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."
As the laughter and scolding from one of Fu Xuan's escorts echoed through the air, it inevitably drew the attention of nearby passersby.
Soon enough, people began to stop and watch, eager for a spectacle.
"Boy, if life's giving you trouble, you can just say it straight. Our Fu family can give you some proper help."
Another man among the escorts spoke with a blank expression.
"But you shouldn't treat us like fools and try to trick us with a little parlor trick like this. Leave while you still can. You're still young—don't go down the wrong path. We won't hold it against you this time."
Each word of persuasion spoken by the man carried the magnanimity of the Fu family, and the passersby quickly understood the situation.
Evidently, a street conman had tried to scam the Fu family using one of the oldest tricks in the book.
"What was he thinking, trying to scam the Fu family?"
"Heh, this kinda scam might fool outsiders, but thinking he could trick a family of diviners is just too delusional."
"Yeah, even I've met at least eight or ten swindlers running the same routine, and I never fell for it—let alone the Fu family."
"If there really was misfortune in their family, wouldn't they already know it through their own divinations? Why would they need some outsider to tell them?"
Just as they said, in the Xianzhou Yuque, the last thing lacking was fraud diviners—many who failed to master divination turned to fraud instead.
One sentence like 'I see great misfortune upon you' was enough to scare gullible outsiders or beginners into paying money to avoid disaster, but not the people of the Xianzhou Yuque.
Over time, the people of the Xianzhou Yuque stopped believing in such worn-out words, so no one expected anyone to actually dare pull the same old trick again today.
In this commotion, Fu Xuan, standing at the center of her escorts, quietly observed the 'fraud diviner' from a distance and saw that aside from his super handsome appearance, there was nothing remarkable about him.
"Let's go back. My father has already divined that today will be peaceful." Fu Xuan said softly, her voice as melodious as a songbird's.
Upon hearing this, the man leading the escorts extended his hand toward Lucian, gesturing politely.
"Please leave."
Lucian, noticing their etiquette was proper and their tone still polite, decided to take it slow and let them off.
"Believe me or not makes no difference."
Saying this, Lucian glanced at Fu Xuan for a moment, then turned around and walked away, looking unhurried and unconcerned, as if whether the Fu family believed his words meant nothing to him at all.
As Fu Xuan watched Lucian's graceful back fade into the crowd, a strange intuition suddenly stirred in her heart, as if warning her that something was bound to happen.
As someone who always trusted her intuition, she decided to ask her father to divine their family's fate again.
In the end, after that little incident, Fu Xuan and her escorts returned home—and once the gate closed, the outside world and their family became two separate realms.
Seeing that the show was over, the passersby dispersed as well, satisfied with the small excitement of the day.
Lucian, meanwhile, found a milk tea shop nearby, sat inside, and calmly enjoyed the specialty milk tea of the Xianzhou Yuque.
Of course, he was mainly waiting for the evening to see whether the divination result from the Sham Diviner would really come true.
Still, two questions remained in his mind.
Who would target the Fu family?
Would it really end in bloodshed?
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In the main hall of the Fu residence, a stern-looking middle-aged man with pink hair and a pink mustache sat in the main seat.
It was hard to imagine that someone like him could still carry such authority and presence—a middle-aged man with pink hair and a pink mustache, yet not appearing effeminate in the least.
As for who he was, he was none other than Fu Qian, the patriarch of the Fu family and the father of Fu Xuan.
"Little Xuan, you're back. Tell your old man—did you have fun today?"
Seeing Fu Xuan enter the main hall, Fu Qian, who had been discussing something with the family elders with a stern expression, instantly changed his expression as he asked her with a broad smile.
Everyone knew just how much the patriarch doted on his beloved daughter, treating her like a priceless treasure, so they could only smile helplessly as they watched his fast-changing demeanor.
"Father, please divine our family. See if our family will be safe tonight." Fu Xuan said earnestly, not beating around the bush.
Seeing his daughter looking so serious, Fu Qian raised his eyebrows and immediately understood—this was apparently no small matter.
In the next moment, without saying a word, he picked up an astrolabe made of several jade abaci and began divining the fortune and misfortune of the Fu family.
Fu Xuan stood beside him, silently watching and learning from her father's divination art.
A few seconds later, Fu Qian got his result.
"Hahaha, everything is fine." Fu Qian said with a laugh. "Tonight, the Fu family will be safe—the omen is auspicious, and no misfortune will occur."
