Free Web NovelChapter 564: Chapter 514: Fortune-Telling
"Dear guest, if you buy ten bottles at once now, you’ll get a copy of the city’s hottest book, the ’Witty Words Collection,’ which is already sold out everywhere."
Lv Wenquan: What is ’Witty Words Collection’?
The incoming customer visibly grew excited, "Is it that ’Witty Words Collection’ that doesn’t use any offensive language, yet is extremely easy to understand and irritating?"
"Yes, exactly!"
"Then give me ten bottles!"
"The elixirs are over there, help yourself." The clerk casually pointed.
Lv Wenquan: ...
Is that huge pile over there all Top-Grade Yuan Nourishing Elixirs?
Looking at it this way, the mere two bottles of top-grade he had in hand were insignificant.
Lv Wenquan felt like crying without tears, wasn’t it just spicy? Just wait, he’ll concoct some roasted duck and sauce-flavored Yuan Nourishing Elixirs when he returns!
But before leaving, Lv Wenquan also bought ten bottles of ’Fire Elemental Elixir,’ took a copy of ’Witty Words Collection,’ and after reading it, he frequently won arguments with others, barely constrained by city regulations.
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At that moment, Jiang Yuebai finished delivering the last batch of goods and finally retrieved her letter.
She still had a surplus of spirit stones and decided not to refine Yuan Nourishing Elixirs anymore. The price of Yuan Nourishing Elixirs in Xiiyun City had been driven down by her, and continuing would be too low in profit and inefficient.
She planned to leave Xiiyun City; this place was giving her a headache!
A few nights ago, she woke up from cultivation feeling uneasy, wanting to go out for some fresh air. But due to the city’s frustrating ’no going out at night’ regulation, she was stuck in her room.
She could forcibly break the law if she wanted, but it would be too conspicuous, so she endured.
Luckily, city regulations didn’t mandate lying in bed at night; otherwise, she wouldn’t be able to do anything else.
Holding the letter, Jiang Yuebai walked out of the Northern Star Alliance’s premises. Across from her was still the ’Iron Mouth Direct Decision’ stall, where the queue had disappeared, and the lean, goat-bearded old man was sitting in a chair reading her ’Witty Words Collection’.
Feeling impulsive, Jiang Yuebai walked straight to the stall.
The Supreme Elder had said that her destiny was intertwined with Lu Xingyun’s, so no one could predict her future accurately.
Having extracted the Immortal Cultivation Panel from the depths of her divine soul, she wondered if now she could decipher it.
If it were possible, would it mean her connection with Lu Xingyun was severed?
She couldn’t help but constantly ponder what Qii Siheng’s real motives were against her. On the surface, Qii Siheng was trying to stir trouble in the Green Dragon Realm.
But Jiang Yuebai felt it wasn’t that simple; Qii Siheng’s target wasn’t Bai Jiuyou. Otherwise, why didn’t Qii Siheng recognize Bai Jiuyou or take him after spotting him?
So perhaps Qii Siheng’s true objective was herself.
Jiang Yuebai had thought about it repeatedly, considering Qii Siheng might be an ancient monster from Zhur Jiuyou’s era. It seemed that what was worth Qii Siheng’s effort from her was perhaps her intertwined fate with Lu Xingyun.
This speculation was presumptuous and lacked direct evidence, but Jiang Yuebai’s intuition told her she wasn’t wrong.
The fortune-teller Buxu Wanderer was quite famous in Xiiyun City, with many Foundation Establishment cultivators saying his predictions were extremely accurate. Whether he’d reveal something or not, it was worth a try.
Jiang Yuebai approached the fortune-teller’s stall, observing Buxu Wanderer secretly. His apparent cultivation was Early-Stage Foundation Establishment, but Jiang Yuebai felt the spiritual light on him was unusual, suggesting his cultivation might be higher.
If he were a hidden expert, all the better; Jiang Yuebai sat in the chair at the stall.
Buxu Wanderer didn’t seem to acknowledge her, stroked his goat beard, reading with great interest.
"Amazing! Truly pearls of wisdom!"
"Ahem, fortune-telling."
Buxu Wanderer didn’t lift his head and pushed a sheet of paper towards Jiang Yuebai.
"Birth date and eight characters."
Jiang Yuebai looked at the paper, usually unwilling to reveal her birth date and eight characters, but today she would try.
She took the writing brush beside her and wrote down her birth date and eight characters, placing it before Buxu Wanderer.
Buxu Wanderer flipped the book page, glanced downward, "This person’s fate is cursed, lonely and dependent, and already died at age six."
Jiang Yuebai’s pupils slightly trembled; this prediction wasn’t wrong, but...
"May I ask, is there more?"
Buxu Wanderer set down the book, leaned forward with squinted eyes, inspecting Jiang Yuebai closely.
Jiang Yuebai felt uneasy, for this face was false.
Buxu Wanderer didn’t know what he saw but subtly smirked, pointing at the previously written birth date and eight characters.
"Write down when you died."
Jiang Yuebai did not understand, but she still recorded the day she met Lu Xingyun, the day she should have died.
She remembered everything from that day clearly.
If Jiang Yuebai from before had died by then, her current self began anew at that moment.
After re-writing, Buxu Wanderer took the paper and looked at the hour, stroking his beard with a frown.
"Tsk~ this... hiss... this... sigh!"
Jiang Yuebai grew anxious, feeling as if this was a fortune-teller’s ploy.
The kind where they tell you your forehead darkens with impending doom, and purchasing their item and following their instructions is the only way to avert disaster?
If so, she wouldn’t mind falling for it?!
"If you have something to say, please speak directly," Jiang Yuebai urged.
Buxu Wanderer set the paper down, looked inexplicably skyward, and Jiang Yuebai also looked up, seeing a sky as clear as a wash with not a cloud in sight.
"Girl, to be honest, I can’t say it directly, but I can give you a word of advice."
Buxu Wanderer picked up the writing brush, took another sheet of Golden Paper, and with a flourish, wrote down two powerful characters.
Upon seeing them, Jiang Yuebai’s divine soul trembled.
Chenzhou!
She had used the name Bai Yue’er when entering the city; no one in this realm knew this Daoist name. Was it a coincidence?
