Due to Professor Deng's existence, I felt a sense of urgency to increase my strength. After making the first talisman, I immediately started to study more advanced talismans.
Talismans like the Peaceful Earth Talisman that didn't have any direct power were called Fengshui Talismans.
As for the Fire Talismans that could attack, they were called Daoist Talismans.
The Death Scripture mentioned that Fengshui Talismans were talismans that were closer to nature. The more thoroughly one studied Fengshui Talismans, the deeper one's understanding of Qi would be, and it would be easier for one to enter a higher realm.
However, to me, increasing my strength was the most important thing right now. Thus, after making the first Peaceful Earth Talisman, I was ready to try making Daoist Talismans.
However, before that, I had to make a Heavenly Deception Talisman. To be precise, it was a Little Heavenly Deception Talisman.
The Heavenly Deception Talisman was a type of Purple Talisman recorded in the Death Scripture.
According to the classification, talismans were divided into five levels: Yellow, Red, Purple, Silver, and Gold. The higher the level, the more powerful it was, and the more difficult it was to make.
The Purple Talisman was a higher level talisman than the Red Talisman that Professor Deng had. With my current ability, I couldn't make it. However, the Heavenly Deception Talisman was a special combination of talismans. It consisted of seventy-two talismans, which corresponded to the number eight and nine.
The Little Heavenly Deception Talisman was just one of the Heavenly Deception Talismans. According to the classification, it belonged to the Yellow Talisman category, which was within my current ability.
Its effects were clearly recorded in the Death Scripture.
"Confine the bloodline and isolate the ancestral shade."
Before coming to the university, I had promised President Liu that I would find a way to relocate his ancestral grave. It was this talisman.
At that time, I had promised him three years. I didn't expect that only one and a half years had passed, and I could try to make this talisman.
The Little Heavenly Deception Talisman was also a Fengshui Talisman, but it wasn't any less difficult than a Daoist Talisman. This time, I had spent two months to make it.
To make this talisman, I had spent several thousand renminbi on the yellow talisman paper, and I had spent almost all of my savings.
Since it was the summer vacation of my sophomore year, I wasn't in a hurry to study talismans. Instead, I wanted to learn some other techniques.
Feng Shui masters usually cast their spells in five forms: talisman, seal, astral energy, incantation, and magic item.
Talismans are the simplest kind. As for the other hand seals, footwork, magic arts, and so on, I haven't been able to learn them yet. However, I can understand them in advance. As for magic tools, they are external objects. Although they are powerful, they can only be found by chance. I haven't studied them too much for the time being.
In the blink of an eye, it was summer vacation. After returning home, I took the "Little Deception Talisman" to find Chief Liu.
My early arrival made Chief Liu very excited, and immediately arranged a welcoming banquet for me.
When he learned that I had prepared the talismans to move the grave, Mr. Liu blushed. He couldn't help but shake his hands. He was so excited that he almost lost his composure.
This made me feel strange. After all, the matter of the ancestral grave had been delayed for a long time. Moreover, it wasn't something urgent. As a shrewd businessman, Chief Liu shouldn't have lost his composure like this. However, he was so excited that he couldn't control himself.
After the welcoming banquet, Chief Liu couldn't wait to bring me to his family's ancestral grave.
Although it wasn't the first time I saw it, the geomancy and geography of the graveyard still made me scared.
In the geomancy of a grave, it was important to find the dragon's veins. As long as one was a geomancer, he or she would spend their entire life searching for the dragon's veins.
Some geomancers couldn't even find a good dragon's veins in their entire lives. It was clear that good geomancy was rare.
However, good geomancy was rare, and bad geomancy was also rare. For example, the 'Sky-Piercing Rainbow' and the 'Withered Bone Dragon', which were like dragons coming and going, I was afraid that even geomancers who had spent their entire lives searching for the dragon's veins had never seen such a thing. I didn't know why Chief Liu's ancestor had such bad luck to find such a place.
I wasn't in a hurry to move the grave. Instead, I found the highest mountain nearby and climbed there to carefully observe the surrounding landscape.
