Ninth Concubine mentioned Qiongqi.
Seventh Master and I had indeed seen Qiongqi. We had found it beneath the bed in Ninth Concubine's bedroom.
At the time, Seventh Master had said that the Qiongqi statue was meant to ruin the Luo Residence's feng shui.
"Qiongqi presides over murder, unfounded fears, and strange occurrences. It can also ruin feng shui."
An Ning lowered her head again, and Ninth Concubine's voice came from her mouth. "But expecting just any Qiongqi statue to have much of an effect is impossible."
"I don't know whether you've heard about the White Lotus Method."
I nodded and said I had.
The White Lotus Method was the predecessor of the Red Lotus Method. Later, under the leadership of someone with evil intentions, the White Lotus Sect had embarked on a path of harming others. Its righteous members had broken away and subsequently founded the Red Lotus Arts Sect, which had been opposing the White Lotus Method ever since.
"That's right. You know quite a lot about it."
An Ning nodded. "The leader under whom the White Lotus Sect first went astray was named Guo Ying. This Guo Ying fell under the sway of an evil cult and led the White Lotus Sect down a path of no return. The cult that swayed him worshipped an Evil Buddha. My older paternal cousin, Xu Changming, once joined that cult too."
My eyes widened, and my heart trembled violently.
They worshipped an Evil Buddha... wasn't that the organization behind Lü Zhengxian?!
The once-renowned White Lotus Sect had actually been led down a path of no return by that organization.
"After the White Lotus Sect went astray, they stopped studying righteous methods and began researching all sorts of evil arts instead. Through my older cousin Xu Changming's connections, I had him contact