Fortune Teller

"Ting Yuxuan."

Looking at the plaque above the courtyard, Gu Xiuyun frowned slightly.

If it were other courtyards, he might not know it, but Tingyuxuan happened to be the residence of the second master of the four-bedroom house, who had a bad relationship with his cheap father, Gu Qingyuan.

Although the two were brothers, they had a deep grudge against each other and even had a fight. No one knew the reason, but since then, the two have never been in the same room.

"That's all, since the emerald golden sword is inside, I'll just take a walk!"

Gu Xiuyun knocked on the door.

Soon, a slave opened the wooden door and asked, "Who are you?"

"My lord, Gu Xiuyun, has come to pay homage to my second uncle."

"It turns out to be Young Master Yun," the servant immediately forced a smile on his face, "The Second Master is not in the courtyard. If Young Master needs anything, you can tell me first."

"It's not convenient for this matter to be leaked. How about letting me wait in the courtyard first?" Gu Xiuyun said.

The servant looked hesitant. If he were an ordinary clansman, he would have dismissed him directly. However, Gu Xiuyun had just successfully opened his pulse and was now in the limelight. It was definitely not his fault.

After thinking for a moment, the servant finally opened the wooden door and invited Gu Xiuyun in.

Entering the courtyard, Gu Xiuyun looked around and saw many weapons placed in the courtyard. On the knife rack at the end, the emerald gold sword was shining brightly.

"Sure enough, we are here." Gu Xiuyun was overjoyed, but kept a calm face, "I heard that my second uncle likes martial arts. In addition to practicing, he also often practices weapons. Today, I saw that it is true."

"Master Yun, there are mostly ordinary weapons in the courtyard and they are not worth looking at. Master, please go to the hall to rest for a while. I will bring you tea later," the servant said.

"No need, I'll walk around the courtyard."

As he spoke, Gu Xiuyun walked up to a long halberd, grabbed the halberd body, and started to wave it.

The wind whistled, and the halberd in Gu Xiuyun's hand was like a swimming dragon, darting from left to right, with killing intent.

"A good halberd, made of mixed copper, fine steel as the bone, and a dark iron blade. If you hold this blade, you can fight monsters even if you encounter them."

Gu Xiuyun praised a few words and then came to another weapons rack...

After going around in circles like this, he finally reached the emerald golden knife. Gu Xiuyun stretched out his hand seemingly casually and landed on the handle of the knife.

In an instant, the second stone bead deep in his soul trembled violently, and an invisible light flowed out from the golden knife, poured into his sea of ​​consciousness, and finally merged with the stone bead.

The cracks on the stone bead quickly disappeared, and his lifespan was also increased by two days out of thin air.

"It actually increased one day compared to the previous stone bead?" Gu Xiuyun thought thoughtfully.

He had long suspected that the more stone beads were repaired, the more life span would increase. Otherwise, each repair of a stone bead would only increase life span by one day. So how did Peng Zu extend his life span by eight hundred years?

Now the changes in his longevity have confirmed his guess.

But at this moment, an invisible blade suddenly appeared between heaven and earth and struck directly into his body.

Poof!

The sound seemed to be absent, but the blade was real, and it directly cut off four days of his life span.

"How could this happen?" Gu Xiuyun froze on the spot, feeling as if a basin of cold water had been poured down on him, freezing to the bone.

"God, you still refuse to let me go!"

Gu Xiuyun wailed in his heart.

The invisible blade was clearly shaped by the rules of heaven and earth. This time, the thief God not only cut off the two days of life gained by the life star chart, but also punished him for an additional two days.

"Am I destined to live only two more years?"

Gu Xiuyun's heart was extremely heavy. So what about the purple spirit veins and what about Feng Linhui? They were almost dead, so what else could they practice?

"wrong."

He suddenly remembered that dark jade pendant. Why didn't the invisible heavenly sword come that time?

"I must have done something wrong, which caused the backlash of the rules of heaven and earth." Gu Xiuyun swept away the haze in his heart, "Yes, it must be like this. When the first stone bead was repaired, the heavenly sword did not come, which means that heaven and earth recognized it. my behavior."

"And this time, I violated the taboo, so the sword from heaven came."

"But what exactly is the taboo, and how did I violate it?"

Countless thoughts surged through Gu Xiuyun's heart.

"Master Yun, you have been waiting for a long time, please drink some tea first!" The servant stood respectfully beside him holding a cup of tea.

