People in the livestream channel were still discussing what happened with the four Sea Kings just now. An Rugu ignored the barrage and directly contacted the third predestined person, <Blue Sky and White Clouds>.

The other party chose to do a video call, so An Rugu sent them an invitation.

As soon as the other party was connected, the screen divided into two halves with the predestined guest appearing on the left half. The predestined person was a middle-aged man, about forty or so years old, chubby with a beer belly. Some exquisite ornaments could be seen in the background behind him, and a calligraphy painting hung on the wall. The decor showed that he has a lot of money.

There was, however, a sad look on his brow, as if he had encountered something particularly troublesome. Before An Rugu even asked him to pay the divination fee, he already sent a high-powered gun salute—his personality seemed to be very impatient.

[Here comes the third unlucky person… the predestined one is here.]

[Here comes the next story.]

[The next accident is coming.]

“Okay, I have received it.”

An Rugu studied the other person’s face; she calculated the man’s eight characters and calculated his fate. “Following our rule, let’s talk about your family first. You were born in a mountain village, and your parents are still in good health. When you were eight years old, you experienced an earthquake and only narrowly survived.”

<Blue Sky and White Clouds> blinked and realized very clearly that he had met a true master.

“Yes, I was indeed born in the countryside. When I was eight years old, there was an earthquake in our village, which triggered a landslide. It wasn’t until the government sent people that I was rescued and I survived.”

He was now a rich man, and An Rugu might have known about him before, or she might have used his account to hack him, thereby getting background information about him.

However, he has never told anyone about the earthquake. Because the landslide caused by the earthquake injured many people in their village; to this day, it was still a shadow in his heart.

“When you were twenty years old, you met a wealthy person, and with their help you were able to prosper and even got a slave palace. The slave palace in modern times means that you are a business owner, right?”

<Blue Sky and White Clouds> kept nodding and was now completely convinced by An Rugu. “Yes, I did meet someone who appreciated me when I was twenty, and I learned a lot from him. Later, I opened my own company and became the boss. In fact, it was through this friend that I came to know about you.”

“Who is this person?”

<Blue Sky and White Clouds> answered with a smile, “His surname is Li, and his name is Li Changzong. He went to your Daoist temple to offer incense, and you gave him a safety talisman. He told me that on his way home, he encountered a ‘ghost hitting the wall’ array and almost fell off a cliff. It was your safety talisman that saved him.”

An Rugu lowered her gaze, thinking back based on the information <Blue Sky and White Clouds> provided and suddenly recalled the first safety talisman she ever sold.

“I understand. So what is it that you want me to do for you?”

<Blue Sky and White Clouds> sighed, “Actually, I want to take my son directly to your Daoist temple, but he is in poor health now and can’t walk long distances. I want to ask you to help me find out what strange disease he has. The doctors who have seen him could make no diagnosis and give no treatment.”

When An Rugu heard about the strange illness, she felt that the matter was a bit unusual and might have something to do with metaphysics, so she said decisively, “Okay, you can take me to see him.”

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

<Blue Sky and White Clouds> then left the company directly. He headed to the hospital and walked into a single-person ward.

His son turned his head to look at him and said weakly, “Dad, I’m so cold.”

His son was very young, looking only about seven or eight years old. There was a black miasma lingering on his face, his lips were white, and he looked extremely unwell.

[I’m really curious about what kind of disease the child has. The child is so thin he looks so pitiful.]

[Is it because the doctors in this hospital are not good enough to find out the cause of the disease? Then quickly change to a larger hospital.]

[The Ninth Hospital in Shangcheng is the best hospital in Shangcheng. If he can’t be treated there, the rest would be even worse.]

<Blue Sky and White Clouds> touched his son’s head and comforted him for a while, then looked at the camera of his phone, “Master, please help me see what’s going on with my son.”

In fact, <Blue Sky and White Clouds> had a vague suspicion in his heart that as his business grew bigger and bigger, he offended more and more people. It was very possible that someone did not use upright means but used despicable metaphysical means to harm his son.

It was so despicable!

<Blue Sky and White Clouds> couldn’t help but say, “Master, has my son been harmed by an evil villain?”

However, An Rugu was thoughtful. “Not necessarily, but your son has two grudges hanging over him.”

When <Blue Sky and White Clouds> heard about ‘grudges’, he felt that the matter was one step closer to what he suspected and quickly asked, “Master, what kind of grudges are they?”

“The first one is the life-buying money used in the technique of ‘Buying Life and Dispelling Evil Spirits’.”

<Blue Sky and White Clouds>: “!!!”

Audience in the livestream channel: “!!!”

[Life-Buying money sounds so scary. Woohoo.]

An Rugu ignored how dazed <Blue Sky and White Clouds> looked and continued to ask, “Has your son been to the crossroads recently and taken a piece of money wrapped in red paper that was placed there?”

When <Blue Sky and White Clouds>‘ son, Xiaowen, heard this, he was frightened and his lips trembled. “Older sister, I— I did pick up a bunch of money wrapped in red paper. Was it that money that made me sick?”

<Blue Sky and White Clouds> was shocked when he heard this. “Why did you pick up money of unknown origin?”

Xiaowen lowered his head and felt wronged, “After class, we passed by the intersection near the school and saw some money wrapped in red paper by the street posts. They looked like New Year’s red envelopes. We wanted to hand it to the police uncle, but there were no police around, so we took it home first and planned to go to the police next time to hand it over to them.”

“That’s not a red envelope—that’s money to buy life.” An Rugu explained, “Some people are suffering from terminal illness or are about to die of old age. If they want to live longer, they will ask some capable people to extend their life with their own money. Money to buy life is wrapped in red paper with a contract written inside. It is often heavy and contains a lot of money.

“When you finish counting the money inside, you would have a feeling in your heart: ‘this money is too much, I am willing to exchange my life for it’.

“If you don’t throw it away, then the contract is established.

“The person whose life is bought may suffer from a severe cold or be plagued by bad luck. In short, this is a low-level but very insidious, sinister spell. ”

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

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T/N: Stories like this is what made me decide to translate this novel. These little glimpses into another culture’s ‘folklore’ is fascinating to me. And the goosebumps are delicious haha.