Volume 3: Star Tower Chapter 57: Population Astrology
Tang Zheng had nothing to do in the afternoon, so he followed them to the Bailu Academy.
It seems that there is some discrimination in the martial arts conference of this academy. While other academies are living in small buildings of the same specifications, the Bailu Academy has a separate courtyard, and the treatment is even higher than that of regular aristocratic academies.
Seeing Tang Zheng's tracking gaze, Shangguan Su sneered: "You'd never guess where we lived on our first day here, right?"
Tang Zheng shook his head.
"Walk forward from here, about half a mile away from the dormitory, there is a canal in the direction of the sewer. There are two rows of thatched houses beside the canal, which are used to clean the chamber pots in the small building on the dormitory side..." Chang Qing's voice was flat, he was just calmly describing their previous situation.
Tang Zheng was not clear about Li Qingming's origins, but Shangguan Su and Chang Qing were probably not the kind of people who could tolerate such treatment, right?
However, the only emotion that could be seen on the two people's faces was "This is so funny", nothing else.
"We are not a noble family academy, and the academy martial arts conference did not reserve a dormitory for us." Li Qingming threw his long sword into the scabbard behind him and said, "Besides, isn't it resolved now?"
"That's right, Xingyao Continent is still a place where strength counts!" Shangguan Su raised his chin and said with a smile.
Fang Junji didn't say anything the whole time and walked in front with Shisan.
Although their small courtyard was not big, fortunately there was a hall for receiving guests. Shangguan Su and the others did not stay in the hall, leaving only Tang Zheng, Shisan and Fang Junji.
"In fact, I also think that he is not someone who would get lost." After Fang Junji sat down, he continued with what Thirteen had just said, "Besides, he happened to get lost in a place that is difficult to find without any special methods."
Tang Zheng glanced at Fang Junji.
Although he didn't know where this person came from, it seemed that he knew a lot?
Thirteen nodded twice: "He is not lost."
That day, he accidentally got lost and saw the enfeoffment order of the Tianqin family. Tang Zheng didn't think much about it, but now when he thinks about it again, he does feel that something is wrong.
Why didn't he go anywhere else but got lost and went to read the Enfeoffment Order?
"If I didn't get lost, then how could I have gotten there? Was I grabbed by an invisible hand?" Tang Zheng joked with a smile.
However, Thirteen nodded vigorously again.
Tang Zheng was speechless: "Then why did you arrest me? No one wants to harm me."
Fang Jun looked at Tang Zheng quietly for a long time before saying, "Can you let me see your horoscope?"
Tang Zheng glanced at Thirteen.
Thirteen pointed at Fang Junji and said, "Good man. Okay."
Fang Junji burst out laughing.
Tang Zheng's horoscope actually doesn't involve any secrets. If Fang Junji wants to know, he can just watch his fighting and see it naturally. There is no need to keep it secret.
Immediately, Tang Zheng took two steps back and raised his own star sign...
The gray light in Fang Junji's eyes actually jumped twice when he saw this star sign.
Those eyes, so lonely as if from another world, were illuminated for a moment by the stars behind Tang Zheng, before returning to that deep emptiness again.
"Wheel of Taihao..." Fang Junji opened his mouth without even saying the purple gold Tongbao, and directly said these four words.
"You are a connoisseur ." Tang Zheng smiled, slowly retracted the star map, and asked, "So, what did you find?"
Fang Junji shook his head: "If it is a slightly more special constellation like Thirteen, I can still study it, but your constellation is too special, I have not studied it..."
In other words, Fang Junji could not explain why Tang Zheng, a man who seemed like he would never get lost, would get lost so far and end up at the place several miles away where the Tianqin family's fiefdom order was located.
Tang Zheng looked at Fang Junji deeply.
If Fang Junji deliberately knew something and didn't want to tell him, he would simply not have said that he knew it was the Wheel of Taihao.
Therefore, it is estimated that he really has not studied Tang Zheng's astrology.
"You just mentioned Thirteen's astrology. What's going on?" Tang Zheng patted Thirteen's shoulder. "How did you get him away from the cold pond?"
"Thirteen's constellation is a very rare constellation, called... the population constellation." Fang Junji was frank about this, "The population constellation is one of the few constellations that has the hope of completing the nine-star conjunction, because his star veins have been repeatedly tempered for more than ten years..."
"Wait, you said... population astrology?" Tang Zheng thought of the demonic fire behind Thirteen, and suddenly felt something was wrong. "Sorry to interrupt you, can you explain what population astrology is first?"
"Normal astrology is about single flowers, grass, animals...life, undead...weapons or something else." Fang Junji did not get angry because of Tang Zheng's interruption. He calmly explained the population astrology to him first. "However, the population astrology is the totem of a group, or even something abstracted by an entire race."
"Then Thirteen's constellation is..."
"The demon race." Fang Junji nodded.
Sure enough, Thirteen’s constellation is not something as simple as demonic fire, nor is it the form of a certain demon beast. His constellation represents the entire demon race!
