Chapter 27: Huai River Witch
Just as Li Boyang had guessed.
A thousand years ago, the Huai River Witch was born with the ability to know the Celestial Destiny.
Predicting celestial phenomena, sorting out earth veins, divining fortunes and misfortunes, and most importantly, defying destiny...
The Huai River Witch could easily achieve all of these, earning her the respected title of "Huai River Witch."
But the Huai River Witch was not content with just that.
She attempted to summarize and compile the celestial laws and myriad phenomena she observed into a Path of Divination comprehensible even to ordinary people.
For ordinary people, the Nine Chapters of Divination said many things, but they could be summarized in four words—Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil.
The Great Trend of fortune, treacherous fortunes, heavenly principles, life numbers, growth and decline relationships...
As long as these fundamental principles are known, even if they can’t use the maxims, they can at least follow some of the natural laws.
By reading Heavenly Time, one can distinguish the seasons and solar terms...
By reading Cloud Rain, one can predict wind direction and timely rain...
By reading Mountain Formation, one can navigate through mountains and wilderness...
By reading Earth Vein, one can discern fertile land and water systems...
By reading Life Reading, one can judge the directions of people’s hearts...
By reading Face, one can realize the good and evil of human nature...
By reading auspicious, one can know the Spirit Monster and Mountain God...
By reading Evil Spirit, one can identify Evil Spirit and Ghost God...
This is the detailed content of the eight subsequent Chapters of the Nine Chapters of Divination, also the crystallization of the wisdom of the Huai River Witch from a thousand years ago.
As long as the essence of the All Things is known, the corresponding method of coping can naturally be deduced.
For instance, the Nai Fu who cursed Li Boyang before dying.
The Huai River Witch believed it to be a Ghost God birthed by Earth Evil Qi, inherently eccentric and violent.
If not tamed or worshiped through the establishment of a Divine Temple, it would someday wreak havoc.
According to the classification in Evil Spirit, that Nai Fu’s Earth Demon is yang in nature.
Thus, to eliminate it entirely and prevent its rebirth with the help of Earth Evil Qi, one must either use a sealing method of yin nature or slay it using the utmost yang numbers.
The Huai River Witch adopted the former, whereas Li Boyang’s Golden Sword Pill was the latter.
This is the simplest divination, also the most basic method of Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil.
According to Li Boyang’s understanding, that Huai River Witch was actually using "big data" for summarizing and fortune-telling.
It’s just that her "big data" all came from her personal observations and understanding of All Things.
Or to speculate further, perhaps the Huai River Witch didn’t need to engage in divination at all, for her Celestial Destiny Divine Power could let her see the ultimate outcome.
It was just to allow ordinary people to also predict and divine.
Only then did the Huai River Witch compile and summarize the phenomena and Celestial Destinies she observed, eventually culminating in the full content of this volume of Nine Chapters of Divination.
For ordinary people to reach her level is simply an impossibility.
In fact, even Li Boyang, coming from another world and possessing dialectical thinking and logical reasoning abilities, felt overwhelmed when reading the Nine Chapters of Divination.
Let alone, the Huai River Witch was an ancient figure from this world a thousand years ago.
Just like those ancient figures from Li Boyang’s past life.
When facing something they couldn’t understand or comprehend, they would often resort to explanations involving various Ghost God and Celestial Destiny theories.
It’s akin to someone who knows the correct answer, forcibly deducing a process from this answer.
You can only say that the result is indeed correct, but whether the process was right or not is unknown.
If subsequent generations were to reverse-engineer the outcome based on her calculation process, the correctness depends purely on luck.
Moreover, this world is not Li Boyang’s past life world.
This world also possesses mysterious supernatural powers, structuring and influencing the operation of all things.
It’s fortunate that the Huai River Witch’s Celestial Destiny Divine Power was so absurdly profound, capable of directly perceiving the essence of all things and deducing the final conclusion.
Otherwise, a classic like the Nine Chapters of Divination of such a level would typically be a civilized crystallization deduced over countless years of observation and thought by generations.
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[It really is big data fortune-telling, huh?]
The more Li Boyang read the Nine Chapters of Divination, the more familiar he felt.
Disregarding those mysterious Ghost God theories, isn’t this just the AI big data algorithm from the 21st century?
As long as the amount of information known is sufficient, even the ancestors you don’t remember for eight generations could be found.
The only problem now is that, compared to the internet big data of the 21st century, the amount of information recorded in the subsequent eight Chapters of the Nine Chapters of Divination is far too little.
Without the support of Celestial Destiny Divine Power, forcibly deducing from such scant data often leads to conclusions erroneous by a wide margin.
[Could that Celestial Witch not foresee this beginner problem?]
[Or ultimately, does everything still have to circle back to the maxims from the All Things Chapter?]
Under normal circumstances, a Divination Master must supplement and deduce specific situations based on the details they see.
This leads to different Divination Masters predicting different outcomes, significantly impacting the accuracy of the divination.
But if the Prophet or Divination Master could open a cheat.
Even if they can’t directly see the outcome like the Huai River Witch and then deduce the process.
At the very least, they should know the accuracy of their divination results, right?
Otherwise, wouldn’t that be just like those fortune-telling blind men from the past life, where accuracy purely depends on personal interpretation?
[Besides this, your sister should have left something else too!]
Looking up at Xiluo again, Li Boyang’s expression appeared very certain.
"Damn! You actually understand it!?"
This time Xiluo was truly shocked, her eyes almost popping out.
In the absence of literacy, just based on the Big Girl’s error-ridden and stammering reading, he could realize that the sister left behind not only this volume of Nine Chapters of Divination.
Truth be told, although Xiluo repeatedly overestimated Li Boyang’s talent, she was still taken aback by him.
[You did mention your sister possesses Celestial Destiny Divine Power...]
[The opening of this ’Nine Chapters of Divination’ also mentioned the marvel of the maxims, isn’t it normal to guess these?]
Hearing Li Boyang say this, Xiluo could confirm that the other had indeed comprehended this volume of Nine Chapters of Divination.
However, looking at the swaddled Li Boyang, Xiluo uncharacteristically hesitated.
"Child, you have talent and intelligence."
"But you must know, just understanding, or even mastering the ’Nine Chapters of Divination’ is nothing significant."
"But if you accept another thing my sister left behind, the responsibility and mission on you will not be the same."
"Are you truly prepared?"
Hearing this, Li Boyang merely raised an eyebrow slightly, making that baby face appear quite intriguing.
[Since you chose to bring me to this Mountain God Temple, isn’t it prepared for me to inherit your sister’s legacy?]
[Why, when the time has come, I’m ready, and you hesitate yourself?]
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