I nodded to Feng Ruoxing, "Let him go, let him finish."

While Feng Ruoxing hesitated, Ye Yang said, "Let him go! This is a warlock's fate!"

Feng Ruoxing had no choice but to release the young man, who still didn't understand what was happening. I had already lifted my clothes, "You're talking about this scar!"

The young man's eyes lit up, "Yes, yes! My godfather told me to look for this scar!"

I said calmly, "Tell me your story!"

The young man said, "My name is Yu Hao. A fox has been watching me for twenty years, and my godfather has been watching me for twenty years as well. A few days ago, something happened to both my godfather and my dad."

"Before something happened to him, he told me to report the case if he didn't come back. Then just wait at home until someone comes to find me."

"The person who comes to find me will definitely be a woman, and she will take me to see someone. If that person has a cross-shaped scar on their left shoulder, then they are the one who can save the three of us."

"My godfather told me to tell you that if you save the three of us, he will tell you where to find what you're looking for!"

My eyes couldn't help but narrow sharply: A Ming Shi (Fate Diviner)!

In the art of divination, there are two top experts: the Suan Shi (Calculator), who can calculate human affairs, and the Ming Shi, who can deduce the secrets of heaven. I've encountered them both.

Is this a coincidence?

I said without any change in expression, "First, tell me, how do you know you're being haunted by a fox?"

Yu Hao said, "That fox has always been looking for me."

"When I was a few years old, an old woman in black led me into a pile of graves. I asked her why she was leading me here, and when she turned around, her face was covered with fox fur."

"When I was in elementary school, I was made to stand as punishment by the teacher, and I saw that the teacher had a pair of fox eyes, with pupils that were vertical, looking at me."

"I went swimming with my classmates, and I was almost dragged into a whirlpool by one of them. When that person grabbed me, their face was pale as a dead person."

"These things were all done by that fox. If my godfather hadn't taught me how to protect myself, I would have died several times already."

"Every time that fox made a move, my godfather would tell me in advance who I would meet when I went out that day. After I met them, he would tell me how to run away, or what to use to hit them, so I could escape."

"That's how I survived, escaping death time and time again!"

Hearing this, I couldn't help but gasp. This Ming Shi's cultivation has surpassed the realm of peering into the heavens, reaching the legendary realm of breaking fate.

For a Ming Shi, it is not difficult to glimpse the secrets of heaven; the difficulty lies in seizing a glimmer of hope in a dead end, neither violating the heavenly tribulation nor letting the client die unjustly.

That Ming Shi, did he already know that I would come?

I said in a deep voice, "What else did your godfather say?"

Yu Hao said, "My godfather told me that you would definitely ask why he calculated that you would come. He told me to tell you that it was the will of heaven."

"He's here to wait for you, and then help you complete a business deal. This is a favor that his ancestor owed the Blood Plum Swordsman back then. This favor must be repaid. But the time is not yet right, and no one can repay this favor."

"Only when the person who is supposed to come arrives can this favor be repaid."

Shen Qingbai said softly, "The Blood Plum Swordsman is the founding ancestor of my sect."

I sneered, "What a fellow who knows how to protect himself."

The opportunity that Ming Shi spoke of was not actually the opportunity to break through Tianguan (Heavenly Barrier), but the opportunity for him to save his own life. If he really wanted to repay the favor regardless of the cost, he could just risk his life and directly tell us the location of the corpse demon of Ao Xue Sect.

He insisted on waiting until someone revealed the Heavenly Decree before telling the secret, which, to put it bluntly, was to transfer this tribulation onto me.

My confrontation with that fox is not my tribulation, but me taking on the tribulation for him.

Does he think I'm a fool?

Ye Yang made a gesture behind Yu Hao. He wants to kill!

In Ye Yang's view, we can risk our lives, but we can't be tricked into risking our lives. Anyone who dares to trick us deserves to die!

I shook my head slightly, telling Ye Yang that we had to wait until we stepped through Tianguan before killing.

I said with a gloomy face, "Tell me how you got haunted by the fox."

Yu Hao said, "To explain why I was targeted by a fox, I have to start with my dad. My dad's name is Xu Youli, and he's a famous ganshan ren (mountain herder)."

Hearing this, I couldn't help but frown. Yu Hao and his dad don't have the same surname. Could it be that Yu Hao's dad broke the rules of the ganshan ren and didn't let Yu Hao share his surname?

This "ganshan ren" is a unique profession in Northeast China. To put it bluntly, they are people who make a living digging ginseng, picking lingzhi mushrooms, and hunting animal skins in the deep mountains and old forests.

Ganshan ren are constantly in the deep mountains and old forests and encounter more strange things than living people.

To protect themselves, ganshan ren have also established many rules.

If Xu Youli broke the rules, this business would be really difficult to take on.

Yu Hao's next words really made my heart sink: "My dad broke the rules of the ganshan ren back then, and killed a fox in a grave. He even skinned the fox."

One of the rules of ganshan ren is: Do not kill foxes in graves.

The meaning is: ganshan ren can kill foxes, but they cannot kill foxes that nest in graves.

Foxes themselves have spiritual energy. If they make their nests in graves, they are even more evil. Killing foxes in graves will definitely lead to a disaster that wipes out the whole family.