Under One Person: Feng Shui Master, I Will Protect the Mountains and Rivers with My Own Body

"Tales of Extraordinary People: Chen Duo's 'Cultivation' Part 3 - 'Let's Buy One for Brother Sen Too'"

Inside the mall, a girl held two different dresses, looking blankly at the man explaining to her, "That brat can't wear dresses."

Girl: (◍•ᴗ•◍)？

Note: The anecdotes about extraordinary individuals do not follow the normal timeline of the main story!

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A chill rushed out of the cave, making Xu Si shiver.

All that could be seen around the dark entrance of the Cold Water Cave was a ring of uneven, bamboo shoot-shaped stone pillars.

It looked like the withered mouth of a toothless old woman, half-open and facing everyone, exuding an indescribable eerie aura.

Xu Si shrank back and was about to step inside when Deng Youcai reached out and blocked him by placing his hand across Xu Si's chest.

"What's wrong? You're talented! Come on in, aren't we already at that immortal's doorstep?"

Xu Si, with an unlit cigarette dangling from his lips, looked at the two brothers with a puzzled expression.

Deng Youcai didn't speak, but his two little mustaches twitched, and a meaningful, wicked smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

He reached up and stroked the beard under his nose, looking at Xu Si with a strange expression, as if he were looking at a silly boy, his tone extremely amused.

"What's wrong, Si'er? Don't you trust me? Then go in, let me see you."

Xu Si: "?"

Not right.

There's a ghost.

As Xu Xiang's son, Xu Si has experienced more schemes and tricks in his life than many people have walked the path.

Especially after dealing with those old guys for so long, he was all too familiar with that "guess if I cheated you or not" expression.

That bastard Deng Youcai is definitely up to no good.

Xu Si's eyes darted around, but he didn't move. His right hand, which was in his pocket, twitched slightly.

"Buzz—"

A faint magnetic wave spread out, and a fist-sized piece of gravel on the ground flew into the air.

"What are you talking about? My buddy, how could I not trust you? Your intervention really reminded me that when it comes to scouting, it's always safer to test the waters first."

Xu Si chuckled, flicked his wrist, and the stone flew tentatively toward the dark cave entrance with a whooshing sound.

In his mind, the stone would either fly in and make a sound, or be blocked by some kind of formation and fall down.

However, reality is often more frustrating than expected.

"Snapped!"

A crisp, cracking sound rang out, like a whip lashing through the air.

The moment the piece of gravel touched the darkness of the cave entrance, it didn't fly in. Instead, it seemed to hit an invisible, high-strength elastic net and bounced back.

The force of the rebound was astonishing, and the speed was more than twice as fast as when it went!

"Whoosh—!"

The rubble transformed into a gray afterimage, heading straight for Xu Si's face, clearly intended to crack his skull open.

"Holy crap?!" Xu Si's pupils shrank suddenly, and he shielded Yan Sen in front of him.

He knew the intensity of the golden light emanating from the wood; blocking it would be a piece of cake.

Yan Sen yawned, not in a hurry to activate his golden protective aura.

He wanted to see what this immortal was really up to.

Unfortunately, Xu Si behind him suffered. With the time wasted, he didn't have time to use his own methods and could only watch helplessly as the stone flew towards his head.

Xu Si: Damn it!! (╬￣皿￣)凸

At the critical moment.

"Whoosh!"

A flash of cold light exploded before Xu Si's eyes.

Feng Baobao, who had been standing there in a daze, reacted faster with her body than with her brain.

She leaped into the air, the kitchen knife she had somehow drawn drawing a perfect semicircle in the air.

"clang!"

The gravel was precisely split in two in mid-air.

Xu Sigang breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to himself that the baby was still the most reliable.

But the next second, his expression changed again.

The two halves of the stone, instead of scattering to the sides, defied the laws of physics and drew a strange arc in the air, still flying firmly and persistently toward Xu Si's eyes!

Holy crap?! This actually works?!

Feng Baobao landed, holding a kitchen knife in her hand, and a rare, blank expression appeared on her usually expressionless face.

( •_•)?

"Buzz—"

A muffled hum.

A layer of earthy yellow light suddenly appeared in front of Xu Si, like a solid wall.

"Pfft! Pfft!"

The two halves of the rubble crashed violently against the golden light.

