Chapter 26.2

Li Xiao held an umbrella, shielding herself from the unyielding rain. She stood on top of the mountain, looking at White Buddha Mountain mountain opposite her where her grandfather’s grave from the Xu family stood.

Last year, the Li family bankrupted the Xu family, and her maternal grandfather passed away from illness. Today was the anniversary of his death, and his grave was buried in a crypt White Buddha Mountain. Although Xu Manqin wanted to come to pay her respects, she was supposed to be dead. If anyone saw her, it would cause trouble for Li Xiao. So, Xu Manqin asked Li Xiao to come in her stead.

Li Xiao softly sighed. This tomb was built in a typical Feng Shui pattern — Turning Dragon. The design was unique because the dragon’s structure was separated from the main mountain, and the cavity was not on the central mountain but at the end of the dragon structure—as if the dragon was turning around.

The mountain wasn’t the only important part. The surrounding water allowed the ancestor’s children to have a different fate from them, making it possible to produce rich and prosperous offspring. According to the rumors, the Xu family spent lots of effort to find the tomb site. However, the Feng Shui pattern was broken. Initially, the cavity was located separately from the water, but someone tampered with the current. It accelerated, clashing against the hole, which caused the auspicious cavity to turn fierce. The Xu family had fallen so quickly because of this reason.

The sparrow spirit stood on Li Xiao’s shoulder. Recently, the sparrow spirit had been eating and sleeping well, which made her rounder than she was previously. Now, she was too lazy to even fly.

“Xiao Xiao, the one responsible for ruining the Xu family’s Feng Shui was Zhan Jiayin’s spare male, Zeng Lunian, a powerful Xuanxue master.”

Li Xiao hummed, her tone serene. “Him or me? Who’s more powerful?”

“Of course it’s Xiao Xiao! If he fought against you, he wouldn’t even last two rounds even if you’re only using a regular stick,” the sparrow spirit said in an attempt to flatter Li Xiao.

The sparrow spirit reminded Li Xiao that she still didn’t have a tool to take advantage of! The thought of the burning sticks she used to wield made her nostalgic. Whoever used them knew better!

Li Xiao frowned. “Changing the direction of the current isn’t easy.” It could backfire if you weren’t careful. Ordinarily, Feng Shui masters wouldn’t do such dangerous things.

According to the cheat sheet the sparrow spirit had written, Zeng Lunian met Zhan Jiayin 12 years ago. At that time, he lost a fight and half of his face was cursed and ulcerating, but Zhan Jiayin took care of him.

At his low point, Zhan Jiayin saved him and became the sunshine in his heart. Zeng Lunian fell head over heels for the kind-hearted Zhan Jiayin and was willing to sacrifice his Daoist skills to protect her. However, Zhan Jiayin was unwilling to abandon the father of her children and chose Li Nanjue in the end.

A heartbroken Zeng Lunian left the picture and retreated to some unknown location.

He had good luck and ran away quite fast. Otherwise, Li Xiao would’ve hunted down the so-called master who destroyed her family fortune after crossing over.

The sparrow spirit tried to recall the specific details to no avail. After all, the original novel had over a million words, and she couldn’t possibly remember all the plot and details. She thought for some time before saying, “It seems like he used a bead to change the current.”

As for what kind of bead, she couldn’t remember. She was just a small sparrow. Where did she have the room to store that kind of information?

Li Xiao descended the mountain and headed to the river. The water level here was shallow, which would make finding a bead easy for her! Because the feng shui in the area had been altered, it had become a ferocious point, and the water had been affected as a result. It was surprising that such a large river was so lifeless.

She opened her Heaven’s Eye and observed the Qi to see if she could find the approximate range of the bead’s effect.

“Xiao Xiao! Someone’s coming! From the water!” the sparrow spirit whispered in panic.

Li Xiao looked up to see a man in a blue shirt walking on the calm water. His face was hazy as if looking through a fog, which made it difficult to see clearly. He was tall and elegant, and his posture was leisurely, even on the water. From this, one could also see his extraordinary nature.

Who in their right mind would be able to walk on water as if it were land?

Suddenly, a carp, holding something in its mouth, jumped out of the water.

The man grabbed the carp and took what the carp held in its mouth before letting it go. The carp re-entered the water and swam around the man a few times before departing.

When Li Xiao blinked, the man on the water disappeared from view as if he had never been there and everything was just an illusion of hers.

At the same time, the rain stopped.

The river, which was like stagnant water, seemed to have been infused with life and was revitalized. The water flowing towards the cavity had also changed direction.

“Let’s go pay our respects to Grandfather and then return,” Li Xiao said.

From the changes in the environment, she guessed that the man had removed the bead the sparrow spirit had talked about, which altered the Feng Shui of the land.

Li Xiao had come here to help rearrange the Xu family’s broken Feng Shui and offer incense to her grandfather.

Someone had done the first for her, so she could spare her energy. Inevitably, Li Xiao was curious about the identity of the person she had just met, but he had left, so she put it behind her.

Li Xiao lit an incense for her grandfather, burned paper money, and laid out formations around the grave in case someone came to destroy them. After that, she left.