Volume 1: Questioning the Past Chapter 22: Divination
On the Chaoshi Ling Peak, Gu Xiaoxing flew on his sword with his sleeves fluttering in the wind, looking a bit like an ethereal being. After two months of practice, he had completely gotten rid of his thinness, and even with the continuous support from the inner kitchen, he looked slightly plump now, which made him very satisfied. He subconsciously patted his slightly bulging belly, feeling that he was one step closer to his dream.
Suddenly, Gu Xiaoxing paused, lowered his head, and licked his lips. Below him was the spiritual pond, where green lotuses were swaying and fish were rejoicing. When he thought about it carefully, he realized that he had not come to catch fish for a long time!
However, although this spiritual fish was tempting, Gu Xiaoxing did not dare to catch it again. There were only about a hundred big fish in the pond, and he roasted about ten of them. If he didn't count them carefully, it would be fine. After all, fish swim, and who would bother to count them? But if there were fewer, he would be able to find clues without a close look. If he found out something later, it would be troublesome.
Gu Xiaoxing didn't want to be used as an elixir. In recent days, he had heard a lot of rumors about the Fifth Elder. He had a green face and fangs, and looked ferocious. There was an elixir furnace on his head, and he would throw anyone he didn't like into it. His notorious reputation made Gu Xiaoxing feel cold, and he completely gave up the idea of continuing to target these spirit fish.
He shook his head and quickly moved his gaze away from these spirit fishes and continued to fly upwards. Before he flew far, he found a figure rushing towards him in front of him. The speed was much faster than his and he passed by him in the blink of an eye. Gu Xiaoxing could only barely see the other person's appearance.
He was an old man with a white beard, messy hair and beard, looking a little sloppy, with a pair of eyes as small as green beans, and wearing a strange metal hat that looked like a stove.
Um?
stove?
Suddenly, Gu Xiaoxing was so frightened that he almost fell off the flying sword.
"That old man just now, couldn't he be...could he be the Fifth Elder?"
Gu Xiaoxing panicked, but did not dare to react too violently, for fear of attracting the other party's attention. He continued to control the flying sword with his Spirit Controlling Finger and at the same time performed the aerial technique to fly away. He soon arrived in front of a pavilion near the top of Shiling Peak. On the plaque of the pavilion's gate were engraved three large characters "Chuan Gong Pavilion" and two small characters "Outer Gate".
Gu Xiaoxing looked back guiltily and walked quickly into the Transmission Pavilion, but at this moment, a roar resounded through the world.
"Who is it? Who stole my spirit fish?"
Gu Xiaoxing shuddered. Even though he was far away, the sound made his eardrums hurt, so he walked faster.
Entering the Transmission Pavilion, Gu Xiaoxing's heart was still beating fast, and he thought uncertainly: "It's been so long, there shouldn't be anything to find out, right?"
Feeling anxious, he listened carefully. Only after hearing no sound for a long time did Gu Xiaoxing heave a sigh of relief and remember the purpose of his coming here.
The Transmission Pavilion has techniques and spells for outer disciples to practice. As long as they reach a certain level of cultivation and pay different amounts of spirit stones, they can choose to practice techniques and spells of different levels. Gu Xiaoxing's flying technique comes from here, which cost him a full eighty spirit stones.
Naturally, there are no inner sect techniques such as the Fang Cun Step and the Yuling Finger here. If Gu Xiaoxing has not made contributions to the sect, he would need to enter the inner sect before he is qualified to study.
The reason why Gu Xiaoxing came here again was that he wanted to study the art of divination, which could predict good and bad fortune. Before doing anything, he could just tell the fortune for himself and seek good fortune and avoid disaster. Isn't that wonderful?
Thinking of this, Gu Xiaoxing even forgot the fear brought by the Fifth Elder and started searching wholeheartedly. However, even after he searched through the first, second and third floors, he still did not find the ideal divination method. There were some fortune-telling books on Yixue and numerology, most of which were based on some theories to roughly judge a person's wealth, status, and ups and downs in life.
But these are all for mortals. They don’t even know why they rise or fall. Even if they can roughly infer something, it is vague and cannot be accurate at all. They cannot even change the fate of mortals, let alone immortal cultivators.
There are four or five floors in the pavilion, but Gu Xiaoxing cannot go up. He needs to condense Qi to the seventh or eighth level before he can go up. He sighed and said, "We can only talk about it later. I have been reading for a whole day and my head is heavy. Let's go to the inner kitchen to have a good meal first."
These fortune-telling books do not even require the payment of spirit stones, and one can read them at will, but the contents are extremely complicated, with things like face reading, palmistry, the Eight Diagrams, and numerology. Gu Xiaoxing is really ruthless. In order to study this subject, he tried to understand and memorize them one by one. Now he feels dizzy and it is obvious that he has consumed too much spiritual consciousness, but has gained very little.
