That night, someone posted a message on Xia Country's largest metaphysics forum:
"How come I see a certain female celebrity with a high traffic and a metaphysical master personality? Is today's live broadcast of catching ghosts true or false?"
Although no name was mentioned, the post was so indicative that anyone who had access to the Internet knew that it was referring to Gu Zhisang.
There was a heated discussion about the last part of today's team competition, in which Gu Zhisang seemed to be catching ghosts from a distance.
Most outsiders think it's fake and a show effect:
[I used to believe that she had something real, but the more I watched the show, the more fake it seemed. How could someone be this strong? How old is she? She's not a deity...]
[Anyway, I have relatives who can tell fortunes. Every time I ask a 'fairy' or 'spirit' to possess me, or perform rituals to exorcise evil spirits, I have to prepare for a long time. I have to rest for a long time after doing something. It's not as relaxing as on the show! ]
[After all, she is a celebrity, so once she starts marketing, she will be everywhere. In fact, too much is as bad as too little.]
【……】
On the contrary, some serious outsiders remained silent after seeing those posts.
Not long ago, they had the same thoughts as these netizens.
Gu Zhisang is just a little girl whose hair hasn't even grown out yet, what ability does she have?
But the announcement from the messenger from the underworld severely slapped the faces of the Xuanmen people.
Now, few people doubt that Gu Zhisang is an Earth-level Xuan Master. What they want to know more is, what level is this woman?
Why does she have such profound Taoism at such a young age, and what is her relationship with the underworld?
Some people in the Xuanmen sect had mixed feelings and responded:
[This person is really powerful, and has some unusual powers. I advise you to delete these radical remarks.]
[Not mentioning his true nature, Gu Zhisang is indeed a monstrous genius. ]
After refreshing twice, the poster and the layman in the thread replied: [Brainless fan. ]
Xuanmen Xuanshi: ???
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At 10:30 the next day, the live broadcast of the "Spiritual Affairs" program team started on time.
Since the time was not that early and there had been a warm-up the day before, the number of people in the live broadcast room only increased after the broadcast started.
The host Liu Da stood in the open space, holding a microphone in his hand, and said with a smile on his face:
"Good morning, dear audience friends. After a night of fermentation, our six contestants have now been voted to their corresponding positions. The current rankings are as follows—"
The ranking shown by the program team is Gu Zhisang, Daisy, Xun Yiqing, He Mi Tu, Xi Haihong, and Bai Ci.
For a moment, some fans in the live broadcast room were happy while others were sad.
The most nervous were Bai Ci's fans, who repeatedly promoted and canvassed for votes in the live broadcast room, saying that Bai Ci was not incompetent, but just had his own expertise, and that he was the ceiling of medical practitioners among the contestants.
Liu: "The players who are temporarily behind still have a chance to turn the tables. After today's extra round, we will open the second vote. I wonder if the ranking result will change again by then? Let's wait and see."
He turned sideways and glanced behind him, then said:
"Seeing the mountain behind me, have you guessed it? That's right, I'm standing at the border of Southern Province. This place has long mountains and rolling hills, beautiful environment and simple folk customs. As long as we cross this mountain range to the other side of the mountain, and then cross a border line of less than 2,000 meters, we will reach the territory of a neighboring Southeast Asian country."
"And this is the venue for today's extra game!"
While Liu was speaking, the cameraman in charge of the live broadcast held the camera steadily and turned the lens to the streets behind him and the mountains in the distance.
In fact, the contestants had already arrived.
The group live broadcast competition they participated in yesterday was filmed around the hotel.
"Next, we would like to invite the help seekers who are joining today's extra round to come on stage!"
Four help seekers who had prepared in advance came to the shooting site under the guidance of the staff.
Among the four people, there was a couple of elderly people with gray hair.
The old man was still able to walk on his own with crutches and did not need help from staff, but his wife had difficulty walking and was pushed up in a wheelchair.
The people pushing the wheelchair in the back were a younger couple, who looked to be in their thirties or forties, both wearing sportswear.
