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Chapter 60 - The Power of the Unseen

  There were several people standing in the room, all with anxious expressions. 

  When they saw me and Uncle Huzi enter, Zhang Yucheng looked like he had found a lifesaver. 

  He rushed over and knelt in front of me, "Master Wu, I know Yunliang was wrong, and he offended you, but you wouldn't have killed him, would you? Please be merciful and spare him!"

  Zhang Yucheng's actions made me confused and puzzled.

  Uncle Huzi quickly understood Zhang Yucheng's intentions.

   He said coldly, "Mr. Zhang, do you think your son ended up like this because of our Master?"

  "It was Yunliang who was wrong. Just give him a small punishment. He's my only son." Zhang Yucheng said, and he actually started to cry, wiping away his tears with his sleeve. 

  He looked pitiful.

  "Mr. Zhang, we would never do anything to our clients. That's the rule. I'm just a Feng Shui master. I wouldn't harm anyone. You must have misunderstood." I said.

  "Then... Then what happened to him?" Zhang Yucheng asked tremblingly.

  "Uncle Huzi and I have been helping your Zhang family find a new ancestral graveyard all day. We just came back. How could we possibly do anything to your son? You're thinking too much of us." Uncle Huzi said with displeasure.

  "I was wrong... I was wrong. Master Wu, please save my son, no matter what." Zhang Yucheng begged again.

  I walked straight to Zhang Yunliang's side and saw his face, covered in blood from his seven orifices.

   I was also shocked.

  Then I carefully checked his pulse.

   It was weak, but he was still alive, just barely.

  Seeing him like this, I felt a little strange. 

  I turned to look at Zhang Yucheng and asked, "Where did he go after we left? What did he do?"

  "He didn't go anywhere. He just had a fight with me, and then he locked himself in his room. Yao Yao called him out for dinner and found him like this." Zhang Yucheng said.

  "Master, could it be that the young master was feeling depressed and took poison?" Butler Wang suggested.

  "That's impossible, right? I know this child. Although he's a bit mischievous, he definitely wouldn't have the courage to commit suicide. Besides, it's not such a big deal to make him do that." Zhang Yucheng said.

  At this time, I carefully examined Zhang Yunliang again.

   I opened my celestial eye and scanned his body. 

  Soon, I found a thick layer of death energy surrounding him. 

  Then I pried open his eyelids and looked at his eyeballs.

   They had turned black, a clear sign of possession.

  "He didn't take poison. Someone tampered with him." I said solemnly.

  His condition reminded me of the black shadow that appeared near the Zhang family's ancestral graveyard last night.

  Could it be that person who did this to him? 

  That person was full of malice towards the Zhang family and had already attacked members of the Zhang family several times.

  "This... Who did this?" Zhang Yucheng asked excitedly.

  I ignored him and said to Uncle Huzi, "Uncle Huzi, the compass."

  Uncle Huzi took the compass out of his bag and handed it to me.

   I held the compass and walked around Zhang Yunliang's bed. 

  The needle on the compass moved slightly, pointing towards the north.

  That meant there was something wrong in that direction.

  But I searched the room and couldn't find what I was looking for.

  "Master Wu, what are you looking for?" Zhang Yunyao asked curiously.

  "Your brother was tampered with. There must be some trace left behind. I'm looking for a talisman." I explained while searching.

  "Master, could it be outside the house?" Uncle Huzi suddenly said.

  His words suddenly reminded me. 

  I took the compass and went straight to the back of the house.

  Behind the house was a street, not very wide. 

  Weeds grew all over the walls, and few people normally walked here.

  Zhang Yunliang's room was right next to this street.

  I walked to the wall next to Zhang Yunliang's room, squatted down, and searched carefully. 

  The compass was pointing in this direction.

  Soon, I found that there was a section of the wall near Zhang Yunliang's bed that had been disturbed.

  Although the person had tried to conceal it, I still discovered it.

  "Uncle Huzi, get the shovel." I called out.

  Uncle Huzi went back to the courtyard and quickly found a shovel. 

  He started digging according to the location I indicated.

  After digging about thirty centimeters deep, Uncle Huzi hit something.

   It was a wooden box, similar to the ones we found in the Zhang family's ancestral graveyard, but much smaller.

  This wooden box was red and had many symbols carved on it.

   I didn't recognize some of them.

  After the wooden box was dug up, I asked Uncle Huzi to put on gloves, avoiding direct contact with the box. 

  Then he took it out.

  When I opened the box, I found a doll made of cloth inside.

  Seven iron nails were inserted into the doll's head, corresponding to the positions of the seven orifices of a human.

  When I flipped the doll over, I saw a piece of yellow paper with Zhang Yunliang's birthdate written on it stuck to the forehead of the doll.

  Besides this, there was also some black hair wrapped around the doll.

  Seeing this, I was further convinced that the person who tampered with the Zhang family's ancestral graveyard and the one who attacked Zhang Yunliang was the same person.

  Zhang Yucheng and the others were also shocked when they saw the contents of the wooden box.

  "Master Wu, what's in this box?" Zhang Yucheng couldn't help but ask.

  "This is a talisman. This is what caused your son to bleed from his seven orifices and make him near death." I said thoughtfully.

  "Who the hell did this to our Zhang family? Once I find him, I'll kill him!" Zhang Yucheng trembled with anger, a look of ruthlessness in his eyes.

  I carried the wooden box and took everyone back to the Zhang family's old house.

  As soon as we reached the courtyard, I looked at the Zhang family father and daughter and Butler Wang, and said solemnly, "This wooden box must have been buried this afternoon. Did any of you see anyone suspicious near the Zhang family's old house today?"

  The four of them looked at each other and shook their heads.

  " Someone dug such a big hole behind your house and buried something. Didn't you hear any noise?" Uncle Huzi asked.

  "No, we didn't hear anything." Zhang Yunyao said.

  Actually, from the moment I dug out those wooden boxes from the Zhang family's ancestral graveyard, I had a preliminary guess.

   The person who was targeting the Zhang family must have been a carpenter because the method he used to harm people was the Nightmare Array from the art of Lu Ban.