There is a trick

Chapter 124 Nuclear Seeker, Copper Coin Spot (4K, I wish you all a happy new year, good luck and continuous wealth!)
Wang Tiexiong once told Zhou Chang that this Luobudunzhu was not only a traveling merchant in the secret treasure area, but also a "nuclear seeker".

Relying on his identity as a "nuclear seeker", Lobtonzhu was able to move in and out of high society and make friends with dignitaries.

He was born in a remote and mysterious place, but he has connections with the upper class and celebrities in Beijing and Shanghai.

Those noble figures were attracted by Robtonzhu's identity as a "nuclear seeker".

The so-called 'walnut seeker', as the name suggests, is a person who looks for walnuts.

"Nuclear" people are actually not uncommon.

For example, the pits of common peaches, jujubes, apricots, or walnuts and wild pecans can all be called "pits".

Wild pecan trees are often seen on the Yanshan Mountain in the capital, between the mountains and fields of Yanzhao, or in Jin and the Northeast. The pecan nuts that have fallen from the trees cover the mountain roads. Because there are very few walnut kernels inside, they have no edible value. Therefore, even though this thing is everywhere, few people pick it up, and it is basically worthless.

The "nuclear" that "nuclear seekers" like Lobtonzhu have been searching for with great effort and effort is obviously not one of the above.

The 'core' he was looking for was called 'Zanjie Bodhi' by monks in the secret Tibetan area and 'Dharma Nature Rosary' by people in the mainland.

From ancient times to the present, Buddhism has been spread throughout the world.

There are countless people in the world who listen to the Dharma devoutly and believe in the Three Jewels.

As the Buddha often said, all living things in the world actually have wisdom. Even lay believers outside the Buddhist community, if they recite sutras, meditate and worship Buddha every day, and practice diligently, they will always gain some benefits.

Millions of people around the world practice Buddhism devoutly, but during the process of practice, they experience a moment of "enlightenment", which they themselves are unable to grasp.

But this fleeting "enlightenment" accumulates over time in what people in the secret realm call the "realm of praise", or remains in the "darkness", and with due chance, it can "bear fruit" in the world.

The Zanjie Bodhi tree blooms in some hidden and uninhabited places.

Core seekers like Lobtondup, who have mastered the special skills, can find the locations of these Bodhi trees, pluck the seeds from them, make them into rosary bracelets, or donate them to monasteries to become rosary bracelets in the hands of some great monks, gurus, and Hutuktus, or sell them to upper-class people, who will hold them and turn them around every day to eliminate their own disasters and sins.

However, few of these upper-class people are truly clean.

They often like rosary beads like this one that are full of emptiness and can eliminate disasters, obstacles, and sins.

The Buddhist teachings of the Secret Realm are powerful and terrifying and can suppress all enemies of the heterodox religions. They are also widely accepted among the upper classes.

In the secret treasure area, Luobu Dunzhu is just an inconspicuous peddler and nuclear seeker, but among the upper classes in the mainland, he also plays the role of a "broker", helping the celebrities and dignitaries in the mainland to connect with the monks in the secret treasure area and exchange what they have.

In fact, there are also professions similar to "nuclear seekers" in the mainland, which are often called "treasure hunters".

Zhou Chang had never seen a treasure hunter before, but the nuclear seeker was ready.

He opened his palm and looked at the 'Zanjie Bodhi' in his palm.

On the bodhi seeds shaped like wild walnuts, veins are interwoven into mysterious patterns.

Looking closely, the lines seem to form the Sanskrit word "Hum".

Zhou Chang held the Zanjie Bodhi in his hand, and he suddenly felt brave. It was because of the sudden courage in his heart that Zhou Chang was sure that this walnut was the real thing, the so-called "Zanjie Bodhi".

However, the veins of the word "Hum" on this Zanjie Bodhi are somewhat twisted and abstract, and the Bodhi seed itself is dry and uneven.

All these factors affect the value of this Bodhi of Praise.

So even such a stingy person like Robtonzhu could generously give it to Zhou Chang after a transaction was completed.

The value of this Bodhi bead itself is probably not even half a silver dollar.

Zhou Chang still thanked Robtonzhu.

This time, Lobtonzhu is traveling with the corpse-driving troupe to the capital.

Everyone said goodbye on the road and went their separate ways.

Standing on the high ground, Zhou Chang watched the figures of the people disappear from his sight. He turned to look at Grandpa Yang who was putting the cart frame on the sick mule and asked, "It's already so sick, why don't you cure it first before letting it pull the cart?"

Yang Rui put down the frame in his hand and looked at Zhou Chang: "Then you will pull this car?"

"..." Zhou Chang immediately shut his mouth.

"It's just a cart. It's sick and it's a piece of cake to pull.

