Yefutidaolu

Chapter 292 People Without Ancestral Graves
The Feng Shui school excels at controlling Qi, primarily through the properties of 'wind' and 'water'. By concealing wind and gathering water, they control Qi. Skilled Feng Shui masters can observe the appearance of Qi, manipulate its flow, and thus influence intangible things like 'luck'.

Among these, the 'Five Qi' play a crucial role.

The Five Qi are the Qi of the Five Elements, which are the different types of life force. The One Qi divides into Yin and Yang, and further into the Five Elements. Although it operates in the heavens, it originates from the earth. When it moves, all things are born; when it gathers, mountains and rivers merge and solidify. This merging and solidification is the subtle combination and condensation of the essence of the Two and Five.

With the five elements, one can now perform the techniques.

Humans receive their physical bodies from their parents, and their physical bodies receive vital energy, thus they are one body. Parents, children, and grandchildren are originally of the same vital energy, and they influence each other, as if receiving blessings from spirits.

Therefore, burying parents in a place with good feng shui can influence the energy of their descendants, thereby improving their fortune and even bringing blessings to many generations.

The classic text says: When the qi (vital energy) is felt and responded to, the blessings of the spirits extend to people.

Such is the interaction of qi (vital energy) between people. Thus, it is clear that withered bones receive shelter and living people receive blessings; the principle is obvious and does not require the wisdom to understand.

In this way, by using the aura of superior insight to draw upon the aura of his parents, and extending it to his ancestral graves, it is estimated that the graves of the other party, who is merely a poor family member, could not possibly be located in any major mountain or auspicious location. Therefore, it is estimated that his ancestral graves could be suppressed very easily.

Then, without the blessings of their ancestors, their fate will be closer to their predetermined death, because without ancestral protection, a person's lifespan will also be reduced, which is what is called 'unfortunate and premature death'!
These are the moves prepared for martial artists!

Martial artists have almost no means to counter this move. By weaving 'fate' and altering 'feng shui', they can destroy a person's fortune and rapidly shorten their lifespan to premature death!

His physical body, which was of great vision, rapidly weakened.

However, at this very moment, Gao Jian showed no signs of fatigue.

The feng shui master suddenly widened his eyes!

He suddenly unleashed a spell to maintain the Net of Fate, while simultaneously taking out a compass. The compass needle spun wildly in his hand, but it could never steadily point in one direction.

The wind whipped up dust from the ground, creating eerie vortexes around him. Fine beads of sweat appeared on the forehead of this renowned feng shui master from Liangzhou, and his robes fluttered and rustled even without wind.

The magic in his hand began to dissipate, and the talisman spontaneously combusted without fire. Countless tiny points of light emerged from the blue flames, which were the five elements that constitute the root of a person's bloodline.

He intensified his spellcasting, his eyes slightly closed, his fingers rapidly calculating, tracking the flow of these auras.

Suddenly, his body jolted, his eyes snapped open, and his pupils constricted!
"What the hell?!" the feng shui master exclaimed in shock, his voice echoing in the empty factory.

He stared incredulously at the scene in the flames—where the location of the other party's ancestral graves and family lineage should have been revealed, but now it was nothing but emptiness!

"What's going on?" The array master immediately frowned and looked over, wondering what was wrong with his old friend and why he hadn't cast the spell yet.

"This person has no ancestral graves?!" The feng shui master's voice trembled as he spoke to the feng shui master, his body quivering slightly beneath his robes. This completely contradicted his understanding of the feng shui lineage over the past three hundred years.

He quickly changed his hand seals and increased his magical output: "Impossible! It must be concealed. Let me check again!"

The blue flames shot up sharply, but the interior remained empty. Not only were there no ancestral graves, but not even a trace of family blood could be found. The feng shui master felt a wave of dizziness; it was simply like…
“He has no family line, no father or mother, and his parents never even entered the cycle of reincarnation. How can such a person exist in this world?” the feng shui master muttered to himself, his face as pale as paper. This meant that the souls of the other person’s parents did not enter the cycle of reincarnation after their deaths, but completely dissipated into the world—or never existed at all.

"Therefore, the method of manipulating cause and effect through the five elements is completely ineffective here!" The feng shui master finally understood why all the previous tracking methods were ineffective.

Feng shui emphasizes cause and effect, and ancestral graves are a crucial link between a person and the heavens and earth. Without ancestral graves, it's like a tree without roots or a ship without anchor; it's impossible to locate or influence them using conventional feng shui methods.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" the feng shui master roared, violently hurling the burning talisman into the air. The talisman exploded in mid-air, turning into countless sparks that scattered and fell.

"This...this..." He felt an unprecedented fear creep up his spine. He had never encountered anything like this before; all his feng shui techniques had failed, as if the other party simply did not exist within the fundamental rules of this world.

