Chapter 663: The secret of fate!
“Divination! ?”
Lu Changsheng’s expression changed to one of elation upon seeing this reward.
Over the years, if there was one system reward he had been anticipating, the divination skill was definitely among the top.
After all, this skill was a standard feature of top-tier forces.
His own family lacked diviners, forcing them to rely on the Celestial Origin Treasure Imperial Lotus, and the family tree to obscure the heavenly secrets, which was truly passive.
Even the Heavenly Secrets and Luck of the Great Dream Immortal City were a concern, requiring them to ask True Monarch Qingluan to help conceal them.
Now, with the acquisition of the divination skill, he could handle these matters himself.
Although the Second-Order Divination was insufficient for his current stage.
The system lottery could convert other skills into experience.
As long as he drew another Second-Order skill, he could convert it into divination experience, upgrading this divination to the Third Order!
“Tsk tsk, this can be considered a triple blessing.”
First, the Fissure Sea Profound Whale had passed the True Spirit Tribulation, and in a few years, it could attempt to reach the Fourth Order.
Now, on the way back, his family had produced a Primordial Yang Body, and the lottery had granted him the most anticipated divination skill, filling Lu Changsheng with joy.
“I, Lu, am exceptionally talented, with the Nascent Soul stage imminent. It’s only normal to spend some time delving into and mastering the art of divination.”
Lu Changsheng looked at the Second-Order Divination in the system space, and with a thought, a profound stream of knowledge and information surged into his mind out of thin air.
《Elementary Divination》
《Seeking Good Fortune and Avoiding Disaster, Resolving the Mysteries of Fate》
《Observing Stars, Observing Heaven, Observing Luck, Observing Fate》
“Understand the methods, glimpse the mysteries, comprehend the meaning, and then achieve the unity of heaven and man. My heart is the heart of heaven, my will is the will of heaven, divine will merges with heaven, using the heart of heaven to comprehend the secrets of fate, contacting the long river of destiny, thereby glimpsing and discerning the heavenly secrets related to oneself, future trends, diverging paths, and countless possibilities!”
After a long while, Lu Changsheng slowly opened his eyes.
Years ago, he obtained 《Resolving the Mysteries of Fate》, but he only glanced at it briefly and did not delve into it deeply.
After all, Red Lotus had said that divination skills heavily relied on talent.
If one lacked talent in this area, no amount of effort would be useful. Forcing oneself to cultivate would only harm oneself.
At this moment, he understood why the path of divination was so difficult to enter, often leading to lifespan reduction. Forcing oneself to cultivate could even lead to mental confusion, causing one to become insane and demonic.
Unlike formations, alchemy, artifact crafting, talisman making, puppets, and so on, divination was not achieved through diligent cultivation, but through enlightenment!
It relied entirely on the cultivator’s temperament and comprehension!
If one’s temperament and comprehension were inadequate, failing to meet the requirements, even understanding the methods would only result in superficial understanding and a crude grasp of the profound.
And merely possessing temperament and comprehension was not enough; the entire cultivation process was incomparably dangerous.
Because the process of enlightenment required one’s own heart to transform into the heart of heaven, discerning the workings of heaven and earth, and comprehending the secrets of fate.
This process not only consumed mental energy and effort but was also extremely dangerous.
A slight mistake could lead to being trapped within, losing oneself, resulting in mental exhaustion and spiritual decline.
Furthermore, during the enlightenment process, failing to uphold one’s original heart, capturing heavenly secrets and destinies that one should not touch, could lead to encountering backlash from the heavenly secrets.
“No wonder there are so few long-lived individuals who cultivate divination. Xuan’er suffered lifespan reduction even from just practicing it.”
Lu Changsheng shook his head and exhaled a long breath.
To cultivate the path of divination, one must comprehend the secrets of fate.
If one did not gain enlightenment during the process, one could not improve. Wanting to gain more enlightenment, immersing oneself too deeply, could lead to mental exhaustion, spiritual fatigue, and a reduction in lifespan.
Moreover, comprehending too much could lead to encountering backlash from the heavenly secrets.
