The next morning.
After breakfast, An Ning took Xiuzhu out to play as usual.
Seventh Master and I cleaned up the kitchen, then went into the inner room.
I drew the Fire over Water, Before Completion Hexagram and repeated the hint the Patriarch had given me to Seventh Master.
I hadn't been able to sleep since waking from that dream.
The matter was simply too serious for me to fall asleep.
If a plane crashed, it wouldn't be just a few lives lost, but over a hundred.
I could hardly believe Tang Tianming would cause something on such a scale.
Had he gone mad?
"He wouldn't harm people for no reason, nor would he cause something this big all at once."
Seventh Master frowned and thought for a moment. "Your Grandmaster mentioned a sacrifice. If that's what this is, he's probably planning to use a major disaster to carry it out."
I was puzzled. "What's the point of a sacrifice?"
Seventh Master explained, "As far back as the Shang and Zhou periods, the era of Investiture of the Gods, this kind of sacrificial culture was already widespread. They used humans as offerings. Whenever there was a major sacrificial ceremony, they'd do this sort of thing."
"Because humans are the most spiritually gifted of all beings, more so than any animal, they believed that whatever the purpose, using human offerings in a major sacrificial ceremony would make their prayers more likely to be answered."
"Pray for rain, and rain would come. Whatever they wished for would come true."
After listening to Seventh Master's explanation, I pondered for a long time, then suddenly remembered something.
Tang Tianming had visited Professor Hu many times before. He had even wanted to use Seven Deaths for a Life to keep Professor Hu alive so he