Xie Chenghua told me that in the half a year since the store opened, there were two troublesome matters. The first time was not long after the store opened, a hunchbacked old lady with a head full of white hair suddenly appeared. She stood at the door and didn't come in. She pointed at a talisman in the cabinet and asked for the price.
At the start, Xie Chenghua and Liu Chuande didn't care. After casually stating the price, the hunchbacked old lady nodded and said that she wanted to buy it.
But just as Xie Chenghua was about to take out the talisman, the old lady asked if there were any other talismans in the same set as this one.
This time, Xie Chenghua and Liu Chuande's expressions turned cold. The talisman that the hunchbacked old lady was talking about was the "Little Deception Talisman" that I left behind. Normal people definitely wouldn't be able to tell that it was a set of purple talismans. Even people in the metaphysics world wouldn't be able to tell.
Adding on the fact that the old lady kept standing at the door and refused to come in, people couldn't help but suspect her origins.
Xie Chenghua and Liu Chuande were both in the Glory of Knowledge realm, so they naturally had such knowledge. After looking at one another, Liu Chuande went over to talk to the hunchbacked old lady. As for Xie Chenghua, he stood at the side and secretly opened his Heaven Eye to look at the old lady.
With just one look, Xie Chenghua's mouth gaped. This hunchbacked old lady really wasn't human, but an old fox with white hair!
Mountain spirits and wild monsters weren't foreign to people in the metaphysics world, and they weren't afraid of them. But for mountain spirits and wild monsters to transform, they had to reach the Sky Master Realm!
Of course, this old lady wasn't a Sky Master. There were many mountain spirits and wild monsters, and some of them were talented and had special abilities. For example, the fox race only needed to reach the Glory of Knowledge realm to transform into a human.
Although the Glory of Knowledge realm was rare, compared to the Sky Master Realm, it was much easier. Take the Metaphysics Society for example, there were only a few people in the Sky Master Realm. However, in the Glory of Knowledge realm, there were at least hundreds and thousands of branch presidents in the country, along with the directors in the headquarters.
Therefore, the probability of fox race transforming into a human was much higher than other monsters. This was also why there were many records of fox spirits in the unofficial histories.
If it was just an old fox in the Glory of Memory Realm, Xie Chenghua would not be so surprised. What really surprised him was that in the eyes of this old woman's fox true form, there was a large star that almost completely filled up the two pupils.
The starlight in the pupils was the sign of the Glory of Consciousness realm. However, for fengshui masters like Xie Chenghua and Liu Chuande who had average talent and relied on obsidian stones to barely advance to Glory of Consciousness and had almost no hope of advancing further, the starlight in the pupils was so dim that it could not be seen at all. As long as there was starlight in the pupils that could be seen with the naked eye, it meant that this person had extremely strong talent and had the hope of breaking through to the Celestial Master realm.
I had seen many people with starlight in their pupils, such as Ye Pianpian, Zhang Kanwen, and Yang Shilong.
Ye Pianpian and Zhang Kanwen were both in the middle stage of Glory of Consciousness, and the starlight was almost half the size of their pupils. Yang Shilong was in the perfected Glory of Consciousness, very close to the Heavenly Master Realm, and the starlight almost filled his pupils.
Gremlins were the same as fengshui masters. This hunchbacked old woman clearly had the cultivation of perfected Glory of Consciousness, and was only one step away from becoming a Heavenly Master!
With this kind of strength, even if Xie Chenghua and Liu Chuande worked together, they would not be a match for this hunchbacked old woman.
What was even more troublesome was that when Xie Chenghua opened his Celestial Eye to peek, the hunchbacked old woman turned her head to look at him, obviously noticing his little action.
Spirits and monsters, once they took human form, hated it the most when others peeped at their true form. Xie Chenghua's face immediately turned pale with fright, but the strange thing was that the old woman only glanced at him once before turning her head away, as if she didn't care, and only continued to ask about the talisman.
This time, Xie Chenghua and Liu Chuande did not dare to be disrespectful in the slightest, and carefully introduced the Little Heaven Deception Talisman to the old woman.
After knowing that there was no other set of talismans, the old woman asked about the person who had made the talisman. Xie Chenghua and the others also didn't dare to hide anything, and told her about my situation. They also said that I had gone on a long journey, and was not sure when I would return.
