“Will changing the position of the main gate really change our Ancient God Clan's terrible fortune, Patriarch?”
The Second Elder of the Ancient God Clan asked as he stared at the brand-new gate in its new position!
In recent years, things had been going terribly wrong for the Ancient God Clan.
First, Baili Mo, who was nurturing the Immortal Saber for their clan, not only had his treasured blade stolen, but no one even knew where he had died.
Then, he and the Patriarch had been beaten up by Hanyan and Huo Furong of the Qingshan Sect, and even had their storage bags snatched!
After that, the Ancient God Clan's silly ancestor went missing, which only marked the beginning of even greater hardships!
The silly ancestor had stolen the Vajra Bodhi Fruit from the Ancient Buddha Sect.
Immediately after, he had stolen the clan-stabilizing treasure of the Ancient Barbarian Clan.
The problem was, it was one thing to steal, but he had also given Man Xiong a thorough beating, forcing them to pay a massive sum of spirit stones in compensation!
And that wasn't the end of it. From then on, it was as if the Ancient God Clan had flipped a switch that summoned the Qingshan Sect back into the world.
The Qingshan Sect, which had been completely unheard of for countless years and couldn't be found even if one tried, now began to frequently drop by the Ancient God Clan for “visits.”
The problem was, they didn't do anything when they came!
They just grabbed them and gave them a savage beating!
To make matters worse, it wasn't just Huo Furong who came to beat them up.
Even the Qingshan Grand Elder seemed to have taken the wrong medicine, running over to beat them up as well!
They really wanted to ask: how on earth had they offended the Qingshan Sect?
But the answer they always got was that they simply deserved a beating!
Deserved a beating?!
How on earth did they deserve a beating??
They lived their lives in a perfectly clean and upright manner. Aside from bullying the weak, they had never once provoked the Qingshan Sect.
So why did they deserve to be beaten?
Because the top brass of the clan were beaten up every few days, the entire Ancient God Clan was thrown into a state of panic, feeling as though they could no longer go on.
Many clan members suffered unspeakably, complaining endlessly!
Because during the brief intervals when the Qingshan Sect wasn't beating them, the Ancient Buddha Sect and the Ancient Barbarian Clan would step in to fill the gaps!
Every single day, either the Ancient Buddha Sect was demanding the Vajra Bodhi Fruit, or Man Yu of the Ancient Barbarian Clan was demanding compensation!
Or the Qingshan Sect was in a bad mood and came to beat them up!
Left with no other choice, they paid a massive sum of spirit stones to the Ancient Buddha Sect and a huge amount of resources to the Ancient Barbarian Clan.
Only then did the two forces finally leave them in peace!
Thus, the Ancient God Clan felt that their clan's feng shui had been ruined!
The Patriarch had first chopped down the tree by the main gate, thinking that perhaps it was the tree that was ruining the Ancient God Clan's feng shui.
As it turned out, even after the tree was chopped down, it didn't help at all!
Helpless, they had finally hired a feng shui master to change the position of the main gate, hoping it would turn the Ancient God Clan's bad luck around!
Hearing the Second Elder ask if this could really change their bad luck, the Patriarch of the Ancient God Clan stroked his beard and said confidently,
“Absolutely. This was specially designated by a master!”
“Is this master really accurate?” the Second Elder asked with some worry.
The Patriarch of the Ancient God Clan looked at the Second Elder speechlessly and snapped,
“The Qingshan Grand Elder is accurate! Why don't you go ask him to take a look? See if he doesn't beat you to death!”
The Second Elder choked on his words and muttered softly,
“I'm just worried, is all.”
At this moment, the Third Elder of the Ancient God Clan, who was standing nearby, spoke up,
“Don't worry. I found the number one diviner of the Central Province, the Tianji Old Man. I heard from that Bai Tiansheng guy that this fellow's divinations are incredibly accurate!”
Standing to the side, the Tianji Old Man was shivering.
“When you guys are talking about someone, can you at least consider the feelings of the person involved?”
“And what's with this 'Tianji Old Man' nonsense?”
“I feel like in the eyes of you old monsters, I'm probably just a kid.”
“You guys might as well just call me the Tianji kid!”
“Boohoo... My luck is just too terrible. To think I'd get mixed up in the affairs of these ancient powers.”
“No, I have to run away the first chance I get!”
“Every time I read my own face, I get the feeling that a bloody disaster is looming over me!”
