Ye Jin looked at me in surprise and said, "Is this possible? Heng Fei is just an ordinary person!"
I said slowly, "Think about it carefully. If we put aside the sorcerer who set up a plan in the mountains, aren't all the things caused by Hengfei? We have fought with others several times along the way, and everyone was injured. Why is it that only Hengfei, who can't even do fancy moves, is unscathed?"
Ye Jin hesitated and said, "That's true, but what does this have to do with Heng Fei's doom?"
I explained, "The so-called fate is a calamity that is bound to occur. Even if its existence is extremely absurd or even unimaginable, it will eventually lead to an unpredictable disaster. However, before its effect is truly exerted, it will never disappear."
"You've heard of the legend of the Imperial Seal, right? The Imperial Seal was equivalent to a calamity during the Three Kingdoms period. The culprits of the calamity were Sun Jian and Yuan Shu. Think about it yourself. If Sun Jian didn't have the Imperial Seal, perhaps the person who would share the world with Cao Cao and Liu Bei would have been Sun Jian."
Monk Shi suddenly asked, "You mean that the last words left by Heng Kun, asking Heng Fei to establish another ancestor, were also part of the calamity?"
"Isn't it?" I asked back, "What if the sorcerer set up a Feng Shui formation in the mountains to bury the old wolf, actually to help him overcome the calamity? Although he postponed the calamity for several decades, it still came as expected."
"The old man of the Heng family wandered here and accidentally heard about the old wolf's grave. He settled down in Sandagangzi. Was it just a flash of inspiration? That's because he was chosen by the heaven to be the one who triggered the calamity."
"Although the Feng Shui master also made various arrangements to try to gamble with destiny, destiny allowed Heng Kun to find the secret of Feng Shui. At that time, there were many immortals guarding the mountain, so Heng Kun failed to successfully trigger the calamity, and the Heavenly Dao postponed the calamity to Heng Fei."
"At the beginning, Heng Kun probably saw the clues, which is why he left Heng Fei a will to establish another ancestor."
"When we were at Hengfei's house and wanted to cut off his connection with the ancestral tomb, the ghost that appeared behind the ancestral tomb was not angry at Hengfei, but wanted to kill him - killing Hengfei would break the calamity. It's just that his strength was not strong at the time, so we forcibly stopped him."
After hearing what I said, Ye Jin suddenly shook his head and said, "You are wrong. Since everything will be fine if Heng Fei is killed, why did Lao Lang kill Heng Fei's wife and concubine, and even take away his illegitimate child? Isn't this the same as forcing Heng Fei to come and settle accounts with him? According to what you said, he is not avoiding disaster, but actively inviting disaster."
I said in a deep voice: "This is what I have never figured out. However, there is one thing I am sure of, that is, as long as Hengfei is found, everything will be revealed. Where is Guazier?"
Monk Shi pointed to the distance and said, "I asked Guazi to chase Hengfei."
"Good!" I clapped my hands, "Great job! Guazi couldn't catch up with the old wolf before because the wolf's scent was hard to find. Now with Hengfei, it won't take long for it to find the place. We just need to wait."
"But..." Ye Jin said worriedly, "I'm afraid that something unexpected might happen to Guazi..."
I thought about it and said, "Wait for an hour. If Guazi doesn't show up, I will work with Lu Xiaoying to calculate its location."
Seeing that I insisted, Ye Jin stopped talking. In fact, I was also worried about Guazi'er's safety, but two of my ghost eye coins had been destroyed, and conventional methods should not be able to find Guazi'er. Before the ghost coins were repaired, my ability was equivalent to being destroyed by half, and I was back to the state of just debuting.
At this time, I really began to envy Lu Xiaoying's amazing hand. My grandfather insisted that I get the amazing hand. Was it really just because of the agreement between gods and ghosts? Why do I feel that he saw the flaws of Ghost Eye Qian
While I was silent, Guazi came running over from a distance, called out to me twice, and then turned and ran back. We all chased after him, and were soon led to the river by Guazi.
I usually see rivers flowing around mountains and at the foot of the mountains, but this river flows down the mountain and is in the mountains. According to common sense, this should be the source of a large river, and the water should be rushing, but the river here seems extremely stable, as if it is flowing eastward at a leisurely pace.
When I looked up along the river, I was blocked by a mountain ridge. "I understand now. No wonder we can't find the Feng Shui dragon eye here. This place is called Sandaogangzi, which means there must be three ridge-like terrains in the mountain. I originally thought that Sandaoliangzi was arranged along the mountain, but now it seems that it should be arranged along the water."
