The King of Yan had already ordered all his followers to retreat dozens of steps, leaving Dao Yan and himself standing on the empty ground in the pagoda''s forest.
"The Prince''s Mansion is flooded." Dao Yan did not expect King of Yan to actually ask this question, "What method do you have?"
"Yes." Dao Yan said, "But this subject lacks one thing."
"Where is that thing?"
"It is in the hands of the King."
King of Yan was not used to Dao Yan talking to him in such a way. He was too used to ordering his subordinates around, so it was rare for them to think about it in such a manner. But Dao Yan knew that the King of Yan was someone who was used to reading other people''s thoughts.
Dao Yan did not force the King of Yan to answer. Instead, he squatted down and broke a branch on a pine tree to draw on the ground. He drew a child with eight arms, and then he drew a child''s internal organs.
"Eight-armed Nezha," King of Yan said as soon as he saw it. "Liu Ji convinced royal father about the layout of the Peiping and let Xu Da build it."
Dao Yan did not reply. He continued to draw two pikes on the Eight-armed Nezha''s hand, two treasured swords, a red caltrop, a Qiankun ring, a golden brick, a Nine Dragons Fire Barrier, and two Windfire Wheels beneath his feet. Then he drew a giant lotus flower at the bottom.
The King of Yan understood and asked Dao Yan, "I heard that there was a evil dragon underground in Youzhou since the ancient times. Back then, the state advisor built this Eight Armed Nether City to suppress the evil dragon?"
Dao Yan did not dare to keep up the suspense. He stood up and asked, "Did the water from the Duke Palaces come out from the well?"
"Two wells," the King of Yan said.
"There is an ancient well about seventeen kilometers away from the Duke''s Mansion. It is for the eyes of the sea," Dao Yan said. But this subject needs something. "
"The thing in my hand?" King of Yan said, "What is it?"
"Liu Ji drew the picture of the eight-armed Nezha." Dao Yan answered truthfully.
"I didn''t, maybe that thing followed state advisor to be buried."
"I have been to Liu Ji''s grave," the crime of stealing the grave was capital punishment, but Dao Yan still took the risk and said, "There is no such map in his grave, so I believe that this map should be in the hands of the Duke of Wei (Xu Da)."
King of Yan said in a deep voice, "The Duke of Wei is also dead."
Dao Yan did not speak, and smiled at King of Yan.
"Could it be in the hands of Xu Hui Zu?" After King of Yan said this, he immediately came to a realization. Dao Yan had just said that this thing was in his hands, "Why?"
Dao Yan said, "Because the princess follows the king in his Peiping."
Once the King of Yan finished his conversation with Dao Yan, he immediately brought Dao Yan back to the Duke Palaces. The next morning, Dao Yan was asked to meet by a servant who was in his twenties. The servant handed over a broken piece of blueprint to Dao Yan, but before Dao Yan could take it, he knew that this was Liu Ji''s map of the Eight-armed Nezha.
Just as the person was about to leave, Dao Yan suddenly stopped him in his tracks and asked for the servant''s name. For such an important thing to be sent over by a young man, he must be someone that the King of Yan values very much.
The young man replied with his surname Ma, Ma He, but everyone called him Ma Sanbao.
Dao Yan turned to Ma He and said, "I need you to be my assistant regarding the Sea Eye. The King won''t refuse, will he?"
"Great Monk thinks too highly of me." "I''m just a man."
"Eunuch?" Dao Yan laughed and said, "You are a pervert (known as Yuan Ming, a Muslim Arab), but do you want to be a different kind of eunuch than the others?
The horse kneeled and said, "This little one doesn''t understand."
"I heard that in the far west, there is a holy land. It is the origin of your lecherous ancestors. What''s the name of that place?"
"Mecca." When Ma He said this, he knew that he no longer held back in front of Dao Yan.
"I can let you go once," Dao Yan said. "I heard that every pervert has this wish."
"Nobody in my family has been there for hundreds of years." "I only heard about it from my father."
"Go or not?"
Looking at this sixty year old monk, Ma He was indeed not an old man who could speak without thinking. He also understood that Dao Yan possessed a power that could make others completely believe in him. This was probably the reason why the King of Yan valued him so highly.
The next day, King of Yan ordered for the Great Monk of the Qing Shou Temple, Dao Yan, to take care of the water calamity in the Duke Mansion. Eunuch Ma and his assistant led five hundred guards, recruited two hundred blacksmiths, five hundred commoners and a hundred Taoists under Dao Yan''s command at any time.
