After everyone heard what I said, they all nodded.
Then, we hid among the hillslope.
We did not speak loudly, only conversing in hushed tones as we watched Xu Family Gully Village below and analyzed the Feng Shui layout here.
The longer we looked, the worse the Feng Shui seemed.
Mao Jing spoke up at this point. "Jiang Ning, what do you think of the Feng Shui here?"
I shook my head. "Not good. It looks extremely bad. It has already become a baleful land—moreover, a land of great misfortune."
As soon as I finished speaking, Tian Yong asked, "Martial Uncle, what is there to say about the Feng Shui here?"
Seeing Tian Yong ask, Pan Ling and Zhang Yuchen both looked at me. Without wasting words, I pointed at Xu Family Gully ahead of us and said, "In Feng Shui terms, this is called 'a trapped dragon in a dried marsh, yin locking away the setting sun.'"
Mao Jing nodded faintly. Clearly, he had also seen the Feng Shui formation here.
But Pan Ling, Zhang Yuchen, and Tian Yong all looked utterly confused.
So I explained, "Though Xu Family Gully is a mountain ravine, there is still a mountain behind it. But that mountain is a 'decapitated mountain,' as though its head had been forcibly sheared away.
"In Feng Shui, this is called Black Tortoise without support.
"The valley exit, the spot just ahead of us, is not open or unobstructed either. It is tightly squeezed between two low hills, rather like a slit in the sky, also called the Ghost Tooth Pass.
"The Bright Hall is obstructed, and the Vermilion Bird is blocked.
"The mountain formation on the left is damaged; there has been a landslide.
"In Feng Shui, this is called the Azure Dragon with a broken