The room is very Zen-like.
Tree shadows filter through the Chinese wooden windows into the bamboo mat in the room.
On the low tea table are three porcelain bowls with a milky white mist that curls up in the sunlight. The tea broth in the porcelain bowls reveals a clear lime green colour, and the water lily-like tea leaves float gently.
Bounded by the tea case, two young girls sit on one side.
One is dressed in black and the other in grey.
On the other side, there sits an old monk with a thin face and a compa*sionate gaze.
The old monk was not young, his beard had long since gone white, and a wide robe, draped over him, almost completely enveloped his whole body, the robe meandering on the ground, making his body look even leaner.
“Master Kulong, please give my sister some pointers.” The young girl in black said.
“Oh?”
Master Kurenai smiled slightly and looked at the young girl in black, a few moments of profundity showing in his gaze, “I thought you were going to ask me for divination as well.”
“Ah, me?” The young girl in black was slightly stunned, then muttered, “I, I don’t even know what to ask.”
Master Kurenai laughed again and said nothing more, then he looked at the maiden in grey, “So it is you who wants to ask me for divination?”
“Yes, yes, Master, please show me the way!”
Since last night, the young girl in grey had been looking forward to meeting Master Kurenai, and now that she had finally met the real person, she had long been impatient.
“Good, what is your name?”
“Cao Qian!”
“Your date of birth?”
“The year Wu Yin ……”
“Hm.” Master Kurenai nodded, a smile on his lips, but didn’t say anything more.
“Master, what I want to ask is this, my father wants to take me ……” Cao Qian saw that Master Kurenai only asked about life and birthday, and did not ask any more questions.
A little anxious in her heart, she hurriedly took the initiative to tell Master Kurenai about the matter of her being forced to marry Xiong Hui.
After all, that was what one had come to ask about.
“Girl, there is no need to be too specific.” Master Kure Rong said, “I will only give you a general guideline for your life, I cannot give you the exact practice, so you do not need to say anything specific, and it is not a specific thing that I am looking at, what I am looking at, is just your qi trend.”
As he spoke, Master Kurenai took out something from his body in his hand.
“Wow, it’s beautiful, what is it?”
The two sisters, Cao Qian, were instantly attracted to this thing.
After all, girls had little resistance to pretty things.
The thing was round, almost the size of a plate, jade white in colour, looking pure and flawless, with a deep embedded milky white body, if one looked carefully, it was as if there were clouds flowing inside that milky white, always feeling that there was something inside.
“This is called the White Spirit Jade, it is used to look at Qi luck.” Master Kourou held the White Spirit Jade, smiled slightly and said to Cao Qian, “Miss, please extend your right hand, palm open, close your eyes, breathe deeply, relax your mind and don’t think about anything.”
Cao Qian did not understand why Master Kurenai was doing this, but since Master Kurenai had said it, she certainly did it one by one.
The young girl in black next to her watched with curious eyes as Master Kourou Rong took the white spirit jade and placed it over the palm of her sister’s hand.
“Master Kurenai, what are you doing?” The young girl in black could not help but speak up.
“Look here.” Master Kourou was quite gentle and did not answer the young girl in black’s question, but pointed to the middle of the white spirit jade and said to the young girl in black.
The maiden in black did not know what Master Kulong wanted, but still obediently moved closer and looked towards the white spirit jade.
At once, her eyes widened.
“What, what is this?”
Only to see that on top of the white spirit jade, which was originally milky white, it gradually became as black as ink, as dark as night, this ink black, with a few vague hints of brightness, as if it was the clearest night of summer, black with a few crystals of clarity.
And at the same time, on top of this blackness, with almost indistinguishable changes to the naked eye, some stars began to appear, with the feeling that they were like countless water lilies, slowly unfolding.
Between the star dots, there were occasional lines connecting them.
“Little girl, what does this look like to you?” Master Kurenai looked at the young girl in black and asked.
“This, this is ……” The young girl in black’s attention was all drawn to the changes in Bai Lingyu, and she looked at it with full concentration for a while, “This seems to be, the starry sky?”
“Hehe, yes, this is the starry sky.” Master Kurenai nodded, “And it’s the starry sky above our heads.”
“Master Kurenai, what’s with the starry sky?” The young girl in black looked a little confused.
“Look at the number of stars, thousands of them.” Master Kulong pointed to the starry sky on the white spirit jade, “There are a total of four thousand eight hundred and nineteen star officials here, containing seventy-two star courts, ninety-six star constellations, one thousand seven hundred and sixty star cities …… According to the human education version of high school mathematics knowledge of permutations and combinations, these all star officials, a total of nine thousand eight hundred and seventy-three billion billion billion billion billion billion billion in combination order.”
“Hmm?” Although the young girl in black did not quite understand what Master Kurenai meant, she was obviously fascinated by Master Kurenai’s words and continued to listen with interest.
“Each combination of astral officials actually foretells a person’s fate, so one can tell a person’s qi from the arrangement of astral officials, or astral signs, displayed on the White Spirit Jade.” Master Kourou said.
So that’s how it is!
The young girl in black was listening with some fascination, and seemed to have aroused great interest in this knowledge.
