Chapter 301

Apple? Save life?

Confused by the lazy young man's suggestion, Hearing Li Ang couldn't help but ask:

"Why is it an apple?"

"It doesn't have to be an apple. Four-leaf clovers, rabbit feet, transparent amethysts, coins produced on specific dates and carried for a long time, or some red items symbolizing good luck are all fine.

I chose the apple because it is the easiest to obtain, unlike four-leaf clovers that wither easily, or lucky coins that need to be carried for a long time, and the price is especially cheap. One amethyst can buy dozens of carts."

"As for why I say it can save your life... that's because eating the apple and then throwing away the core is a simple occult ritual for praying for good luck."

"Ritual?"

"Yes, it's a ritual."

After raising his hand and pointing to the center of Hearing Li Ang's brow, the lazy young man explained slowly:

"For example, this gesture of mine pointing at you is a simple ritual in the occult sense, meaning 'guidance', 'selection', or 'locking'. Combined with your name, the effect can be strengthened."

Eating an apple is about the same. This sweet fruit, whose skin is mostly red, has four meanings: 'good luck', 'peace', 'temptation', and 'enlightenment'. It is a very classic ritual prop in the occult."

"And eating the flesh is equivalent to eating the temptation, throwing away the apple is equivalent to losing peace, and not eating or planting the seeds is equivalent to giving up enlightenment. After three of the four meanings of the apple are gone, what remains is pure good luck with a four-fold enhancement."

After speaking a bunch of mystical things, the lazy young man raised his hand and drew a wave line in the air, then continued to explain to the somewhat dazed Hearing Li Ang:

"I said before that because we are disliked by the World Will, we are much unluckier than ordinary people, but this does not mean that we have no luck, it's just that our luck is forcibly suppressed by the World Will."

"Then if we take something representing luck and throw it proudly toward this world, it is equivalent to linking with this bastard who suppressed our luck, completing a simple luck secret ritual."

In this way, a large amount of luck forcibly suppressed by it will spray out from the opening provided by the luck secret ritual, bringing us sudden good luck and reducing the fluctuation of fate, making our 'wave line' relatively stable and avoiding those overly dangerous troughs."

"Of course, after learning this secret ritual, it's best not to eat apples at ordinary times. After all, this luck is not generated out of thin air, but exchanged for the bad luck we accumulated, so the total amount is limited."

"And you are not like me, having an anomaly that can see through fate directly. Changing your own fate too frequently and randomly is very dangerous, so it's best to use it only when needed to ensure you don't die from bad luck."

……

So that's how it is...

After roughly understanding why throwing apple cores can bring good luck, Hearing Li Ang nodded in sudden realization, but after looking at the cat-claw badge on his chest, he couldn't help but ask suspiciously:

"But before, I only spat out a mouthful of fruit flesh, why did it also bring good luck and get the badge to enter the Chengjin Sect's ***?"

"Because you bit too much, and the seeds in the apple core were brought out, which can barely count as completing the secret ritual."

"I see..."

Hearing Li Ang nodded knowingly, then asked with some worry:

"Senior Tang Mu, are there any other 'simple secret rituals' like this that need attention? For example, eating an orange or black fruit or something, won't it suddenly bring bad luck?"

"It's okay, only when the initiator is clear about the effect of the secret ritual and does it consciously will this thing take full effect."

The lazy young man strode forward in the dim underground alley, answering in a steady tone:

"You were able to successfully launch the simple secret ritual just now, probably because you felt that spitting out an apple like me could bring

good luck, and you subconsciously imitated my posture in part, which reached the basic conditions for activation. Otherwise, the secret ritual would not be so easy to succeed."

"And our secret ritual effect is so powerful because we are disliked by the World Will itself. This qualification is not something ordinary people can have. For those who don't know, it is impossible to activate the secret ritual no matter what they do."

"Even if they really gathered the conditions and luckily activated the simple secret ritual, with the soul strength and aptitude of ordinary people, they would at most pick up a few copper wheels... Get ready, after this door is the Chengjin Sect's *** location, you should put away the anomalies on your body first!"

After reminding Hearing Li Ang, the lazy young man stopped, stood in front of a thick, heavy door nailed with one hundred and eleven copper wheels, then reached into his pocket and rummaged for a while, taking out a pile of strange things.

A small bottle of mercury, sulfur powder wrapped in moisture-proof paper, bagged table salt with "Charle Department Store" printed on the packaging...

Two sets of pure copper weights, a tin scale with an iron plate, a small silver mirror, two big gold teeth from who knows where...

Amber, matches, clipped fingernails, blood-stained draft paper, curved horns similar to cattle and sheep, the tail of some unknown creature...

It was very weird.

Watching the lazy young man, who looked like Doraemon, fishing out a pile of messy things from his small pocket and starting to "set up an altar" outside the gate, even though the situation was urgent, Hearing Li Ang couldn't help but ask:

"These things are..."

"This set of mercury is the three sacred elements, representing the fire of spirit and sexuality, the gentle water of change and adaptation, and the realistic material of stable support, which also means the body, the soul, and the bridge communicating the two."

Seeming to know that Hearing Li Ang would ask questions, the lazy young man, who was busy with the ritual site, answered without raising his head:

"The latter two sets are five elemental metals with symbolic meanings, and three pairs of materials with opposite meanings. Among them, amber is solidification and eternity, matches are transience and extinction; children's fingernails represent growth, the elderly's last words mean the end; horns and tails imply the beginning and the end respectively... Alright, I'm almost ready, let's go!"

After taking out an apple, gnawing it clean in a few bites, and throwing the core into the middle of the ritual site, Tang Mu, who had big dark circles under his eyes and looked far more like an internet-addicted teenager than a "wizard," pushed open the door in front of him and entered the Chengjin Sect's *** first.

"..."

So what exactly did you prepare?

Looking at the pile of ritual sites on the ground that couldn't be called sloppy and disorderly, but could only be said to look like a garbage dump, Hearing Li Ang, who had no clue, was silent for a while, then had to carefully bypass these things with unclear meanings, followed him into the Chengjin Sect's ***, and then...

"Cling-clang"

The moment he stepped across the threshold, a sound like precious metal coins colliding rang out. The cat-claw badge on Hearing Li Ang's chest shook slightly and suddenly threw out

a somewhat heavy cloth money bag, which fell at Hearing Li Ang's feet.

What appeared in front of Hearing Li Ang was not a pile of believers in thick robes, kowtowing to the statue in the middle, but a bustling, huge square.

A large number of gorgeously dressed men and women, whose faces could not be seen clearly, were wearing badges composed of three kinds of animals, walking back and forth in the square, and occasionally stopping briefly at a "stall" to buy their favorite...

Wait!

Looking at the dozen roaring mermen in sealed fish tanks on the shelves of the nearby stalls, and a miniature manor that was only the size of a palm but had fluttering flags and horn sounds, and even the texture of the outer wall stone was clearly visible, Hearing Li Ang couldn't help but widen his eyes in surprise.

The goods sold here... are they a bit wrong?