"You want to help me with fortune-telling?" Li Xiu looked at Mr. Ba with some surprise.

"Predicting good or bad fortune may be of some help to you." said Mr. Ba.

Li Xiu thought for a moment and said, "Even if you test accurately, I will only feel bad if I know the bad result, and it won't change anything. If the result is good, knowing it in advance will reduce the surprise, so I don't need to test it."

Mr. Ba laughed and said, "You think too highly of me. I don't have the ability to predict the future. I'm just speculating on the possible problems that may arise. I'm just testing it casually."

Li Xiu thought about it, pulled out a bamboo pole and wrote the word "Ling" on the ground. This was the word that the hostess here wrote to Changshengtian.

Li Xiu didn't really want to hear about good or bad luck, but he wanted to know what the Eighth Master would say.

He must know more about the situations of the red and blue wooden houses, so rather than fortune-telling, it is more likely that Mr. Ba is using fortune-telling to tell him some things about the red and blue wooden houses.

The words that Mr. Ba said just now seemed to be telling Li Xiu this implicitly.

The Eighth Master stood inside the door and carefully looked at the word "Spirit" written by Li Xiu. He said with a serious look, "I'm afraid your trip will be full of dangers. In the worst case, your life will be in danger, and in the worst case, you may get seriously ill."

"What do you mean?" Li Xiu asked.

"The character 灵 means mountain on top and fire on the bottom. The character 山 is falling down, and fire is coming out from the bottom of the mountain. The mountain is collapsing, the ground is cracking, and the volcano is erupting. What a dangerous situation this is. Life will be in great danger. The character 灵 you wrote is a simplified character. The ancient character 灵 is three 口 on top and 巫 on the bottom, which means that the witch prays to the sky for rain and gets it. It is called a spirit. It was originally a very auspicious character. But you did not write the ancient character but the simplified one, which is equivalent to giving up the protection of the spirit. This journey will definitely not go smoothly."

Mr. Ba turned around and walked to the other side of the door frame. He looked at the word "Ling" written by Li Xiu and continued, "According to the idea just now, if you enter a very yang house, you will definitely encounter a disaster, and if you enter a very yin house, you will definitely encounter bad luck. Look at the word "Ling" you wrote. When most people write "Ling", the structure is small mountain and big fire, but the word "Ling" you wrote is big mountain and small fire, which is a bit strange."

"What's so strange about that? It's just that everyone has different writing habits." Chu Jun, who was standing beside him, was already a little unhappy when he heard the Eighth Master being very fierce and unhappy.

"The mountain is solid and the fire is virtual. The mountain is yang and the fire is yin. The yin fire forges the yang mountain, and the mountain will become stronger and stronger, which shows that the person's spirit is getting better and better. But your yang mountain is too big and your yin fire is too small. The mountain will crush the fire and extinguish it. As the saying goes, solitary yang cannot grow and solitary yin cannot grow. The mountain crushes the fire and extinguishes the solitary yang. This should be a deadly situation, but..." The Eighth Master pondered and did not say anything else.

"Eighth Master, can you please finish what you want to say at once? We still have things to do later." Chu Jun curled his lips.

Mr. Ba smiled and said, "It's not that I don't want to say it, but this word prediction is really a bit weird, and I can't quite figure it out."

"Then tell me what it is that you can't see through?" Chu Jun said.

"If you lean on the mountain, the mountain will fall. If you are on the fire, you will suffer. This is a very unlucky sign. The solitary yang is not able to produce anything, which is also a very bad omen. Theoretically speaking, this word written at this time and place should mean a dead end. But it's strange to say that it is true when viewed alone. But if you combine the two ways of interpreting the word, the situation changes again."

Master Ba pondered and said, "A mountain falling down will put out a fire, so there is no need to burn on the fire; although solitary yang cannot be born, extreme yang can also give birth to yin, and when a mountain falls down, all things will be born. If this word is written in a normal way, it is ominous but not a sign of great misfortune. The way you write it, although it is very bad, it seems to carry great fortune with it. How can these two things appear at the same time? I am a little confused."

