Put away your magical powers now!.

Chapter 24 [How to make an offer? ]

Chapter

Assistant Yan sent Chen Yan home. Before leaving, Chen Yan told him, "I need to think carefully about Mr. Fang's matter. Please wait a moment. If there is any clue, I will contact you."

Assistant Yan thanked him profusely and left. After Chen Yan closed the door, he walked into the living room, took out the two A4 paper packages from his arms, spread them out on the coffee table, and fell into deep thought.

On a piece of paper was the sandalwood stick that he had taken with him, which had been broken into two pieces on the way.

On a piece of paper was a small handful of incense ash.

Chen Yan began to think about a question in his mind.

This money……

Do I make money or not?
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The problem lies with the sandalwood.

Chen Yan had read some basic identification methods in the identification chapter of the secret manual, especially the identification of some basic materials for drawing talismans and casting spells, and he had memorized them by heart.

This sandalwood, with its yellow incense sticks, looked like the most common sandalwood on the market. However, Chen Yan's energy sensed a faint resentment.

He broke off a piece of sandalwood and rubbed it carefully until it became crumbs. He then pinched the ash and compared both sides.

"A little bit of bone meal?"

This method was described in the article on appraising objects: grind the bones of dead creatures with resentment into powder, and then... this thing can actually be used to release resentment.

However, this method is somewhat vicious and not the right way, so the article on identifying objects only mentions how to identify them, and the specific production process is not recorded.

This stuff is called "grudge bone powder".

Some things are powerful, and some are not.

The most vicious kind of resentment bone powder recorded in the book is made by grinding the bones of a baby that died before full term into powder. The dead baby could have grown into an adult, but failed at the last moment, so the resentment it contains is the most intense, and the resentment bone powder made from it is also the most vicious and powerful.

At the very least, the family will be in turmoil, plagued by illnesses and disasters, and ultimately the family will be destroyed.

However, this kind of thing is, firstly, rare, and secondly, the method used is evil and poisonous, and it is extremely difficult to refine. Only those evil cultivators who have gone deep into the evil path can make it.

The ordinary ones are easy to get.

Use ground bones from some animal instead.

What exactly this animal bone meal used to replace dead babies is is something that ordinary people would never imagine.

——Pork bones.

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Pigs are domestic animals that are commonly eaten by ordinary people.

But few people know that pigs are actually animals with quite high IQ.

It is said that dogs understand human nature. Dogs are friends and loyal companions of humans.

In fact, the IQ of pigs is higher than that of dogs.

Among all mammals, pigs are considered to be highly intelligent species.

This thing is actually more human than a dog.

Having a good IQ and some spirituality, it is natural that there will be certain emotional fluctuations.

It is much easier to make [Grudge Bone Powder] using pigs.

Firstly, this kind of livestock material is easy to obtain.

It is also less difficult to make.

Just use special methods to slaughter a pig, peel off the skin and take out the meat, leaving only the skeleton, and then grind and refine it.

One pig can produce several kilograms of this bone meal.

According to the records in the booklet, there are quite a few people in the underworld who like to cheat and deceive others, and like to use this kind of thing to trick others.

The effect of this thing is much milder than using the bone powder of dead babies, and the harm is not as great.

After all, the resentment value is not that high, so the effect is relatively weak.

If this kind of resentment is held for a long time, it will only make people feel depressed, suffer from insomnia and anxiety, or occasionally suffer from minor illnesses and disasters.

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Like the piece of incense in Chen Yan's hand, this bone powder with resentment was mixed into the sandalwood, and I don't know how it was delivered to Mr. Fang.

Mr. Fang likes to pretend to be cultured and occasionally lights a cigarette to calm his nerves.

Then the resentment will erode and pollute, causing Mr. Fang to have bad luck from time to time.

It was clear... someone was trying to harm him.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes and thought: The question is whether he should take care of this matter.

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The benefit of taking care of this matter is simple: money.

