Chapter 445: The Indian Feng Shui Master

“Zhang Yuan, what are you doing?”

“Isn’t this Shui Miao! Shui Miao is back!”

“Oh my God!”

At this moment, Yao Jian and Li Guo rushed out from the tent. A woman also emerged from another tent. When she saw Zhang Yuan completely naked, she immediately screamed.

This woman was none other than Su Xue.

Su Xue, worried about Shui Miao and coincidentally meeting a colleague, had asked him to lead the way and hurried up the mountain.

“Stay back! He’s possessed by an evil spirit!” Shui Miao shouted urgently to stop everyone, then coldly said to Zhang Yuan, “If you release her, I’ll release you. If you dare to harm him, I’ll make sure your soul vanishes forever.”

“Hmph! Kid! Have you forgotten who’s holding whom hostage here?” The female ghost controlling Zhang Yuan made him suddenly grab his own throat. In a hoarse voice, she said to Shui Miao, “Shui Miao, right? I’m going to torture him right in front of you. Let’s see whether you’ll watch him die helplessly or withdraw your damned spiritual power.”

Zhang Yuan’s face gradually turned red, seemingly about to suffocate and strangle to death.

“Fine! You win!”

With a thought, Shui Miao immediately retracted his soul-devouring power.

The female ghost sneered at Shui Miao and slowly said, “Kid, do you know who I was in my previous life? I’ll tell you— I was a Taoist priest specialized in exorcising ghosts and demons. So I know what you’re thinking. People like you will do many foolish things for so-called righteousness. For example, to save his life, you will definitely release me. That’s your weakness, so you’ll never be able to defeat me.”

…

The ghost’s words shocked everyone.

Yao Jian and the others were all stunned.

Zhang Yuan had been possessed by a ghost, not involved in a one-night stand.

Such an unbelievable situation was something they had never encountered in their lives, so they were extremely nervous and scared.

Shui Miao was also very surprised to learn that the female ghost’s true identity was a Taoist priest.

“If you were indeed a fellow Taoist practitioner, you should know the principle that those who follow heaven’s will survive while those who oppose it perish,” Shui Miao stepped forward a few paces and solemnly asked, “Then why are you doing this?”

“Hmph!”

The female ghost waved her hand dismissively, showing no concern. “Kid, don’t tell me you’ve never been with a woman. Given your young age and the level of cultivation you’ve achieved, don’t tell me you haven’t tried dual cultivation through male-female union!”

…

Her words left Shui Miao momentarily speechless, unsure how to respond.

At this moment, Yao Jian suddenly shouted, “Monster, why are you harming Zhang Yuan? He has no grudge against you…”

“Hey, who’s this?” Zhang Yuan turned around, smiled seductively at Yao Jian, and said in a coquettish tone, “Big brother, isn’t it him who’s bullying me? Look at how he undressed me. I was in so much pain. You guys didn’t come to rescue me when I was screaming and moaning. Instead, you were all hiding in the tent, listening to me and jerking off. Now you’re blaming me? You men are all no good.”

Seeing Zhang Yuan’s coy demeanor and hearing her words, Yao Jian’s skin crawled, and he almost vomited.

Li Guo threw a blanket at Zhang Yuan, “It’s cold. You’d better wrap yourself up.”

Zhang Yuan caught the blanket, looked at it, then gave Li Guo a meaningful glance, gently lifting his pinky finger in a delicate gesture, “Fatty, you’re so sweet to me! I’m starting to like you!”

“N-no… you don’t need to like me…”

Li Guo blushed slightly and turned his face away.

Zhang Yuan wrapped the blanket around his waist and then said in a sarcastic tone, “Beauty, I’m covered now. You can look over here. We aren’t strangers, you know. I’ve been waiting for you here for years.”

“You, you’re talking nonsense! I don’t even know you.”

Su Xue felt a sudden surge of nervousness. If it weren’t for Shui Miao being in trouble, she would never have come back.

“Hehe, you know exactly who I am, yet you’re pretending. Do you think that’s amusing?” Zhang Yuan sighed, “Alright, I’ll be honest with you. Actually, your fate and mine are the same. That’s why I chose you back then, wanting to possess your body and be reborn as a human. However, you little girl was too timid. It took you until today to finally come. But no matter what, you’ve finally arrived today, and my long-held wish of becoming human again can finally be fulfilled.”

