Chapter 663
The old woman nodded and laid this tarot deck on the table.
The candle, on one side, glowed with an eerie light.
Holly was a little nervous.
It was not the first time she had watched her grandmother perform divination, but each time she felt a sense of novelty.
Ten minutes later, the old woman opened her eyes.
Her face was a little pale, obviously damaged in some way, and her voice had changed its tone: “Holly, change it.”
Holly stared, “Grandma?”
“This man, who already has the one and only love, has an obsession so deep that even a diviner cannot change it.” The old woman murmured, “What a miracle, I have not seen such feelings in all my life.”
When she was young, she had helped many infatuated men and women.
Some people came to her specifically begging just to get their lovers back.
Things like feelings, all of which are unstable, can be influenced entirely through the power of divination.
But the old woman had just counted through the tarot cards.
Fu Yunshen’s feelings were as solid as a rock, without the slightest possibility of wavering.
If she interfered, not only would she be unable to achieve her goal, but her divination power would also be ruined.
Huo Li frowned.
Her first choice was Fu Yunshen.
But even her grandmother couldn’t do anything to change Fu Yunshen’s feelings, and the other diviners were even less able to do so.
“Grandmother, let’s do him then.” Huo Li pointed at Xize’s picture again, “He is the one in charge of the Laurent family, and he is also very good.”
The old woman nodded slightly and rested for a while before conducting a new round of trigonometry.
This time it was a lot easier.
“He has no beloved, but his feelings are so thin that he is hardly likely to fall in love with anyone.” The old woman was thoughtful, “It’s quite difficult to change his feelings, but not all is lost.”
After a pause, her expression became serious, “Holly, are you sure you want to choose him? After you’ve chosen, you can’t go back on your choice.”
“Yes, Grandma.” Holly smiled faintly, determined to win, “Cesar Laurent, I want him.”
As soon as Cesar Laurent fell in love with her, the whole Laurent family would be hers.
What was there to regret?
“Good.” The old woman’s voice eased, “You go to him at six o’clock the night after tomorrow.”
Holly took careful note.
The old woman coughed a few times and picked up another book.
Holly was curious, “Grandma, what is this?”
“I told you about it when you were little.” The old woman gave a rare smile, “This is the strongest being among us diviners, the Divine Reckoner, and on it are some records about TA, which I turn to every day.”
“The Divine Reckoner?” Holly thought for a moment and exclaimed, “Grandma, the diviner you told me about who left several prophecies, all of which came true?”
Even the strongest fortune-teller could not calculate the future 100 per cent.
But the Divine Reckoner did.
“Not bad.” The old woman bowed her head, “But the Divine Reckoner has not appeared for a long time, so go rest and Grandma will help you to fulfil your wish.”
“Grandma, you go to bed early too.” Holly smiled and went into the bedroom.
**
The following day.
A news story was once again an international sensation.
#Manuel, the anti-social personality#
#ibi International Prison#
#The most distinguished doctor of biochemistry makes poisons to deliberately kill people
Manuel is not as famous as Helvin, but he’s certainly well known.
Not to mention, he has won international prizes for biology and chemistry.
The news came as a shock to the world.
As a surfer, the elder Chung was the first to see it.
When he found out that the poisoning site was also the venus group’s headquarters building, he instantly became nervous and immediately called Ying Zidian: “Zidian, are you and the Fu kid okay? I read on the internet that your place was poisoned!”
He was in J, so he flew back to China the day after the party.
Who knew that something like this would happen.
“It’s alright, Grandpa.” In the secret room, Ying Ziyi glanced sideways at the shivering Manuel and faintly, “The crisis has all been lifted.”
“That’s good then.” Elder Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, “Grandpa is old and can’t help you much, you must be safe.”
“Grandpa, don’t worry.” Fu Yunshen took the phone from Ying’s hand and gave a lazy laugh, “It’s someone else who should pay attention to Ganquan.”
Elder Zhong: “……”
Fu Yunshen ended the call and looked at Manuel, “Those people you’re dealing with, are they from the World City Sage Academy?”
Even Yushaoyun had never seen them before, only the House of Sages had such an ability.
