Interpreting divinatory diagrams was a very abstract concept since they wouldnt directly give you a readable answer like search engines would. As a result, there were many possible interpretations for the results youd end up getting.
But because the abstract interpretation here was related to the things we had experienced before, it may seem abstract to Xia Wen but very specific to Xiao Hua.
The divinatory diagrams aning was very clear: sothing ca out of the door, but this thing was neither dead nor alive. Sothing extrely bad was going to happen.
I didnt think it was necessary to guess too much about what kind of door this divinatory diagram was talking about; Id bet my life it was the bronze door. Legend had it that King Wannu ca out of the bronze door, but we had already killed one Wannu so I figured it wouldn't be that big of a deal if another monster had co out.
In fact, there could have been another interpretation of what this thing the divinatory diagram was referring to was. Divination didnt only focus on real things, so it was possible for anything to show up while you were doing your calculations. This even included things like pieces of information or secrets, which were all things that could be classified as neither living nor dead.
I asked Xiao Hua for more details about this point.
The so-called Qin Dunjia that Xia Wen used wasnt the traditional divination thod. I only realized now that the Qin Dunjia they had been talking about was actually a special divination thod of the Qi family called the Qin Eight Calculations thod.
Qi Tiezui had been living in seclusion in the mountains after experiencing all those events at that ti. When he was feeling down, he decided to calculate the future, but what he saw must have been terrible. Reeling with the shock of it, he broke the rules set by his ancestors and passed on all of his crafts to a child who wasnt related to him by blood.
It was impossible to determine what exactly he saw, but on that day, Qi Tiezui had already seen the whole thing clearly.
Although Er Yuehong didnt have any divination skills, he had also foreseen a certain possibility. Those two people, together with the Xie family, ca up with a plan, a large part of which was said to have been determined using the Qin Eight Calculations thod.
This plan accurately pointed out that the worlds second most valuable tomb was the key. Xiao Hua believed that the "thing" that ca out of the bronze door was probably a monster, a piece of information, or a secret, any of which would be found in the worlds second most valuable tomb. Otherwise, the plan those three ca up with at that ti wouldnt point to this tomb.
There was also a very precise rule stipulated in the plan at that ti: when implenting the plan, all three familiesthe Qi, Hong, and Xie familieshad to be present. Such a strange rule was probably also set by the divinatory diagram.
Xiao Hua put Xia Wen under house arrest and brought Qi Yu with him on this adventure, but he didn't know if he counted as a Hong family mber. The relationship between the Hong and Xie families was actually very strange. The Hong familys elders still had a good relationship with Xiao Hua, and they could even be seen as equals if we wanted to get specificafter all, Xiao Hua was Er Yes last disciplebut there was almost no communication with the younger generation.
It was said that the Hong family mber in our generation was a girl, but no other information could be found. Xiao Hua passed the news on to the Hong family, but they didn't respond so he figured that they no longer cared about these kinds of things.
Now that I finally understood the whole story, there was only one question lingering in my mind. Jin Wantang had shown a gesture before he died. I didnt know whether he had been a mber of Shigou Diao, whether he had been bewitched by Xia Wen, or whether this gesture was to make his communication with seem more aningful.
Whatever the case, I didnt want to delve into these details now; Xiao Hua's purpose was very clear. Back in those days, Ba Yes divination was considered nothing more than feudal superstition and Er Yes worries were regarded as an event with a very small probability of happening. But all of these things seed to have co true, so now I was really curious as to what the Qin Eight Calculations thod ca up with back then. Was it completely accurate or was it just a re coincidence or even a hoax?
Black Glasses started having problems after they ca in to this place, but I told Xiao Hua to give the details later. Right now, I wanted to discuss with him what to do next.
"Let tell you whats going on with this cliff first," Xiao Hua said.
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Oh sweet baby Jesus. At last! Sothing finally makes sense! If I've calculated it right, we've got about 31 chapters to go til we're caught up (unless the author cos back from his break and starts whipping out chapters again)
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