Chapter 85 - Deceiving Heaven and Changing Fate (5)

Chapter 85: Chapter 87: Deceiving Heaven and Changing Fate (5)Feng Youyun? Old Feng?

Bai Zhi slightly raised his eyebrows as he rested his hand on the hilt of his sword, squinting his eyes and pondering hard. He felt that he had just caught a glimpse of a thread of the mystery but couldn’t pierce through the layer of paper to view all the truths.

"Mr. Ant, what are you talking about?" Young Feng’s voice trembled a bit. "Isn’t my dad still alive?"

"Be patient, don’t worry."

Li Cheng smiled, "In the process of exploring the mansion, based on the clues and information I gathered, I’ve come up with several hypotheses. The first and most obvious one is that the person he spoke to at the time was Feng Youyun."

"In Old Feng’s own account, he was cursed with the death of his entire family by Zhao Xinglang’s father before his demise due to business conflicts. Soon after, his wife and son fell seriously ill and were hospitalized. To ward off the curse, he adopted Zhao Xinglang on the advice of the wandering alchemist, hoping to neutralize the curse."

"Old Feng at the time didn’t know that ’without a high-level Extraordinary Power before the arrival of the killing field,’ and he truly believed the alchemist’s deception, especially that so-called ’Supreme Cave Destiny Changing Scripture.’"

"So, what did he do with this book? The answer is, he swapped fates."

Li Cheng snapped his fingers, "This brings us to the first hypothesis. He swapped Zhao Xinglang’s life chart with that of his own son, Young Feng, in order to deceive the curse. From Old Feng’s perspective, everything made sense — his son recovered from the fever, but his personality drastically changed from being cheerful and lively to being shy and reserved. This piece of information was also known to Old Feng’s wife, which is why in the last two years of her life, she treated Zhao Xinglang just like her own son."

Young Feng looked bewildered. As a materialist who had received higher education, he did not believe in life charts and found it hard to imagine his father, who, in his eyes, was a shrewd and wise business magnate, could believe in such things.

"The cognitive abilities, knowledge boundaries, and social experiences of people are limited. In the right conditions, even highly ranked individuals like university professors, barristers, entrepreneurs, and senior bureaucrats can be deceived and manipulated by crude lies. This has been all too common throughout history.

Even I was deceived once when I bought a pineapple from a shady fruit vendor and returned home to cut it open, only to find a pile of furniture, a sponge, and a snail inside."

Li Cheng shrugged his shoulders, ignoring the cringed expressions of the others and Bai Zhi’s muttering about "the person who ruined the later seasons of ’SpongeBob’ @LeadLeadAnt,"

He continued speaking, "However, there are still many things that do not add up in this hypothesis. For example, the coffin in the secret room on the second floor, and why would Young Feng’s wife’s birth details and life chart be on the yellow paper in the study.

This leads us to the second hypothesis: split personality."

"Split personality?" Bai Zhi was taken aback, then realized, "Are you talking about Zhao Xinglang?"

"Correct." Li Cheng nodded. "In this hypothesis, Old Feng used the ’Supreme Cave Destiny Changing Scripture’ to swap Zhao Xinglang’s and Young Feng’s life charts, avoiding the curse. But something went wrong with this process, and no one knew that Zhao Xinglang had quietly developed a second personality.

This personality remained inconspicuous, and once Zhao Xinglang reached the adult age with independent capabilities, it began to exact revenge on Old Feng.

The first step was to get hold of the ’Supreme Cave Destiny Changing Scripture,’ remodel the mansion, and secretly hide Old Feng’s wife’s coffin in the secret room. Since the Feng family rarely visited Wudun Town, being Old Feng’s adopted son and the caretaker of the mansion, he had plenty of time and financial resources to renovate the mansion. If he didn’t want to be discovered, he could easily give the maids and gardeners a few days off with any excuse.

The second step was to swap fates again. Since Old Feng had swapped his and Young Feng’s life charts, he would swap Young Feng’s son, Little Feng’s life chart with that of Old Feng’s wife who had been dead for years.