Immediately afterwards, a terrifying force of gravity acted on the gravel, crushing it completely into dust, which then fell down in a flurry.

Yan Sen withdrew his finger, and the golden light on his body slowly dissipated. He looked at the stone dust on the ground and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Holy crap... what's with this thing? It even has auto-lock? Let's chase it down!"

Xu Si plopped down on the ground, cold sweat streaming down his temples.

He looked utterly bewildered.

What did I do? I just threw a broken rock to test the way, what's the big deal? Is this guy grumpy or something?

"Mr. Four, are you okay?"

Deng Youfu pushed up his glasses and leaned closer with a concerned look, but he couldn't help but glare at Deng Youcai, who was already laughing so hard he was doubled over.

He cleared his throat, trying to salvage his image with a professional explanation: "I'm sure Grandpa Liu mentioned this master to everyone before, saying that this senior's personality is... very special, and he doesn't like to be disturbed. So, this is actually a fake cave entrance."

Yan Sen's eyes twitched twice as he listened to the explanation, which was a mix of Chinese and English. He was already getting used to Deng Youfu's broken English, and even felt that it wouldn't sound right without those two words.

"Is it fake?" Yan Sen walked up to the so-called cave entrance and reached out to touch it.

The palm passed through the darkness without any obstruction, but there was no tactile sensation, as if it had touched a phantom.

But the feedback from that stone just now was a real physical collision.

"That's interesting." Yan Sen withdrew his hand and looked at Deng Youcai, who was still chuckling. "Brother Youcai, since it's fake, where's the real one? Stop keeping us in suspense and show us, so we can all learn something new."

Deng Youcai stopped laughing, rubbed his sore cheeks, and nodded.

He waved to the crowd, as if herding ducks: "Step back, everyone step back! Back up until you can't see me anymore!"

"There are quite a few rules here." Xu Si got up from the ground. "Why are you backing up so far? Are you going to transform?"

"Stop asking, just listen to me, Si'er. That stone almost got stuck in your head, haven't you learned your lesson yet?"

Deng Youcai squinted and gave Xu Si a mocking look.

Even Deng Youfu frowned, straightened his cuffs, and said to the group, "Please, everyone, step back. He won't start if you don't. This is... one of that great master's rules."

Yan Sen and Xu Si exchanged a glance. Although they were full of doubts, they followed local customs and retreated to the woods a dozen meters away, leaving Deng Youcai alone in front of the fake cave entrance.

Through the gaps in the leaves, Yan Sen saw Deng Youcai take a deep breath, and suddenly become a little... awkward?

The man from Northeast China, who had just been driving recklessly and talking nonsense, suddenly acted like a young woman going on a blind date, first straightening her collar and then wiping the back of her head.

Then he stepped forward and stood before that void of air.

He extended his right hand, palm facing the air, making a standard "knocking" gesture.

"Slap, slap slap."

One light and two heavy.

Something strange happened.

Deng Youcai's bare hand slapped the air and actually made a dull sound!

It felt like I was actually knocking on a heavy wooden door.

Immediately afterwards, Deng Youcai cleared his throat and shouted towards the seemingly empty cave entrance:

Is anyone home?

After shouting this, he immediately took a step to the left, turned around, and faced the spot where he had just been standing.

Then, with his hands on his hips, he pinched his throat and asked in an extremely high-pitched, girlish voice:

"Who are you?!"

Yan Sen: (｀･д･′)?

Xu Si: =͟͟͞͞=͟͟͞͞(●⁰ꈊ⁰● |||)

What the hell is going on here? Is this some kind of live demonstration of schizophrenia?

Before the others could react, Deng Youcai quickly jumped back to his original position, reverting to his usual gruff voice, and said earnestly to the air:

"It's me, I'm a guest."

Then, he jumped to the other side, put on a high-pitched voice, and made a look of sudden realization:

"Oh—okay, come in then."

Finally, he jumped back to his original position and bowed to the air:

"Okay, thank you!"

After this breathtaking one-man show ended, Yan Sen and Xu Si, standing behind the trees, looked at each other, their expressions a fascinating mix of emotions.

What... what's going on?

crazy?

Even Feng Baobao, who is usually expressionless, raised her eyebrows and widened her eyes, vividly demonstrating what it means to be confused.

However, just when the group thought that Deng Youcai might have lost his mind.

"Boom... Boom..."

