Master of the Xuanyin Sect of Mount Shu

Chapter 65 The Divine Divination of the Primordial Ancestor
Guan Minghui asked to see the Azure Mirage Bottle. If he were to ask to see it abruptly right away, it would be very abrupt, and the Taiyi Hunyuan Ancestor would have a reason to refuse.

However, under the pretext of requesting the Wutai Sect's help to kill the demon corpse, he first took out the Xuan Guang Ruler and even handed it to the Taiyi Hunyuan Ancestor.

Although the Azure Mirage Bottle is specifically designed to counter magic weapons of the needle, sand, and cloud types, the Xuan Guang Ruler has many more uses. Both are treasures of the same level, and it's hard to say which one is more valuable than the other.

His Xuan Guang Ruler was already freely played with by the Taiyi Hunyuan Ancestor, so if the Taiyi Hunyuan Ancestor didn't let him see the Azure Mirage Bottle now, it would seem too stingy.

Moreover, Li Qinsheng, the leader of the Wudang Sect, chimed in: "Since this Sister Sanfeng wants to see, Fellow Daoist Hunyuan, let her have a look. Just now, when you subdued the demon, we only saw your amazing skills, which made the demon corpse flee in a sorry state in an instant. We also want to see what kind of treasure is so powerful."

The Grandmaster Taiyi Hunyuan was indeed not a stingy person. Moreover, the treasure was right under his nose, and there were many immortal guests present. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, even if someone wanted to steal it, they would have no chance of succeeding.

He smiled faintly and nodded, then took out the blue mirage bottle and placed it on the table in front of him.

Guan Minghui, his face full of curiosity, leaned closer to take a look. Some guests walked over directly, while others craned their necks to see from a distance.

Upon seeing this scene, the Taiyi Hunyuan Patriarch suddenly had a flash of inspiration and recalled that before his sword duel, he had bathed and changed his clothes, spending a day and a night deducing the future secrets of the Wutai Sect.

The divination results were very vague at the time, with many variables. Generally speaking, the Wutai School experienced minor good fortune first, followed by major misfortune.

It was originally thought that Xiao Ji would receive a message from the demon corpse and then find the Three Yang One Qi Sword, while the ominous sign would be a premonition of failure in the sword duel.

He, along with Sikong Zhan and Xu Feiniang, devised many ways to ward off the ominous sign, and ultimately won the sword duel, thus dispelling the bad omens.

Looking back now, Xiao Ji should be seen as a sign of victory in the sword duel, while the ominous sign remains elusive.

Besides the main framework of good and bad fortune, there are also predictions about the righteous and evil paths of the Wutai School. If one takes the righteous path, it will be bad first and then good; if one takes the evil path, it will be good first and then bad.

However, regardless of which route you take, there will be nine auspicious omens and nine inauspicious omens, with the first ones being minor and the later ones being major.

Upon closer examination, this incident involving a demonic corpse should be considered the first minor misfortune since I embarked on the righteous path, but I wonder when the second minor misfortune will arrive.

He stared at Guan Minghui across the table, thinking: This Sanfeng is Feiniang's good friend. She has mentioned many times that Ziyun Palace has the Thousand-Year-Old Fragment-Regenerating Grass and many treasures. Although it cannot compare to the Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Fragment-Regenerating Grass of Xiankong Island, it still has a very strong effect on reconnecting limbs. The fact that she came to my door at this time, and that she wanted something from me, should be an auspicious sign.

But as he looked at Sanfeng, something seemed off, though he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

He calculates the qi of a sect using innate divine numbers, which requires setting up a very complex divination board, taking a lot of time, effort, and energy; that is called the complete hexagram.

For everyday calculations, use a small divination tool. You can use your finger joints as a divination board in your sleeve and simply tap on it with your thumb to make calculations.

The full hexagram is used to predict major events, while the smaller hexagrams are used to predict minor events. The information obtained is simple and abstract, with little content revealed. Its advantages are simplicity and speed.

After counting the points, a hexagram was obtained, indicating that one would lose something very important, and the time would be around 2:45 PM.

