Age of Legends

Chapter 345 I succeeded!
Liu Qi spent a sleepless night. The next day, he heard that the media was already following up. What he had seen the previous night made him a little uneasy, but he also felt that it probably wasn't anything serious. After all, the people from the Cultural Relics Bureau might have exaggerated the situation to protect the scene and just wanted to scare him.

Liu Qi was not someone who could be easily intimidated. He remained silent for a moment, which, according to the book, meant maintaining composure in the face of great events.

Then he picked up the phone and called an acquaintance at the Municipal Construction Commission.

As soon as the call was answered, before he could even speak, the other person said, "Old Liu, I heard there was an accident at your construction site?"

"It's nothing serious, just some remains. The archaeological team will take a look, and I estimate they'll be done once they've unearthed it."

"Don't you dare touch anything!" The other person's tone was very serious. "The province is holding a meeting to discuss this, and the city's standing committee today decided to suspend more than twenty construction projects in the surrounding area for future exploratory excavation."

These words stunned Liu Qi.

No, isn't this just the Cultural Relics Bureau bluffing? Why is there such a big fuss this time? What exactly is under my land?
The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor!?
The other party has been keeping him calm, and there's no need to make any more calls. All talk of pulling strings is useless now; the provincial authorities are watching, and it could very well be a major discovery.

This is something that no network or social circle can cover up.

His second call was to the finance department of Yipin Group, "Transfer some funds from the accounts to Hong Kong first!"

He hoped his speed could still be fast enough.

This is a trial balloon.

He sat quietly on the sofa waiting for news. After a while, the finance department called, "Mr. Liu, the bank has frozen several accounts, saying it's a routine inspection."

Liu Qi almost smashed the ashtray next to him. These guys are such jerks! They're quick to pick up the smell!
His third call was to Huang Herui.

Little did people know that Huang Herui, known as "Ghost Eye Huang" in Hong Kong, was also dumbfounded by the news from Fuzhou.

"You told me this land has the aura of a hidden emperor, and this is what you call the aura of a hidden emperor?! My construction site has been sealed off by some damn ruin that came out of nowhere!"

Huang Herui, holding the phone, was still in a state of shock, as if the divination had come true.

The truth is, the mysteries of feng shui are like this: absolutely no one dares to claim to be an expert in it. It's like doing a math problem, using different factors and numerators to make calculations. If you say there really is such a thing as the mystery of fate, it is true that it can be accurate in some things with a small probability, but objectively speaking, it is inherently probabilistic.

His master, the feng shui master he truly respected, once said: "Feng shui is like solving an equation. If you can solve half of it, you're a master. If you can get it right once, you're blessed by the ancestors."

A true feng shui master is essentially a problem solver, and sometimes they can't solve a problem even in their entire life.

Although Huang Herui knows a little about feng shui, understands divination, and can read geomantic charts, he wouldn't dare say he can predict the future. Any feng shui master who dares to tell you that something in the future is certain is either unskilled, a fraud, or crazy.

From the perspective of the Eight Trigrams and Five Elements, change is the norm. Objective things, a person's energy and spirit, and even changes in the weather can all bring about immeasurable effects. The generating and restraining relationships of the Five Elements, the constant cycle of Heaven and Earth—what is absolute?
Huang Herui was a self-taught amateur with little skill. He gained some fame in Hong Kong by claiming to be able to predict feng shui and geomancy. He provided divination and fortune-telling services to some rising real estate developers in mainland China, and rose to prominence smoothly under the current circumstances.

When he performed divination for Liu Qi, he used Huang Huifen as a reference point. This was purely like working backwards from the answer in a math problem, resulting in the so-called "Five Ghosts Robbery Technique." The divination he produced, "Jade Hall Formation," was simply a verbatim recitation of a script.

Looking at the divination result, whether he believed it or not was another matter; of course, his first priority was to maintain his "actor" persona in front of Liu Qi. It's like a struggling student solving an advanced math problem and finding that he's strayed from the right path to the correct answer. Would he believe that answer is correct? The key point is that nobody knows the correct answer anyway; as long as his audience believes it, that's enough.

But then the sky tore open, and a beam of light struck the academically challenged student directly.

Tell him that you have found the correct answer to this age-old problem.

He seemed to have glimpsed the vast, unpredictable, and unknowable Dao of Heaven.

Hong Kong's "Ghost Eye Huang" has refreshed our worldview.

"Are you even listening?" Liu Qi lowered his voice. "Huang Herui, I know where you are. Believe me, if I fall, you won't get away with it either..."

Huang Herui was in a daze on the other end of the phone, but after a moment, his face lit up with immense joy: "I did it—I did it, I really did it this time!"

Hearing Huang Herui's maniacal laughter on the phone, Liu Qi angrily shouted, "Huang Herui, are you crazy?!"

After Huang Herui's ecstatic voice subsided, he said to him with uncontrollable excitement, "President Liu, President Liu, my dear President Liu! Do you still remember what the divination result was when I cast it for you?"

Liu Qi patiently asked, "What do you want to say?!"

"The prophecy that was unearthed reads: 'The dragon's aura dissipates in the frigid waters, the sandy river buries gold awaiting the true master!' This direction is a harmonious relationship between earth and metal, a hidden line of the imperial star. It's a Jade Hall formation, which signifies immense wealth, meaning the value of this place is immeasurable. At first, I didn't understand what level of wealth was needed to truly align with this formation. But now, I understand. Isn't this exactly what it means for thick soil to produce gold? Countless jade artifacts and ivory from thousands of years ago are buried in these layers of soil that haven't been discovered for so many years—isn't that a case of thick soil producing gold? It turns out that the will of Heaven had already foreshadowed a huge discovery below! In fact, if this were ancient times, if you, Mr. Liu, unearthed something like this, you could practically establish yourself as a king! Isn't this also a hidden line of the imperial star?"

"I did it! I've become a true master! Hahahaha!"

Liu Qi hung up the phone, knowing that the person on the other end had gone mad and was completely incapable of communication.

He really wanted to swear, but found he couldn't seem to utter a single curse. Because what the other person said was absolutely correct!
If Liu Qi had been born during the era of warlordism, he could indeed have made a great discovery and started his own empire.

But what time is this?
In an era where even monsters can't become spirits, you're telling me this? In a socialist society where the people are the masters, what does it have to do with your titles and privileges?

Was Liu Qi born a thousand or eight hundred years too late?!
At this moment, Liu Qi still didn't know how he had ended up on this path. He made his fortune selling TV casings, and his life had been full of ups and downs, but each time it was better than the last.

Every time, he robbed others of their wealth. He knew that he was destined to rob others, and that he could only become rich by clashing with others. He even schemed against Zhao Tao.

Little did he know that this time he would rob Huang Huifen of her fortune.

They looted an ancient ruin?

(Happy Mid-autumn Festival!)

(End of this chapter)