Mr. Fang was willing to pay 100,000 yuan to buy me a broken compass. If I can help him solve this problem, I will definitely make a lot of money.

But the downside is: it is easy to make enemies.

Someone is secretly trying to harm Mr. Fang. Since the other party can use this method, he is obviously not an ordinary person. Maybe he is also a skilled person.

If I rescue Mr. Fang, and his enemies find out, and follow the clues to find me...

I have no connection with Mr. Fang, so there is really no need to make enemies just to make some money.

Moreover, the enemy may very well be a powerful evil person.

Making money is great, but I am not short of money for the time being.

As he was thinking, Chen Yan suddenly had an idea and remembered the tube of sandalwood he saw in President Fang's office.

The ancient wrapping pattern of cirrus clouds on the paper tube.

Chen Yan frowned: Luo Yunzhai?

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Early the next morning.

Chen Yan put on a down jacket, deliberately turned up the collar, put on a mask, and went out.

I took an online taxi and headed straight to Qixia Mountain.

Mount Qixia is located in the north of the Yangtze River. The city of Jinling spans both the south and north of the Yangtze River. To get to Mount Qixia, you have to cross the river, which is not a short journey.

Qixia Mountain is already very famous. There is a thousand-year-old temple here, which has always been very popular.

Thanks to the popularity of the temple, it has also boosted nearby industries in recent years.

A street block gradually formed outside the big temple, with people selling antiques and collectibles, doing calligraphy and painting business, and also those who were engaged in metaphysics and fortune telling.

Where there is demand, there will be traffic, and where there is traffic, some supporting catering businesses will emerge.

Over time, a rather bustling commercial street was formed.

Moreover, it is almost the end of the year, and people in Longguo like to pray to gods and worship Buddha, so the popularity here is getting more and more lively.

Chen Yan did not enter the temple, but strolled around the nearby commercial street for the whole morning and had a meal at a vegetarian restaurant that was said to be quite famous.

In one morning, he had found out the information he wanted: Luo Yunzhai's address and some general information.

It's not difficult to find out - in the vicinity, most of the people who specialize in feng shui, fortune-telling, and physiognomy are retail investors - and 99% of them are scammers.

There are also a few that have their own shops and yards, and have run a big business. It is said that they even have their own teachers - I don't know if it's true or not.

Anyway, it’s done quite formally and looks like the real thing.

There are probably only three or five stores of this scale on the entire commercial street.

Luo Yun Zhai was the most famous of them all. Chen Yan had heard that the amulets and other items in Luo Yun Zhai were very effective, and that there were experts within the sect who were exceptional at fortune-telling and physiognomy, and were also renowned for their feng shui skills.

Some business owners will come to visit...

Chen Yan had heard similar statements many times on the streets.

It's actually quite ironic... There's a huge Buddhist temple next to it that's very popular.

Here you can do feng shui, fortune telling and physiognomy.

This is not the same as the Buddhist way.

But the people of Longguo have always believed in various things and don't care about these things.

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In the afternoon, Chen Yan sat on the second floor of a teahouse facing the street, chose a seat by the window, and brewed a pot of tea - the merchant claimed it was Biluochun.

Anyway, Chen Yan couldn't tell whether the tea was good or bad. There were not many people on the second floor of the teahouse, so he just sat there leisurely, looking out the window at the street across the street.

Opposite is Luo Yunzhai.

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Sitting by the window on the second floor, I could roughly see the outline of Luo Yunzhai:

Linji is a shop that sells antiques, treasures, rune carvings to ward off evil and the like.

There are also people sitting in the shop, telling people's fortunes and looking at their faces.

There are two courtyards behind the store.

Chen Yan sat here for nearly an hour, using his Sky Eye Qi-viewing technique to scan the direction of the courtyard house in Luo Yunzhai no less than ten times. He was certain of one thing... There was not a single trace of vital energy fluctuation in Luo Yunzhai!

Chen Yan frowned secretly, this was strange.

How could he come up with such a method to cheat others? Why is there no magical fluctuation at home?