We just don't need to sit on the cart." Yang Rui continued, "It was able to pull the Tibetans' carts fully loaded with goods before, but now it is so sick that it can't even pull an empty cart?

Not so squeamish! "

“I also bought it for twenty silver dollars.

It's always a pity if a mule dies of illness." Zhou Chang exclaimed, "Uncle Yang, do you have a prescription to cure this mule?

What disease is it suffering from?"

"It's a disease that he was born with." Yang Rui assembled the frame of the cart on the sick mule and replied to Zhou Chang.

"Hmm?" Zhou Chang frowned slightly, "When did Grandpa tell the mule's fortune?"

Yang Rui laughed and said: "I can't even tell fortunes for people, when will I be able to tell fortunes for animals?
But the mule's disease was indeed brought by fate.

My practice of the "Immortal Book" requires fulfilling the five disadvantages and three deficiencies, so I have some understanding of these five disadvantages and three deficiencies, and have also heard some rumors related to this - some people suddenly suffered a serious illness when they were young, and after the illness they either became disabled, or their family fell into poverty, or their parents died.

Their life experiences became tragic, and they also acquired some unique abilities as a result.

Or being able to know things about ghosts and gods, or being able to see things that others cannot see, etc...

Such people are destined to have a fate of "five disadvantages and three deficiencies" because of the diseases they are born with.

I think the situation of this mule is similar to that of those people.

Don't worry about it, it will be able to survive this serious illness."

Zhou Chang nodded thoughtfully and no longer paid attention to the sick mule.

He handed the bag of silver dollars and copper coins in his hand to Yang Rui, saying, "Grandpa, please keep this money for me. I will need it in the future."

"Let me take it, aren't you afraid that I will spend all the money on alcohol?" Yang Rui looked at the package of money Wang Tiexiong gave to Zhou Chang and shook his head repeatedly, "I can't count and can't keep accounts, so you should keep it yourself!"

Zhou Chang also smiled bitterly and shook his head.

He unbuttoned his clothes, revealing the skin beneath them.

——But now, patterns of copper coins appeared on his skin.

The yellow, black and red copper coin patterns now covered a large area on his chest and arms. In the square holes in the center of each "copper coin", the outline of an eye gradually emerged.

“I just don’t want to keep the money myself.

I really can't touch any gold, silver or money." Zhou Chang said with a wry smile, "Since the death of the three monks in the Xielong Temple, I have also left the mark of the 'King of Wealth' on my body. Once I come into contact with money, this 'copper coin spot' will definitely appear on my body.

Once the money is successfully transferred to someone else, the copper coin stains on your body will fade.

If this copper coin spot continues to grow, it may attract the attention of the 'King of Wealth' again."

The three monks of Xielong Temple have become spirit mediums, and are basically "neither alive nor dead".

Their respective physical forms - the skin of the Yellow God of Wealth, the mouth of the Black God of Wealth, and the blood of the Red God of Wealth - were originally all burned clean by the karmic fire. However, after Zhou Chang was reborn in the fire and began to come into contact with money, he clearly realized that the three spirit mediums had attached themselves to his body in another form.

These yellow, black or red copper coin spots are the signs of the three spirit mediums' 'parasitism'!

They are attached to Zhou Chang's body, and once they become powerful, they will directly attract the attention of the King of Wealth again!

The God of Wealth planned to give birth to a son named 'Nanatian', and Zhou Chang was an unpredictable variable in this plan.

Thanks to this variable of his own, he was finally able to escape from the situation narrowly, and survived from death, causing the plan of the King of Wealth to fail.

But this time, if we can lure the King of Wealth here again - then he will no longer be an unpredictable variable!

He is just a chess piece on the board. With his current ability, he cannot compete with ghosts and gods of the same level as the King of Wealth. He can only let them control him and be squeezed and flattened by them!
"The Treasure King of the Secret Hidden Realm...

Why is it pursuing you so relentlessly?"

Yang Rui looked at the shocking copper coin spots on Zhou Chang's body with a horrified look in his eyes: "The reason why your grandfather buried you in the mass grave is because you were entangled by a ghost and became seriously ill.

The symptoms of being possessed by a ghost are also like this ‘copper coin spots’…”

Zhou Chang was stunned by what Uncle Yang said.

He knew that Zhou Chang was originally buried in a mass grave because he was targeted by Gui and it was difficult for him to survive.

In order to save Zhou Chang, my grandfather had no choice but to use this method of trying to survive from death. He buried him in a mass grave, using the death energy to cover him up, and thus avoided the evil spirit's pursuit and survived.

But Zhou Chang didn't know that when Zhou Chang was targeted by Gui, his body was also covered with these copper coin spots!

