Chapter 39: Chapter Thirty-Two 【Deceiving Heaven
After Lu Sisi entered the room, she looked uneasy, standing there awkwardly, glancing back at Chen Yan: “You… is this your home?”
“No, I rented this place specially for you. I just got the keys less than twenty minutes ago.”
Rented for me?
Lu Sisi was bewildered.
Chen Yan waved his hand, pointing to the bed: “Sit down and talk.”
“Huh?”
Lu Sisi swallowed hard.
She felt too shy to sit.
A man and a woman, alone in a closed room… you want me to sit on the bed?
Seeing Lu Sisi’s expression, Chen Yan stepped back a pace and sat on the only chair in the room.
“Don’t get the wrong idea. There’s something serious to discuss.”
Chen Yan paused, then said: “I’ve found a way to fix your fortune problem, but it requires time to perform the ritual. This technique is complex—it needs daily practice, repeated over several days.”
“That’s why I rented this place.”
Hearing this, Lu Sisi nodded vaguely: “Ritual?”
Chen Yan nodded: “Yes, a ritual.”
Chen Da hadn’t lied to her—this was indeed the reason he rented the apartment.
As for why he didn’t bring Lu Sisi back to his own home…
Isn’t that obvious? Would you bring a walking [Death Comes Knocking] into your own house?
And a hotel wouldn’t work either.
Taking a girl to a hotel to rent a room… for several days straight?
If anyone saw, it’d look bad! Lu Sisi is still a young girl.
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“Starting today, you come here once a day. I’ll perform the ritual on you here. It might take one or two days, maybe three to five. My estimate: even in the worst case, it won’t exceed seven days. The exact time depends on how the ritual progresses.”
“Mm…” Lu Sisi watched Chen Yan quietly, a trace of doubt still in her eyes.
Chen Yan smiled with half-closed eyes: “Did you use the talisman I gave you? How was the effect?”
It worked wonders!
The girl’s eyes lit up.
She hadn’t had a single misfortune in a full day and night!
Today’s exam even had questions she’d studied!
And…
She remembered how each talisman, the moment it touched flame, instantly vanished in a flash.
It looked utterly miraculous.
At this moment, Lu Sisi already believed Chen Yan ninety percent.
“Each session takes two hours.”
“After a few days, once it’s complete, your fortune should improve.”
Chen Yan spoke seriously, then pointed at the bed: “Now, lie down!”
“...Oh.”
Lu Sisi obediently sat, still tense, legs pressed together, hands neatly placed on her knees.
“Now lie down.”
“Mm… ah?” Lu Sisi jolted upright again.
Chen Yan sighed, speaking as gently as he could: “I’m not a bad person. I won’t harm you.”
“I’m a law-abiding citizen. Besides, when you came in, you saw people outside—they saw you enter this room with me.”
“If I did anything to you, you could report me and have witnesses.”
Chen Yan finished, pointing at the bed: “Lie down!”
When Lu Sisi lay down, her body was stiff as iron, trembling slightly.
Chen Yan glanced at her: “Close your eyes. Relax completely. Don’t think of anything.”
“But… what does it mean to not think of anything?”
“Empty your mind.”
Lu Sisi pouted: “I… I can’t do that…”
Chen Yan sighed: “Then count sheep. You know how to count sheep, right?”
“Yes.”
“Then do that. Relax your body…”
“After this, if I don’t tell you to speak, you must not speak!”
“If I don’t tell you to open your eyes, you must not open them!”
“If I don’t tell you to get up, you must not get up—and absolutely don’t move!”
“No matter what you hear or feel, you must not open your eyes, not speak, not move!”
Not open eyes, not speak, not move…
Lu Sisi pressed her lips tightly.
“Don’t worry—I won’t touch you at all. I won’t make contact with your body.”
These words eased Lu Sisi’s nerves slightly.
Chen Yan took out his bag, pulling out ink, brush, talisman paper, cinnabar…
He laid them on the table, lifted his brush, channeling Qi into the tip…
The brush danced like a coiling dragon, swiftly drawing seven or eight talismans in one breath.
“Begin!”
Chen Yan suddenly widened his eyes, a sharp gleam flashing within!
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A few minutes later…
Failed.
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“Didn’t I tell you not to open your eyes or speak?”
Chen Yan looked helplessly at Lu Sisi.
The talisman he’d just placed in the array had been disrupted when Lu Sisi instinctively blinked—its inscription burned away on its own…
The girl looked crestfallen: “I… I couldn’t help it…”
Just now, she’d heard Chen Yan pacing beside her bed, then doing something unknown. Suddenly, a buzzing sound filled her ears.
She’d instinctively blinked and let out a soft hum.
Chen Yan thought for a moment, then sighed: “Alright, I won’t blame you. But this won’t work.”
He paced twice around the room, then stopped, fixing Lu Sisi with a steady gaze:
“Do you trust me?”
“...Mm.” The girl, though still afraid, nodded firmly.