After all, it is our own temple. Shouldn’t we set up some formation or something for our own temple?
Can't you set up the simplest formation to gather energy and increase luck?

He glanced at the cabinet on the second floor of the teahouse. There were incense sticks in the incense burner, and a tube of sandalwood was placed on the table next to it. The packaging was exactly the same as the tube that Chen Yan found in Mr. Fang's office.

He pretended to chat with the waiter in the store a while ago, and the waiter told Chen Yan that the sandalwood was bought from Luo Yunzhai across the street.

Of course, the sandalwood here is the most ordinary sandalwood without any additives.

But judging from the packaging, it is definitely there.

Luo Yunzhai's behavior is quite despicable.

Send this kind of sandalwood with added bad luck ingredients to Boss Fang to make him unlucky, and then go to his house to help him solve the problem.

The money earned is... conscienceless.

Chen Yan shook his head.

Whatever!

Mr. Fang, I finally got your 100,000 yuan.

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As for Chen Yan's personality, if you say he is selfish, then he definitely has a selfish side.

If he's cold, he's definitely cold-hearted—he grew up with an old lady, without a father or mother, and no relatives. He's actually quite a loner.

But there is one thing: he still abides by some rules and morals.

Not much, but still a little.

Chen Yan didn't want to make an enemy for Boss Fang. But he thought, after all, he had taken 100,000 yuan from Boss Fang.

Just give them a useless broken compass?
Wouldn't that be pure deception?

It's not good to just lie.

I learned the skills from the old lady, and there was a set of rules in the old lady's book.

In fact, it is not about "taking money from others to help them get rid of disasters."

Although I, Benboba, am paid by you, the king, and you ask me to capture Tang Monk and his three disciples for you - I do have the ability to do that!

So the old lady’s rule is not to demand that disasters be eliminated.

Instead, it means: take money from others and work hard for them.

Regardless of whether the task can be accomplished, you still have to put in some effort.

So today, Chen Yan came over to take a look at the situation first.

If everyone in Luo Yunzhai is a complete idiot who doesn't know any magic, and is a complete liar, I wonder where they learned such a deceptive method...

Then Chen Yan can earn Mr. Fang's money with confidence.

If there really is a master in Luo Yunzhai.

Then, Chen Yan would honestly return the 100,000 to Mr. Fang, and then admit that he was not well-trained and would not get involved in this matter.

His bottom line is not high, but at least he has a bottom line.

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After refilling the water twice and drinking a pot of tea that had no taste at all, Chen Yan, who was sitting on the second floor, saw a familiar figure walking out of Luo Yunzhai across the street. It was Luo Qing.

After watching Luo Qing get into a car and leave, Chen Yan got up and went downstairs.

He turned up the collar of his down jacket and put on a mask - in winter, there were many people wearing this on the street, so it didn't stand out.

Chen Yan crossed the street and walked into Luo Yunzhai with a swagger.

Pretend to be a passerby and go into the store to look around.

There weren't many people in this kind of shop, so Chen Yan deliberately asked the shop assistant to show him a few amulets - all of which were useless handicrafts.

He pretended to choose and waited for the other two customers in the store to leave.

The only people left in the shop were him, his waiter, and a fortune teller.

The fortune teller was in a side room of the shop, separated from the outside by a screen.

Chen Yan pretended to bargain with the clerk over a stone-carved Pi Xiu, and then asked the clerk to turn around and help him get something from the shelf.

While the waiter turned around, Chen Yan quickly glanced around the store. No one was around. Behind the curtain, he could faintly hear the fortune teller playing with his phone...

Chen Yan looked up and stared at the target he had been observing for a long time - a wooden plaque hanging on the wall of the shop, with four large characters written on it: Purple Air Coming from the East.

Chen Yan quickly took out a prepared item from his pocket, poured his vital energy into it, and then snapped his fingers!
call out!
Something flew onto the plaque and landed right behind it.

Chen Yan pretended to walk to the side, looked up from under the side of the plaque, and confirmed that the thing was stuck behind the plaque.

