When the night dew of Mount Zhongnan condensed on the abacus-bead lantern, Daoist Master Yuqing stood at the top of the temple, gazing at the starry sky. The abacus-bead hair clip in her hair reflected the faint light of the Tianshi Enclosure, and the twenty-eight mansions' abacus-bead pattern on her Daoist robe overlapped with the starry sky, making it look as though the star map under Huwa's carving knife had come to life. Zhang Yifan approached, shaking his abacus beads, which bounced into the character "move" on the "Shang Mansion" of her robe.
"What is the Daoist Master calculating?" His voice blended with the mountain wind, and the abacus beads traced an arc between them. Yuqing turned, the ends of her hair brushing past his abacus bead pouch: "I am calculating... the solution to the Mortal World Tribulation." Huwa suddenly slid down from the beam and thrust a wooden carving between the two—it was a "tribulation-breaking little figure" carved with abacus beads and a horsetail whisk. The abacus-bead eyes blinked, drawing a soft chuckle from Yuqing.
"How can a calamity be calculated with abacus beads?" Zhang Yifan raised an eyebrow, the abacus beads bouncing into the character "fate" on Huwa's wooden carving. "Though I could use Qimen Dunjia to set up a 'tribulation-breaking array'—" He suddenly squatted down, the abacus beads arranging themselves into an Eight Trigrams shape on the bluestone slab. "—but it requires the Daoist Master's Dao Heart as the guide."
Chapter 137