A hazy fluorescent glow surrounded Chu Xiudao as he hovered in midair. Wisps of Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi surged into his body like a tide, circulating once and strengthening his aura.
Faintly, music sounded within the meditation chamber, ethereal and lilting, like celestial music drifting out of the void.
Chen Yi watched the meditation chamber for a while, pondering.
The blade technique Chu Xiudao cultivated was called "Ghost Saber." By rights, the Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi should not have been so gentle and balanced, but inclined toward a cold, eerie aura. Yet it was like this now. Could it be-
Could the Land Immortal Realm depend not on techniques, but on the "spirit"?
He considered this for a while.
Unable to settle the matter, Chen Yi counted on his fingers to divine it. The chessboard in his mind shifted with them-not into the situation of the Great Wei Dynasty, but the contours of mountains, rivers, and seas, and the changes of the stars.
Soon.
Chen Yi found the Dragon Veins of the Central Plains.
"South and north of the mountains, south and north of the rivers, stretching across east and west-there are actually three Dragon Veins-"
One Dragon Vein lay in the north, beginning in Youzhou in the west and reaching Capital Prefecture in the east.
One Dragon Vein lay in the center, beginning at the mountain foothills north of West Prefecture and reaching east of Jiangnan Prefecture.
The last began at Wumeng Mountain, followed the Chishui River through Shuzhou, then turned southeast to end at the coast of Guangyue Prefecture.
Having located the Dragon Veins, Chen Yi used his own location and Chu Xiudao's to calculate the stars and their configurations, divining where the Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi lay.
Such were the intricate principles of true