Tomb Robber: I, Chen Yulou, am dedicated to cultivating immortality!

Chapter 102: The Spying of the Great Ghost of Divination and Witchcraft

As the only Moba in Malu Village who can communicate with big ghosts.

Xigu could vaguely guess some.

The purpose of this group of people coming all the way to Zhelong Mountain.

but……

Even if he had been sitting in Lord Longmo watching the vicissitudes of the world all his life, he never expected that Chen Yulou and the others would be so bold.

That's Worm Valley.

It is a place abandoned by many ghosts and gods.

When a living person goes there, there is only one result, and that is to turn into a ghost. After death, the ghost cannot even return to the ancestral land of Hulu Cave.

He can only drift in the mountains, forests and rivers.

Be a lonely ghost.

It's not just him.

Even the patriarch Toge, who did not speak Chinese, seemed to understand their intentions.

An old face was full of shock and disbelief.

He shook his head repeatedly.

He was saying something very fast.

Obviously trying to dissuade.

If it had been anyone else, he might have just let it go.

But they were grandpa's descendants, and they unlocked the contents of the letter for him and Xigu.

He is a distinguished guest of Maluzhai.

The Wa people never sit idly by and watch their friends and benefactors put themselves in danger.

"Xi Guqiuda, we people have traveled thousands of miles just to come to Insect Valley."

"It cannot be changed. Please understand."

Look at the reactions of the two old men.

Chen Yulou couldn't help but sigh secretly.

Why doesn't he understand that Worm Valley is dangerous?

But now that the arrow is on the string, there is no turning back.

Not only for the cultivation resources in Dazang, but more importantly, the Muchen Bead is already close at hand.

Turn back now.

All efforts are in vain.

How can we talk about changing one's destiny against nature?

"must go?"

Hearing this, Xigu suddenly fell silent.

He raised his head and stared blankly outside the bamboo building. The fire in the brazier was swaying in the wind, and the interplay of light and shadow made the heads hanging among the branches look even more ferocious.

After a long time, he looked away, looked at the three of them with complicated expressions, and asked softly.

"Yes!"

"I have to go."

Chen Yulou nodded.

It is different from the complicated hesitation of the two Xigu people.

His eyes were clear, and there was only a deep determination between his brows.

"I do know the route to Worm Valley, but..."

Seeing this, Xi Gu's expression became even more helpless.

He wanted to say.

I have seen more than once that a living person was instantly dissolved into a pool of blood after entering the Demonic Valley, or only white bones were left.

He wanted Chen Yulou to retreat before he got into trouble.

But now it seems that they are determined to enter the Worm Valley.

He hesitated.

He turned around and said something to the patriarch Toge beside him.

The latter's expression suddenly changed, and his expression became extremely excited.

pity.

Chen Yulou and the others couldn't understand what they were saying.

I can only roughly guess a few.

It seems that Sigu finally agreed and told Tog of their choice, but the latter thought that Worm Valley was too dangerous and that letting them go would mean death.

During the argument between the two, Xigu also hesitated.

Two words slowly came out of his mouth.

Then Tog was stunned for a moment.

After thinking for a long time, he nodded.

Seeing this, Xigu finally made up his mind and turned to the confused Chen Yulou and the others and whispered.

"I need to set a ghost free."

"Please ask Meji to make the decision."

"Let ghosts go?"

There was no time to be surprised by what Xi Gu said before.

Red Girl and Partridge Whistle couldn't help but frown slightly.

The word is eerie and unfamiliar.

They've never heard of it.

But just from the literal meaning, letting ghosts out also has a bit of a strange feeling.

"Okay, thank you Qiuda."

Different from the two.

Chen Yulou did not hesitate and agreed immediately.

Because he knew that the Wa people had a tradition of inviting ghosts through divination since ancient times.

An extremely ancient method similar to the method of burning bones for divination before the pre-Qin Dynasty.

The natives who have lived here for generations, regardless of whether they are Wa, Dai, Jingpo, Sanmiao, or Guyue, have more or less mastered some mysterious witchcraft.

He calmly shook his head at the two of them, indicating that they could just wait.

Noticed his gaze.

The two of them felt a little relieved.

He took a few gentle breaths, suppressed his doubts, and looked over seriously.

While talking.

Xigu had already stood up, walked to a pile of bones, and sat down cross-legged.

The ground in the bamboo house was in a mess.

It seemed like it hadn't been cleaned in a long time.

When they walked in through the door, several people saw ropes, wooden paintings and bones.

It's just that those bones don't look like human bones.

It seems to belong to poultry or wild animals.

Xigu didn’t explain too much.

A pair of hands slowly moved across the ground, and finally selected a piece of chicken bone as white as jade.

Put it in your hand.

By the dim light of the oil lamp next to me.

