... I got the wrong person!

The indignant emotions of the sleepwalking man were choked back by a single sentence from Tan Xiao. He stared at him, speechless for five seconds. "How can you be like this? Your family is the representative of breaking feudal superstitions, and you even solved your family's traditional techniques yourself..."

What he said were all things Tan Chunying did when participating in various activities, of course including cooperating to dispel superstitions.

Tan Xiao naturally didn't feel this counted as a dark history. "Uncle, but you might really have a problem. I can't lie to you." If it was a timid person who hadn't encountered anything, Tan Xiao would of course encourage them to increase their courage, but the person in front of him was clearly abnormal.

Barry also recognized Tan Xiao and Kong Xuan on the side. "Hey, I told you that you don't believe me, but you should believe Spirit Master Tan at least."

Tan Xiao also nodded at Barry.

The sleepwalking man took another cigarette he just bought and said with a complicated expression, "I didn't expect you to be accomplices. Is the tourism industry so difficult now?"

"You said it yourself, we shamans and Chu shaman culture have all become internet famous. Why would we conspire to deceive people? If I have time, wouldn't it be better to livestream and sell merchandise?" Tan Xiao retorted, pointing at Kong Xuan. "If that doesn't work, I'll have him go busking on the street. Wouldn't we make more money that way?"

Kong Xuan: "..."

The sleepwalking man was instantly struck. He looked at Kong Xuan. Wow, that makes a lot of sense.

That unfamiliar man in the leather jacket didn't matter, but Tan Xiao had no need to deceive him!

Barry had an expression of "I told you so". "I said I'm really a government official. I have no need to deceive you. My Grandmaster surrendered to the imperial court even earlier than Spirit Master Tan's family!"

Pan Longxiang and Tan Xiao both laughed at this.

Not bad. Tan Xiao's family had indeed surrendered to the tourism bureau.

The two of them were insiders and also knew that over a hundred years ago, Duan Gong could go to the police station at that time to get a "business license" as a proper occupation. As for Barry's current position, he probably took the civil service exam himself, after all he came from Qi.

Duan Gong were divided into outer and inner types. The outer types mainly performed Duan Gong opera, while the inner types conducted rituals. Barry was naturally proficient in the inner troupe practices, but rituals had to trace back to the source first. He looked at Tan Xiao, "Can the shaman divine?"

Actually, Barry could also divine, but he had been working for some years. The sleepwalking man was clearly looking to Tan Xiao for an answer.

"I can, but I'm not an expert." Tan Xiao knew what Barry meant and borrowed tools from Pan Longxiang. "Uncle, what's your name?"

The sleepwalking man was still a bit skeptical of them in his heart, but because of Tan Xiao's identity and words that were very persuasive, he became very curious about what Tan Xiao and the others were going to do next. He even had the thought of "could they be filming a prank show?"

So after thinking for a few seconds, the sleepwalking man's attitude became much more compliant, "My name is Zhao Qishan."

"Okay." Tan Xiao didn't ask anything else. He looked at the time and cast the divination, then turned to look at Kong Xuan. Since the incident at Yunmeng Marsh last time, he had also strengthened his practice in divination.

Kong Xuan held Tan Xiao's hand with one hand and shook out the divination.

Zhao Qishan couldn't quite understand and looked at them strangely. "What kind of divination method is this? Is there a couples divination where you have to hold hands while divining?" Although it was two boys, he couldn't help but describe it this way because of this unique two-person divination method.

Tan Xiao: "..."

He suddenly felt a bit embarrassed to look at Kong Xuan, burying his head to stare at the hexagram, not knowing Kong Xuan was the same.

"This is a secret technique of our Chu shamans." Tan Xiao mumbled. Sure enough, Pan Longxiang and Barry, who knew the truth, were looking at him with chuckles.

He pointed at the hexagram awkwardly, trying to interpret it, "... The official ghost moves, there is someone stirring up trouble from within... The inner hexagram, the problem lies inside the house, either in the northwest or southeast... Is there anyone at your home now?"

