Chapter 201: Chapter 173: Qian Trigram Eye Opening

I’m really sorry, I was muddle-headed today, and there were two bugs in the text.

Once when wearing the Night Travel Mask, the Yansheng coin cannot be used within ten minutes.

Once was the rules of the Gambling Ghost, where if lost, the family dies first. Sang Que has family, so it shouldn’t have been the Substitute Death Grassman that directly took effect.

Fortunately, these are minor issues, I’ve already revised Chapters 170 and 171; you can go back and look again, but skipping these won’t affect the subsequent plot.

This Chapter was originally scheduled for an update at eight o’clock tomorrow morning, but I’m releasing it early as a punishment for the mistake.

Really sorry!

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Before accounting for losses and gains, Sang Que couldn’t help but worry once more, worrying that during her last encounter with the Gambling Ghost, the rules might fall upon He Buning or her as yet unmet biological father.

Hopefully, the Witch Lady would hear her prayers and keep them safe; even if they are strangers, she doesn’t want them to die in her place.

Sang Que quietly prayed a couple more sentences to the Witch Lady, then began to tally up the results.

In the Gambling Ghost incident, losses included one Substitute Death Grassman, the power of the Copper Coin Armor was exhausted, and the balance between the layers and her Heart Lamp was actively disrupted by her.

The losses were considerable, having a profound impact on her.

If the balance isn’t restored promptly, she’ll remain in danger. Currently, she’s in Wangshan City, so no Deceit or Evil Ghost has bothered her yet. But if she leaves the city, the Ghost Flower Carriage and Ghost Coffin would likely come again.

Copper Coin Armor is manageable; there’s a Daoist in the Evil Suppression Bureau who can reinforce it, though they’ll charge her at least a dozen or twenty gold.

Yao Zhen has fair prices; enchanting both the Armor and Dao Bell, he only charges her five hundred cents.

While Hua Qianmian asks for one thousand gold right off the bat, Yao Zhen doesn’t enter Wangshan City just because the city entry tax costs ten cents, allowing him to eat ten bowls of plain noodles.

Last time she asked Yao Zhen to help fish her out in Pinghu Village, she paid only three taels of gold, and Yao Zhen was quite tempted.

Compared to this, Yao Zhen indeed is a good person.

Digressing, Sang Que brought her thoughts back.

There were substantial gains this time too; tangible acquisitions include the Substitute Death Grassman from Wei Wu, Yansheng Technique Connected Branch, Taoist Magical Artifact Heavenly Gang Ruler, and Yin Object Jade Bracelet.

Additionally, the Yin Nail from winning against the Gambling Ghost, and Human Bone Dice stripped off the Gambling Ghost by the Yin Child—also a Yin object.

The Yin Object Jade Bracelet is Ghost-level, capable of restraining ghosts of the fifth layer, though with unknown side effects. To remove it after use, one has to sever the hand.

This side effect is something Sang Que cannot bear….It’s time to reward the Yin Child with some jewelry!

Sometimes when thinking, although Yin Walkers bear the cost of possibly being killed by Evil Spirits at any time and going out of control, they also gain a lot of benefits. Making Evil Spirits bear the cost of using Yin objects is truly advantageous.

If the Yin Child’s hand gets severed it can be reattached; as a living person, if her hand gets severed, even modern medicine would struggle to restore it to its original state, and all her efforts over the years to practice Palm Strength would be wasted.

Yin Child doesn’t want the nail slices, Sang Que has tried them before, and the dice clearly aren’t desired either, so Yin Child stuffed them to her before disappearing.

If Yin Child encounters something she desires, she doesn’t even need to be told, she’d take it outright, such as the village resentment and her eyeballs, and even the embroidered shoes, though obviously not fitting, Yin Child wears them without taking them off.

Little Chan, guarding by Sang Que’s bedside, has already fallen asleep leaning.

Sang Que gently lifted the quilt and got up.

She took out her soul candle to light, then retrieved the Human Bone Dice to check its effect.

Using her blood, she drew a symbol in her palm to check it, she sucked the wound on her finger. Her blood carried a faint rice wine aroma, somewhat fragrant.

In the Deceit Dynasty, blood is required everywhere; often hands and palms are sliced. If she didn’t have recovery ability, her hands would be covered in scars now.

She had considered earlier drawing blood to store so she could pour some when needed, but Mother forbade it, citing the danger.

