[Random character script starting...]
[Fu Xuan]
[Randomly drawing a conceptual ability...]
[Sham Diviner: Mastery over all forms of divination, yet not only will the divination result always be wrong, but it will also forcibly alter reality.]
'Seriously? Fu Xuan's script? I was just having a scandal with her...'
Lucian couldn't help but roll his eyes as he realized that, out of all people at this particular time, it had to be Fu Xuan.
In the next moment, however, he suddenly smiled.
'Well, so be it. Let's make the scandal real, then.'
With this thought in mind, Lucian vanished instantly, not bothering to inform anyone since there was really no need, for everyone present already knew he always came and went without a trace.
"Hm? Where'd Lucian run off to?" Baiheng asked, blinking her eyes in confusion.
"Maybe he went back to his room to rest?" Jingliu replied calmly as she gazed at the empty chair where Lucian had been sitting.
"Well, I'm going to grab a nap too, then." Jing Yuan yawned and stretched his body, then turned to the pink-haired girl across from him. "By the way, Diviner Fu, shouldn't you be on duty by now?"
"..."
Jing Yuan waited for Fu Xuan's reply, but after a few seconds of silence, the reply still never came.
Everyone immediately turned to look, only to see Fu Xuan sitting completely still with her eyes closed, holding her phone—utterly motionless.
Baiheng reached out to touch Fu Xuan, only for her hand to pass right through—her fingers clipping straight through Fu Xuan's body.
"What's... going on...?"
Baiheng was baffled, and the rest were no better.
Jing Yuan instantly shot up from his chair and leaned in, patting Fu Xuan's shoulder, but his hand also went right through.
"Diviner Fu... turned into a hologram?" Jing Yuan frowned.
'Why does this state...' Jingliu frowned, silently pondering. 'I've never seen it before, yet it feels strangely familiar…'
Of course, she had never actually witnessed such a state.
Back then, when she herself had fallen into the dream, not only had she been too dazed to notice, but no one had seen it, and she herself could not see it, so naturally she had no idea what Fu Xuan was experiencing now.
As for the others, it went without saying that none of them had ever seen a person suddenly turn into a hologram, and none of them thought to connect this phenomenon to Lucian.
"Just staring at her like this isn't going to solve anything." Jing Yuan's drowsiness instantly vanished. "I'll head to the Seat of Divine Foresight and look into it."
Having his colleague in trouble, it was only natural for him, as an Arbiter-General, to spare no effort to rescue her.
"In that case, we'll stay here and guard her—make sure no one else gets near her." Baiheng nodded seriously.
Baiheng and Jingliu chose to remain, watching over the unconscious Fu Xuan, trying to figure out what was happening.
"Well, I'll patrol the area, see if any heliobi are messing around." Teng Xiao donned his heavy armor, the plates clanking noisily as he went off on his patrol.
Just like that, everyone split up to help Fu Xuan return to normal.
Fu Xuan could no longer sense the people or objects around her, only faintly realizing she was dreaming.
In her dream, she saw her father and her family members, saw Master Diviner Jingtian, and saw... Lucian...
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"Ugh..."
Lucian's vision was filled with a blur of scenery as a wave of dizziness overwhelmed him.
A few moments later, when his sight gradually cleared, the place around him had already changed.
It was no longer Jing Yuan's bamboo courtyard but a lively street where crowds of people bustled back and forth.
However, what was most important was that across the street stood a striking grand residence, and as Lucian's gaze lifted, his gaze fell on the plaque above the residence gate, 'Fu family.'
At the frontmost of the residence, its heavy redwood gate was inlaid with alloy decorations, giving off a noble and modern air.
'Fu family... Is this Fu Xuan's home?'
In Lucian's memory, Fu Xuan was born into a prestigious family of diviners in the Xianzhou Yuque known as the Fu family.
And right now, Lucian, upon seeing the style of the surrounding buildings, was convinced that he was indeed in the Xianzhou Yuque.
'I thought I'd get to play with Fu Xuan in the Luofu—didn't expect the script to drop me straight into the Yuque.'
It should be noted that the birthplace of the Xianzhou Alliance's divination arts was here—the Xianzhou Yuque.
In the Xianzhou Yuque, what everyone valued was not martial strength, but divination.
Astrology, fortune-telling, deduction, casting hexagrams—if you could predict fortune and misfortune accurately, you were an elite, respected by all.
Even if you were useless in combat, as long as your divination skills were exceptional, you could still rise to power and prestige.
Master Diviner Jingtian of the Xianzhou Yuque's Divination Commission and General Yao Guang were the most outstanding diviners in the Yuque and even the entire Xianzhou Alliance, revered and admired by everyone.
