Su Guangzhi was dumbfounded. "No... no way, Master Yan, are you sure? We've investigated before, and Gu Qin is just an ordinary young girl, her family’s conditions are poor, and her father is a scoundrel. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have sold his daughter’s heart to us."

Yan Zhen frowned. "Being poor doesn't mean she has no one behind her. Some feng shui masters are eccentric and prefer to keep their existence a secret. The incidents involving the Jiang and Chen families were likely caused by someone behind Gu Qin. Maybe the Gu family owes a lot of money, and that person helped the Chen and Jiang families to make money to settle their debts."

Su Guangzhi still couldn’t believe it. "If Gu Qin really has someone backing her, then why would this expert help her? There must be a reason, right?"

Yan Zhen replied, "I don’t know. I only know that Gu Qin must not be touched. Maybe that person is her master, which would explain why they help her. Let’s leave this matter here. Your family’s issues haven’t been discovered by her yet. Otherwise, you’ll be next in line for retaliation."

Su Guangzhi's face paled. He remembered that his daughter had told him she had already revealed everything to Gu Qin. Could it be that Gu Qin now knew that they were behind it all? "This is bad, Master Yan, my daughter told Gu Qin everything a few days ago... I’m afraid that person might already know it was us!"

Yan Zhen scoffed. "Then that’s your bad luck. If that person decides to take action against you, then prepare to die."

Su Guangzhi quickly begged, "Master, please help us! If you leave, what will we do?"

Yan Zhen remained silent as she got up and returned to her room. However, an hour later, she received a call from Su Wenzhi, who was pleading, "Master Yan, please help my brother. If you don't, he and my niece will only wait for death."

In the end, Yan Zhen agreed to visit the Gu family. If there was no hope, she wouldn’t take action. To be safe, she brought protective talismans and offensive magical tools.

She could draw the low-level talismans herself, while the intermediate talismans had been brought from her sect when she left. The offensive weapon, a curved dagger, had been given to her by Su Wenzhi. When she first got it, the weapon was filled with ominous energy, and it took her quite a bit of effort to tame it. The dagger wasn’t large—only about half the length of an arm—and was considered a medium-grade weapon of the yellow rank, which wasn’t particularly strong but still hard to come by.

Yan Zhen planned to visit the Gu family at night.

Su Guangzhi was overjoyed upon hearing that Yan Zhen planned to visit and thanked her profusely.

After returning to his room, his subordinates reported, “Boss, the people you asked Qiangzi to teach a lesson to—the girl who had been bullying your daughter—well, Qiangzi and his crew failed. They were beaten up and are now in the hospital. If I hadn’t gone to check on Qiangzi today, he would have kept it a secret from me.”

"Forget about that for now." Su Guangzhi was more concerned about the situation with the Gu family. However, he recalled that his daughter had mentioned Gu Qin was close to Lin Xinxin, and quickly asked, "What happened to Qiangzi? How could a girl be so hard to deal with?"

The subordinate replied, “Qiangzi said that there was a thin, small girl with Lin Xinxin, and she was unexpectedly skilled in hand-to-hand combat. She took down Qiangzi and his crew in just a few moves.”

A thin, small girl? It had to be Gu Qin. Su Guangzhi knew from the investigation that Lin Xinxin and Gu Qin were close friends. It was normal for them to go home together. He sighed, "Let's not deal with this for now. You can go."

Su Guangzhi still trusted Master Yan’s words, but he couldn’t understand how the ordinary Gu family had suddenly turned out to be associated with a master.

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In the meantime, Gu Qin had been drawing many talismans. Drawing these talismans consumed her inner energy, so over the past two days, she had been resting between sessions. Most of the talismans she drew were intermediate-level, thanks to her previous life’s experience and her current abilities with the Heavenly Eye. However, she couldn’t yet draw higher-level talismans.

Talismans were divided into low, medium, and high grades. She had managed to draw fifty or so low-grade medium talismans and five medium-grade talismans, some for defense and others for offense.

That evening, before school ended, Gu Qin took out three copper coins and began to divinate. She was divining about the events of the night. Divination wasn’t her personal thing; sometimes she would divine for herself, though in her past life, it always worked out. But now, since she had become Gu Qin, the results were chaotic. Therefore, she no longer used it for her personal matters.

