Zhang Tie followed the old man all the way up the mountain along the stony path from the foot of the mountain. The scenery on Tigerback Mountain was picturesque and full of reiki. Right beside the stony path, there was a babbling mountain brook. The brook was very clear. Giant salamanders, green-haired turtles and fish could be seen everywhere in the brook. There were many trees on both sides of the stony path. Monkeys were jumping on the trees every now and then. Crispy birds' chirps could be heard from time to time. Zhang Tie nodded inside, 'This place is really good and nourishing.'
Only after over 10 minutes, the two people had come to the hillside of Tigerback Mountain. From here, they could see a large area of buildings and many people who were busy working here. Zhang Tie saw someone directing a group of servants to carry huge bamboo dustpans whose diameter was higher than 1 m out of the room and put them on the square in the air.
Some rooms were steaming, indicating that people were boiling medicinal herbs; some rooms were ablaze, indicating that people were making medicinal pills. After coming here, Zhang Tie had smelt various herbal medicines and medicinal pills.
Those busy people ignored Zhang Tie as they were doing their own things. The old man directly led Zhang Tie through those buildings and two colorful herbal medicine gardens before coming to a relatively tranquil place. After arranging for Zhang Tie to stay in a parlor, he had someone serve tea for Zhang Tie and told Zhang Tie to wait here for a short while. He would show Bian Heng the item that Zhang Tie gave him. If Bian Heng wanted to see Zhang Tie, he would come out; if not, the old man would return Zhang Tie's item to Zhang Tie and see him off the mountain.
Zhang Tie nodded as he sat in the parlor and sipped the fragrant tea while waiting for Bian Heng's arrival.
Zhang Tie believed that Bian Heng would definitely come here. If Bian Heng was a commoner, he might not come here for sure; however, now that Bian Heng was a sage-level knight, he would definitely come here. Because Zhang Tie gave that old man a gold coin, a brand new common gold coin.
There was neither gold nor gold coin in Motian Realm. That gold coin carried a lot of information and meanings. As for commoners, a gold coin might be trivial; however, it was of great value for these people at the top of Motian Realm. The same thing had different meanings for people at different heights.
Zhang Tie didn't believe that Bian Heng wouldn't be interested in the item that an immortal emperor of Motian Realm was interested in. If so, the so-called Yama was just a short-sighted guy.
As Zhang Tie drank the tea, he released his powerful spiritual energy to sense the surrounding situation.
After the old man left the parlor, Zhang Tie's spiritual energy followed the old man through the winding corridor beside the parlor and the courtyard. After that, he came to an attic and knocked at the door.
"Come in …" A slightly dry and stiff voice drifted from the attic.
The old man entered the attic, so did Zhang Tie …
Under the gaze of Zhang Tie's "spiritual energy", Zhang Tie saw a short man with messy silver hair, a flat pug nose and a pair of fierce small eyes sitting in front of a desk. He was writing something on a piece of paper with a painful look with a pen in hand.
'Is this average-looking, even a bit funny old guy Bian Heng, the Yama who's well-known across Motian Realm?'
Zhang Tie became a bit amazed.
However, even though Bian Heng was a sage-level knight, he still didn't discover that Zhang Tie's spiritual energy had already entered his attic and was watching him silently from another angle.
The room was in a mess. The walls, the table, and even the floor were covered with all kinds of numbers, lines of various lengths, and drawings of all kinds of squares.
"Master, someone brought me an item today …"
The old man's words solved Zhang Tie's doubts. This old man was Bian Heng the Yama. The old man whose battle strength was on level 1 wind immortal general was just a servant of Bian Heng the Yama.
"Did someone come here with the signboard of an immortal emperor or an immortal king of an immortal palace for me?" The old man with messy hair didn't even turn around; instead, he was still frowning as he looked at the numbers on the paper. After that, he impatiently waved his hand as he roared ferociously, "Kick him out. I don't have so much time to waste. Unless Star Emperor or Force Emperor come here in person, drive the others away …"
The old man didn't say anything; instead, he just put that gold coin on the desk in front of Bian Heng the Yama.
In the beginning, Bian Heng didn't pay attention to it; however, when he glanced over that gold coin, he became slightly stunned. Closely after that, he put down his pen and took that gold coin. After looking at it over and over again, he gradually turned solemn.
This gold coin was different than that which Force Emperor gifted Dragon Emperor. However, it was also a standard gold coin circulating in Taixia Country. The pattern of this gold coin was a graceful maid who was playing a zither on the obverse side; the pattern of the magnificent headquarter of Xuanyuan Bank on the reverse side.
"Who … brought this item here?" Bian Heng opened his mouth, his eyes still fixed on the exquisite pattern on the gold coin and the words printed on it.
"A young man at his 20s!" The old man said calmly.
"Is he from the immortal palace?"
"I don't think so. That young man came here alone. Although weak, I couldn't see through him …"
After being silent for a short while, Bian Heng looked at the gold coin in his hand as he finally picked himself up from the chair, saying, "Fine, I will go meet this young man …"
After saying that, Bian Heng strode out of the attic, closely followed by the old man, who closed the door of the attic.
At this moment, Zhang Tie's spiritual energy was still in the attic. He "looked" at the walls of the room as he found that there were some pictures hanging on the walls, which seemed to be the deduction of Eight Diagrams and some lines and figures that Zhang Tie couldn't understand. Zhang Tie could understand some pictures, which were the traditional 9-palace, 16-palace and 25-palace maps of Hua people.
In the mathematical language, the 9-palace pattern was a LV 3 magic square; the 16-palace pattern was a LV 4 magic square; the 25-palace pattern was a LV 5 magic square …
Right on the wall of the room, the magic square had reached LV 7. Bian Heng was scratching his head and thinking hard about a LV 8 magic square on the table. On the crumpled paper on the ground, there were basically all kinds of wrong LV 8 magic squares and calculation figures.
'What's Bian Heng the Yama doing?'
Watching the various patterns and numbers in the room, Zhang Tie became confused too...
However, he was sure about one thing, namely, the so-called 9-palace pattern was just a simple saying. In the Hua culture, 9-palace pattern had another name — — Book of Luo. It was said that it was a mysterious item left by deities. As the root of five elements and the source of algebra, it contained endless mysteries …
(To be continued.)
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