Below them were the ancient diviner families, each with thousands of years of heritage.
And the Fu family was one of them, while Fu Xuan was none other than the family's genius heiress.
'In a place where divination rules, I don't even know a single divination art... Tch...' Lucian couldn't help but complain in his heart. 'Not gonna lie, this conceptual ability looks usable, but also kinda ridiculous.'
Sham Diviner—even the name sounded lame in his ears.
From its description, when the conceptual ability was activated, it granted mastery over any form of divination, which was decent, but then came the line: 'not only will the divination result always be wrong.'
Fortunately, this conceptual ability was evidently still useful—at least he knew that meant he could flip its divination results to his advantage.
However, that final line, which said 'forcibly alter reality,' was too vague, so he would need to run some tests to figure it out.
As Lucian stood at the roadside, pondering how to use his new conceptual ability, nearby pedestrians began to chatter quite loudly.
"Hey, look, that's the Fu family's genius heiress."
"Oh, so cute! I bet she'll grow into a tall beauty one day."
"I heard the Fu family divined her future and said that she'll one day become a Master Diviner."
"Yeah, boundless prospects ahead. And when she does, the whole Fu family will share the glory."
"See how many people are escorting her? Shows just how much they treasure her."
Lucian snapped out of his thoughts and followed the pedestrians' pointing fingers, where he saw a group of people surrounding a little pink-haired girl, escorting her toward the Fu residence.
As his gaze locked onto the girl, who looked awfully familiar, Lucian raised his eyebrows in surprise.
'Isn't that Fu Xuan? But she looks like a little kid, barely ten years old or so...'
Lucian pondered for a moment before turning to his side.
"Hey, old man, what year is it in the star calendar right now?" Lucian asked as he grabbed a passing old man by the shoulder.
"Huh? What year? Uhh... let me calculate..."
As he spoke, the old man casually pulled out an astrolabe from his pocket, pinched his fingers to divine, then answered a few seconds later.
"It's Star Year 7802. Oh, and tomorrow will rain, by the way."
Right after saying this, the old man tucked away his astrolabe and strolled off normally, as if what he did was nothing special.
Lucian, falling silent, could not help but admire the Xianzhou Yuque as he realized that this Xianzhou ship was actually a land of hidden masters, where even an old man in slippers could perform divinations so casually.
"7802, huh? Doesn't seem like any major events happened this year..."
Lucian muttered quietly, glancing at the heavily guarded Fu residence, then at the little Fu Xuan surrounded by her escorts.
"Yeah, it's safe enough to approach her..."
However, where was he supposed to find an opening to approach her?
Force his way in, get humiliated, and then massacre the entire Fu family in anger, like in those Xianxia stories?
Unfortunately, that would only turn him into Fu Xuan's sworn enemy—the one who wiped out her family, which was clearly not a good idea.
In the Xianzhou Yuque, where divination reigned supreme, brute force could never earn true respect.
Knowing this, Lucian concluded that the only way was to rely on his new conceptual ability—to become a sham diviner—no, a great diviner—and thus earn Fu Xuan's acceptance.
Not wanting to waste any more time, he immediately activated Sham Diviner.
In the next second, several divination arts instantly surfaced in his mind, but since he had no divination tools at hand, he chose the simplest method—finger-calculation.
Lucian pinched his fingers, and knowledge of hexagrams, along with years of divination practice, automatically filled his mind, as if he had trained in divination his entire life.
In just a few seconds, the divination result emerged.
"Hmm... the Fu family will be safe tonight, with no bloodshed..." Lucian muttered quietly, then recalled the description of Sham Diviner.
According to the description, which said that the result was guaranteed wrong, it meant that the Fu family would definitely face bloodshed tonight.
Reaching this conclusion, Lucian immediately walked to the front of the Fu residence gate, blocking the path of Fu Xuan and her escorts.
"Please wait, everyone. I've recently divined the Fu family's fate, so I came here to warn you," Lucian said with a friendly, confident smile. "Tonight, exactly at midnight, the Fu family will face a bloody disaster. Please be careful."
Upon hearing this, Fu Xuan and her escorts froze for a moment, then one of the escorts suddenly burst into laughter.
"Hahahaha, this damn trick again? If I asked you why you know that, would you say 'the secrets of heaven can't be revealed'?"
He was a middle-aged man with long hair styled in a semi-bundled hairstyle, looking like a typical character from Xianxia stories.
"Boy, I've heard that cliche line too many times. If you want to scam us, be more creative."
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