This kind of copper coin spot means that the God of Wealth wants to kill a person and make him become a corpse, which will grow into an old corpse and turn into "Nanatian"!
That is to say, the God of Wealth has once again chosen Zhou Chang to be the embryo of 'Nanatian'!
Zhou Chang may also face the disaster that Zhou Chang once faced!
He originally thought that he had escaped from the clutches of the Treasure King, but after hearing Yang Rui's words, he felt dazed - could this be the beginning of another cycle?
“But the copper coin spots on your body back then were not divided into three colors, red, black and yellow, like they are now.

Moreover, the copper coin spots on your body can fade away after the money leaves your hands, but they could not fade away when you had them before." Yang Rui shook his head, "I can't keep the money, and I just bought a mule and spent all the money you entrusted to me.

I want to cultivate the "Book of Immortality", which requires me to fulfill my destiny of five disadvantages and three deficiencies. How can I keep so much money on me?

Shidanzi is too stupid, and it is difficult for him to calculate the accounts of dozens of silver dollar companions..."

"Ask Miss Bai to keep it for you!" Yang Rui changed the subject and pointed at Bai Xiu'e who was helping Zhou Chang take care of Zhou Sanji not far away, and said, "It's only a matter of time anyway!"

Zhou Chang also looked at Bai Xiu'e who was not far away. He nodded: "Okay."

……

“I, I, I—

I will keep your money safe and you won't lose a penny!"

Bai Xiu'e hurriedly but solemnly made a promise to Zhou Chang, holding the bag of silver dollars and copper coins in her palms and holding it against her chest.

Her look made her great-aunt, several younger sisters, and even Bai Ma frown.

"Look at you, you look like a waste!" Bai Ma's words drowned out all the words of her great-aunt and several young sisters.

Bai Xiu'e lowered her eyes, feeling aggrieved by the rebukes from Bai Ma, Gu Zupo and others, but holding the heavy purse, she felt happy, so after Zhou Chang left, she raised the corners of her mouth and smiled slightly.

……

Zhou Chang and Yang Rui worked together to move grandpa Zhou Sanji's body onto the cart.

Grandpa's body now looks no different from usual.

But it's just what we see with the naked eye.

If Zhou Chang used his left eye to observe the world of thoughts, he would be able to see that his grandfather's body seemed to be covered with dense holes like a honeycomb, with streams of thought energy flowing freely in them.

When he touched his grandfather's skin with his fingers, he could feel that his grandfather's seemingly old skin had become as smooth as a polished wooden board.

If you tap with your knuckles, you can even hear a 'tap-tap-tap' sound...

All these signs indicate that grandpa's body is continuing to progress in the direction of "wood carving and clay sculpture".

His soul no longer remained in this body. Yang Rui even reminded Zhou Chang that even if his grandfather woke up at this time, the one who woke up would only be another spirit medium sent by the two gods of sudden death and unjust death to take over this spirit medium's body. It would most likely not be the real grandfather.

The real Zhou Sanji might have been re-assigned a physical body and went to other places to be the god of sudden death and the god of unjust death, distributing the death signs of the two gods to all living beings.

Or it is still under the altar of the two gods.

——The possibility that secular gods assign the original body to the spirit of a demon medium is very low.

"How's your study of 'Praying to the Gods' going?"

Yang Rui put down Zhou Sanji's body and watched Zhou Chang cover the old man's body with a thick quilt. He asked the other party.

Zhou Chang said without looking up: "I always feel like there's something missing."

The "Spell of Inviting Gods" itself is not difficult to learn. It is nothing more than chanting incantations and invoking the secular gods to separate their auras and settle on one's own altar. However, which secular god to invite, whether the invited secular god is to one's liking, how many secular gods to invite... all these things always require a mysterious feeling.

Zhou Chang now feels that he has not achieved that.

"The fewer ghosts and gods on the altar, the better." Yang Rui suggested to Zhou Chang, "If there are too many ghosts and gods on the altar, you will always want to use their power to do things for you. It seems simple to do things this way, but you don't know that every time you ask them to do something, you will silently pay a greater price in the dark!

When the invisible price becomes too much for your fate to bear, it is time for you to either pay with your life for the ghosts and gods, or become their medium.

Your grandfather was like that.

The lessons of the past are a lesson for the future, so don’t take it lightly! "

"I remember everything." Zhou Chang said, "This time I only plan to invite the 'two generals who died unjustly' to live in the altar.

However, I saw a record in the "Summoning Gods" that someone raised eight secular gods on the altar. He used the taboos of the secular gods to make them restrain each other, so that he would not be affected by the secular gods..."

“That kind of person, that kind of thing, is rare.

You haven't learned to walk yet, so don't think about running.

"It's better to be safe than sorry." Yang Rui said, "Let's go north today. I think the 'Second General Who Died Unjustly' is still somewhere in the north."

(End of this chapter)