Although geomancers valued inheritance, they also valued understanding.
This kind of geomancy was very rare. To Chief Liu's family, it was a disaster. However, to a geomancer, it was a chance to increase their knowledge. If they could see the origin of the grave, their understanding of the geomancy of a grave would increase.
Strangely, while I was observing, I felt that the area around the grave was even bigger than the last time I saw it.
Geomancy wasn't always the same. The changes of the natural environment could also affect geomancy.
The effects could be good or bad. The geomancy of Chief Liu's family's ancestral grave was extremely bad, but it was getting worse. It didn't look like things would change in the opposite direction when they reached an extreme.
Moreover, the changes of the natural environment were a slow process. However, this place seemed to be changing too fast. It had only been two years, and the changes could be seen by the naked eye. It was really rare.
After observing for a while, I returned to the ancestral grave and took out the Little Deceiving Talisman. I was ready to move the grave.
The Little Deceiving Talisman's effect was to seal the connection between Chief Liu's family and the ancestral bloodline. It would also separate the ancestral energy from the ancestral curse.
This way, after destroying the metal water formation around the ancestral grave, Chief Liu's family wouldn't be affected by the geomancy of the ancestral grave. After the grave was moved, I would take back the Little Deceiving Talisman to ensure that the grave would be moved smoothly.
After opening the talisman, I stuck the Little Deceiving Talisman on the main tombstone of the ancestral grave. Then, I turned around to check Chief Liu's fortune telling.
In just a blink of an eye, both sides of Chief Liu's head turned pale. It was because he didn't have the ancestral energy to protect him.
Although the geomancy of Chief Liu's ancestral grave was bad, the ancestral energy had the effect of protecting his descendants. Moreover, the ancestral grave's geomancy was suppressed by the metal water formation, which helped Chief Liu a lot.
After everything was done, Chief Liu came to me and asked, "Mr. Zhou, can we start moving now?"
I nodded. "Yes, we can. However, we need to prepare the new grave first. The remains of our ancestors shouldn't stay outside for a long time. We have to move them as fast as possible."
Last time, Chief Liu had told me that he had already found the location of the new grave. That was why I didn't take the initiative to help him find it.
Hearing that, Mr. Liu heaved a sigh of relief. He waved his hand and said, "I've already prepared the new grave a few years ago. On the way here just now, I've already sent people over to fix it up. When we're done here, everything will be ready."
"That's good."
I nodded and walked around the grave. According to the Eight Diagrams, I found the place where the three statues were buried. I stuck a tree branch in each spot to mark it.
After I was done, Chief Liu turned around and waved his hand. More than ten workers came with tools in their hands. They started to move toward the place I had marked.
During this process, Chief Liu's hands were crossed. His eyes were glued to the workers' movements. His body shivered.
I was a little nervous. In theory, the Little Deceiving Talisman could cut off the bloodline connection to move the grave. However, before I succeeded, I couldn't make any promises.
Fortunately, the workers quickly dug a deep pit in the ground, revealing three stone statues of different colors buried underneath. Nothing strange happened in between, and everything went smoothly.
This time, they had to dig out all the statues. Since I had told the workers beforehand, they didn't need to be careful. After the top of the statue was revealed, they directly tied a rope to a cart and pulled it out.
As the statues were pulled out, the metal water formation was broken. Now, we could only rely on the Little Deceiving Talisman.
I became even more tense. However, Chief Liu seemed to relax a little. He didn't hesitate and directly asked all the workers to dig right above the grave. They quickly dug up the grave.
As it turned out, my worries were unnecessary. Everything was calm. Under the joint efforts of dozens of workers, it took them only one hour to dig up the main grave, revealing a dark hole underneath.
Chairman Liu's ancestral grave was quite old. It was more than two hundred years old. Logically speaking, a grave of this age would have collapsed unless there was a large underground palace. However, this grave was still in good condition, which was rare.
Since we had excavated the grave and it was in good condition, the next step was simple. We just needed to find the coffins, collect the remains, and take them out.
As soon as I heaved a sigh of relief, I heard some loud noises coming from the dark hole.