Chapter 23: Art of Geomancy

"Old Master, Teng'er's revenge cannot go unavenged! Now even the bones haven't been found. Those trash in the Ghost Suppression Division cannot be relied upon!"

In the main hall of the Wang family in Luohe, a woman was crying and making a scene toward the head of the Wang family.

"That's right, although Third Brother didn't do proper things on weekdays and wandered the streets, he was still a member of our Wang family after all. How could he die so unclearly?"

Another pale-faced youth was also helping to speak on the side.

"Bang!"

Seeming to feel annoyed, the current head of the Wang family, Wang Heng, patted the grandmaster chair somewhat angrily.

"All of you, shut up!"

"Although I spoke when outsiders were present just now, do you think I will let go of the person who killed my son?"

Wang Heng glared fiercely at the crying woman around him. The other party no longer had the beauty of her youth. If it weren't for the fact that her maiden family's influence was not weak, he would have divorced her no matter what!

"I have already sent a message to Senior Brother. I presume he will be able to arrive in two days. By then, relying on the Hundred-Ghost Tattoo Map in Senior Brother's hands, he will definitely be able to find the murderer!"

"At that time, whether to kill the other party or light a sky lantern, it will be up to you!"

"But now, there will be a great change outside the city. During this period, all of you are forbidden to leave the house. If anyone dares to violate this, family law will be served!"

After saying this, Wang Heng ignored the crying people around him and stood up directly, walking toward the outside of the house.

As a wealthy family, they naturally knew more and more comprehensive intelligence information than ordinary people, and even the imperial court might not have information channels as accurate and efficient as theirs.

If he said that a major event would happen in Luohe City next, then a major event would definitely happen.

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Lin Feng returned to the Ding-character graveyard carrying a small half-bag of brown rice just at noon.

"Woof, woof, woof."

Hearing Lin Feng's footsteps, Wangcai, who was lying in the courtyard, immediately ran toward him and then excitedly circled around him.

"Back? The rice in the pot is still hot, eat quickly!"

"Hmm."

Old Quezi also stood up from the bench and greeted him.

Ever since Lin Feng decocted two bowls of herbs for him a few days ago, this old guy seemed to gradually realize that Lin Feng was somewhat different.

In the past few days, when looking at Lin Feng, besides being close, there was also some respect, but he himself might not have realized this change.

Now Lin Feng practiced martial arts every day, plus digging holes and burying people, so his appetite was not small.

Otherwise, he usually wouldn't eat at noon. After all, in this world, ordinary families could eat two meals a day, which was already considered relatively wealthy.

After hastily eating something to fill his stomach, Lin Feng took Wangcai into the mountain forest behind the graveyard again.

In the past few days, among the corpses he buried, besides gaining another ten or so years of internal energy, his biggest harvest was learning a hand of geomancy.

This skill came from a destitute feng shui master. When the other party was still alive, his ability to look at feng shui was actually not very good, but after being harvested by the Corpse-Planting and Ghost-Raising Scripture after death, the geomancy he obtained was not bad.

Taking Wangcai to the top of the mountain, Lin Feng began to carefully observe the trend of the surrounding mountain ranges.

There were twelve graveyards outside Luohe City. The D-grade graveyard was at the foot of the mountain where he was, and the other graveyards were also distributed around.

Before, he didn't feel that such an arrangement had anything special, but now, in his view, there were some ways to it.

The twelve graveyards were located north of Luohe City, and to the south was the winding Luo River. The mountain range it backed onto strictly belonged to a branch of the Xinglong Ridge.

"It's actually a pattern of suppressing evil and raising ghosts. However, if such a large range of twelve graveyards is only to raise one ghost, it's a bit too terrifying."

Lin Feng had some realization in his heart, but his current geomancy ability was really not very proficient; he could only barely see some ways.

"Is it only Luohe City that is specially set up with such a geomancy layout, or are all the major cities of the Great Xia Dynasty like this?"

"If it's the latter, then such an arrangement probably has a very deep meaning. If it's the former, the person who can set up such a feng shui bureau must also not be simple."

The corpses buried in the graveyard were all lonely ghosts from various places. These corpses themselves were full of anger, obsession, resentment, and hatred. After death, they were unwilling to enter the soil, but they were forcibly buried in this kind of feng shui bureau by people and became nutrients for ghosts.

In this way, the high mortality rate of gravekeepers was not surprising, and it was even normal for ghosts to appear around every few days.

Lin Feng broke off a branch and drew on the ground, but in the end, he didn't determine what kind of ghost this graveyard was trying to raise, or where the raised ghost was.

After messing around for a long time without any clue, Lin Feng simply stopped thinking about it and took Wangcai down the mountain.

"Clack, clack, clack."

When Lin Feng came to the mountain forest again, a wooden puppet covered with dark red traces appeared before him.

This wooden puppet was carrying a bamboo basket, which also contained many herbs and mountain treasures dug up.

"Well done, but don't be active in the mountain forest during the day. Find a place to bury yourself!"

Lin Feng took the bamboo basket and gave an order casually. This wooden puppet was not the first one he made.

Every time he went up the mountain in the past few days, he would make one. Now there were already five wooden puppets, and the strength of each wooden puppet was about the same as a first-class expert.

Mainly, these wooden puppets had no emotions and would only mechanically execute orders, not fearing death or injury when acting.

And these wooden puppets themselves possessed ghost energy. After being reinforced by the Puppet Ghost and the Embroidered Ghost, they were even stronger than the wooden puppets made by the old man!

Carrying the bamboo basket back to the graveyard, Lin Feng saw Li Erniu and Zhang Dazhuang waiting outside the small courtyard with a donkey cart from afar.

If this were in the past, if Lin Feng dared to run around during the day, he would at least be scolded severely by them.

But now, when the two saw Lin Feng coming over, smiles quickly appeared on their faces, and they said to him: "Brother Lin, the harvest is not bad today?"

"It's alright. This mountain forest has all kinds of herbs and mountain treasures, but it hasn't rained for too long, so they don't grow very well."

Lin Feng handed the bamboo basket to Old Quezi. Lin Feng would go up the mountain every day these past few days, and they were all used to it.

"Hahaha, if Brother, you lack any herbs, just tell us brothers. There are not a thousand, but at least a hundred herb-picking doctors in this city, and many people still give us face!"

Zhang Dazhuang laughed and then patted his chest, indicating that he could handle it.

"That's not necessary. I pick herbs just to pass the time when I'm bored."

Lin Feng shook his head; he didn't have the idea of being a doctor.

"Is that so? Then forget it. There is a corpse today that needs to trouble Brother to handle. If it weren't for what you said, the two of us would have pulled it to another place."

Zhang Dazhuang laughed indifferently, and then pointed to the corpse on the donkey cart and said so.

"Thank you for your hard work. In this day and age, no one has it easy. If it were pulled to another graveyard, I'm afraid it would be easy for something to happen. In the future, just pull any extra corpses to me!"

Lin Feng cupped his hands toward them. Ever since he showed his ability in burying people, Lin Feng's appetite had become larger and larger.

Anyway, not many people in other parts of the graveyard were willing to do this kind of dangerous work, so Lin Feng discussed with them to pull the extra corpses directly over.

The two brothers were also honest. Hearing Lin Feng's strange request, they didn't feel strange, but directly sighed that Lin Feng was really righteous!

After all, Lin Feng's move was actually helping the gravekeepers of other graveyards share the pressure. ===== CHAPTER 24 =====