An Rugu went back to Cloud Rise Temple as usual. When she turned her phone back on, she found that some of the previous predestined guests in her livestream had sent her private messages, congratulating her on getting on the trending list.

An Rugu opened the livestream’s Weibo account and found that her going to Changjiu Real Estate Company had been exposed on the Internet. Nowadays, many people were curious about whether Changjiu Real Estate was haunted or not, and they all went to her Weibo to ask.

The number of fans on the livestream’s Weibo has grown from a few dozen to nearly 10,000.

[Can the streamer tell me what’s going on with Changjiu Real Estate? I’m curious that I feel like a kitten is scratching my heart.]

[I worked with Changjiu Company for a period of time before, and that company has a bad reputation. I heard that they are still in arrears in payment of wages.]

… …

An Rugu did some fate calculation with her fingers and felt that there was nothing she could not say, so she reposted the last comment on Weibo about unpaid wages and sent a comment: [Every injustice has its perpetrator, and every debt has its creditor.¹ Changjiu Company will definitely go bankrupt this year.]

Many netizens: “!!!”

[The streamer dared to attack such a big company on the spot? Can this be said?]

[Liar, Changjiu Real Estate is so big, how could it go bankrupt?]

[For reasons such as domestic economy and employment rate, as long as the company is not hopeless, the government will find ways to save the company. Besides, even if Changjiu Company went bankrupt, it would not be possible for it to go bankrupt so quickly.]

An Rugu didn’t bother to read the comments. Anyway, this was the fate she foresaw. If no one was powerful enough to help change the fate of Changjiu Company, then Changjiu Company would not be able to last long.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

At this time, Shang Yue walked in with some items placed on a tray. “I bought what you asked for.”

An Rugu took it over. It was the cinnabar ink and yellow paper she had asked Shang Yue to buy.

“Thank you.”

She stood up and walked to the main hall. Now that the necessary items were here, might as well draw the talismans.

Any metaphysical method could be attributed to the use of energy, and the energy needed to draw talismans was obtained by inviting deities.

An Rugu offered three sticks of incense to all the deities enshrined in Cloud Rise Temple. After all, she needed to borrow energy and could not go empty-handed.

Then she went to a quiet courtyard with no one around. Matters involving deities were private. If some curious eyes peeked, the gods were unlikely to lend energy, and the spell was unlikely to be successful.

She picked up the brush, dipped it in the cinnabar ink, and waited quietly for the feeling of qi to arrive.

Suddenly, her fingertips seemed to be touched by something. A mysterious feeling arose from her heart, and a slight sense of qi spread from her fingertips to her entire body.

The sense of qi is coming!

The tip of the brush fell on the yellow paper. From start to finish, there was no unnecessary movement, and it was done in one go.

However, this didn’t mean that the strokes were continuous but that the qi was continuous.

There were now complicated symbols drawn on the yellow paper. When she picked up the brush earlier, something seemed to be flowing along the lines created by the cinnabar ink from where she started to where she finished. After reaching the end, a golden light suddenly flashed across the surface of the cinnabar.

When she looked at it again, the cinnabar ink had returned to its former appearance.

The safety talisman was done!

In fact, not all talismans were drawn with yellow paper and cinnabar. But the most common talisman colors were divided into two types: red and yellow.

Some blessing charms, such as love charms and luck charms, were written on red paper with a brush dipped in black ink. Yellow was generally used to exorcise evil spirits and eliminate disasters—like the safety talisman she just drew.

An Rugu thought for a while and drew several other talismans. After all, she needed to be prepared in case the temple guests needed it.

After drawing the talismans, she walked out of the yard and found that there were still people offering incense in the Daoist temple.

She was going to pass by, but after taking a look at one person’s face, she walked towards him.

“Buy a talisman?”

… …

Li Changzong had just lit the incense and was stunned when he heard the words. He felt somewhat resistant, “Ah, it’s not necessary.”

Li Changzong heard about the Wang family a few days ago and was particularly curious about Cloud Rise Temple. Today, he passed by in this area on business and suddenly had the urge to burn a stick of incense.

Unexpectedly, after offering the incense, he was offered to buy amulets.

This was a bit different from the master he imagined, one who didn’t care about fame and wealth.

“Are you really not going to buy it?” An Rugu picked up a safety talisman. The complex symbols on the talisman were displayed in front of Li Changzong eyes, “This talisman can keep you safe one time.”

Li Changzong originally wanted to refuse. After all, he was good everywhere now. What kind of talisman did he need to buy?

But he fixed his eyes on the blood-like cinnabar and suddenly felt a little moved.

Wang Jianguo and his wife held the Cloud Rise Temple in very high regard. He didn’t hear that they bought a talisman, so why not bring them one then?

So he convinced himself and took out his mobile phone. “How much?”

“Five thousand yuan.”

Li Changzong was not short of money. After scanning the QR code, he transferred the money and stuffed the talisman into his pocket.

His driver was waiting down the mountain to take him home.

I Livestream Divination to the World translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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T/N: Cinnabar pigment ranges from bright scarlet to brick-red. This talisman-making set is available for sale online 😎

FOOTNOTE:

1. Every injustice has its perpetrator, and every debt has its creditor. To fully understand something, you must find the person responsible for causing it. ↩︎