Chapter 305: Revelation of the Spirit Vein! (1/2)
Chapter 305: Revelation of the Spirit Vein!
Stunned. Everyone was stunned!
This was especially so for Mister Taijia and Phantom Hands. Their mouths were wide open, but not a single word would come out.
”Taijia, what is going on? Didn't you say that this is a plot of undeveloped land, and no one else except for us is aware of it?” The livid Phantom Hands spewed out these words one by one through gritted teeth.
”This shouldn't be possible!” Mister Taijia uttered as he stepped forward. He hadn't noticed Phantom Hands' words at all. Astonishment had consumed him completely.
His divination mastery had already reached the peak a dozen years ago. There were very few in the capital who could compete with him in this field.
Based on his divination, this land should be completely unknown to anyone other than him. It was impossible for anyone to beat him to it.
But reality was showing him a very different picture.
Someone found this location way faster than him. The elegant infrastructures and the cluster of buildings… it was impossible to build all of those without a lengthy period of construction.
”Mister, is there any chance that they haven't noticed the spirit vein yet?” three royal guards of the Third Prince asked hopefully.
”That's not possible!” Mister Taijia refuted the suggestion without any hesitation.
”The place is extremely remote, and it is a far distance away from the main route. If they hadn't noticed something, they wouldn't have built such elaborate structures here.”
”But is there a chance that they are just to tour around?”
”Do you think that they will tour in a place where venomous snakes roam?”
The question rendered the guards speechless.
On the journey here, they had imagined all kinds of scenarios, be it whether the spirit vein didn't exist at all, or that Mister Taijia had miscalculated. The one and only scenario they had failed to take into account was that... someone had beat them to the spirit vein.
Looking at the rows of buildings on the peak of the mountain, all their hearts turned cold.
”Mister Taijia, is this the spirit vein you have divined for us?” Phantom Hands asked with a frigid voice. At this moment, his eyes were blazing with fury. If not for the Third Prince's high regard for the diviner, he would have long killed the man for this farce.
”This is indeed the spirit vein...” Mister Taijia said, but before he could finish his words, Phantom Hands interjected in displeasure.
”Then you divine again!”
Sou!
The diviner stretched out his hand, and the golden dual-layered geomantic compass immediately flew into Mister Taijia's hands.
Casually picking a leaf near the spirit vein, Mister Taijia began his divination.
”How can this be?” The abruptly different results Taijia saw left him stunned.
The consecutive divination over the course of the past few days had left his face pale, but at this moment, it looked as though it was completely drained of color.
He had spent his entire life dabbling in divination, and he was extremely confident of his own divinations.
However, Taijia suddenly realized that his divination was inaccurate.
In his entire life, this was the first time he had received an uncertain result.
”How can this be? What is going on?” The trembling Taijia muttered under his breath anxiously. The confidence he had built over the years was shattered all of a sudden.
”Is it the malicious aura... No, the malicious aura can't possibly affect my results by so much. There must be other factors in place! The mist concealing the river... This is an intervention from an external force. Who in the world is the person who built these structures to interfere in my divination?”
Staring at the towering palace-like buildings that rose into the clouds, Taijia's mind was in a state of chaos.
The results he had received on his compass was the phenomenon of ”the mist concealing the river”. This was a divination that would only appear when meeting those possessing extremely strong ”destiny”, resulting in an inconclusive divination.
However, with his high mastery in the art of divination, he had divined for innumerable people, ranging from the prestigious kings and nobles to the officials and scions, but he had never encountered such a situation before.
Glancing at the spirit vein amidst the clouds, Taijia immediately made a divination regarding the mastermind who managed to beat him to the spirit vein.
No matter what, he was determined to uncover the identity of the man who was able to interfere even with his divination.
Weng!
As if a boulder had fallen from the sky, Taijia suddenly felt incomparably heavy. The resilience of the other party's ”destiny” was far stronger than he thought.
Who in the world is that person?
Taijia's heart turned cold. He had barely started his divination when a pressure reminiscent of a falling mountain crushed down on him. This was a situation he had never encountered in the past.
But this only served to further fuel his curiosity.
The Third Prince had regarded this operation with utmost importance, and Taijia knew that he would have to provide him an answer regardless of the situation.
Boom!
Just as Taijia gathered his determination to continue his divination, an immense power from the world suddenly struck him as if a bolt of lightning.
Immense pain grasped Taijia's heart, and blood flowed from his nostrils. He had already been weakened from the fatigue of consecutive divinations, and this blow added injury to his wound. In an instant, the sight before him darkened, and he fell backward.
”Mister Taijia!”
”Mister Taijia!”
”Mister! ...”
Astonished, the group of men hurried forward to grab Taijia.
”Lord, what do we do now?”
The group turned toward Phantom Hands.
”Don't worry, he has just fainted out of exhaustion.” Phantom Hands replied after placing his fingers on the pulse on Taijia's neck. Even though he was incapable of divination, he had learned some basic knowledge about it following behind the Third Prince, and he knew that divination was extremely exhausting on one's spirit.
The more thorough and uncharted the divination was, the more tiring it would be.
Clearly, Mister Taijia had overexerted himself and fainted as a result.
”You got off the hook easily,” Phantom Hands muttered quietly as he stood up from the ground. He was still bubbling with rage, but with Master Taijia fainted, there was nowhere he could vent his anger, so he could only let it go.
”Lord, what do we do now? His Highness bears high expectations for this operation. Why don't we kill the men on the mountain? As long as we move carefully, we should be able to succeed without leaving behind any traces,” a guard stepped forward and proposed. As he spoke, he made the aggressive gesture of sliding his thumb across his neck.
They were all the elites of the Third Prince's guard. As long as the command was issued, it shouldn't be too difficult for them to wipe out the group on the mountain.
”Wait a moment!” Even though Phantom Hands had the same thought in mind, he knew better than to act so recklessly. ”There's no hurry in this matter. Let's ask about this matter at the Court of Judicial Review first, to confirm whether this plot of land is taken or not. If it isn't, we shall take it down, and they would have to evacuate no matter how many buildings they have constructed on the mountain.
”On the other hand, if the land is sold to someone without a sufficiently powerful background, we will have a good talk with them. We will have them sell the land to us using the Third Prince's name.