After coming on stage, several people greeted the host Liu Cixin.
Viewers who were following sports news in the live broadcast room were surprised to find that the woman pushing the wheelchair was actually a celebrity!
"Hello everyone, I'm Zheng Xiaona, the person seeking help today."
[Hey, has this woman been on TV before? I think I've seen her on the news! ]
[Isn't this Zheng Xiaona? She was the athlete who won the silver medal in the international fencing competition last year. Why is she on this show? ]
[After searching online, I found out that this sister has a rich resume and has won several medals. However, since she is on the show, everyone still treats her as an ordinary person seeking help. What is important is the incident she wants to help with, not her identity.]
"Hello, Xiaona, please introduce your family members."
Zheng Xiaona nodded and said, "These two are my parents, and they are also the second people seeking help today. The matter we want to help is actually a private matter of my mother's family. This is my lover, he is here to accompany us to participate in the program."
"In fact, I have thought for a long time about whether or not to seek help on the Internet. If we were not really at our wit's end, we would not have thought of trying the power of metaphysics," she said with a wry smile.
Liu nodded and looked towards the camera:
"What happened to Zheng Xiaona's family that makes them still obsessed with it and feel resentful until now? How does this have anything to do with the mountains and land behind us?"
"Next, we will invite all the contestants to see what they can see from Xiaona's family!"
The format of this extra game is somewhat similar to the time when we went to Po Po Shan. All the contestants acted and watched together, and everyone had an anti-peeping electronic board in their hands.
During the observation process, contestants can do whatever they can to write down what they see on the question board, and the answer will be revealed by the person seeking help in the end.
After the six contestants took the stage one by one, Liu described what Zheng Xiaona's family wanted, which was related to the land and the mountains, and said:
"Everyone has a maximum of ten minutes to observe and write down their answers. Let's start now!"
At this point in time, all the contestants actually know that none of the people present are fake charlatans trying to take advantage of the situation, and all of them have remarkable metaphysical abilities.
The reason why they gathered together on this program is that they discovered that this program can accumulate a large number of audiences and gather "mind power" which is beneficial to spiritual practice.
The higher the final ranking, the more "telekinesis" you will absorb, and everyone is a competitor.
Although there are undercurrents, on the surface everyone is kind and humble.
The six people lined up according to their chosen numbers. When it was Gu Zhisang's turn, she walked up to the four people who came for help.
In her eyes, the face of every person seeking help is like mountains, rivers and seas, and any detailed lines on them are useful information, "written" with their past and future.
At the same time, it is interconnected with the people around it, forming a network of relationships.
Gu Zhisang picked up the electronic board and recorded the information she saw on it. When she saw a certain area on the faces of Zheng Xiaona and her parents, her eyes paused.
She frowned involuntarily and glanced at the sky.
As if to verify a certain idea in her heart, she took out three Tongbao coins and repeatedly told fortunes, but her brows became more and more furrowed.
She threw the coins back into her pocket and took out other magical tools such as paper divination and compass. It was not until the time was approaching ten minutes that she let out a breath and withdrew her hands.
"I've finished reading it."
At this time, many viewers in the live broadcast room noticed her abnormality.
Compared with usual days, she didn't seem so relaxed today. The time she spent on fortune-telling and divination was much longer than usual, and her expression was a little depressed.
You have to know that before, she would just take a quick glance and immediately find out all the information about the person seeking help.
[Is this matter very difficult? Sangsang looked at it for a long time, and it seems that it is not going smoothly...]
After all the contestants finished watching, Liu asked:
"Which contestant is willing to reveal the answer first?"
The first person to stand up was still Bai Ci. He changed into a brown shirt today and held a small gray and white hedgehog in his hand.
"Let me go first."