There are no past lives or future lives, no reincarnation, and naturally no ancestral graves or family lineage... How could such a person exist? Did he spring from a stone?!
"His fate cannot be shaken. Something is obscuring his karmic lineage, and the only way to deal with it is through his lack of fortune! I cannot affect his lifespan, but I can affect his physical body!" the feng shui master roared.

The Feng Shui school can influence the destiny of heaven and the human body. Furthermore, a master of formations can also influence the state of the other party by using such a huge formation base as a boost.

The root cause of human diseases lies in the disharmony between the energy field of a person and their living and working environments. Simply put, it means there is a problem with the harmony between your living environment, work environment, and your physical condition.

For example, if you live in a place with bad feng shui, such as a cold, damp old house, you might feel unwell or even get sick over time. Conversely, if you live in a sunny place with fresh air, your health will be relatively better.

In flat plains, yang prevails over yin, so gathering and concentrating energy is considered auspicious. In contrast, in mountainous terrain, yin prevails over yang. The problem is not the lack of energy flow, but the disharmony of energy, which leads to many inauspicious influences. Mountains have their own inauspicious influences, and water has its own. The key to mitigating these influences lies in exploring the principles of generation, restraint, and transformation.

Now, with the help of the great formation, Gao Jian's body is in disharmony, and many imbalances are arising, which will disrupt his physical body and cause him to be plagued by diseases!
The imbalance of feng shui caused many discords, which did have an impact on him, but Gao Jian's physical body surged with powerful blood and energy at this time!

Is there no way to resist the physical imbalances caused by a reversal of feng shui?

Of course there is.

If you are in excellent physical and mental health, and your inner energy field is in a very good state, then negative influences from the outer energy field cannot enter. When the inner and outer energies are not in harmony, you can avoid disasters.

That is the insightful observation at this moment.

His entire body emanated a surge of energy, like billowing smoke rising into the sky, reaching a height of a thousand feet. The smoke condensed in mid-air, breaking through the clouds, resembling a pillar of heaven that directly shattered the net of fate!
Like ten thousand horses galloping, it roared and surged through the meridians. Every inch of muscle vibrated at a high frequency, shaking the air within a radius of ten feet into visible ripples. The boiling blood energy transformed into a thousand-foot-long crimson rainbow that soared into the sky, like the fiery breath spewed by an ancient ferocious beast when it awakens, burning a huge hole with a diameter of more than three miles into the leaden clouds that had accumulated for a hundred miles.

The shockwave spread outwards in a ring shape, tearing the clouds into cotton-like fragments. The scattered clouds dared not regroup, forming radial vortexes of cloud waves thousands of feet above the ground.

Both the array master and the feng shui master made their judgments in that instant.

Qi and blood swirl like smoke; a seventh-realm martial artist has already opened his essence gate.

Such a fierce aura, this person's physical body is incredibly powerful!
The sky seemed to be a black curtain pierced by a crimson pillar. The clouds at the edge of the tear surged and burned like lava. Sunlight pierced through the cloud hole to form a pillar of light that reached the sky, intertwining and fighting with the bloody smoke and flames, bursting out with a dazzling aurora of gold and red. The entire black cloud storm convulsed violently like a wounded primordial beast. From the depths of the clouds came a muffled sound that made the earth tremble, as if something was roaring in pain.

Break the formation!

The feng shui master and the array master immediately retreated and cut off their spells to avoid being injured by the backlash.

However... they didn't seem panicked at all.

The array master slapped the array base and said to those below, "We have failed. This martial artist is quite powerful. He has a master behind him covering up his presence, and he is wearing a mask. But he is only one person. We have figured out his true strength. It's your turn now."

As soon as the words fell——

A beam of light rushed straight toward the brilliant insight!

In that instant when blood energy surged to the heavens and the clouds shattered—

A blade flashed from an extremely distant distance!
At first, it was just a thin, cold glint, as fine as a hair, but in an instant, it grew to a thousand feet, transforming into a chilling arc of light that stretched across the heavens and earth! Before the blade even arrived, the killing intent preceded it. Wherever it passed, the sea of ​​clouds that had been pierced earlier shattered inch by inch, and the air emitted a piercing shriek. The speed of the blade was so fast that it seemed to freeze the surrounding storm, and even the boiling blood and smoke were frozen!

This strike, imbued with murderous intent, seemed to have been cleaved from the deepest hell, splitting the air in two and creating a visible vacuum crack that could not be healed for a long time.

Although both are sword energy, they are completely different from the sword energy that Takami just used!
Gao Jian's sword did not possess such a ferocious killing intent, nor such a chilling sharpness.

The moment when blades clashed and blood clashed—

"boom--!!!"

The sky shattered, the sea of ​​clouds churned, and the vital energy and smoke were severed in that instant.

