Chapter 480: Astrology

　　Following the little girl’s memory, that was a main hall. He sent the little girl in, and there was a person wearing a black robe seated above.

　　When it reached this point, the memory suddenly started to vanished like the stars, it could not be replicated.

　　The person that he spotted was also the one that Shen Lian saw.

　　“Who’s that?” Shen Lian’s tone was slightly more serious. From Lei Nuo’s memory, he could not differentiate the actual situation of the person wearing a black robe.

　　“The hierophant,” Lei Nuo said.

　　“Who’s the hierophant?” Shen Lian continued to ask.

　　“I don’t know. He’s already been living for a long time when I was born. When my great grandfather’s great grandfather was born, he’s already the hierophant. In Da Xia, he’s the only one that cut off the ties with the Book of Life and Death aside from Emperor Xia.”

　　Shen Lian asked, “then where is he now?”

　　“I don’t know. Nobody could ask about the hierophant’s whereabouts, even the Emperor King isn’t an exception.” Lei Nuo finally recalled about the little girl. She was being chosen by the hierophant and thus was taken to the main hall which served as a place for Da Xia’s ancestor Sacrificial Ritual. It seemed like after that time, the hierophant did not appear anymore.

　　Shen Lian was clear that Lei Nuo did not lie. A person that could cut ties with the Book of Life and Death and lived for so long must be a very powerful existence. As for the Emperor Xia who had also cut ties with the Book of Life and Death, it was not surprising at all for Shen Lian. The Emperor Xia had such mighty force and thus it was definitely not difficult achieve it. Unfortunately, his situation was special and thus he could not feel how the Book of Life and Death looked like.

　　If one can control the living things’ life or death, he could not do it. The Book of Life and Death must have had hidden some significant secrets which aroused his curiosity.

　　Temporarily, there was nothing that Shen Lian had to ask Lei Nuo. He needed to wait for a few more months until the Qi and blood essence in Lei Nuo’s body had sufficiently agglomerated and then he would extract it and use it to explore the secrets behind the bloodline of these royal families in Da Xia.

　　Lei Nuo had completed the instructions for Guan Longzi. Initially, he wanted to send Shen Lian out himself but Shen Lian rejected. He did not say any threatening word to Lei Nuo. This made Lei Nuo feel even more terrified because he could see Shen LIan’s stamina and fearlessness.

　　In the end, he still sent the same imperial guard as before to send Shen Lian to the Dynasty School in South City.

　　Firstly, they found the deaf and dumb servant. The Black Tiger was currently enjoying the highly skilled massage. This was the real tiger’s life. It was a little reluctant to leave.

　　Shen Lian only took a glance at it and the Black Tiger quickly stand up and walked towards Shen Lian with a face of trying to ingratiate him.

　　Suddenly, the imperial guard felt that this tiger did not only have ordinary spirituality. Its looks of adulating its master gave him a feeling that this Black Tiger was like a big black dog wagging its tail to please its owner.

　　Along the journey out together with the Black Tiger, there were a few times the imperial guard wanted to talk to Shen Lian. After all, he had noticed that Shen Lian got special treatment from Lei Nuo and he had never seen the Prefect Grand Usher value a young lad so much.

　　The grudges before this was already negligible. He did not intentionally wanted to fawn upon Shen Lian, just that his instinct and his curiosity about Shen Lian’s background prompted him to do so.

　　When they reached a junction, there were two servants carrying a corpse.

　　Shen Lian could clearly see the corpse belonged to the maidservant who chatted with him previously. Her internal organs were already shattered into pieces, there was no sign of life force anymore. Her soul already vanished and so even Shen Lian could not revive her.

　　He approached the servants to stop them and asked, “how did she die?”

　　The servants could not recognise him but they knew the imperial guard.

　　The imperial guard thought why Shen Lian wanted to mind other people’s business, after all there were people dying in Lei’s Residence every day.

　　However, he still helped to ask, “what happened?”

　　One of the servants replied, “Madam got so mad that she’s accidentally beaten her to death. So she told us to find a place to bury her.”

　　Shen Lian said, “leave her to me.”

　　The servant was looking at the imperial guard and the guard did not want to continue saying here to argue, so he said, “leave her here and we’ll deal with it.”

　　The two servants happily agreed with it since this was not a big deal after all.

　　As for the maidservant’s body, it was being held by the Black Tiger. Although it was not really willing to do so, it had to pretend that it was happy. The Black Tiger had summed up the three criteria to serve its master. First criteria was to obey master’s orders, second criteria was to never say no to master’s orders, third criteria was to refer to the first two criteria.

　　Shen Lian was also somehow speechless about the Black Tiger because he could clearly understand what the Black Tiger was thinking about using his ideomotor reflex. He was unsure why this Black Tiger would behave like this.

　　On their way out of the residence, they reached the surging river edge of Diqiu. That was a spiritual canal which had aggregated Diqiu’s spiritual vigor. Its surging flowing water had clearly shown Da Xia’s prosperity.

　　The spiritual canal was also known as Xia Canal.

　　The imperial guard asked, “you want to bury her in the Xia Canal?”

　　Shen Lian said, “why can’t I?”

　　“You have to be quick. Or else if you’re spotted by the people who patrol the city, you’d be in deep trouble,” the imperial guard said softly. He was not hard-hearted. Since he had chosen to take care of this business, he should have done something more. Moreover, there was no difference between them and the maidservant, they were all just servants in the eyes of the noblemen, their existence was insignificant.

　　Shen Lian’s fingertips had come together to produce a wisp of flame. Instantly, it had burnt the maidservant’s corpse to ashes. Lastly, it flowed towards the Xia Canal and with the surging force of the Xia Canal’s spiritual vibrations, it would wash away everything in the past.

　　There was a melodious syllable coming out from Shen Lian’s mouth and that was the Pure Land Rebirth Mantra. There was a glow on the surface of the canal and wrapped within it was the maidservant’s spirits. In the end, it had flown away with the Xia Canal. Perhaps at one moment when she finally took insufficient spiritual vibrations, she could enter reincarnation.

　　“You actually know how to chant. Did you learn it from Sramana land mortals?” The imperial guard had seen Daoists and monks before. Although he did not understand the Pure Land Rebirth Mantra, he was clear that the Pure Land Rebirth Mantra sounded similar to the chants of the monks.

　　“I know because I’ve heard of it before last time. If one day you’re going to die, and you can manage to find me, I can help you to chant. This is the Pure Land Rebirth Mantra, it’s used to help the dead to cross the death for reborn,” Shen Lian turned around and told the imperial guard with smile.

　　Instantly, the imperial guard did not want to talk to him anymore.

　　It was already late at night. The Dynasty School’s entrance was very small. It looked like a small wooden house from outside.

　　However, only those who had actually entered the place would realize that space inside was actually so big. Moreover, the sky above was actually filled with stars, and you could actually have a very clear view of the sky of stars.

　　Tracks of the stars movement were actually abstruse. Every connection between the stars had given all the stars their fixed tracks to move. Everything was standardized.

　　Guan Longzi had spent majority of his time and energy to study about astronomy. From this, he was able to understand the legendary astrology which allowed him to see the destiny which ranged from as important as a country’s destiny, to as insignificant as a person’s destiny.

　　The future was just like a river, there would be numerous branches in the middle and fork in the road, but where it would flow to was already destined.

　　From 12 years ago when the Flower of the Other Shore blossomed, it was already destined that a new chapter of this world destiny had been opened. The future could look good but scary as well.