As he spoke, he showed his electronic board, which read:
“Old man—eye disease, poor spleen and stomach, early stage oral cancer;
Aunt - leg disease, due to an accident where her tendons and bones were broken by external force, severe rheumatism in her wrists, shoulders and neck;
Madam, please be careful with wrist bone injuries, as there is a possibility of recurrence. ”
After seeing the electronic board, Zheng Xiaona exclaimed in a low voice: "How could it be? My dad has oral cancer?!"
Liu asked, "Xiao Na, you and your family don't know this, right? What about the others?"
Zheng Xiaona read it carefully, nodded and said:
"Everything else is correct. I am a fencer. I had a serious wrist injury due to long-term practice and blows. I had to take painkillers and put a gauze splint on it. I had no choice but to retire. Now I am working as a coach behind the scenes. Apart from my teammates, family and friends, almost no one else knows the reason for my hand injury."
"My mother's leg was knocked down and run over by a motorcycle four years ago. Her leg bones are so fragile that she can't even withstand a bump, let alone a comminuted fracture like this. Her leg injury is irreversible and she can't walk anymore."
"As for my father, he does have some glaucoma and presbyopia, and he is prone to bloating, but we really don't know about oral cancer!"
[I used to be a national second-level athlete, and I also retired due to injury. Athletes are really prone to injury, and a lot of training will cause joint and muscle strain. No one is willing to retire unless they are really injured and there is no way out.]
[Good fellow Xiaobai is really determined to follow the path of a medical spirit to the end. He talked about all the illnesses and disasters in this family, and he was right about everything! ]
[Fuck, this thing is the hospital's X-ray machine, it can detect all the major and minor problems with just one look, awesome.]
Zheng Xiaona is asking about her father's oral problems.
The old man thought for a while, shook his head and said: "It's not cancer, it's just that my teeth are loose when I get old, and my gums are bleeding a little, it's caused by inflammation!"
Bai Ci shook his head slightly and asked, "Old man, do you often suffer from ulcers?"
"That's right. My mouth is always inflamed and I have mouth ulcers that haven't healed completely. It affects my ability to drink and eat!" The old man yelled at the top of his voice and even opened his mouth to show everyone.
Zheng Xiaona frowned helplessly and said, "Dad, the ulcer in your mouth won't heal, why didn't you tell me? I'll take you to the hospital!"
The old man glared and said, "Why go to the hospital? It's just an ulcer in the mouth. It's not a serious disease. I can just drink a few more sips of water. Who wouldn't get a ulcer due to a fever? Why do we have to see a doctor when we have so much money?"
After hearing this, the audience in the live broadcast room and Zheng Xiaona herself were almost certain that what Bai Ci said was true.
Zheng Xiaona asked again when the symptoms started, and the old man said he couldn't remember.
Anyway, for more than half a year, almost a year, I have been prone to getting sores in my mouth, which would heal within two days and then appear again.
At first he abstained from drinking water, but later he got annoyed and felt that it was a bit painful but not unbearable, so he continued to drink and eat spicy food every day and ignored it.
He himself didn't even think that this was a disease.
[Tsk, looking at this old man reminds me of my husband. He is just like me. He refuses to go to the hospital when he is sick and insists that he will be fine after lying at home for two days. It makes me angry.]
[If Bai Ci hadn't seen this, the old man would have delayed it for another year or two without telling his family, and the disease would have been delayed until it reached the advanced stage!]
The old man was still stubborn, Bai Ci said calmly:
"Old man, you know that you have a bad spleen and stomach, which makes you prone to bloating and burping. You smoke and drink, which makes it easier for bacteria to grow in your mouth, and that's the main cause of your illness. Don't think that there is no big problem now. If you delay it until the middle or late stages, the mucous membranes in your mouth will all ulcerate, and by then you will have to have your cheeks removed."
His expression was reserved but serious, which frightened the old man so much that even his wife in the wheelchair began to panic. She raised her hand and slapped him hard twice:
"Why are you so stubborn, old man? Will you die if you go to the hospital for treatment?"
The old man licked the sore in his mouth. The stinging pain made him feel weak. "Okay, let's go take a look..."
