Book 4: Chapter 50: Qimen Eight Calctions Method


    Interpreting divinatory diagrams was a very abstract concept since they wouldnt directly give you a readable answer like search engines would. As a result, there were many possible interpretations for the results youd end up getting.


    But because the abstract interpretation here was rted to the things we had experienced before, it may seem abstract to Xia Wen but very specific to Xiao Hua.


    The divinatory diagrams meaning was very clear: something came out of the door, but this thing was neither dead nor alive. Something extremely bad was going to happen.


    I didnt think it was necessary to guess too much about what kind of door this divinatory diagram was talking about; Id bet my life it was the bronze door. Legend had it that King Wannu came out of the bronze door, but we had already killed one Wannu so I figured it wouldn''t be that big of a deal if another monster hade out.


    In fact, there could have been another interpretation of what this thing the divinatory diagram was referring to was. Divination didnt only focus on real things, so it was possible for anything to show up while you were doing your calctions. This even included things like pieces of information or secrets, which were all things that could be ssified as neither living nor dead.


    I asked Xiao Hua for more details about this point.


    The so-called Qimen Dunjia that Xia Wen used wasnt the traditional divination method. I only realized now that the Qimen Dunjia they had been talking about was actually a special divination method of the Qi family called the Qimen Eight Calctions Method.


    Qi Tiezui had been living in seclusion in the mountains after experiencing all those events at that time. When he was feeling down, he decided to calcte the future, but what he saw must have been terrible. Reeling with the shock of it, he broke the rules set by his ancestors and passed on all of his crafts to a child who wasnt rted to him by blood.


    It was impossible to determine what exactly he saw, but on that day, Qi Tiezui had already seen the whole thing clearly.


    Although Er Yuehong didnt have any divination skills, he had also foreseen a certain possibility. Those two people, together with the Xie family, came up with a n, arge part of which was said to have been determined using the Qimen Eight Calctions Method.


    This n urately pointed out that the worlds second most valuable tomb was the key. Xiao Hua believed that the "thing" that came out of the bronze door was probably a monster, a piece of information, or a secret, any of which would be found in the worlds second most valuable tomb. Otherwise, the n those three came up with at that time wouldnt point to this tomb.


    There was also a very precise rule stipted in the n at that time: when implementing the n, all three familiesthe Qi, Hong, and Xie familieshad to be present. Such a strange rule was probably also set by the divinatory diagram.


    Xiao Hua put Xia Wen under house arrest and brought Qi Yu with him on this adventure, but he didn''t know if he counted as a Hong family member. The rtionship between the Hong and Xie families was actually very strange. The Hong familys elders still had a good rtionship with Xiao Hua, and they could even be seen as equals if we wanted to get specificafter all, Xiao Hua was Er Yesst disciplebut there was almost nomunication with the younger generation.


    It was said that the Hong family member in our generation was a girl, but no other information could be found. Xiao Hua passed the news on to the Hong family, but they didn''t respond so he figured that they no longer cared about these kinds of things.


    Now that I finally understood the whole story, there was only one question lingering in my mind. Jin Wantang had shown me a gesture before he died. I didnt know whether he had been a member of Shigou Diao, whether he had been bewitched by Xia Wen, or whether this gesture was to make hismunication with me seem more meaningful.


    Whatever the case, I didnt want to delve into these details now; Xiao Hua''s purpose was very clear. Back in those days, Ba Yes divination was considered nothing more than feudal superstition and Er Yes worries were regarded as an event with a very small probability of happening. But all of these things seemed to havee true, so now I was really curious as to what the Qimen Eight Calctions Method came up with back then. Was itpletely urate or was it just a mere coincidence or even a hoax?


    ck sses started having problems after they came in to this ce, but I told Xiao Hua to give me the detailster. Right now, I wanted to discuss with him what to do next.


    "Let me tell you whats going on with this cliff first," Xiao Hua said.


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    <strong><em>Oh sweet baby Jesus. Atst! Something finally makes sense! If I''ve calcted it right, we''ve got about 31 chapters to go til we''re caught up (unless the authores back from his break and starts whipping out chapters again)</em></strong>