Chapter 1381 Fortune-Telling a Ghost's Palm
"Li Er, are you alright!"
Chen Xuan suddenly noticed Li Er lying on the ground, blood trickling from his lips. He rushed over and helped Li Er up.
He found that Li Er's condition was similar to his own; the Nine Nether Cold Qi had infiltrated his body. Li Er was deathly cold, frost tinging his eyebrows and hair, his lips pale. Fortunately, Li Er's pulse was stable. As long as he could find a way to expel the cold qi, he might live.
"What should we do?"
Chen Xuan was startled and then looked at Qin Qianqian. "Right, can't you absorb that Nine Nether Cold Qi?"
Qin Qianqian nodded, then placed her hand on Li Er's chest. Chen Xuan watched as wisps of cold qi surged from Li Er's body and converged towards Qin Qianqian's palm.
Then Qin Qianqian withdrew her hand. Her palm held a ball of darkness. She took out a jade gourd with one hand and brought her fingers together with the other. Her fingertips touched the mouth of the jade gourd, and drops of water fell into it. In a moment, she closed the gourd.
Looking at Qin Qianqian again, she seemed perfectly fine, and even appeared to have grown stronger.
Who exactly was this Qin Qianqian?
Chen Xuan was both surprised and curious.
Although Qin Qianqian was a minor ghost messenger from the Underworld, he was certain that even ordinary ghost messengers greatly feared the Nine Nether Cold Qi.
As Chen Xuan was still in shock, a soft groan suddenly sounded. "Ouch..."
"He's awake!"
Chen Xuan looked sharply and saw Li Er's eyelashes flutter, as if he were about to open his eyes.
Qin Qianqian withdrew her hand and said, "The cold qi in him has been dispelled. There shouldn't be any problem."
Indeed, after waiting a while longer, Li Er woke up.
He slowly got up from the ground and looked at Chen Xuan, his voice filled with emotion. "Li Er, I thought I would never see Young Master again. Heaven has blessed me, I can still live! Thank you, Young Master, for saving me!"
Chen Xuan shook his head. "Li Er, you're thanking the wrong person this time. I don't have the ability to deal with the Nine Nether Cold Qi."
"Nine Nether Cold Qi?"
Li Er's pupils contracted, a flicker of fear appearing. He nodded. "No wonder it was so powerful."
Suddenly, he looked at Chen Xuan again. "Young Master, you didn't save me, so who did?"
Chen Xuan pointed to Qin Qianqian beside him. "She saved your life."
Li Er blinked and looked at Qin Qianqian, his expression one of complete disbelief. "Qin Qianqian? Her?"
"Precisely!"
Chen Xuan nodded.
"How did you do it?" Li Er demanded.
Qin Qianqian stammered, unsure how to explain, and seemed genuinely startled by Li Er. She had always been afraid of Li Er. "I..."
Chen Xuan said, "Li Er, Qin Qianqian absorbed the Nine Nether Cold Qi from you and stored it in a gourd, which is why you are fine."
"Absorbed it? And stored it in a gourd? Impossible! Who does she think she is, one of the Ten Yama Kings? The Nine Nether Cold Qi is fatal to humans, and it is also fatal to ghost messengers! Unless she is one of the Ten Yama Kings!"
Li Er stated definitively, his words cutting.
Clearly, his understanding of the Nine Nether Cold Qi surpassed Chen Xuan's.
"Ten Yama Kings?"
Chen Xuan blinked. Could that person be one of the Ten Yama Kings?
That would make sense. With Chen Xuan's skills, it was difficult to find an opponent in the capital. If the other party was one of the Ten Yama Kings, it would be understandable.
"However, the cold qi in you was indeed absorbed by Qin Qianqian. I saw it with my own eyes. Moreover, I also encountered that person and was also struck by the Nine Nether Cold Qi. I was also saved by Qin Qianqian."
"Really?"
"Absolutely true!"
Hearing Chen Xuan's earnest words, Li Er knew Chen Xuan would not lie to him. He then looked at Qin Qianqian and said, "Let me see your hand."
