The Ninth Lady is a rebellious person.

Chapter 519 Breaking the deadlock, it went too smoothly!

This scheme has been in place for decades and is now tied to the remaining fortune of the Yang family. If it is forcibly broken, the fortune will reverse, and the first to suffer will be Yang Xiuyong, the only son of the family.

A surge of indescribable anger welled up within Gong Tinglan. Several powerful clans possessed a thousand-year-old fortune, yet he had silently extracted and stolen it for his own use. In contrast, the Yang, Li, and Qian clans, whose fortunes were stolen, suffered the decline of their fortunes, a series of misfortunes, and numerous disasters, ultimately leading to their extinction and the tragic extermination of their clans.

"The Imperial Preceptor is the faith of millions in Da Dan and has accumulated countless merits. He already possesses the power of vows. How could he do such a heinous thing? Isn't he afraid of the karmic retribution?" He said angrily, "Is the dignified Imperial Preceptor just a wicked person like Rong Yiming, who wears the skin of the righteous path?"

The National Preceptor's Taoist teachings were profound, which he had admired and regarded as a senior and a beacon of the righteous path.

But is this light fake?
Gong Tinglan was both angry and helpless. She was angry because Tantai Qing was a hypocrite who secretly stole other people's fate, or even the fate of their entire clan. She was helpless because even though she had seen through his scheme, she was still hindered and afraid of hurting Yu Ping.

What saddened Gong Tinglan the most was that even the Imperial Preceptor was like this. Was the orthodox Xuanmen sect truly on the verge of decline? Was there really no light left for the righteous path?

Does that mean the Dao will die?
His face showed sorrow.

But soon, he made a decision in his heart.

Lang Jiuchuan sensed the change in Gong Tinglan's aura, glanced at him several times, and said, "His desires are immense. When the merits and fortune he has accumulated are insufficient to achieve his goals, he will naturally resort to evil deeds. As for the backlash, he has even considered the possibility of a substitute calamity, so he will naturally try his best to avoid this karmic cause and effect. To achieve his goals, he will stop at nothing. That's just who he is. But alas, those who do many evil deeds will surely perish. He will eventually suffer the backlash; it's only a matter of time."

Her voice was cold and deep, and it was unclear whether she was speaking to herself or to him.

She looked at the transformation rune array and said, "If we hadn't discovered this formation, it would have been fine, but now that we have, we have to break it."

Gong Tinglan looked over, asking with her eyes how to break this.
"Let me think about it." Lang Jiuchuan's eyes were calm as she looked at the familiar talismans. Her memories seemed to return to the days when she learned Taoism and cultivated under that person's tutelage, his teachings, and the books she had seen. Her mind raced through these thoughts.

"Since he's using the 'boiling frog' method, can't we also use the slow and steady approach to keep him in the dark?" she murmured.

A strange thought flashed through Gong Tinglan's mind, and she replied, "Such as substituting one thing for another, or using a substitute for another?"

Lang Jiuchuan smiled and said, "That's right." She pondered for a moment and then told Jiang to go back to Tongtian Pavilion to retrieve the items, saying, "A five-hundred-year-old lightning-struck peach heart, nine taels and nine mace of Crimson Sun Cinnabar, and Young Master, you should go and retrieve nine drops of Yang Xiuyong's heart essence blood. There's no time to lose, go quickly."

Gong Tinglan felt a pang of envy as the wheel disappeared in an instant, but she didn't delay. She immediately returned to the Yang family's ancestral home to retrieve Yang Xiuyong's essence blood.

Every second they delay weakens his chances of survival. They have to compete with Tantai Qing for this last bit of luck, even if it's just a tiny bit left.

After they left, Lang Jiuchuan emerged from the low hill and looked at the entire Yang family's ancestral graves. She closed her eyes slightly and once again felt those unwilling and angry wails. It was as if she sensed that her power and aura were of the same lineage as Tantai Qing's, and they angrily coiled around her, wanting to tear her apart.

Lang Jiuchuan remained unmoved, forming hand seals and chanting profound incantations. Then, she forced out a few drops of blood essence from her fingertips, summoned a talisman brush, and drew talismans with the blood.