Only then did Chen Yulou notice that his hands were extremely strange. His palms were larger than ordinary people.

There are no lines at all on the palm of my hand.

It’s not that the palm prints are so faint that they can’t be seen.

But there really isn't any.

It looks like a shoddy prosthetic hand.

"Hand of Hidden Appearance..."

Looking at his hand, Chen Yulou's heart moved, and a few words slowly emerged.

He learned physiognomy when he was young.

The face has a physiognomy, the bones have a physiognomy, and the hands have a palmistry.

In palmistry, this situation is called a hidden hand.

It is said that people with this kind of palmistry will be lonely all their lives and destined to live alone.

But in all these years, he had never seen it.

Unexpectedly, I saw it on Xigu today.

But if you think about it carefully, the Wa demon Ba communicates with the great ghosts and has power that ordinary people cannot imagine.

It seems that he can only serve as a servant of ghosts and gods for the rest of his life.

If you don't marry, you have no wife and no children.

It's really a widower and a lonely person, with all four things to his advantage.

At this moment, his heart moved slightly, and for some reason he thought of Partridge Whistle.

According to the original direction of fate, the same is true for him.

According to the theory of fortune-telling, Feng Shui and the five elements are connected to each other.

If that were the case, it stands to reason that his palm prints should have gone from hidden to visible, right?

After all, because of his existence, the butterfly flaps its wings, and many things have quietly changed its destiny.

It's just that he hasn't really paid attention to Partridge Whistle's palm reading, so he might take a look if he has the chance.

make up one's mind.

Chen Yulou breathed out secretly.

When he looked again, Xigu had closed his eyes slightly, curled his fingers slightly, held the chicken bone, and raised his hand to place it above his head.

There are words in his mouth.

It's just... that tone is extremely weird.

One byte after another, the words flowed from his lips.

Rather than chanting a mantra, it is better to say that it is singing ancient songs.

Not only that, he also picked up a drum and beat it rhythmically.

The drumbeat starts out slow and dull.

But as the curses from his mouth continued to pop out, the drumming quickly became more rapid.

It fell on everyone's ears like a violent storm.

Especially the two completely different tones, mixed together, gave people an indescribable sense of depression.

The red girl's face was pale and she was obviously feeling unwell.

Partridge Whistle's hands hidden in the sleeves of his robe were clenched tightly, and his beating eyebrows also revealed his changes.

"Cro Drum..."

Chen Yulou stared at the drum in Xigu's hand.

Use wood as a frame.

But the drum head clearly does not belong to cattle, sheep, or even mountain beasts.

Judging from the dark red color above and the looming death aura. It was clearly made of the same material as that map, made of human skin.

The reason why the Wa Moba can communicate with ghosts and gods is to establish contact with ghosts and gods with the help of croud drums.

and.

Thinking of the fruitful heads outside, using human skin to sell drums, it doesn't seem to be anything.

Thinking of this, Chen Yulou was about to breathe a sigh of relief.

But immediately, an inexplicable throbbing emerged in my heart.

With the sound of rain-like drum beats.

An inexplicable 'momentum' began to come.

Looking out of the corner of his eye.

The demonic mist shrouding Long Moye's dense forest had gathered outside the bamboo building at some point.

The thick mist surged endlessly, condensing into various strange shapes.

There seemed to be countless ghosts hidden in it.

He was trying to break free from the fog and swallowed everyone in the bamboo building in one bite.

"Wait...are they the ghosts and gods believed by the Wa people?"

Chen Yulou's eyebrows jumped.

He could clearly sense that something was peeping from the darkness behind them toward the bamboo building where they were.

Glancing to his side.

Xigu was still beating the drum and chanting mantras.

Toge held his breath and concentrated, not daring to move for fear of disturbing him.

As for the red girl and the partridge whistle.

Judging by his expression...he was completely unaware.

"Meggie the big ghost."

The name Xigu mentioned many times came to mind.

Chen Yulou's expression suddenly changed.

But after thinking for a moment, he resisted the urge to look back.

In such a weird atmosphere, it is best not to mess around with unknown existences.

There are countless examples of curiosity killing the cat.

What's more.

Although that thing is spying in the dark.

But it didn't reveal any evil intentions.

Presumably, it is the result of generations of worship by the Wa tribes in Maluzhai and surrounding areas.

As for why it snooped, it was most likely that it noticed three strange auras in Lord Long Mo.

Just when he was at war with heaven and man.

The sense of prying eyes that shrouded his mind suddenly disappeared, just like the ebbing tide.

The corner of his eye subconsciously glanced around.

The heavy falling demonic mist has dissipated and returned to the depths of the mountain forest.

Xigu, who had kept his eyes closed, opened his eyes.

Those cloudy eyes.

The moment he opened it, it was clearly black and white, completely unlike an old man in his 60s or 70s.

but……

Soon the turbid color began to rise again.

