Chapter 3: Tai Yi San Guan (Medium) First Watch Seeking Tickets

  Thank you to the few friends who have been serious about this book, your support is Xiang Ye's greatest motivation. I will write every story seriously. After the first story, due to some relationships, the female lead was not added, and some colors were added. In the second set of stories, the female lead began to be set up, a beautiful high school girl, a violent and gossip-loving female reporter, and later other colorful friends will join the story. I believe you will like it. Please vote and collect!

  At the foot of the mountain, looking at the steep peaks and beautiful natural scenery, people coming and going, but can't find a bit of fairy spirit. I asked Ye Yi: "Can there be superior men here?"

  "Yes, but it's not in the mountain Taoist temple."

  "Ah!" I exclaimed in surprise: "Don't tell me we still have to climb mountains and cross ridges?"

  "That's right, let's call ahead and then take a nap." There was a convenient hotel at the foot of the mountain, Ye Yi booked a double room. Not the kind with a double bed! Don't be naughty, this is because our luck is currently connected, it's best not to separate easily.

  Then Ye Yi bought three incense sticks at the foot of the mountain and also bought a few yellow papers.

  In the inn, Ye Yi lit the incense and then used his wolf hair brush to scribble on the yellow paper with cinnabar. What I found most strange was that he folded several sheets of yellow paper into the shape of paper cranes and immediately set them on fire at the window.

  "I curiously asked: 'Is this the legendary paper crane message?'"

  "That's right."

  "I said: 'Isn't it said that paper cranes can fly by themselves?'"

  "That's nonsense."

  Regardless of whether Ye Yiyi's paper crane message is true or false, I couldn't hold on anymore. After washing up a bit, I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. This sleep was so deep that it was like the sky was dark and the sun and moon had lost their light.

  I was teasing a beautiful girl in my dream, just as I was about to push her down. Suddenly, I felt the earth shaking and the girl disappeared, along with the fragrance of her fingers and the warmth of her body.

  Instead, Ye's low and hoarse voice replaced it: "Get up, get up, there is a reply."

  I sat up with a start, looking at Ye in a daze for a long time before coming back to my senses and saying: "Damn, I was sleeping so soundly, dreaming so beautifully. What a pity."

  "Don't be disappointed, if you like making romantic dreams, I'll introduce you to a few dream girls another day and you'll be thrilled to death." Ye Yi said with annoyance.

  "I hastily shook my head and said: 'Forget it, I can't afford it.'"

  "Let's go up the mountain. There are still three passes to get through." Ye Yi said with a travel bag on his back.

  "Huh? We still have to pass through a mountain pass?" I asked in confusion.

  As we spoke, we had already walked out of the house: "In our world, there are many people who want to ask for help from Tai Yi Dao Ren, but few can actually see Mr. Tai Yi. We also cannot break the rules to meet him, at most, it's just a bit difficult."

  Alright, didn't expect meeting someone would be such a hassle.

  Out of the hotel, it's a big mountain. Ye Yi is carrying a travel bag, and I'm following him empty-handed. Head to the back of the mountain. It took about an hour of walking before we arrived at a secluded place. Ye Yi stopped his footsteps and took out a compass from his travel bag.

  "Do we still need to check the direction?"

  Yi turned his head and looked at me, saying: "Mr. Tai Yi won't stay in one place for too long, so the only way to get a response from him is by sending a flying message. The way he responds is through three riddles, namely the Sun, Moon, and Star Three Passes."

  The Sun Gate tests the method, the Moon Gate tests courage, and the Star Gate gives out the path.

  "After passing through the three gates, you will naturally be able to see the Taoist master Tai Yi."

  After explaining this, Ye Yi said: "The function of the compass is to find the examination room. If someone can't even find the entrance, they don't have the qualification to meet Tai Yi Dao Zhang."

  After finishing, Ye Yi no longer paid attention to my questions and just let me follow behind him. He solemnly told me that I must walk where he had walked before. I was very puzzled but had to believe in this guy's mystery. Especially since we were going to meet someone who, according to Ye Yi, was even more mysterious than him.

  As we went deeper into the Dragon Tiger Mountain, it became more and more primitive and secluded. On a quiet night with a starry sky, walking in such a nearly primitive mountain area, occasionally hearing the calls of wild beasts was truly a different kind of thrill! Fortunately, there were no large carnivorous beasts in these mountains. I followed closely behind Ye Yi, so I felt very safe.

  Out of curiosity and playfulness, I said to the leaf in front of me: "I heard that when finding direction in the primeval forest, you should look at moss during the day and observe the position of the stars at night."

  Ye adjusted the compass while responding to me, "What you said is a normal person's identification method. But it doesn't apply to Tai Yi Dao Zhang. You don't understand what his strongest aspect is."

  "I'm curious: 'the strongest'? What's the strongest?"

  "Formation technique is the strongest."

  "Array method?" I exclaimed: "The wealth-attracting things in Feng Shui bureaus are considered array methods, right?"

  Ye Yi led me to a crooked ancient tree and looked up at it, then glanced at the compass. He turned around and said: "This is the place. The methods we usually use can't be considered as formations, at most they are a way of borrowing momentum. Formations, on the other hand, fully embody the grand trend of heaven and earth, either following or reversing it, or naturally forming with it. Zhuge Liang's Eight Trigrams Formation during the Three Kingdoms period was a method that reversed the grand trend of heaven and earth. And Tai Yi Daozhang is an expert in this field. There are only three to five people in the world who can rival him."

  Alright, Ye Yiyi's so-called Ta Yi Dao is indeed extraordinary and divine. I don't even know how to evaluate such an existence. It feels like a godly scam. Yet, rationally speaking, I have no way to refute it. After all, even someone as skilled as Ye Yiyi holds it in high esteem, and the master who requires three trials to meet is certainly not ordinary.

  The mysterious needle in the center of the compass pool is constantly rotating, and it's impossible to determine the direction. I'm getting anxious just watching from the side. It's already late at night, if we get lost in the woods, it'll be a disaster. I take out my PDA phone, which has an electronic compass, this was part of my equipment when I used to sell graves before I met Ye Yi.

  But when I opened the electronic compass in my hand, I was thoroughly stunned. At some point, the electronic compass on my phone also started spinning wildly. This time I was blinded and could only learn from the way of the predecessors to look up at the stars in the sky and try to find direction. However, I found myself disheartened that I didn't recognize any other constellations except for the Big Dipper. And even more so, I had no idea which direction the ladle corresponded to, south or north.

  I turned to look at Ye Yi and found that Ye Yi's compass had stopped its crazy spinning. Although it hadn't aligned with the meridian (i.e., north-south), Ye Yi still revealed a smile.

  At this time, Ye Yi said to me: "Yang Guang, follow closely behind me! I'm about to start breaking through!"

  What? Break through? I hurriedly followed Ye Yi's side, following him as he continuously circled around the crooked neck tree, my feet not daring to take a wrong step.

  Seeing Ye Yatian's tense expression, I also felt tense and asked: "Ye Yatian, when will this be over?"

  Ye stopped in his tracks, crouched down on the ground, and without lifting his head, he continued to dig with his hands, saying: "The first pass is called 'Seeking the Gate and Breaking the Formation'. From the moment we saw the ancient tree, we have already fallen into Taiyi Master's formation. But if the formation doesn't activate, you won't even know what it is. So, our first task is to find out the content of the formation. It's like the test questions before we started."