Starting Cultivation During a Trip

Chapter 578 - 283: The Place Where the Three Corpses Daoist Attained Dao! Zhang Fan’s Plan

Zhang Fan remembers, back in elementary school, there was a classmate two grades above him with a very tragic background. His mother had been in a car accident early on and became a vegetative state, lying in bed ever since. His father worked at a construction site and was diagnosed with uremia. Even he himself was found to have leukemia during a medical exam.

At the time, he thought, how could such tragic events happen in this world, and how could someone be so unlucky?

Because of this, the school organized a charity donation, and Li Yishan donated money he had saved over a month to buy cards.

At this moment, Zhang Fan inexplicably recalled this memory, feeling that his own situation was eerily similar.

Their family of three seemed to be caught in a tribulation.

What kind of a situation is this!?

"These are not things you should be thinking about now."

Just then, Bai Yujing’s voice brought Zhang Fan’s thoughts back.

"Don’t forget the purpose of this journey."

"Tai Sui Village!?" Zhang Fan’s heart stirred.

He had traveled all the way to Qinxi Province to enter Tai Sui Village and find Maotu Lin Jianyue. As for the trip to Toad Treasure Mountain, it was just a coincidental encounter.

"Aunt Bai, have you found the entrance to Tai Sui Village? How do we get there?" Zhang Fan couldn’t help asking.

"Look!"

Bai Yujing pointed to the sky, where the Great Moon was setting in the west and the Great Sun was rising in the east. The night retreated, and dawn fluctuated.

Just as black and white were transitioning, the sun and moon were shining together, with only one large star faintly visible, emitting a unique light.

"That’s the Year Star..."

"Where Tai Sui resides, the sun and moon shine together, alternating between black and white, time fleeting. The Zodiac forms a sundial with its shadows, guiding the entrance to the ancient village..."

Bai Yujing softly murmured, revealing the method to reach [Tai Sui Village].

If one wishes to find that ancient village, they need to be there when the night has not fully retreated, the day has not yet begun, and the sun and moon are shining together. They must follow the shadow born from the Year Star’s light as a sundial, pointing to the direction where Tai Sui Village is located.

Hum...

Indeed, amidst the muddled surroundings, all was silent, as the dim starlight fell upon Bai Yujing, her body seemingly becoming transparent, a soft halo emitting from her, and her gentle shadow transformed into a long needle pointing forward.

"This method can only be mastered by the Thirteen Zodiacs, and only near Tai Sui can the star guide." Bai Yujing said with a steady voice.

The Evil of the Year of Tai Sui was nearby, and at this time only the Thirteen Zodiacs could sense the Year Star’s brilliance, transforming shadows into a sundial to find their way.

"No wonder all these years, the Daoist Sect hasn’t found Tai Sui Village." Zhang Fan realized.

Finding Tai Sui Village requires meeting three conditions.

First, before dawn, the sun and moon must shine together.

Second, Tai Sui must be near for the Secret Technique to work.

Lastly, only the Thirteen Zodiacs can master the technique of transforming shadows into a sundial.

All three conditions are indispensable; only in this manner can one grasp the correct method to enter Tai Sui Village.

"Nowadays the Human Xiao has not risen, Tai Sui reigns... If the Human Xiao takes the great seat, completely mastering the Thirteen Zodiacs, there would be another method." Bai Yujing explained.

In summary, two methods exist, one focusing on Tai Sui, and the other on Human Xiao. Without them, one cannot find the entrance to Tai Sui Village.

For this reason, over the years, no matter how hard the Daoist Sect tried, expending much effort and arranging spies, even occupying the great seat of the Thirteen Zodiacs, they could not find where Tai Sui Village was.

Because even the Thirteen Zodiacs themselves need guidance.

"So complicated, even if Daoist Sect members racked their brains, they probably couldn’t find it." Zhang Fan lamented.

"Even if they found it, it wouldn’t matter." Bai Yujing said indifferently.

"Why?" Zhang Fan asked curiously.

"You’ll know once you get there."

Bai Yujing’s clear eyes gazed at her shadow, wandering through the gleaming sun and moon. At this moment, the shadow seemed to have life, guiding the direction.

"Primordial Spirit!?"

Zhang Fan’s face changed slightly, as he suddenly noticed that he himself had no shadow, and everything around seemed somewhat unreal, like flowers in a mirror, as if it were the moon in the water.

"No one knows the true location of Tai Sui Village..." Bai Yujing said in a deep voice.

Rubbing the bright moon, the mortal world has been observed for a thousand years.

That mysterious village is as ancient as the Wuwei Sect Ancestral Court Daoist Temple, existing since the founding of the Wuwei Sect.

In the history of the Daoist Sect, nine attempts to break mountains and attack temples never completely eradicated the Wuwei Sect nor severed its incense, because these two most critical places have never truly been found.

"No wonder... Only the Primordial Spirit can enter, you all don’t know where the village is in reality..." Zhang Fan said solemnly.

"It has been passed down from the ancients that the Three Corpses Daoist attained the Dao in that village..."

Bai Yujing referred to the Three Corpses Daoist, who was the founding Sect Leader of the Wuwei Sect.

The Three Corpses attained the Dao here, with two major guardians beneath him, one being Human Xiao, the other Tai Sui.

One controls the rotation of the Zodiac, the other presides over mortal fortunes, as the years change and the sun and moon rotate.

Since then, every succeeding Wuwei Sect Leader, upon inheriting the great position, could take this name.

For five hundred years, the most renowned Three Corpses Daoist from the Wuwei Sect was the previous Sect Leader, the rogue Zhang San from the Dragon Tiger Zhang Family, Zhang Kongming.

Such an important place, how could ordinary people tread upon it?

Even the Lord of the Three Palaces of the Wuwei Sect never truly entered Tai Sui Village.

"Aunt Bai, does this mean that Lin Jianyue’s Primordial Spirit would be in Tai Sui Village?" Zhang Fan asked suspiciously.

"If she is heavily injured, she’d certainly return." Bai Yujing said with utmost certainty.

"Why?"

"Tai Sui Village’s layout is arranged in a circular pattern based on the Twelve Zodiacs, forming around the village, with each Zodiac having its palace."

"In the center are the Tai Sui Temple and the Human Portrait Hall, like a Yin and Yang double fish, mutually counteracting each other." Bai Yujing explained.