"Yes, there's always someone at my home..." Zhao Qishan was completely baffled. He couldn't understand Tan Xiao's divination. He only said a name, what could be divined from that?

"Video call them now and have them use the compass app on their phone to search these two directions in the room. They should be able to find some traces." Tan Xiao said, not very certain, after all it was relatively his weak point.

Kong Xuan was also quite interested and urged Zhao Qishan to make the video call. He wanted to see Tan Xiao's words verified!

It looked like they were the ones who cast the divination, but seemed to just be joining in the excitement.

Zhao Qishan immediately called his daughter. Only then did everyone see that he had a phone watch on his hand - it was more useful than a cell phone for an old sleepwalker going into remote mountains and forests, and it could also provide location.

It was the weekend, so his daughter was naturally at home. After getting up, she received a call from her father, knowing he was still at Qiyun Ridge. This matter had been going on for a while, so their family had gotten a bit used to it. "Dad, what's wrong? Didn't you say you were going to play for a bit before coming back?"

The video quality of the phone watch wasn't very good. As she spoke, she saw the two people standing behind her dad looked a bit familiar and widened her eyes. How could they look so much like...

Before Zhao Qishan's daughter could ask, Zhao Qishan said hurriedly, "Xiaobao, open the compass app now and stand in the middle of the room. Look northwest and southeast and search a bit."

"Search for what?" Xiaobao didn't understand.

"... Uh, just search and see if there's anything strange." How would Zhao Qishan know what they were searching for? Actually, not to mention him, even Tan Xiao and his "group" didn't know what they were looking for.

Tan Xiao looked at the hexagram again and hinted, "Look in the middle, in midair. Have her point the camera and search. What we're looking for, we'll know when we see it."

Xiaobao vaguely heard it on the other end and said suspiciously, "Dad, what are you doing?"

"Well, I'm having someone look at the feng shui." Zhao Qishan felt it was a bit hard to explain clearly for a moment. He took a drag of his cigarette and said simply, "Just search and see."

"Since when did you believe in this stuff too." Xiaobao had no choice. She was increasingly certain that was Tan Xiao from Class 3, but still picked up her phone and operated according to what they said. After determining the direction, she searched northwest first.

Their home was a small supermarket opened in a neighborhood, so there really was a lot of stuff. Zhao Qishan's wife was watching a TV drama while minding the store and didn't notice what her daughter was doing. Xiaobao passed through the shelves and saw nothing out of the ordinary. Arriving at the northwest room, which was a guest room, it was also very simple inside.

"Look through it, open the wardrobe." Tan Xiao directed remotely.

Xiaobao rummaged through everything and still found nothing. The bedding, clothes, shoes were all perfectly normal. She picked up a dehumidifier and said with amusement, "Is this strange?"

Barry also examined the hexagram and added, "This doesn't quite match the hexagram text. It should be bigger than this, and may be related to children, the color red, or mountains and forests."

Xiaobao searched laboriously, completely baffled, not understanding what kind of feng shui this was. "Really can't find it..." She sat down against the wall, but turned her head and saw something. "Hey... wait a minute."

She turned on the flashlight and discovered that there was actually a wooden box wedged between the wardrobe and the wall!

Zhao Qishan's mouth opened slightly. This was the mid-air space Tan Xiao had mentioned? It really was suspended in the air. He had no idea there was such a box in his home. Now he was the one more concerned, "Hurry and open it to see."

Xiaobao opened the wooden box, and inside was surprisingly a stone figurine, about twenty to thirty centimeters tall. Although the craftsmanship was crude, the features were distinct. One could even see it was a warrior wearing armor, with a relatively new red scarf around its neck.

"What is this?!" Zhao Qishan's mouth gaped open, feeling the hair all over his body stand on end. "Xiaobao, put it down quickly and go find your mom! Have her come look!"

Who knows what kind of unclean thing this is. He didn't dare let the child continue holding it.

"Don't put it down, I haven't gotten a clear look..." Barry complained. The video quality was blurry to begin with.