"No need, since the second uncle is not here, I will stay soon!"

Gu Xiuyun let out a long sigh. At this moment, he was no longer in the mood to stay in the courtyard and walked straight out the door.

On a tree-lined path, Gu Xiuyun was walking on the road with a solemn expression, his brows furrowed.

Occasionally, servants and maids would pass by on both sides, but they would carefully avoid them for fear of disturbing him.

"What taboo did I commit?"

Gu Xiuyun repeatedly recalled the scene when he got the black jade pendant.

"Can't I touch it with my hands? Or do I have to have someone else bring it to me?"

"Or maybe the time and place are wrong and the stone beads need to be repaired at the right time and in the right place?"

All kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind.

Suddenly, the sound of crying not far away attracted his attention.

"Don't cry, it's just twenty slaps. Fortunately, the young lady is kind-hearted and stopped the aunt in charge in time. If you really hit her a hundred times, both of your hands will be useless!"

"Auntie is so cruel. Not only did she have to slap her a hundred times for just two snacks, Gu's rules are too unkind."

"Who made you violate the rules of the Gu family? If you receive this slap, the aunt in charge has already softened her heart!"

"The lady has a bad appetite. There are so many snacks left to eat, so I tasted two pieces. I didn't want them anyway. What's wrong with taking two bites?"

"Even if the lady doesn't want it, you can't touch it. Unless the lady rewards you, how can you get it yourself?"

Listening to the conversation deep in the woods, Gu Xiuyun had a flash of inspiration in his heart.

"Unless the lady gives you a reward, you can't eat it?"

"Unless God gives you a reward, you can't take it?"

"Could it be that...it's because I took something I shouldn't have taken?"

At this moment, his past memories kept coming back, and the Thief God intervened several times, all because he had violated taboos, not only in this life, but also in previous lives.

But a few times, the thief God gave in.

The first time was when the Qiuzhen chapter appeared.

"Brother Xi Ming, I don't understand what fate means or not. If you don't understand, I'll just read it to you!"

The girl's voice was still echoing in his mind.

That time, Gu Xiuyun did not ask the girl to read the scriptures on the vellum paper. The girl took the initiative to read out the scriptures and tell him the scriptures.

Although Thief God tried to intervene, he eventually backed down.

Because that time, he did not fight for it, but snatched it. It was given to him by the girl.

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The second time is when the horoscope is turned on.

Although Gu Yuncong took out the fortune chart, behind it was the white-haired young man who planned it, and even the ice snake venom was planted by someone sent by Qin Baishou.

It can be said that the emergence of the horoscope is entirely the work of the white-haired young man.

That time, the thief God did not give in, and the power of cause and effect could not overwhelm him, so he sent the golden eagle until the white-haired young man died.

God didn't give him a horoscope, but he insisted on forcing it. He violated the rules of heaven and could only die.

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The third time was when he was reincarnated into Gu Xiuyun's body.

The Heavenly Sword came directly to the world and chopped off his eighty years of life.

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The fourth time was when the maid put down the black jade pendant and repaired the first stone bead.

The invisible heavenly sword did not appear.

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The fifth time, he took the initiative to touch the emerald golden knife and violated the taboo again.

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Scenes after scenes made Gu Xiuyun's thoughts clearer and clearer.

"The Gu family has the rules of the Gu family; Tian, ​​​​has the rules of the heaven. As the saying goes, there is no place without rules."

"The thief God will not target me alone unless I break the rules."

"And that rule is, if God doesn't give it to me, I can't take it."

At this moment, he thought of an old saying, "If you don't take what God gives you, you will suffer the consequences."

On the contrary, if God does not give you something but takes it yourself, you are going against destiny and seeking your own death.

But understanding is one thing, how to do it is another.

If he wants to repair his life star chart, he must seek the treasures needed for the stone beads, but the rules of heaven and earth do not allow him to get them by himself. How is this possible?

"God, you've given me a big problem!"

Gu Xiuyun looked troubled.

What is needed for the third stone bead is an ancient water spirit jade. He has already deduced that this jade is located outside Youning City, about hundreds of miles away.

If not bound by the rules of heaven and earth, Gu Xiuyun could get it at any time.

But the rules of heaven refused to allow him to take it. Could it be that he was really waiting for God to be kind and take the initiative to give the ancient jade?

"No, there must be a loophole in the heavenly rules. Otherwise, how could Peng Zu extend his life for eight hundred years?" Gu Xiuyun thought silently in his heart.