Lord Shenxiu
Chapter 317 Divination (Please Subscribe)

Chapter 317: Chapter 317 Divination (Please Subscribe)

The next day.

Zhong Shenxiu opened the door to see a very tense Davis.

"Li Wei, are you okay? Did anything happen after you left the office last night?"

Davis scrutinized his student with nervous eyes.

His own abilities were just too weak. He had been trapped by the snare Sara had left behind all night long, and it was only with great difficulty that he managed to break free and rush to check on his student.

"Last night... I think I heard a woman asking if I wanted to play a game..."

Zhong Shenxiu’s eyes were rimmed with thick dark circles, "Then I passed out, and when I woke up this morning, my whole body was aching... Teacher, is there something wrong with this place?"

"Cough cough... It’s nothing, I can’t believe Sara had learned to pull her punches at her age..."

Davis felt somewhat emotional, and then his eyes darted around, "Sara is a predecessor of our school. After her death, her spirit lingered and formed some kind of protection. Don’t worry about last night, she was just playing a joke on you..."

’If it were anyone else saying that, they might actually believe it.’

Zhong Shenxiu internally rolled his eyes. If he wanted to, he could really turn Sara into something like a guardian spirit.

However, his ability to play dumb was first-rate. He fudged a few vague sentences and got through it.

Relieved, Professor Davis left in a hurry to arrange for a construction team to repair the large hole in the wall.

It seemed he believed that Sara really had been careful and not hurt the student.

Zhong Shenxiu, on the other hand, turned around to tidy up his things, preparing to leave this place.

Last night, he had received an interesting piece of information from Sara:

"So the so-called ’longevity blood’ is essentially a ritual. As long as you gather three keys—the ’Blood Key,’ the ’Meat Key,’ and the ’Bone Key’—and sacrifice a population exceeding a hundred thousand, you can summon the ’Holy Grail’ whose whereabouts are unknown from the void and cause it to overflow with longevity blood..."

"And this ritual has a powerful mystic allure..."

"No matter where it is held, it can always attract the high-ranking followers of the Master of Black Blood... hence, in every blood cup war, extremely reckless ’Perfected Ones’ have appeared, causing severe destruction... But because the ’Perfected Ones’ battles are so destructively powerful, the ritual tends to fail easily. Therefore, it seems that none of the previous blood cup wars had any successes."

"Really now, I thought I’d slowly trace the way back through Cadlyan, but now the answer is just right in front of me. There’s no challenge at all."

He was somewhat interested in the ’longevity blood,’ but not overly so.

After all, such a forceful ascension ritual was obviously fraught with danger.

Besides, rather than fighting for the longevity blood, it would be better to wait until the victor of the blood cup battle emerged and then take the ’True Spirit’ from them!

Though, up to this point, what exactly the ’Primordial Pill’ and ’True Spirit’ were remained a complete mystery to Zhong Shenxiu.

’If it’s the ’divinity’ I’m guessing at, it seems it could entirely be borne back by a True Spirit...’

’But if it’s really a substantial object, that would be troublesome...’

Zhong Shenxiu, carrying a suitcase, walked out of the school.

"Eh? Li Wei... Are you leaving too?"

Jason, who had just returned from work, was surprised to see this.

"No, I’m just taking a break from school for a while. I am still a member of the school. If you, the teacher, or Camilla run into any trouble, you can go to the Whisperer No.2 Bar. You can reach me there," Shenxiu advised, showing some fondness for the person who had introduced him to the school.

"Sigh... I’ll go check on the teacher," Jason sighed. "He’s bound to be very sad..."

"It’s okay, I’ve already told you..."

Zhong Shenxiu started to feel a bit helpless.

"No, I just saw the newspaper!"

Jason held up the morning paper, "The company in which the teacher had heavily invested was exposed this morning. The Metal poisoning death of the person in charge, the family disputing over the inheritance, the company is about to go bankrupt and reorganize..."

"Ah..."

Zhong Shenxiu was slightly shocked, "Jason... are you sure Professor Davis really hasn’t offended any followers of the tail-eating snake and been cursed with bad financial luck?"

"That... is something I’d really like to know too..."

...

Whisperer No.2 Bar.

Zhong Shenxiu, carrying his suitcase, walked into the bar, sensing the heavy atmosphere.

"Boss!"

As he approached the bar, Scarface greeted him, "A prohibition enforcer seized our shipment. That batch of booze was originally transported from Byron City, meant for the market... I’d already bribed the prohibitors from Isreal, but they reneged."

"They took the bribe and still have no professional ethics?"

Zhong Shenxiu chuckled, "It seems either you’ve offended someone, or I have."

"I’ll go take care of that enforcer."

Scarface’s expression was vicious.

"That won’t help, aside from angering the Federation..."

Zhong Shenxiu dismissed the idea, "We need to find the person targeting us."

"Damn, there are too many possibilities..."

Scarface crouched down, troubled, running his hands through his hair, "The local dealers whose business we’ve snatched a bit of, the gangs, and the landlord from Wales who rents this place to me."

"Hold on, why did you offend the landlord?" Zhong Shenxiu was puzzled.

"Because I negotiated the rent contract with a gun to his head, so we got a very favorable rate," Scarface answered as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

"Alright, then there are the people I’ve offended, too many to remember..."

Zhong Shenxiu helplessly massaged his temples and suddenly said, "Prepare a quiet room for me, a silver candelabra, candles, gold powder... I’m going to conduct a ritual."

This was knowledge learned from the restricted section, a special skill from the domain of ’Secret Keepers.’

Within the Spirit Realm, there is all information and projection of the real world, even of the past and future—the basis of divination!

And Secret Keepers who hold ’Arcane History’ can’t be deceived by anything that’s happened in the past.

’In other words, the followers of the Secret Keepers are very good at divining past events, while the followers of the Timekeeper are more adept at predicting the future... Well, the tail-eating snake, who governs fate, can also partly involve the future, even alter it... Looking at it this way, the relationship between the tail-eating snake and the Timekeeper must not be good.’

After all, competitors are natural enemies.

’And judging from the fact that the Mesoamerican Federation was able to be established, the Secret Keeper, the Timekeeper, and the Seven Difficulties should belong to the same alliance. As for the other existences, they probably stand on different grounds, or even internally hostile to each other, like the tail-eating snake and Da Mo, hence unable to stop this ’Three Gods Alliance’?’

However, Zhong Shenxiu was not too particular about which faction’s ritual to use. He’d use whichever was convenient.

After all, he wasn’t a follower of any of them!