Corpse Recovery Diver
Chapter 554 - 102_2

Chapter 554: Chapter 102_2

Even the centipede dies but never stiffens immediately; beneath that large table of spiritless name plaques, there still sits an old grandmother who converses with them from time to time. Indeed, for decades, nobody has dared to blatantly offend them.

After the master and disciple addressed each other, they both glanced around out of the corners of their eyes.

Then, by tacit agreement, they remained silent and continued walking until they reached the medical office and entered the sickroom. Sitting on either side of Lin Shuyou.

Last night, upset Ah You’s fate pattern perfectly resonated, and at the time, his family thought that the lad had finally come to his senses.

But as soon as the resonance established, they watched as he was on the verge of death.

It was chaos at home, setting up the altar, laying out the life and death board, conducting Yin-Yang divination—after much effort, they managed to extend his life.

Generally speaking, this kind of arrangement is something that the temple officials and generals would have already prepared in advance in case they needed to deal with an evil spirit.

Knowing that the youngest at home had an accident, after a discussion, the temple sent Lin Fu’an and Chen Shoumen to buy the earliest plane tickets to Jinling.

At the time, they thought that, with the two of them going, no matter how serious the youngest’s trouble was, it could be easily settled; the two of them thought so as well.

However, they didn’t anticipate that it would turn out this way; not only did they dare not enter someone else’s house, they didn’t even dare to stop.

The old patriarch’s expression was depressed, devoid of much anger or frustration, just feeling very helpless, and what’s even worse, you cannot simply vent this frustration.

You can’t exactly lift up your own grandson and punch away your anger, can you?

Not to mention that the grandson has just been injured and is still frail; a few punches might just kill him.

Even if a beating were to be considered, it’s not a decision that he can make. To be precise, it’s no longer an issue that can be resolved by just a few strikes on the grandson.

The inheritance of officials and generals is not absolutely passed down by surname, but rather, it relies on the temple system.

Take, for example, Lin Fu’an’s son, who does not rank first in the next generation; instead, it is his disciple Chen Shoumen.

If it were all just family, the old patriarch could perhaps lightly discipline a child as a pretense, and behind closed doors, it could be covered up, but when it has to do with an entire temple, to want to simplify and gloss over is not appropriate.

Because if one thing goes wrong, everyone in the temple could be collectively sent away by this grandson.

The old patriarch knows more about this sort of thing than his disciple Chen Shoumen.

Since ancient times, the number of Dragon King families on the river has been scarce; after all, this is an honor fought for by successive generations in River Crossing, inherently exclusive.

But the style of the Dragon King family is consistent; it may disregard those tributaries and lakes, but if any river or lake dares to churn and surge, if one doesn’t suppress them, it would indeed be unacceptable. Otherwise, outsiders might think the Dragon King has no temper.

And in the previous era, the most prominent lineage of the Dragon King was none other than the Qin Liu families.

Because of their inherent, age-old blood feuds, generation after generation, it was either you suppressing me or me defeating you on the river.

If you were to put the two families’ plaques together, you could reason out a profound relationship.

"Your great-grandfather killed my great-grandfather."

"My grandfather killed your grandfather."

"Your father killed my father."

But no one expected that under such complex historical blood feud, Dragon King Qin and Dragon King Liu could forge a marriage alliance.

At that time, when the wedding invitations were sent across Jianghu, it caused a sensation throughout the martial arts community, with many thinking that the Jianghu would have to be renamed after the two surnames.

It was only later when both families’ relationships were severed that this phenomenon did not continue.

But a starving camel is still bigger than a horse, and just now, the master and disciple witnessed it firsthand; the elder from the third floor need not act, just releasing those two from the courtyard to head straight for their temple would suffice to expel their own temple from the system.

Even sending just one would suffice.

It’s not that Lin Fu’an is afraid; one who can be an official general is inherently no coward.

When it comes down to the temple being destroyed, and people dying, if need be, everyone could simply stake their lives and fight.

But his family knows their own affairs; when facing evil spirits that prefer to lurk and secretly wreak havoc on humans, the officials and generals can either go alone or form arrays to fight and resolve the issue without a problem.

In today’s peaceful world, under the clear and bright heavens, evil spirits aren’t like during war-torn times, when they’d gather in groups causing major disturbances.

But when it comes to Jianghu conflicts, especially those that purely rely on individual strength, the weaknesses of his own temple would be infinitely magnified.

Especially with Dragon King Qin’s "Qin’s Jiao Observation Method," terrifying in that it can produce the vigor of a flood dragon based on personal energy, endlessly; to say that one person can withstand thousands of troops may be an exaggeration, but one person fighting for several days and nights... really isn’t unusual.

All he needs to do is come to the gate of the temple, and once he arrives, will you perform Divination?

When you perform Divination, he leaves.

When the time has passed and the Generals have left, he returns.

An ordinary officials and generals inheritance would require several months of rest after one Divination, which is usually sufficient as there are just a few temple fairs in a year.

For a senior official general, even after one Divination they would need to rest for half a month.

Their temple, with its deep inheritance, could manage to perform Divination once a day; when Ah You was just learning as a child, he requested it twice in one day. Although it left him unconscious for a long time, nearly not making it, he was also treated as a treasured genius by the whole temple because of it.

But each Divination didn’t last long; even if three Asking Road Incense sticks were lit above the head to extend the time, once the incense burned out, the Generals would say goodbye and leave.

Throughout their inheritance, countless officials and generals haven’t died due to insufficient strength in battle but because the duration wasn’t enough; the Generals would drift away, leaving behind only their weakened, ordinary selves to be killed by the evil spirit.