Light Fortress
Chapter 338 - 30: The Failed Divination Skill

Chapter 338: Chapter 30: The Failed Divination Skill

Qing Tomb Outer Mausoleum.

Gu Shen slowly emerged from the midst of the fog.

He looked back, and the towering statue, as well as the ancient tomb gate, had disappeared, leaving only a hazy expanse.

"We’re out..."

Fatty Luo had been waiting for Gu Shen and hurriedly asked, "What did the Tomb Guardian Master say to you?"

Luo Yu was a pillar of the command center, and the old man behind him... was the current steward of the Gu family’s old faction, probably one of those so-called people keeping an eye on him that Master Qianye mentioned.

Gu Shen smiled and shook his head, saying, "Actually, he didn’t say much... just a simple exchange of pleasantries. I’ve met Master Qianye once in the Spiritual World."

Fatty Luo was stunned.

But after a second thought, he understood the reason behind Gu Shen’s response; the kid was certainly cautious enough.

He chuckled softly, without any embarrassment, and said, "Brother Gu, your entry into Qingzhong caught everyone off guard, I bet there are a lot of people outside waiting to see a good show."

No one is allowed to enter the Qing Tomb Inner Mausoleum.

The Tomb Guardians lock themselves up all year round, with no contact with the outside world.

Since Gu Nanfeng left Changye eight years ago, no one has successfully met "Master Qianye" over the years.

Now... Gu Nanfeng has finally returned after completing his cultivation.

And coincidentally, there is now another person who is able to establish contact with the Qing Tomb!

What’s more coincidental is that he also bears the name Gu!

Even Luo Yu himself began to wonder... who exactly this guy from Qing River is, and whether he really has some connection to the Gu family.

The more mysterious this trip in and out of Qingzhong becomes, the more speculation piles up from the outside.

Gu Shen helplessly said, "Brother Luo, stop teasing me. If there’s trouble... within Changye City, I’ll still need to rely on that old gentleman a great deal."

Fatty Luo burst into hearty laughter, quickly agreeing, "Absolutely, absolutely."

"Also..."

Gu Shen smiled as he looked toward a certain fellow who had been tense all along, and said, "It’s your turn to go in."

Tomb Ghost: "???"

He wanted to escape.

However, Luo Yu’s iron grip was already on his shoulder.

"After coming all this way..."

Fatty Luo sneered, "You should know, meeting Master Qianye is an enormous blessing!"

The Tomb Ghost shook his head vigorously, saying, "No, no, no, I’m not going. I won’t go even if you kill me... I’ll leave this blessing to you!"

Because of his own reasons, the Array Patterns of the entire Qingzhong Formation were inverted, which forced the Tomb Guardians to sit upside down... If there’s one person the Tomb Ghost was afraid to encounter after returning to Changye, Master Qianye would definitely rank in the top three!

If they were to meet.

Wouldn’t his skin be flayed and set ablaze as a warning lantern?

The next moment, Lu Nanjin tapped the wooden knife sheath with her fingertip, and Lan Qie’s wind generated a sharp and crisp edge with a clang.

"Clang!"

This sound was unremarkable to the others.

But to Xing Yun, it was like a huge bell tolling from an extremely close distance, its thunderous boom suddenly erupting.

With just that one sound, the Tomb Ghost’s head buzzed.

Crazy woman!

Behind him stood a real madwoman!

As the Tomb Ghost watched Lu Nanjin ready to tap a second time, his lips felt dry, and he quickly wiped the sweat off his forehead, pleading in a whining voice, "My dear lady, please stop tapping... I’ll go! I’ll go now!"

...

...

The fog dispersed.

Heavenly Clouds hung low.

The Tomb Ghost arrived before that ancient tree, looking at the figure in the black robe emanating a lethal aura. He sighed and sat down cross-legged on the grassy wilderness, waiting in silence for the other to speak.

"...You don’t seem to be afraid of me."

