This divination reveals: the female corpse, its fate half-dead, half-alive, half-yin, half-yang.
It belongs to a specter, neither human nor ghost.
A male corpse must enter the grave alone, but the female corpse is the opposite; it matches perfectly with any male corpse's birth chart.
According to the divination, if the male and female in the coffins are buried together, the male corpse's entire family will be plagued by misfortune.
The female corpse, however, will gain a different kind of fortune, though no one can say what kind of malevolent entity it will become.
How could such a divination arise?
What sort of wicked thing lies within the wooden coffin?
My brow furrowed, I stared intently at the coffin on the right, unable to make up my mind.
Seeing me hesitate after two divinations, refusing to reveal the outcome, even the mother of the female side could not wait any longer. She urged, "Hey, little master, say something! Do my daughter and this bumpkin ghost's birth charts match?"
"If they match, then there's no better time than the present. Let's pick a spot and bury them today!"
As she spoke, the mother of the female side kept winking at Sun Chuang.
Sun Chuang quickly stepped forward and clapped me on the shoulder, his meaning clear, "What are you thinking about, Qingyun? Speak up!"
"This young couple were also ill-fated. They couldn't be a happy pair in life, so they can only be companions in death."
"Alas, the hearts of parents are everywhere. They even worry about their children's affairs after death!"
Sun Chuang, with his back to the male's father, winked at me desperately, his eyes conveying urgency and a hint of threat.
I was out earning money on my master's orders, but the client's payment went into Sun Chuang's account. I wouldn't get a single cent.
If it weren't for this, why would I be so easily threatened by Sun Chuang?
Truthfully, I didn't even have money for a return train ticket!
But lives were at stake, and I didn't want the living members of the male's family to meet an untimely end, nor did I want this half-human, half-ghost female corpse to become even more powerful and harmful.
I stated my position resolutely, "Their birth charts do not match at all. We absolutely cannot..."
Just as I was halfway through my sentence, a strange force suddenly affected me.
In an instant, my body was enveloped and oppressed by a surging vital energy.
A powerful and peculiar force invaded my mind, about to control my mouth and make me say something else.
It seemed the situation from last night was about to repeat itself.
Anger flared within me. I drew Xuanmen vital energy from my lower dantian and roared, "Heaven is round, Earth is square, seven stars traverse. The yin pole of the dwelling reveals true spirit. Ancestors of the past, lend me your strength, and repel all evil spirits! 敕——"
I was reciting a secret mantra from my sect, derived from "Wen Wang Yin Shen Gua" (King Wen's Yin Spirit Divination).
My lineage specializes in yin divinations, constantly dealing with the dead and the spectral. Conflicts are inevitable.
Without some means of self-protection, it would be impossible to retire peacefully.
Therefore, my master had long ago placed a protective jade charm on me for emergencies.
"Wen Wang Yin Shen Gua" is said to be a chapter from King Wen's divine divinations. Its content is profound and obscure, but it contains a specific passage for self-protection.
Though this passage is not long, its efficacy is boundless. It can mobilize Xuanmen vital energy, unleashing immense deterrent power in an instant to subdue all petty spirits.
The fact that I dared to linger in Molu Village was also partly due to "Wen Wang Yin Shen Gua."
After this loud shout, the surrounding vital energy trembled, as if something invisible was scattered.
The pressure that had been trying to coerce me instantly crumbled.
Seizing the moment of respite, I immediately darted to the female corpse's coffin and said, "Open the coffin quickly! I need to examine the body!"
Open the coffin?
Examine the body?
I, a yin divination master, wanted to do the work of a coroner?
As a result, everyone in the room froze, wondering what I was up to.
I was getting anxious. Since no help was coming, I had to act myself. I raised both hands, pushing the edge of my palms firmly against the female corpse's coffin.
Others didn't know yet that the thing in the coffin was extremely malevolent.
It was like a butterfly waiting to break free from its chrysalis. Once given the chance to couple with another male corpse, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Just now, the force trying to control me was identical to how Sui Wan'er had acted last night, attempting to silence me and let it achieve its goal.
Even a clay figurine has a bit of temper.
Did they really think I was a pushover, to be squeezed however they pleased?
Although my primary focus is yin divination, I am also knowledgeable in common Xuan arts for suppressing evil and subduing spirits.
Furthermore, my divination had shown that while the female corpse in the coffin would become very powerful in the future, it was not yet formidable.
If its current yin knot were broken, it would suffer a severe blow.
Creak—
The coffin lid scraped against the coffin, producing a grating sound that made one's teeth ache. After three pushes of my palm, the coffin lid fell with a clang, revealing the female corpse lying within.
She bore a resemblance to the mother of the female side, but was much younger, appearing to be only in her early twenties.
She was slender and had delicate skin, a beauty rarely seen.
As the scene in the coffin unfolded before me, I hooked a small bottle from my pocket and applied a drop of ox eye-tear to my brow, peering at it intently.
This bottle of ox eye-tear was a stock from my master, collected from the tears of an ox as it was dying.
Oxen are upright and diligent throughout their lives. Regardless of the cause of their death, in their final moments, they can move the yin and yang, opening a path through the spiritual realm.
For the living, applying ox eye-tear allows them to see what ordinary people cannot.
Hiss—
Upon looking, I gasped, inwardly congratulating myself on my good fortune. I thought, this timing was just right.
If I had been a step slower, or if my cultivation were shallower and it had managed to deceive me, allowing it to be buried with the male corpse, the sin would have been immense.
Through my yin-yang eyes, I saw that the well-nourished and beautiful female corpse had already begun to transform.
Her crimson lips were slightly stretched open, revealing a pair of dark, pointed tips on each side.
This was a sign of the corpse transforming into a Jiangshi, its two front teeth had already evolved into Jiangshi fangs!
On her smooth face and fair neck, a circle of white hair, like silk threads, had appeared – the very sign of corpse hair.
It was about to transform into a white-haired corpse!
I had not ventured out unprepared. I carried mugwort, rooster's blood, and other essentials with me.
Upon recognizing these signs of transformation in the female corpse, I hesitated no longer. I immediately took out another bag of rooster's blood and splashed it onto her.
From behind my ear came the furious and shocked scream of the mother of the female side, "What the hell are you doing? How dare you insult my daughter's corpse like this?"
"Sun Chuang, Sun Chuang, you son of a bitch! You colluded with this thief to swindle me?"
Sun Chuang's face was filled with fear, and he quickly apologized repeatedly, "Sister Fang, we've been in this line of work for so many years. Do I look like that kind of person!"
"Hey, hey, Qingyun, stop messing around! Hurry up and stop!"
I sneered and turned to face Sun Chuang and the others, saying, "Who has misled you all to insist on performing a ghost marriage for a Jiangshi? Do you want to abet evil?"
"Quick, come and see what is truly lying in this coffin!"
As soon as I finished speaking, neither the parents nor Sun Chuang stepped forward to investigate. Instead, they all took a few steps back in unison.
Their eyes were filled with disbelief and fear.
They all looked uniformly at the coffin behind me—