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<span class="mu-i">Abnormal. Definitely abnormal. </span>
This is the seventeenth corpse he had told the fortune of.
Counting backwards from the day and time and manner of death all those that Tudi brought him were Violent Deaths; counting with a constant was <span class="mu-i">much</span> easier., and guessing from the conditions of their bodies, what was left of their palms and faces, Yang Wuhan was able to ascertain an approximate horoscope.
From these tangendental points of single interstice, and using the date of his and the goblin's meeting as a Greatly Fortuitous Crossing of Paths, he triangulated to find his Tudi's Heavenly Stem and Earthly Stem, and from those derive the goblin's BaZi, Eight Characters.
He found out that the Goblin was born before spring three years ago, 8th day 11th month 2geng 1dian past night (10pm).
Reading Tudi's fortune was... diverting, but not the goal.
For with one complete reading of BaZi, he was able to begin a conversion of this world's calender to one that corresponds accurately with the Ten Heavenly Stems and Twelve Earthly Stems, and from there, match the Heavenly Courts constellations of this world to the ZiWei, Purple Star astrological tellings.
With these two foundational systems deduced to a workable state, though not accurate enough to be relied upon, he began building upwards to more esoteric methods, capable of charting fortunes after death, or of those whose lives did not end with death: Tudi's gray helpers, the Dimm Cult.
Tudi, as a Goblin, was born under a Governing Power: Chaos. This overruled some aspects of his BaZi and ZiWei while quickening others. Some Cultivators used such knowledge to seek patrons who have Attained, so-termed Sages and Immortals, or Demons and Gods.
Yang Wuhan did the same, and was mildly surprised that he was merely Extremely Favorable as Tudi's patron. The true ideal patron seemed to dwell in Chaos, or rather, <span class="mu-i">was</span> Chaos, to be understood as both Principle and Person.
<span class="mu-i">Truly unheard of. Divinity is inborn, Immortality attained. But what is both a Personal Person yet an Impersonal Principle?</span>
Then he charted more tellings, cursorily, for the commoners who were of the Dimm Cult, the dead commoners in the mass grave who were branded-staked-beheaded, and those not; and the troublesome characters Tudi encountered in Plague Town.
The troublesome ones, and those from the mass grave that were branded and staked, mostly had Light, Order, Truth, Abundance as their ideal Patrons.
Those that had been afflicted and Rerisen by the Plague, though they were also all commoners, fell under Chaos, like Tudi.
Mo Ao and the Dimm Cult all fell under Darkness.
There were other Patron Powers unrepresented: Law, Illusion, Knowledge and Destiny.
And he, Yang Wuhan, fell under none of them.
<span class="mu-i">Does this mean that I alone in this world am truly free. Or that One's Existence is beyond these ten Overuling Cardinals to contain or predict.</span>