“Sage, Sage House?” Manuel’s eyes widened, “I, I don’t even know what the House of Magi is!”
“Okay, I’ll change the question.” Fu Yun Shen was patient, “Those people, were they taught these names?”
He laid the twenty-two Great Alcana of the Tarot in front of Manuel: “Look carefully.”
“There …… are!” Manuel’s voice trembled terribly, “The Magician, the Lord Magician! They called over!”
Ying Ziji’s eyes narrowed slightly.
The second of the twenty-two sages, the magician, themagician.
Fu Yunshen let go of his hand.
Manuel gasped heavily, his expression still horrified.
“Qiuman also used to call the title Lord Magician.” Ying Zigui looked sideways and mused, “I’m not sure what all the special abilities of the Magi are, but I can deduce it now.”
Fu Yun Shen nodded his head and spoke lightly, “Magicians should be able to make many medicines.”
The alchemical drug that caused the explosion in the university city, the drug that led the ancient doctor to the path of evil medicine.
Contact with Manuel had also provided him with a number of materials that were not available internationally, which had allowed him to create a number of poisons.
Their enemy, a sage who was worshipped like a god by the City of Worlds!
Fu Yun Shen bent down, his peach blossom eyes dense with coldness: “What else did you exchange?”
Manuel couldn’t even breathe: “I, I ……”
“Xiao Qi, no need to press the issue.” A voice rang out, cold and icy, “Just read his memories directly.”
Shaoyun took a big step and stopped again three meters away from Fu Yunshen, his lips twitched, “Sorry, I saw the news, I rushed over immediately, your subordinates they …… didn’t stop me.”
Fu Yunshen’s eyelashes twitched as he moved out of the way, faint: “You come.”
Shaoyun’s heart fluttered: “Good.”
He pursed his lips, turned his head, and glanced at the head escort.
The head escort immediately handed over a white tool similar in appearance to a pistol.
It was a memory reader invented by the World City.
Shaun took it and fired a shot directly into Manuel’s temple.
Manuel, who had never seen a memory reader before, screamed out in shock and completely pa*sed out.
Shaoyun then connected the memory reader to the computer.
The memory reader extracted a long video.
The three of them stared at it with bated breath.
Ying quickly finished watching it and shook his head slightly, “There’s no other important information.”
It seemed that in the eyes of the Sage Magician, Manuel was just a pawn to be discarded afterwards, just like Qiumen.
Shao Yun’s lips pursed tightly.
The clues were all broken again.
As far as he knew, the Sage Magician hadn’t shown up in the past hundred years or so.
Moreover, even if one were to tell the people of the Sage Academy these things, would anyone believe them?
Shao Yun raised his head and extended his hand, “Xiao Qi, I ……”
Fu Yunshen turned sideways to avoid it and didn’t look at him, “Yaoyao, let’s go.”
Manuel was taken away by ibi’s people, and only Shaoyun and the head escort were left in the secret room.
Shaoyun’s hand stiffened for a moment, but eventually dropped it in dismay.
The head escort could not bear it in his heart, “Grand Master, Young Master Fu Qi does not accept you that easily, I am afraid ……”
“I know, it’s my bad.” Shao Yun whispered, “It’s alright, I’ll wait.”
**
This time of year.
Fei Leng Cui.
Chateau Laurent.
Cesar had returned from J this morning, and while on the plane he had sensed something was wrong.
And by the time he got back to his room, a severe wave of vertigo came from his head.
Cesar’s body swayed and he was about to collapse
“Master?” Jobe held Cesar up in time, worried, “What’s wrong with you, are you all right?”
Cesar shook his head, “Yes, just a little weak, probably an old problem, I’m going to take some of the medicine the boss gave me.”
He pushed Jobe’s hand away and hadn’t taken two steps when he stumbled on his feet again.
“Master, something is very wrong with you.” Qiao Bu looked serious, “I’ll ask Miss Ying to come and take a look at you.”
“No need, just take some medicine.” Cesar frowned, “Don’t bother the boss with everything, I can do it myself-”
Before he could finish his sentence, an even more severe dizziness hit him and Cesar’s head sank, pa*sing out straight away.
Jobe was shocked, and after helping Xizhe to bed, he immediately called Ying Zigui, “Hello, Miss Ying, something has happened to the master!”
