Free Web NovelChapter 1486: Chapter 146 "Sincerity
Yu Beidou, long famed, is known as the "Diviner for Half a Lifetime," an undisputed top-tier fortune-teller.
Even though Jiang Wang does not care much for these matters, he has heard of him.
He knows that Xie Huaian, the Imperial Court Adviser of Qi Country, once criticized him as "acting mystically."
He knows his statement "Taking all peerless talents," brought fame to Zhongxuan Zun in Linzi.
But speaking of Yu Beidou personally, Jiang Wang actually does not understand him. He doesn’t know his story, his origins, or what he has been through.
He only learned they are a master-disciple of sorts after arriving at Broken Soul Gorge.
At this moment, hearing the loud laughter, for some reason, a feeling of bleakness settles in his heart.
As the greatest contemporary master of Life Prediction Technique, capable of calculating godlike and ghostly matters, does he also have so many moments of helplessness?
Jiang Wang looked at Yu Beidou sympathetically, then turned to the diviner: "What you’re offering is very good, but how will you give it to me?"
Yu Beidou’s laughter froze. Where is the empathy?
Here I am, miserable and wretched, and there you feel compassion. Then hero appreciates hero, joining forces. Isn’t this the brilliant script?
But this boy turns his head, and the atmosphere is gone!
Even the diviner was a bit taken aback, he immediately said: "After the matter is completed..."
"After it’s done, why would I dare linger before you?" Jiang Wang interrupted him: "You ought to show sincerity first."
"What sincerity do you mean?" the diviner asked.
"First pay, then the deed. Once done, I’ll walk away." Jiang Wang said. ƒгeewebnovёl.com
The diviner looked at him quietly for a moment, then burst into laughter: "Why, do you want to scrape some profit from me before killing me? Are today’s youth all so cold-hearted?"
Jiang Wang angrily exclaimed: "Just say you lack sincerity, how can you slander someone’s innocence?"
"You are still too young!" The diviner seemed certain that Jiang Wang would help Yu Beidou, shook his head: "Do you know why he lets you take action?"
Jiang Wang casually said: "Because he is suppressing the Blood Demon, and doesn’t have a hand free."
"Unexpectedly, the unique genius that Qi Country painstakingly preserves turns out to be such a fool, haha." The diviner laughed several times, suddenly his smile disappeared, and he spoke fiercely: "Because he calculated I have a trump card, knowing that the one who kills me will die!"
"You seem to be threatening me." Jiang Wang said.
"You can choose not to believe." The diviner said.
Jiang Wang leaned on a stick with one hand and drew out his Longsword with the other.
"Have you thought about it?" the diviner continued: "This Blood Sacrifice Binding Array is indeed laid by me, yet to be controlled by Yu Beidou. He can do so much, but truly can’t spare a hand to kill me?"
Jiang Wang waited a moment, and Yu Beidou did not speak.
So he turned to ask Yu Beidou: "Should I believe him?"
Yu Beidou, his face smeared with blood, sighed deeply: "You’ve been duped! He’s merely using you to test me, to see if I’ve discerned his trump card. And at this moment, as long as you’ve spoken, I cannot but give you an answer. Of course, you cannot be blamed, we simply haven’t built enough trust, some doubt is only human."
At this point, he turned to the diviner: "Since I could calculate you’d use Zheng Fei and Li Shou as substitutes, naturally, I could also calculate your so-called trump card. Is this the answer you want? Dear disciple, go on, I have long prepared a counter."
"You’ve calculated so much, yet not the fact that Jiang Wang faces near-certain death in the Innate Chaos Array?" The diviner brought up old matters.
"I’ve said all I need to say." Yu Beidou replied, "Now let Jiang Wang decide for himself. Jiang Wang, follow your heart."
Jiang Wang’s state was indeed quite poor; his heart was forcibly pieced together, with severed limbs and ears needing urgent care. He repeatedly said he was rushing back for treatment, not a lie.
But in his weakened state, he stood within the array, surprisingly becoming the last weight on the balance.
Deciding the life and death of one Dongzhen, one God Arrives, two calculating masters.
He silently held his sword.
Yu Beidou truly understands him well.
From the start, he would have no other choice.
Of course, to kill the Human Demon, to slay the Blood Demon.
The bargaining was less about extracting profit from the diviner before his death, and more about expressing dissatisfaction with Yu Beidou.
Hence Yu Beidou very sincerely admitted his mistake.
He also made his choice.
The diviner understood this very well, thus he abandoned recruitment and instead turned to threats of life and death.
This conflict between master and disciple never ceased.
The struggle for control of the Blood Sacrifice Binding Array, the clash in divination, the competition in words, the fight for Jiang Wang...
Jiang Wang understood some parts, while others escaped him.
He only knew the situation had become very serious now—
With the affirmation that the diviner still held a trump card, should he trust Yu Beidou once more and wield his sword?
Would Yu Beidou use him as a substitute, just as the diviner intended with Zheng Fei and Li Shou?
The diviner openly disclosed his trump card tied to his life, clearly a dual purpose: to probe Yu Beidou’s answer, and for this moment—to make Jiang Wang’s choice especially difficult.
Both goals have been achieved.
Indeed, as Yu Beidou said, he and Jiang Wang actually lacked enough trust, and now this decision concerned life and death.
Who can treat life and death lightly?
In such circumstances, anything Yu Beidou says might not be suitable. Hence he could only wait, and together with the diviner, await Jiang Wang’s decision.
And after a moment of silence, Jiang Wang laughed: "This scene reminds me of Zheng Fei, reminds me of the Evil Report Divine Skills."
He looked at the diviner: "Do you know how Zheng Fei died?"
The diviner smiled: "Do you plan to share now?"
"You claim your trump card relates to your life; I don’t know how it triggers. So I plan to first cut you into a human rod."
Jiang Wang said: "If your trump card triggers passively, I’ll keep you alive, leaving the final blow for Yu True Man. If your trump card triggers actively, then no matter how I treat you, it probably won’t affect your decision."
"What do you think of this idea?" he asked.
"A genius idea!" Yu Beidou praised.
"So this is how Zheng Laosan died..." The diviner’s face showed a sudden understanding, then with a praising tone said: "Then what are you waiting for?"
He unexpectedly urged Jiang Wang to act!
Is it bluff, or is he utterly confident?
This is certainly the most bewildering situation Jiang Wang has faced so far. Whether Yu Beidou or the diviner, even the Blood Demon, all seem quite inexplicable.
Not very normal.
The confrontation of top-tier divination techniques leaves him, an outsider to these calculations, puzzled...
But he doesn’t need to understand.
Ahead lies countless forks, his choice, free of heart! frёeωebɳovel.com
Eyes flashing with undying crimson gold, Jiang Wang turned his stick, stepped, twisted, and resolutely thrust his sword into Yu Beidou’s suspended abdomen!