After all, she wasn’t He Buning; once separated from her body, blood and hair would burn up. If her blood and hair were lost simultaneously, like Wei Wu’s Connected Branch used for the Evil Suppression Technique, which only required hair and blood, it would exchange life for life.

Thus, it’s better to use as needed to ensure no excess blood is taken by evildoers.

Placing the die on the eye symbol drawn in her palm, Sang Que inhaled the soul candle’s scent, calmed herself, and began visualization.

But as she felt her ’vision’ being drawn to the die, a flood of blood-red instantly filled her entire ’vision’, an extremely dangerous sensation along with bitter cold forbidding contemplation shook Sang Que to consciousness.

Her palm trembled in pain, the die fell out, the eye symbol drawn in blood on her palm burned like a branding iron, releasing tendrils of smoke, then swiftly disappearing.

It wasn’t that this die was special, but it belonged to Ghost-level Yin objects. Her current level wasn’t enough for direct visualization checks or simply couldn’t use Observation Method for checks anymore.

This should be common sense, so no one actively told her, and she overlooked it.

This explains why, when Wei Wu gave her the bracelet, he said the bracelet’s side effects were unclear. At the time, she wondered if the Observation Method couldn’t directly check effects and side effects?

The origin lies here.

Sang Que thought of the list for redeeming Yin objects at the Merit Office, which also includes Ghost-level Yin objects, indicating the Merit Office has ways to check the effects and side effects of Ghost-level Yin objects.

Spreading open her right hand, Sang Que let the Yansheng Coin Eight Diagrams surface, seven trigrams remained, lacking one Qian Trigram.

With thoughts in her mind, the trigram next to the Qian Trigram slowly faded, transforming into a new Qian Trigram, taking eight seconds.

She recalled the process and feelings when invoking the Qian Trigram Eye Opening today. Her dark, bright eyes quickly veiled in a misty gray, revealing darkness, only seeing the red glow of the soul candle.

In the darkness, Little Chan leaned against the bedside asleep; her hair also emitted a faint red glow, as if draped in a thin layer of red veil. Vaguely visible deep in her head was a red light cluster, where all her hair sprouted from.

That light cluster was Little Chan’s core, her true entity; so Little Chan’s body could be destroyed, her head could never be shattered.

Before Sang Que could use her current eyes to see the die, her eyes suddenly pricked painfully, making her gasp, closing her eyes with reflex tears.

Only a few seconds had passed, was it three seconds?

The Yansheng Coin Geng Trigram’s healing also only detaches her from near-death, not bad per se, but its effect is quite limited too.

Qian Trigram Eye Opening can see the core of Evil Spirits and Ghosts but only lasts three seconds, and afterward, the eyes feel pierced, leading to immediate blindness.

Sang Que rethought, perhaps this is also a protection mechanism.

In the Deceit Dynasty, certain entities cannot be scrutinized. If accidentally seen, one’s eyes may be immobilized, rapidly polluted and corroded by those unspeakable entities unto death.

Three seconds might be the limit for ordinary people, and that pain could ensure her safe retreat.

After resting a while, Sang Que converted another Qian Trigram, and the healing Geng Trigram could be converted too, but she’d already verified that once out of critical condition, the treatment wouldn’t be effective.

Positioning the bracelet and dice on the table, Sang Que used the Qian Trigram Eye Opening again, directly looking at the two items.

On the bracelet, Sang Que saw a woman’s deathly pale hand amidst a pool of blood, her wrist cut open, wearing the bracelet; initially clean and luminous, the bracelet rapidly absorbed the blood continuously flowing from the wrist, finally soaking with a hint of blood.

This indicates the bracelet releases ghost blood to suppress Evil Ghosts by absorbing people’s blood?

Once worn, it can’t be removed without severing the hand, otherwise one would be drained dry?

The image of the bracelet vanished, Sang Que quickly looked at the dice.

Her eyes throbbed sharply, closing them tightly, gripping the table edge to bear the pain. She felt sticky liquid trailing from her eye corners, lifting a hand, she realized it was blood.

First they cried, then they bled; perhaps the third time they’d be damaged.

Evidently, the Qian Trigram Eye Opening couldn’t be used repeatedly in succession; it requires some interval for the eyes to recover first.

Fortunately, she’d understood the dice’s effects and side effects.

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