Under One Person: The Seeker of the Dao in the Lü Family

Chapter 366 The Art of War: The Truth Behind the Wuhou Qimen

Inside the Zhuge family ancestral hall, the doors and windows were tightly closed. In addition to the incense and candles offered in the hall and the lamp in front of Zhuge Gong, there was a lamp in front of each of the seven elders below the hall.

Zhuge Gong sensed the energy emanating from the command flag in his hand, suppressed his smile, and waved the flag, appearing like a refined general arranging troops.

"The stars have returned to their places!"

"Yes, sir!"

The seven elders, arranged in a seven-star formation, instantly sat upright in their original positions. They were no longer Zhuge Gong and Zhuge Qing's elders, but rather "soldiers" in the hands of this father and son.

"A counterattack!"

As the command flag waved again, the seven elders formed hand seals and lit the candles in front of them one by one. However, the order in which they lit the candles was not as usual, from the [Yao Guang] at the end of the Big Dipper to the [Tian Shu] at the beginning, but was completely reversed.

The elder at the Tian Shu position lit the lamp first, followed by Tian Xuan, Tian Ji, Tian Quan, and Yu Heng. The five lamps shone brightly in the dim ancestral hall, as if they had truly transformed into the Big Dipper constellation in the dark night sky.

"Take up weapons!"

Zhuge Gong waved the command flag again, this was the third time he had waved it, and it was the most crucial step in their operation.

"Kaiyang Wuqu, Yaoguang Pojun".

The two Zhuge clan elders at the end of the handle of the Big Dipper had solemn expressions. They lit the flames in their hands and quickly and keenly lit the candles in front of them. As the last two candles were lit, the dim ancestral hall was suddenly filled with a surge of energy, and a silent and solemn atmosphere descended from nowhere.

The seven candles remained undisturbed by the somber atmosphere. Their small, bright flames flickered and danced in their respective positions according to an invisible and unique rhythm, connecting the entire ancestral hall as if they had truly transformed into the Big Dipper, the morning star that reflects each other in the night sky.

"Left and Right Assistants, the Nine Stars of the Big Dipper."

As the Seven Stars returned to their positions, Zhuge Gong, standing at the head of the table, did not stop. Holding a command flag, he used the flagpole to flick two slightly dim sparks from the firelight in front of him, then flicked his sleeve to send the two sparks into special positions on either side of the Seven Stars.

The Records of the Grand Historian, Treatise on Celestial Offices, states: "The seven stars of the Big Dipper divide Yin and Yang, establish the four seasons, balance the five elements, shift the seasons, and determine the various cycles."

People hold the Big Dipper, which hangs in the sky, in great awe, and its seven stars have been given various important functions in different legends.

However, few people know that the so-called "Big Dipper" is not actually "seven stars", but "nine stars".

In addition to the seven main stars, the Big Dipper also has two auxiliary stars, the Left and Right Assistant Stars, which together form the Big Dipper system.

Just as the Big Dipper's direction and the brightness of its main stars represent different meanings, the positions of the Left and Right Assistant Stars in different star palaces also signify different meanings.

If Zuo Fu and You Bi are in the same palace as stars such as Qi Sha, Po Jun, and Lian Zhen, they will help in matters of "competition". The two sparks that Zhuge Gong has started now happen to fall next to Zhuge Clan Elder, who symbolizes the position of Yao Guang and the position of Po Jun.

As the Nine Stars returned to their positions, Zhuge Gong raised the command flag in his hand, and in an instant, the solemn atmosphere surging in the ancestral hall froze, transforming into pure killing intent, murderous aura, and murderous intent.

These murderous intents, killing motives, and killing auras are devoid of desire or emotion; they are ethereal and lofty, yet they are real and radiate a pure aura of destruction.

Zhuge Gong tossed the command flag in his hand downwards. The flag fluttered, and the intricate and mysterious patterns on it absorbed the destructive aura constantly emanating from the ancestral hall. Then, it stood upright in the center and floated in mid-air.

Feeling the chilling yet awe-inspiring "divine will" surrounding him, Zhuge Gong flicked his sleeve, produced a thin incense stick, lit it, and inserted it into the incense burner in front of him.

"War is not a blessing, but a curse, Qing'er. I can only give you the time it takes for an incense stick to burn."

"The true meaning of Wuhou Qimen depends on you to unravel it."

