This community is entirely composed of mid-rise buildings, each with nineteen floors.
In today’s society, construction and property speculation are rampant, with residential complexes springing up everywhere. This particular community, located in a relatively remote area, has seen its prices driven down quite low—averaging around 6,000 yuan per square meter. Shui Miao examined the sales chart and noticed that dozens of units in other buildings had already been sold, except for Building 16, which hadn’t sold a single unit and even had a sign saying “50% off.”
Curious, Shui Miao immediately extended his spiritual awareness and sensed that many wandering spirits resided inside Building 16. He instantly communicated with them using his mind to learn the situation.
It turned out that this land had once contained over a hundred earthen graves. When the developer first broke ground, the bulldozers suddenly stalled as they approached the graves, and the drivers even suffered nosebleeds. The same thing happened to other bulldozers that arrived at the site, scaring away the construction workers. To continue development, the developer had pigs and sheep, along with fine wine, offered in worship that night, promising to build a cemetery within the community for the spirits once the buildings were completed.
Thus, construction was able to continue.
A cemetery was indeed built, but it was very small—only about fifty to sixty square meters. The spirits were dissatisfied and occupied Building 16, making it so that no one dared to buy a unit there. Those unaware of the situation who did purchase units found themselves unable to enter the rooms. After learning the truth, they tried to return their units and even caused disturbances at the sales office. Therefore, Building 16 remained empty. Each apartment was priced at about 600,000 yuan, with 38 units per unit block and three unit blocks per building, not to mention the parking spaces, totaling nearly 70 million yuan. The developer’s construction costs were about 10 million yuan, and with land and other costs adding up to another 5 million yuan, the total investment was significant.
With Building 16 unsold, the developer faced a loss of 15 million yuan.
To recover costs, the developer offered a 50% discount, but still no one showed interest.
“Sir, sir, are you okay…?”
A pretty female sales assistant noticed Shui Miao standing with his eyes closed for quite some time and approached, thinking he might have a health issue.
Shui Miao slowly opened his eyes, withdrew his spiritual awareness, and smiled slightly at the assistant, saying, “Go call your big boss. I’d like to talk to him about Building 16.”
“Building 16!” the assistant was taken aback, glancing at the chart and blinking her eyes before forcing a smile: “I’m really sorry, but the big boss probably doesn’t have time to come. Is there anything you need to tell us? The price of Building 16 is already half off, but if you really want it, I can give you a little extra discount…”
“No, no, you can’t decide that. You’d better call your top boss right away and tell him a Feng Shui master wants to talk to him about Building 16. If he doesn’t come, I guarantee that many ghosts will find him within half an hour. Of course, I’m not here to check the Feng Shui for him—I want to buy an entire building, and I’ve already brought the cash.” Shui Miao pointed to Xiao Hong and the others behind him.
Xiao Hong and the five or six other young women were quietly waiting nearby, each carrying several bags containing more than 16 million yuan in cash.
Hearing this, the assistant broke out in a cold sweat. She quickly turned to find her supervisor, who, upon hearing the news, felt a chill run down his spine and dared not approach. Instead, he immediately called the big boss directly.
Many people become extremely frightened at the mention of ghosts.
Shui Miao sat on the sofa and began to think.
This matter wasn’t too big, but it wasn’t small either. If he handled it alone, he would certainly have to expend a lot of effort, as dealing with greedy businessmen was naturally difficult. To make things easier, he could also call a few old-timers from Zhonghai City, and with just one word, they would be happy to give him an entire building.
But under the current circumstances, Shui Miao still had other thoughts.
Two nights ago, Shui Miao had deliberately let the fake Bai Niang and her companions go. His purpose was to let them continue impersonating him so that the Jade Void Sect from the Immortal Realm couldn’t track him down. Also, since the current situation was unclear, he couldn’t act rashly. Now, if he were to contact the old-timers in Zhonghai City about this building, it would inevitably expose his identity. At that point, they would surely notify Bai Niang, and the consequences would be unpredictable.
Indeed, upon hearing that someone wanted to buy Building 16, and that it was a Feng Shui master, the developer’s big boss hurried over. Shui Miao explained the situation, telling the developer’s boss about the spirits occupying the building. Initially, the developer’s boss was skeptical because Shui Miao looked young. However, after Shui Miao opened his spiritual eyes and allowed him to see the ghosts, the boss became half-convinced.
