Chapter 1091 Derivation Technique
"Young Chen, you recognize even this?"
Master Ma was also slightly surprised, but he quickly calmed down. It was normal for the Chen family to know about this, wasn't it?
After speaking, Master Ma ignored Chen Xuan and took out a few more bronze coins from his bag.
"Great Five Emperors Coins?"
Chen Xuan blinked, staring intently at the few bronze coins, then looked up at Master Ma, regarding him like he was a treasure.
The Five Emperors Coins were divided into Great Five Emperors Coins and Small Five Emperors Coins.
The Small Five Emperors Coins were the Shunzhi Tongbao, Kangxi Tongbao, Yongzheng Tongbao, Qianlong Tongbao, and Jiaqing Tongbao.
The Great Five Emperors Coins referred to the Qin Dynasty's Banliang coin, the Han Dynasty's Wuzhu coin, the Tang Dynasty's Kaiyuan Tongbao, the Song Dynasty's Songyuan Tongbao, and the Ming Dynasty's Yongle Tongbao. The Great Five Emperors Coins were made of bronze. Despite the long passage of time, their extant quantity was quite large.
These Great Five Emperors Coins were extremely precious. In the antique market, a single one was worth over a million.
First, there was the spiritual turtle shell, and then the Five Emperors Coins. This fellow had quite a few good things!
Then, Master Ma continued to take out items, and Chen Xuan watched curiously with anticipation, wanting to see what other treasures this fellow had.
However, he was soon disappointed. He saw Master Ma holding a tattered piece of cloth with many holes, as if gnawed by rats.
Next, Master Ma seemed to have finished taking out his items, spread the tattered cloth on the stone table and chairs, and placed the valuable Great Five Emperors Coins and the spiritual turtle shell on it.
This was akin to packing millions of hundred-yuan bills in a trash bag.
Master Ma seemed to notice the situation and muttered softly, "Alas, it's all that girl's fault for ruining such a good altar cloth."
After arranging everything, Master Ma looked at Chen Xuan and beckoned, "Come here."
Chen Xuan took two steps closer and said with a smile, "Master Ma, you should get a better altar cloth for such good Five Emperors Coins and spiritual turtle shell."
An altar cloth, generally used by feng shui masters to perform rituals on a table. Do not mistake it for ordinary cloth; they were all embroidered with runes, which could enhance the efficacy of the mystic arts being performed.
Master Ma blushed, straightened his neck, and gritted his teeth, "This is an altar cloth used by the founding ancestor of Longhu Mountain."
Chen Xuan was taken aback and turned to look. His eyes widened again.
Although the tattered cloth had many holes and dust, and was even unrecognizable due to wear, if one looked closely, there were still many runes embroidered with golden threads.
An altar cloth embroidered with golden threads was definitely top-tier among altar cloths. As far as Chen Xuan knew, there were only about ten altar cloths in the world embroidered with golden threads.
Each of them was an altar cloth used by the founding ancestors of the feng shui world, and their preciousness was imaginable.
If this was an altar cloth used by the founding ancestor of Longhu Mountain, Chen Xuan would not be surprised.
"Cough, cough, Master Ma, are you still taking disciples?"
These were all good things, and Chen Xuan was very covetous.
Master Ma had wanted to take Chen Xuan as a disciple before, but now he shook his head and refused, saying, "Your father has even more good things than mine."
"My dad?"
Chen Xuan blinked and said, "My dad has the most books. As for artifacts, I've never seen any."
Master Ma rolled his eyes, "Your dad's books are all extremely precious classics in the feng shui world. Especially those few books, any one of them could be exchanged for these three artifacts of mine."
Chen Xuan frowned.
Were his father's books that powerful?
Knowing that he had memorized his father's books by heart, didn't that mean that if he could recite one of them now, he could exchange them for these three incredibly rare artifacts?
He felt that Master Ma seemed to know his father very well. He wanted to learn about his father, Chen Jianhua, through Master Ma, but Master Ma interrupted him, seemingly unwilling to talk more about it.
Master Ma said, "Without further ado, you should quickly fulfill my second condition."
Chen Xuan also came back to his senses and stopped thinking about it. There would be time in the future to inquire.
"Watch closely!"
Master Ma said, then placed the Great Five Emperors Coins into the spiritual turtle shell, clasped his hands together, and chanted incantations.
In an instant, the spiritual turtle shell, which was already emerald green, suddenly emitted a ray of light, followed by several Great Five Emperors Coins falling onto the altar cloth.
"Can you tell what divination this is?"
Master Ma asked.
Chen Xuan looked down, staring at the Five Emperors Coins on the table, and frowned. After looking for a long time, he finally shook his head and said, "I can't tell..."
Ordinary divination techniques were based on the positions of the Five Emperors Coins and the principles of the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams. However, the positions where these Five Emperors Coins appeared were very strange, as if they had deviated from the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams.
Chen Xuan had never seen such a miraculous divination technique before.
Master Ma was not surprised by Chen Xuan's answer. He was about to say something, but Chen Xuan hesitated for a moment and then said, "Is this the Derivation Technique?"
This time, it was Master Ma's turn to be surprised. "You've heard of the Derivation Technique?"
Chen Xuan saw Master Ma's expression and knew he had guessed correctly. He nodded and said, "I've seen it in the books left by my father."
When Master Ma heard this, he was no longer surprised. Chen Jianhua's constant saying was that in books, there are beautiful women, and in books, there are golden houses. He collected the most ancient books in the feng shui world, and the Chen family's foundation was already terrifyingly strong. It was not surprising that Chen Xuan knew about it.
He looked at Chen Xuan and said, "Your knowledge has already surpassed many veterans who have been in the feng shui world for twenty or thirty years."
This was not Master Ma exaggerating, because even veterans who had been in the feng shui world for twenty or thirty years might not recognize the Derivation Technique.
And this was precisely the preciousness that Master Ma had mentioned.
Being praised by Master Ma, Chen Xuan felt a little embarrassed.
"You guessed correctly, this is indeed the Derivation Technique. However, this is the Minor Derivation Technique. The Major Derivation Technique can foresee five hundred years into the past and five hundred years into the future, and is known as infallible. However, do not underestimate the Minor Derivation Technique; it is also very powerful."
After explaining the Derivation Technique, Master Ma said, "My second condition is that you must learn the Minor Derivation Technique."
Upon hearing this, Chen Xuan's expression became strange.
This was not a condition at all; it was a gift.
"What are you looking at? You don't want to?"
Master Ma said irritably, "If it weren't for your good treatment of me yesterday, I wouldn't have proposed this condition."
"I want to, I want to!"
In terms of fortune-telling, Chen Xuan was only a second or third-rate player in the feng shui world. If he could learn the Minor Derivation Technique, he would naturally be very willing.
"Then listen carefully to what I say next."
Then Master Ma began to explain how to learn the Minor Derivation Technique.
Unlike other divination techniques, which are based on the principles of the Eight Trigrams and the Book of Changes, the Derivation Technique is a divination technique derived from the "Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art."
Soon, Master Ma taught Chen Xuan the method of learning.
"You've learned it."
"I've learned it!"
Chen Xuan nodded.
Simply put, it was to replace the background of the Eight Trigrams with the nine-palace grid from the "Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art." The placement of the Five Emperors Coins all had their own meanings.
"Then let's practice."
After speaking, Master Ma asked Chen Xuan to dig nine pits on the ground with a shovel.
These nine pits were arranged in a nine-palace grid.