Although Tang Zheng and Thirteen had only met a few times, Thirteen had helped him a lot, so he had to get to the bottom of the matter: "With a star sign like this, it shouldn't be easy to find secret martial arts, right?"
Fang Junji shook his head: "Just the opposite."
"What do you mean?"
"There are so many secret martial arts that he can use, so many that it's impossible for him to choose them all by himself."
"…Why is that?"
"The population constellation is different from our constellation. It has a solid state, but it also has a myriad of ever-changing forms... You should understand what I mean, right?" Fang Junji said it very simply, but Tang Zheng understood it as soon as he heard it.
The constellation of Thirteen can actually change.
The ordinary magic fire can change into various forms, so naturally different secret martial arts can be used when using different forms!
"Good man, he helped me." Thirteen pointed at Fang Junji and said, "I fell into the cold pond and fainted. He saved me and helped me open the astrology."
As Thirteen spoke, Tang Zheng was counting on his fingers.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven…
Thirteen. In one sentence, there can really be seven consecutive words.
"You look happy?" Fang Junji said.
"Well, he's almost learning to speak!" Tang Zheng said with a smile.
"Will you be happy like this?" There was a hint of confusion in Fang Junji's voice.
"It's normal for me to be happy that my good friend can speak human language, right?" There was confusion in Tang Zheng's voice.
Fang Junji smiled again, without further questioning, and just nodded: "That makes sense."
A flash of empty light passed through his eyes silently...
When Thirteen saw Tang Zheng again, he had endless things to say. Tang Zheng originally thought that he would ask about his brothers and sisters, but unexpectedly, Thirteen did not mention them at all. Instead, he asked more about Tang Zheng's recent situation.
However, on second thought, he realized that the rule between Thirteen and Fourteen was almost like that of wild beasts. If Twelve died, Thirteen would be responsible for hunting and foraging, and if Thirteen fell into the cold pond, then the responsibility would fall on Fourteen. If Fourteen died or disappeared, then Fifteen would be the one to take responsibility - such a simple rule that would not go wrong, for Thirteen, perhaps he really didn't need to ask too many questions.
"There is a cold cave under that cold pond, and the water... is this deep." Thirteen gestured, "I am not dead, a good person came in and saved me."
Thirteen used the language he had just mastered to describe everything to Tang Zheng sentence by sentence and demonstrate each thing.
It took him about half an hour to recount the whole process of how he met Fang Junji, how Fang Junji brought him away from the cold pond, helped him find the stars, took him to meet Li Qingming and others, and how he came to the academy to discuss martial arts.
Although he spoke slowly and many of his words were unclear, neither Tang Zheng nor Fang Junji interrupted him.
"Why are you there?" After listening to this, Tang Zheng had only one question left, how could Fang Junji appear under the cold pond of Wuqing Mountain?
"I'm looking for the remains of the Purple Gold Emperor." Although Fang Junji was facing Tang Zheng, a man he had only met twice, he told him his whereabouts indifferently, "Outside the border is where the Purple Gold Emperor fought. After I came here from outside the border, the first place I went to was called Fengmen Village... That village was very strange, so I went upstream along the river and found the cold pond."
Is that village weird?
After Tang Zheng landed on the Xingyao Continent, the first place he stepped into was actually Fengmen Village.
Now that I think about it carefully, there was indeed something strange about that village.
However, all the weird things were covered up by the strange atmosphere artificially created by Yinlan Mountain Villa...
"You have been to Fengmen Village." Fang Junji looked into Tang Zheng's eyes and used an affirmative sentence instead of a question.
"Hmm..." Apart from Tian Meng, this was the first person Tang Zheng had met who had also been to Fengmen Village. "There is indeed something wrong with that village. Although I didn't look closely, but... I remember that after I entered the village, I didn't see even a single snake, insect or ant..."
Some details that he had not thought of before were now surging in his mind.
It’s not just about the extravagance…
It's not just the Hidden Blue Villa that's causing trouble...
That place had problems even when it was not full of decadence and glamour and when there was no Hidden Blue Villa!
"Have you found the remains of Emperor Zi Jin?" Tang Zheng asked.
"No." Fang Junji shook his head. "The people from Bailianfang went to develop it, so I didn't go near it."
Tang Zheng coughed twice.
The people from Bailianfang developed the extreme Yin land of Hantan.
And that piece of Taiyin extreme land was found by him using the Star-Pointing Needle when he and Luo Fei were competing in casting.
Unexpectedly, this incident blocked Fang Junji's search for the remains of Emperor Zi Jin.
The world is so big, but it is also very small.
"Then why did you think of saving him?" Tang Zheng himself almost fell into the cold pond, and he didn't think it was an easy task to rescue someone from the cold pond.
"Oh." Fang Junji did not sanctimoniously express how great he was in front of Thirteen, but simply answered: "Because he is the future Lord of the Sun Star."
He said this a little too casually, causing Tang Zheng to almost spit out his tea: "How the hell do you know this?"
Fang Junji glanced at Tang Zheng and said as a matter of course: "Star power has strengths and weaknesses, and dragon veins have life. Not everyone can encounter specific things at a specific time and place..."