Qin Qianqian cautiously placed her hand in front of Li Er. Li Er looked at Qin Qianqian's small hand, observing it intently, his brow furrowed. Immediately, large beads of sweat appeared on his forehead...
Chen Xuan frowned. "Can Li Er read ghost palmistry?"
Humans have their palmistry, and ghosts have their palmistry.
Human palmistry can reveal a person's destiny, and ghost palmistry can reveal a ghost's destiny.
Legend had it that the creator of this feng shui mystique was a fortune teller who specialized in palmistry, a rare feng shui prodigy.
Chen Xuan had only seen Li Er's knowledgeable demeanor in ancient texts. He suddenly found Li Er to be unfathomably profound.
"Done!"
Li Er said in a hoarse voice. Qin Qianqian obediently withdrew her small hand.
From Li Er's expression, Chen Xuan clearly saw fear.
He couldn't help but glance at Qin Qianqian again. Did this probationary ghost messenger have an extraordinarily grand background?
"Li Er, how was it?"
Chen Xuan asked softly.
Li Er said sternly, "We'll talk later."
"Qianqian, you said earlier that you wanted to find a place to eat good food and have fun?"
Chen Xuan looked at Qin Qianqian and asked indifferently.
"Yes! I have to return to the Underworld soon. If I don't go out to play now, I don't know when I'll be able to return to the human world..." Qin Qianqian showed a hint of sadness.
"Wait for me for a moment. I'll go change my clothes, and I'll take you there later."
"Okay!"
Chen Xuan's clothes were tattered from the fierce battle the previous night, making him look like a beggar. He really needed to change. However, his main intention was to talk to Li Er about what he had discerned.
He entered the adjacent room and looked at Li Er with a serious expression. "Li Er, you can read ghost palmistry?"
Li Er nodded. "I know a little."
"Are you perhaps the feng shui genius recorded in those ancient texts? I never expected you to hide it so well!"
Chen Xuan said in surprise.
Even he couldn't read ghost palmistry.
Suddenly, he thought of something and shook his head. "No, that feng shui genius appeared more than a hundred years ago..."
Li Er said in a deep voice, "That was my grandfather!"
"That explains it then."
"My grandfather's name was Li Canglong. My Li family is also a family of feng shui practitioners, although not as famous as the Maoshan or Longhu Mountains. In Hexi Province, we were just a small feng shui family. It wasn't until my grandfather appeared that our Li family began to gain prominence!"
"It is said that my grandfather was born on the Ghost Festival. Upon birth, my paternal grandmother died in childbirth. Everyone thought my grandfather was doomed, but unexpectedly, my grandfather crawled out of my grandmother's womb himself."
"My grandfather was a born genius. He learned all feng shui and metaphysics instantly and instinctively. He even created a branch of learning dedicated to reading ghost palmistry, and our Li family thus became renowned in the feng shui world."
"However, after my grandfather mysteriously disappeared, no one in our Li family could practice that feng shui mystique anymore, and our Li family gradually declined. Later, our Li family experienced a change, and I ended up in the Chen family in the capital!"
"Fortunately, I managed to learn some of our Li family's methods for reading ghost palmistry, although it's very superficial."
Li Er spoke slowly, recounting the changes in the Li family of Hexi Province over the past century.
Chen Xuan said indifferently, "What about Qin Qianqian? Did you see something?"
"That girl is so clumsy, she can't even learn how to summon souls. I thought she was just a low-level ghost messenger in the Underworld, but I never expected her to have a close relationship with a ruler of the Underworld, and a very close one at that."
"Ruler of the Underworld?"
"The rulers of the Underworld, such as the most famous Ten Yama Kings."
"She's one of the Ten Yama Kings? That can't be right."
"Not exactly, but this Qin Qianqian should be a direct relative of one of the Ten Yama Kings."
Chen Xuan blinked, as if he understood something, and said urgently, "I think I've figured something out!"