Volume 1: Rebirth Returns Chapter 8: The Eight Trigrams Dragon Soars Finger Guessing

  Su Rui followed Liu Qingyun into the study, saw the ancient bookshelves filled with ancient books, her face was calm, but she was extremely surprised in her heart.

  Liu Qingyun took out a wooden box from a hidden compartment, on which was carved a coiled dragon. Although it wasn't a real dragon, it still looked majestic and powerful. The pair of dragon eyes seemed to be staring at you, making people involuntarily surrender. In the dragon's mouth, an eight-trigram mirror was held, which made Su Rui feel strange, but also felt unusually harmonious.

  After all, she had lived a lifetime, Su Rui quickly came back to her senses and looked at Liu Qingyun.

  Liu Qingyun was delighted to see Su Rui wake up so soon, knowing that he himself had been dazed for a whole hour before being called back by his master.

  Liu Qingyun gently pressed a few times on the box, and the box automatically popped open. Inside, there was a thread-bound book and a white jade ring.

  Feeling Su Rui's puzzled gaze, Liu Qingyun picked up the white jade ring and handed it to Su Rui.

  Su Rui took the ring and found that it was also carved with a dragon holding an eight trigrams mirror, but this dragon was wrapped around the ring, and its eyes were closed.

  Then Su Rui put down her fingers and picked up the thread-bound book.

  That book looks very thick, but in fact it only has three pages after opening. However, Su Rui couldn't understand a word because it was written in small seal script.

  Su Rui looked at Liu Qingyun, and Liu Qingyun finally spoke up. "This book and that ring are the legacy items of our sect. I don't know what this book is used for, not because I don't recognize the characters on it, but because I really can't understand it. And this ring is the token of the sect leader, every new sect leader must prick their finger to acknowledge its ownership when they take office, letting it recognize your aura. If someone who hasn't been acknowledged by it gets hold of this ring, they will die with blood flowing from all seven orifices."

  "What if someone steals this ring and recognizes it with their own blood, wouldn't it then become theirs?" Su Rui looked at Liu Qingyun in confusion.

  "You silly girl, wasn't I telling you that the disciples of Tiān Jī Mén are all recognized by Heaven's Way? How can someone who hasn't been recognized by Heaven's Way possibly make the pointer drip blood to acknowledge ownership? You think others die with seven orifices bleeding after getting the pointer because it's Heaven's punishment!" Lǐu Qīng Yún said in a fluster.

  Su Rui stuck out her tongue and smiled, saying "Master, I'm just asking questions when I have a problem, good kids should be like this, right?"

  "Don't say it's useless, hurry up and prick your finger to acknowledge ownership." With that said, he took out a needle from who-knows-where.

  Su Rui could only close her eyes and prick a small hole on her finger, the blood was frantically absorbed by the ring as soon as it touched.

  Su Rui saw it and jumped down. She shook her hands hard. "Master, master, will it suck my blood dry? Take it away quickly, I can't shake it off."

  "What's the big deal, you think a little bit of blood can make the finger recognize its master? It's gotta be at least a cupful of blood." Liu Qingyun gave Su Rui a rarely seen weird look.

  Su Rui gazed at Liu Qingyun with a resentful expression, thinking to herself: I just became your apprentice and you haven't taught me anything yet, but now you're making me spill a cup of blood. This is really unfair!

  After a moment, the ring was still stuck on Su Rui's finger. Even Liu Qingyun found it strange now.

  "This can't be, why would it need so much blood?" Liu Qingyun looked at the armlet and suddenly shouted "Ah! It's actually like this! Heaven blesses me, Tianyimen, hahahaha!"

  Su Rui glared at the cheap master, "I'm still bleeding here, what are you so happy about? If this takes any longer, I'll be sucked dry!"

  "Cough, cough, you won't become a mummy, it'll stop after a while when the finger sucking is enough." Liu Qingyun said awkwardly. It turned out that Su Rui had unknowingly spoken her mind. Now she was utterly embarrassed.

  "Take a look at this ring first, what's different from before?"

  Su Rui lowered her head and looked at her fingers, "Its eyes, the dragon's eyes actually opened, oh my god, it's too amazing!"

  Su Rui suddenly lifted her head and looked at Liu Qingyun, her eyes wide open and sparkling brightly. As if to say, Master, tell me quickly.

  After seeing Su Rui look so mature, when she made such a cute expression, Liu Qingyun burst out laughing.

  Su Rui's face turned bright red with anger. She lowered her head and pouted.

  Liu Qingyun watched as his precious disciple continued to tease, and was about to get angry. He straightened his face and opened his mouth, saying "You just joined the sect and don't know yet, our Tianji Gate was founded by our ancestor Tianji Zi. The Bagua Tenglong Pianzhi and the Bagua Panlong Ji are the ancestral objects of our sect, and this Bagua Tenglong Pianzhi is even more so an object that accompanied our ancestor. Therefore, this Pianzhi is also the gate's main treasure. And on the Bagua Tenglong Pianzhi, the divine dragon has only opened its eyes when it was in our ancestor's hands. But you, are the second person to make the dragon open its eyes. So you are the destined person to revive my Tianji Gate."

  Su Rui looked at Liu Qingyun with an excited expression and asked in confusion, "Then how did you know I was the one with fate? Did the Heavenly Way tell you? What did it say?"

  "My master told me before he passed away, 'Head west and walk until you don't want to walk anymore. Then wait there, and you will naturally meet the person with whom you have a predestined relationship.'"

  After that, Liu Qingyun stared at Su Rui's face, "You should know that the greatest ability of our Tianji Gate is to predict the future, and I couldn't see through your future. So you are the destined person for our Tianji Gate."

  Look into the future! Even Su Rui, who was calm and composed, widened her eyes in shock, revealing an expression of incredulity. Is there really someone in this world who can see through the future? What a heaven-defying ability this is!

  "You won't be surprised either, you'll have this ability later on. However, the Tianji Gate has already declined. I can only see some major events in the future." Liu Qingyun sighed with a hint of melancholy, then looked at Su Rui, his eyes burning with passion again.

  "What's with the look? I know I'm the chosen one, and now that I've joined the Tianji Sect, its affairs are my affairs too. Who else is going to do it if not me? Are you going to leave it all to an old man like you?" Su Rui rolled her eyes at Liu Qingyun.

  Digression

  I've tried hard to write more words already, and there will be even more in the future~