Chapter 27: The Huaijiang Witch

Just as Li Li Boyang had guessed.

The Huaijiang Witch of a thousand years ago was born with the ability to know the Mandate of Heaven.

Predicting celestial phenomena, organizing earth veins, divining fortune and misfortune, and most importantly, defying heaven to change fate...

The Huaijiang Witch could accomplish all of this with ease, and was thus honored as the "Huaijiang Witch".

But the Huaijiang Witch was not satisfied with this.

She attempted to summarize and categorize the principles of heaven and the myriad phenomena she observed, producing a path of divination that ordinary people could understand and even use.

For ordinary people, the Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets spoke of many things in detail, but could be summarized into just four words: seek good fortune and avoid misfortune.

The grand trends of luck, fortune and misfortune, the principles of heaven and fate, the cycles of generation and destruction, and zodiac signs...

As long as they understood these most basic principles, even if they could not use those aphorisms, they could still do some things that conformed to the principles of heaven.

Reading the "Heavenly Seasons" allows one to divide the four seasons and solar terms...

Reading the "Clouds and Rain" allows one to predict wind directions and timely rains...

Reading the "Mountain Trends" allows one to enter and exit mountains and wildlands...

Reading the "Earth Veins" allows one to distinguish fertile soil and water systems...

Reading the "Fate and Destiny" allows one to judge the direction of human hearts...

Reading the "Physiognomy" allows one to understand the good and evil of human nature...

Reading the "Auspicious Signs" allows one to know spirits and mountain gods...

Reading the "Ominous Fiends" allows one to identify evil fiends, ghosts, and spirits...

This is the specific content of the remaining eight chapters of the Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets, and also the crystallization of wisdom of that Huaijiang Witch from a thousand years ago.

As long as one knows the essence of the myriad phenomena, one can naturally derive the corresponding methods of response.

Take, for example, the Ru Fu who cursed Li Li Boyang before dying.

The Huaijiang Witch considered this to be a ghost or spirit born from the earth's evil qi, naturally unruly and violent.

If not tamed, or if a temple is not built to worship it, sooner or later it will bring disaster to the region.

According to the classification in "Ominous Fiends", that Ru Fu earth fiend belongs to Yang.

Therefore, to completely destroy it and prevent it from using the earth's evil qi to be reborn, one can only seal it with Yin-aligned methods, or slay it with an extremely Yang number.

The Huaijiang Witch adopted the former, while Li Li Boyang's golden sword pill belongs to the latter.

This is the simplest form of divination, and also the most basic method of seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune.

In Li Li Boyang's own understanding, that Huaijiang Witch was actually using "big data" to summarize and calculate fate.

It's just that her "big data" all came from her personal observation and understanding of the myriad phenomena.

Or, to speculate further, perhaps the Huaijiang Witch didn't even need to perform any divination; her Mandate of Heaven ability allowed her to see the final result directly.

It was only to allow ordinary people to predict and divine as well.

The Huaijiang Witch thus summarized the phenomena she observed and the Mandate of Heaven, ultimately compiling the entire content of this scroll, the Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets.

For ordinary people to reach her level is simply an impossible task.

In fact, even Li Li Boyang, who came from another world and possessed dialectical thinking and logical reasoning abilities, felt a headache when reading the Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets.

Let alone the fact that the Huaijiang Witch was an ancient person from a thousand years ago in this world.

Just like the ancients of Li Li Boyang's previous life.

When dealing with things she could not understand or comprehend, she often forced explanations using various theories of ghosts, spirits, and the Mandate of Heaven.

This is like someone who has seen the correct answer, forcibly using that answer to deduce the process.

One can only say the result is indeed correct, but whether the process is correct remains unknown.

If later generations were to re-derive the result according to her calculation process, whether the answer is correct depends purely on luck.

Moreover, this world is not the world of Li Li Boyang's previous life.

This world still possesses mysterious supernatural forces that constitute and influence the operation of all things.

It is only thanks to the Huaijiang Witch's Mandate of Heaven ability being extremely outrageous, allowing her to directly perceive the essence of all things and derive the final conclusion.

Otherwise, texts of the level of the Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets are usually the crystallization of civilization derived from the long-term observation and thinking of several generations.

【It really is big data fortune-telling?】

The more Li Li Boyang read the Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets, the more familiar the feeling became.

Putting aside those mysterious and obscure theories of ghosts and spirits, isn't this just the AI big data Computational Method of the twenty-first century?

As long as the amount of information known is sufficient, even your ancestors eight generations back that you don't remember yourself can be looked up for you.

The only problem now is that, compared to the internet big data of the twenty-first century, the amount of information recorded in the remaining eight chapters of the Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets is truly too little.

Without the blessing of the Mandate of Heaven ability, forcibly deriving conclusions from such a small amount of data often results in errors where a tiny deviation leads to a thousand miles of mistake.

【Would that witch who knows the Mandate of Heaven not have considered such a novice's difficulty?】

【Or does all of this ultimately have to circle back to the aphorisms of the "Myriad Phenomena Chapter"?】

Under normal circumstances, diviners must use the various details they see to supplement and calculate the specific situation themselves.

This leads to different diviners obtaining different results, which greatly affects the accuracy of divination.

But if a prophet or diviner could use a cheat.

Even if they couldn't see the result directly like the Huaijiang Witch and then deduce the process backwards.

At the very least, they should know the accuracy rate of their divination results, right?

Otherwise, wouldn't that be just like the fortune-telling blind men of the previous life, where accuracy depends entirely on personal interpretation?

【Besides this, your sister must have left something else behind!】

Looking up at Xi Luo again, Li Li Boyang's expression appeared very certain.

"Damn! You actually understood it!?"

Xi Luo was truly shocked, her eyes nearly popping out of her head.

Without knowing how to read, relying solely on the eldest daughter's flawed and stuttering recitation, he was able to realize that what his sister left behind was not just this scroll, the Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets.

To speak the truth, although Xi Luo had repeatedly overestimated Li Li Boyang's talent, she was still startled by the other party.

【You mentioned that your sister possessed the Destiny Divine Ability...】

【The beginning of this 'Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets' also mentions the wonderful uses of proverbs; isn't it normal to guess these things?】

Hearing Li Li Boyang say this, Xi Luo finally confirmed that the other party had indeed truly understood this scroll, the Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets.

However, looking at Li Li Boyang in the swaddling clothes, Xi Luo hesitated, which was rare for her.

"Child, you have great talent and are very smart."

"But you must know, if you only understand or even learn the 'Nine Chapters of Divination Secrets', that is not a big deal."

"But if you accept the other thing left behind by my sister, the responsibility and mission on your shoulders will be different."

"Are you really ready?"

Upon hearing this, Li Li Boyang merely raised his eyebrows slightly, making that baby face look quite intriguing.

【Since you chose to bring me to this Mountain God Temple, didn't you prepare to let me inherit your sister's legacy?】

【Why, when the moment has arrived and I am already ready, are you hesitating yourself?】

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