Chapter 664
Jobe was anxious after the phone call.
In the past, Cesar had slumbered for a long time every month because of his health.
But it had never happened like this either.
What the hell was going on here?
**
It was nighttime when Cesar woke up again.
He sat up holding onto the bed, still with residual dizziness in his head, as if he had been swung a dozen sticks.
Cesar couldn’t help hissing and muttering, ‘Who hit me.”
There was a cold, slow voice ringing in his ears, “Still dizzy?”
Xize didn’t react a bit.
Ying Ziji’s voice eased and he spoke again, “Xize, look at me.”
Only then did Xize come back to his senses, still a little confused, and he looked up blankly, “Boss?”
Why was his boss here?
What had just happened?
To the side, Jobe was distraught, “Master, you fainted in the morning, the medical instruments couldn’t find out what was causing your illness.”
“It was I who called Miss Ying here and gave you the treatment, and only then did you revive.”
He watched as Ying Ziji treated Cesar, not with the usual gold and silver needles used by ancient doctors, but only with a deck of tarot cards.
Jobe was also confused.
Didn’t see what this was all about at all.
“Ah, boss, trouble you again.” Cesar rubbed his temples, adding a bit of exhaustion to his voice, “My body is perhaps failing me more and more.”
Alchemy had changed the speed of cell division and so on, but one day all cells would wither away.
Cesar knew that day would be the day he would die.
“It’s not that your body doesn’t work.” Ying raised his eyes, “You’ve been put under a spell and you don’t know it?”
Xize came to his senses with a start, “A spell?”
Spell casting is a western term, in China it’s called “bewitchment”.
The essence of both is the same, a curse.
Ying Zidian nodded: “Who did you contact after the ball?”
Cesar’s consciousness was still a little unclear as he struggled to remember: “I haven’t seen anyone except your boyfriend and his staff, boss. ……”
He held his head, trying to shake off the dizzy feeling.
“Bear with it for now, it’s just lifted, it’ll take a while to get better.” Ying Ziji faded, “You don’t have to think about it, I’ll see for myself.”
She laid the tarot cards back out and quickly selected three cards.
Cesar knew nothing about divination and could only watch.
A dozen seconds later, Ying’s eyes narrowed slightly, “Not bad skills.”
A normal diviner needs to get the target’s birth date before he can cast a spell.
Cesar’s real birth date was now clear to no one but her and Norton.
Even so, he was still under the spell.
The diviner who proved to cast the spell was of the same level as the Fifth River in terms of his ability.
It was definitely a genin level.
“Boss, what kind of spell did she put on me?” Cesar breathed slowly, “I don’t have any strength in my body at all.”
“In Chinese parlance, it’s called ‘Peach Blossom Fury’.” Ying said, “When you are struck by the Peach Blossom Fury, you can only touch one female for the rest of your life, and if you stay too far away from her, your body functions will continue to decline.”
“And at the same time, you will slowly fall in love with her and can only depend on her for your life.”
Cesar broke out in a sweat, “That horrible?”
What’s the difference between this and a puppet?
“Well, peach blossom bane is so common that people would normally just think it’s because they’re sick and not think of it in any other way.” Ying Zigui sounded lightly, “But you’ve been hit by the most powerful peach blossom bane, you’ll react greatly.”
Xize pressed his head, breathless, “Boss, is this why you calculated that I don’t have a girlfriend?”
“No, it was an accident.” Ying stood up and raised an eyebrow, “Besides, you might have a girlfriend.”
Xize froze and looked up.
Ying Zidian had already pushed the door open and left.
“Boss, what are you doing there? You haven’t finished your sentence yet.”
The girl’s voice floated from afar, cold and cool: “To take revenge on you.”
Cesar was stunned, the words pulling him back to a hundred years ago.
At that time he had also been bullied, and his boss had also said those four words and then left the bully at his heels.
So from that time onwards, he swore.
In this life he would follow Ying Zidian to his death.
Not to abandon, not to give up, until his life came to an end.
It turned out that after all these years, everything had still remained the same.
Cesar leaned back on the bed, silent for a moment, then suddenly turned his head: “Jobe, what did you mean by my boss’s words?”