"Since you can't understand, there's no need to look at it anymore. I'll go to the wooden house and exchange for what you need. When I come back, please keep your promise and give me the beads in the room." Li Xiu said as he picked up the jewel box and walked towards the red wooden house.

"Li Xiu, let's go to a room each. Although what Mr. Ba said is not credible, I still feel a little uneasy in my heart." Chu Jun stopped Li Xiu and said.

"We're all in there, what if something goes wrong? You stay outside, if something happens, we won't all be trapped here, you can go out and find a solution. This is your Chu family's place, I can't do what you can do, and I can't use the solution you can think of, so it's only useful to keep you outside."

"Be careful." After hearing what Li Xiu said, Chu Jun let go of his hand, but still gave another warning with some concern.

"Don't worry." Li Xiu knocked on the door, but no one answered in the red wooden house.

"Is anyone there?" Li Xiu shouted while knocking on the door.

"No need to shout. The people inside can't hear you. Even if they can hear you, they won't answer you. Just push the door open and go in." said Mr. Ba in the middle room.

Li Xiu didn't say anything after hearing this. He tried to push the door gently with his hand. The door was indeed not locked and it opened with a slight push.

Everything in the red wooden house is red, red walls, red tables, red chairs, everything that can be seen is red.

Facing the door was a red beaded curtain, behind which was the inner room, through which one could vaguely see a woman in red, with a red veil on her face, sitting on an embroidered couch behind a low table. On the low table was a white jade vase, in which were three flowers, one white, one red, and one black.

There are three jade bowls in front of the jade bottle, also one white, one red and one black.

"Excuse me, Master Eight asked me to exchange a gem for a bowl of water?" Li Xiu said several times while standing at the door, but the woman in red in the inner room behind the pearl curtain did not say a word. She sat there with her eyes closed, as if she did not hear anything and did not even open her eyes.

Li Xiu frowned and walked straight into the house. When he stepped into the house, there was clearly no change inside, but Li Xiu felt as if something was different. However, he couldn't tell what was different.

The wooden door behind him closed automatically, but Li Xiu didn't care. He just continued to look at the things in the house, wanting to know where that strange feeling came from.

"Who is coming?" The woman in red seemed not to hear him even though he called out so many times outside the house. Now he just took one more step and came into the house. Not only did she open her eyes, she also took the initiative to ask.

"Could it be that the inside and outside of the house are only one step away, and just like what the Eighth House said, the people inside the house can't hear the sounds outside, nor can they see what is happening outside?" Li Xiu listened carefully, and sure enough, he could not hear any sounds outside. He became more and more surprised, and pushed the door, but the door didn't move at all and could not be opened.

"Eighth Master asked me to exchange this box of rubies for a bowl of water." Li Xiu opened the box in his hand and pointed the rubies in the box towards the direction of the woman in red.

"Which bowl of water do you want to change?" asked the woman in red.

Li Xiu was slightly stunned. Mr. Ba only asked him to change a bowl of water, but did not say which bowl of water to change.

Li Xiu thought about it for a moment and realized that it would be useless even if he went back to ask Mr. Ba now. If he knew about such an important matter, how could he not tell Li Xiu which bowl of water to change?

Mr. Ba didn't say anything, either he was deliberately trying to embarrass Li Xiu, or he didn't know either, so there was no point in asking again. Besides, the door couldn't be opened, so he couldn't get out at all.

"Which bowl of water can I exchange for?" Li Xiu asked.

"You can change to any bowl you want, but you have to drink the remaining two bowls of water first before you can take the one you want." The woman in red said with a smile.

"What will be the consequences of drinking the water in the bowl?" Li Xiu asked tentatively. He didn't hold out much hope, thinking that the woman in red wouldn't tell him.

Unexpectedly, the woman in red actually spoke up: "The water in the white jade bowl is called destiny, the water in the black jade bowl is called fate, and the water in the red jade bowl is called personality. If you only drink one of the three bowls of water, it will be a great benefit. If you drink all three bowls, you will definitely have great fortune. But if you only drink two bowls, it's hard to say."

"Why is it hard to say?" Li Xiu asked.

