Corpse Recovery Diver
Chapter 440 - 80

Chapter 440: Chapter 80

The plan always struggled to keep up with changes.

Originally, what Li Zhiyuan wanted was to make small dishes, each one labeled and prepared slowly, one after the other; now that all the dishes were squeezed into the pot together, he changed to making a hodgepodge, which was also a fine dish.

After all, he came for revenge. If he could enjoy a spectacle at the enemy’s doorstep while avenging, it would be double the joy.

"Remember, no matter what happens, if it can be resolved outside, don’t linger inside. We have an array set up outside. If not used, it’s a waste, and it’s also our escape route."

"Understood."

"Got it."

Upon reaching the temple gate, Li Zhiyuan stopped in his tracks.

The gate was not an iron or wooden door but a half-height sliding design, nominally electric, but in reality manually operated. Even a child could easily climb over it.

But from this gateway as the dividing line, Li Zhiyuan detected a different scent.

The odor was so strong that even Yin Meng frowned, and Tan Wenbin kept twitching his nose.

A temple that has been around for years might naturally have a musty odor, but the question was, where was this overwhelming watery stench coming from, almost as if it were dripping like water?

It was as though, instead of a temple, the three stood before a long-decayed swamp.

Li Zhiyuan took out the compass and glanced at it: a place harboring danger.

But the problem was that he had been here before and even toured the temple. If this place truly had such a formation, why hadn’t he noticed it that day?

Overturning a Fengshui formation. It wasn’t impossible; he had done quite a bit of that before, but those changes were based on existing structures.

Yet, during his visit that day, he hadn’t seen any substantial Feng Shui layout in the temple. The only thing that barely fit the bill was the crack under the General’s statue.

Normally, unless a Feng Shui Master provided detailed blueprints and employed a massive construction crew to renovate the General Temple during the day...

No, even if the new Feng Shui layout could function, this overwhelming aura of decay couldn’t be filled in overnight. This scent had an irreplaceable element of time sediment.

Li Zhiyuan squatted down, extending his left hand to grab a handful of moist soil while carefully feeling it. He covered his mouth with his right hand, quietly whispering descriptive terms seeking reference from books he’d read.

The premise of perceiving the full implication from one leaf was having a vast database; observing soil was the same.

Tan Wenbin also squatted down, mimicked Li Zhiyuan, grabbed a handful of soil, brought it close, and licked it.

In an instant, he felt as if he was back in Mountain City, trying the root of herbs for the first time.

To avoid making noise, Tan Wenbin could only open his mouth wide and retch silently.

Li Zhiyuan looked at Tan Wenbin in confusion, "Brother Binbin, what are you doing?"

Tan Wenbin finally recovered and guiltily said, "Learning, learning from you."

Li Zhiyuan moved his right hand away from his mouth; the palm was clean. He then relaxed his left hand, letting the soil fall.

Tan Wenbin’s eyes widened. It was dark, and he couldn’t distinguish between left and right hands.

Yin Meng said nearby, "His eyesight failed him, he thought you were eating dirt, so he followed suit."

Tan Wenbin: "You..."

Li Zhiyuan said, "Water monkeys have a habit of tasting soil, but such a method is too eager for quick results, not good."

Tan Wenbin immediately nodded, "Yes, yes, I was wrong."

Yin Meng diverted the topic, asking, "Brother Xiao Yuan, why does the inside give me such a strange feeling?"

"When I first came to General Mountain, I discovered this place because it’s practically a textbook water burial site. In ancient times, people should have chosen it for water burials."

Tan Wenbin asked puzzledly, "But a standard place means it’s easily discovered, right? Isn’t water burial meant to be hidden? Burying here is like waiting to be robbed."

"When emperors built royal tombs, they generally assumed their dynasties would last forever. Officials and nobles also believed their wealth could be eternally inherited, so building here wasn’t surprising, thinking it could be guarded for generations.

This water burial was likely plundered by water monkeys long ago. The temple built above was an ancient act according to tradition to suppress such places.

Many small temples by rivers, in mountains, or in sparsely populated areas came about this way. Their existence wasn’t to facilitate worship but to ward off evil and ensure peace. Thus, the offerings in the temple often were bizarre, serving a formal role without much detail.

Nevertheless, such places also gave rise to a unique Feng Shui formation, black and white intertwined, good and evil counteracting. The living should not enter, and the dead could not rest.

Some Feng Shui Masters favored such places, specifically choosing them to build dojos or houses, typically calling these places ’Yin-Yang Harmony Burials’ or ’Yin-Yang Harmony Coexistence,’ combining Yin Houses with Yang Mansions."

Yin Meng: "So the fellow corpse recovery diver in this temple actually takes an unconventional path?"

Every industry had its own hierarchy of disdain. Among corpse recovery divers, water monkeys were at the bottom, almost expelled from the diver sequence and grouped with Tomb Robbers.

In the traditional corpse recovery diver realm, there were also orthodox and unorthodox paths. The Yin family, though long declining, always prided itself on orthodoxy.

Li Zhiyuan shook his head, "Yin Meng, your family has an ancestral home, right?"

"We do, but it’s in the countryside, uninhabited for a long time, quite remote, so I didn’t bring you there."

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