8mi Chapter 536 Mountain Stele Laws
Chapter 536 Mountain Stele Laws
Chapter 536 Mountain Stele Laws
Qingwan looked down at the vast land below, but couldn't figure it out.
In terms of the art of observing qi and feng shui, none of them could compare to Yun Xiao, a Taoist priest with extensive experience.
She couldn't help but wonder, "Could it be that your imperial court removed the dragon vein from this place a long time ago?"
“That can’t be…” Yun Xiao said, stroking his chin. “If that were the case, the terrain here shouldn’t be like this.”
Yun Xiao looked at Lu Zheng beside him and said, "Raise the spirit boat a bit, so I can take a better look."
Upon hearing this, Lu Zheng steered his spirit boat straight into the sky, reaching tens of thousands of feet above the ground, where howling winds raged and icy frost swept across the land.
Yun Xiao's gaze was intense as he looked down at the land, and in a single glance, he saw a city.
"That should be the newly built capital, not too far from the old capital..."
"Judging from the terrain of this mountain range, it looks like someone has made a big splash!"
Yun Xiao pointed and said, "Look, it seems that a dragon vein is being born over the new capital, and the dragon energy it is absorbing comes from the suppressed dragon vein..."
"Tsk tsk, you wouldn't be able to tell without some skill."
Yun Xiao stroked his beard and said, "These barbarians in the southern borderlands may harbor rebellious intentions!"
Lu Zheng couldn't help but ask curiously, "A new dragon vein? When could it form?"
Yun Xiao said leisurely, "If we let nature take its course, it would take a thousand or eight hundred years. But if a master of formations who has reached the profound level or even the Dao of Inquiry were to intervene and reverse the course of the universe, it wouldn't take long at all."
"If one isn't afraid of alerting other powerful figures, they can directly unleash a grand celestial array to transform the world, which would take only a few years. If they set it up cautiously and discreetly, it would only take a few decades. For cultivators, that's a short time, considering this is the main dragon vein of a vast region..."
Yun Xiao's eyes flickered, and he added, "Of course, what I said before was just my speculation. We still need to go to the source of the dragon vein to find out the truth."
Yun Xiao took out an array plate. "Qingyi has profound cultivation, right? Cooperate with me, and we'll sneak over to the stone tablet..."
Following Yun Xiao's instructions, Lu Zheng slowly lowered the spirit boat down.
Yun Xiao and Qing Yi whispered to each other for a while.
Soon, following Yun Xiao's instructions, Qingyi cast a spell.
Enveloped in a beam of spiritual light, Lu Zheng and his companions, along with their spirit boat, vanished from their spot in an instant.
In the blink of an eye, Lu Zheng and his group arrived in front of the huge stone tablet that was radiating light.
The group used their divine senses to scan their surroundings and found that they had not been discovered.
The area enveloped by the light from the stone tablet exuded a powerful aura and possessed an overwhelming pressure that repelled all living beings.
Lu Zheng and the others did not get too close, lest they cause an abnormal reaction from the stone tablet.
Lu Zheng's eyes gleamed with a strange light as he gradually made out the words on the stone tablet through the light emanating from it.
Those were individual characters, each about ten feet square, written in an ancient script, each character containing extraordinary power.
Lu Zheng slowly shifted his gaze, carefully examining the entire stone tablet. The inscription essentially stated that the Shu Kingdom had incorporated the southern border into its territory, and the local barbarians had pledged their eternal submission. To demonstrate the rule of the kingdom, the Shu court and the southern barbarians had agreed to certain laws.
Yun Xiao pointed at the laws and said with a smile, "Did you feel it? There's a special power contained in those laws and characters. Isn't it different from other powers you've seen before?"
"These characters contain the power of national law and have a special rule-based power. With this stele erected here, the barbarians of the entire southern border will be subject to certain restrictions."
"For example, this one stipulates that the local barbarians are prohibited from cultivating Gu worms on humans..."
"Although many barbarians who raise Gu poison in the area will not abide by this law, there is an unseen limit to them in this world. The more people they harm by raising Gu poison, the more their luck and lifespan will be reduced, making it more difficult for them to cultivate to a higher realm..."
"This is divine punishment for breaking the law, but the punishment in the dark is not severe, so not many people care."
Upon hearing this, Qingwan couldn't help but turn her head and ask, "According to the inscription, the punishment can be death, but why isn't the punishment imposed by Heaven and Earth so severe?"
Yun Xiao smiled and said, "Because the stone tablet bestows the laws upon this world, its power can only reach this extent. The true caster of the spell must be a human."
"When wicked people commit crimes, it is still up to the government to arrest and convict them. What can God do to help them?"
Qingwan couldn't help but ask, "What if someone abuses their power and bends the law for personal gain?"
Yun Xiao shrugged and said, "There's nothing we can do about it. That's just how the world is. You guys shouldn't even think about letting heaven and earth punish criminals according to the law..."
“Even the emperor of this country makes mistakes from time to time. How can the court allow the laws of the land to supersede everyone else? That would be asking for trouble.”
If this rule were applied to everyone, ordinary people might applaud, thinking that Heaven had finally opened its eyes, but the emperor would probably be the first to be unhappy.
Yun Xiao grinned and said, "Just think about it, if the laws of the world were really that strict, who knows how many people would be struck by lightning..."
"I'm afraid that few of the officials in the imperial court are innocent, and they will all be punished by heaven. Tsk tsk."
"Speaking of which, I once heard a secret. In the previous dynasty, there was a highly skilled Legalist who wanted to establish a great law to restrain the people. He was even thinking about writing a new law, but before he could finish the book, he was killed. If he really wanted to establish a great law, he would offend everyone. If he didn't die, who would?"
Yun Xiao couldn't help but sigh, "In ancient times, the hundred races fought each other, and even the human race itself was not governed by rules and regulations. Later, a hundred schools of thought contended for the Way, and the Legalist school emerged as the most prominent..."
“To this day, all countries in the world have national laws as the foundation of their nation. But the true Legalists are not well-regarded and have long since died out in name only. There are probably not many proper Legalists left in this world, nor are there any true laws.”
Listening to Yun Xiao's story and looking at the inscription in front of him, Lu Zheng was filled with emotion and a myriad of thoughts.
Yun Xiao looked up at the huge stone tablet in front of him and muttered to himself, "However, the power contained in this tablet is much less than I've heard. Maybe it's because it's so old?"
According to the story Yun Xiao had heard, this stone tablet was extraordinary when it was first built, containing the great power of heaven and earth, though it was only slightly inferior to a sacred object.
After all, a stone tablet meant to suppress the dragon vein of a region could not be an ordinary stone tablet.
But now that he was actually there observing the stone tablet, Yun Xiao discovered that the aura emanating from the giant tablet was much weaker than he had imagined, and it did not retain much of the profound Daoist charm.
I don't know if it's been like this for years, or if someone has done something to it.
While Lu Zheng and the others continued to admire the extraordinary stone tablet, Yun Xiao took the array plate and moved around to explore the area.
(End of this chapter)