She drew seven Taiyin Suppressing Fortune Talismans in total. After the talismans were completed, she slightly concealed her breath and inserted these talismans into the locations of the earth veins that she had already scouted, in order to suppress and stabilize the Yang clan's precarious and weak clan fortune, so as to prevent a complete collapse when she performed the ritual to break the deadlock later.

Perhaps sensing Lang Jiuchuan's intentions, the angry howls gradually weakened, no longer sharp and piercing. Seeing this, Lang Jiuchuan sat cross-legged in the center of the ancestral tomb, took the imperial bell from his waist, and with a thought, the bell rang.

"Namo Ratna Trayaya..." The Great Compassion Mantra was recited from her lips, the scripture compassionate and peaceful, soothing the resentment of the deceased.

A gentle breeze swirls around her, peaceful and serene, ruffling the strands of hair that fall beside her temples.

When Jiang Che and Gong Tinglan returned, they saw that Lang Jiuchuan seemed to be covered with a light golden light, which was very dazzling.

They waited quietly until Lang Jiuchuan broke the silence himself, stepped forward and took the piece of lightning-struck peach heart that Che had brought back. As soon as he touched it, he felt the positive energy and vitality within it.

She used a talisman brush to transform into a blade, carving the lightning-struck wood into a small doll that somewhat resembled Yang Xiuyong. She then instructed Gong Tinglan to mix red cinnabar with Yang Xiuyong's heart's blood essence. Afterward, she dipped herself in that blood essence and carefully drew a Reversal Spiritual Rhinoceros Talisman around the doll. This talisman was completely opposite to the core talisman array of the Stealing Fortune and Transformation Bureau, yet it was similar in aura and intent to it.

"This lightning-struck peach wood heartwood inherently contains vitality and the power to ward off evil, while the Crimson Sun Cinnabar is also an extremely yang substance that dispels darkness. By using Yang Xiuyong's heart essence as a catalyst, we can create this substitute for a peach wood artifact." Lang Jiuchuan finished drawing the Spirit Rhinoceros Talisman and explained to Gong Tinglan, "Using this puppet as a medium, we can deceive the formation, making it mistakenly believe that this is where the Yang family's fortune gathers. At the same time, the vitality of the peach wood heartwood itself and the yang energy of the cinnabar can be fed back to the ancestral grave, suppressing and purifying the decaying energy, so that Yang Xiuyong's vitality will no longer be lost."

Jiang Che asked, "Can they get back the fortune that was stolen from their clan?"

Lang Jiuchuan shook his head and said, "This situation has been going on for decades. The fortune that was stolen has long been transformed and used by him, and it cannot be retrieved. Our original intention in breaking the situation was only to stop the losses and sever the connection between this situation and the Grand Preceptor, so that the Yang family could have a chance to survive. We are powerless to do anything more."

Although it's a bit of a pity, compared to the Qian and Li families, the fact that one branch of the family survived is a stroke of good fortune amidst misfortune.

Lang Jiuchuan stopped explaining, took the puppet and sneaked back into the fake cave entrance of the low mountain, placed it in the cave entrance, and quickly cast several spells at it with his hands forming hand seals.

A buzzing sound.

The runes on the doll suddenly lit up, emitting an aura that was extremely similar to the declining fortune of the Yang family, but with an added trace of pure Yang vitality. The acupoint paused, as if recognizing it, and in an instant, it greedily extracted energy from the doll. But this time, it was not extracting Yang Xiuyong's vitality, but a substitute, to deceive others.

It's done, it's gone a little too smoothly!

Lang Jiuchuan's face was pale, and his throat tasted metallic. He suppressed the surge of qi and blood caused by the massive depletion of his vital energy, and let out a long sigh. Once the puppet's energy completely disappeared, the Stealing Fortune and Transformation Formation would break down. After all, once the last bit of 'luck' was taken away, it would be useless.

Unless Tantai Qing comes to check in person, he won't discover this clue. But even if he does, it won't matter, because the situation is already broken. If he doesn't even let go of this last bit of luck and rearranges things, then she has nothing to say.

"Has it become a thing of the past..." Before Gong Tinglan could finish speaking, a sudden change occurred.

Boom——!

　I can't sit for long periods of time anymore! This bone spur in my lumbar spine—why didn't it tell me it would hurt so often?! Ughhhhh!

　　(End of this chapter)