For example, she wanted to know if someone would come to visit her family in the next few days. The divination clearly showed that someone would indeed come. She asked again, and the divination confirmed that the visitor would arrive at midnight.

Then, she divined who would come. The result was chaos, but she figured it meant that the visitor would come because of her, and it was most likely the woman who had helped Su Lingyu extend her life.

Gu Qin felt a bit nervous. She wasn’t sure why this woman was coming, but since it was related to the Su family, it was probably to take her heart. Perhaps she intended to help Su Lingyu get revenge. Either way, Gu Qin wasn’t in a position to confront this woman head-on. From the time she had helped Su Lingyu, she had seen that the woman was at the mid-stage of the Qi Refining stage. Gu Qin, who was at the early stage of Qi Refining, had no magical tools and was at a disadvantage in a direct confrontation.

"Qinqin, what are you doing?" Lin Xinxin, who liked to stay with Gu Qin after school, had been watching her handle the copper coins for a while and couldn’t help but ask.

Gu Qin turned and smiled. "I’m divining." Lin Xinxin hadn’t known that Gu Qin could do divination. Gu Qin had never intended to hide it, but most people no longer believed in this stuff.

"Divination?" Lin Xinxin’s eyes widened. "Qinqin, you can do divination? I didn’t know that. Did your master teach you? How long have you been learning? Are you any good? Maybe you could do a divination for me."

Gu Qin glanced around to make sure no one was eavesdropping. Then she whispered in Lin Xinxin’s ear, "Quiet, if the classmates hear, they’ll report me to the teacher for superstition. I’ll do one for you, though, to see if I’m any good."

Lin Xinxin wasn’t really interested in divination but was more curious about Gu Qin’s master. Could she be a feng shui master?

Gu Qin smiled. "What do you want me to divinate?"

Lin Xinxin thought for a moment. "How about you predict what time school will end?"

Their school had both boarding and day students. They were day students, so they left at 5:30 p.m. The boarding students stayed for an extra hour of study.

Gu Qin smiled and scattered the copper coins on the desk. After making six throws and getting the divination result, she said, "It won’t be delayed today. We’ll get out on time."

Lin Xinxin didn’t believe it. "Qinqin, that can’t be true. You know Ms. Zhu loves to delay class. Recently, we’re probably getting our test results, so she’ll probably delay even more."

Gu Qin smiled. "I’m sure Ms. Zhu won’t be here today. The class will be taken over by Ms. Liu, our history teacher. I divined twice. The first divination showed we’ll get out on time, so I thought it was strange and did a second divination. It shows Ms. Zhu swapped classes with Ms. Liu."

Lin Xinxin remained skeptical. Could she really predict something that hadn’t happened yet? Just then, the bell rang, and Ms. Liu walked in with a textbook, and Lin Xinxin’s eyes widened in shock.

After school, Lin Xinxin was excited. She didn’t want Gu Qin to teach her divination—she was more interested in martial arts.

After sending Lin Xinxin home, Gu Qin returned to her own place. Her mother, Cheng Yinxiang, had already returned and prepared dinner.

"Qinqin, come eat, and then do your homework."

Gu Qin wasn’t in a hurry anymore. She could only deal with whatever came. After a quick glance around, she asked, "Mom, where’s my brother? He isn’t eating dinner again?"

"Yeah, he said he was studying at a classmate’s house and would eat outside," Cheng Yinxiang said as she set the dishes down.

After dinner, Gu Qin did her homework and then watched some TV. By 10:30, her mother had already fallen asleep.

Gu Qin quietly turned off the TV, closed her door, and slipped out. She left the house and sat near the flower bed in the community.

The apartment complex was old, without an elevator, and only had a

few lights on at night. The wind felt cold, and the trees around the apartment complex swayed gently. Gu Qin took a deep breath, trying to calm her nerves.

Just then, she felt a chill, and she looked up.

A tall woman dressed in black appeared from the shadows, her long hair falling loosely around her shoulders. It was Yan Zhen.

"Are you Gu Qin?" Yan Zhen’s voice was cold, and her eyes were full of scrutiny as she stared at the girl standing before her.