"If you drink the fate and destiny, then your fate is determined. You lose the chance to change your destiny, and your future achievements will stop here." The red-clothed woman seemed to be afraid that Li Xiu didn't understand, so she explained: "That is to say, your body will be fixed from now on. No matter how much you practice in the future, it will not be possible to continue to evolve."

After a pause, the woman in red continued, "If you drink destiny and personality, then your personality will be determined by heaven, and you can only leave it to fate. From now on, whether your achievements are good or bad, you can only gamble on luck."

"What if I drink destiny and personality?" Li Xiu asked.

"Your personality is determined by external factors and it is difficult to change it. From now on, any external force will be useless to you. It is also said that no matter how good the treasures in the world are, they cannot change your body. You can only rely on your own hard work to gain something." The woman in red smiled and said, "Which two bowls do you want to drink?"

"Can I drink all three bowls?" Li Xiu asked.

"Of course you can, but Xiao Ba has been trapped here for decades, and he dreams of escaping this way day and night. Without this bowl of water, he can't leave here. If you drink all three bowls of water, he will definitely fight you to the death after you get out." said the woman in red.

Li Xiu groaned in silence: "If I only drink two bowls of water, according to what the red-dressed woman said, there will be three results. Either my level will be fixed forever and it will be difficult to upgrade. Or I will leave it to fate and my level will be randomly upgraded, but I will still not be able to upgrade my level in the future. The last one is that I can no longer use external objects, which means that I can no longer use magic cores or gems to improve my level and ability. These three paths are dead ends, and no matter which one I choose, it will not be easy."

"Is there really such magical water in the world?" Li Xiu asked with some disbelief.

"If you don't believe it, you can give it a try." The woman in red said with a smile.

Of course Li Xiu would not try it casually, so he had to ask again: "If that's the case, then I won't change it."

"Once you enter this room, you can't leave unless you drink the water in the bowl. If you are willing to stay and take over from me and guard this place for me, I would be very happy." The woman in red said with a smile.

"How can a wooden house trap you?" Li Xiu asked.

The woman in red looked at Li Xiu with a half-smile and said, "You are a good talker. You clearly wanted to say that this wooden house can't hold you, but when you said it, it became "If it can hold me", you are a young man who is not annoying. Since you are not annoying, I will remind you that the person who built this house is a man of great fortune. It only takes a thought to change the world. If you want to leave this house, you'd better drink the water in the bowl. It's better to offend Xiao Ba than to move this wooden house. If you anger the mistress of this house, although the world is big, there is no place for you. Look at Xiao Ba, he is also a super spirit trialist, but he also stayed in the house obediently and didn't dare to take a step out."

Li Xiu thought about it and it made sense. Bai Ying had said before that Mr. Ba was a super-spiritual trialist. If even a super-spiritual trialist was trapped in the wooden house with no way out, then even if Li Xiu put on the magic suit, he might not be able to rush out of the wooden house. After all, the energy limit of the magic suit was just super-spiritual. What's more, the light speed gun was not with him and was still being repaired at Ximen Guan's place. The destructive power of Light Speed ​​No. 1 was greatly reduced.

"It only takes a thought to change the world. Isn't this a bit exaggerated? How can there be such human beings in the world?" Li Xiu said with a frown.

"I have told you everything I should have said. Whether you believe it or not is your own business. Your death will not benefit me in any way. Why should I harm you?" The woman in red said a little angrily when she saw that Li Xiu did not believe her.

"I just can't believe that there is such a powerful person in the world." Li Xiu was not angry and said with a smile.

"Before I met the owner of this place, I thought so too. Xiao Ba also thought so. So we are all trapped here. We are said to be guests, but in fact we are just prisoners guarding someone else's house." The woman in red sighed.

"What was your previous identity and how did you get trapped here?" Li Xiu asked curiously.

"Even if I tell you who I am, you still don't know. Xiao Ba was one of the ten elders of Changshengtian before. He thought he had the light of the heavenly engraved talismans, and he could run rampant in the world and avoid disasters. But when he came here, the owner only wrote a word for him to test, and he found that he was bleeding from all seven orifices and almost died on the spot. Fortunately, people were kind enough to save his life and let him be a guard dog. The owner also left him a chance. If he can get a bowl of water and a leaf, he can leave here and be free again." The woman in red curled her lips and said.