Bai Ci nodded and said, "You don't have to worry too much. Oral cancer can be controlled by taking medicine and controlling diet if it is discovered early. If it is treated well, it will not affect your normal life."
Zheng Xiaona looked grateful and thanked him profusely:
"Thank you, Master Xiaobai. My dad hates going to the hospital. If you hadn't seen that he had early-stage cancer, we would have..."
Bai Ci nodded and said to Da Liu, "I'm done."
After he finished speaking, Xun Yiqing came out and showed the question board:
"There is a brother or sister, but his whereabouts are unknown, and it is unknown whether he is alive or dead."
Xun Yiqing said frankly, "I am good at martial arts and exorcism. Palmistry can only give a rough idea. I saw that there was a broken line in the palms of the two old people. At the same time, Ms. Zheng also had a short horizontal line in the palm of her hand, but this gentleman did not have it."
"This means that the other child of the two elderly people, who is also Ms. Zheng's brother or sister, has been away from you for a long time and he has no blood relationship with you."
As soon as Xun Yiqing said this, the old lady in the wheelchair was about to cry.
The old man who was puffing his beard and glaring just now also looked depressed, rubbing his hands and not saying a word.
Liu asked, "Is that so, Ms. Zheng?"
Zheng Xiaona smiled bitterly and said, "That's true. That's why we're on this show. We're here as a family to look for our relatives."
Liu: "Has contestant Xun Yiqing seen more specific information?"
Xun Yiqing shook his head slowly, "I'm sorry, I can't see any connection between the three of them from their palms, I can't be sure whether this person is still alive."
After saying that, he stepped aside and glanced at the contestants around him, especially Gu Zhisang who had a calm expression.
Before his master asked him to be on the show, he was a favored child among the younger generation of Xuanmen. He reached the fourth level of "Xuan" in just over 30 years and defeated other peers with martial arts in several competitions.
At that time, he thought it would be easy for him to win the title of "The Strongest Mystic Master" by participating in a ridiculous and unsophisticated online program.
Even when he saw Xi Haihong coming, he was not afraid at all.
But he was hit hard and found it hard to accept the failures in several issues in a row.
He could only comfort himself that Gu Zhisang was only good at fortune-telling and might not be able to beat him if they really fought.
However, when he learned that Gu Zhisang had injured eight people from Xuanmen by himself and was very likely to be at the same level as his master, he fell into complete silence and chose to go into seclusion.
It took him three full days to come out of it. This time, Xun Yiqing could feel the transformation in his character.
He can frankly admit that he is indeed not as good as others and can accept that he is not as talented as he imagined.
Xun Yiqing originally thought that this result would be very uncomfortable, but the moment he said it, he found that his cultivation that had been stuck for a long time had loosened slightly, and perhaps he would be able to advance to the next level soon.
After he went down, He Mi Tu walked to the center of the venue.
Today's Thai sorcerer wore a long gown, and unusually he did not have a smiling face, but a rather heavy expression.
At this time, the old lady in the wheelchair was still very sad because of the words "life or death is uncertain", and she kept patting the wheelchair and crying.
Zheng Xiaona forced a smile and looked at He Mi Tu.
However, the word "abstention" was written on the electronic board that He Mi Tu lifted up.
This was the first time he chose to give up, and the audience in the live broadcast room and even other players were a little surprised.
Liu asked: "Why did contestant He Mi Tu give up directly? Can't you see anything?"
He Mi Tu shook her head slowly, pursed her lips and said, "I didn't see it."
When asked why, he looked deeply at Zheng Xiaona and her parents and said:
"I felt a kind of power in this family that is hard to describe. My faith tells me that this is something that cannot be touched. If I insist on interpreting it, I will pay a very heavy price."
Liu was confused: "You mean, there is an evil spirit in this family?"
"No."
He Mi Tu denied it directly. "The untouchable thing is not on them, nor is it a ghost. It is more of... a connection. I cannot describe this feeling to you in words. But what I want to advise you is that if this is related to your lost loved ones, my advice is to stop looking for them."