Tan Xiao praised, "But it's really accurate, the red color Master Ba mentioned."

"Then the hexagrams you two cast are also accurate, haha. Hexagram divination is my specialty." Barry was quite confident in his area of expertise. Otherwise, his superiors wouldn't have sent him on this business trip. If only Zhao Qishan had trusted him from the start...

Hearing that his specialty was hexagram divination, Tan Xiao found it even more strange. What kind of high-tech product specialist has hexagram divination as their forte? Logically speaking, they should leverage their racial characteristics.

On the other side, Zhao Qishan's daughter had already called over his wife. But his wife was equally baffled. Hearing that Zhao Qishan was looking for someone to do feng shui, she became even more frightened. Someone had always been minding the store at their home and they didn't leave at night, so it couldn't be something deliberately placed by someone.

But she remembered something and asked suspiciously, "Before the new year, didn't Mom stay here for a while?"

Zhao Qishan's eyes widened. It couldn't be.

They immediately called Zhao Qishan's mother. The old lady initially denied it after answering the phone. Only when Zhao Qishan said that his inexplicable nighttime trip to Mount Qiyun might be because of this thing, and that it was unclean, did the old lady become flustered.

"I had someone bring this! It's a yin god from their side. They said it can bless you to have a second child. How could it be unclean?" The old lady repeated over and over, "Besides, I placed it so long ago, and only now you..."

"Mom!!" Zhao Qishan let out a loud shout, "I have weak sperm!!"

This yell silenced the scene. His wife was so embarrassed, not knowing whether she should cover the child's ears.

"Uh, let's not talk about that for now," Tan Xiao poked Zhao Qishan, "Uncle, ask her where she got this from."

The shaman said to bury the evil and exorcise it, but they also needed to know the origin. Otherwise, if it was buried rashly and the thing came from a temple, it might not be able to be buried and would need to be returned, with religious rites performed.

But what made Zhao Qishan's stomach ache was that his mother had bought it from a swindler who came from out of town, and that person had long disappeared without a trace. How would she know the specific origin?

"What to do, what to do?" Zhao Qishan's face was pale. He didn't even notice the cigarette ash that hadn't fallen on his hand for a long time. Especially seeing the stone figure through the blurry video quality of the phone watch, it gave an even more eerie feeling.

"Could it be that I was previously possessed by this thing and then ran to Mount Qiyun? Is Mount Qiyun its old home?" The more Zhao Qishan thought about it, the more frightened he became. The purpose of this thing couldn't be to keep him at Mount Qiyun in the end, right?

"Nonsense, there's no such thing on our Mount Qiyun." Pan Longxiang stated that he must refute the rumor. He was still an herb gatherer. How could he not know if there was something on Mount Qiyun? There definitely wasn't this stone figure, although it indeed looked very shamanic.

"Have your daughter add Spirit Master Tan's WeChat. The video quality of this phone watch is too poor. Let me take a careful look," Barry said.

"Can't she add yours?" Tan Xiao asked offhandedly.

"I don't have a cell phone." Barry's words surprised Tan Xiao even more. There are still civil servants without cell phones?

Barry sensed this and said, "I use a laptop. It's in the car."

On the other side, they switched to another number for the video call. Now the details of the stone figure were clear. In a room with three shamans, they all believed this was a stone figurine used for sacrificial offerings, and Tan Xiao could also see it was in the Chu region style.

"But it's quite ancient, so it's difficult to determine exactly where it's from..." As Tan Xiao spoke, he remembered he had outside help he could seek. He directly used Kong Xuan's number to call the video of the archaeology expert, Old Ji.

Connecting the two calls, Tan Xiao said he was disturbing him again to authenticate something.

Old Ji was having lunch on his side and was free. A tableful of archaeologists all came over to look. With a glance or two, they determined, "Oh, it's from the Warring States period."

"That long ago? Then can the origin be determined?" Tan Xiao knew they were very capable. Previously, when looking at Wei Pusanu's items, they could tell they were unearthed in Nanchu, while his recognition ability could only discern things within his own field of expertise.