Yanzhao carries incense candles to the mountain early in the morning, from Yanjia Village to the Dragon King Temple on the West Mountain, it takes almost an hour, Yanjia Village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the West Mountain is the highest one among the three mountains, the Dragon King Temple is built on the top of the West Mountain. From the distance on the west mountain, it is lush and green. Yanjia Village is in full view.

The stone path leading to the Dragon King Temple has long been covered with fallen leaves. Weeds eroded the path little by little, and oblique branches always hindered Yan Zhao's pace, and Yan Zhao wasted all his strength to climb the mountain.

This dragon king temple is even more barren than before. Seven years ago, when Yan Zhao graduated from high school, there were still vegetables and fruits in the village in the open space in front of the Dragon King Temple, these were among the old people who came to clean the Dragon King Temple, after seven years, the young and strong either walked out, or they no longer believed in these, or directly enshrined the small dragon king statue at home, who would come to such a remote place. Even the annual dragon king worship in the village is directly invited from the ancestral hall.

During the Qianlong period, the ancestors of the Yan family moved here, but at that time, the Yan family often encountered shipwrecks when they went out to fish, the ancestors of the Yan family specially found a master for this, and built this dragon king temple here in the West Mountain under the guidance of the master, and the dragon king of the East China Sea was enshrined, and then it was repaired several times, and became the dragon king temple today. Since then, it has been worshiped by the banquet family, and the incense has prospered.

Ten years of turmoil, breaking these old feudal ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits, although the Longwang Temple was not completely destroyed under the insistence of the Yan family, it was almost destroyed. Later, the Yan family reluctantly repaired it again at the insistence of the old man, but it was no longer glorious.

This dragon king temple is actually not big, in fact it covers an area of only about one acre, the entrance to the door through a small open space is the main hall, there are three wings behind, two are the place where the temple lived in the year, one is used for pilgrims to stay. The main hall was already in ruins, strewn with cobwebs scattered everywhere. The statue of the dragon king still stands in the center of the hall. Yan Zhao took out the sacrificial incense candles from the basket and laid them out one by one. He kowtowed three times to the statue in the center of the hall.

One year, I had a high fever for three days, and I went to several big hospitals without checking anything, so I came. Grandpa Yan was relatively superstitious, and decided that Yan Zhao was infected with evil spirits, regardless of the prevention of Yan Zhao's father and Yan Mom, and took Yan Zhao to live in the Dragon King Temple, which is also strange, since nearly three months since then, Yan Zhao has never been ill again, and after returning home, even with Yan Zhao's family is convinced of the Dragon King. So far, as long as Yan Zhao goes home, he always has to go to the Dragon King Temple to worship.

Inserting incense and candles, Yan Zhao got up and looked around, and picked out a broken basin and broom from the corner, which were probably left behind by the old man who came to clean the Dragon King Temple.

There was a well behind the main hall, and Yan Zhao lifted a slightly tattered plastic bucket to draw a bucket of water from the well, and below the well was a branch of groundwater, even if it had not been used for a long time, it was now drinkable.

Yan Zhao picked up a handful of water and sent it to his mouth, which was as sweet and delicious as before, and penetrated his heart. Yan Zhao used a broom to clean up the main hall tightly, and at the end, the soaked rag began to wipe the stone pillars and statues in the temple, and when Yan Zhao climbed up to the altar and began to wipe the platform under the statue, the rag was cut by an edge in the platform, and the edges and corners pierced directly into Yan Zhao's thumb.

Yan Zhao hurriedly threw away the rag and carefully pulled out the stone chips on his thumb. Blood gushed out, Yan Zhao bowed down, looked at the edge and corner just now, and wiped it carefully with a rag, only to see that there was obviously a gap there, Yan Zhao subconsciously knocked with his hand, and sure enough, he heard a hollow sound.

There must be something in this, with such a mood, Yan Zhao reached out to the gap, held a gap, and pulled it out, and sure enough, a uniform and complete stone was pulled out by Yan Zhao. Then he stretched out his hand to the end, Yan Zhao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he took it out, and sure enough, he found a package. It's upside down, it's not heavy.

Returning to the open space under the offering table, Yan Zhao opened the package and saw that there was a palm-sized compass, a soft cloth bag, and a thick letter in the package.

Yan Zhao opened the soft cloth bag and looked at it, but it turned out to be a pair of jade needles, this jade needle is also a little strange, the tip of the needle part is green jade, and the needle part is indeed wooden, Yan Zhao twisted a needle to take a closer look, the two can be described as seamless, if it is not the color is different, I will never think that they are made of different materials.