“Which words?”
“That I might have a girlfriend.”
It was a phrase that got Cesar’s attention.
“Uh ……” Jobe paused and politely persuaded, “Master, you’d better get well first, with your current physical condition, I’m afraid that even Miss Rita, who you danced with the day before yesterday, could take you down with one hand I’m afraid that even Miss Lita, who danced with you the day before yesterday, could have taken you over with one hand.”
Cesar: “……”
He pulled the quilt over his head with a depressed look.
**
The night was late.
The lights were out quite a bit in the small town.
And in that wooden house the old woman was still awake.
She had her presbyopic gla*ses on and was reading by the light.
Holly wasn’t there tonight, just the old woman.
The heavy wooden door suddenly creaked, but no footsteps came.
The old woman’s expression changed: “Who is it?”
She turned her head sharply, and the light in the room shone brightly at that moment, revealing the girl’s beautiful face.
The girl’s features were extremely full of colour, with an aggressive beauty that was oppressive.
The old woman’s eyes narrowed for a moment, but there was no fear and her body slackened: “I thought it was someone, but it’s a young girl, or from the East, what a rare guest.”
She had once fought with a trigonometrist from the East, and in the end both were defeated, with no one gaining any advantage.
She had to admit that when it came to divination and fortune telling, the East was still stronger.
But a young girl who hadn’t even reached the age of twenty, how strong could she be?
“Little girl, didn’t the elders of your family tell you not to mess with me?” The old woman slowly stood up, her dark green pupils flashing with a sharp light, “What, you became a diviner and no one told you my name?”
Trespa*sing into her domain, she would show no mercy to whoever Ying Ziji had studied under.
“Freya Jones.” Ying Zidian blandly, “I know your name, and all your ancestors were diviners too, only that you were branded as a ‘witch’ in the Middle Ages and slaughtered by the Inquisitorial Court of Heretics.”
“You escaped because you are a descendant of a side branch, and began to study the evil art of divination as a way of enhancing your powers, and now, you too have become a ‘witch’.”
“Shut up!” The old woman’s expression changed at once, “What are you babbling about? What witch?!”
Soothsayers hate being called “witch”, it reminds them of the witch hunts that have been going on for over three hundred years.
The old woman, on the other hand, was weak because she was not really on the right path.
“You’ve only been in the path for a short time, haven’t you? Do you know about the Divine Reckoner?” The old woman sneered, “ta predicted a long time ago that all magical warlocks died out completely in 1780, where did any magical women come from? ”
“With the peach blossom bane, you have also lost a lot of life expectancy.” Ying Ziji’s eyelashes dropped, “And, the other part of your altered karma, the other part of your sinful power will be returned to your loved ones.”
“Nonsense again, it seems you have not learnt your art well, yes, I did put a peach blossom bane on that whatsitzer.” The old woman snorted lightly, “What, you like him too? So you came all the way over here yourself?”
“Then I’m really sorry, the man my granddaughter has taken a fancy to, I’ll take it for her.”
The old lady walked in step by step, “Little girl, before I get angry, I advise you to leave here, otherwise you won’t be able to leave later.”
Ying Ziji was calm: “You can try.”
The old woman’s face sank: “Don’t know what’s good for you!”
She cupped three tarot cards in her hand and raised her hand.
There was a wind blowing through the window and the candle flame swayed frantically.
Everything was terribly still.
But the next second, before she could do anything, the old woman suddenly realised something was wrong.
Her powers of divination had disappeared in this moment.
The old woman was in a state of shock and horror.
She could sense that this was not an ordinary disappearance.
It was an absolute suppression of the same domain!
Only a diviner whose ability far surpa*sed hers would be able to suppress her to the point where even her divination ability disappeared.
Even over in China, there wasn’t a diviner who could completely suppress her.
The old woman jerked her head up as an unbelievable thought came to mind, “No …… it can’t be, you, you can’t ……”
“Not too bold.” Ying Ziji’s voice was light, “A diviner on this side of o continent, and he also dares to cast a divination spell on the people I cover.”
She laughed very coolly, her eyes cold: “Your old ancestors, none of them had the guts.”