Chapter 1 The Beginning

Black and White Impermanence didn't kill me after all. They only had one heir to the Yin meridian, after all.

I've remembered my grudge against Ye Yang.

Before I could settle accounts with Ye Yang, Counselor Liu woke up. The old codger tidied himself up before coming out to see us. He looked the same as always, but his demeanor was completely different.

Counselor Liu exchanged a few pleasantries with us before changing the subject. "I think you two should summarize your experiences in this battle of the Little Yellow Springs. The so-called..."

I didn't hear what Counselor Liu said after that, but I thought a summary would be a good thing.

The Little Yellow Springs mission was unfinished, but it represented the true beginning of my and Ye Yang's lives as fate borrowers.

Our world was no longer just about borrowing fate and capturing souls, but about facing the schemes of our own kind and the pursuit of sorcerers.

It wouldn't be a bad thing to have a summary.

Counselor Liu said, "I think the two of you should talk about your experiences in this mission!"

I said, "The reason why this mission was so difficult is mainly because Ye Yang is such a blockhead! When you get the information, you don't hurry to tell me, but you're still stupidly looking for clues elsewhere. Is this investigating a case? Or preparing to calculate how many tables of wine to set up?"

Ye Yang's face darkened. "It was neither!"

I slammed the table. "If I hadn't been struggling in the Little Yellow Springs, would you have had a chance to come in? I said, don't you know we're a team?"

Ye Yang only said one sentence, "You almost got killed!"

I was furious. "Isn't that because you were late? If you had come earlier, would I have let that Shi guy be so arrogant?"

Ye Yang said expressionlessly, "You almost got tricked!"

I stood up abruptly. "You have the nerve to say that? If you had given me a hint, even just a hint, it wouldn't have turned out like this?"

Ye Yang said slowly, "You almost got killed by me!"

"Bullshit!" I was almost driven crazy. "I trusted you..."

Counselor Liu covered his face at this moment. "Did I misunderstand something?"

Nie Xiaochun grabbed my arm and dragged me back. "Speak nicely, don't fight!"

"Don't worry, I definitely won't beat him to death!" I almost went to find a knife.

Ye Yang said unhurriedly, "That's right! He has suicidal tendencies. He'll only beat himself to death."

I really went to draw a knife. "Let go of me, watch me today, I'll beat him to death."

"He's acting up!" Ye Yang stood up and took out a blank spirit tablet and placed it next to Old Liu's spirit tablet. "Let me calculate, how many tables should I set up!"

Before I could explode, Nie Xiaochun handed me over to Counselor Liu. "You hold him!"

Nie Xiaochun rushed to Ye Yang's side, stood on tiptoe, and covered his mouth tightly. "Say less! If you really fight in a while, there's only so much left in the house. If you break the house, we won't even have money to buy cat food."

Now, both Ye Yang and I calmed down. After all, money was still important.

Counselor Liu wiped his cold sweat and said, "Actually, this time we can't say we didn't gain anything. The ghosts in the governor's mansion are gone, but there are still some things in the governor's mansion that can be sold. I'll get them out, and that should last for a while."

"More importantly, the title deeds of the governor's mansion are in my hands. That governor also has the surname Liu. As long as I do a little trickery, the governor's mansion will be ours. I'll take care of this matter. I guarantee it will be done clearly."

My eyes lit up instantly. The provincial capital was worth its weight in gold! If we could get the governor's mansion, that would be a lot of money!

I didn't doubt Old Liu's ability to get things done. Anyone who could rise to the position of counselor in troubled times was by no means an ordinary person. Moreover, some things in officialdom never changed. As long as Old Liu could take down the governor's mansion, we would save a lot of money just on rent. If we could sell the governor's mansion, wouldn't we be rich?

Counselor Liu saw that Ye Yang and I had calmed down and rushed out, saying that he was going to get the governor's mansion.

That time, I saw Old Liu's skills for the first time. For this kind of old, unresolved case, it might take several years to settle. I didn't expect Counselor Liu to take down the governor's mansion in less than a month.

According to him, his cultivation in术道 (shudao - arts of divination) was too shallow. If it was deeper, he could have done it in half a month.

I guessed that he used shudao methods, such as hypnosis and other secret techniques. However, these were not within my consideration. I just needed to know that there was a new house to live in.

Counselor Liu told us as he led us to the governor's mansion, "Actually, the greatest wealth in the governor's mansion is the archive on the third floor with the word 'death' written on it. Most of the archives there were written by He Haoyu. He said it was called the Yellow Springs Secret Archives. It recorded many things."

"If the Yellow Springs Secret Archives haven't been taken away by the Yin Division, we can get a lot of secrets from both the Yin and Yang realms. However, the Yellow Springs Secret Archives need someone to decipher them. I can do this."

I slowed down slightly. "Will there be any problems if you decipher the Yellow Springs Secret Archives?"

Counselor Liu shook his head. "If Black and White Impermanence didn't take away the secret archives, it means that those things are not important to them. But if we get them, it's like getting a huge database, which is extremely beneficial to us."