He couldn't even see the corpse of a worm cultivated by Yin Corrosion Granny Nuo!
"..."
Ascendant Fuluan's smile completely vanished, and under the Nuo mask, a flame seemed to rise in his eyes.
"Unbelievable!"
"Utterly shameless!"
"This is simply intolerable!"
"I don't care whether you're a Mountain Mover Taoist or a Ridge-Removing Warrior, you'd better not let me find you, otherwise..."
Ascendant Fuluan felt extremely stifled. He had been setting up this plan for many years, relying on these pawns to remove the Ghost Law, clear the pathways to the netherworld, and seize the opportunity to ascend to the higher realms.
But everything he had painstakingly schemed was so confusingly destroyed by someone!
Are you that desperate for wealth?
Someone capable of removing the three major powers at the entrance of the Dark River surely can't be short on money!
And yet, this very person cleaned out all the treasures from the three tombs.
Have you never seen anything good, or what?
Even if you steal that coffin, it's second-hand. Can you live in it or something?
Ascendant Fuluan had never felt so stifled in his life.
This is outrageous!
"To ruin someone's path is no different from being an enemy!"
Ascendant Fuluan's eyes reddened, and he immediately reached for the sword box behind him. In the next moment, a Nuo sword made of interlocking copper coins flew out of the box.
The Land Nuo Immortal's sword pointed to the void, formed by three hundred and sixty-five copper coins, subtly resonating with the Grand Cycle of Heaven, the Nuo sword instantly tore open the passage to the Dark River, and when the light and shadow shifted, Ascendant Fuluan reappeared above the Baisha River of the Jin Sect.
At this moment, Ascendant Fuluan had already forgotten about the two divinations he performed on the Dark River. He stepped into the river, searching for a solitary sand island suitable for drawing, then took out a peachwood pen, standing in mid-air, his eyes frantically twitching.
Ascendant Fuluan performed a divination through gestures in the air, encompassing several miles of sandy beach below him, using it as a divination board for writing and drawing.
The shadow of the divination pen danced like a luan bird, and soon a line of scrawled writing appeared on the sand island.
It read—
"Do not pry into the secrets of Heaven!"
Hmm? Ascendant Fuluan had been divining for so many years, and it was the first time he unlocked such an oracle.
"Oh no!"
Just as Ascendant Fuluan was in a daze, he felt a sudden tightness on his scalp, his hair being pulled by an invisible hand, standing upright like a porcupine.
Ascendant Fuluan looked up in horror. Thunderclouds filled with infinite heavenly might rolled in from all directions, arcs of lightning flashing between them.
These thunderclouds seemed to have accumulated over the years, just waiting to meet the Jin Sect's business targets at this moment.
The thunderclouds lasted for almost half an hour. During this time, numerous Nuo silhouettes in operatic flower robes flashed and disappeared above the Baisha River. When the last bolt of lightning struck, the sandbar that Ascendant Fuluan had used for divination had completely vanished.
On the endlessly flowing river's surface, only a scorched and cracked Nuo mask drifted with the waves.
At the Jin Sect's dock, a middle-aged man in ragged clothes and a blackened face crawled onto the shore.
At this moment, a passing member of the Corpse Recovery Team shouted:
"Hurry, hurry! Someone's jumped into the water here!"
"Tell me, what's not to like about life, huh? They say there's no greater event in life and death. No matter how difficult things get, how unlucky you are, heaven wouldn't just strike you down and refuse to let you keep living, would it?"
"..."
"I just got interested, wasn't jumping!"
"Interest? No kind of interest works here! This isn't a place for playful water frolicking..."
Underground Street, coffin shop.
Xu Qing, who was chatting with Master Jingxu, suddenly looked up towards the direction of the dock.
"This heavenly tribulation..."
Master Jingxu found it oddly familiar. Isn't this just like the time she randomly performed divination twice, bringing upon herself a thunder calamity!
Only this thunder calamity's severity was clearly more intense than the punishment she received for twice peering into the secrets of Heaven!
As the continuous sound of lightning strikes rang out, and familiar waves of magical power emanated from afar, Master Jingxu mused:
"This aura... It must be that Nuo Immortal, no doubt. What on earth did he do to cause such a commotion."
At the same time, Master Jingxu truly realized the weirdness of the Jin Sect's territory.
Just as she had mentioned that Nuo Immortal's name earlier, he got struck by lightning immediately after.
Even 'Words and Laws Follow' doesn't happen this quickly!
Under the peach tree, Bai Qiuyu, who sensed the anomaly at the dock, instinctively turned her gaze towards Master Jingxu.
