Due to the good results of the Guangdong Metaphysics Association, President Xu warmly greeted every student. However, when he came to me, he only said a few words and the meeting was over.
I didn't mind. After the car was on the road, I got up and walked to President Xu's side.
Xu Shuxing was originally sitting with him. When he heard that I had something to discuss with President Xu, Xu Shuxing quickly stood up and prepared to give up his seat to me.
At that moment, President Xu frowned and said to me unhappily, "Zhou Yi, I'm talking to Xiao Xu about something important. Can't you wait for a while?"
Hearing his words, I smiled faintly. When I first came to the Metaphysics Headquarters, he had deliberately provoked Xu Shuxing and me. Now, he was still using this kind of method.
Before I spoke, Xu Shuxing smiled at me. "Brother Zhou, it's okay. We don't have anything important to discuss. You can talk first."
With that, he stepped aside, got up, and left.
Xu Shuxing had a fiery temper. If it was in the past, he would have been easily provoked. However, after more than a month in the Metaphysics headquarters, we had already forged a deep friendship. President Xu still used the old methods to disgust people, but it was no longer enough.
After I sat down next to President Xu, his impatience was swept away, and a smile appeared on his face.
Seeing that he wanted to chat with me, I was too lazy to talk nonsense with him. I asked him directly, "That day, President Xu threw me out of the office …"
Before I could finish, President Xu interrupted me. He swore that he didn't throw me out that day, but the old witch took me away. He didn't know the rest of the matter.
There was no need to argue about this matter. After he finished speaking, I calmly said, "No matter who it is, after that day's matter, one of my compasses should be in your office. Chairman Xu, if you see it afterwards, please return it to me."
"Compass Dharma treasure?"
President Xu's expression changed. After a long silence, he said hesitantly, "To be honest, I did see the compass that day. However, when I saw it, it was already broken and couldn't be used anymore … After that, I studied it for a long time and tried to restore it. In the end, I didn't succeed, so I could only throw it away …"
Lost?
I was enraged. That compass wasn't made of top-notch materials, but just the snake spirit inside was enough to make anyone in the Metaphysics world view it as a treasure. President Xu had thrown it away?
How was this possible?
My face darkened. I looked at Chairman Xu and said, "That compass of mine has a spirit in it. Chairman Xu should be able to see it. If you say that you want to throw it away, don't you think it's a little too perfunctory?"
Although Chairman Xu is in the Glory of Consciousness realm, I have already asked Zhang Wenfei. Chairman Xu was only half meridian when he advanced to the Glory of Consciousness realm. His strength can only be considered average, and cannot be compared to my peak four meridians.
Although I'm not his opponent right now, as long as he's rational, he should think about the future.
He was bewildered for a while. Eventually, he pulled a long face and said to me, "I didn't know there was a spirit inside. When I picked up the compass, it was broken into several pieces. There was no spirit inside. I tried to restore it because the material and craftsmanship of the compass weren't bad …"
Then, he suddenly thought of something. He turned around and said hurriedly, "At that time, the old Gu woman must have seen this compass, right?
Although the people of Miaojiang are good at raising Gu insects, there are some special Gu insects that are related to the spirit. The old Gu woman must have taken the spirit inside the compass. "
After he said that, I frowned and started to think. It wasn't that I didn't consider this possibility, but before I fainted, I heard the old Gu woman say something. She said that although this compass was exquisite, it could only be used by the Taoist sects in the Central Plains. The people of Miaojiang couldn't use it.
At that time, the old Gu woman's voice was full of regret. I was sure she wasn't talking nonsense. That was why I guessed that Chairman Xu had taken the compass.
But now, President Xu said that the compass had shattered and the snake spirit inside was nowhere to be found … If that was really the case, then it wasn't impossible for the old Gu woman to take away the snake spirit inside when she mentioned the "Dragon Gu."
After thinking for a while, I asked Chairman Xu about the compass. He opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything. After a while, he stooped and searched his bag. He found a small cloth bag and gave it to me.
I was surprised. Instinctively, I asked, "Didn't you throw it away?"
Chairman Xu smiled awkwardly. "At that time, I put it in my bag and wanted to throw it away. However, I suddenly came to the headquarters, so I forgot about it. I just remembered it now."
I didn't want to know if he was telling the truth or not. I received the cloth bag and opened it. It was my magical compass!
However, it was just as Chairman Xu had said. The compass was broken into several pieces. It couldn't be used anymore.
This compass was made of tiger bone wood, which was tough and tough. Moreover, it had been nurtured by a geomancer's Daoist energy for many years. Even after one hundred years, it wasn't damaged. But now, it looked like this. The old Gu woman must have thrown it hard.
However, I wanted to find the snake spirit, so I didn't care about the appearance of the compass. I used my Daoist energy to wrap the fragments of the compass and carefully search for the traces on it.
Unfortunately, Chairman Xu didn't lie to me this time. I couldn't find the aura of the snake spirit. I could only feel a faint trace of Yin energy, which was left behind when the snake spirit hadn't dissolved the Yin energy on its body.
After checking, I didn't trust my judgment. I put the fragment of the compass next to the jade bracelet and asked Tong Tong to check it.
Soon after, Tong Tong gave me the same answer.
Begrudgingly, I returned to my seat and pondered in silence.
Yang Shilong had told me that the Dragon Gu and the Kirin Gu were the two great ancestral insects. Although the old Gu woman said that the Miao people couldn't use the compass, she didn't say that they couldn't take the snake spirit out of the compass. It seemed Chairman Xu was right. The old Gu woman had taken the snake spirit.
