After this incident, the originally slightly relaxed atmosphere suddenly disappeared.
Fan Zhichao's subordinates had a good relationship with Xiao He. They hurried to go to the river to find Xiao He. However, Fan Zhichao kicked them all back. With a gloomy face, they went to see Chief Liu for instructions.
Soon, Chief Liu called me and the fatty over. Zhao Yongkun was next to Chief Liu. He was standing by the river with a compass in his hand. He seemed to be calculating something.
Since this happened, Fan Zhichao, Tang Mingyang, and the other veterans couldn't do anything. We could only rely on the methods of outsiders.
However, from the moment we arrived at the river, I had been observing the surrounding geomancy and the changes in Yin and Yang.
No matter how I looked at it, this place didn't seem to have any problems. It wasn't a Yin gathering ground or a corpse-breeding ground. It was just an ordinary river. There was nothing strange about this place.
Up until now, I hadn't found the problem. At least, I couldn't tell from the geomancy.
If I wanted to find out the situation, I would need to use the eye or the snake spirit. However, Zhao Yongkun was here, so I couldn't use them. After all, Professor Deng's mistake was a warning.
Chief Liu asked me. After I shook my head, he looked disappointed. He turned to the fatty and asked, "What do you think?"
The fatty shook his head. "I can only predict good or bad luck, but I can't predict the cause."
Chief Liu asked again, "What about good or bad luck?"
The fatty didn't answer. He squinted and flipped his hand. I didn't know when, but three copper coins appeared in his palm. I didn't see him flip his hand, but the three coins suddenly jumped twice.
Then, I heard the fatty speak in a voice that was completely different from before. He said calmly, "The heavenly thunder is unexpected. Good luck."
While the fatty was talking, a strange light flashed in his squinted left eye. Then, I saw his left pupil lengthen. When he said the word 'Ji', the pupil split in the middle, turning into two pupils, one above and one below!
As soon as he said that, he put away the three copper coins. The upper and lower pupils fused together and returned to normal.
There were five branches of Taoism: Mountain, Medicine, Fate, Xiang, and Divination.
Although the Dao of Divination was ranked last, it was the most profound and unpredictable, especially Fatty's Dao of Divination. He did not cultivate Dao techniques and only looked at the mysteries of heaven.
During the Tang Dynasty, Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang created the Pushing Back Diagram, which unexpectedly allowed them to pry into the fate of the nation for thousands of years.
There was another characteristic of divination. Although it was an orthodox Daoist practice, it was destined to have five drawbacks and three flaws because it recklessly predicted the secrets of the heavens.
Therefore, since ancient times, there were many blind and crippled divine fortune-tellers, and many divination grandmasters would have many strange phenomena when they were divining their divinations. It could even be said that the more strange the phenomenon, the more profound the divination would be.
Moreover, this was a kind of talent, not something that could be acquired.
Fatty had told me before that he was talented in divination, but I didn't expect that he would be able to trigger a vision when he was doing divination. Moreover, it was such an amazing vision.
Hearing Fatty's conclusion of "good luck," Director Liu's face turned even uglier. A person had disappeared in front of him. No matter how he looked at it, it was not a good omen, but Fatty had received an auspicious divination. It was really hard to accept.
After asking us twice, Director Liu didn't get any results. He turned to look at Zhao Yongkun, pinning his hopes on him.
Unfortunately, Zhao Yongkun had been divining by the riverbank for almost half an hour. He looked tired and shook his head at Director Liu. Although he didn't say anything, it was clear that he hadn't found anything.
While the three of us were silent, the old soldiers who were discussing by the riverbank screamed in surprise. They pointed at the river in the distance and started to discuss something.
Our faces changed. We hurried to the riverbank and looked into the distance.
Around one kilometer away from us, there was a black object. We could vaguely see that it was a corpse.
Did Xiao He's corpse come out of the water?
If we could see the corpse, it was possible that Xiao He's death was caused by a whirlpool under the water. We had thought too much about it.