This angle is very tricky. Ordinary people would not notice it unless they walked to this position and looked up deliberately.

What Chen Yan popped up was what he had prepared at home last night.

A thin wooden plaque the size of a cigarette box with a talisman stuck on it.

The talisman is written or drawn on yellow paper with cinnabar, and the runes are recorded in the secret book.

This is a [Fortune-Severing Talisman]

The use of this rune is similar to the interception technique that Chen Yan had used before.

Chen Yan was still a student, and could only draw three or five different kinds of talismans. Last night, he had to work on this one at home three times before he could draw it.

This thing is time-limited. After it is drawn, once the vital energy is infused into it, the effect of the talisman will be activated.

And it can only last about two days before the effect disappears on its own.

At this moment, Chen Yan stood in this shop. With his sense of vital energy, he could clearly feel that there was a faint aura of damage slowly emanating from behind the plaque. Anyone who was exposed to too much of this aura would suffer from damage to their luck and would inevitably suffer from minor illnesses or disasters.

This thing isn't very effective, but... this is a test conducted by Chen Yan.

Anyone with spiritual skills and vitality, as long as he stands in this shop, can feel this destructive energy!
Ordinary people cannot notice it, but those who are knowledgeable in the Tao will feel that it is like a light in the dark, no matter how faint it is, it is clear at a glance.

Chen Yan planned to come back in two days to check.

If the talisman is no longer behind the plaque, it means that although there are scammers in Luo Yunzhai, there are also powerful experts who discovered this thing and took it down and disposed of it. In that case, Chen Yan would have no choice but to stop caring about this matter.

If you come back two days later, the talisman will still be behind the plaque.

That means there is no one who is an expert in this area, so they can’t find it!

Then, don’t be afraid!

The guy turned around and took what Chen Yan wanted to see. Chen Yan took a casual look at it and found some problems.

But in order not to be too conspicuous, he did not leave empty-handed, but deliberately bought a cheap amulet - 50 yuan.

A thumb-sized stone-carved Pixiu with very crude carving.

The guy boasted that it was consecrated in the ancient temple next door - Chen Yan didn't believe a single punctuation mark in such words.

After leaving Luo Yunzhai, Chen Yan headed home.

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The next day, Chen Yan meditated at home to cultivate his energy, and when he was bored, he practiced drawing talismans in the study.

Assistant Yan called and asked if he wanted to go to Mr. Fang's house to take a look. Chen Yan used the excuse that his new compass was not ready yet and postponed the matter for two days.

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On the third day, Chen Yan went out again and visited Luo Yunzhai in Qixia Mountain.

When he entered the door, the shop assistant was replaced by a new person. He was sitting there listlessly and yawning. When he saw Chen Yan come in, he just greeted him lazily, but did not sit there or move.

Chen Yan pretended to look at the things on the counter, walked here and there, walked to the side, looked up at the back of the plaque "Purple Air Coming from the East".

In the gap, the talisman that he had thrown in was still there.

Chen Yan remained calm and left Luo Yunzhai.

It's been two days, and I left such a low-level talisman in his house, but they didn't even notice it with people coming in and out every day?
Chen Yan smiled. It seemed that there were no masters in Luo Yunzhai.

After leaving the commercial street and calling a taxi, Chen Yan dialed a number while sitting in the car.

It's not Assistant Yan's number, but Mr. Fang's.

"Mr. Fang, is he still recovering in the hospital?" Chen Yan said with a smile, "There's something we need to discuss. Let's meet and talk—well, just the two of us."

Mr. Fang seemed to realize something on the other end of the phone and said in a serious tone, "Okay, then please ask Teacher Chen to come to the hospital. I'll wait for you in the ward. Don't worry, it's just the two of us meeting alone. I won't tell anyone. Assistant Yan isn't here with me today."

"Okay, I'll be there in a moment." Chen Yan hung up the phone and started thinking in his mind.

Well, how much money should I ask Mr. Fang for this matter?
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