The old woman seemed to have a good temper. After asking about the situation, she took the Little Heaven Deception Talisman with a smile, and found a place to stay nearby. Every day, she would come for a stroll, saying that she would wait for me to return.
In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed, and the old woman still came every day, rain or shine, to take a look.
After listening to Xie Chenghua's story, I furrowed my eyebrows. Although this old woman that had taken human form seemed to be very reasonable, her cultivation was too high, after all. If I was the slightest bit careless, I would be in big trouble.
Among the people that I knew, the only one that had reached this realm was Yang Shilong. Even Chen Yangting from Longhu Mountain, who had attracted the heavenly lightning to almost kill me, was only at the late stage of Glory of Knowledge.
After pondering for a while, I asked Xie Chenghua, "Did the old woman come today?"
Xie Chenghua nodded. "That old woman already came. If she comes again, it'll be tomorrow morning. She usually appears around nine in the morning."
I waved my hand, throwing this matter to the side for now. I asked Xie Chenghua, "What was the other troublesome matter that you mentioned just now?"
After my question, Xie Chenghua and Liu Chuande's expressions became even more solemn. Before Xie Chenghua could say anything, Liu Chuande, who was at the side, spoke first, stuttering, "This matter, I … I'll say it. It was the person that I received."
Liu Chuande's face was slightly flustered. After drinking a mouthful of tea, he spoke of the second matter.
This time, it was also an elderly woman that came. At that time, Xie Chenghua wasn't there, so it was Liu Chuande who received her. After entering, the woman didn't buy any talismans, nor did she ask for a spell. She only promised a large sum of money, wanting Liu Chuande to accompany her to the Public Security Bureau to help her prove in front of the police that her husband was possessed by a ghost.
This matter sounded strange, but it was actually very common. In murder cases, the suspect would claim that he was possessed by a ghost and that he had killed someone for no reason. Afterward, he didn't even know what had happened.
Sometimes, the police would go to the Metaphysics Society to investigate such cases. Liu Chuande had been the president of the Foshan branch for many years, so he had encountered this kind of matter many times. However, he was still a little hesitant. "For this kind of matter, the Metaphysics Society is the most reliable. After all, the Metaphysics Society is considered an official organization. The police would be more trustworthy if they could get a conclusion from them. Why would they go to such a faraway place?"
The woman didn't seem to want to talk about it. She vaguely said, "The Shenzhen branch won't accept this case. That's why I came here."
Because the woman had paid him too much and promised him a higher reward, Liu Chuande didn't think too much about it. He directly closed the shop, took his personal magic artifacts and other items, and accompanied the woman to the Municipal Public Security Bureau.
When they arrived, the Municipal Public Security Bureau took Liu Chuande seriously and sent a deputy bureau chief to receive him. However, the deputy bureau chief called Liu Chuande into his office and told him that there was no need to investigate this case. They knew that the suspect, Yu Fuda, was most likely possessed by a ghost. However, this case was too vile. Regardless of whether he was possessed by a ghost or not, they had to find a murderer. This Yu Fuda would definitely be sentenced to death. There were no other possibilities.
Liu Chuande was a little confused. He wanted to argue with the deputy bureau chief, but before he could speak, the deputy bureau chief explained the case to him. After listening, Liu Chuande immediately shut up.
According to the deputy bureau chief with the surname Zhang, the suspect, Yu Fuda, was a farmer entrepreneur in the suburbs of Shenzhen. He contracted thousands of acres of orchard. His family's property was quite solid, and he had dozens of workers under him. At the beginning of this case, the workers in the orchard went missing. When the police received the case, six workers had already gone missing. When the case was finally solved, the number of missing workers had reached 19.
These 19 workers were finally found in a secret cellar in the orchard. None of them were alive. All of them were dead.
19 lives at once. This kind of case was enough to shock the whole country. What was more serious was that when the police found the cellar, they went in to take a look. All 19 corpses were dismembered. Other than the heads and limbs that were tanned and hung on the wall, the other body parts were cut into pieces of meat. The corpse oil on the surface of the body was all baked out and made into dozens of wrist-thick corpse wax, which was lit around the cellar.
Everyone's blood was even released. After mixing it with saltpeter and other substances, it was stored in a pool. The scene was bloody and horrifying.