars in the sky and said, "Didn't you notice anything unusual about the constellations?"
Zhang Ziwang and Li Wenying looked up at the starry sky together, their faces calm: "It's not like it's the first day, are you only just realizing it?"
So everyone knows there's something unusual about the celestial phenomena, but I wonder if the emperor, that little man, knows?
Oh dear, at this time of year, her second senior brother only finished his shift last month. Shouldn't he have reported it by now?
“No, that’s not right,” Zhang Ziwang said, sitting up straight and frowning as he looked around. “Mars is encroaching on Xuanwu, and the three constellations of Wei, Shi, and Bi are in their prime. But it’s the turn of summer and autumn now, shouldn’t it be Baihu (White Tiger) showing its face?”
Li Wenying also sat up straight and looked up, and sure enough, she found that the three constellations of Wei, Shi, and Bi were more prominent than the surrounding constellations.
He muttered, "There's going to be trouble in the north."
Just as Pan Jun was about to worry, Zhang Ziwang sat back down, his expression calm: "It seems there's going to be war in the north too."
Pan Yun turned to look at Zhang Ziwang and Li Wenying, who had regained their composure, and asked, "Aren't you worried?"
What are we worried about?
Pan Yun: "I feel that the world is about to fall into chaos. There is fighting in Fujian, fighting in the Luchuan area, and fighting in the north. The southeast, southwest, and northwest of the Ming Dynasty are all going to be in chaos."
Zhang Ziwang said calmly: "But it cannot be denied that the Ming Dynasty is at its peak. Although this emperor has treacherous eunuchs like Wang Zhen by his side, he has not made any major mistakes in the few years since he took power. It has only been more than seventy years since the founding of the country by Emperor Taizu, and the country is stable."
Pan Yun gazed at the ever-changing celestial phenomena, and murmured, "Is it truly stable?"
Li Wenying smiled and said, "Junior Sister Pan, don't forget the academy's rules. One of them is that as a cultivator, one should be wary of worrying unnecessarily."
“Although the Ming Dynasty is stable, there are minor disturbances every year. If we worry about everything, our Daoist heart will be corrupted long ago,” Li Wenying said. “We should just do our best and keep a calm mind.”
Pan Yun turned her gaze away from the starry sky, raised an eyebrow, and said, "Okay, I'll take it easy."
She's pretty ordinary. After all, it's a feudal dynasty, and she's witnessed the most beautiful era. At worst, she can just break it down and start over. I just don't know if they'll be able to accept it then.
The night was long, and there were still nearly three hours until sunrise. Li Wenying made conversation: "I heard you were inquiring about Zhang Li and Tao Ji. What, they've disappeared again?"
Pan Yun glanced quickly at Zhang Ziwang, suspecting that Li Wenying had brought it up intentionally. After thinking for a moment, she did not deny it and nodded, saying, "Yes, it's a pity that there is no news of Third Senior Brother and Fourth Senior Sister anywhere. I don't know where they went."
Li Wenying's lips curled slightly: "You should ask Ziwang about this. He's much better informed than we are."
Pan Yun immediately turned to Zhang Ziwang, her eyes shining: "Senior Brother Zhang, do you know the whereabouts of my third senior brother and fourth senior sister?"
Zhang Ziwang pursed his lips, secretly glared at Li Wenying, and shut his mouth.
Pan Yun begged him relentlessly, even taking out tea and snacks from her spatial storage and using magic to boil water and brew tea for him, leaving Zhang Ziwang with no room to retaliate.
This person has such a thick skin.
Zhang Ziwang sighed and finally said, "They went to Kunlun to find medicine. I only know that they last appeared in Kunlun Mountain. It is a remote place with different rules of the mountain god. It is normal for people who go into the mountain to not be able to send news for three to five years."
Pan Yun: "It might be normal for others, but it's not normal for Fourth Senior Sister and the others."
(End of this chapter)