Upon hearing this, Fu Xuan let out a breath of relief and concluded that the handsome man who had blocked her path earlier had indeed been a fraud.
A bloody disaster would befall her family?
Utter nonsense.
Her father was an elite diviner of the Divination Commission, so his divination skills were undoubtedly first-rate.
If her father said auspicious, then it was auspicious.
"What's wrong? Why did you suddenly doubt your old man's ability?" Fu Qian asked gently, curious about what had happened.
Fu Xuan immediately recounted the incident near the residence gate.
"I see..." Fu Qian nodded thoughtfully, stroking his chin. "Well, it was just a street swindler—just ignore him. Youngsters like him, instead of studying properly, choose to live by fraud."
He then patted Fu Xuan's head and smiled.
"You're fated to become a Master Diviner, a true prodigy, so you don't need to bother with people like that." Fu Qian continued. "Next time you run into such a fraud, just tell me, and I'll deal with them personally. Hmph, to think he dared to try and fool my daughter—he must be tired of living."
Fu Xuan, with a small smile on her face, nodded lightly before returning to her room to read.
Since childhood, she had loved reading—always keeping a book in hand, to the point that even when she couldn't understand the ancient texts within it, she would still spend hours copying them.
Needless to say, she was the perfect example of a hardworking genius.
As the saying went, 'one need not fear others' talent, only the talented who work harder than you.'
===
As night fell, the people of the Fu family went about their own affairs, none of them taking the words of that 'fraud diviner' seriously.
It was only natural.
Why believe an outsider when the patriarch's own divination had promised an auspicious omen?
Besides, the family was calm and harmonious, with not the slightest sign of danger.
On this night, Lucian lingered near the Fu residence, simply curious to see whether anything would befall it tonight.
As time was about to reach midnight, just several seconds before the day changed, a sudden commotion erupted within the Fu residence.
*BOOM!*
Dust and smoke rose as though something had exploded, causing all the members of the Fu family to rush out of their quarters to investigate.
"Awful—the Star Matrix exploded!"
An old man wearing scholarly glasses shouted in panic.
Soon enough, many people gathered at the Divination Hall, where the Fu family's Star Matrix was kept—a device used for divining fortune and misfortune. Even though it wasn't on the same level as the Deca-Light Reflection Barrier Matrix, it was still a fine piece.
Fu Qian looked over the floor, where several diviners lay groaning, blood pouring from their wounds.
Needless to say, the fact that these diviners were caught near the blast yet were still alive was incredibly lucky.
"What happened?!" Fu Qian demanded, his face grim. "Who was operating the Star Matrix just now?!"
"I-It was me..."
A bloodied man lying on the floor answered weakly.
"I only wanted to stay up late practicing the matrix, but..."
Who could have expected it?
He had followed the rules without error, yet it had actually exploded, injuring more than a dozen people in the Divination Hall.
Fortunately, they were all long-life species, so they could recover from such wounds without problem.
Nonetheless, the destruction of the Star Matrix would be costly to repair.
"Clean up the blood and investigate... thoroughly..."
Fu Qian's voice trailed off as he suddenly remembered what his daughter had told him earlier—about the fraud diviner.
"Patriarch… could this be the bloody disaster that boy mentioned?"
Seeing the patriarch pause, lost in thought, one of the men who had escorted Fu Xuan spoke up, prompting everyone to exchange uneasy glances.
Clearly, this incident counted as a bloody disaster—after all, a dozen lay bleeding across the floor.
Everyone who had accompanied Fu Xuan earlier remembered the handsome young man's words: 'Tonight, exactly at midnight, the Fu family will face a bloody disaster. Please be careful.'
Someone quickly checked his jade abacus and saw that the timing matched exactly as the young man had said: at midnight.
"First, investigate whether anyone entered or left the residence, then examine the Star Matrix..." Fu Qian instructed solemnly, a deep frown adorning his face. "We must find out exactly why it exploded."
He couldn't help but feel that something about this incident was abnormal.
He was an experienced diviner, and out of ten divinations he performed, almost ten were always correct.
Given that, how could he have failed to foresee a 'bloody disaster' within his own family?
Where had it gone wrong?
===
At the same time, Lucian, standing on a distant street across from the Fu residence, watched the smoke rise above it and heard many loud shouts coming from inside.
"Damn, Sham Diviner might really have something to do with this..." Lucian muttered in awe. "Judging by the noise, they must've bled plenty..."
Now that his divination had come true, perhaps the Fu family would think twice before dismissing this so-called 'fraud diviner.'
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