Picked up the compass again, and the metal compass that Yan Zhao saw in the stall in the scenic spot in the past is different, this compass is made of a piece of wood, the whole body is black, and the pointer in the center is also, which is the same material as the jade needle needle part. Only the eight trigrams and the twelve earthly branches are depicted on it.

Yan Zhao used his fingers to flick the pointer in the middle, but the pointer did not rotate, but firmly sucked Yan Zhao's fingers, it was Yan Zhao's thumb that had just been pierced with blood by stone chips, Yan Zhao only felt that something was losing on his body, and then Yan Zhao only felt that his eyes were dark, and the whole person fainted to the ground. The pointer still didn't leave Yan Zhao's thumb.

After some time, the compass and thumb separate. The wound on the thumb disappeared and was restored. The compass that fell next to it suddenly made a loud noise, and gradually trembled, and bursts of golden light shot out from the pointer, slowly spreading around, and the grids on the compass lit up one after another.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning outside lit up from the sky, slowly spreading to the top of the Dragon King Temple, and the compass on the ground shot out a golden light, straight into Yan Zhao's eyebrows, and then, the entire compass returned to calm, as if nothing had happened. Even the clouds in the sky, which had been lightning just now, suddenly regained its tranquility.

Yan Zhao's mind on the ground was not calm, he passed out and came to a space in a daze, and slowly three golden lights flew in front of Yan Zhao in the void, and the three golden lights circled around Yan Zhao, suddenly, the light was great, Yan Zhao subconsciously covered his eyes, and when the surroundings returned to calm, Yan Zhao opened his eyes and saw three books appear in front of Yan Zhao's eyes, one is called Spiritual Determination, and one is called Three Needles of Spiritual Guidance. One is called the Zhengyang Sutra. Yan Zhao was about to reach out and touch it, only to see three golden rays of light shoot into Yan Zhao's eyebrows, and Yan Zhao in the void was immediately pushed out by an invisible hand.

Yan Zhao, who was lying on the ground, suddenly came to his senses. The left hand subconsciously poked between his eyebrows, and suddenly saw that his thumb was actually as smooth as ever, Yan Zhao pulled the rag and saw that there were still blood stains on it, so that what had just happened was true.

Yan Zhao gathered his spirit, and sure enough, three quaint books suddenly appeared in his mind, Yan Zhao's mind changed, and the book titled The book of spiritual cultivation was turned page by page.

When he came back to his senses, Yan Zhao picked up the compass on the ground, took it in his hand, and suddenly felt that he and the compass were in touch with each other. Pick up the letter in the baggage and unfold it slowly.

But it turned out that soon after the ancestors of the Yan family built the Dragon King Temple, the master who pointed out the ancestors of the Yan family was chased and killed by the enemy, and was forced to escape incognito into this Dragon King Temple to become the temple of the Dragon King Temple, and since then, his descendants have been living in seclusion in the Dragon King Temple, and the identity of the temple has been passed down from generation to generation.

That master was originally surnamed Zhongli, but a descendant of Zhong Liquan, one of the Eight Immortals, Zhong Liquan, the word Silent Dao, the cloud house, and the Zhengyangzi. When Zhong Liquan and his brother Zhong Lijian ascended, they left a large number of cheats for the descendants of Zhong Li's family. It's just that later wars broke out frequently, the aura of heaven and earth was wiped out by the evil qi, and the cultivation of the world was already extremely difficult, and the secret books of the Zhongli family were even more lost, and during the ten years of turmoil in the last century, the family biography of the Zhongli family was actually only the three books that appeared in Yan Zhao's mind. The last descendant of the Zhongli family in Yanjia Village also died of illness in that catastrophe, and this letter was written by that heir when he was dying.

The epistle also mentions that in order to obtain these things, it is necessary to confess the Lord with blood, and the person who confesses the Lord with blood must also be the blood of the Zhongli family. Yan Zhao guessed that it might be his ancestor, a woman who had married Zhong Li's family, so he was able to be recognized by the compass.

Seeing this, Yan Zhao couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he was forced to return to his hometown by the villain two days ago, and now he has obtained the ability to reach the sky in a blink of an eye, which is the impermanence of the world.

Twisting up his thoughts, Yan Zhao settled down, and continued to clean up the entire hall, and when he finished tidying up, Yan Zhao raised his watch and saw that it was almost eleven o'clock. Yan Zhao kowtowed to the Dragon Lord a few times, after all, what happened today was also brought to Yan Zhao by the Dragon King. After packing up his things, Yan Zhao went down the mountain in a happy mood.