1942, I lived on hunting

The strange-looking visitor claimed to be from Wawu Mountain, with the Taoist name Qingxuan. Many people called him the Chou Lao Daoist. He was a cultivator who knew a little bit of medical skills. He traveled around the world to help the people solve their problems and earn some merit money so that he could build a place for cultivation in the mountains. He was originally collecting herbs in the nearby mountains, and heard the mountain folks talking about the strangeness of this place, so he came to check it out.

Someone in the crowd had heard of his name and knew that he was a man of special skills and worthy of respect. He immediately asked everyone to make way and led him to the cave to check.

When the stinky Taoist saw the cave, his face changed drastically. He stammered and seemed frightened. He turned around as if he wanted to leave, but seemed to be fixed in place by something. He pulled his legs away several times, but finally sighed and stayed.

The stinky old Taoist told everyone to go back and inform the village elders to gather here. He had something to discuss. Then he took out a compass from his bag and turned it around. His compass was different from the compasses used by ordinary Taoists to survey Feng Shui. It was thicker and more like a wooden box. There was no inner and outer plate, no scale, no eight trigrams, no heavenly stems and earthly branches, etc. The box was densely engraved with some incomprehensible patterns of ghosts, flowers, trees, mythical beasts and monsters. In the compass's Tianchi was not a needle, but a lifelike golden fish.

A few young children were very curious and didn't mind his smell. They followed him around, and each of them wanted to see the golden fish in his box.

The stinky old Taoist had a solemn expression on his face. He walked around and sighed, muttering things like "We're in trouble now!" "We're dead now!" "Silly Qingxuan, run! Why don't you run, you idiot!"

It takes time for the villagers to come and go, not to mention that most of the village elders are old and have difficulty moving. After the old Taoist priest walked around in detail, climbed to the top of the mountain to look around, and then went down the mountain to check the barrier lake and came back, the village elders arrived one after another. Some were supported by their children and grandchildren, and some were even carried by a group of people on a bamboo chair. It can be seen that the village elders all know the old Taoist priest. When they saw him, they all bowed and greeted him warmly. After the greetings, a group of people gathered together to discuss.

An elder asked: "Master Qingxuan, you called us here in such a hurry that there must be something important. If you want us to do something, why don't you just tell us directly? Who dares not to listen to you? Why did you call everyone here? We are all old and have difficulty moving, and we are afraid of wasting your precious time!"

The old Taoist said: "If it was a small matter, I wouldn't have gone through so much trouble, but the current situation is very tricky, and it concerns the lives and property of many people along the way. Let me tell you what's going on first, and then we can discuss it! This matter must be discussed by everyone before we can try to deal with it."

Village elders: "You say! We listen to you!"

The stinky Taoist priest: "In our countryside, this situation is mostly called a walking dragon, which means something is going to enter the sea and turn into a dragon. Since ancient times, there has been a legend in our Bashu area that there is a snake that swallows elephants, called the Ba snake. According to legend, it eats elephants one at a time. According to Taoist legends, snakes grow into pythons, pythons grow into anacondas, and anacondas grow into a single horn and become a dragon. After practicing for a thousand years, the dragon can try to enter the sea and turn into a dragon. Not only dragons and snakes, but also horses, pigs, carp, turtles, tortoises, and soft-shelled turtles can practice and turn into dragons.

There are three disasters for a spirit to transform into a dragon:

The first is called thunder tribulation. There are three levels of thunder tribulation. The first level is to break through the innate limitations of one's own species and turn into a monster. The second level is for the monster to go to a deep lake and turn into a dragon. The third level is to turn into a dragon in the sea.

The second is the earth robbery. After the spirits such as snakes and turtles transform into dragons, they can only hide underground or deep underwater to practice. After they succeed, their bodies will be very large, but they do not have the ability of dragons to fly in the clouds. For example, the water volume of the tributaries of the Minjiang River where we are is too small to allow it to enter the Yangtze River. It can only rely on the heavy rain and mountain torrents to rush into the big rivers and then go to the sea to further practice and transform into dragons. However, these spirits have the physique of attracting wind and thunder. When they move, they can stir up three-foot waves on flat ground. Therefore, the dragons will generally destroy dams and fertile fields, bringing great disasters to the people along the way. In some places here, a sword is hung under the bridge to prevent the dragons from running away. As long as the dragon dares to pass under the bridge, the dragon energy will be cut off immediately and it will never be able to transform into a dragon again. Therefore, the dragon will accumulate floods when the weather is right, and then add fuel to the floods, so that the floods will destroy or overflow the bridges. The spirits and monsters caused so much destruction and killing for no reason, which was not allowed by the heavens. Generally, divine thunder or other disasters would be sent down, which the spirits and monsters called "crossing the earth disaster". Like the spirit and monster this time, the disaster sent down by the heavens was the earth dragon turning over. This spirit and monster had some skills. It realized something was wrong and hurriedly escaped from underground in advance. It was so scared that it didn't care about the villages and people on the hillside. The mudslides and collapses destroyed the villages, causing so much killing for no reason. At this time, it hid at the bottom of the barrier lake to accumulate flood water, preparing to take advantage of the heavy rain two days later to collapse the barrier lake and rush into the Yangtze River and the sea.

The third type is human calamity. There are two common types of human calamity. One is to ask for a title, which means that someone must give it a title. For example, if someone sees its dignity and says, "What a big dragon!" Then it will be successful in asking for a title, and the biggest basic condition for turning into a dragon is there! If someone says, "What a big snake or a big turtle!" Then it will fail, and its thousand years of practice will suddenly become a bubble, and it will desperately retaliate against this person. The more noble or capable the cultivator is, the better the effect of the title will be. Of course, a large number of people can also be used. The other is that the heaven takes back its magic power and the original prototype, the dragon turns into a small snake or a small fish, the giant turtle turns into a small turtle, and so on, and even deliberately injures it so that it has no power to fight back. Specially arrange for children to find it. If it is beaten to death, it means that the tribulation has failed. If it is released or rescued, it means that the tribulation has been successfully passed! After the human calamity can be passed, the heaven will reduce the power of the third thunder tribulation, and generally you can choose to turn into a dragon directly. The third thunder tribulation of turning into a dragon is basically a process. "

The elders asked: "What should we do?"

The old Taoist said: "Once the dragon starts to walk, there is no stopping. There are only two ways to do it now!

One is that I go and talk to it, gather everyone's strength to make it righteous, help it practice, and make it not destroy riverbanks and bridges when it walks, let alone hurt the people. However, after all, it is not tolerated by the way of heaven. Although the success rate is higher, we will also have to share part of the backlash of the way of heaven.

Second, we should take advantage of the fact that now is the time when the Heaven's Way is at its weakest. We should make some arrangements and kill it directly! After all, the thing at the bottom of the river has been practicing for thousands of years. Even at its weakest, it is not easy to kill. This method has a low success rate. If it fails, it will definitely die. The advantage is that what we do is in accordance with Heaven's will, so we don't have to worry about Heaven's Way backlash.

All the village elders are highly respected people, let's discuss what to do! "

Everyone had only heard of such things in strange stories, but now it was actually happening to them. They didn't know what to do for a moment. After discussing it over and over again, they decided to let the old Taoist make the decision!