“This kind of skill is better left to the system to improve.”
Lu Changsheng had previously thought that since he possessed the Supreme Unity Divine Soul, a Nascent Soul-level divine soul, he might be able to further advance the art of divination on his own.
But after gaining a detailed understanding, he abandoned this idea.
His own talent could only be considered average. If he actively cultivated and something went wrong, it would be a greater loss than gain.
“I wonder if my current skills can be used to divine Ping’an’s situation?”
Although Second-Order divination made it difficult to deduce the situation of Lu Ping’an, who had already broken through to Core Formation.
But as father and son, with blood as a medium, it was still worth a try.
Immediately, Lu Changsheng pinched his fingers and began to calculate, his eyes gradually becoming deep and mysterious, discerning the workings of heaven and earth.
The web of fate centered on himself spread in all directions, intricate and complex, difficult to see clearly.
Lu Changsheng used his own blood as a medium to find his son Lu Ping’an’s web of fate, attempting to deduce his situation.
“What’s going on? Although I only have Second-Order divination, with blood as a medium, it’s impossible to not sense anything at all. Is the heavenly secret a complete chaos?”
After a moment, Lu Changsheng frowned, feeling that something was wrong.
He felt that no matter what, he should be able to sense his son’s existence.
But just now, he couldn’t even sense Lu Ping’an’s existence. The entire heavenly secret was like a vast chaos, incomparably紊乱.
“Wait…”
At this moment, Lu Changsheng’s heart skipped a beat, as if he had thought of something, and the family tree appeared in his hand.
Looking at the family tree in his hand, he tapped on his son Lu Ping’an’s name, temporarily canceling the effect of the family tree suppressing the heavenly secrets, preventing divination, and then continued to close his eyes and calculate.
At this moment, Lu Changsheng vaguely sensed his son Lu Ping’an’s existence.
But the heavenly secret before him was like white mist, very blurry, ethereal and illusory.
He wanted to see clearly, to deduce the situation of good or bad fortune, but the resistance was like a mountain. With his current divination skills, he couldn’t shake it even a little.
“Damn it, what trash skill!”
Lu Changsheng opened his eyes and cursed with a somewhat exhausted expression.
Years ago, obtaining alchemy, artifact crafting, and talisman making skills all felt like divine assistance.
As a result, obtaining the long-awaited divination skill, and attempting to deduce his son Lu Ping’an’s situation, made him deeply realize what it meant for the heavenly secrets to be difficult to fathom!
No matter how hard Lu Changsheng tried, he just couldn’t dispel the mist of heavenly secrets before him, and discern his son’s situation.
“Could it be that there’s a problem with the skill, or the method is wrong?”
After pondering for a moment, Lu Changsheng tried to deduce the situation of his other children through the blood medium.
Lu Wuyu, Lu Xile, Lu Qingshan, Lu Qingzhu, Lu Qingsong, Lu Wangshu, Lu Qingxuan, Lu Ruyi, Lu Minghuang…
Except for his son Lu Qingshan, he could obtain vague information about these children.
However, he keenly observed that the process of divination, the mist of heavenly secrets, and the resistance were different for each child.
“In addition to cultivation realm, the spirit objects concealing heavenly secrets, the difficulty of divination is also related to each person’s fate, luck, and so on. For example, abundant luck, profound heavenly secrets, intricate fate, the difficulty of divination will be one level higher…”
Lu Changsheng muttered to himself, gaining a little more understanding of divination, and a little understanding of the observation of appearance and fate in divination.
Like his daughter Lu Qingzhu, although she was a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
But she not only had her father, a Core Formation Peak cultivator, but also her mother, Lu Miaoge, a Core Formation cultivator, her master, True Person Tianyuan, a Core Formation master, and her brother, Lu Qingshan, with whom she had deep ties.
Under these circumstances, her fate was intricate and closely related to several people, the resistance to divination was very great, and the mist was constantly changing.
Lu Wuyu and Lu Xile, although they had him as their father, they had not embarked on cultivation, and lacked people with profound heavenly secrets around them, so there was almost no difficulty in divination.
