Chapter 29

Chapter 029

This theft was something Su Jiu did not expect. He never thought that someone would be targeting him, and this thief might even be from the Feng Shui community.

The thief did not take the 200,000 yuan in cash, the Eight Trigrams, the Yin-Yang mirror, or any other tools.

Instead, they took the most valuable compass, which indicated that the thief had a keen eye and directly targeted the most valuable item.

Su Jiu was extremely upset. Since he entered the university, the compass had been kept in a suitcase under his bed. For one or two months, there had been no incidents, but now, at this moment, something happened.

The first reason that came to Su Jiu's mind was the incident at Panlong Villa.

However, he quickly regained his composure and realized that this matter was likely unrelated to Old Li and Old Zhao.

The Su family's heirloom compass was a rare treasure in this society, and Su Jiu was very attached to it.

Su Jiu thought back to the events of the past period.

Gradually, he sorted out his thoughts and concluded that there was only one possibility.

It was when he was solving the Feng Shui problem in the second teaching building that he exposed himself and drew attention.

That was the only time it could have happened.

In the month and a half since he entered Xiang University, he had only truly displayed his skills in front of outsiders three times. The first time was when he impulsively read Old Zhao's fortune.

The second time was when he dealt with the hidden Feng Shui layout in the second teaching building, encountering two outsiders: one was a descendant of the Southern Yang family, and the other was Ye Tianlong, a middle-aged man from the Ye family.

The third time was when he read the Feng Shui for Old Li and solved the problem at Panlong Villa.

Among these three times, Old Li and Old Zhao were ordinary people, not from the Feng Shui community, so they could be ruled out. Therefore, the remaining possibility was the incident at the second teaching building.

At this point, Su Jiu was certain of two suspects: one was the descendant of the Southern Yang family, and the other was Ye Tianlong.

It might not have been them, but the incident was likely related to them or the information they had.

Su Jiu was extremely angry and took a while to calm down.

Xiang University's dormitories did not have surveillance cameras, as they were private spaces for students. Generally, schools would not install cameras inside dormitories; if they did, they would only be at the entrances.

If someone from the Feng Shui community was involved, and the building did not have cameras installed throughout, there would be no traces left.

So, Su Jiu immediately ruled out the idea of checking the school's surveillance footage.

Should he report it to the police?

That wouldn't work. It wasn't that the state's power was weak, but Su Jiu knew that a compass was not a valuable artifact or something of high value in the secular world. If he reported it, the police might think he was making trouble.

How could he find this guy?

Su Jiu began to think.

This was indeed a bit difficult. The compass was too important to him. It was the Su family's heirloom. If the compass became a spirit, it could establish a connection with him, a process known as "recognition." However, the compass had not yet become a spirit and needed a significant stroke of luck or a great opportunity.

At this moment, Su Jiu's mind suddenly jolted, as if he had an idea!

"Qi? Luck? Qi?"

Su Jiu muttered to himself.

"Right, I have a way!"

Su Jiu's mind raced, and he realized what he had overlooked.

Thinking about this, Su Jiu quickly sat on the bed, closed his eyes, and his internal qi rapidly circulated. The mental power in his mind also concentrated quickly.

Yes, it was qi!

In that moment, Su Jiu suddenly remembered the qi tracking technique recorded in the golden compass in his mind. After the golden compass healed, it revealed many contents, almost all of which were ancient Feng Shui techniques and knowledge.

He remembered that the information that emerged after the golden compass healed included a summary of the qi tracking technique.

However, at the time, he was still at Old Li's house and did not look into it in detail, so he had not thought of it.

The qi tracking technique, as recorded in the golden compass, was not a pure tracking technique but a method to track qi. The family heirloom compass had been with him for some time and had already been imbued with his qi. Ordinary people or even general Feng Shui masters could not detect this qi, but for Su Jiu, it was not a problem.

This was because the golden compass recorded a special technique that could roughly sense the direction of the item. However, the range of this qi tracking technique was somewhat vague and not very precise, so Su Jiu could only sense a general direction.

After a moment, Su Jiu opened his eyes, his pupils slightly contracting, and he made a decision.

The longer the item was away and the more it was in contact with others, the weaker the qi it had originally carried would become.

So, after obtaining the qi tracking technique from his mind, Su Jiu immediately came to his senses.

When Su Jiu sat on the bed, he closed his eyes again, quickly made a gesture with his hands, and his internal qi and mental power rapidly circulated.

After a while, Su Jiu opened his eyes and picked up the divination sticks on the bed, throwing them to the ground.

The three cow horn divination sticks bounced a few times on the ground.

Su Jiu carefully examined them, picked them up, and quickly left the dormitory.

The divination indicated the east.

Su Jiu had already used the qi tracking technique, but he could only faintly sense a direction, which he was not very sure about. Therefore, he used the divination to confirm, and seeing that the divination result matched his mental sense, he quickly took action.

Indeed, the effectiveness of the qi tracking technique was related to one's cultivation. Su Jiu was only at the initial stage of qi cultivation, so the range he could sense was not very large.

From the afternoon class until now, it had been more than two hours. In this society with convenient transportation, one could travel a considerable distance in two hours.

That was why the situation had arisen.

However, now that Su Jiu had a direction, he was confident that as long as the thief had not left Xiang City, he would definitely catch the thief today.