Cannon-Fodder Heiress Turns the Tables by Fortune-Telling
Chapter 149 - 148 Unsuitable to Go Out Today (2nd Update)

Chapter 149: 148 Unsuitable to Go Out Today (2nd Update)

Yun Ran received the invitation from Zhao Mingzhu and suddenly felt that the pig trotter she was nibbling on had lost its flavor.

The Zhao Family truly lives up to its reputation as the richest family in Huannan, a proper local tyrant, finding her so quickly.

Looking at Zhao Mingzhu’s confidant before her, only four words flashed through Yun Ran’s mind: Things remain but people change.

Last time they met, this person was extremely respectful towards her, even had a trace of a smile, but now, they’ve adopted a strictly business-like demeanor.

But this also showed that Zhao Mingzhu’s attitude towards her had changed from giving lip service to not bothering to hide it anymore.

"I will definitely be there on time tomorrow."

While Yun Ran was feeling a bit melancholic, Gu Yuan arrived with a big bag of barbecue.

"Why are you here?"

"Since all your superiors are away, we’re partners after all, how could I not come and watch over you?"

"Speak human language!"

Gu Yuan stopped joking around immediately and placed the barbecue in Yun Ran’s hands.

"It’s the boss, he said that you are now a living target. Those Evil Cultivators and others involved have been eyeing you for a while.

Worried that you might be ambushed that’s why I’m visibly here to help. Behind the scenes, the boss has arranged for a lot of people; even the high-floor hotel service staff have been replaced by our own people."

Yun Ran: ...

So, she’s the bait now!

Never mind, don’t get angry, getting sick won’t help if there’s no one to replace her.

After eating her fill, Yun Ran went straight to rest, as for Gu Yuan and the others, she couldn’t care less.

The next morning, as soon as she opened the door, she saw Gu Yuan dressed in a suit, wearing white gloves, a proper driver’s uniform.

"You’re not planning to come out with me, are you?"

Gu Yuan nodded: "Rest assured, I’m definitely on your side, the Zhao Family is nothing!"

"Ha-ha, my thanks to you!"

"You’re welcome~"

Since there was someone willing to act as the driver, Yun Ran naturally wouldn’t refuse. As for Gu Yuan’s real intentions, it didn’t matter.

As soon as she got in the car, Yun Ran’s brows slightly furrowed. Just now, she noticed that the Calming Spell she had cast into Zhao Mingzhu’s body had failed.

Her Magic Spells are not easily broken by ordinary people.

When she faced Zhao Mingzhu, she saw it clearly, the ghost baby inside Zhao Mingzhu had already merged with her Divine Soul.

It couldn’t be removed by normal methods, she could only use the Calming Spell to forcibly suppress the ghost baby into slumber.

Now that the Magic Spell was broken, either Zhao Mingzhu was in a bad state, or someone had used a special method to remove the ghost baby.

Vaguely, Yun Ran felt that today’s trip was a bit off.

After thinking it over, she took out her prized turtle shell to divinate the favorable directions to travel today.

Gu Yuan, watching Yun Ran divinate through the rearview mirror, had not yet realized the severity of the issue and thought Yun Ran was just playing around.

Soon, the Divination reading came out: it was not a good day to travel, especially towards the north, it was greatly inauspicious.

Now, the direction they were heading was exactly north.

"Stop the car!"

Gu Yuan was stunned for a moment, although he didn’t understand what had happened, he still slowed down and eventually pulled over to the side of the road.

"What’s wrong? You need to go to the bathroom? Or are you getting carsick?"

Gu Yuan considered himself a considerate and attentive driver, but in Yun Ran’s eyes, this person really couldn’t stop talking. She wondered how Xie Xuzhi could tolerate someone like him.

Yun Ran explained her Divination: "Although I knew from the start that a feast at Hongmen awaited me today,

having my Divination show such a grave omen, it’s not just a mere feast at Hongmen, but rather, it’s a death trap!"

Had it not been for the fact that he had witnessed Yun Ran breaking even the long-lost Forbidden Technique, the Destruction Spirit Array, and summoning the Heavenly Thunder while being someone despised by the Heavenly Dao,

Gu Yuan would have thought Yun Ran was just being timid and an alarmist.

Gu Yuan was not skilled in fortune-telling, but his deductions were quite accurate. He immediately started deducing based on the Divination signs Yun Ran had just mentioned.

"Phut"

Without any warning, just as Gu Yuan had begun his deduction, he was hit by a backlash.

As one of the most prominent of the Gu Family, Gu Yuan had made predictions countless times since childhood, numbering not a thousand, then at least nine hundred times. Never before had he been directly struck by a backlash from the very start.

Now, Gu Yuan couldn’t help but take things seriously; their journey was indeed more perilous than fortuitous. Only if it involved the Life and Death Tribulation, would his deductions backfire.

Yun Ran’s Divination when divining for herself was only about eighty percent accurate.

Looking at Gu Yuan, especially now that his aura was all chaotic, Yun Ran directly placed the turtle shell into the palm of Gu Yuan’s hand.

"You shake it!"

Gu Yuan: ...

Those from the Mystical Sect aristocratic families, right from birth, have protective prohibitions against prying eyes placed upon them, designed to protect the young from being harmed by early clandestine attacks.

Under normal circumstances, the Life Charts of these individuals are impossible to divine, and anyone attempting to forcibly deduce it would certainly face backlash.

Seeing Yun Ran’s cluelessness, Gu Yuan sighed inwardly, it seemed that Yun Ran was indeed not someone specially trained by any Mystical Sect aristocratic family.

"The core descendants of a Mystical Sect family must not have their Life Charts casually divined. You must remember this in the future."

Saying this, Gu Yuan returned the turtle shell to Yun Ran.

Who knew, Yun Ran just looked at him as if he were a fool: "You don’t think I can’t tell that you, hailing from the Mystical Sect aristocratic family, carry a prohibition on you?

Just now, you received a backlash and your aura has become completely disordered. That prohibition is useless now!"

Gu Yuan’s hand trembled, and then he looked at Yun Ran with a shocked expression: "Are you saying... that if we are injured by a backlash, the prohibition becomes useless?"

"What else could it be? Do you think I’m a fool, knowingly facing a potential Life and Death Tribulation and still brazenly fighting against a prohibition perfected over hundreds of years by the Mystical Sect family?"

Gu Yuan had never heard of this, so was Yun Ran’s Dao progress too advanced, or did these prohibitions genuinely have flaws?

But obviously, now was not the time to discuss these issues. Gu Yuan took back the turtle shell and shook it three times.

The resulting Divination signs from the Copper Coins were much more detailed than what Yun Ran had deduced about her trip for the day.

Gu Yuan was not skilled in Divination, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t understand the signs.

The Divination signs now showed a situation that clearly indicated certain death with no chance of survival.

Already having been hit by a backlash, let alone seeing such a Divination, his complexion, normally strong-willed and nonchalant, turned pale in an instant.

"How can this be!"

Yun Ran’s face also turned quite unsightly; she had fought side by side with Gu Yuan before and knew he was not weak.

What kind of chaotic scene could bring such a man to a state of certain death?

In just a few seconds, Yun Ran made her decision: "Everyone retreat back, I’ll go alone!"