Like Lu Qingxuan, in addition to cultivating divination, he was now in Qingluan Immortal City, with the heavenly secrets of the Immortal City concealing him, so Lu Changsheng was also difficult to divine.
Lu Wangshu and Lu Minghuang, in addition to the family tree suppressing the secrets of heaven and preventing calculations, also possess other spiritual objects that conceal the secrets of heaven, so there is also an invisible resistance.
“Besides his Golden Core cultivation and third-level body refinement, Ping’an should also have external forces concealing his secrets of heaven. I just don’t know if it’s others using concealment, or a wondrous treasure like the Fate-Voiding Robe, blocking divination!”
After confirming that there were no issues with his divination skills through experimentation, Lu Changsheng continued to divine the situation of his son, Lu Ping’an.
He is currently unpredictable, and divination is shrouded in the mist of heavenly secrets, so Lu Changsheng is really worried.
Moreover, having obtained divination skills, he also wants to experience them further and see where the limit lies.
“If it really doesn’t work, I’ll just spend a little.”
Sensing the unshakeable mist of heavenly secrets, Lu Changsheng opened the system panel and looked at his lifespan.
【Name: Lu Changsheng】
【Identity: Lord of Azure Lake Mountain】
【Cultivation: Golden Core Ninth Layer】
【Lifespan: 115 / 781】
【Spirit Root: Earth Spirit Root】
【Physique: Chaos Physique】
Generally, Golden Core cultivators only have a lifespan of five hundred years.
Even with longevity pills and natural treasures that extend lifespan, it is difficult to exceed six hundred years.
But Lu Changsheng is different.
He has not only consumed first-order, second-order, and third-order longevity pills, but also condensed a Grand Dao Golden Core and possesses a Chaos Physique.
In particular, the Chaos Physique, fused with the Immaculate Heavenly Fragrance Physique and many other spiritual physiques, makes his lifespan far superior to other cultivators!
If he hadn’t frequently used the Life-Passing Technique in his early years, which depleted a lot of his lifespan, his current lifespan limit might have already exceeded eight hundred!
“Boom!”
Lu Changsheng immediately burned his lifespan as the price to forcefully deduce the current situation of his son, Lu Ping’an.
However.
One year!
Two years!
Three years!
“Damn!”
Lu Changsheng opened his eyes and stopped burning his lifespan for deduction.
Through the burning of his lifespan for deduction just now, he can confirm that his son Lu Ping’an not only has a profound cultivation realm and heavenly secrets, but also possesses treasures that block divination.
In this situation, unless he keeps burning his lifespan, it will be difficult to obtain relevant information.
“In this case, although divination is powerful, its effect is very limited. Once it exceeds one’s own skill realm, it becomes difficult to divine.”
“At the same realm, if the opponent possesses treasures that interfere with heavenly secrets, the information that can be deduced is very limited, and a price must be paid. It is impossible to know everything through divination.”
Although he wasted three years of lifespan, Lu Changsheng realized that even if Qingluan Zhenjun and Xuanjian Zhenjun are proficient in divination, they cannot use it recklessly.
At most, they can use this method to seek good fortune and avoid disaster, and use divination to help them make some judgments and analyses.
If they use divination for everything and forcefully deduce, then no matter how much lifespan they have, it won’t be enough.
“That’s right, if one is proficient in divination, one can turn bad luck into good, and know everything through divination. Wouldn’t all the opportunities in the world be in the hands of diviners?”
“Now that Honglian’s body should have recovered, I should still take a trip!”
Lu Changsheng exhaled lightly, muttered to himself, and signaled the Rift Sea Black Dragon Whale to return quickly.
Endless Desert.
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh –”
The sky is filled with yellow sand, sweeping and howling like a dust storm, endlessly galloping and roaring in the desert.
This harsh desert environment, apart from a few oases, is usually sparsely populated.
But these days, from time to time, you can see a few Golden Core cultivators driving divine rainbows, flying through the desert, and beheading sandworm beasts.
It’s not that these cultivators are bored and come to the desert to wander, but that the [瀚沙幻域] (Han Sha Illusionary Domain) is about to open.