A low, rumbling sound came from beneath my feet.

The scene before my eyes began to distort and change.

The "fake hole" faded away little by little, like a pencil drawing being erased, until it disappeared completely.

Instead, the original hard mountain rocks were replaced.

On the flat ground next to Deng Youcai's feet, the ground that was originally covered with weeds suddenly collapsed.

A pitch-black, bottomless hole appeared out of nowhere!

A cold, damp smell, with a faint fishy odor, wafted out of the cave.

"This... is the real entrance to the Cold Water Cave."

Deng Youcai turned around and waved to the group of people behind the woods. At that moment, a faint blush appeared on his originally dark red skin.

Clearly, even someone as shameless as him felt a little embarrassed performing that scene just now.

Xu Si's mouth dropped open.

"No... Grandpa Liu did tell us that this immortal had a strange temper. But we really didn't expect it to be this strange! It's not just strange, it's the ultimate, invincible, spiral of strangeness!"

"Putting personality aside, her methods are no joke either."

Yan Sen narrowed his eyes, staring at the cave that had appeared out of nowhere, his heart filled with even more shock and turmoil.

When he first went up the mountain, he released a portion of his Qi and dissolved it into the earth's veins so that he could keep track of the surrounding situation at all times.

But just now, even when he was in the fully activated state of [All Things Connected by Qi], he didn't even notice the existence of this cave!

It wasn't until Deng Youcai finished performing that play that the hole appeared abruptly in his perception, as if it had suddenly appeared from another dimension.

rule?

Or perhaps... some kind of extremely profound sleight of hand?

"Interesting, very interesting." Yan Sen's lips curled up, and the lapis lazuli in his eyes grew even more intense.

This "civil official" fortune teller seems to be more than just a fortune teller.

The group regrouped in front of the cave entrance.

Deng Youfu stared solemnly at the hole in the ground. He straightened his suit and bowed deeply into the unfathomable darkness.

"This humble member of the Deng family is blessed, I bow..."

He hadn't finished speaking.

"call--!"

Deng Youfu's body trembled violently, and his originally gentle and refined demeanor vanished instantly.

A surge of black energy, even denser and colder than Hu Tianbiao's, erupted from his body like a tidal wave, instantly enveloping his entire being.

Deng Youfu suddenly raised his head, and his eyes once again turned into chilling blood-red vertical pupils.

"Bye to the market! That's it!"

Deng Youfu—or rather, Liu Kunsheng—spit impatiently, his voice cold and hoarse, carrying an undeniable domineering air.

"That's the thing about you, you're so damn slow! Why be polite? Just go in!"

Uncle Liu Kunsheng has taken over the account.

He flicked his scarlet tongue, his gaze sweeping over Yan Sen and the others before finally settling on Deng Youcai standing to the side.

"You're talented."

"Yes, Uncle Liu, what are your orders?"

Deng Youcai immediately straightened his back, his face full of flattery, showing none of the arrogance he usually displayed when arguing with his brother; he was now incredibly submissive.

"You don't need to go down. Just stay here at the cave entrance and keep watch." Liu Kunsheng pointed to the surrounding woods. "Whether it's a person or an animal, if they try to get close, find a way to drive them away, understand?"

"It's a straight road! Leave it to me, don't worry! I guarantee not even a fly can get in!" Deng Youcai patted his chest and assured him.

"Um."

Liu Kunsheng nodded in satisfaction, then turned around and glanced at the bottomless pit. A complex emotion flashed in his eyes, seemingly a mixture of fear and excitement.

"Young Yan, White Hair, and this little brat."

With a wave of his hand, Liu Kunsheng's black aura billowed like a cloak.

"Come on! Come down with me!!"

Without hesitation, Liu Kunsheng pushed off with his legs and leaped into the endless darkness like a cannonball.

"Okay!"

Yan Sen followed closely behind, his golden light spell glowing slightly to protect him, and then he leaped into the air.

Xu Si sighed and pulled the bewildered Feng Baobao along, saying, "Baobao, I've gone all out for you, so you'd better treat me well from now on."

The four figures vanished instantly at the cave entrance.

Only Deng Youcai remained, squatting by the cave, taking out a cigarette, lighting it, and shuddering as he reflected on his performance.

"Oh my god, this is unbearable! I'm not coming again next time. This is just too much!"