Stay away from beasts in the world of Siheyuan

Chapter 370 Yin Qi

Guan Ke picked up a small tripod, gently turned it, and carefully looked at every detail.

After a long while, he put the small tripod down and said slowly: "This thing...I haven't seen it in many years." There was a hint of indescribable emotion in his voice.

Xu Changping and Yang Xiaoyue looked at each other, neither of them said anything, and they waited quietly for Guan Ke's next words.

Guan Ke glanced at the two people's performance and asked with a chuckle, "Can you guess what is carved on this tripod?"

"Is it... a statue of a deity?" Xu Changping thought of what Yang Xiaoyue had said before, and said hesitantly.

Guan Ke looked at Xu Changping in surprise and said, "You know a lot." He didn't expect that this disciple was so intelligent and could guess almost everything just by looking at a pattern.

Seeing Guan Ke's reaction, Xu Changping quickly waved his hands and said, "No master, it was Xiaoyue. She has seen the temple that enshrines this statue."

He didn't want to be regarded as a cultivation genius by his master. He didn't forget his ultimate goal, which was to understand the arrangement of the Feng Shui formation.

Guan Ke looked at Xu Changping with a half-smile and said, "It doesn't matter if you learned it from Xiaoyue. It means you are lucky."

He had long heard the evasiveness in Xu Changping's words. Fortunately, he had no intention of asking Xu Changping to carry forward his lineage. As long as it could be passed on, that was enough.

But he didn't lie to Xu Changping. This kid was just lucky in this aspect, otherwise he wouldn't have become his disciple by accident.

Guan Ke did not intend to go into details about Xu Changping's luck, and directly changed the subject and said, "Let's get back to the point. It's true that these things are statues of gods, but they are not traditional gods, but household gods."

"House God?" Xu Changping lowered his head and thought for a moment before saying, "Could it be that someone is worshipping him privately?"

"Yes, these four household gods belong to four very ancient families, and their prototypes are their ancestors." The last time Guan Ke saw this thing was when he was very young. Someone brought a damaged statue to his grandfather to repair it.

"The statue of a deity is enshrined at home, so could this tripod be used for burning incense?" Xu Changping looked at the small tripod on the table and fell into deep thought.

Could it be that Yang Xiaoyue's body was related to the four major families that Guan Ke mentioned? Otherwise, how could we explain why she and her sister woke up in the temple that enshrined this statue?

"Burning incense doesn't count. These tripods are carried by the family members when they go out. They are used to worship and offer sacrifices to their ancestors at any time." Guan Ke waved his hands above several small tripods again, dispersing the gathered negative energy.

Xu Changping looked at the small tripods and asked in confusion, "How come these things are put together?" Since the family gods on the small tripods belong to the four major families, how did that old man, Director Zhang, gather them all? Could it be that he is related to the four major families that Guan Ke mentioned?

Xu Changping touched his nose and couldn't figure out the connection for a while.

Before Xu Changping could figure it out, Guan Ke frowned and said seriously: "With such a big family, it is possible that someone brought the tripod out and lost it outside." Guan Ke had another word unsaid, which was that the person might have died outside.

Before Xu Changping could speak, Guan Ke continued, "However, these tripods were obviously tampered with by someone, which is why they have become so sinister."

"Someone had tampered with it, how come I didn't notice it?" After hearing what Guan Ke said, Xu Changping picked up a tripod and started looking at it.

"What can you learn from the little skills you have learned?" Guan Ke took the tripod back from Xu Changping's hand and put it back on the table.

"Master, I haven't been learning for long." Xu Changping no longer hesitated to take the tripod and said with an innocent look.

Guan Ke was very dissatisfied with Xu Changping's attitude towards learning and said unhappily, "You haven't come here for eight hundred years. You come and leave without saying a word. What can you learn?"

"Master, why is this small tripod black on top?" Guan Ke was scolding Xu Changping when Xiao Mi, who had just finished eating the white jade cake, suddenly pointed at a small tripod and said crisply.

When Guan Ke heard this, he lowered his head and saw the place where Xiao Mi was pointing. There was a negative energy lingering there, which was probably attached to him when he was teaching Xu Changping a lesson.

He was startled, then waved his hand to disperse the evil spirit, and then asked Xiao Mi like a wolf grandmother: "Xiao Mi, tell Master if it's still dark up there now?"

"It's not dark anymore. Master will disperse with a wave of his hand." Xiao Mi stared at Guan Ke with confused eyes and said very seriously.

After hearing what Xiao Mi said, Guan Ke immediately smiled widely and pointed at Xu Changping and said, "Hey, you finally did a good thing."

Xu Changping and Yang Xiaoyue didn't understand what Xiao Mi and Guan Ke had just said, but now they understood and looked at Xiao Mi in surprise.

Xu Changping obviously reacted faster than Yang Xiaoyue. He said to Guan Ke, who was looking at Xiao Mi lovingly, "Master, Xiao Mi is still young. Why don't we wait until she grows up a bit?"

"What are you waiting for? It's easier to practice while you're young. Besides, I still have a few more years to live, so of course you should start now." Guan Ke waved his hand and scolded Xu Changping.

Xu Changping had no choice but to turn around and look at Yang Xiaoyue and ask, "Do you want Xiao Mi to learn the fortune-telling skills from my master?"

"Ah! Okay." Yang Xiaoyue came back to her senses at this moment and nodded in agreement.

Before, she was worried that she couldn't use her special powers and what Xiao Mi would do in the future. She didn't expect that the master would come to her door.

When Guan Ke saw Yang Xiaoyue agreed, he immediately waved his hand impatiently at Xu Changping and said, "Hurry up and pour tea, let Xiao Mi become your disciple."

It has to be said that this apprentice is a bit tactless. The guardian has already agreed, but he is still not taking action.

"Don't rush me. I'll go right away." Xu Changping resigned himself to his fate and stood up to make a cup of tea and brought it over. He also took a meditation cushion and placed it on the ground right in front of the hungry Guan Ke.

Guan Ke didn't even look at Xu Changping who was holding the tea. He asked with a look of abducting a child, "Xiao Mi, do you want to learn skills from Master?"

"What skill?" Xiao Mi asked with watery eyes, looking confused.

"This is it." As he spoke, Guan Ke took out a little figurine made of unknown material from his sleeve and placed it on the table.

For a moment, the attention of several people in the room was drawn to the little man.

Guan Ke didn't care about Xu Changping and Yang Xiaoyue. He blew a breath at the little man, and the little man stood up shakily.

Xu Changping had never seen this thing before, and he immediately exclaimed, "Master!"