Wind Gate, not Sealed Gate?
Qi Ning and Zhong Cai, who had hurried over, were also surprised by this discovery.
"So it was Wind Gate Village all along? I always thought it was 'sealed,' as in sealed shut."
Zhong Cai spoke.
He was hardly the only one. Most people who heard about Sealed Gate Village's customs would imagine "Wind Gate" as "Sealed Gate."
"Sealed Gate," as in sealing off a household and ending its family line.
Only now, seeing it written down for the first time, did they all learn the village's actual name.
"Why is it called Wind Gate?"
Qi Ning asked.
No one knew, though Chen Miao did have a few guesses.
They concerned the second feng shui formation.
He had been treating those nodes as "pumps," but the idea would work just as well if he replaced them with "blowers."
That seemed to provide a connection to the "wind" in Wind Gate.
Chen Miao did not dwell on the village's name. He looked at Qi Ning and Zhong Cai and said, "I sensed dense yin energy coming from this stone. It's very likely the core of the second feng shui formation!"
Startled, Zhong Cai immediately went over to examine the stone.
Zhong Cai did not have Chen Miao's Yin Gathering ability, but he rolled up his left sleeve, revealing a tattoo halfway up his arm.
The tattoo was the traditional Chinese character for "corpse."
Zhong Cai pressed his left arm against the stone, then quickly pulled it away a moment later.
"You're right. The yin energy inside this stone is incredibly dense!"
Zhong Cai's discovery piqued Qi Ning's curiosity as well.
But his watch could not detect the yin energy inside the stone.
Putting his watch away, Qi Ning looked at Zhong Cai.
"Yes, I once met