East Mountain's Fortune
Although he had lived near Western Capital City for more than eight years, Zhang Xuezhou's understanding of the Western Capital City area was indeed very limited.
Apart from Western Capital City, North Rehe, and the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum, Zhang Xuezhou had hardly ever been to any other places.
At this time, Western Capital City was under strict enforcement, so people couldn't wander around recklessly lest they be mistaken for abnormal beings and shot at. Zhang Xuezhou's destination for the leap test was in the direction of Dongshan.
From the North Rehe region to the Eastern Mountain Imperial Mausoleum, Zhang Xuezhou spent four hours flying over a hundred miles, and his body gradually slowed down as he flew.
His physical strength was not exhausted, but his ability to leap was constantly weakening.
When waving his arms no longer brought any sense of flight or gliding, Zhang Xuezhou quickly activated his Cloud Leap Technique as he fell, catching himself steadily as he landed.
"Crossing a hundred miles in four hours seems a bit average. It wasn't fast enough, nor far enough, especially as it slowed down further. Even for someone as skilled as me, this is the case; the distance others can fly will likely be even shorter!"
After taking the medication for several days and using seven vials of heron blood serum and R32 catalyst to counteract the effects, almost reaching the body's maximum tolerance, Zhang Xuezhou conducted a final test on the effects of the medication.
Although as his sequence level increases, the amount of medication he can take can increase, and the amount of blood serum he consumes will decrease, Zhang Xuezhou still felt that it was not worthwhile.
For Zhou Tianhao and others, this might be a necessity, but for him, it's just icing on the cake.
Compared to this ability to fly, Zhang Xuezhou preferred the robust and powerful physique derived from the extract of the ferocious giant ant.
Of course, Zhang Xuezhou cannot say that this instinctive leaping ability is useless. When he needs to react in an emergency, his instinctive ability is always more time-efficient and allows him to react the fastest.
This also means that Zhang Xuezhou will not consume too much of this instinctive leaping ability, but will only use it in situations where there is a strong need.
"After resting for half an hour, I felt a slight breeze on my arm, indicating that my abilities were recovering. However, the recovery speed was not entirely satisfactory. It might take several hours, or even more than ten hours, before I could regain my optimal flight condition. And even then, it might be slightly weaker than before. The only consolation was that this ability wasn't something that would be used up all at once and then gone!"
As the stars gradually disappeared in the sky, Zhang Xuezhou realized that since he had flown out at night, he would most likely be unable to fly back until nightfall.
He marked his landing point and the direction of his flight, planning to test his return flight once his flight ability was restored, to see how much his ability had been reduced and what kind of supplements he needed to reach the maximum threshold his body could currently withstand.
"It's all graves!"
After considering his plan, Zhang Xuezhou also looked at places to kill time.
A total of 68 emperors were buried in Dongshan, covering 726 years of the Luofu Dynasty.
The area he was standing on was the tomb of Luo Taizu, the first emperor of the Luofu Dynasty.
Centuries have passed, and the tomb of Luo Taizu has lost its former glory. Although the Luofu Dynasty patrolled and repaired it year after year, it could not withstand the destruction caused by tomb robbers and time.
After the fall of the Luofu Dynasty, the importance attached to the Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum declined, making it difficult to take care of every part of it. There were no personnel on duty there.
The imperial mausoleum he was treading on was flat, overgrown with weeds and trees, which almost completely covered the mausoleum. Only a small mound protruding from the ground testified to its former glory.
If the mound were dug up, there would likely be evidence of tomb craftsmanship from hundreds of years ago. However, given the many years of history, Luo Taizu's tomb is probably more dilapidated than Luo Zhong's.
Zhang Xuezhou wasn't particularly interested. He walked around the imperial mausoleum, which covered an area of eight li in circumference, and played around with the techniques of feng shui site selection for a while.
A pale purple aura of Law Power power swirled in his hand, but the purple light did not fly away.
The area where the Luofu Dynasty built its imperial mausoleum was guided by a 'wise man' who mentioned metaphysics such as ' purple qi aura coming from the east' and 'the imperial mausoleum protecting the dynasty,' but metaphysics is obviously not very reliable.
Even setting aside the fall of the Luofu Dynasty, Zhang Xuezhou's feng shui geomancy techniques had no effect whatsoever.
The feng shui techniques of the Yin-Yang School are not metaphysics, but rather involve finding auspicious sites and burial grounds, functioning similarly to a special kind of treasure hunting.
Some blessed lands discovered through burial exploration are beneficial for cultivators of certain schools of thought, some are suitable for healing injuries and have miraculous effects on certain specific injuries, and some are suitable for drawing on the power of the earth's veins, thereby creating illusionary or even deadly formations. There are many wonderful uses in these places.
Zhang Xuezhou was only a novice in feng shui. He originally wanted to take advantage of his increased Law Power and perception abilities after just entering the Divine Ability Realm to try his luck.
However, he was truly unlucky; at least according to his feng shui geomancy, Luo Taizu's imperial tomb had absolutely no connection with a blessed land.
"To be honest, my luck was bad after I used the tomb scriptures, so it's normal that I found nothing!"
Considering his own waning fortunes, Zhang Xuezhou accepted his fruitless search.
Moreover, he has been testing the Spirit-Forging Pill, which incorporates extracts from ferocious beasts, over the past few days, and the results have been worse than he expected. This may also prove that the pill he accidentally refined was far from perfect.
"Luckily, those three special Spirit-Forging Pill of mine were refined before I activated the Tomb Scripture!"
Zhang Xuezhou felt a mix of anxiety and a sliver of hope.
Having figured things out, he calmed down and practiced two moves of the Yellow Sand Entangling Technique. Just as Zhang Xuezhou was about to activate the 108,000 acupoints of his body at sunrise, the sunlight shone down from the sky, and a golden light rose from the eastern mountain.
When the sun shines brightly, it's as if it's draped in gold on Dongshan Mountain in the early morning, making everything on Dongshan appear full of vitality.
"Could it be that the Eastern Mountain Imperial Mausoleum truly protects the Luofu Dynasty, has an inseparable relationship with it, and still possesses power to this day? Or is it simply an extremely special place of favor?"
Zhang Xuezhou stopped the flow of energy through his body's 108,000 orifices and quickly stood up to look at the place bathed in golden light.
Even the mausoleum of Emperor Luo Taizu in his area seemed to be tinged with golden light, but those inside could hardly perceive it, and without cultivating cultivation techniques, it was difficult to see this unusual golden light that came with the sunlight.
"Isn't this an excellent place for fortune-telling?"
Zhang Xuezhou tried the fortune-telling technique at the Luofu Palace, but it was only Ren Wuyang promoted the "Tomb Scripture" that some residual golden light of fortune was brought out.
In this area of the Eastern Mountain Imperial Mausoleum, the golden light of fortune seemed to surge forth, no less than that of the imperial palace in Chang'an City.
Moreover, after the fall of the Luofu Dynasty, these golden rays of fortune did not dissipate for some reason, and it seemed that no one controlled them.
Zhang Xuezhou hesitated slightly, but once he had thought it through, he acted swiftly.
Upon discovering the anomalies, he quickly implemented the techniques of fortune recorded in "Zaiyou" and began to imprint the starting point of fortune in the Dongshan area.