My grandfather still had his back to me and said, "Do you remember the first sentence I said when I taught you how to tell fortunes?"
"Remember." I whispered, "Humans stand between heaven and earth, and everything is determined by fate. Those who know their fate and follow it will win; those who do not know their fate and act on their own will lose; those who do not believe in fate and go against it may suffer a miserable defeat!"
"Those who do not believe in fate and go against it may fail miserably!" My grandfather said with a wry smile, "Just for a sentence, for an illusory hope of changing one's fate, the heir of the Half-Life Way paid an unimaginable price. The tragedy of our Wu family has continued from generation to generation, over and over again, and no one can break it!"
I exclaimed, "You mean, our Wu family wants to change our fate?"
"It's not just the Wu family, it's the entire Half-Life Dao." My grandfather said, "How long has the Half-Life Dao been around, and who the founder was, is unknown. Most of our family's heritage has been lost, and the remaining half-understanding cannot explain the origin of the Half-Life Dao. However, the Half-Life descendants are definitely not just from the Wu family. It is said that in addition to the Wu family's ghost vein, there is also a divine vein."
My grandfather said sternly: "Calculating fate is only the basics of a fortune teller. Being able to cultivate to the point of penetrating the mysteries of heaven and knowing the past and the future is not the ultimate goal of a fortune teller. The highest realm of a fortune teller is to usurp fate. Half-life masters are one of the few fortune-tamperers in the world."
I exclaimed, "Can fate really be tampered with?"
If people can change their fate, I will be the first one who does not believe it. Things that are destined cannot be reversed even by gods. Can human power change fate
If this can really be achieved, doesn't it mean that the fortune-teller can manipulate people's fate like a god
My grandfather said that the Half-Life Path is a life-threatening one, is this what he meant
"Yes!" My grandfather said in a deep voice, "The Half-Life Dao inheritance is very convincing, and all of us descendants believe it without a doubt."
My grandfather said in a low voice at this point: "However, our Wu family has never succeeded. Because the art of usurping life inherited by the Wu family is mainly about killing, not life!"
"Everyone has a calamity in their life. Which calamity brings life and which calamity brings death has been determined by heaven. What we, the Wu family's ghost veins, can tamper with is the calamity. In other words, we can delay the calamity, or we can bring it forward."
"As for whether the opponent can escape unscathed when the disaster comes, it depends on both man and fate."
When I heard this, I couldn't help but ask, "So, the so-called fate-tampering master still couldn't escape the circle of destiny, and just slightly changed the order of fate?"
According to my grandfather, if a destiny is originally one plus two equals three, all we do is change one plus two into two plus one, then wouldn’t the final result be the same
My grandfather shook his head and said, "Although I just changed the order, the result may not be the same. If a person is destined to have a minor calamity at the age of thirty and a major calamity at the age of fifty, and you move the major calamity to the front, even to the age of twenty, if he cannot avoid the major calamity, then the so-called minor calamity will no longer exist. Do you understand what I mean?"
"I see!" I couldn't help but gasp.
From this point of view, the ability of the fate-tampering master can be described as terrifying. Disaster is not like luck. Once it really comes, people can't escape it even if they want to. This is the so-called inescapable fate.
If the Wu family members use the art of fate-tampering well, wouldn't they be able to determine life and death at a glance? No wonder my grandfather said that fate-tampering is the ultimate in destiny.
My grandfather continued, "To tamper with fate, there is a price to pay. This price may be paid by you, or by someone else. There are some prices that you cannot afford, just like your father and your second uncle."
"At the beginning, I calculated that all the disasters in your life came from the ghost money. As long as you pass the ghost money to others, you can live a peaceful life. However, not allowing you to accept the ghost money is equivalent to changing the fate of your life."
"At that time, there were only two options before me. One was to change your fate and let others take over the ghost money; the other was to use human life to activate the Ghost Eyes Mysterious Technique and pass on to you the Wu family's supreme secret method."
"I thought about it and decided to talk to your father. After thinking for a while, your father agreed to take the ghost money. He said that if the ghost money recognized its owner in his hands, he would take the ghost money and leave his hometown, and never see you again in his life."
"If the ghost money backfires, he will use his life to activate the ghost eye and protect you from worries for the rest of your life."
My grandfather said in a low voice: "In the end, he died. He died because of usurping fate. You didn't see your father's appearance at the time. He was smiling when he passed away. His soul is gone, but he can protect you for your whole life!"
My grandfather choked up and said, "Then it's your second uncle. Your second uncle doesn't know about the ghost money, and I never taught him the inheritance of the Half Life Dao. But I know that he will not live past thirty, and he will not have any offspring. I can only choose to protect you and the last incense of the Wu family."
"Your second uncle is also my son! When I handed him the ghost money, my heart ached so much that it bled! But what could I do..."
