Chapter 0038: All Kinds of People
My abacus was clacking, but I soon realized something was wrong.
I took a breath of Yang Energy and could no longer hold it back. It was like a torrent flowing back and being sucked into the opponent. In just a moment, I felt like I fell into an icy cave, and my whole body was in pain as if being pierced by needles!
I knew that the Yang energy in my body was being quickly sucked away by the other party. In just a moment, I would become a cold dead person!
As my body became colder and colder, my consciousness became more and more blurred, my vision went dark, and suddenly I felt my body flying into the air, and then fell to the ground with a thud.
My head was splitting, I couldn't feel any warmth in my body, I was shivering with cold, and I thought to myself, "So this is what dying people feel like."
While I was dazed, I suddenly heard a voice asking, "Taoist priest?"
I heard a clear and tender voice, obviously coming from a young woman. I raised my head with difficulty, and in the faint fluorescent light, I could only see the hem of a skirt in front of me.
My heart skipped a beat: Is that woman alive?
"I asked you if you are a Taoist priest?" The cold voice came again.
I was going to die anyway, so I didn’t care whether she was a human or a ghost. I chuckled and said, “I’m not a Taoist…”
Before he could finish his sentence, his body suddenly flew into the air, slammed into the sarcophagus with a bang, and fell down. Then his arms hanging on both sides twisted uncontrollably, and he slapped himself four times in a row.
"How dare you speak so dirty!" the woman said coldly.
I was beaten so hard that I was dizzy and cursed angrily, "Old..."
He had just uttered the word "old" when he raised his hands and slapped himself several times, hard and fiercely.
"Are you going to talk or not?" The voice was cold and sharp.
I shut up immediately. Even though I was going to die, I couldn't slap myself to death, right?
Then I would be too ashamed to face the ancestors even if I get to the underworld!
At this moment, I was sitting on the ground with my back against the sarcophagus. In the dim light, I saw a beautiful woman in a long skirt standing in front of me. I could only vaguely see her profile, but judging from her posture and clothes, she should be the woman in the coffin without a doubt.
"I'm not a Taoist priest, who are you?" I asked in a hoarse voice.
I know I can't escape today, I don't ask for anything else but to die with peace of mind.
The woman ignored my question and said coldly, "Not a Taoist priest? Then he must be a sorcerer."
I just felt myself getting colder and colder, and couldn't help shivering. I groaned and said, "Listen carefully, old man... I'm a fortune teller!"
"A fortune teller?" The woman turned her head and glanced at me. She seemed startled for a moment, then sneered and said, "I didn't expect that the first person I saw when I woke up would be an ignorant fortune teller!"
I was angry and couldn't help but retort, "What's wrong with the fortune teller?"
"Not much." The woman said this but stopped talking. After a while, she suddenly asked, "What generation is Quanzhen Sect in now?"
I was stunned for a moment. I didn't expect her to ask this suddenly, so I said, "What generation? There is no incense anymore."
Of course, I am familiar with the name of Quanzhen Sect.
The Quanzhen Sect is considered the orthodox Taoist sect, especially when it reached its peak during the Yuan Dynasty. It once held the leading position in Taoism and was revered as the "Orthodox Sect of the Supreme Mysterious Sect", commanding all Taoist sects in the world.
If we rank them by seniority, the current Longhushan Tianshidao, Maoshan and the like are nothing compared to the Quanzhen Sect.
However, although the Quanzhen Sect has a profound foundation, it has long since disappeared. Instead, some Taoist sects that were originally less famous have survived and later became more powerful.
"The Quanzhen Sect is gone?" The woman seemed very surprised. After a while, she asked again, "What about Shen Xiao?"
I thought to myself, why does she always ask about Taoist sects that have long since ceased to be worshipped?
The Shenxiao Sect is also a well-known Taoist sect. It is said that it is particularly good at thunder magic. However, it is similar to the Quanzhen Sect and has long disappeared.
I once looked through many used book stalls, hoping that I could get lucky and find some records about the Shenxiao School's thunder magic, but unfortunately I never succeeded.
Hearing that the Shenxiao Sect was gone, the woman exclaimed, "Which Taoist sect is the most famous now?"
I was also curious about why she asked these questions, so I said, "The most famous ones at present are probably the three major talisman sects."
"What is that?" she asked.
I sneered, "You don't even know this. The three major talisman sects are, of course, the Longhu Mountain Tianshi Dao, the Maoshan Zhengzong, and the Qingwei Sect. The three are collectively known as the three major talisman sects!"
The woman ignored the sarcasm in my words and sneered, "These three families dare to call themselves the three great talisman sects. It's really ridiculous."
I heard her laughter was tender and charming. If I didn't know that she had just crawled out of a coffin, I would have thought she was a pampered, rich, beautiful young lady just by listening to the sound of her voice.
"You just said that the most outstanding Taoist sects today are these three?" she asked again.
"About the same. There are also places like Wudang and Mount Wutai, which are not less famous than them."
I only heard her say coldly: "I didn't expect that they are all such a bunch of bastards. It seems that the Dao Sect is really doomed!"
I thought to myself, looking at her like this, could it be that she has some grudge against the Taoist sect, or was simply beheaded by the Taoists and buried here, and some Taoist plot was set up to revive her ?
Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard her ask, "You are a little fortune teller, what are you doing here?"
It had come to this point and I had nothing to hide, so I told him what happened in general. However, I was getting colder and colder, and I was shivering all over, so my speech was intermittent.
"So this is really a longevity game?" I couldn't help but ask.
The woman ignored me and snorted, "You are just a little fortune teller, and you and the two old Feng Shui masters, why are you here messing around instead of staying home to read people's fortunes and Feng Shui? Do you think you can get involved in this kind of thing? You don't know your own weight!"
I heard the contempt in her tone, and I couldn't help but retort: "What's wrong with a fortune teller? What's wrong with a feng shui master? If we don't take care of this kind of thing, who will?"
The woman sneered and said, "There are all kinds of people, when will it be your turn as a little fortune teller and feng shui master to step forward?"
I snorted. If the other party had said this in the past, it would have been true.
Since ancient times, among all the various sects and schools of thought, fortune tellers and feng shui masters have never been very popular and have generally been marginal figures.
However, in modern times, the old school's things have gradually declined, and many of the various religions and sects that have been passed down to the present day have lost their heritage.
Nowadays, in the Taoist sect, it is our fortune tellers and feng shui masters, two previously inferior roles, who are relatively the most active, and their figures can be seen in every corner of the world.
Of course, today's fortune tellers or Feng Shui masters will more or less learn some other things, such as drawing talismans, learning Taoism, and practicing martial arts. They are inclusive and a hybrid, which is quite different from the pure Feng Shui fortune tellers in the past.
