Chapter 55

I didn’t waste any more time, lifted my head, and observed the feng shui structure of the place. Surrounded by mountains on all sides, it wasn’t a nine-dragon, nine-star location, but it was absolutely suitable for a peaceful retirement. During wartime, such a place would definitely be the first choice for avoiding war and turmoil, at least before the earth’s qi was disrupted.

On the left side of the village, the mountain peak looked like a person about to mount a horse, but he stopped when he saw something. This is called the Nobleman Mounting the Horse, Looking Back at the Moon. It is this look that protects the village’s spiritual energy.

On the right side, there were three peaks of different sizes, but they were connected, from high to low, resembling a lazy tiger lying on the ground. It seemed to be afraid of the Nobleman Mounting the Horse, which is known as the White Tiger Bowing Its Head.

Nobleman Mounting the Horse, Looking Back at the Moon! White Tiger Bowing Its Head, Young Man in Sorrow (in this feng shui layout, it’s hard for men to find wives, but there is a way to resolve it, and the Nobleman Mounting the Horse, Looking Back at the Moon suppresses it).

Wait a moment!

The White Tiger Mountain I saw last night didn’t look like this. At midnight, when yin and yang alternated, I saw a cluster of dark yin energy on those three peaks. The yin energy was like the head of the bowing tiger, but it was clearly not the same as during the day. Instead, it turned into a fierce tiger, raising its head.

With the fierce tiger raising its head, it overshadowed the Nobleman Mounting the Horse. Its light covered the Nobleman Mounting the Horse peak, and after absorbing the yin energy, the peak became desolate at night. So, at night, it looked more like a winding snake, and the horse raising its head turned into a turtle, like a snake coiling around a turtle’s back, the Black Tortoise guarding the tomb.

Fierce Tiger Raising Its Head, Black Tortoise Guarding the Tomb! This is a small imperial tomb!

No wonder he chose this place. It only needed a slight adjustment to the feng shui to become a good tomb. It’s clear that the blind old man was a master of feng shui and yin-yang in his lifetime.

As for how to adjust it, I already had a preliminary idea in my mind! Now, I needed to verify it.

Without another word, I walked toward the place where the White Tiger was bowing its head.

At the foot of the mountain, a chill rose from the ground, rushing straight into my brain from the soles of my feet. This was yin energy, and even during the day, I could sense it. This was where I saw the palace last night, and this place was definitely where the old man used to live, and the bones must be buried underground!

I tentatively moved my foot, still puzzled about why he limited the number of people. When new dead people came, they had to consume the souls of the previous ones. I couldn’t figure this out all night.

Suddenly, I stepped on a stone and almost tripped.

I looked down, and the stone was black, not blackened by smoke! It seemed to have been changed by something here over a long time, turning black. This blackness wasn’t ordinary; it had seeped into the stone, making the entire stone as dark as coal.

I smelled it, but it was just the ordinary smell of a stone.

Following the direction of the black stone, I searched again. There were no others nearby, but about twenty centimeters away, I found another black stone. I dug a bit around that stone and found several more of the same color.

I suddenly lifted my head, as if I remembered something! I continued searching in that area. Every twenty to thirty centimeters, I found a black stone, and below the black stones, everything was black.

I counted them twice, and both times, there were seventy-two. I was suddenly enlightened!

I understood, I understood everything!

This is the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends!

“I understand!”

I shouted excitedly. Hearing my voice, Huang Yiyi and Qin Luye looked puzzled and at a loss.

“What do you understand, Li Yao?”

I pointed to the ground and said excitedly, “Here, this is the array! The one Song Liuyan told me about. The Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends array. The yin energy cluster I saw last night was created by this. The Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends can automatically form a yin energy cluster during the alternation of yin and yang! After gathering the surrounding yin energy, it quickly returns to this place to release it! It’s like a fish that needs to go outside every day to fetch water to nourish the fish inside.”

“In ancient times, there were many ways to form a yin energy cluster, including the Thirty-Six Celestial Spirits and the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends in the Seven Star Array! The Thirty-Six Celestial Spirits were arranged on the ground by the imperial advisor when the emperor was buried, so the emperor’s soul could enjoy the pleasures of family life after death. The Thirty-Six Celestial Spirits have a high divine status, and ordinary people cannot enjoy them.”

“The Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends, on the other hand, are similar to the Thirty-Six Celestial Spirits but are mundane fiends, not as divine as the Thirty-Six Celestial Spirits. The Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends can accommodate all things. Regardless of what a person did in life, as long as their blood soaks the Earthly Fiend nails for forty-nine days and is planted on the ground, after they die and are buried in the Earthly Fiend circle, they can enjoy the treatment of a king and the pleasures of family life after seventy-two years of protection!”

“I remember Luye said that it was quiet here for several decades after his death! If I’m not mistaken, it must have been seventy-two years! The villagers respected him so much that they were willing to guard his body for seventy-two years without letting anyone disturb it. After seventy-two years, once he had fully integrated with the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends, the place

continued to be haunted, and they had no choice but to move out.”

“However, the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends have a limitation: they can only accommodate seventy-two souls! So, there must be seventy-two bodies buried underground here!”

After hearing my explanation, both of them looked puzzled, clearly not understanding what I was talking about.

“Li Yao, are you saying this is the array Song Liuyan mentioned? This array is called the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends array? And last night, you said we were looking for her bones. Since the array is here, her bones must be underground, right?”

“Yes, in short, they are underground!”

“Then what should we do? Should we dig them up?”

I shook my head. “Even if we dig them up, we won’t find the bodies! The Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends can perfectly absorb the bodies, making them invisible to the naked eye! Only by breaking the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends can we find the bodies underground.”

“Break? How do we break it? Can you break it?”

I hesitated for a moment, thinking about the methods described in the book, and continued, “There are two ways to break the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends. One is to find the Earthly Fiend nails buried underground, dig them up, and soak them in chicken blood for forty-nine days, which will neutralize the fiends. The other is to use blood as a guide to break the Earthly Fiends, but the blood must meet very high standards.”

I remembered what Song Liuyan told me, that only the blood of a Daoist could break the array! It’s clear that the blind old man was very confident in the Earthly Fiend needles he buried, which is why he said those words.

Clearly, the first method is not practical for me. Even if I found the Earthly Fiend needles, it would take forty-nine days to soak them, and by then, Song Liuyan’s soul would have already dissipated.

So, the only option left is the second one, the blood of a Daoist!