The Profiteer's Record of the Mystic Sect

He took the old wooden box from his backpack and carefully opened it. The cover of The Secret Records of the Mystic Arts felt rough beneath his fingers, and its pages were yellowed and brittle, clearly belonging to an ancient relic. He gently turned to the first page, where a line of small seal script had been written in ink: “The way of the Mystic Arts connects yin and yang, reads the feng shui, commands fortune, orchestrates the board, and gathers qi and spiritual energy. Only then is it mastered.” “Connect yin and yang, read the feng shui, command fortune... orchestrate the board?” Chen Xuan murmured, puzzled. His grandfather had taught him feng shui, divination, and the Qi Condensation Art, but what did “orchestrate the board” mean? He turned further into the book. Its contents were divided into three sections: “Feng Shui,” “Qi Condensation,” and “Orchestrating the Board.” The Feng Shui section gave detailed accounts of locating dragon veins and auspicious sites, arranging yin and yang dwellings, dispelling baleful energy, and predicting fortune. It was far more profound than anything his grandfather had taught him. Along with written descriptions, it contained many intricate diagrams showing the features of different feng shui layouts and ways to counteract them. “A beam pressing down overhead,” “the front door facing the toilet,” and “the Death Gate configuration” were all explained in detail, along with ways to deal with them.