Chapter 278: Chapter 193 Fake God
Yun Ziliang began telling Zhou Xuan about what the “Living Person Rope” is.
“In the Feng Shui Dragon Seeking, there’s an occupation called dirt-reversing, which is essentially grave-robbing the wealthy.
So graves aren’t large; usually, a tunnel is dug into the grave soil. One person stands above holding the rope, tying it to another person who is lowered into the main tomb chamber to retrieve treasures,
Once inside the tomb, the person would untie the rope and attach the treasure to it to be pulled out by people outside the tomb.”
Yun Ziliang put down his bowl and added, “However, this thod has its downsides. If the person holding the rope outside the tunnel harbors ill intentions and wants to keep the treasure all for themselves, they might obtain the treasure and throw the rope back into the tunnel…
Sotis, it might not just be for greed. Perhaps the person inside the tunnel got entangled with sothing unclean, and the person outside, afraid of attracting misfortune, would simply cut the rope.”
“Then the person descending into the tunnel is in great danger, reliant on soone unafraid of death and not greedy. Such a person is hard to find,”
Zhou Xuan remarked sarcastically.
“That’s why this dual-partner model slowly evolved into a father-son partnership, where the father stands at the tunnel entrance holding the rope while the son goes down to collect treasure; it can’t be reversed.”
Zhou Xuan began to understand the concept.
“The rope the father uses to lower the son into the tunnel is called the ‘Living Person Rope’. Once the son encounters danger or sothing unclean, the father frantically pulls the rope.”
At this point,
Zhou Xuan understood.
Descending the Blood Well is akin to entering a robbery tunnel. When soone goes down the well, another must hold the rope; if anything happens in the Blood Well, the person must be pulled up.
The one holding the rope must be extrely trustworthy.
Trustworthy, the rope becos a “Living Person Rope,”
If not trustworthy, the rope turns into a fishing line for “Blood Well Fishing.”
The scene of the original owner taking the Jing Deng to fish treasures from the Blood Well is still vivid in Zhou Xuan’s mind.
“The Living Person Rope isn’t hard for . If no one else can be trusted, can’t I trust our Fifth Brother?”
Going down the Blood Well and figuring out the big plan of the Ancient Tattoo Clan only left “how to comply with the Ti Law and anchor ti and place.” For that, they needed to visit the ninth section of the library to acquire the remaining contents of the Blood Well Enlightennt Scripture.
“The gathering is tomorrow; once that’s over, I can get the rest of the Enlightennt Scriptures,”
Thinking of the gathering, Zhou Xuan temporarily shifted his focus away from the Blood Well Enlightennt Scripture.
He also had to help Li Chengfeng shine as the most brilliant Bone Elder at the gathering.
Otherwise, if Li Chengfeng submits his resignation tomorrow, he will no longer be Bone Elder.
Upon thinking of this, Zhou Xuan quickly finished his al and prepared to start the tattoo work for helping Li Chengfeng.
According to his plan, he would need to make three tattoos to help Li Chengfeng tomorrow.
They were Heavenly Official Blessing, Wordless Heavenly Scripture, and the newly learned Puppet Tattoo—City God Armor.
Heavenly Official Blessing didn’t need to be tattooed,
Li Chengfeng already had one ready.
The Puppet Tattoo required tattooing on a Taoist corpse, which Li Chengfeng hadn’t delivered yet, so it couldn’t be done.
Therefore, Zhou Xuan decided to start with the “Wordless Heavenly Scripture.”
The Wordless Heavenly Scripture is the soul map for two sticks of incense, requiring a Taoist soul.
Zhou Xuan took out Bone Teeth, his knuckle lightly tapping on the “City” character on the teeth: “Brother Yusheng, it’s your turn to lend a hand.”
The “City” character represents Lu Yusheng’s soul trapped within the bone teeth.
With Zhou Xuan’s invocation, Bone Teeth trembled slightly, and the agitated voice of Lu Yusheng ca out from the teeth—”Zhou Xuan, I won’t spare you even if I turn into an Evil Ghost.”
“You’re about to beco pignt, yet you’re still bragging here?”
Zhou Xuan pressed his middle finger on the “City” character, ditating on the “Wordless Heavenly Scripture” in his mind, as black mist rose from Bone Teeth.
The black mist grew thicker, and simultaneously, the “City” character faded, accompanied by Lu Yusheng’s painful screams.
Once his screams completely subsided, Zhou Xuan began tattooing the “Wordless Heavenly Scripture.”
Next to him, Little Fuzi was tidying up the dining table, while Lv Mingkun and Yun Ziliang were conversing.
The conversation mainly revolved around the latest newspaper report on the “Hunger” incident.
“Lao Yun, did you see the news recently? There’s a family in Pangjialing, eighteen people, who took in a beggar…”
“You’re talking about that incident, right? I saw it; the beggar salted them all into jerky, dismbering them into pieces, packed them into large sauce jars, sprinkled coarse salt on them. When the beggar was caught, he said he wanted to have them properly salted to eat during the New Year.”
“It must be the work of Hunger.”
ntioning “Hunger,” Lv Mingkun crossed his legs suddenly and stared into space, seemingly recalling the ti he was almost enticed by “Hunger.”
“This Hunger spreads like a plague, traveling everywhere, yet its true form remains elusive.”
Yun Ziliang stood up and walked to the door, saying, “In the city now, there are two to three ‘Human Food’ killings happening every day. If the matter of Hunger isn’t resolved soon, it won’t be long before the Mingjiang Prefecture is filled with Human Food cases.”
“Resolve… it needs to be resolved…”
Lv Mingkun’s tone wasn’t very resolute, reflecting that those who’ve encountered “Hunger” know its terror, silently corrupting minds and spirits.
…
The design of the “Wordless Heavenly Scripture” is a scroll of vellum, its pages open, yet with not a single word on them.
It looked wordless, but while Zhou Xuan was tattooing, he inscribed words into the book.
“One offers the River and Luo, asks what it is, Hao replies: Heavenly Book.”
These words made up the contents of the Wordless Heavenly Scripture, each word tattooed into the book by Zhou Xuan, one by one.
Each word tattooed would then vanish.
As Zhou Xuan finished tattooing the word “book,” and the word vanished, the pages of the Wordless Heavenly Scripture began to turn over. As they flipped, a single eye appeared.
The Wordless Heavenly Scripture represented the deity of the Heavenly Eye Temple — “No-words Heavenly Master.”
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