Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 209

How crazy and inhumane would someone have to be to sacrifice their own flesh and blood for a so-called wealth-generating ritual?

Everyone seemed to find this preposterous at first, but when they thought about Doris saying that the child was Charles' illegitimate son… Chills ran down their spines at the possibility of something even more nefarious.

Before they could ask any questions, Shannon had already voiced out the answer. "The child was only brought to the world for the sake of the wealth-generating stake ritual. Charles couldn't bear to sacrifice his own children, so he had a mistress give birth to one for him.

"Once the child was around the right age, he was murdered and buried with the cement. Then, the child's resentment and the mansion's natural geomancy would've gathered wealth for the family."

Tialand had a similar ritual known as Kerman Totem. The difference was that they would generally turn unborn children into totems and worship the totems by building shrines for them. Generally, unborn children were filled with resentment, as was the case with the infant spirit back at home.

Of course, different Kerman Totems had different powers. Using one's flesh and blood to create a Kerman Totem would make that totem much stronger than a regular totem—that was the power of blood.

However, Kerman Totems needed to be fed fresh blood to keep the spell going. Wealth-generating stakes didn't need external forces to continuously gather wealth for a family.

"The fact that the Sullivan family could spend a fortune to build a tomb specifically for wealth-gathering two decades ago means that it wasn't a regular family. Their ancestors had probably come from wealth—only those who were once wealthy can't stand living in squalor," Shannon said.

She continued, "I'm guessing Charles' ancestors used to be wealthy businessmen before the family fell from grace. The family's descendants failed to salvage the situation, so they approached a geomancy master and came up with this nefarious plan to gather wealth for the family.