“But, Master Kourou, why is it that this astrological sign, right now, can represent my sister’s destiny?” The young girl in black could not help but ask.
“You are very clever, that is a good question.” Master Kurenai, still smiling, continued, “It is actually very simple, because the astrological sign on the White Spirit Jade now is actually the astrological sign in the sky at the time of your sister’s birth. When each person is born, the top of their head will correspond to the astrological sign that is unique to them, and the astrological sign at that time, although it cannot be specific to every single thing, will, to a great extent, sway one’s destiny. ”
“And this White Spirit Jade, what it does, is that it can restore the astrological sign of each person’s birth. The astrological sign of one’s birth will somehow remain in one’s hand, so one needs to unfold the palm of one’s hand in order to see the astrological sign from the White Spirit Jade.” Saying this, Master Kurenai stretched out his palm and gazed at it, saying slowly in a meaningful and philosophical flavour, “So there is a saying that fate is in one’s own hands, and this saying is, in fact, very apt.”
“So powerful.” The young girl in black quietly listened to Master Kurenai’s explanation.
In her heart, she also could not help but feel a very shocking feeling.
This, this was too amazing.
Not only was this theory magical, but this White Spirit Jade was even more magical.
How come it was like a treasure from a mystical fantasy?
“Master Kurenai, this White Spirit Jade, what exactly is it, how can it illuminate a person’s astrological sign? Where can I buy it?” The young girl in black could not help but ask again.
“Hehehehe.”
Master Kurenai seemed to be amused by the young girl and could not help but laugh slightly, “Little girl, the White Spirit Jade cannot be bought, and I do not know exactly what this thing is made of, because it is said that it is not something that is found in the world.”
“Hm?” The young girl in black looked at Master Kurenai in confusion, as if she was very confused about what Master Kurenai was talking about.
“This thing, it is said to be a treasure that was scattered in the world in the ancient times, during the time of the God-Devil War.” Master Kurenai continued to explain.
“Ah? Ancient times?”
“Yes, thirty thousand years ago, it was known as the Ancient Era.”
The young girl in black now had even more surprise on her face, “Thirty thousand years ago, isn’t that the Neolithic Age?”
“That’s right, according to the history books yes, only, there are many things that are also indefinable, after all, time is too long ago, and many things cannot be distinguished from the truth.” Master Kurenai said here, his face also showed a few chanting melancholy, “but there is also heat said, back then there were five races under the world, the largest number is the gods, the devils and the human race, originally is the gods and devils hold absolute control of the world, but finally the two sides war, the vitality is greatly injured, the human race this gradually rise, and finally became the master of the world ……”
“Ah, then, then are there still gods and demons now?” The young girl in black asked eagerly, seemingly quite interested in the topic.
Master Kurenai could not help but be surprised when he saw how eager the young girl in black was.
For he had met many, many people who had asked himself for divination, and many of them had snorted and laughed at these god-devil wars, not many of them were interested.
“Sister, can you talk to the master about these myths later? Oh, I’m so eager to know how it will turn out now.” Next to her, Cao Qian, who had her eyes closed, pouted and said, “I’m so eager to know whether I’ll marry that Xiong Hui or whether I’ll meet that boy from Jinling.”
The young girl in black spat out her tongue, rubbed Cao Qian’s head and stopped talking.
Master Kulong also withdrew his mind and concentrated on the astrological sign on the White Spirit Jade.
For a long time.
“Girl, I’ll give you eight words.” Master Kourou, smiling, let Cao Qian open her eyes and said.
Cao Qian opened her eyes and first looked at Master Kure Rong seriously, trying to tell from Master Kure Rong’s expression whether her result would be good or bad.
But she was disappointed, for Master Kurenai’s smile remained the same, unable to tell whether the result was good or bad at all.
“Master, which eight words?” Cao Qian asked hastily.
“Not as you wish, but both as you wish.” Master Kulong smiled faintly and said something rather Zen-like.
“Not as you wish, both as you wish?” Cao Qian muttered under her breath and frowned, “Master Kurenai, could you please be more detailed, I really can’t understand it, just tell me, will I marry that Xiong Hui or not! Will I be able to meet that boy I like!”
“Girl, this is how heavenly fortune is, things cannot be said in detail, you go back and ponder these eight words yourself, I hope they can guide you.” Master Kourou said as he put his palms together.
Seeing Master Kourou Rong like this, Cao Qian knew it was useless to ask, so she had no choice but to secretly remember these eight words, the first four words were not quite understandable, but the next four words, as they were fulfilled, did they not mean that her wish would be fulfilled?
In that case, she would be able to meet Lu Yuan?
Thinking of this, Cao Qian’s heart could not help but float with a few moments of joy.
“Thank you, Master, for your guidance.” Zhou Yun stood up, bowed and gave a thank-you salute to Master Kurenai, and then said to Cao Qian, “Sister, thank you, Master, let’s say goodbye.”
“Wait a minute.” Cao Qian hurriedly pulled the young girl in black, “Sister, since you are here too, and the Master’s White Spirit Jade can illuminate one’s astrological sign, why don’t you let the Master illuminate you too!”