After becoming a cultivator, the spirit can be called spiritual consciousness. The higher the cultivation level, the stronger the spiritual consciousness. After building the foundation, the spiritual consciousness can be more concentrated, and then a qualitative change will occur, with great power. With Gu Xiaoxing's current cultivation level, it is easy to remember everything after the spiritual consciousness is highly concentrated, but it is still a bit .
Gu Xiaoxing walked out of the Transmission Pavilion with a dazed head, and subconsciously glanced around, looking like a guilty thief, but soon his expression became serious. He knew that the more vigilant he was, the easier it would be for people to see through him, so he took casual steps towards the kitchen on the top of the mountain.
The inner kitchen was a place that Gu Xiaoxing had to visit almost every day. Most of the time, he would come here several times a day. It had become his canteen. In addition to the 30% profit, he had accumulated more than a thousand spirit stones in just two months. Adding the hundreds he gained from the battle in the Black Wood Forest, there were no less than two thousand spirit stones in Gu Xiaoxing's storage bag.
This is already a huge sum of money for the outer sect, and it can be said that they are extremely rich. This also made Gu Xiaoxing sigh many times: It feels so good to have a backer!
At this moment, the door to the inner kitchen courtyard was wide open. Gu Xiaoxing walked in as if he was familiar with the place. However, he was startled. The situation in the courtyard was different from the past. There seemed to be a few uninvited guests. The most conspicuous one among them was a tall and handsome young man. Of course, in Gu Xiaoxing's opinion, he was very ugly.
The young man was sitting in front of a stone table enjoying delicious food. The table was filled with spiritual dishes and ginseng soup, which was very sumptuous. The other people were standing beside the young man like guards, standing solemnly until they noticed Gu Xiaoxing coming. One of them leaned over and said something in the young man's ear.
The young man raised his eyebrows, gently put down his chopsticks, picked up the wine pot and slowly sipped the wine. He spoke lightly without even looking at the other person, and only said: " Are Gu Xiaoxing?"
"Looking for me?" Gu Xiaoxing was startled when he heard this, but he was secretly alert in his heart. This person obviously had bad intentions, but he did not show any. Instead, he bowed and replied, "It's me. I wonder who you are...?"
"My last name is Bai!"
The young man said this meaningfully, then raised his glass and drank it all .
Gu Xiaoxing's heart skipped a beat, and he continued, "It turned out to be Senior Brother Bai. Senior Brother Bai came to see me because he had something to tell Chai Yuan. When I go back, I will report it to Senior Brother Du and he will do everything for me."
Gu Xiaoxing brought Du Siyu out without leaving any trace. Having been in the sect for so long, he had already figured out what kind of status Du Siyu held. Not only was he powerful, but he was also favored by the second elder of the sect. He made an exception and accepted him as a disciple before he entered the inner sect. He was almost arrogant in the outer sect, and no one dared to provoke him. Although he had some guesses about the identity of the young man in front of him, he was also confident in Du Siyu.
The young man surnamed Bai frowned, thinking of the stunningly beautiful figure who looked down upon him. He seemed to recall some bad experience. He had not yet gone to settle accounts with her, but she was using her as a backer to intimidate him. He immediately became furious, knocked the wine cup in his hand heavily on the stone table, and said, "How dare you!"
Gu Xiaoxing thought to himself that this was not good. He did not expect that bringing up Du Siyu would not only fail to deter the other party, but instead anger him. He immediately changed his mind, "Could this person have a grudge against Du Siyu? Could it be that he can't do anything to her and is blaming me for this?"
Thinking of this, Gu Xiaoxing waved his hands and shouted angrily: "How daring!"
The voice was even louder than that of the young man surnamed Bai. Everyone around was stunned for a moment. Gu Xiaoxing looked angry and continued speaking.
"I don't know if Du Siyu has done anything to anger Senior Brother Bai. To be honest, I have long disliked Du Siyu. Not only is she extremely ugly, but she also abuses her fellow disciples. She relies on her status as a registered disciple of the second elder of the sect to do whatever she wants. She is extremely hateful. Senior Brother Bai, please tell me what Du Siyu has done that is too much. I, Gu Xiaoxing, will definitely report her to Master Bai!"
Gu Xiaoxing had regarded Du Siyu as his backer just a moment ago, but now he seemed to have some deep hatred for her, and his generous words seemed to be willing to kill his relatives for the sake of justice! He also brought up Bai Zhenren, and his words revealed that he could speak in front of Bai Zhenren. This person also had the surname Bai, and perhaps he had some connection with Bai Zhenren. Gu Xiaoxing also meant that everyone was "one of us".
Everyone was stunned for a long while, except Gu Xiaoxing who glanced around. If Du Siyu heard this, he would probably be beaten up again when he returned to Chaiyuan.
"Hahaha...Interesting!" The young man surnamed Bai laughed, then gave Gu Xiaoxing a strange look, "Do you know who I am?"
