荔枝影院

Edited by: Michyrr

“Your Highness, I told you long ago that the secrets of the heavens cannot be divulged. Destiny’s hand cannot be forced, and Yinshan only divines three times a year and will never divine for a sovereign. Your Highness, it is best that you give up. Even though you have captured me, it is still pointless.”

Master Yinshan shook his head and sighed.

“Hmph, you don’t divine for sovereigns? Did your group not divine for the sovereign in Taizong’s era?”

The First Prince derisively sneered.

Master Yinshan’s face went stiff. After a long while, he finally sighed.

“It is precisely because we divined for the sovereign that the Heavenly Spirit Sect has declined so much, and it is precisely because of that time that the sect instituted a rule that sovereigns are temperamental, so their fortunes cannot be divined!”

The First Prince’s eyes flashed with anger.

“In other words, you’ve resolved yourself to make trouble for this prince? This prince only wishes for you to divine my fortune, but you delayed for half a year. Since this is the case, do not blame me.”

“First Prince, do not waste your time. Even if you kill me, I still will not agree!” Master Yinshan indifferently said.

“Hmph, is that so? I happened to hear that you picked up a small child while you were in Lingnan and have kept her at your side ever since. You’ve even given her a name, Little Xian. What a pity! This child was only about seven, right?” the First Prince coldly said.

Master Yinshan instantly paled.

“What? You think that this prince can’t find the friend you entrusted her to?” the First Prince said.

“Your Highness, she is just an innocent child. As a member of the Sage Emperor’s bloodline and the heir apparent of the Great Tang, you should be benevolent and kind to the people. Would you truly harm an innocent merely to force me to divine for you?”

Master Yinshan found it hard to remain calm.

“Heh, aren’t you a master of divination? You can’t even calculate something like this? Why don’t you go and divine to see if I won’t kill her.”

The First Prince’s face was calm, but his eyes contained an extremely cruel light.

“Your Highness, divination cannot solve your problems, and the secrets of heaven are unfathomable and must always be pondered with deep respect. Divination is not omnipotent,” Master Yinshan anxiously said.

“This prince has already spoken. The life of that girl rests entirely in your hands.”

The First Prince acted like he hadn’t heard, and repeated his threat.

Master Yinshan’s eyes were flickering and uncertain. After a long time, he sighed, his body seeming to greatly age.

“Your Highness, I can accept your request. But before I perform the divination, I must tell you again: the True Dragon is connected to the circulation of all the Qi in the realm. Carelessly attempting to glimpse its secrets might result in unpredictable consequences and mishaps. Your Highness, please reconsider!” Master Yinshan said.

“Just hurry and get on with it!”

The First Prince’s resolved face showed no signs of backing down.

Master Yinshan once more sighed, but he argued no more. Gathering up the ivory pieces in his right hand, he began to form hand spells with his left. He sat up straight, his eyes closed.

This cell was hidden away from the outside world, but a faint breeze began to stir around Master Yinshan.

The First Prince began to focus, a hint of tension in his eyes. He had waited for this moment for far too long, but things were finally taking a turn for the better. That unexpected discovery had left him with unprecedented hope.

But before he acted on that opportunity, he needed to know if it was his destiny to be the Sovereign of Nine and Five, if he was truly capable of ascending to the throne.

Buzz!

As if in response to the First Prince’s thoughts, strange phenomena began to appear around Master Yinshan.

In a flash of light, a Yin Yang symbol appeared and began to rapidly revolve, with Master Yinshan at its center. A few seconds later, space trembled and the Yin Yang symbol began to transform.

Mountains began to rise from the floor of the cell, and then two rivers flowing west to east appeared.

It’s the Central Plains!

The First Prince immediately recognized the terrain. The divination arts of the Heavenly Spirit Sect were unfathomable, and it was said that they encompassed all the changes of the Central Plains.

For important divinations, they could use Stellar Energy to simulate the sun, moon, earth, and rivers, divining a sliver of the vast and innumerable secrets of the heavens. This was a method unique to the Heavenly Spirit Sect.

As expected, the Yin and Yang energies around Master Yinshan transformed into the sun, moon, and stars.

It was a breathtakingly beautiful sight that even entranced the First Prince.

But his eyes were not simply admiring these illusions. They were searching the vast sky of stars.