Was he going to possess Su Xue’s body?

Shui Miao’s heart stirred immediately.

At that moment, Zhang Yuan’s body suddenly shuddered, and a stream of black mist spewed from his mouth, directly rushing toward Su Xue.

“Ahh!”

Seeing this scene, Su Xue was greatly frightened.

“Haha! You can’t escape this time!”

The female ghost was extremely bold, completely ignoring Shui Miao, and was about to possess Su Xue right in front of him.

It happened in the blink of an eye. Just as the ghost approached Su Xue, Su Xue’s body suddenly flickered, instantly creating more than a dozen identical copies of herself!

“Huh? What’s going on…”

The female ghost slammed on the brakes, frowning immediately.

At this critical moment, Shui Miao activated an illusion formation, instantly confusing the female ghost and forcibly dragging her consciousness into an illusory realm.

In front of her, the dozen Su Xues were all identical, each radiating soul-devouring power.

The female ghost suddenly turned around, staring fixedly at Shui Miao, “Kid, I underestimated you. I didn’t expect you to have such a magical artifact. Now let’s negotiate. How about I accompany you in dual cultivation? We can progress together and gain boundless benefits.”

The ghost’s voice became increasingly gentle, and her expression increasingly seductive.

That’s right—she was using her seductive magic on Shui Miao.

Shui Miao stood motionless, merely smiling faintly, “To cultivate together with me, do you have enough power?”

“Not sure? Why don’t we give it a try?”

The female ghost bit her red lip lightly, displaying a provocative expression.

“Great! Let’s go to another place. There, no one will disturb us, and there’s abundant spiritual energy. We can indulge in passionate cultivation together.” Shui Miao waved his hand, and a mysterious black hole appeared beside him.

The female ghost narrowed her eyes and smiled slightly. Suddenly, she darted toward the edge of the black hole. Instantly, another Shui Miao appeared beside the black hole, while the original Shui Miao vanished in a flash. The surrounding scenery changed dramatically, and the multiple Su Xues merged back into one. Then, the female ghost abruptly turned her head again, rushing straight toward Su Xue.

She deduced that all of this was an illusion created by Shui Miao. If she entered the black hole, she would be walking straight into a trap. Therefore, she wouldn’t recklessly enter the black hole but instead continue her attempt to possess Su Xue’s body.

“Whoosh!”

A gust of wind sounded, and the female ghost suddenly found herself in a completely different scene—inside a rock crevice surrounded by stone walls.

“Damn! I actually guessed wrong! I actually lost to a brat?”

The female ghost exhaled in defeat. She knew Shui Miao was clever and resourceful, having set a trap ahead of her.

“This female ghost is indeed cunning and treacherous. Fortunately, I outsmarted her by one step.” Shui Miao glanced at the Holy Yuan Ring on his hand, sighed in relief, and quickly turned to Yao Jian, “Big Brother Yao, we can’t stay here any longer. Zhang Yuan has suffered severe energy loss and cannot endure the cold and dampness. You all must hurry and take him down the mountain to recuperate. Also, Su Xue, why did you come here?”

“Because of you, of course! Weren’t you coming here to seek death? How come you’re still alive?” Su Xue was furious. She had risked her life coming here for Shui Miao.

Shui Miao smiled slightly while shaking his head, “Do I look like someone seeking death?”

“Shui Miao, have you been deceiving me all along?” Su Xue approached Shui Miao, glaring at him angrily.

“You assumed on your own that I wanted to die. How can you say that I deceived you?” Shui Miao turned around and looked at Zhang Yuan. At this time, Yao Jian and Li Guo had already helped him up, and he had regained consciousness. His body was very weak, and he softly said, “Thank you…”

“Big Brother Yao, let’s go down the mountain. Here, even if there is the world’s greatest spiritual vein, you won’t be able to benefit from it. You’ve seen the female ghost that possessed Zhang Yuan just now. The monsters inside the mountain’s spiritual vein are at least ten times more powerful than that ghost.” Shui Miao reminded Yao Jian again with concern.

Yao Jian was somewhat frightened as well. He had personally witnessed the female ghost possessing Zhang Yuan.

However, Yao Jian was still somewhat reluctant.