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Perhaps it was a connection of minds, as the old lady's gaze also turned to Bai Qiuyu's head.
The elder and the young one stared each other down, waiting for the other to be unable to resist calculating a move first.
However, having suffered several losses before, neither was willing to take the lead in the end.
Xu Qing, thinking about visiting old acquaintances, decided to leave when he saw there was nothing important happening in the coffin shop.
On Underground Street, just as Xu Qing stepped out of the shop, a Qingqiu Fox Girl in a gown wrapped in bagua and flowing clouds chased after him.
"Daoist Xu, slow down!"
"Something up?"
"Ah, it's nothing major."
"I have something to do, if you don't, I'm leaving first."
"Hey hey! It's not like there's nothing at all, let's chat for a minute first!"
"Alright then, let's chat for a bit..."
Bai Qiuyu's eyes glanced to the side, asking, "Are you and Daoist Yizhen really just ordinary senior and junior apprentices?"
Xu Qing squinted slightly, interrupting,
"If you have something serious to say, say it, don't go off on irrelevant things!"
Bai Qiuyu discreetly curled her lips, then replaced it with a charming smile, and subconsciously threw a flirtatious glance at Xu Qing.
"..."
"Do you have an eye ailment? If so, go to the Medical Hall for treatment!"
Bai Qiuyu put away the innate charm and divine techniques of the Nine-tailed Fox, looking somewhat vexed at the man before her who seemed oblivious to amorous gestures.
How was she any less than Daoist Yizhen?
"Daoist Xu."
Taking a deep breath, Bai Qiuyu decided to drop the act and spoke frankly: "I heard from Daoist Yizhen that you visited the Tushan Ruins and gathered a complete Tushan inheritance for her, is that true?"
Xu Qing raised an eyebrow, saying in a neutral tone, "It's true. That inheritance originally belonged to the same line as my senior sister, it's of no use to me. If it weren't for my senior sister, even if I had gone to the Tushan Ruins, I wouldn't have wasted the effort to gather those inheritances."
What Xu Qing meant was clear: those were ancestral things passed down, don't think of coveting them.
Bai Qiuyu seemed not to comprehend the implicit message, her eyes lit up upon hearing that Xu Qing indeed unearthed the Tushan inheritance.
She looked at Xu Qing with burning eyes, her chest rising and falling with excitement, "I would like to invite Daoist Xu to visit the Qingqiu Ruins, would you agree?"
"..."
Xu Qing was momentarily stunned, frowning, "What do you want me to do at your ancestral tomb?"
"..."
This time it was Bai Qiuyu's turn to fall silent.
Indeed, Daoist Xu must have dug up the ancestral tomb of Daoist Yizhen's family.
Bai Qiuyu gave a light cough, feeling a bit guilty, she said, "It's a site, not entirely an ancestral tomb. The Qingqiu Ruins also have inheritances preserved, but inside their prohibitions are numerous, such that even I cannot explore them fully. Daoist Xu was able to avoid the prohibitions of the Tushan Ruins and obtain the complete Tushan inheritance, so perhaps you could also bypass Qingqiu's prohibitions and gain the complete inheritance of the Fox Race."
Now Xu Qing understood, this divination girl wanted to use him to dig up her family's ancestral tomb!
"Have you asked the elders in your clan about this?"
Bai Qiuyu's expectant gaze suddenly dimmed: "Qingqiu has long become a thing of the past, I, like Daoist Yizhen, no longer have any close elders to rely on..."
After a moment of silence, Xu Qing suddenly spoke, "It's not that I can't help you with this, but besides the relationship of creditor and debtor, we don't have other connections. If you want me to look at the feng shui of your ancestral tomb, you'll have to offer something."
Bai Qiuyu's face lit up with joy and she said, "I can divine fortunes!"
Xu Qing glanced at the female divination master before him; who couldn't divine fortunes? Moreover, he didn't have anything that needed divining right now.
"Then... I still have some savings."
Bai Qiuyu took out a purse, tipped it into her hand, and revealed a single piece of broken silver, along with a few copper coins.
"..."
Xu Qing finally sensed something was off:
"You haven't saved more silver coins than this over ten years, have you?"
It was known that Bai Qiuyu owed him forty-five taels of silver for setting up a memorial for her master.
"Money is hard to earn..."
Bai Qiuyu's face turned bright red, feeling somewhat embarrassed.
After hesitating for a moment, she suddenly changed the topic:
"Daoist Xu, do you want a senior sister?"
"I always thought seeking to form a bond on the path of cultivation in this world was like daydreaming, but I never expected that the bonds of destiny would be right before my eyes."