Everyone was shocked:
【? ? What bullshit is this guy talking about? A family traveled thousands of miles to look for their relatives, and he couldn't find anything, and he told them to stop looking. I'm really speechless. Can you please stop pouring cold water on me?】
[I think he just doesn't have the ability to see it, and he is too embarrassed to admit it openly like other contestants, so he has to pretend to be rich and make up some profound words to cover up his incompetence.]
[Can some of the malicious people in the live broadcast room not be so aggressive? He Mi Tu is a famous master of mysticism in Thailand. He has made very accurate predictions before. He is particularly sensitive to these evil things. I believe in his judgment! ]
【……】
Among all the people, only Gu Zhisang raised his eyebrows slightly and glanced at He Mi Tu with some surprise.
She seemed to be thinking about something, but in the end she said nothing.
The next contestant, Xi Haihong, didn't see anything either.
Among all the contestants, only Gu Zhisang and Daisy did not speak.
And they are the only two people who are arguing online about who is more powerful, although the support for Daisy is very slim;
They believe that Daisy is the witch with the strongest empathy among all the contestants, and that her words can heal the hearts of those who seek help.
Just when Daisy was about to step forward, Gu Zhisang took the first step.
She raised the electronic board in her hand and said calmly, "I'll go first."
Facing Daisy's somewhat surprised look, she smiled faintly and showed the answer on the question board:
“Born in 1990, my birthplace is in the great plains in the northeast of Xia Country. When I was 7 years old, I was lost while traveling with my parents and relatives.
The place where I went missing is in the mountainous area of Southern Province, right at the foot of the land. "
Seeing the content on her electronic board, Zheng Xiaona covered her mouth and her eyes gradually turned red.
She didn't know what she was thinking about, and for a moment she was choked with sobs and couldn't speak. Her lover beside her put his arm around her shoulders and gently comforted her.
After a while, she wiped away the tears from her eyes and stared at Gu Zhisang:
"Master, you, you have figured it out, right?! It's all correct. This is Yanyan's information. I will definitely not remember it wrong!"
Gu Zhisang: "Her name is Yanyan? It should be in line with her appearance, but it is not a good name for her."
"She is your sister."
Zheng Xiaona choked up and said, "That's right, my sister's name is Zheng Xiaoyan. The time of her birth and the place of her hometown are exactly the same as what you calculated. She is five years younger than me, and she was indeed lost here when she was seven years old.
My little sister has been cute and pretty since she was little, like a doll. I used to dislike taking photos with her because I thought this little girl was too pretty and I didn’t like playing with her…”
"My parents searched for her for more than a month and were going crazy, but they couldn't find her. Calling the police was no help. The police and the villagers said there were many kidnappers here and it was close to a chaotic small country. Yanyan must have been knocked unconscious by the border kidnappers and sold abroad. We can't find her anymore."
As she spoke, her sobbing became even louder.
Gu Zhisang paused and said, "I got all this information from your family's faces, but you can rest assured that this girl is still alive."
Zheng Xiaona's family looked up abruptly upon hearing this and asked anxiously, "Really, Master? Yanyan, Yanyan is still alive?! Where is she now?"
Gu Zhisang: “I don’t know.”
Zheng Xiaona's family/audience:? !
She said bluntly: "I can only confirm that she is still alive and has not been sent abroad. She is still in Xia Country and South Province, but her exact location cannot be calculated for the time being."
Upon hearing this, Zheng Xiaona's family was a little disappointed, and the audience was also particularly surprised.
In their opinion, as long as Gu Zhisang takes action, there is nothing that cannot be seen or solved.
Gu Zhisang looked calm as he left the center field.
She was actually feeling a little depressed, because ever since she set foot on this land, she felt that there was some invisible force that was obstructing and blinding her five senses.
Through the fortune-telling just now, she can be sure of one thing, that this mountainous area in the southern province is an area completely isolated from the way of heaven!
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