“Found it!” A few moments later, the First Prince found that star, the most dazzling, noble and divine, the hegemon over all other stars.

The Zi Wei, the Emperor Star!

Amongst the countless stars, this was the only star that symbolized the sovereign of humanity, that resonated with the Emperors. It was the true lord of the myriad stars, and it had a very special meaning when it came to divination.

As the First Prince watched, this star became brighter and brighter until it completely drowned out the light of the other stars.

“Your Highness, please spread a drop of your essence blood on this star.”

Master Yinshan finally raised his head and looked at the First Prince.

There was a deep helplessness in his eyes.

The Zi Wei Divination!

This was what the First Prince had sought, a forbidden art of the Heavenly Spirit Sect.

Through this forbidden art, those ambitious and greedy Princes could see whether or not they had the destiny of the True Dragon.

This was a forbidden art because it had led to all kinds of struggles, in the open and in the shadows, causing tragedy in countless people’s lives. Some people would firmly believe in the result of this art, while others would completely deny it.

But regardless, once the Zi Wei Divination was performed, it would always lead to a bloody storm.

The First Prince was completely focused on the Zi Wei Star. He pricked his finger and immediately placed a drop of crimson blood on this star formed from Stellar Energy.

Roooar!

The blood rapidly turned into a spiraling dragon that vanished into the Emperor Star, and the milky-white star soon turned crimson.

The First Prince’s eyes were wide open as he waited with bated breath.

Bang!

As if it had a life of its own, the drop of blood began to spread across the entire sky of stars.

Between the stars, on the sky created by Stellar Energy, countless ancient words began to appear. These tiny words were bursting with mysterious violet energy as if they contained the mysteries of the heavens.

In the blink of an eye, a stream of Dragon Qi soared out of the mountains down below and charged into the Zi Wei Star, which unleashed a violet beam of energy.

The cell was instantly engulfed in darkness, as were the torches on the wall. It was like all light was being absorbed into another dimension.

Above the Emperor Star, countless blurry words that did not seem to be written by any mortal hand had appeared amidst the violet energy.

“What does it say?!” the First Prince suddenly cried out in a trembling voice.

The air was tense in the cell. Master Yinshan hesitated for a moment, but he finally looked up and began to read the secrets divulged by the heavens.

“The mountains and rivers destroyed in a single morning, the eternal True Dragon returned in a single night!

“The dragon has nine sons, but only one controls the floods. The tiger has three cubs, but only one gains its stripes.

“The Dragon Gate in front and the abyss behind, life and death are decided in a single moment of thought.

“A hundred phoenixes bathe in fire, but only one is reborn. One thousand flood dragons fall, and only one True Dragon emerges!”

As the First Prince listened to Master Yinshan read out the twisted characters that represented the will of the heavens, his eyes became flickering and uncertain.

“The mountains and rivers destroyed in a single morning, the eternal True Dragon returned in a single night! Returned in a single night... Hahaha, Master Yinshan, many thanks!”

The First Prince seemed to have realized something and loudly laughed.

“Relax! Once this prince succeeds, your Heavenly Spirit Sect will flourish once more and will not blame you for making a divination for this prince!”

The First Prince seemed refreshed, all his worries and depression swept away.

He quickly turned and began to walk away.

In the cell, Master Yinshan seemed to have not heard the First Prince’s words. Using the Zi Wei Divination had expended much of his essence blood, and his body sagged.

But at this moment, Master Yinshan cared little about his body’s condition. His mind was completely focused on something else.

“Right!”

The First Prince suddenly stopped at the stairs, his back to Master Yinshan.

“Master Yinshan, you said that you only tell fortunes three times a year, yes? So what were you doing when this prince came in? If you want to fool this prince, this excuse is too poor. Once this prince inherits the throne, this prince does not wish to see this happen again. In the future, you should support this prince properly.”

His voice continued to echo in the air as the First Prince climbed up the stairs, and then there was the clanking of gears as the passage was closed once more.

“Haaah...”

A long sigh could be heard in the cell. Master Yinshan looked at the stairs and shook his head.

Regardless of the era, anyone who wanted to use a diviner to predict the future, whether they were the wisest monarch or the cruelest tyrant, the most worthy successor or the most ignorant of Princes or Kings, would only hear what they wanted to hear.

As for the actual meaning of the prediction, just how many people would actually carefully ponder it?