"The waterway was barred three times to slow down the flow of water. Feng Shui is concentrated near the river, or simply at a corner of the river."
Old Lady Dong said, "We have suspected what you said, but none of us has found a similar place."
While Mrs. Dong was talking, Guazizi barked a few times in the distance. I chased Guazizi in the direction of Guazizi and soon saw a mound close to the mountain wall, covered with weeds. "Is that the old wolf's grave?"
Old Lady Dong rushed over and said, "It seems so. But when did he..."
Before Mrs. Dong finished her words, Monk Shi took the iron rod and pounded on the grave several times. The soil pushed away by the rod immediately collapsed backwards in the direction of the rod. Monk Shi used the rod to push away the soil and shouted, "Is there a cave behind that?"
Only then did I see clearly that only half of the old wolf's tomb was exposed outside, while the other small half was embedded in the mountain wall, just blocking the cave on the rock wall.
Ye Jin and I dug with our weapons, and the opening of the cave gradually appeared. Guazier lay on the cave entrance and called out several times, indicating that we should chase down.
Monk Shi and I looked at each other, then each took out a flashlight and walked down the cave. The further we went down, the smoother the ground became, and in the end we could only slide forward step by step to keep our balance, until we walked about a hundred meters, and the terrain began to gradually become flat.
I shone the flashlight around the area, and then shone it on a piece of wood. "This is the wood from the coffin. This is where the coffin must have been. Grandma, when Lao Lang was buried, was there a coffin?"
"It's useless!" Old Lady Dong shook her head. "We all witnessed the burial of the old man. There was definitely no coffin used."
I nodded and said, "It seems that the old wolf's grave is similar to what I thought. You may have been fooled by the sorcerer. The sorcerer buried Lao Lang in the ground not to help him survive the calamity, but to make Lao Lang pull the coffin for him."
"Impossible!" said Old Lady Dong. "When the old man was buried, we were watching from the side. That gentleman couldn't have done anything wrong."
I said in a deep voice, "When that man sat alone on the old wolf's grave all night, were you also watching from the side?"
"No..." Mrs. Dong suddenly realized, "You mean, he attacked Lao Lang at that time?"
"Yes!" I nodded. "The sorcerer gave you hope and gained your trust. When all of you thought he was desperate to complete the business, he controlled Lao Lang right under your noses. Then he used a trick to escape, put himself in the coffin, and let Lao Lang pull him into the cave along the route he had planned."
Old Lady Dong said, "But we buried the sorcerer with our own hands. If he just created a puppet, or had someone replace the body, we would not be able to fail to see it."
"What if he peeled off his own skin?" I said in a deep voice, "If he was cruel enough to use his own skin to make a puppet, would you still be able to tell?"
Old Lady Dong took a deep breath and said, "Skinning himself? Is there anyone in the world who is so cruel? If he did that, we really wouldn't be able to tell."
People use their eyes to identify strangers, but Old Lady Dong and her friends use their breath or smell to identify strangers. Even if they have practiced well, they can't change this habit. That person took advantage of Old Lady Dong's habit and made a puppet out of his skin, tricking them into throwing his body into the river.
I explained, "There are many kinds of secret medicines in the art of magic, and each has its own strengths. If a magician wants someone to take off his own skin, it is very easy. The simplest way is to cut open the top of the person's head and inject mercury into the skin."
"Warlocks also have many ways to make themselves unaware of pain for a period of time, or even unaware of their own death, and control their own corpses completely by will."
"That person doesn't need many, as long as he can hold on for an hour or so, everything will be done. I guess he left the puppet behind and ran to a coffin not far away to lie down and wait for death. The old man controlled by him first moved to his position, and then began to move slowly up the mountain. When you found that the old wolf's grave was moving, didn't you notice that there was actually something wrong with the direction it was moving in?"
Old Lady Dong's teeth chattered in hatred: "The old wolf's grave was indeed moved down the mountain for a while before it began to move up the mountain. Is that sorcerer lying to us?"
I said in a deep voice, "Whether it is or not, we have to go forward and see. If there are traces ahead, it means that my initial inference is correct. Heng Kun also discovered this secret and deliberately waited in front of Lao Lang, allowing Lao Lang to push his body to his destination first."
Old Lady Dong gritted her teeth and said, "Let's go! I want to see what they did!"
I followed the tunnel under the cave for a distance and saw a piece of overturned ground. Someone had fought here before. Although I didn't know how many years had passed since the battle, the traces of the ground being damaged were still vivid in my mind.
We are getting closer and closer to our goal.
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Thank you Doudou for the reward! (To be continued)