Wandering Gods of Day and Night
Chapter 185 - 157 Miss, You Dropped Your Horse Armor_3

Chapter 185: Chapter 157 Miss, You Dropped Your Horse Armor_3

Yun Ziliang was quite the old actor, not only boasting but also strutting elegantly back and forth in the room.

"You should be the storyteller."

Zhou Xuan thought Yun Ziliang needed not just a gavel but also a folded fan to fully indulge in his theatrics.

"You still don’t believe me, huh? Let me show you."

Yun Ziliang pulled out a plain-looking stone from his pocket.

As soon as the stone appeared, Zhou Xuan felt the incense in the Secret Realm shift.

Zhou Xuan’s mind sank into the Divine Revelation Secret Realm, where he saw a faint blue smoke from the heart incense slightly tilting towards the stone rather than rising straight up.

At the same time, the lantern Ghost girl behind Zhou Xuan in the Secret Realm also tilted her head to look at the stone.

Zhou Xuan’s incense at this moment was Tattoo Incense, and the lantern Ghost girl was a tattoo-related opportunity, both influenced by the stone, naturally indicating it was something of the Tattoo Clan.

"This stone is interesting." Zhou Xuan reached out to take the stone, but Yun Ziliang put it away and held out his hand for the playing fee instead.

"This game has to be played." Zhou Xuan pulled out two green hundred-dollar bills from his wallet and slapped them on the table, "Where there’s a child, there’s crying; where there’s a gambler, there’s losing. Take it to turn your luck around."

"Win, and I’ll treat you all to a meal at the tavern."

Yun Ziliang put down the stone and, collecting the fee, was about to go be a "coin-tossing boy" when Zhou Xuan called out to him, "That’s not right, Lao Yun. You’re a Dragon Seeking Heavenly Master, how do you lose money every day in small mahjong salons?"

"Is that losing money? I’m accumulating luck."

Yun Ziliang said, "A person’s luck is a total sum. If you’re lucky here, you’ll be unlucky elsewhere. I lose on purpose when gambling to make my luck good in other places."

Zhou Xuan gave Yun Ziliang a thumbs up, *You’re the one!*

*Your skin is the thickest!*

Unlike Lao Yang, who, being as clueless in gambling, was much more thin-skinned and would get red-faced and flustered after a little banter, almost wanting to find a crack in the ground to hide in.

After Yun Ziliang left, Zhou Xuan began to study the stone, looking at it from all angles but discovering nothing significant.

So Zhou Xuan attempted a more forceful approach, penetrating his Perception into the stone.

His Perception was like a fishing hook, dipping into an endless ocean of blue, making Zhou Xuan dizzy.

He retracted his Perception and examined the stone again, still unsure of its purpose.

"This stone, on the outside, appears ordinary, but inside, it feels like it holds a world."

Zhou Xuan held the stone and entered the Divine Revelation Secret Realm, inquiring through thought to the Lantern Bride, "Do you know what the stone’s purpose is?"

The Lantern Bride ignored Zhou Xuan.

Zhou Xuan had grown accustomed to it. Ever since the bride entered his Secret Realm, she had done nothing but sing eerie songs, never speaking.

The bride in the Divine Revelation Secret Realm did not speak, but Zhou Xuan had two other options. The first was to take the stone to the Totem Hall to see how the Blood Tree reacted to the stone.

The second option was to consult the Blood Well Divination to see what guidance the Blood Well might offer.

Zhou Xuan chose the second option first, intending, of course, to inquire about the Blood Well’s pricing.

...

Meditating on the Blood Well, entering it,

Zhou Xuan stood by the Blood Well, with a question forming in his mind: Not on credit, not on credit. If I want to know how to use the Netherworld Stone, what kind of sacrifice is required?

Snowflakes drifted down, forming the word "five" on the ground.

"Only to know how to use the Netherworld Stone, it requires Five Incense?"

Zhou Xuan decisively left the Blood Well.

Too expensive!

Five Incense was hard to find.

And even if found, to defeat it would require Zhou Xuan and Lv Mingkun to plan for a long time in advance.

During the last confrontation with Chun Meng, Zhou Xuan had already experienced the means of the Five Incense.

Back then, with Obsession’s help, his dream barely trapped Chun Meng, who was only a pseudo-Five Incense burning life for incense.

If it were a true Five Incense, Zhou Xuan’s dream would never be able to trap it.

"The sacrifice for the Five Incense is quite tough to handle. Perhaps it’s better to wait for the Totem Hall!"

Zhou Xuan had two opportunities to enter the Totem Hall, but since the incense hadn’t burnt down two inches yet, entering now would be wasteful since the Blood Tree wouldn’t teach him a new tattoo map. It would be rash to go in suddenly.

"At most, wait another day."

Zhou Xuan decided to wait a little longer. Si Ming would soon obtain the monk’s ghost to make the "Flower-picking Handprint" tattoo to cure her daughter’s insanity.

Once this tattoo was finished, Zhou Xuan’s incense could burn enough to two inches, and entering the Totem Hall then, even if he didn’t find the stone’s usage, he could still learn a new tattoo map without wasting the opportunity.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xuan put the stone away and went to the store’s entrance to read the newspaper.

These days, Zhou Xuan was very busy but always made time to check the newspaper for any meeting information from the Blood Well Society.

"Twenty shops, when will the economy take off."

This code phrase appeared simultaneously in three different newspapers.

"Meeting time, tonight at eight sharp, the code phrase is—’When will the economy take off.’"

Zhou Xuan memorized both the code phrase and the time.

...

A famous temple without a famous monk cannot maintain its renowned reputation.

Qiye Temple, located in the Old Stone Plate Road in the Mingxi District, was very famous in Mingjiang Prefecture. Two hundred years ago, a legendary monk named Monk Zhu Jiu came from this temple.

Monk Zhu Jiu, who was a Taoist before the age of twenty-two, later converted to Buddhism with a reputation that was both famous and mad. Before his death, he wrote the word "death" on the chest of every Buddha statue in the temple with chicken blood.