Back when he was in the Tiansheng Sect, he had already planned to run away. However, right after he recovered from his injuries and emerged from seclusion, and returned to his own sect to make arrangements, before he could even flee, he had been captured by Bai Tiansheng of the Yunhua Sacred Palace and the Third Elder of the Ancient God Clan to look at their feng shui!
Just then, the Patriarch of the Ancient God Clan looked at the Tianji Old Man and spoke,
“Your divinations are highly accurate, aren't they?”
The Tianji Old Man quickly nodded. “Answering Senior, simple hexagrams are indeed no problem at all!”
But in his heart, he was complaining: “If people like you are having bad luck, there's nothing I can do about it!”
He had already inspected the Ancient God Clan's feng shui, and there were basically no issues with it!
They were simply suffering from sheer bad luck, and it was entirely brought upon them by their own silly ancestor!
However, he didn't dare say it out loud!
The Patriarch of the Ancient God Clan nodded. His eyes narrowed slightly as he looked at the Tianji Old Man.
“Tianji Old Man, since your divinations are so accurate, I have a task to entrust to you now. Are you willing?”
The Tianji Old Man wore a look of surprise on his face, but inside, he was screaming:
“I'm not willing! I'm not willing at all!”
“But I don't dare say it!”
“What should I do? Someone, please save me!”
Right then, the Patriarch of the Ancient God Clan's voice rang out once more:
“Tianji Old Man, divine the location of our ancestor. If you do it well, I will help you advance to the Mahayana stage!”
Hearing the Patriarch's words, the Tianji Old Man felt a bitter taste in his mouth. “Is this even something I can divine?”
“This breakthrough to the Mahayana stage is probably not going to be easy to earn!”
“What is it?”
Just then, the Patriarch's gaze turned cold as he glared at the Tianji Old Man!
The Tianji Old Man shuddered. Snapping out of it, he quickly said,
“Should I perform the divination right here at the main gate?”
The Patriarch of the Ancient God Clan froze. Indeed, conducting a divination right at the entrance was somewhat inappropriate.
Subsequently, the Patriarch and the others led him into the main hall!
Upon entering the main hall of the Ancient God Clan, the Tianji Old Man did not dare delay for even a single second.
His hands rapidly formed complex hand seals as countless divination marks materialized and floated around him!
At this moment, the main hall was dead silent. The Patriarch and the others held their breath, their eyes fixed unblinkingly on the Tianji Old Man in the center.
By now, fine beads of cold sweat covered the Tianji Old Man's forehead, and his back was already drenched in sweat.
“Trace the primordial paths, seek the source of the Ancient God!”
He gave a low shout, his hoarse voice trembling with an undeniable dread as his fingertips moved with lightning speed.
One obscure and complex golden divination mark after another emerged from the void, crisscrossing and weaving together in overlapping layers!
Suddenly, the Tianji Old Man's pupils contracted, and his entire body shuddered violently.
Because after parting the mist over the hexagram, he discovered that the Ancient God Clan's ancestor was actually dead!
The Tianji Old Man's heart skipped a beat. “I'm finished!”
“If I tell them the truth, will these powerhouses of the Ancient God Clan slap me to death?”
“But if I say I can't divine it, will these fellows from the Ancient God Clan let me off?”
With his thoughts in a wild tangle, a sudden idea struck him.
“How about I first divine how their ancestor died? Was it an accident, or was he murdered?”
“Then, I can decide what to say based on the situation.”
With this in mind, the Tianji Old Man spat out a mouthful of essence blood:
“Pfft...”
Following that, the divination marks in his hands spun rapidly once more!
Seeing the Tianji Old Man's actions, the Patriarch and the others were startled. Was their ancestor really that difficult to divine?
Then, they watched as the Tianji Old Man's graying hair and beard fluttered despite the lack of wind.
The wrinkles on his face contorted continuously, and fresh crimson blood began to seep faintly from his seven orifices!
At this moment, the Tianji Old Man was on the verge of tears. He had only wanted to divine how the Ancient God Clan's ancestor had died!
But instead, he saw that familiar, black-gold concealing mist.
The Tianji Old Man wished nothing more than to slap himself hard across the face.
“Why did I have to go and act so clever?”
It was painfully obvious that the power that killed the Ancient God Clan's ancestor was the exact same force that had previously slaughtered the Saints and Saintesses in the Central Province!
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