Chapter 247. Taoist Ling Cang
That night, everyone was awakened by a noise like an earth-shaking movement.

Those who could appear here naturally had some abilities, so they took the important things with them as soon as possible and fled the house decisively. The dark and silent night became lively because of this huge commotion.

"What's going on? What happened just now?"

"This is the third day of earthquakes, right? I remember seeing it the day before yesterday. It seemed that the earthquake at the epicenter was only around 3 o'clock, and the earthquake stopped yesterday. There were no aftershocks at all. Why are we still affected?"

"Earthquake... Could it be that something unexpected happened?"

"I just checked, and there are indeed no more earthquakes at the original epicenter."

"Is there a possibility that we are the source of the earthquake?"

As soon as these words came out, the whole audience was silent.

If it weren't for what happened in the past two days, if someone said something like this, they would definitely be laughed at by everyone. After all, most people can feel the existence of the spirit gathering array below, and they also know that it is basically impossible for natural disasters to occur here.

Not to mention an earthquake, even if the entire mountain where Wanling Villa is located experienced a landslide, Wanling Villa would definitely be safe and sound.

But the current situation is obviously not the case.

"No, we must find the source as soon as possible. Otherwise, given the current situation where we are getting better day by day, even if you say that this place will collapse tomorrow, I will believe it!"

"You make it sound so easy. Do you think we can find the source just by finding it?"

"Isn't Taoist Ling Cang here? Why don't we just ask Taoist Ling Cang to do the math for us?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's eyes subconsciously looked in the direction of Taoist Ling Cang.

There are currently four major sects in the domestic metaphysical world. The Xuan Fang Sect is not among the four because it has been in seclusion for many years and is unwilling to participate in external disputes.

The four major sects now are: Fangshan Sect, Jianxing Sect, Yitian Sect, and Baihe Sect.

Taoist Ling Cang is the elder of Yitianmen and is best at divination.

What outsiders don't know is that Taoist Lingcang once helped the country calculate something related to the country's destiny, and successfully helped the country avoid that disaster. So if you were to say who has the best divination skills among those present, it must be Taoist Lingcang.

"Master Ling Cang, what do you think?"

Taoist Lingcang, who was being watched by everyone, touched his beard and was about to say something, but was interrupted by a young man dressed as a Taoist boy beside him.

"My master stopped fortune-telling five years ago. What are you trying to do? Are you relying on your numbers to bully us at Yitianmen?"

"We didn't, you can't talk nonsense!" The man who had asked Taoist Ling Cang before panicked and waved his hands to explain.

But the Taoist boy still insisted, "You didn't mean that, so why are you stepping in? Even if this is a disaster, it is a disaster that affects everyone. Why should my master be the only one to bear the lives and property of all of you?"

The Taoist boy glanced at the crowd, including the disciples and elders from other sects. "Don't think I don't know what you are up to. You all think that if you keep silent, everything will be fine, right? Everyone knows that if you keep silent, it means you agree. If you really think this is wrong, why don't you speak up and stop it?"

This sentence directly attacked everyone, and now some people who wanted to stay out of the matter could no longer do so.

"Little Taoist priest, what you said is very unpleasant to hear. We just didn't have time to say anything. How can it be assumed that we didn't stop it?"

"That's right! Why do you say that we agree if we don't say anything? I also don't agree with asking Taoist Ling Cang for help."

"Although my own abilities are not great, I definitely don't need to ask others for help. You are being too arrogant!"

The Taoist boy snorted coldly and ignored these people's excuses.

"Whether you have this idea or not, you know it in your heart. You don't need me to say so much for you!"

"If I remember correctly, several of you present here have asked my master for help before, right? My master has never refused you before! And this is what you did? I'm going to make this clear today. If other people did something, it's fine, but if those people who my master has helped before are trying to be generous to others, then don't blame me for being rude! You are a bunch of ungrateful bastards!"

What the Taoist boy said was a bit harsh, but no one dared to refute it.

It was not just because the Taoist boy was right, they really wanted Taoist Lingcang to help, so when that person said Taoist Lingcang's name just now, no one refuted and everyone looked at Taoist Lingcang.

This action can be said to be unintentional or intentional. They are simply trying to use moral blackmail.

But they probably didn't expect that the little Taoist boy beside Taoist Lingcang was so eloquent. With just one sentence, he tore off everyone's face, leaving them no room for further refutation.

Seeing that the atmosphere on the field had reached a stalemate, Taoist Ling Cang sighed and took the initiative to say: "It's not that I don't want to help you. It's mainly because I injured my body five years ago because I calculated things that I shouldn't have calculated. Now I really can't do it anymore..."

After this sentence was spoken, no matter whether anyone believed it or not, the faces of those who were confronted by Taoist Lingcang's Taoist boy looked much better.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not. All they want is an attitude and a way out.

In fact, what the Taoist boy said just now was indeed too much. Although most people have the same idea and want Taoist Lingcang to help them for free, there are still a small number of people, especially those who are powerful, who will not do such a shameless thing.

However, everyone gave in to Taoist Ling Cang's face, and because someone had indeed spoken rudely at the beginning, the matter was let go.

But after the incident with Taoist Lingcang was over, the earthquake was not over yet.

After some discussion, everyone decided to split into five groups. The four major sects would each bring their people into one group. Other people without any sect or from small sects could choose to join the four major sects, or they could choose to search on their own. In short, everyone would immediately search the mountain where Wanling Villa was located, and they had to find out what happened on this mountain no matter what.

Only in this way can they continue to stay here with peace of mind. If the problem is not found today and there is an earthquake tomorrow, then this metaphysics exchange conference will have to be suspended.

No one had any objection to this result, so everyone dispersed and began to look for the cause of the vibration.

(End of this chapter)