The Farm Girl’s Charismatic Fortune

Chapter 57: Chapter 55: Whom Has the Heaven Spared Chapter 57: Chapter 55: Whom Has the Heaven Spared Ruo Xuan, with a curious look in her big eyes, gave him a glance, “Huh, this man’s face seems odd, is his lifespan extended?”

She also smelled a hint of dog on him, but it was very faint, probably because he hadn’t been in contact with that dog for the past few days.

Beyond the scent of the dog, Ruo Xuan seemed to detect another aroma and looked uncertainly towards Xuanyuan Que.

Xuanyuan Que looked at the other with an indifferent expression, as if he hadn’t noticed anything.

Master Xuan Ling stepped out, his gaze immediately drawn to Ruo Xuan and Xuanyuan Que.

The facial features of these two children were the best he’d ever seen!

Even the children born to the wealthiest families would usually have one or two aspects lacking in fortune, prosperity, longevity, happiness, or wealth, but each aspect was fully present in these two children.

His master said that children with all aspects complete were Fairy Children, a rare sight in a thousand years for mortals.

So, had he encountered someone with the fate of a once-in-a-millennium Fairy Child?

My goodness, he’d actually stumbled upon such a find!

And not just one, but a pair!

If he could seize the luck of these two children, he wouldn’t need to prepare four children for the ritual.

The fortune of these two with the Fairy Child Fate would suffice.

Excitement surged in his heart, but his face revealed nothing as his movements became more cautious and the incantations he recited more earnest.

Ruo Xuan was very happy!

The more serious he became, the louder the thunder would surely be later!

As Master Xuan Ling rang the bell in his hand, the oil lamps in the ceremonial hall flickered.

A sudden gust of wind blew through the room, and outside, the tempest roared, the sky growing ever darker.

The wind was so fierce it turned everyone’s faces pale, bringing on goosebumps.

Everyone in the ceremonial hall was too scared to even breathe.

What kind of master had the General Residence invited over? Wasn’t this a bit too powerful?

What kind of ritual was this?

Opening the gates of heaven to make the old general ascend to immortality?

Why had the color of the sky changed?

Master Xuan Ling, on the other hand, felt a rush of elation, as it was his first time performing such a fate-seizing ritual, but it seemed to be successful?

Encouraged by the fierce wind, he became even more focused on reciting the spells, drawing talismans in the void and casting them one by one on Ruo Xuan and Xuanyuan Que.

Ruo Xuan: “…”

The scoundrel!

She turned her head to glance at the person beside her.

Xuanyuan Que was expressionless.

She held back! Besides, it didn’t feel like anything.

Ruo Xuan silently counted in her mind how many talismans had been cast on them.

Cast away! For the heavens would surely repay him in spades later on!

The wind grew stronger, the clouds heavier, and Master Xuan Ling’s talisman drawing more vigorous!

The sky suddenly darkened completely.

All the lamps in the ceremonial hall went out instantly.

The once-bright hall became so dark one couldn’t see their own hands.

“Ah!” Someone screamed in fright.

This scream as though disturbing the heavens, suddenly brightened the surroundings, and a bolt of lightning struck down.

The sky roared with a thunderous “Boom!”

Master Xuan Ling, holding a peachwood sword and pointing it at the sky, was wrapped in silver lightning, his whole body shaking violently.

“Ah!”

“Ah!”

…..

Screams punctuated the air as the terrified people in the ceremonial hall scrambled to flee outside!

“Boom, rumble, rumble!”

“Boom, rumble, rumble!”

“Boom, rumble, rumble!”

…

Lightning bolts followed one after another.

They blasted Master Xuan Ling into charcoal!

They tore the ceremonial hall apart, flames reaching for the sky!

They struck those with evil hearts and deeds, leaving them dead or injured!

Forty-nine incantations!

Forty-nine thunderstrikes!

Not a single one struck without cause!

Each and every one specifically targeting those bereft of all conscience!

