Chapter 147

Chapter 147: Stealing Luck

“That’s good. Don’t let him harm the children of decent families,” Madam Yu said.

She knew her husband had a sense of measure. She was just saying it out of habit.

At this moment, Di Kang Nian walked out of the room with one hand on his waist and ordered his men to prepare the carriage. He wanted to take the beauties out for entertainment.

His men saw the smug, spring-breeze look on his face and knew the four beauties were now Lord Di’s favorites. They immediately rushed forward to serve him attentively.

Yun Xi and the other three laughed as they climbed into the carriage. Under Di Kang Nian’s lead, they went out to “play,” but in truth they were going to visit the graves and worship ancestors.

The carriage traveled for half a day before reaching the location Di Kang Nian claimed was their ancestral graves.

Yun Xi and the other three got down. When they spread out their divine sense, they saw it really was a feng shui treasure land. No wonder the Di family even moved their ancestral graves. Moving a family’s graves was a huge hassle.

After looking around, Liu Hao Tian said, “This place is wrapped by mountains and waters. It blocks wind and gathers qi. With a mountain behind and water in front, there’s support. The wide waters balance yin and yang, and water also gathers wealth. It signals that future generations will produce noble figures. And this is a land protected by the Four Spirits-the finest feng shui treasure land.”

Di Kang Nian said proudly, “You’re right. It really did take a lot of effort for the family to find this place.”

Xia You looked at the tombstones. “Why aren’t the names on these tombstones from your Di family?”

Di Kang Nian immediately explained, “These are just to fool people. It’s mainly so others won’t find out.”

Yun Xi felt that explanation was a bit forced. It was only a burial ground. It shouldn’t require going that far.

Liu Hao Tian stood before a tombstone and did a finger calculation. “The person on this tombstone really did die. These names weren’t made up at random to hide things.”

Yun Xi suddenly realized something. Her divine sense plunged into the earth and swept the entire burial ground. Her face darkened, and she flicked her sleeve, sending Di Kang Nian flying.

The sudden change startled the guards who had been keeping their distance. They rushed over.

The group had no patience to tangle with mortals. With a wave of their sleeves, they knocked them all unconscious.

Yu Qing Cheng asked, “Sister Yun Xi, why are you so angry?”

Yun Xi said coldly, “Look at the coffins buried underground.”

After the other three swept with their divine sense, their faces turned cold.

Xia You said in shock, “There are only ten tombstones here, but over a hundred people are buried underground. Aren’t they crowded? Two or three people lying in one coffin-what kind of burial is that?”

Yu Qing Cheng frowned and added, “Yeah. Some don’t even have a coffin at all. Does the Di family care about rules or not?”

Liu Hao Tian had already stopped calculating. His handsome face was icy. “The Di family actually stole another family’s ancestral grave’s luck, trying to twist their own fate. To avoid backlash from luck, they definitely sealed and suppressed the original owner somewhere else.”

Just hearing it made Yun Xi feel sick. Her own family didn’t accumulate virtue through good deeds, yet they stole the luck of a virtuous family. Just thinking about it made her shiver. She spoke slowly, “This definitely has something to do with evil cultivators. They’re best at tempting people’s hearts. The Di family wanted to strengthen the clan, so they did something this vile. And most of the Di ancestors were moved here-that means it’s a huge clan. If the officials who enter court are all trash like Di Kang Nian, all shiny on the outside and rotten inside, you can imagine what the court will turn into. If it goes on, the people won’t be able to live. Officials will force people into rebellion, war will break out. Once war spreads, countless will die. That will be the best time for evil cultivators to harvest the results.”

Yu Qing Cheng’s scalp tingled. She waved her hand. “Sister Yun Xi, you don’t have to keep going. It’ll definitely get worse. Evil cultivators will take the chance to cause chaos. Using mortal lives as sacrifices to raise their cultivation is their usual method.”

Yun Xi immediately thought of Twin Mountain City. She said at once, “Have you heard of the Nine-Wheel Sacrifice Array in Twin Mountain City?”

Liu Hao Tian and Yu Qing Cheng both nodded seriously. Xia You had heard Twin Mountain City once had evil cultivators, but she was hearing of this array for the first time. Still, just the word “sacrifice” told her it was nothing good.

Yu Qing Cheng looked at Yun Xi with her phoenix eyes. “I heard a disciple of the Hao Ran Sect used a spirit beast’s breakthrough to crack that sacrifice array. That person wasn’t you, was it? And that spirit beast was Dian Dian?”

Yun Xi chuckled. “My luck was bad. I was pulled into the array with my fellow disciples, so we could only find a chance to save ourselves.”

“Tsk tsk. Sister Yun Xi, you’ve been hiding your strength well,” Yu Qing Cheng said.

Yun Xi said awkwardly, “Back then, I hadn’t taken a master yet. The sect considered my safety, so they didn’t mention me to outsiders. The cultivators who knew were all people who suffered through it together, so no one would go out and talk nonsense. We all understood without saying it.”

The three nodded in agreement. When it came to the immortal path, being cautious was never wrong.

“Fellow Daoist Liu, you’re skilled in formations. How should we solve this?” the three female cultivators asked, all turning their eyes to Liu Hao Tian.

Liu Hao Tian said coldly, “If you steal someone else’s things, you have to return them sooner or later. I’ll change the feng shui luck here. After that, the Di family will only decline. We also have to find the people originally buried here and arrange things properly. Then we’ll seal this place. In a hundred years, the seal will dissolve on its own.”

“What if the evil cultivators come looking?” Yun Xi asked softly. “Their chess piece is ruined. They’ll definitely come see what happened.”

“Then we’ll wait two days. If we can catch an evil cultivator, even better. When we return to the Cultivation World, we can report it to our sect.”

“Looks like we’ll have to station cultivators in the mortal world from now on. Evil cultivators have already started targeting it,” Yun Xi sighed.

“First deal with what’s in front of us. We have sects, and so many great experts sitting in the Cultivation World. It’s not our turn to sigh and worry,” Liu Hao Tian said calmly.

“Yes. Fellow Daoist Liu is right. Just tell us what to do next,” Yun Xi replied, pulling herself together. She really had been disgusted by the Di family’s shamelessness.

Liu Hao Tian waved his hand and gave Yun Xi and the other two some seeds, telling them where to plant them and to force them to grow.

Yun Xi took one look and knew they were poisonous weed seeds. Liu Hao Tian explained, “Poisonous plants will ruin the overall feng shui.”

The three immediately started sowing them and used spiritual power to make them sprout.

Liu Hao Tian leapt into the air, swung his sword, and cut away the mountain ridge behind them. Then he formed seals and used earth techniques to change the direction of the stream in the mountain. Before long, the stream that passed through this treasure land would dry up, forming a pattern that neither gathered wealth nor drew in qi.

The four worked for an hour and finished everything. Liu Hao Tian used low-grade spirit stones to set up a maze array, making the graveyard “disappear.”

Then Liu Hao Tian took out a compass and began searching for the original owner’s location.

That search took another half hour. In the end, they found ten coffins in a swamp on the shaded side where the mountain range broke.

“They’re truly vicious,” Yu Qing Cheng could not help complaining.

At that moment, Dian Dian poked its head out and squeaked twice.

Yun Xi immediately said, “Dian Dian smells evil qi.”

Liu Hao Tian’s expression changed too. “No, this is a corpse-nurturing ground. They’re actually refining zombies.”

Images flashed through Yun Xi’s mind. She shouted, “Back off!”

The three immediately leapt backward, gripping their spirit swords.

Yun Xi’s Seven-Star Doom Staff crackled with lightning as she slammed it down hard.