Turbid World: Martial Arts Master of the Republic of China Era, I Cultivate Immortality!

"If this incense is emitted from a house, someone must have died!"

Zhao Zheng stared expressionlessly at the dozens of incense sticks in his hand, taken from different graves, all of which were two short and one long.

The incense hexagram defined as the "death-bringing incense" in the Twenty-Four Incense Manual, and looking at the cluster of graves in front of him, Zhao Zheng frowned slightly and turned to leave.

Instead of going down the mountain to Renjia Village to find Daoist Tianyi and the others, he went to the location of the "Dragonfly Skimming Water" acupoint chosen for Old Master Ren and looked at it for a while.

"No problem..."

Zhao Zheng was puzzled. It was true that he didn't understand feng shui, but he could recite it by heart. He couldn't see anything wrong or amiss with the dragonfly skimming the water spot in front of him.

"Zombies have appeared in the Ren family since ancient times..."

Zhao Zheng muttered to himself, and his upgraded innate ability, Insightful Eyes, was fully activated. As he thought about it, the newly added ability of Insightful Eyes to observe Qi and distinguish shapes was activated.

The sky turned gray again, a hazy gray due to the calamity energy. However, he did not look at the sky, but instead looked at the Dragonfly Skimming Water Cave in front of him.

Under his gaze, that is, under the characteristics of observing Qi and discerning form, a phantom pond appeared in the Treasure Land Dragonfly Touching Water Cave, and above the pond, a phantom dragonfly fluttered its wings and hovered.

Watching the illusory dragonflies occasionally fall into the illusory pond to lay their eggs, Zhao Zheng understood why the dragonfly touching the water could bring blessings to future generations and make them wealthy. It was because the dragonfly touching the water could accumulate wealth, which would grow ever larger.

"strangeness……"

Zhao Zheng muttered to himself, puzzled. He couldn't understand why the "Death-Slaying Incense" would appear if the Dragonfly Touching Water acupoint was fine.

After closing his clairvoyance, Zhao Zheng turned and left, heading down the mountain to Renjia Village. Since he couldn't figure it out, he would go to his martial uncle and ask him to think about it.

……

Renjia Village

The Ren family ancestral home.

"This...this shouldn't be happening!"

In the corner of the courtyard, upon seeing the death-inducing incense handed to him by Zhao Zheng, Daoist Tianyi's face revealed the same expression as Zhao Zheng's at that moment.

"Uncle-Master, I went to check on the dragonfly skimming the water again before I came..." Zhao Zheng told Daoist Tianyi what he had seen through his insightful eyes.

He mentioned that the "dragonfly skimming the water" technique was fine, and then glanced at the Ren family members in the courtyard and house. He frowned and whispered, "Uncle-Master, I feel the problem is getting serious. Their foreheads are dark..."

Saying that the Ren family members all had dark circles under their eyes was actually a euphemism by Zhao Zheng. With his ability to observe qi and discern form, he found that Master Ren and the others all looked like they were about to die.

That is to say, it is a sign that one's life is not long!

"Um?"

Master Tianyi frowned, looked around, and saw through their facial features that Master Ren and the others, who were the direct relatives of the deceased Old Master Ren, all had dark circles under their eyes, indicating that they were all about to die. His brows furrowed even more.

He couldn't understand how these people could have changed so much in such a short time, when they were perfectly fine before they went up the mountain.

"Uncle-Master, is it possible... that Old Master Ren, after being buried in this 'Dragonfly Skimming Water' grave, turned into a zombie, and then it took all his immediate family members with it?"

Zhao Zheng asked the thoughtful Daoist Tianyi in a low voice, mainly because the sense of déjà vu was too strong.

Although, he didn't see the female ghost!

Master Tianyi shook his head: "I've examined Master Ren's body. He passed away peacefully and won't turn into a zombie..."

He paused, then, as if afraid Zhao Zheng hadn't understood, explained, "It's not so easy for a corpse to become a zombie; it needs to have a breath left before it dies..."

It's not the smell of unbrushed teeth, but rather resentment or obsession. In addition, there are requirements regarding the deceased's destiny, such as the birth chart being Yin, etc. Besides these, these are the most basic requirements.

There are also requirements for the burial site. The burial site must be a place for raising corpses, and there are other requirements as well.

Unless... by sheer coincidence!

"What if...it really is just a coincidence?"

Zhao Zheng asked, and Daoist Tianyi looked at him silently for a moment before saying speechlessly, "Old Master Ren has to become a zombie, right?"

"No, it's just that I don't understand why they suddenly look like they're about to die!" Zhao Zheng looked at the Ren family members and whispered to Daoist Tianyi.

Except for Qian Mu, who was in slightly better condition with only a dark spot on his forehead, the rest of the Ren family members looked like they were about to die.

To be honest, he couldn't figure out why!

Master Tianyi, who also couldn't figure out the reason, frowned and said, "Let me do a divination." With that, he led Zhao Zheng out of the Ren family compound.

The Ren family members didn't pay much attention, as they were currently discussing and busy with the arrangements for Old Master Ren's burial tomorrow.