When his eyesight returned to normal, Xigu slowly opened his big hand.

I saw cracks appearing one after another on the jade-like chicken bone.

"Meji's will has come down."

Xigu looked down and suddenly said.

"How to say?"

Upon hearing this, the expressions of Chen Yulou and the other three people changed slightly.

All eyes fell on him.

"Straight lines are good, while thin lines are bad."

Xigu stretched out his big hand and handed the chicken bone to several people.

just.

The three of them looked carefully.

Exposed cracks on chicken bones.

It seems disorganized and has no trace.

But for some reason, the cracks seemed to run straight, giving off an indescribable sense of chaos.

"This... Xigu Qiuda, what kind of hexagram is this?"

Not only did Partridge Whistle and Miss Hong see it unclearly, but Chen Yulou also didn't understand its meaning.

Call it messy, and it is indeed messy.

It looks like a child's doodle masterpiece.

But it is said to be straight. Although the cracks bifurcated, they did not intersect with each other in the end, and finally disappeared at the edge of the chicken bone, as if extending into nothingness.

"Misfortune and good fortune intersect, and blessing and misfortune depend on each other."

"The meaning of the great ghost Meiji is that this trip to the Insect Valley is the middle hexagram."

Xi Gu was actually quite curious.

Over the years, he has conducted divination for the village countless times.

But evil is evil, and good is good.

The third outcome has never occurred in divination.

But today, he saw the bones that were between good and bad.

To know.

The Wa village Moba communicates with ghosts and gods, has incredible power, and can divine the future.

And, to make the results more obvious.

He specifically chose the method of bone fortune telling.

In the divination of the Wa people, there are grass divination, wood divination and bone divination, with bone divination being the highest level.

Since ancient times, it has never been used lightly except for major matters related to the safety of the village.

But the middle hexagram still appeared.

There's something wrong with this in itself.

but……

Worm Valley itself is a place abandoned by gods, so it seems reasonable for this situation to occur.

"Zhong Gua?"

Listen to these words from his mouth.

The three people couldn't help but have strange expressions on their faces.

Even Chen Yulou was like this. He believed that he had made numerous preparations in advance in order to steal the great treasure of Zhelong Mountain.

I dare not say that I am 90% sure.

But at least 60-70%.

Why did the great ghost Meiji give the middle hexagram?

Is it possible that the success of this trip is still uncertain?

"Xigu Qiuda, is this hexagram good or bad?"

Girl Hong, who had not spoken a word, couldn't help but raise her head and glance at the old man.

"It's okay to say yes."

"It's bad to say the least."

"However...Insect Valley is extremely dangerous. It has been an abandoned place since ancient times. It can make the big ghost give the right hexagram. In my opinion, your trip should be successful."

Xigu smiled and shook his head.

After hearing his explanation of the divination, Miss Hong's anxious heart suddenly calmed down a lot.

Can achieve good things.

The shopkeeper has put in so much effort during this period of time for this trip.

Partridge Whistle didn’t know, but she saw it all.

Although even she didn't understand why the shopkeeper had to come here.

But as long as it's his decision.

Red Girl will never object.

Just don't let your hard work go to waste.

"In addition, when you enter the valley, I will ask Uro to escort you. There is also a demonic miasma in the Insect Valley that can eat people. I will go into the mountains to collect medicine for you these days."

Speaking of it.

Xigu glanced at the patriarch Toge next to him.

I saw that his expression had gradually calmed down, and he was no longer as excited as before.

"Thank you Qiuda..."

Listen to Xigu's words.

The last worry in the hearts of the three people disappeared.

Chen Yulou couldn't help but clasped his fists in thanks.

Others may not be aware of the horror of the Worm Valley Miasma.

But he knows it best.

In the original work, Chen Yulou's transformation from the leader of the Xiling Mountains, the leader of the green forest bandits, and the owner of the Chen Family Village to the blind man living in seclusion in the city was due to the miasma of the insect valley.

before coming.

For this, he had made a lot of preparations.

But judging from Xigu's tone, the Wa people who have lived here for generations seem to have herbs that can resolve the poisonous miasma.

That would be perfect of course.

"It doesn't matter, some trivial things are far less than the kindness you have shown me to Maluzhai."

Xigu waved his hand and said humbly.

As he spoke, he stood up slowly and threw the chicken bone in his hand into the stove nearby.

See this.

Chen Yulou and the other three couldn't help but feel a little strange.

"The bones have the aura of a great ghost and cannot be left in the world."

Although the three of them did not speak.

But Xigu seemed to be able to see through their thoughts and explained in a low voice.

"I see."

Only then did the three of them suddenly realize.

"Let's go, the three Danas have come a long way and the Malu Village is in full bloom. We must celebrate it well!"

(End of this chapter)