After waiting for a moment and seeing that the person opposite her had actually closed his eyes to rest, the Tomb Guardian finally spoke.

"Afraid."

The Tomb Ghost chuckled bitterly and admitted openly, "Scared to death."

In fact, the two of them had never met before.

After the Qingzhong was built, Gu Changzhi’s hibernation pod disappeared, and the wonder of the Four Seasons Wilderness took shape... The old faction did not witness the expected "Divine Throne revival." When they sought to seize the person in charge to demand answers, the Tomb Ghost had already fled.

By the time the Tomb Guardian entered the Qingzhong, it was an event of the past.

"You sure know how to escape, even until now... The Gu family has no idea about the inversion of the Qingzhong Array Patterns," the Tomb Guardian said with narrowed eyes, softly adding, "But today you don’t have to worry, I didn’t come to settle old scores with you."

The Tomb Ghost let out a long, relieved breath.

Only after inversion could he resonate with and sense the Qingzhong Array Patterns.

For years, he had been hanging upside down from an ancient tree, maintaining such a strange and eerie posture...

"What I’m curious about is... how could you understand the ’ancient text’ on those drawings?"

Master Qianye stared at the Tomb Ghost.

This person, who appeared to be ordinary... be it in terms of cultivation, talent, or anything else, seemed insignificant, was actually a one-in-a-million genius in the true sense.

The Tomb Ghost scratched his head and cautiously responded, "To be honest, I don’t understand the ’text’ on the drawings. I can only vaguely sense the content that the drawings want to express... like the images, the paths of the Array Patterns, and the intricacies of the engraving."

He said with shame, "Actually, I didn’t completely understand it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have made such a mistake."

As the Qingzhong neared completion, he felt something was wrong... The array patterns constructed at great expense appeared to be completely inverted, but by then, it was too late to make any changes.

Fortunately... in the end, it seemed like Lady Luck was on his side.

For some reason!

The completely inverted Qingzhong Formation still managed to operate successfully!

Afterwards... he followed the plan to flee from Changye and hide underneath Da Du, only to hear that a mysterious Tomb Guardian had taken residence in the Qing Tomb Inner Mausoleum and successfully controlled over a thousand Transcendent Array Patterns.

Although he didn’t know how the other party did it, the Tomb Ghost was very clear that because of the "erroneous foreshadowing" he had laid, controlling those Array Patterns was not going to be easy.

"Oh right..."

Xing Yun suddenly realized a problem.

He looked up at the person hanging from the tree and asked in confusion, "How did you manage to understand the ancient text?"

For him, the ancient text was not too obscure.

He seemed to have been born with a strange ability to sense, able to discern the spirit oscillations in those complicated ancient words.

But the Tomb Guardian... how did she manage to control the "Inverted Formation"?

"You should realize that because of your ’misinterpretation,’ I’ve been hanging upside down in desolation for ten years... Today I didn’t come to settle the score with you, doesn’t mean I won’t ever settle it."

The Tomb Guardian did not answer his question.

She said coldly, "You don’t have the right to ask questions during our meeting today."

The Tomb Ghost immediately kept his mouth shut, knowing his place.

The Tomb Guardian gazed intently at the Tomb Ghost, as if trying to see something from this down-and-out man.

She employed the "Divination Skill."

This was a mysterious ability related to fates and fortunes; the Extraordinary Essence above the entire wilderness began to move, clouds pressed low, vaguely drawn toward the Tomb Ghost.

And then, a baffling phenomenon occurred.

The clouds would not gather.

The divination would not fall.

The multitude of threads of cause and effect, as well as the divination calculations... ultimately failed to point towards Xing Yun, the man sitting cross-legged in the wilderness, scratching his head in confusion.

Master Qianye’s pupils constricted.

The Divination Skill... failed!

Apart from those who refined the Refining Fire of the "Divine Thrones," such a phenomenon had never occurred!