This secret realm is different from other secret realms, there is no fixed secret realm entrance.
When the secret realm is opened, the illusionary domain will appear in the endless desert like a mirage.
Therefore, some Golden Core cultivators are constantly flying in the desert, thinking of entering the secret realm as soon as possible, so as to seize the opportunity, harvest opportunities, and then hide until the end of the secret realm.
“Fellow Daoist Qingluan, according to the calculated time, the Han Sha Illusionary Domain has reached the opening time, why hasn’t it appeared yet? Could it be that this secret realm has collapsed and will no longer open?”
On a desert mountain peak, several cultivators sat cross-legged.
Among them, an old man in a purple robe looked at a handsome young man in a green shirt, and asked aloud.
The others also looked at this noble young man when they heard the words.
“According to the calculated time, the Han Sha Illusionary Domain should open at this time, but according to past records, a certain time deviation is normal.”
Qingluan Zhenjun is wearing a luxurious jade-colored brocade robe, wearing a jade glazed crown, and holding a folding fan painted with a cyan luan bird. The whole person is aloof and indifferent, full of dashing and heroic posture.
Just as a few people were talking, suddenly a wave of space rippled, and a middle-aged man with a strong figure, tough facial features, gray hair, and a majestic aura walked out of the void.
He looked at the few people on the mountain peak, his eyes narrowed slightly, and then he said to Qingluan Zhenjun: “I said I felt a familiar aura, it turned out to be you, Mu Qinghuang.”
“Fellow Daoist Yin Lei, long time no see.”
Qingluan Zhenjun said with a free and natural arch of his hand.
“Hehe, indeed, long time no see.”
This middle-aged man looked at Qingluan Zhenjun a few times, and then arched his hands with a fake smile, making it clear that the two were at odds.
However, even if he and Qingluan Zhenjun had old grudges, now that the secret realm is about to open, it is impossible to fight here.
With a step, the whole person entered the void again.
Qingluan Zhenjun’s bright starry eyes pierced through the void, seeing that this person was not alone, and there was a friend in the void.
“Fellow Daoist Qingluan has grievances with Yin Lei Saber Sovereign?”
Someone next to him recognized the middle-aged man just now as a Nascent Soul loose cultivator from Qi Yun Kingdom, who had previously beheaded a top-grade Golden Core cultivator from the overlord sect of Qi Yun Kingdom and was wanted by Qi Yun Sect.
“Well, I had a conflict with him in my early years.”
Qingluan Zhenjun said indifferently.
As soon as these words came out, the pupils of the people next to him shrank slightly.
This Yin Lei Saber Sovereign has broken through to Nascent Soul for a hundred years, and Qingluan Zhenjun has only broken through to Nascent Soul for thirty or forty years, right?
Looking at Liu Yinlei’s appearance just now, it seems that he suffered a loss in Qingluan Zhenjun’s hands.
Although this Qingluan Zhenjun is extraordinary, possessing a Qingluan Dao Soldier and a top-level spirit beast, he is not Liu Yinlei’s opponent, right?
Qingluan Zhenjun didn’t explain too much.
After all, it’s enough to mention this kind of thing briefly, who among the people present doesn’t have grievances and enemies?
Choosing to cooperate to explore the secret realm is to improve the ability to resist risks, so as to avoid being targeted by the other party in the secret realm when encountering enemies.
The people next to him didn’t ask much.
Although many Golden Core cultivators and even Nascent Soul True Monarchs have come to the Endless Desert, it has little impact on this desert. The trading volume in Black Desert Immortal City has increased a lot these days.
At this moment, in a courtyard in Black Desert Immortal City.
“Senior, according to the news from the Killing Wolf Society, the Wolf King heard that a treasure was born in Barren Scorpion City, and has personally gone there, leaving Black Desert Immortal City.”
A middle-aged man with a burly figure and a plain face looked at the news from the jade slip in his hand, then his eyes were cold, and he muttered: “Finally left.”
After speaking, he got up, packed his things neatly, and then walked out of the Immortal City.