After a moment of surprise, Carpenter Liu gave a sinister smile and withdrew, straightening his face, which had been slapped askew. He could not help marveling at how strong this brat was!
But he could also tell that this man was probably a musclehead with little sense.
He had some strength, and it had made him far too arrogant.
Knowing full well that Carpenter Liu might possess curse techniques, he had still dared to hand over important personal belongings. He truly had no idea what he was doing!
"Heh, impressive courage!" Granny Wu praised him from nearby, but her face was full of mockery.
Clearly, she too thought that this young man had great strength but not much of a brain.
"With head and tail and birth's eight signs, the yin shall steal the living's years..."
Carpenter Liu began speaking from a distance.
As he muttered to himself,
he took out a little straw figure, placed Jiang Chen's hair on its head, dripped a few drops of blood into its chest, and wrapped the corner of his clothing around its body.
Then he wrote down six characters of Jiang Chen's birth chart on a sheet of yellow paper.
The eight characters comprised four pillars, consisting of four heavenly stems and four earthly branches. Each pillar represented the year, month, day, or hour of birth.
Only three of those pillars could be calculated from an identity card.
But the Curse-Banishing Technique did not require everything to be perfect in the first place. Often, just one of the things in the incantation, or even half of one, was enough for it to work.
What delighted Carpenter Liu was that,
thanks to his arrogance, his opponent had provided more than three and a half of them!
He could perform a nearly perfect Yan