Master Tianyi led Zhao Zheng to a stone table under a large tree not far from the courtyard. He took out a tortoise shell and three copper coins from his satchel and said, "This is a coin divination..."

"I know that, my master taught me!"

Zhao Zheng nodded, and Daoist Tianyi nodded as well. They didn't explain further, but simply threw the copper coins into the tortoise shell and started shaking it.

After six tosses, Master Tianyi frowned, thinking about the results of the first five tosses, and then looked at the three copper coins on the table.

"Kan represents water, a hexagram of six clashes... extremely inauspicious!"

Zhao Zheng spoke up, but Daoist Tianyi didn't dwell on the fact that Zhao Zheng didn't understand divination but had managed to obtain the hexagram. He simply used the coin divination method again, and after six times...

"Mountainous terrain stripping, five yin stripping one yang... extremely ominous!"

Looking at the divination results, Zhao Zheng frowned and said, "Master Tianyi was silent for a while, and just as he was about to perform another divination, Zhao Zheng reached out his hand."

"Uncle-Master, how about we choose another one?"

"Um?……???"

Daoist Tianyi stared blankly at the three silver dollars Zhao Zheng handed him. Zhao Zheng thought for a moment and said, "We used copper coins because of their circulation and popularity, but now that the Great Chen Dynasty is gone... I think these are more appropriate!"

"..."

The possibility of using copper coins is not actually due to their circulation or popularity. Master Tianyi's lips twitched.

"Shall I do it?"

When Zhao Zheng spoke, Daoist Tianyi remained silent, simply handing the tortoise shell to Zhao Zheng and beginning his calculations using the Lesser Six Ren method.

Before Xiao Liu Ren could even make a calculation, Master Tianyi fell silent, just as Zhao Zheng, using the divination method of the coin divination with three silver dollars, also obtained the same ominous hexagram and fell silent as well.

"When Heaven and Earth are in conflict, when they do not interact, it is an ominous sign!"

Zhao Zheng pursed his lips and frowned slightly. Before he could continue the divination, he noticed that Daoist Tianyi was looking at him with a blank expression.

"Uncle-Master, what's wrong?"

"How...did you do that?"

"???"

"I mean...can the ocean really be used for divination?"

"Uh, I already divined the result, why can't I!" Zhao Zheng looked at Master Tianyi with a strange expression.

He felt that there was something wrong with Master Tianyi. Copper coins could be used for divination, so why couldn't silver dollars be used for divination? What, copper coins are money, but silver dollars aren't?

"???"

Master Tianyi looked at Zhao Zheng with a blank expression, unsure whether he was genuinely ignorant or pretending not to. He really wanted to ask Zhao Zheng what his elder brother had taught him before he died.

Before he could ask, he saw Zhao Zheng throw three silver dollars again, but this time he realized that Zhao Zheng was not using the coin divination method, but the plum blossom divination method.

"Another terrible omen..."

Zhao Zheng curiously put away the copper coins, looked at the Taoist priest Tianyi who was still watching him, frowned, knowing that the other party was also frowning because of the divination, so he simply used the Little Six Ren method to toss three silver dollars.

"...Okay, still a very bad omen!"

Zhao Zheng, expressionless, changed methods again. If Xiao Liu Ren didn't work, he would use Da Liu Ren. At the same time, instead of asking about the fortunes of Master Ren and the others, he began to ask why they had died.

Three silver dollars clattered onto the stone table, and Master Tianyi's blank expression turned into one of utter bewilderment as he stared at Zhao Zheng.

No, you...

You...you're acting strange...

Master Tianyi looked at the result Zhao Zheng had obtained through divination with three silver dollars, a result that shouldn't have been obtained.

It's not that Zhao Zheng's method was wrong, but that Zhao Zheng shouldn't have calculated it in the first place. It's like... someone saying that he ate air all day, which is unreasonable!

"Wait, could it be that the ocean really is..."

wrong,

This is impossible!

That's absolutely impossible!

The inner voice of Daoist Tianyi shook its head frantically, and his Dao heart suddenly snapped, causing his face to turn slightly pale.

"Uncle-Master, why is your face so pale?"

"...No...it's nothing!"

Master Tianyi uttered two words, watched Zhao Zheng continue to cast his divination with silver dollars, and then got up and walked to the side.

As for Zhao Zheng, laughable! What Zhao Zheng? He came alone; there was no Zhao Zheng by his side at all!

Zhao Zheng didn't pay attention to Daoist Tianyi leaving; his gaze was fixed on the Dharma column on the panel depicting the myriad aspects of life that he had summoned.

[Methods: Money Divination (Minor Success), Lesser Six Ren (Minor Success), Plum Blossom Divination (Minor Success), Zi Wei Dou Shu (Minor Success)...]

"Tsk, I'm really awesome... Huh?"

Zhao Zheng frowned as he looked at the result of the divination using Qimen Dunjia and the line of text that appeared on the panel depicting the myriad aspects of life.

[Method: Yang Dun Nine Formations (Great Completion)]