They had come here five or six times already. Now, just when they had finally found the cave entrance into the mountain, they were forced to retreat. How could he accept that easily?

“Little Brother Shui Miao, it’s already night now. It’s really inconvenient to walk in the dark, with uneven terrain in the mountains. Didn’t you already capture that female ghost? There shouldn’t be any problems anymore, right?” Yao Jian asked Li Guo to stay near Zhang Yuan’s tent.

Shui Miao knew that Yao Jian was still reluctant, so he turned and walked toward the snowy area, “You all come with me holding the lamps.”

“Okay…”

Yao Jian and Su Xue quickly fetched their miner’s lamps and followed Shui Miao into the snow.

Shui Miao pointed to a spot in the snow and asked Yao Jian to dig.

Yao Jian was puzzled but didn’t ask questions and started digging immediately. However, after just a few shovels, he unearthed a white jade-like skeleton!

Startled, Yao Jian quickly stood up.

Shui Miao pointed his hand and directly used spiritual energy to melt the snow, then pointed at the pale, jade-like, translucent skeleton and said, “You’ve probably never seen a skeleton like this in your entire life. This is the skeleton of that female ghost just now. Her cultivation is extremely deep. If I hadn’t come out in time, you all would have died tonight. Now you’ve saved your lives. Isn’t that enough?”

The skeleton was right in front of them, exuding a chilling aura.

Finally, Yao Jian felt fear and quickly nodded, “Thank you, little brother. I know what to do now. Li Guo, quickly pack up. Let’s go down the mountain.”

Yao Jian turned around, and this time he finally realized that Shui Miao had acted in his best interest.

Shui Miao turned around and looked at Su Xue, “Aren’t you going to pack up yet?”

“I know you’re not sick at all. You just said that on purpose to get rid of me. Now I’ve made up my mind. I’m going to follow you, even if it means facing death!” Su Xue was convinced that Shui Miao wasn’t sick, so she was determined not to miss this opportunity again.

“Ah!”

Shui Miao sighed and suddenly lifted his clothes, exposing his belly, then reached out to pull down his zipper.

“Go ahead, go ahead. I want to see if you’re really sick or not.”

Suddenly, Su Xue transformed into a fearless, bold woman. She shone her miner’s lamp directly at Shui Miao’s lower body, waiting for him to reveal himself.

“Zip…”

The zipper was pulled down, and Su Xue decisively closed her eyes.

Since there was still underwear underneath, Shui Miao didn’t care, “Not looking? Then I’m going to zip it back up?”

“Fine! I’ll look!”

Su Xue suddenly turned her head back and, upon seeing Shui Miao’s underwear, became arrogant again, “Take it off! Why don’t you take it all off?”

…

This put Shui Miao in a difficult position. He couldn’t really take it all off, could he?

But Su Xue kept provoking him, making it hard for him to swallow his pride.

Suddenly, Shui Miao thought of an idea—using an illusion to create a false image of himself for her to see.

Sure enough, Su Xue fell for it.

Seeing the sight of something covered in disgusting pus-filled blisters, Su Xue nearly vomited up her dinner from last night.

Since he was bored anyway, and to be thorough, Shui Miao decided to personally escort the four of them down the mountain.

Shui Miao carried Zhang Yuan on his back, deeply moving him to the point of shedding tears. On Shui Miao’s back, Zhang Yuan silently vowed never to underestimate others again.

After dropping everyone off at the hotel at the foot of the mountain, Su Xue immediately fled to her room without even saying goodbye to Shui Miao.

Such is the reality and coldness of women.

Suddenly, Shui Miao felt like he truly understood women.

In contrast, Zhang Yuan held Shui Miao’s hand, thanking him profusely, making Shui Miao feel quite embarrassed.

After saying goodbye to everyone, just as Shui Miao was about to leave the hotel and return to the mountains, the hotel owner called him over, pulling him aside and whispering secretly, “A Feng Shui master from Nepal, leading a large group of people, including even a Nepalese military unit, is currently blowing up the mountain!”

“What’s going on? What do they want to do?” A thought stirred in Shui Miao’s mind. He had previously heard the sound of explosions but didn’t know the reason behind them.

The old man was very well-informed. He smirked and said, “What else could they be doing? Obviously, they’re looking for that precious stone. Unfortunately, they don’t know where the stone is or its characteristics. Using explosives won’t help. Even if they blow up the entire Mount Everest, they won’t be able to uncover that precious stone.”