However, the Qi Blood Wolf Smoke was merely Gao Jian's outward aura, not something connected to his true body, so it was not harmed. However, Gao Jian's aura was momentarily choked, and the oppressive feeling that had been released earlier vanished.

In a duel between martial artists, momentum accounts for three-tenths of the victory or defeat. As such, the three-tenths chance of victory that Gao Jian had previously suggested has now disappeared.

But atop the head of a giant beast stood another warrior.

His eyes were like golden lamps, sharp and long, his cheeks were thick, like silk wrapped in cinnabar, and he held a large knife at an angle.

The sword was ten feet long and half a foot wide, with an odd shape. It was neither a light sword for fast horses like Gao Jian, nor a battle sword used in heavy armor battle formations. It looked more like a guillotine, which had been removed from the guillotine and taken to the battlefield.

"We both use knives, shall we clash?" the man said to Gao Jian.

As he spoke, a mist of blood spurted from the blade of his sword!

Suddenly, the screams of countless wronged souls echoed all around! Countless headless spirits emerged from the blade, all prisoners who had been executed, struggling and wailing amidst the flashing blades.

Now, Gao Jian was truly certain.

This is... the guillotine.

"Taking an executioner's guillotine to the battlefield, they really look down on you." Gao Jian shook his head.

What happened just now was merely a test.

So far, neither side has truly fought to the death.

After the array masters and feng shui masters had tested the unknown martial artist's level, the executioner wielding the guillotine finally appeared. In fact, there was even an eighth-realm martial artist who didn't make a move.

It is obvious that the other party is on guard, on guard against the appearance of an unknown expert.

It's obvious that these people are worried that Gao Jian is just a scout. After all, the Jin family, along with other aristocratic families, dared to rob the road at this time, so there must be some powerful force supporting them. If there is only one martial artist with the strength of the seventh realm, to be honest... that's unlikely. That would be suicide.

Moreover... this doesn't seem quite like the seventh realm. The destructive power has reached the seventh realm, but it feels like the acupoints are lacking. I'm a little unsure.

However, this is exactly what Takashi wanted.

Testing them? Yes, that's right, it's best to test them a few more times!
If three seventh-realm warriors and one eighth-realm warrior charged at him together, he would probably be in serious trouble. But now, he first used two ranged attackers to probe from a distance and then retreated, and then sent a martial artist to face him head-on. Under normal circumstances, this tactical setup can be described as cautious and mature, and it is not wrong.

However, when faced with insightful opinions, this decision turned out to be a huge mistake.

The scabbard swayed gently at his waist. The sword, though not yet drawn, already rang out a clear, ringing sound. Compared to his opponent, his sword was slender and thin, but that very slenderness made it swift and agile.

Freed from the constraints of formations and feng shui, he swiftly approached, his blade flashing out of its sheath in a flash, leaving only a thin silver streak, like lightning piercing the sky, aimed straight for his throat.

The executioner wielding the large guillotine neither dodged nor evaded. He slashed horizontally with the guillotine, the wind from the blade like muffled thunder, which violently shook away the light blade. The two blades collided, sparks flying. Gao Jian felt a sudden weakness and numbness in his hand, realizing that he was indeed no match for the opponent's strength.

However, this also provided an opportunity to maneuver around. Without stopping, he had already circled to the flank, and the blade flashed again, raining down like a storm.

This time, the executioner neither dodged nor met the attack head-on, but instead suddenly slammed the guillotine down, triggering some kind of theoretical response from the executioner.

This knife was originally the guillotine used in Liangzhou to execute prisoners. It was used for execution and punishment, and its nature was yin, meaning "end". It was called "Strict Law". In the past, when the Jin family of Liangzhou became the number one family in Liangzhou, they killed countless people. Many of them were executed by torture. They once ordered that the guilty be executed together, even to the point of wiping out the whole family and eliminating all the former officials of the family.

Therefore, this knife is filled with murderous intent and the chilling aura of punishment!
The moment the guillotine fell, the chilling atmosphere of an execution ground froze within a hundred feet. The air was thick with the smell of rust and death. This strike was not martial arts, not a technique—it was judgment! It was the resentment of countless souls, the cruelty of a thousand beheadings, the embodiment of Liangzhou's punishments!
“Crack—!”

The void split open like a guillotine, and where the blade flashed, all things were annihilated!
Gao Jianmeng withdrew!

If he were caught by this aura, he might really lose his head; this is no joke.

But at this moment, the formation master and the feng shui master immediately took action.

Now that we've determined this person's skill level, there's no need to test him anymore. We'll crush this upstart martial artist in one fell swoop!
By using formations and feng shui layouts, the opponent is bound within the scope of 'strict law' and beheaded directly!

(End of this chapter)