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."
“至于我爸爸确实有点青光眼、老花眼，也很容易胃胀，但是口腔癌这个我们真的不知道！”
【本人以前是国家二级运动员，也是伤病退役的。运动员真的很容易受伤，大量的练习都会造成关节和肌肉劳损，要不是真的伤到没办法了，没人愿意退役。】
【好家伙小白还真是要把医灵这条路走到底了，说的全都是这家人身上的病啊灾的，而且全都说对了！】
【卧槽这家伙是医院的x光吧，看一眼大小毛病都扫出来了，牛。】
郑晓娜在追问父亲的口腔问题。
老人家想了想摇摇头说：“啥癌不癌的，就是人老了牙口松动了，牙龈有点出血，上火上的！”
白慈轻轻摇头，问道：“老伯你是不是常有溃疡的困扰。”
“这个倒是有，我这个嘴巴啊老是上火，起了口腔溃疡它好不彻底，影响我喝酒吃饭！”老头儿扯着嗓子嚷嚷，还要把嘴巴扯开给大家看。
郑晓娜无奈皱眉道：“爸你嘴里的溃疡好不了，为什么不告诉我啊？我带你去医院看啊！”
老头一瞪眼：“去什么医院，就嘴里长个溃疡，又不是什么了不得的大病，我多喝两口水就好了。谁不上个火生个疮了，就咱家钱多非得去看？”
听到这儿，直播间内的观众们和郑晓娜本人几乎可以确定，白慈说的是真的。
郑晓娜又问这种症状是从什么时候开始的，老头说自己也记不清了。
反正有半年多快一年，嘴里一直很容易长疮，好了两天又长。
一开始他还忌口喝水，后面烦了又觉得疼是疼了点但也没到不能忍的地步，每天照样喝酒吃辣，不管它了。
他自己根本就没觉得，这是一个病。
【啧，看这老头子就想起我家那位，一模一样有病不去医院，非说在家躺两天就好了，让人冒火哦。】
【这要不是白慈看出来了，老头子再拖一两年恐怕也不告诉家里人，怕不是要拖成晚期！】
老头还在倔，白慈语气平淡说道：
“老伯，你是知道自己脾胃不好容易胀气打嗝的，你又抽烟喝酒嘴巴里更容易滋生细菌，也是你病症的主要原因。你不要看现在没什么大问题，拖到中晚期你嘴里的黏膜会全部溃烂，到时候你的腮部都要被切除。”
他表情内敛却认真，把老头唬得一愣一愣的，连轮椅上的老伴儿都开始慌了，抬起手就狠狠拍打了他两下：
“你个死老头子倔什么，去医院看病你能死？”
老伯舔了舔口腔里的疮口，刺刺的疼痛让他心中一阵发虚，“那好吧，就去看一眼……”
白慈‘嗯’了一声点点头道：“你们不用太过担心，口腔癌发现地早可以通过吃药和控制饮食抑制，治疗良好就不会影响正常生活。”
郑晓娜神情感激，千恩万谢：
“谢谢小白大师，我爸这个人最不喜欢去医院，要不是你看出来他有癌症早期，我们真的……”
白慈点了下头，对大刘说道：“我说完了。”
他说完之后，荀以顷便走了出来，亮出了题板：
“有一个兄弟姐妹，但是不知所踪、生死不明。”
荀以顷直言道：“我比较擅长武法和驱邪，看手相的话只能看出一些大概，我看到两个老人的手掌心中都有一条断纹，同时郑女士的手心里也有一条短短的横纹，而这位先生却没有。”
“这说明两位老人的另一个孩子、同时是郑女士的兄弟姐妹，已经离开你们身边很久了，他和你们没有亲缘。”
几乎是荀以顷说到这儿，轮椅上的老太太就要哭了。
刚才还吹胡子瞪眼的老头儿也神情低沉，摩挲着手掌不说话。
大刘问道：“是这样吗郑女士？”
郑晓娜苦笑道：“确实是这样的，这也是我们登上这个节目的原因，我们一家人是来寻亲的。”
大刘：“荀以顷选手有没有看到更具体的信息？”
荀以顷缓缓摇头，“很抱歉，从他们三人的手相上我看不到一丁点联系，我无法确定这个人是否还活着。”
说完他就退到了一旁，视线看了一圈周围的选手，尤其是神情淡然的顾之桑。
师父让他上节目之前，他是玄门年轻一代中的天之骄子，才三十余年便达到了‘玄’四阶的等级，数次比试中都用武法打败了其他同辈人。
那个时候他觉得自己来一个可笑的、班门弄斧的网络节目，拿下‘最强玄师’不是轻轻松松么。