Looking at the time again, it was already past the second quarter of the 11 PM, and he immediately became alert.

He further analyzed the characteristics of the object: it was made of jade, long and cylindrical, and blue... it should be the Blue Mirage Bottle!

This blue mirage bottle is right under my nose, who could possibly take it away?
The Grand Master Taiyi cast a third divination and deduced that the person who came was a man who would directly take the treasure bottle and was nearby!

His first thought was that the two elders of Mount Song had returned!
After all, the "Sanfeng" standing in front of them was a woman, which didn't match the divination.

Moreover, the only ones who can forcibly snatch things from him right now are the two elders of Mount Song. Those two old men are skilled in the Formless Immortal Escape Technique and are the best at stealth and invisibility.

He instantly guessed a possibility: one of the two elders of Mount Song had sneaked in to seize the treasure, hiding in the crowd, while the other was creating chaos outside to attract everyone's attention.

The Grandmaster of Taiyi Hunyuan focused his attention on his eyes, lightning flashing in his pupils. He scanned the crowd to the left but saw no one hiding. He then scanned the crowd to the right but still saw no one stealthily moving.

During this time, his gaze swept over the "Three Phoenixes" in front of him, and he only felt that something was strange. Upon closer inspection, he felt that they seemed to exude a sinister aura, but he could not see anything else unusual.

Because Guan Minghui laid the groundwork from the very beginning, saying that he had been torn apart by a demon corpse, reattached with spiritual medicine, and had been recuperating in the shadows until today, it was almost as if he had died once, so it was normal for him to have some gloomy aura.

He focused his attention on finding the two elders of Mount Song, and his strange thoughts about "Sanfeng" were fleeting, but he didn't pay much attention to them.

After scanning several times without finding the two elders of Songshan, he wondered: Could it be that one of the guests was tempted by the wealth and wanted to steal the treasure?
He sneered inwardly: I'd like to see who dares to take the treasure away from me right in front of me today!

Holding the Azure Mirage Bottle, Guan Minghui had already figured out what this treasure was all about. He glanced at the Taiyi Hunyuan Ancestor out of the corner of his eye, noticing his gleaming eyes as he scanned the room, finally fixing his gaze on the guests with a serious and hostile expression. Guan Minghui didn't know if the Taiyi Hunyuan Ancestor could see through the disguise of his Profound Yin Beast Transformation Technique, and fearing the other might become suspicious and launch a sudden attack at any moment.

Guan Minghui felt that he could not delay any longer, so he took the bottle and said to Li Qinsheng beside him, "Fellow Daoist, this treasure bottle truly lives up to its name. It is a fine treasure. Look here."

Although Li Qinsheng was the leader of the Wudang Sect and a member of the orthodox Xuanmen lineage, he already had a large number of wives and concubines, indulged in wine and women, and was unable to master the Wudang Sect's most advanced immortal techniques. Instead, he studied some evil and demonic spells to enhance his strength.

Although he joined forces with his fellow disciples to force his senior sister to leave, his own cultivation and magical power were not only inferior to that of the Taiyi Hunyuan Ancestor, but also far inferior to that of Sikong Zhan.

At that moment, all he could think about was being able to admire the vases and appraise treasures with the beautiful woman he admired, and perhaps even drink wine and tea together later. He didn't even consider that there might be something wrong with the person in front of him.

He followed Guan Minghui's finger and looked at the slender, jade-like fingers, which were indescribably beautiful. He was even more delighted and nodded repeatedly: "Not bad, not bad. These golden talismans were made by melting Western gold with Samadhi True Fire and then using the Elixir of Rejuvenation to make it seep into the jade to form talismans. It is a righteous method of the Xuanmen..."

Guan Minghui exclaimed in surprise, "Fellow Daoist, you actually managed to figure out how it was made? Truly admirable!" He then gave a thumbs-up, "The Wudang Sect Leader truly lives up to his reputation!"

Li Qinsheng was delighted to receive the beauty's praise and repeatedly expressed his humility.

