Chapter 354 — Four Honored Guests of Heaven Above
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
Heaven Above had four heads; besides Star Lord Qiao and Lord Yu, there were Lady Hua and Star Lord Yan. Because of the matter of Li Zheng's departure from the Wasteland, all four heads of Heaven Above had come down. The four looked below, and wonder showed on every face.
"Last time I came to bring down calamity, I did not look closely. " Lord Yu said, musing, "At that time I glimpsed only the nine dragon veins of the capital and saw none of the others, so that Jingping very nearly came into its great destiny.
" Lady Hua was a beautiful young girl, her voice clear and sweet as an oriole's.
She said, "Those nine dragon veins are the Yellow Dragon Range.
Besides those nine, there are four river dragon veins: the Tu River, the Jin River, the Yong River, and the Lan River.
" With a light stroke of her palm, her vital qi turned in the air into a mirror and shone down into the earth beneath the Kingdom of Jingping. That mirror could pierce more than ten li into the depths, and in it appeared three great dragons, the long rivers of magma beneath the earth.
Lady Hua said, "Add these three fire dragon veins hidden in the earth, and the dragon veins within Jingping's borders already number sixteen. " Star Lord Yan shook his head. "More than that.
Look at Jingping's coast.
The coastal mountains rise and fall like two dragons coiled tail against tail; that is two more dragon veins. That place where the dragons coil their tails, I wonder what mountain it is.
Eighteen dragon veins; no wonder the Kingdom of Jingping breeds outstanding people and rises to glory. " Star Lord Qiao said in a low voice, "That the grasslands will be swallowed into Jingping is only a matter of time.
This time the Imperial Preceptor has marched into the grasslands, and by my reckoning he has already reached the Loulan Golden Palace. How many dragon veins are there on the grasslands? " The other three lords were shaken inwardly. "And the snowfields of the frozen north, the Kingdom of Langjuxu.
How many dragon veins are there? " Star Lord Qiao said, "The number of Jingping's dragon veins already exceeds our reckoning. A single dragon vein would be nothing; it could never make a destiny.
But a herd of dragons rising into heaven, that is to seize the fortune of heaven and earth!
I say that killing the old Human Emperor is a small matter.
To find the chief dragon vein of Jingping and take it away or shift it, so that the herd of dragons has no head, that is what we came down to the mortal world to do. " Lord Yu pondered, and said, "The chief vein gone, the herd headless, the fortune split asunder, the heroes of the world rising together, Jingping torn apart. It is indeed a good plan. Which vein, then, is the chief vein of Jingping? " The four looked down one after another, and searched a long while, and still could not make out the chief vein.
"We had best ask the Dragon Keeper of Heaven Above to come and find the chief vein. He raises dragons, he distinguishes every kind of them, and he is skilled at charting and reckoning the lay of the land. " Star Lord Qiao said, "Qingying, Yaohua, go back to Heaven Above and have the Dragon Keeper come down to the mortal world; ask him to survey the dragon veins of Jingping and determine the chief vein.
" Qingying and Yaohua assented, and hurried off in haste.
Lord Yu laughed. "The Sword God has still not shown himself.
How dull. I thought that once we released our aura he would come to answer the challenge; I did not think he would turn coward.
In former days he would never have been afraid.
It seems the Sword God has truly grown old. " "Such is the sorrow of a mortal body. " Lady Hua laughed.
"However mighty a man in his prime, as he nears old age his blood and qi wither and fail; once the blood and qi fail, the heart fails with them.