"What about you? How can you leave here?" Li Xiu asked.

"When the three bowls of water are finished, that will be the day I will be free again." said the woman in red.

"This doesn't seem to be difficult. Just get a few more people here to drink water." Li Xiu thought.

"If only it were that easy. The three bowls of water, destiny, fate, and personality, are not something that anyone can drink. Only those selected by Xiao Ba can drink the water. I don't know what rules the owner of this place has set for Xiao Ba. Over the years, you are the third person he has let in to drink water."

"Didn't the two people in front drink water? How did they get out without drinking water?" Li Xiu asked, looking at the three bowls full of water.

"They drank it, but they didn't finish it, so they all died. When they died, the water in the bowl automatically filled up again." The woman in red said lightly.

"Will you die if you don't finish drinking?" Li Xiu frowned. The woman in red had never said this before.

The woman in red did not answer, but smiled and said, "Did you see the three flowers in the jade bottle?"

"See, is there any problem with them?" Li Xiu asked.

"Three flowers correspond to three bowls of water. If the water in one of the bowls dries up, the corresponding flower will kill people." The woman in red sneered and said, "When the first person came to drink water, I didn't know that the flower would kill people. He had just finished drinking the water in the white jade bowl when the white flower dropped a petal and the man died on the spot without any signs of death."

"When the second person came to drink water, I told him about this taboo. He was very smart. He drank two-thirds of the water in each bowl, and then combined the remaining one-third of the water in the three bowls into one bowl."

Li Xiu had just thought the same thing, and it seemed like this was the only way to escape.

"What a pity! When he emptied a bowl of water, he was also killed by the flowers," sighed the woman in red.

"Can't you take all three bowls out?" Li Xiu asked with a frown.

"If he could be taken out, he wouldn't have died. Either you drink all three bowls of water, or you can only drink two bowls of water and take one bowl of water. Otherwise, the door can't be opened." The woman in red said depressedly, "I thought about it for a long time, but I couldn't figure out how to get him out alive."

"After all this talk, it turns out that it doesn't matter what effect the two types of water have when added together. What's really important is how to get out alive." Li Xiu said.

"That's right." The woman in red nodded and said, "Getting out alive is the most important thing. As for the effect of the water on your body, it's nothing compared to death. Unfortunately, this is an unsolvable problem. You have to drink up all the water before you can leave, but if you drink up all the water, you will die. This is a vicious circle."

Li Xiu lifted the bead curtain and walked to the small table where three bowls of water and three flowers in a jade bottle were placed. He sat down directly and stared at the three bowls of water and the three flowers in the jade bottle.

There are three jade bowls, one red, one white and one black, all of which are crystal clear as if they were carved from crystal jade. The water in the bowls is clear and transparent, no different from ordinary purified water, and there is not even a trace of smell.

The jade vase is the color of mutton-fat white jade. The three flowers in the vase are all gorgeous and beautiful. You are a blooming rose.

"If you drink water you will die, and if you don't drink water you can't get out. This is quite interesting." Li Xiu muttered to himself as he looked at the three bowls of water.

"You actually find it interesting? Don't you understand that if you can't break this situation, you'll be dead?" The woman in red looked at Li Xiu in surprise.

"I haven't asked you what your name is yet?" Li Xiu said with a smile.

"He can have such leisure and ease between life and death. He is an interesting person. I will make an exception and tell you my name. My name is Wan Chaochun." The woman in red thought for a while and replied.

"Wan Chaochun? What is the relationship between you and Wan Chaoxin?" Li Xiu asked in surprise.

"The Wan Chaoxin you are talking about should be a young man, right?" asked the woman in red.

"Yes." Li Xiu nodded.

"Although I have never met him, according to the family tree of our Wan Chao family, the character Xin should be my grandson, and he should call me little aunt." The woman in red looked at Li Xiu and said, "Do you know Wan Chao Xin? Is he his friend?"

"He gave me something before. I don't know if he can be considered a friend." Li Xiu said with a smile.