Shui Miao offered to buy the building for 15 million yuan and also help deal with the spirits. The developer’s boss set a condition: if Shui Miao could show him that he had successfully negotiated with the spirits, he would agree to sell Building 16 to Shui Miao for 15 million yuan. So, Shui Miao took the developer’s boss to Building 16 and summoned the spirits that had been haunting the building. Shui Miao proposed that the spirits could occupy six apartments on the first three floors, while the rest would move to the cemetery. He also invited any spirits with objections to step forward.
After Shui Miao easily eliminated two troublemaking evil spirits, the spirits surprisingly said they no longer wanted to stay there and didn’t mind the crowdedness of the cemetery anymore.
Spirits, unlike humans, don’t need such large spaces to live.
They had been occupying the building simply because the cemetery was too small, and their relationships with other spirits were poor, leading to constant arguments. Now, Shui Miao offered six apartments and the underground parking garage, totaling nearly 700 square meters, to six major spirit families. This naturally resolved the issue. Of course, Shui Miao’s intention was to use these six spirit families to keep the developer in check and have them serve as guardians of the building—a two birds with one stone strategy.
More than a dozen spirits from the six major families remained. After they moved in, the cemetery was no longer crowded but actually quite spacious. Additionally, out of fear of Shui Miao, the spirits quickly left to rush to the cemetery and claim their spots.
The elders of the six major spirit families stepped forward to thank Shui Miao, but they also presented him with a request regarding “settling the house.”
“Settling the house” is a concept many people are familiar with.
Many people who are particular about such matters know the importance of settling a house. If a house is built without being settled, both the living and the spirits can inhabit it because, without being settled, the spirits consider it an unclaimed house. In the human world, the living can go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register and obtain a property certificate. With this certificate, the house is proven to belong to you, and others won’t try to move in because you are protected by the laws of the human world. In the spirit world, there is also a Civil Affairs Bureau of the underworld. The houses where spirits reside are usually yin houses, which are commonly known as tombs. However, many people die in foreign lands, and many yin houses are destroyed, leaving these spirits homeless. They then seek out houses that haven’t been settled to inhabit. The living are noisy and make sounds with everything they do, while spirits prefer quietness and are bothered by noise. When both the living and the spirits live together, the spirits will cause trouble for the living. They will first target the person in the household with the weakest yang energy and the poorest health, causing strange illnesses that are difficult to cure. When the living realize something is wrong, they will seek out someone who understands both the spiritual and human worlds to settle the house.
Settling the house means the living person asks a spiritual medium to help register the house with the “Civil Affairs Bureau” of the underworld.
Now, Shui Miao was giving six commercial apartments to the six major spirit families. Knowing Shui Miao’s power, they wanted him to settle the house for them. Coincidentally, Shui Miao also needed to settle the house for the entire building, so he readily agreed.
Seeing Shui Miao agree, the six major spirit families were overjoyed and thanked the great immortal Shui Miao profusely.
Indeed, it was extremely rare for spirits to obtain a residence in the human world.
After settling the spirits, the developer’s big boss, who had witnessed everything, couldn’t help but regard Shui Miao as a deity. The following matters were much easier to handle. To establish a connection with Shui Miao, the developer’s big boss even accepted only ten million yuan and signed the sales agreement for Building 16.
Shui Miao didn’t treat him poorly either. He immediately used his immortal powers to cleanse the developer’s meridians and enhance his vitality, making him look refreshed and curing his minor ailments without treatment. In front of the developer’s big boss, Shui Miao handed the property agreement to Xiao Hong and the others, gave them the remaining money, and instructed them to be thrifty, be good people, help those in need, avoid vanity, and definitely not wear clothes that were shamelessly immodest. After giving these instructions, Shui Miao went alone to an apartment in Building 16, sat cross-legged on the spot, and prepared to leave his body to handle the house settlement at the underworld’s Civil Affairs Bureau.
Seeing how young and powerful Shui Miao was, the developer’s big boss thought of someone and secretly took a photo of Shui Miao, sending it to an old-timer in the Zhonghai Chamber of Commerce named Jiang Zhihao.
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