They shocked the heavens and earth, made ghosts and gods weep!

They alarmed the funeral guests into a panic, sending them scattering in all directions.

They frightened the common people of Shengping Prefecture into thinking the very sky was collapsing!

No one knew how much time had passed.

When brightness returned to the earth, the entire ancestral hall lay in ruins.

Those who survived felt as if they had experienced a world turned upside down, an apocalypse, and a narrow escape from catastrophe!

Among the ruins, several charred bodies were indistinguishable from one another.

The coffin was nowhere to be seen, evidently turned to ash.

The lucky guests who had escaped the thunder looked terrified.

Granny Lei and the old shopkeeper had been dragged out by two children at the onset of the wind.

She looked at the ruins before her and shuddered with fright, “I’ve lived so long, yet this is the first time I’m seeing so many thunderstrikes, and all at the same spot! What on earth have the people from the General Residence done? What kind of demonic practice are they engaged in to have invited such divine retribution?”

Having seen much in his life, the old shopkeeper too was frightened by the sheer number of thunderstrikes. Though he was highly skilled in martial arts and believed he could protect the young master against any powerful adversary, he knew that thunder was beyond his control!

Even the strongest martial skills couldn’t withstand it!

He quickly said, “Old madam, we should leave quickly! The General Residence is too ominous!”

Stop watching the excitement!

His words awakened the panic-stricken crowd!

Indeed, the General Residence was too ominous!

No one knew what atrocious act they had committed to have suffered such judgment from the heavens!

Everyone feared being implicated and hurried outside.

Ruo Xuan still wanted to find that mad dog, but after the cleansing of the thunder, she could no longer sense any trace of it.

Xuanyuan Que said to her, “The dog isn’t here, let’s go!”

Granny Lei quickly picked up her granddaughter. “Old shopkeeper, pick up the child quickly, let’s go, it’s too frightening.”

The old shopkeeper also wanted to pick up Xuanyuan Que, but he was refused.

He did not like contact with others.

Seeing this, Ruo Xuan said, “Granny, I’ll walk with Brother Xuanyuan.”

Granny Lei had no choice but to let her go, allowing her to walk with Xuanyuan Que.

The moment Ruo Xuan’s feet touched the ground, she immediately grabbed Xuanyuan Que’s hand.

Xuanyuan Que frowned and was about to pull away when he noticed her hand trembling slightly; he hesitated, then let her be.

At this moment, a commotion arose from behind.

The second lady of the General Residence, Madam Wen, after searching through the crowd and not finding her husband, roared, “Are you all dead? Save people!”

“Husband! Husband, where are you?”

“Wenwen, my Wenwen! You all hurry and save my Wenwen!”

…

Ruo Xuan looked back for a moment.

Xuanyuan Que also turned back to look.

Amid the ruins, Zhou’s hand, blackened and charred, weakly called out, “Help me!”

The servants and masters of the General Residence who had narrowly escaped death rushed over to rescue her when they heard her voice.

When Zhou was pulled out from the ruins, her legs were gone!

Ruo Xuan huffed with relief, thankfully, death would have been too easy for her.

Xuanyuan Que said nothing.

Heaven has its own justice; those who deserved retribution had received it.

Those who died proved their sins were grave; death was sufficient to atone, or perhaps it was a debt paid by the son for the father’s wrongdoing. In any case, everything had a cause and effect.

Those who didn’t die proved their wrongdoings were not severe enough to claim their lives.

Of course, there was another possibility: their sins were too deep, their karmic debts too hefty, and not yet fully repaid, so they continued to suffer in the mortal realm.

There’s a punishment called—better to die than to live!

Zhou was clearly the latter.

Granny Lei also looked back and shivered with dread, “Move faster!”

Their steps quickened, even breaking into a run!

Soon, all the guests had left the General Residence!

Quickly, as the guests dispersed, the tale of how the General Residence, guilty of some heinous crime, had provoked the heavens to send down forty-nine thunderstrikes as punishment, spread throughout the city.