After Zhuge Gong finished everything, he sat down in his seat in the upper palace. On the distant Wudang Mountain, Zhuge Qing, who was holding a command flag, seemed to sense something. He drew a line in the air with the three-foot-six-inch command flag in his hand, and the flagpole drew a circle three feet around Zhuge Qing.

"Wang Ye, be careful!"

After drawing the circle, Zhuge Qing gripped the flagpole with both hands and held it horizontally in front of him, stomping his feet on the ground. In an instant, the martial arts arena, which was originally paved with bluestone bricks, seemed to have changed its appearance.

The mountain breeze was still as gentle as ever, and the birds soaring through the sky never stopped, their flight intertwined as they flew into the distance...

"Damn, you guys went this far, actually borrowing the [Heavenly Killing Intent] for a mere Taoist priest like me?"

However, at this moment, Wang Ye, who was being targeted, suddenly felt the world change. All around him, in the universe and in the six directions, there was a pure and thorough sense of destruction.

In the blink of an eye, Wang Ye, who was in his own Wudang sect, felt as if he had entered a "den of tigers and wolves," no, it should be a "den of dragons and tigers."

The "Heaven and Earth," which had always regarded all living beings as straw dogs, changed its unchanging indifference and listed Wang Ye as a key target of attention, and even as a key enemy to be "destroyed."

The eternal and ever-changing laws of heaven and earth regarded Wang Ye as an "outcast" who needed to be destroyed at this moment.

As the saying goes, "When Heaven unleashes its killing intent, stars shift and constellations change; when Earth unleashes its killing intent, dragons and snakes rise from the land," this phrase perfectly describes Wang Ye's current predicament.

He stood rooted to the spot, not daring to move an inch. His previous nonchalant demeanor had completely transformed into a solemn seriousness. His mind was racing, working even more carefully and attentively than it had during the college entrance examination years ago.

Although he could directly rely on the essence of [Feng Hou Qi Men] to use the seventy-two transformations to evade the will of heaven and avoid cause and effect, directly jumping out of the Three Realms and Six Paths and no longer under the jurisdiction of heaven and earth, in this way, it would be no different from admitting defeat, and this sparring would be meaningless.

If one only knows how to be a "king" who avoids death and prolongs life, and escapes disasters, then one has truly failed the "duty" of a cultivator to go against the will of Heaven.

This kind of carefree freedom is not the kind of ease Wang Ye wants. Although he is lazy, he also wants to be the "Monkey King" who shatters the heavens and defies the will of the heavens.

If kings and lords do not defy Heaven, why bother seeking immortality!

If Taoist priests don't rebel, why bother cultivating freedom?

Lost in thought, Wang Ye's eyes shone even brighter. Within him, the "Dao Heart" that had been sealed and obscured by his own past began its "awakening" under the baptism of the killing intent of heaven and earth.

In the distance, Zhuge Qing stepped forward and tapped his feet. The three-foot space that had been drawn in the void rose up, forming a general's command platform, placing Zhuge Qing, the "commander" holding the command flag, in a high position.

"All sorcerers in the world of supernatural beings know that, unlike the various schools of Qimen magic in the world, the Wuhou Qimen can independently select the central palace and does not occupy the central palace position, and uses the central palace magic."

Zhuge Qing held the command flag and stood on the three-foot-high platform. Although it wasn't very high, he still looked down at Wang Ye with a somewhat condescending air.

"In military strategy, the central palace is the position of the general. I used to think that the central palace magic was just a few more variations than ordinary people, and there was nothing special about it."

"Only now do I understand why there is a Central Palace Technique, and why the core of the Zhuge family's inheritance is the Samadhi True Fire."

As he spoke, Zhuge Qing closed his eyes, then opened them again, and the Samadhi True Fire, different from that of the Daoist tradition, flickered in his eyes.

"Qimen magic is a tool for sorcerers to borrow the laws of heaven and earth and manipulate the power of nature. In other words, ordinary sorcerers are just porters between heaven and earth and nature."

"The Wuhou Qimen Dunjia takes the central palace (self) as its anchor point, the three treasures of the human body as its fuel, and life itself as its fulcrum, unifying the four plates, intercepting the will of Heaven, and transforming the power of the Heavenly Way for its own use!"

"My murderous intent is the murderous intent of Heaven; my rage is the thunderous fury of Earth!"