My master suddenly said this, and I was stunned on the spot.
Broken Water Ditch? The place where Grandmaster had practiced Feng Shui back then?
Before I could speak, Uncle Yu nodded slightly.
"It sounds familiar. I was too young back then, so I don't remember clearly anymore. I only remember that quite a few people died there. The place was dry, and some kind of dried-corpse ghost appeared?"
"Yes, yes, some kind of dried-corpse ghost. Master said the Feng Shui was bad, that they needed to build a reservoir or something, and also build a temple, right?"
"Yes, they were going to build a temple. I remember, I remember that place seemed to be called Earth Village?"
"..."
The moment he said that, my heart tightened again.
It matched. Earth Forest was located right at Earth Village.
It seemed that the person who had assessed the Feng Shui back then, a man of extraordinary attainment, had been none other than my grandmaster, Gu Tongyou!
"Ah! So my grandmaster was the one who assessed that Feng Shui."
I spoke in surprise.
My master nodded slightly.
"From your description, it should have been him."
Daoist Qingshan, who had remained silent until now, also spoke at this moment.
"It seems it was all karma and fate. Senior Gu set up a grand Feng Shui formation back then and transformed that baleful land. Now that the Feng Shui has shifted, abnormalities have appeared again. Yet you, Xiao Jiang, somehow went there and suppressed and killed the local evil creatures, restoring peace to the area."
"..."
I nodded faintly as I listened. In the past, I had not believed in ghosts, nor had I believed in heaven.
But the longer I stayed in this line of work, the more I felt that some things,