Ling Family Cemetery!
It was called a cemetery, but it was just a hilltop near the safety zone's defense line.
There were sparse thatched huts scattered on top, looking rather shabby.
When Ling Feng got out of the car at the foot of the mountain, he glanced up and couldn't help but frown slightly.
Ling Zhigao naturally saw the change in Ling Feng's expression and felt a pang of embarrassment!
But before Ling Zhigao could explain anything.
Ling Yan, who was accompanying them, spoke up, "Xiao Feng, it's not the clansmen's fault. It's the Third Grandfather up there who doesn't allow us to renovate this place. Everything up there is managed by him alone, and he never lets any of the clansmen below interfere!"
Ling Feng's curiosity was piqued even further upon hearing this.
"Brother, have you met this Third Grandfather?"
"Yes, I met him when I was a child. I remember him very clearly. I was also here with my parents for ancestor worship. He looked the same back then. I always felt like he was... half-human, half-ghost!"
Ling Yan took a long time to come up with that adjective!
Ling Feng raised an eyebrow, "What? Does he live in such a messy place?"
"Heh, messiness is one thing, but the most important thing is that he always gives off a chilling feeling, and his gaze when looking at people is unbearable, with immense pressure!"
Ling Yan shook his head with a wry smile. After thinking for a moment, he added, "Oh, I also saw him drinking on top of a grave when I was a child, muttering to himself. At that time, someone scared me by saying he was talking to ghosts, so I developed some psychological trauma!"
By the end of his words, Ling Yan's face had turned somewhat pale, clearly showing his psychological trauma!
But the more this was the case, the more curious Ling Feng became about this Third Grandfather.
As he walked up the mountain step by step, Ling Feng's gaze constantly swept across the hilltop, and he soon noticed something amiss: "The signs of artificial renovation on these hilltops are very obvious. What's going on? Those trees..."
Ling Yan looked around upon hearing this and also showed a look of confusion.
Ling Zhigao quickly responded, "It's all done by Third Grandfather. Those trees were cut by Third Grandfather. At his age, we don't want him to be so tired. We tried to get someone to help before, but Third Grandfather beat them up so badly that they almost died, so no one dares to touch it anymore!"
Hearing this, Ling Feng actually showed a hint of a smile.
"Xiao Feng, what are you smiling about?"
Only Ling Yan dared to ask this at this moment.
The others also found it rather strange!
At this juncture, Ling Feng could still smile.
Ling Feng pointed to the trees on the two adjacent hilltops and said, "Brother, you can see it, right? From this angle, the trees on these two hills have been cleared to form a path!"
Ling Yan looked over with a face full of confusion and his eyes widened a bit, "Yes, they are indeed two paths, and they seem to be converging here. Now that you mention it, I was wondering why the wind on this hilltop felt a bit strong. It turns out that two wind channels were opened up over there! But this is also a bit strange, why would the wind blow over here? The terrain there seems to be slightly lower!"
Everyone else also looked on with amazement, especially Ling Zhigao. He had been here every year but hadn't noticed the changes here. Ling Feng, having only come once, seemed to have understood the situation here clearly. This made him understand why Ling Feng had laughed earlier; he had definitely seen through something peculiar here!
"Tian Zun, what's going on?" Yang Fei couldn't help but ask.
Ling Feng smiled faintly, his eyes narrowing slightly, "It's very simple. It's because our Third Grandfather is a master of Xuanmen. This place must have been a geomantic treasure land initially. However, with the passage of time, perhaps due to the proliferation of strange beasts three years ago, the terrain here underwent some changes, thus altering the feng shui pattern. Third Grandfather personally intervened to change the feng shui pattern here. This is a method of altering the heavenly mandate by human power, which ordinary people naturally cannot understand!"
Upon hearing this, everyone around couldn't help but gasp in shock!
Ling Zhigao also kept shaking his head, his gaze towards the mountain becoming more fervent. For so many years, he never knew that Third Grandfather possessed such mysterious abilities!
Ling Feng, however, turned to Ling Zhigao and said, "You can't even understand such methods, yet you want to interfere. You're bound to be taught a lesson by Third Grandfather, because you're not helping, you're causing trouble!"
Ling Zhigao suddenly came to his senses and then shook his head with self-mockery, "Heh, but Third Grandfather didn't say anything at the time. He just grabbed people and beat them to death. We could never have imagined these things!"
Ling Feng's smile faded, "If he could have told you, why wouldn't he have said so? He simply couldn't tell you. Moreover, moving even a single tree in a feng shui pattern could cause irreversible consequences, altering the feng shui pattern of the entire Ling family's ancestral graves. You're lucky the old man didn't get so angry that he killed you!"
Ling Zhigao's forehead began to sweat, and he felt a sense of lingering fear!
Ling Yan, at this moment, asked Ling Feng with a wry smile, "Xiao Feng, since when did you become so interested in these feng shui matters?"
Ling Feng turned back to Ling Yan and said very seriously, "Heaven and earth have qi veins, and myriad qi veins guide all living beings. You can understand it as the communication between the human body's magnetic field and the world's magnetic field. The concept of feng shui is too superficial. Xuanxue is a profound academic discipline and also a method of cultivation. The higher your own cultivation, the more thoroughly you will understand all of this. It's not about believing or not believing; it's that these things inherently exist and have a significant impact on people!"
The few of them naturally couldn't fully grasp these profound and mysterious concepts.
But since Ling Feng had said it, they could only nod along. However, they did understand one thing.
That is, the Third Grandfather, who seemed unimpressive in their eyes, or rather, a cantankerous old man, was actually a true master!
However, this now gave Ling Zhigao a headache, "Since Third Grandfather has such extraordinary abilities, why does he insist on staying on the mountain and not coming down? This is truly baffling!"
Ling Feng clearly heard Ling Zhigao's murmuring. He also had his own doubts and immediately urged, "We might find the answer once we go up and meet him!"
At this, everyone felt a sense of curiosity.
Meanwhile, on the hilltop, beside a mountain pool near the ancestral graves, a disheveled old man was fishing. He was rubbing his toes with one hand, scratching under his armpits from time to time with the other, and then deeply inhaling under his nose, as if enjoying the aroma.
He smiled with satisfaction.
However, just as the old man was enjoying himself, the fishing line in his hand suddenly snapped without warning!
The old man's expression changed drastically, and the smile on his face vanished. He sat up, extended his right hand, and his fingers began to move rhythmically between his knuckles.
Anyone familiar with Xuanmen would recognize this as a method of divination. The twelve knuckles corresponded to the twelve hours of the day, as well as various directions. It could be said that the entire Bagua and Five Elements were contained within one palm.
The old man's face soon turned red, and his breathing became rapid.
"Who is coming?!"