"Your second uncle is dead. Before he died, he must have had a flash of inspiration and saw everything I did. That's why he dragged the dead body over here and desperately called me 'Dad'. He must have had some resentment in his heart..."
I was stunned when I heard this. The so-called spiritual light is that before a person dies, his soul can see the real cause of his death. Some people die of old age, but they can't close their eyes. It's either because they have something in their heart, or it's because of the spiritual light that they see things that are enough for them to regret.
My grandfather said in a bitter voice: "Before your second uncle died, he grabbed the ghost money, and his resentment also went into the ghost money. With his resentment, your ghost eyes may fail at any time. So, if you want to use the secret technique, you must be very careful!"
My grandfather didn't wait for me to say anything before continuing, "After they left, the story became more and more mysterious in the village, so I had no choice but to take you with me. If you carry resentment in your heart, you will never learn the Wu family's heritage, so before I left, I used a secret method to seal part of your memory and took you far away, to a place where no one knows us."
My grandfather paused and said, "After that, I have been guarding you and collecting big coins with Yin Qi to continue nourishing the ghost money. Because the ghost eye is profound, it is also the ultimate ghost communication. Without the nourishment of Yin Qi, the ghost money will not be effective."
"Since then, Gui Qian has never come to you again. I even thought that Gui Qian might not need you to inherit it. Unfortunately, in the end, what was supposed to come still came. I wanted to give up the rules of my ancestors and give up accepting you as my disciple, but you refused to go down this path!"
When I heard this, I didn’t know what to say.
But my grandfather said, "I let you go because I wanted to steal your life for the last time. Unfortunately, I still lost."
"Back then, when your second uncle died, I should have died. The only reason I'm still alive is because the Wu family's secret method hasn't found a successor yet, and Ghost Money won't let me die. This time, I'm definitely going to die. From now on, Ghost Money has given me seven days to live. Within seven days, I must pass on the Ghost Vein to you to usurp life."
"Grandpa..." I just said one word and tears started flowing uncontrollably.
My grandfather said sternly, "Hold back your cat urine. It won't be too late to cry when I really die. Also, remember this, when I die, you can only cry three times, not more! Do you remember?"
I wiped my tears and nodded desperately. My grandfather said, "Kneel down and listen to me. Don't come in front of me."
I knelt down as my grandfather said, and he began to teach me the art of ghost veins and fate-changing little by little.
My grandfather taught me for twelve years, which meant he passed on 99% of the secret techniques to me. Now, he passed on all of the Wu family's inheritance to me in just seven days.
But my grandfather said at this time: "Touch three times to the left from where you are kneeling. There is a knife there. Take it out."
I followed the direction my grandfather said, and sure enough, there was a hidden groove there, and underneath the groove was a Miao Dao with a blood-red scabbard.
Miao Dao is not a knife used by the Miao people, but one of the traditional weapons of China. It is named Miao Dao because the blade looks like a seedling. When Qi Jiguang fought against the Japanese invaders in the Ming Dynasty, the Qi family army used Miao Dao to fight against the Japanese invaders, which made the Qi family army famous.
After I pulled the knife out of the scabbard, the sharp blade actually drew a cold light like thunder in the dim light of the candle, and the temperature of the entire secret room actually dropped a few degrees.
It was not until then that I saw clearly that the narrow blade of the Miao Dao was covered with strange runes. This should be the magic knife used by warlocks in battle.
The handle of the knife in my hand was made into the shape of a forearm bone. At first glance, it looked like a human arm was connected to the back of the blade. Even more eerie was the Rakshasa demon with a ferocious head and horns shaped on the Miao Dao's guard. It was supporting the back of the knife with both hands, lying on the knife, and biting the blood groove of the long knife with its mouth open.
If this knife really kills someone and bleeds, the blood will definitely flow into the evil ghost's mouth along the blood trough. Is the evil ghost waiting to drink enough human blood
While I was surprised, my grandfather slowly said, "That is the Wu family's heirloom sword - Luosha. Now it is yours. I taught you how to use the sword before, but I never let you use it, just to pass Luosha to you one day."
"Rakshasa is a vicious knife, but it can protect its master and even save lives. In the Wu family, only those who have inherited the ghost money are qualified to own Rakshasa. As for what the connection is between the ghost money and Rakshasa, our ancestors didn't tell us, so you have to wait and find the answer yourself."
My grandfather's voice suddenly rose: "Next, every word I say is very important. Listen carefully and remember them all firmly in your mind. Don't miss a single word."
"When I tell you that I have nothing to explain, you will chop off my head with a knife, leave the body in the secret room, reseal the secret room, and never come back again. Do you understand?"
"Master, what are you talking about?" I was stunned by what my master said. (To be continued)