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A few minutes later…
Lu Sisi lay obediently on the bed.
Her eyes were covered with gauze, sealed shut with tape.
Two pieces of gauze were stuffed in her mouth, also taped over.
Now, she couldn’t open her eyes, couldn’t make a sound.
Chen Yan stared at his handiwork, falling into deep thought.
Damn…
If a police officer burst in right now, I’d have no way to explain myself.
Pushing aside his thoughts, Chen Yan repeated his instructions to Lu Sisi, then reactivated the array!
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Standing beside the bed, he pinched a talisman between his fingers, flicked his wrist, and as Qi flowed into it, the talisman ignited into blue smoke.
Chen Yan quickly chanted a incantation—the smoke shot swiftly into Lu Sisi’s nostrils.
“Hearing! Seal!”
“Sight! Seal!”
“Taste! Seal!”
“Speech! Seal!”
“Touch! Seal!”
Chen Yan chanted rapidly, flicking talisman after talisman, each instantly burning to ash!
After the five talismans turned to smoke, beads of sweat formed on Chen Yan’s forehead.
Just these five talismans had drained half his Qi.
He secretly felt a touch of relief—these past few days, he had encountered one stroke of luck after another, and his Qi cultivation had surged dramatically.
If this had been a few days ago, even if he wanted to help Lu Sisi, he wouldn’t have been able to perform a spell of this level.
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Living beings possess five senses.
The mouth can speak, the nose can smell, the ears can hear, the eyes can see, the tongue can taste.
These are the five senses of a human.
As the term implies, whether you’re destined to be an emperor or a beggar—
First, you must be a life, a living being!
All destinies must be built upon a single life.
Whether it’s celestial Qi, spiritual energy, great fortune, or misfortune…
They all chase after living beings!
A lifeless stone has no destiny.
And once the five senses are stripped away…
All qi, spiritual energy, and fortune in heaven and earth will gradually cease to pursue this existence…
Because without the five senses, to the Dao of Heaven, it is no longer a complete living being.
Of course… it’s not enough.
There is one final step!
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Chen Yan took a deep breath and slowly picked up the last talisman from the table.
This talisman consumed the most Qi of all he had drawn today; its runes twisted like demonic scribbles, its pattern the most intricate.
Holding the talisman between his fingertips, Chen Yan slowly chanted the incantation; under a flicker of flame at his fingertip, the talisman burned with excruciating slowness.
With the burning talisman raised, Chen Yan seemed to be bearing a thousand-jin weight—his arm trembled uncontrollably, sweat streamed down his forehead, and his face paled by a third.
“Spiritual Perception! Seal!”
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Spiritual Perception is a sense unique to humans.
It is the key reason humans rise above all other living beings.
Humans think, feel, imagine…
It is what the common folk call the sixth sense!
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As the talisman burned to ash, a pale blue smoke drifted lazily over Lu Sisi’s body and sank into her…
Lu Sisi, lying there, suddenly went limp.
To the naked eye, the girl still looked rosy-cheeked—but when Chen Yan used his Heavenly Eye to observe her aura… it was vastly different!
With the six senses temporarily sealed and suppressed… Lu Sisi now resembled an inanimate object.
Utterly lifeless!
After the six senses were sealed, under the Dao of Heaven, she had become invisible.
Because she was no longer a living being, no longer subject to celestial Qi or any fortune.
She was a corpse without the six senses.
Like a stone.
Fortune does not cling to a lifeless corpse.
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This was Chen Yan’s plan to help Lu Sisi.
Seal the six senses!
Fake death to evade fate, deceive the heavens!
As the saying goes: when a man dies, his debts are cleared.
Whether you’re destined to be an emperor or a beggar—once you die, you are merely a corpse.
What rots, rots; what turns to ash, turns to ash.
All fortune, good or bad, abandons you.
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After the last talisman burned out, Chen Yan’s legs gave way; he staggered back two steps and collapsed heavily into the chair.
Opening his Heavenly Eye, he saw that the black aura above Lu Sisi’s head had indeed changed!
The black aura, once thick and unceasing above her head, suddenly lost its center and its pull.
One strand after another began to dissipate…
Without the six senses, a living being is no longer a living being, no longer a life.
If there is no life, how can there be a Seven Extremes Destiny?
Without this vile Seven Extremes Destiny, the misfortune it brought became water without roots—slowly fading away…
Yet, while Lu Sisi was feigning death in the room, Chen Yan was still alive!
The rootless black aura of misfortune, as if drawn by something, slowly surged toward Chen Yan.
Chen Yan gritted his teeth, summoning his last ounce of strength, and pulled another talisman from his robe.
Then he drew a silver needle and jabbed it hard into his fingertip, squeezing a drop of blood onto the talisman, before slapping it backward onto his own forehead!
Thud!
A golden light radiated from Chen Yan’s entire body.
The black aura in the room, as if repulsed by something foul, recoiled and veered away, no longer gathering toward Chen Yan.
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