Dao Yan followed the King of Yan and remained silent. After waiting for a long time, the King of Yan suddenly told him that black and red water had come out from the well in the Duke Palace. Furthermore, they allowed him to think of a way out, which made Dao Yan feel extremely calm in his heart. Because he knew that the King of Yan was simply testing him.
It was because there was no way for water to come out of the well in the Prince''s Mansion.
This topic was extremely important. Dao Yan understood that if his guess of King of Yan''s thoughts were slightly wrong, he would never be able to obtain his trust.
Right now, Dao Yan was calculating the number of people his subordinates could call.
Five hundred guards, five hundred servants, and a hundred Taoists. And two hundred blacksmiths.
Right now, the order was to rush the water for Dao Yan. A big event in the history of Taoism.
The next day, under Ma Sanbao''s lead, the 1300 soldiers and labourers arrived at the Qing Shou Temple. Only then did the monks of the Temple of Celebration realize that the abbot in this name was extraordinary. He was far from an ordinary monk who had thought that he was just a King of Yan monk sent to the Qing Shou Temple.
Dao Yan changed into a cassock, and in front of the birthday temple, he ordered the army and civilians to build a stage, and set up a cauldron. On the altar, he began to practice. The oracle went on for seven days in a row.
The attention of the people of Peiping were attracted, and they all came to watch. Everyone now knew that the Monastery''s Abbot Dao Yan was a powerful monk. He was helping the King of Yan suppress the evil dragon beneath the Peiping.
During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, there were many different religious sects and sects, which were common to see. Even the monks of the Qing Shou Temple did not mind Dao Yan''s worship of the Water God from the North, Grand Emperor Xuanwu.
The whole matter was extravagant and extravagant. King of Yan also gave Dao Yan countless silver, allowing him to spend it.
On the eighth day, the ceremony for the Black Turtle was over.
Dao Yan brought his subordinates and headed straight for East Gate. Along the way, a hundred Daoists and dozens of monks were clearing the way in front of them.
The monk held the Demon Fighter Pestle while the Taoist held the long flag.
Dao Yan walked in the middle of the procession, and two servants in front of him were carrying a shrine. On the shrine, there was a huge turtle, whose body was covered with a black silk cloth, and on the silk cloth was embroidered a green peony.
The assistant, Ma Sanbao, followed closely behind Dao Yan, step by step.
Behind Dao Yan and Ma Sanbao were five hundred guards, followed closely by two hundred artisans and then five hundred commoners. The troop walked majestically all the way to the East Gate, and all the civilians stopped to watch. They all saw the extravagance of Monk Dao Yan. They were all deeply moved by Dao Yan''s ostentatious demeanor. Looks like the law of chasing water is absolutely extraordinary.
Dao Yan arrived at an old well near a small river within the Dongzhi Gate. He ordered everyone to stop and then drew a line in a two thousand meter radius around the old well. He ordered the civilian to follow the traces to build the wall.
In less than a day, the wall was built.
A few days later, Dao Yan built a cast-iron furnace in the west side of the wall. Then, he made Ma Sanbao report to the King of Yan that he needed a large amount of iron as a smelting tool.
What surprised Ma Sanbao the most was that King of Yan had already prepared a large amount of iron grade equipment, many of them were farmer''s tools, some were broken old weapons. The tools must have been collected from the people, but the old weapons were all commonly used Mongolian weapons. It seems that these weapons were captured by the war between the King of Yan and the Mongols, but they were never made known to others.
Ma Sanbao brought the iron back to Dao Yan. When Dao Yan saw the large amount of abandoned iron equipment that he had brought along, his expression was calm, but a piece of his heart fell. It seemed that he had guessed correctly what the King of Yan was thinking.
Dao Yan ordered the man to continue construction of the iron furnace, one after another dozens of furnaces. Then they started the fire, and the two hundred craftsmen set to work.
Dao Yan made all the blacksmiths start to forge chains.
In less than a few days, the chains were completed one after another and were already more than thirty meters long. Dao Yan called over the turtle and fastened a section of the chain on the turtle''s shell at its tail. The turtle was an old turtle that was hundreds of years old. Its body was huge, its strength unparalleled, and it was extremely fierce. When he was letting out the cylinder, he even bit a guard.
After everything had been arranged, the four guards lifted the turtle up and, under Dao Yan''s command, slowly lowered it into the old well. Then, all the servants started to lift the chains and place the turtle down the well.
What shocked everyone was that even after the chain was completely released, the turtle at the end of the chain still did not show any signs of touching the bottom. This old well was actually so deep.
That night, lightning flashed, thunder rumbled, and heavy rain fell. A faint rumbling sound could be heard amidst the thunder. The people around them were all terrified, saying that this was the sound of a dragon.