Guan Minghui wanted to use Li Qinsheng as a shield, but the Taiyi Hunyuan Ancestor misunderstood. He thought that Li Qinsheng was using Guan Minghui as a cover, and that he was the one who wanted to steal the Azure Mirage Bottle.

Then he performed another divination and found that the other party was a man, dressed in white, with the appearance of a young man, handsome and refined, and from the south... All of these matched Li Qinsheng!

Anyone can generate a hexagram, but the ability to interpret it depends on the amount of information one has. The more information one possesses, the more accurate one's interpretation will be.

Another key point is to have a pure heart, free from desires, fears, joys, and sorrows. The heart should be like a mirror to reflect the truth of the facts represented by the divination.

Even Li Jingxu and the old nun Fentuo, two of the most top-tier masters in Buddhism and Taoism, when they jointly calculated the matter of the Haotian Mirror and the Nine Doubts Cauldron, still had to obtain the old site of Buzhou Mountain, arrange the innate sacred hexagrams, carefully study the origins, trace the sacred traces from ten thousand years ago, and meditate to search for the causes of the past before finally concluding that the two treasures should fall into Yang Jin's hands...

The preceding steps involve gathering information, while the subsequent "meditation and divination" requires calming the mind to a state of extreme stillness. Finally, a joint analysis is needed to determine the outcome.

In the original novel, Xu Feiniang suspected that Situ Ping had betrayed her. She asked her apprentice to bring her a divination board and used the innate divine divination method to calculate. She could only predict that Situ Ping would collude with two sinister people to make things difficult for her, and that they would be her most powerful nemesis. However, she tried every means to find Zi Ling and Han E, who were also in Huangshan and were very close to her.

The Grandmaster Taiyi Hunyuan was preoccupied with the loss of the Azure Mirage Bottle and could not calm his mind.

The key to whether a fortune teller can predict their own fortune lies here.

If one is preoccupied with gains and losses, and easily alarmed by honor or disgrace, then even if one's predictions are inaccurate, they may not be able to predict them at all.

At the same time, he lacked a crucial piece of information: Guan Minghui's self-created Xuan Yin Gathering Beast Transformation Technique could transform him into the appearance of other people.

In addition, he used the fastest and simplest method, the Lesser Pre-Heaven Divination, which involved only finger calculations, resulting in an overly abstract and simplistic outcome.

Ultimately, he came to believe that Li Qinsheng had coveted the treasure and wanted to forcibly take it away!

　True divination and prediction are not about sitting at home as if you have cameras installed all over the world, watching surveillance every day, and knowing immediately what's going on.

　　The kind of writing where one sits on a kang (heated brick bed) and sees the whole world clearly—where ants are moving, where old trees are sprouting—is something only a sage who has attained enlightenment in the primordial world could do…

　　The divination and deduction methods in this book... I will refer to Liu Ren, Qi Men, Four Pillars of Destiny, Money Calculation, Plum Blossom Divination, etc., and elaborate on them. Whether it is the Innate Divine Divination or the Mysterious Yin Divine Number, they are all based on these. The Mysterious Yin Divine Number is compiled with reference to the alchemical classic "Zhouyi Cantongqi". It is not about counting, but about using the messages of the Zhouyi to explain the Dao of alchemy.

　　Of course, the higher one's cultivation level, the better the efficiency and results of the calculations. There are still differences between the Taiyi Hunyuan Ancestor and his disciples below him, as well as Li Jingxu and others above him. I will write down the differences.

　　But no matter who it is, it won't be too exaggerated.

　　Note: The Primordial Ancestor is at the level of the Three Immortals and Two Elders; he is not on the same level as Changmei and Jile.

　　In the original novel, during his first sword duel with Qi Shuming, Qi Shuming cut off his arm, and Qi Shuming didn't use any particularly powerful immortal sword.

　　He can only win after he forges the Five Poison Immortal Sword a second time.

　　That's the level he's at. For Longbrow to cut him down would probably only take two or three sword strikes; it wouldn't be much harder than Blissfully Slaying Green Robe.

　　Seeing someone in the comments section say that he could fight Changmei Zhenren with swords, I can only say that you like him too much and have a fan filter.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)