哪怕看到了奚海红也来了，他也毫无惧意。
但连续几期吃瘪，让他大受打击、难以接受。
他只能安慰自己顾之桑也就是会算命看相，真打起来未必打得过自己。
然而当他知道顾之桑以一己之力打伤了玄门八个人，还很有可能是和师父一样的等级后，他彻底陷入了沉默，选择闭关。
足足三天之后他才走出来，这一次荀以顷能感觉到自己心性上的蜕变。
他可以坦然地承认，自己确实不如别人，可以接受自己并没有想象的那么有天赋。
荀以顷本以为这个结果会很难受，可当他说出口的那一刻，他发现自己卡了许久的道行略有松动，或许很快能再升一个阶段。
他下去后，禾芈涂走到了场地中央。
今日的泰籍降头师穿了一件长褂，难得一见地没有带着笑眼，而是面色有些沉重。
此时轮椅上的老太太还因为那句‘生死无法确定’悲痛不已，不停拍着轮椅哭泣。
郑晓娜强撑着笑意，看向禾芈涂。
然而禾芈涂抬起的电子板上却写着‘弃权’两个字。
这是他第一次选择放弃，直播间里的观众们、甚至是其他选手都有些惊讶。
大刘问道：“禾芈涂选手为何直接弃权了？难道你看不出什么东西么？”
禾芈涂缓缓摇头，抿唇道：“我没看。”
被问到为什么的时候，他深深地看了一眼郑晓娜和她的父母，说道：
“在这家人的身上我感受到了一种……很难以言诉的力量，我的信仰在告诫我，这是不可触碰之物。一旦我非要去解读，我会付出非常大的代价。”
大刘茫然了：“你的意思是，这家人的身上有邪灵？”
“不。”
禾芈涂直接否认了，“不可触碰之物不在他们的身上，也不是鬼，更多的是……一种联系，我无法用语言同你们描述这种感觉。但我要劝告你们的是，如果这和你们失去的亲人有关，我的建议是不要再去寻找了。”
众人一片哗然：
【？？这个人在说什么屁话，人家一家子千里寻亲，他看不出来东西也就罢了，还让人家别找了，我真的无语能不能别这么泼冷水啊！】
【我看他就是没本事看出来，又不好意思像其他选手那样大大方方承认，非要打肿脸充胖子，诹点高深莫测的话来掩饰自己的无能。】
【直播间里某些黑的恶意能不能别这么大，禾芈涂在泰国那边都是有名的玄师，之前也有算得非常准的时候，他对这种阴邪的东西感应特别灵敏，我相信他的判断！】
【……】
所有人中唯有顾之桑略一挑眉，有些意外地看了一眼禾芈涂。
她若有所思，到底没说什么。
下一位选手奚海红也并没有看到什么东西。
所有选手中，就只剩下顾之桑和黛西这两个人没有发言。
而她们两人也是网上唯一有争论谁更强大的两人，虽然支持黛西的人非常微薄；
他们认为黛西是所有选手中/共情能力最强大的女巫，说出来的话更能治愈求助人的内心。
就在黛西自己也自觉打算主动站出来的时候，顾之桑先迈出了一步。
她扬了扬手中的电子板，语气平和：“我先来吧。”
对上黛西有些诧异的目光，她浅淡一笑，亮出了题板上的答案：
“90年出生，生身地位于夏国东北部大平原，于7岁那年跟随父母亲人外出时走丢。
走失地点——就在南省山区，在脚下这块土地。”
看到她电子板上的内容，郑晓娜一下捂住了嘴巴，眼眶渐渐红了。
她不知想到了什么，一时间哽咽到说不出话来，一旁的爱人揽住了她的肩膀轻轻安抚。
半晌她抹去了眼角的眼泪，紧紧盯着顾之桑：
“大师，您、您都算出来了对吗？！全都是对的，这就是艳艳的信息，我绝对不会记错！”
顾之桑：“她叫艳艳？应该很符合她的外貌吧，但是这对于她来说并不算一个好名字。”
“她是你的妹妹。”
郑晓娜哽咽道：“没错，我妹妹叫郑晓艳，出生的时间和老家地点都和您算得完全符合，她比我小五岁，的确是七岁那年在这边走丢了。
从小我这个妹妹就可爱好看，跟洋娃娃似的，我以前特别不喜欢和她拍照片，觉得这臭丫头太漂亮了，也不喜欢和她一起玩儿……”
"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!