Everyone stared at the corpse as it floated closer to us. Only the fat guy suddenly performed another divination. In the same calm voice, he chanted, "Regenerate the land, there is a path in front of the mountain!"
I hadn't studied divination before, so I asked the fatty, "What did he mean?" The fatty put away the copper coins and smiled. "There's a chance."
"Because of that corpse?"
The fatty nodded. "Most likely."
As the corpse was floating closer and closer to us, Fan Zhichao found a five-clawed hook and tied it to a climbing rope. He waved it continuously. When the corpse reached the middle of the river in front of us, Fan Zhichao loosened his grip. The five-clawed hook flew twenty meters and landed on the corpse. Fan Zhichao dragged the corpse toward us.
Xiao He was wearing black clothes, and the corpse looked black from the outside. It seemed to be Xiao He. However, as the corpse got closer, we could tell that it wasn't Xiao He.
The corpse was lying face down in the river. From a distance, it looked like it was wearing black clothes. However, the corpse was naked. The black color was because the corpse had been dead for a long time. After the skin had rotted, it had been scorched by the sun.
When Fan Zhichao pulled the corpse to the riverbank and turned it over, we found that the bones of the corpse were big, and the body was well preserved. However, the head didn't have much flesh, which made it look like a skeleton. I didn't know how long it had been dead, but it had been soaked in the salty water, which made it look like a mummy.
Since the corpse didn't have any clothes on it, Fan Zhichao and the others didn't find any clues. They became discouraged and asked us to go and check.
The fatty's divination didn't work on the corpse, so he didn't go there. I shook my head and didn't go. When the corpse was pulled up, I checked it and didn't find anything wrong.
My attainment in fengshui was still too low. Until now, I could only use some talismans. I couldn't do anything to this corpse.
Zhao Yongkun went there. He shooed away the people who were watching the corpse. Then, he started to read a mysterious spell.
As soon as I heard the spell, my eyes brightened. I had memorized the spell before. It was the hand seal technique, the Soul Searching Seal. Zhao Yongkun wanted to use the Soul Searching Seal.
The Soul Searching Seal could search the three souls to know a person's history. Since the soul was still on the corpse, it was also useful.
The hand seal technique was one of the Five Great Daoist Techniques. With my current cultivation base, I couldn't use it yet. I had to wait until I reached the Dragon Seeking stage to attract a wisp of true dragon energy in my body. Then, I could use the true dragon energy as the foundation to use the hand seal technique.
It seemed that Zhao Yongkun's cultivation base was at least at the "Connecting Acupoints" realm after the Dragon Seeking stage.
After chanting a long and tedious incantation, Zhao Yongkun stretched out both of his hands and continuously changed their shapes in the air. After a series of gestures, he finally put his left palm up with three fingers together and his right palm facing inward, ending with two fingers side by side. Then, he pressed down fiercely. The seal formed by his two hands seemed to have separated from his hands and formed a square seal. It fell at an extremely fast speed and fiercely imprinted on the head of the mummy.
The people around held their breaths and looked at Zhao Yongkun. They were full of respect. However, at this moment, Zhao Yongkun groaned. His body trembled and a trickle of blood trickled down from the corner of his mouth. It seemed he was hurt badly.
Chief Liu walked over and asked, "Are you okay?"
Zhao Yongkun frowned and looked at the corpse. After a while, he lifted his head and said to Chief Liu, "It's okay. I was careless. I didn't expect this corpse to be soulless."
"Soulless?" Chief Liu frowned, as if he didn't understand what he meant.
I walked over and explained to Chief Liu, "The corpse is still here, but there's no soul. There's only one possibility. The soul of the corpse and the soul of the person fused and gave birth to a Yin soul, which is what we often call a ghost.
Moreover, Yin souls are born with corpses. The Yin soul of this corpse should be not far from us. "
Hearing that, Chief Liu's face changed. He called for everyone to be on guard.
At this moment, Fan Zhichao's subordinates started to make a ruckus by the river. They pointed upstream with a shocked expression.
I followed their finger and saw more corpses floating down the river upstream.