Shui Miao already knew this.

Those who could recognize the presence of a spiritual vein within the mountain must at least possess some real skills. Unlike this old man, who obtained a treasure without knowing its true nature, the Feng Shui master should be an expert. Moreover, the explosion sound was only heard once, indicating that the Feng Shui master wasn’t blindly resorting to heavy bombardment. He might actually be a master. Shui Miao waved his hand, “No, that’s not what I meant to ask. I’m interested in that Feng Shui master. Do you know where he’s from?”

“You’re asking about that!”

The old man furrowed his brows, “I heard that the master is Indian, and he seems to be quite famous in India.”

“An Indian!”

“Do Indians even believe in Feng Shui?”

Shui Miao was taken aback, thinking that Feng Shui should only be known to the Chinese.

“Of course they do! Who wouldn’t believe in Feng Shui!” The old man immediately started talking, “I heard that U.S. President Obama believes in Feng Shui too. The position of the windows in his office was specially arranged by a Chinese Feng Shui master. Even the Japanese treat Feng Shui as a treasure. They have some people called Onmyōji, which is actually a small sect derived from Chinese Feng Shui. As for South Korea, don’t even mention them—they directly put our Bagua (Eight Trigrams) on their national flag. And Southeast Asia, especially Singapore, why are they the richest in Southeast Asia? Because they apply Feng Shui well. And…

The old man continued on endlessly.

Across the five continents, lands were activated through his chatter.

These pieces of information, whether true or false, were indeed good ways to relieve boredom. When the old man finally finished talking, Shui Miao had nothing more to ask and immediately dashed away, circling the mountain.

Shui Miao now had no shortage of spiritual energy. His Wind Riding Technique had more opportunities for practice and gradually became as refined as second nature.

Inside the Holy Yuan Ring, the female ghost was trapped in illusions and couldn’t escape.

Her skeleton was stored by Shui Miao in another ring.

Shui Miao felt that there must have been something that traumatized this female ghost, otherwise she wouldn’t have become like this. Moreover, Shui Miao always felt that this female ghost was pitiful, despite her outward arrogance and wickedness.

The Holy Yuan Ring was a space ring for storage, so its defensive power was very limited.

If the female ghost wasn’t trapped in the illusion formation and attacked the ring with full strength, the ring would definitely be destroyed.

Shui Miao was well aware of these stakes, but with the illusion formation in place, he was fearless.

After all, practicing the illusion formation was also a form of training.

Under the night sky, Shui Miao, as light as a swallow, darted like a ghost through the mountains. Late at night, he finally found a campsite. There were more than thirty people there, including twenty-one soldiers. Among them, only one was Chinese—a female college student who had just graduated a few years ago. In the center of the tent, an Indian man in his fifties, neither fat nor thin, dressed in yellow clothes and barefoot, was sitting cross-legged. He didn’t look ugly, but he wasn’t handsome either.

As soon as Shui Miao arrived there, the Indian Feng Shui master stood up and looked in Shui Miao’s direction.

“What’s going on? Can he sense me with his spiritual sense?”

Under Shui Miao’s spiritual sense, he discovered that the Indian Feng Shui master was indeed smiling toward his direction.

At this time, two apprentices of the Indian Feng Shui master approached. He asked his apprentices to call the Chinese girl. Then, under the protection of more than ten soldiers, they walked toward Shui Miao.

Shui Miao didn’t move but walked about thirty meters north and sat cross-legged on a stone.

The Indian Feng Shui master and his group came to Shui Miao, and they greeted him with a nod. After saying a few reverent words in Indian, they asked the Chinese girl to start translating. Perhaps seeing a compatriot, the girl smiled brightly at Shui Miao and said, “Hello, handsome. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Mia. I’m a temporary translator hired by this Indian gentleman. He wants me to tell you that he’s very happy to meet you. His Chinese name is Feng Sheng Shui Qi (which means ‘prosperity arises’). It seems that you must be a powerful Feng Shui master too, right?”

“Oh?”

Shui Miao looked at this barefoot, smiling Indian uncle and said to Mia, “Beauty, tell him my name is Shui Miao. Ask him how he could tell that I’m also a powerful Feng Shui master?”