The Polluted Dragon Vein

Liu Zheng naturally knew that Lin Mo had swept through South Korea, but the matter of the seal was of the utmost importance. He still had to report it to Dongfang Shuye first.

In the living room, Lin Mo had already opened the file folder without so much as a by-your-leave.

He pulled out several pages and handed them to Xie Yuling.

“When he said he had some matters to deal with, he wasn’t talking only about him.” Lin Mo pointed at Jiang Yeqiu. “There’s also the matter of L il in Plaza.”

Xie Yuling’s expression turned solemn. “Is this because of what happened to An Yuexin, Fang Jun, and Luo Ruiyu today?”

Lin Mo nodded. “Starting in 2004, strange deaths began occurring one after another at L ilin Plaza. The victims didn’t all die by jumping from buildings. That’s a documented fact.”

He paused, his gaze sweeping over everyone, lingering especially on Xie Yuling.

“What An Yuexin said earlier was actually true. When L ilin Plaza was being built, eight enormous coffins were indeed excavated from underground. And those eight coffins were indeed burned to ashes by people who had no idea what they were dealing with.”

“Wait!”

Jiang Chengshan suddenly slammed a hand against the armrest of the sofa, interrupting them. He frowned.

“What exactly are you talking about? Why are you discussing this in my house?! I’m not letting Yunlu go anywhere with you!”

Having been interrupted so abruptly, Xie Yuling glared at Jiang Yunlu in annoyance.

Jiang Yunlu immediately understood and turned to look at her mother.

“Mom, handle Dad.”

Situ Yunshu understood at once. She reached out and grabbed Jiang Chengshan by the collar. Her grip was so strong that the dignified head of the Jiang family was instantly rendered immobile.

“Sit quietly and listen.”

Situ Yunshu’s voice was not loud, but her tone left no room for argument.

“Ordinary people would pay a fortune for the chance to hear stories like these.”

Her ability to accept such things was indeed impressive. After all, she came from the martial arts clan of the Situ family, whose family library contained countless secret texts that ordinary people would never encounter in their entire lives.

Although she had never personally encountered matters involving seals and evil entities, she had grown up surrounded by such stories and had heard more than a few of them.

When it came to his position in the family, Jiang Chengshan had always known exactly where he stood.

He could only shut his mouth sheepishly, shrink into the corner of the sofa, and continue listening to Lin Mo’s account.

Lin Mo pulled out several more pages from the file and handed them to Xie Yuling.

Xie Yuling accepted the pages, but after merely glancing at the cover, she passed them directly to Jiang Yunlu.

Her divine sense had already scanned every word on them in full.

The files recorded that only a month after the eight coffins had been excavated at L ilin Plaza, several of the workers involved in digging them up had been killed in a car accident while they were out.

But construction continued.

Before long, the developer and his sister-in-law were found dead inside an office. The scene was bizarre beyond description.

Both victims wore faint smiles, as though they had passed away peacefully in their sleep. Yet after a forensic examination, it was discovered that they had already been dead for at least three days.

After that, every developer who took over the project met with disaster. Some died suddenly in the streets. Some went mad before jumping from buildings. In the most horrifying cases, even their pets suffered the same fate.

For a time, the entire real estate industry was thrown into a panic. The property became a cursed mess that seemed to kill anyone who touched it.

Eventually, a businessman from Hong Kong learned about the project.

He had also heard about the incidents at the construction site.

Although there had been countless accidents, the preferential policies were too attractive to ignore, and the low takeover price was equally tempting. In the end, he still chose to take over the project.

Back then, Hong Kong’s most renowned feng shui masters had all originally come from the mainland. Their teachings had been passed down in an orderly fashion, and many of them possessed genuine ability.

So the businessman paid an enormous sum to invite Hong Kong’s most famous feng shui master to inspect the site.

Under normal circumstances, what followed was that L ilin Plaza was eventually built.

That was something everyone knew.

But what Xie Yuling’s divine sense had seen was the crucial part.

When the feng shui master from Hong Kong arrived, he immediately sensed that something was wrong with the place.

He walked around the construction site with a luopan compass for three whole days and three nights, looking as though he had become completely lost in it.

Only afterward did he tell the Hong Kong businessman, his face deathly pale, that the site was most certainly an inauspicious place. Something was being suppressed beneath it, and if it were ever released, the entire city of Yangcheng would suffer.

What was more, Yanhuang Awakening had also appeared on the scene.

Agents from Yanhuang Awakening took the initiative to contact the businessman and worked together with the feng shui master to deal with this thorny problem.

Jiang Yunlu read slowly, but she was genuinely curious about what was so unusual about the plaza.

She flipped through the photographs in the file. The exterior of the L ilin Plaza construction site looked completely ordinary—one might even call it messy. There was nothing special about it at all.

Just then, Liu Zheng returned.

“Director Dongfang is asking whether you’re confident. That’s a contaminated dragon vein.”

A dragon vein?!

Jiang Chengshan and Situ Yunshu both stared at Liu Zheng in shock.

The teacup in Jiang Chengshan’s hand nearly slipped. As the owner of a major corporation, he had heard plenty about dragon veins, but had they actually existed?

There was a dragon vein inside Yangcheng?!

Lin Mo shrugged.

“You can only see what’s on the surface. You can’t see the true cause of the wound, so all you can do is suppress it with a seal. It’s like someone being poisoned—you don’t neutralize the poison, but merely cover the wound with a piece of cloth and assume everything will be fine.”

By then, Jiang Yunlu had also seen what was written in the file.

The area beneath L ilin Plaza was the mouth of the dragon vein, the throat through which the dragon vein exhaled and inhaled fortune.

However, after examining the terrain through feng shui, they discovered that the dragon vein had already been contaminated.

If the dragon vein were completely excavated, the contaminated energy within it might erupt violently, threatening the lifeline of the entire city of Yangcheng.

At that point, fortune would flow backward and filthy energy would spread everywhere. In mild cases, diseases would become rampant. In severe cases, the nation itself could be thrown into turmoil.

Neither Yanhuang Awakening nor the feng shui master had any confidence in purifying the dragon vein.

So they chose to seal it instead. Using the principles of feng shui and numerological formations, they built L ilin Plaza on top of it.

The reason most of the businesses in L ilin Plaza dealt in jade was precisely to suppress the contaminated dragon vein.

Jade itself could absorb turbid energy and purify the surrounding magnetic field. By filling the entire building with jade businesses, they formed a gigantic formation that continuously wore away the contamination seeping from the dragon vein, day and night without interruption.

It had to be said that this was an exceedingly ingenious method.

However, a seal was still a seal. Eventually, signs of loosening were bound to appear.

After Jiang Yunlu finished reading, her eyes gleamed as she stared at Lin Mo, excitement and eagerness written all over her face.

“So tonight we’re going to purify the dragon vein?!”

“No. Tonight, we’re dealing with Zhafu first.”

Lin Mo rejected the idea immediately, his tone crisp and decisive.

The matter of the dragon vein was far more complicated than the records in Yanhuang Awakening’s files suggested. He still needed to make some preparations.