It had been more than half a year since I had gotten the compass. Although the snake spirit wasn't a good person, after living with it for a long time, I had developed some feelings for it.
Moreover, Tong Tong had considered the snake spirit a good friend. Perhaps I would have to go to the Miao area to find the snake spirit.
At this moment, there was another problem that made me even more depressed. The first line of the red shadow's poem was "Ink Dragon Kirin Knot." I guessed that the Kirin was the Kirin Gu, and the Ink Dragon was the snake spirit. Its body was a mass of ink, and the old Gu woman called it the Dragon Gu. It matched the two words very well.
If that was the case, the old Gu woman had brought the snake spirit back to the Miao area. Moreover, the old Gu woman was very powerful. She had at least the Glorious Consciousness realm. When would I be able to find the snake spirit?
I sighed. The only thing I could do now was to increase my cultivation base. Whether or not I could find the snake spirit depended on my power.
During the rest of the journey, I silently stabilized my Pressure Point Realm cultivation.
The Dao Qi in my body had already turned into a stream of water that flowed in my meridians. With each cycle, it would increase a little.
The other layer of dark green energy was the same. Although the amount was much less than the Dao Qi, it was also continuously circulating in my meridians.
I've tried it before. After reaching this realm, I can no longer absorb the energy in the dark green bead. I don't know what's going on. Maybe it's because I used the energy in the bead to seal the jade bracelet.
After all, the jade bracelet had a complete true dragon vein. To completely seal its aura required a large amount of energy. This energy had probably used up all the energy in the dark green bead.
There was a main vein in the human body called the Heaven Vein. Its location was roughly where the Dao Qi light pillar was stored after the Dragon Seeking Realm.
After reaching the acupoint pressing realm, the Dao Qi flow would flow through the opened eight extraordinary meridians and eventually return to the main vein.
There were ten acupoints in the main vein. As the Dao Qi continued to grow, every time an acupoint was filled, the ability of a Fengshui Master would increase significantly. After all ten acupoints were filled, one could attempt to break through to the Glory of Knowledge realm.
Therefore, Fengshui Masters in the acupoint pressing realm were divided into ten different realms, from one acupoint to ten complete acupoints.
Fengshui Masters who had just reached the acupoint pressing realm could only fill less than one-fifth of the acupoints after the Dao Qi light pillar was squeezed through the eight extraordinary meridians. Therefore, they couldn't be considered as one acupoint pressing realm. They could only be considered as half an acupoint pressing realm.
Only when one acupoint was filled with Dao Qi could one officially become a Geomaster in the acupoint pressing realm and practice most hand seals.
The Astral Steps, which could also be practiced in the same realm, required a large amount of Dao Qi to support. One had to be at least five acupoints to be able to touch it.
Of course, I was different from others. There were five Dao Qi light pillars in the dragon seeking realm. Currently, the Dao Qi in my body was extremely close to one acupoint.
Moreover, when my Dao Qi circulated, it passed through three meridians and five acupoints in my body. The Dao Qi in my body grew three times faster than others. My cultivation speed was astonishing.
It took around twenty hours to return to Shenzhen from the capital. On the way back, the Dao Qi in my body continuously circulated. Finally, when I was close to Shenzhen, I had filled the first acupoint in my Heaven meridian.
In other words, I had reached one acupoint.
However, before I could feel happy, I felt a burning sensation in my chest. I almost screamed!
I took a deep breath and tried my best not to scream. When I was about to lower my head to check, the burning sensation spread. My chest and stomach felt as if someone had poured a bottle of sulfuric acid on me. It was so painful that I started sweating. I sat there, unable to move.
Just now, I had been trying to suppress my voice, but now, I couldn't even open my mouth, let alone shout out.
Even the Qi of the Way in my body suddenly stopped flowing and gathered at my chest. It was extremely violent and chaotic.
This intense pain lasted for around half an hour before it gradually subsided.
It was only then that I could finally move my body, but I still sat there quietly.
It wasn't that I didn't want to move, but that intense pain had completely exhausted my body. I didn't have any strength left.
Fortunately, the chaos in the Dao Qi had finally calmed down. Slowly, it began to flow in my meridians again.
As the Dao Qi circulated and nourished me, the feeling of exhaustion gradually disappeared. Slowly, strength began to grow in my limbs and bones.
I endured the remaining pain and stretched my hand to my chest to take a look.
Originally, there was only a single horned Qilin tattoo, but suddenly, a large area extended from the neck to the chest and abdomen. The entire Qilin's body seemed to have grown out, from the bottom of the chest all the way around the right side of the ribs, extending to the abdomen and back.
Just like the fur on the head, the entire qilin's body was covered with a layer of silver-gray fur, which made it look extremely majestic.
The only flaw was that the lower part of the qilin's body was bare. It didn't have any limbs.
I remembered that Yang Shilong had told me a few days ago that after planting the qilin gu, it would grow horns in the Dragon Seeking Realm. In the Acupuncture Point Realm, scales would grow on its body. In the Glorious Consciousness Realm, auspicious clouds would appear under its feet.
My current situation was similar to what he had said. After opening one acupoint, I had officially entered the Acupuncture Point Realm.
In the ancient language, 'scales' referred to the fur on the body. The so-called 'scales on the body' probably referred to the appearance of the entire qilin's body and fur.