One divination a day, a trainee celestial master

After Zhou Guodong and the others had gone far away, Jiang Shou immediately turned around and walked towards the base of the courtyard wall with shining eyes.

With Jiang Shou's current superhuman physique, enhanced by true essence, he effortlessly lifted an old door panel weighing seventy or eighty pounds with one hand. It was as if he were carrying two pieces of foam board, and he walked towards the storage room in the backyard.

Upon reaching the storage room, Jiang Shou pulled out a rusty wood-chopping knife.

Fat Tiger had followed them here at some point. Having watched Jiang Shou carry the broken door panel in, it seemed to have already guessed what this foolish human was up to. Now, it sat speechlessly on the flagstone doorway of the storage room.

Jiang Shou turned around and met the little fat cat's gaze, which looked at him as if he were an idiot.

"Uh..." Jiang Shou felt a little embarrassed by the look, but his wicked intentions remained undiminished. "What do you know? This is called 'better to kill a thousand innocent people than let one guilty person go free.' Let's see if there's anything there!"

Without further hesitation, Jiang Shou laid the left half of the door flat on the ground. He dared not use brute force to smash it open, fearing that there might be some hidden compartment and that a single blow would damage the treasure inside.

Holding the machete, he carefully cleaved along the edge of the wood grain. After making a notch, Jiang Shou simply threw down the machete, grabbed both sides of the crack with both hands, and with his terrifying arm strength, tore the thick wooden board apart bit by bit.

"Click...click..."

And so, Jiang Shou tore and broke the two old door panels apart with his bare hands.

After working for most of the day, Jiang Shou patted the sawdust off his hands and looked at the pile of rotten wood on the ground. His face turned completely black.

"This doesn't make sense!" Jiang Shou stood with his hands on his hips, looking up at the direction of the Sanqing Hall, and complained bitterly, "Grandmaster, why don't you follow the rules? The plaque above the gate hides peerless martial arts techniques, so why is there nothing inside the gate itself?"

"Since there was nothing hidden, why didn't you carve 'No hidden compartments' on this door panel back then? It made me waste so much effort!"

Meow~~

Fat Tiger, who was squatting by the door, let out a long, drawn-out bark. The sound was filled with undisguised mockery, and it scratched the ground with its paw, clearly reminding the foolish human: Stop acting crazy and hurry up and cook something, I'm starving!

"Stop rushing me, you little fat cat!" Jiang Shou pointed at the wood shavings on the ground and complained irritably. "Since you knew there was nothing inside, why didn't you warn me? Were you just sitting there waiting to laugh at me? Tell me honestly, where in the temple did the patriarch hide the blind box? Tell me now, or you won't get any food today!"

Fat Tiger rolled his eyes, turned around, and swished his tail as he walked away, not bothering to pay him any attention.

……

It was evening.

The afterglow of the setting sun dyed Cuiwei Mountain a golden red.

Outside the somewhat dilapidated wooden gate in the backyard of Shouyi Temple, there is a large, abandoned open space of about three acres.

The open space is backed by a steep cliff and has a flat terrain. However, because it has been neglected for many years, it is overgrown with weeds that are half a person tall and scattered with many small stones.

Jiang Shouzheng, holding a hoe and a shovel, slowly removed weeds and cleared away rubble in the open space.

He had already made up his mind: since the place was just lying around, he might as well cultivate it.

"Turn up this sunny, flat area in front and use it to grow vegetables. Put up a bamboo fence around the left side, build a small chicken coop, and raise a dozen or so free-range chickens so we can have free-range eggs every day. As for the shady spot against the cliff face..."

Jiang Shou stroked his chin. "We can build a bigger goose shed over there and raise a few big white geese."

I've heard that white geese are even more effective at guarding the house than dogs, and they're incredibly strong fighters. If any malicious people ever sneak up the mountain, release the white geese first, then release the fat tiger (a nickname for a goose), and they'll be pecked senseless.

"Time stands still in the mountains, and even immortality cultivation needs a sense of life." Jiang Shou thought to himself as he worked, planning the future Taoist temple in his mind.

With his current physical condition, doing this kind of physical work is like child's play for him. He didn't even break a sweat and didn't feel tired at all.

Just as Jiang Shou easily moved a stone weighing over a hundred pounds out of the edge of the wasteland.

"Buzzing..."

My phone suddenly vibrated in my pocket.

Jiang Shou took out his phone and saw it was an unfamiliar number. He patted the dirt off his hands and swiped to answer.

"Hello, who is this?"

"Young Master Jiang? This is Old Wei from Guyazhai!" came the cheerful voice of the portly boss from the other end of the phone.

Jiang Shou was suddenly overjoyed and stopped what he was doing: "Boss Wei, is there any news?"

"Great news! Fantastic news!" Old Wei's voice was filled with barely suppressed excitement. "I've contacted a big boss from the provincial capital. He's very interested in that half of Mr. Hengshan's calligraphy you have! He's also very willing to accept a reasonable price."

Jiang Shou's Adam's apple bobbed: "Great! When can we meet and see the things?"

"That boss happens to be in Qiyun County on business these days. How about we meet at my Guyazhai shop tomorrow morning at 10:00 AM to inspect the goods and complete the transaction in person?"

"No problem, I'll be there promptly at 10:00 AM tomorrow!"

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Shou stood there stunned for two seconds, holding his phone.

"One and a half million...it's almost in my hands!"

"Awooo~~!!!"

Jiang Shou could no longer suppress his inner joy. He raised his neck and let out a loud shout towards the empty back mountain.

The shout was so powerful that it startled Fatty Tiger, who was dozing on the roof tiles and was "supervising" the work. He nearly tumbled off the eaves.

Fat Tiger, having regained his balance, poked out half of his round head, meowed at the person below with a displeased expression, his amber eyes filled with contempt for the greedy human.

"Hahaha! Little Fatty Tiger, what kind of look is that? You should be polite to a future millionaire, you know?" Jiang Shou was in a great mood. He waved his hand and shouted with great pride, "I'll treat you to a special meal tonight! Not only will there be fried fish, but also braised pork chops! Let you experience what a luxurious life is like in advance."

……

The next morning.

As dawn broke, Jiang Shou finished his inner landscape meditation early.

Under the old locust tree in the courtyard, he diligently completed a full cycle of the "Guardian of Oneness" breathing exercise. After washing up, he went into the main hall and offered three sticks of incense to the Three Pure Ones and the old man in the side hall.

"May the ancestral master bless us, and may today's transaction go smoothly without any mishaps..."

After offering incense, Jiang Shou couldn't wait to return to his room. He carefully placed the paper bag containing the million-word calligraphy scroll into the inner layer of his backpack and zipped it up.

Before leaving, he touched the Suihan divination tablet and looked at it; the divination result remained the same.

I hopped on the blue three-wheeled motorcycle.

9:30 a.m.

Jiang Shou rode his three-wheeled motorcycle and came to a steady stop at the entrance of the alleyway in the antique street in the south of the city.