Young Feng and his wife, one with the Longevity Life Chart and the other with the life chart of glowing wealth, their son born with an equally special life chart. Capable of performing feats such as Deceiving Heaven and Changing Fate, Taiyin Refining, Corpse Disintegration, and Body Transformation.

For this reason, the bruises in the shape of a handprint appeared mysteriously on less than one-year-old Little Feng, and the long-dead body could ’resurrect’ and turn into a blood corpse. Then, it began the bloody massacre of the Feng family members.

Zhao Xinglang only realized today the actions of his second personality, which is why he had a dialogue with his second personality in the study, issuing the reproach, "How could you bear to use such a small child as a sacrifice?"

Li Cheng’s words did not carry a hint of personal emotion, his narrative almost allowed one to see how Zhao Xinglang step by step embarked on the path of revenge, firmly and coldly advancing his plan, even to the extent of considering himself as a sacrifice.

While You Anjian, Bai Zhi, and the others were still in shock, they saw Li Cheng’s serious expression suddenly collapse, and he said with a smirk, "Of course, just like the first hypothesis, this assumption also has many imperfections.

For example, if Old Feng had once gotten his hands on the ’Supreme Cave Destiny Changing Scripture,’ then when little Feng began to show palm bruises on his body, why didn’t he think of that ancient book and suspect someone had changed his grandson’s life chart?

Instead, he had to spend a lot of money to hire players for so-called protection."

Bai Zhi opened her mouth, wanting to speak but stopped herself, You Anjian smacked his lips, urging, "Can you stop beating around the bush? You’re killing me with anxiety!"

"Just be patient; the process of unraveling the truth is also the process of eliminating all other reasonable suspicions until there’s only one explanation left. Plus, this is also a sentiment inspired by that hypothesis," replied Li Cheng.

Li Cheng grinned and said, "My neighbor Dahuang has been raised by a single parent since he was young, his stepfather raised him, later the stepfather went bankrupt in his business, but Dahuang caught the wind of the times and made a fortune, to repay his stepfather for his kindness, he now has taken on his stepfather as his godson. Truly a picture of fatherly kindness and filial piety."

Goodness, reversing the Heavenly Gang, eh?

Understood, I’ll forward this to the family WeChat groups like "Warm Spring Blossoms," "Loving Family," and "Family Harmony Brings Prosperity."

Making up stories seems to be second nature to Li Cheng. He turned back and continued with a serious face, "This brings us to the third explanation. Namely, all of this was calculated by Old Feng.

Do you remember what Zhao Xinglang said in the study?

’Using such a small child as a sacrifice is not enough, and you still deliberately arrange all this?’

This sentence is very interesting. Little Feng got married to his wife very early, just after reaching the legal age for marriage they registered and had children, and what’s more, they used artificial insemination."

With this reminder, You Anjian also recalled that during the day in Wudun Town, the Feng family had mentioned this matter.

Li Cheng calmly continued, "The Feng family invested in a private hospital, and under Old Feng’s instructions, the hospital could make up any reason, such as a health problem with one party of the young couple, to have them try artificial insemination. Afterward, the hospital could also control the birth timing of little Feng through inducing premature labor, making him possess a special life chart."

You Anjian’s eyelids twitched, and he couldn’t help but blurt out, "This is too outrageous, can it really work?"

"Outrageous or not, Old Feng believed it. Do you remember the content on the yellow paper in the study? It had the birthdates and horoscopes of little Feng and his wife."

Li Cheng smiled and said, "I think many years before little Feng was born, Old Feng had planned everything, guiding little Feng to find a childhood sweetheart with a particular life chart, and then under the pretext of ’wanting to hold a grandchild early,’ he guided the two to marry and have children.

Otherwise, with little Feng’s appearance and the identity of a second-generation rich, he could have wandered in the flowers for a few more years before considering marriage; there was no need for such haste.

And the purpose of Old Feng doing this is the same as ten years ago: to extend his wife’s life, and for this, he was willing to pay any price.

Including the lives of his son, his grandson, and even his own."