Prodigal System in the Flourishing City

Chapter 1107: Chapter 1106: Immortality

Lu Xiaobu was unaware of Zheng Hai’s thoughts, and even if he knew, he wouldn’t care.

Although the age difference wasn’t much, and these people were even a few years older than him, in this regard, he really viewed them like children.

If no trouble was stirred up, they were all young and could play together casually.

But if they caused trouble, then they shouldn’t blame him for bullying the young.

Lu Xiaobu headed straight to the fortune teller’s booth, looking at the fortune teller with great interest as he sized him up and down.

”Fortune telling, young man?” The fortune teller pushed up his sunglasses and smiled.

”Are you really blind or just pretending?” Lu Xiaobu didn’t answer directly but instead asked about his sunglasses.

”If you say they’re real, then they’re real. If you say they’re fake, then they’re fake!”

The fortune teller shrugged, pulled his sunglasses down, revealing a pair of not very large, but exceptionally bright eyes that seemed to see through people’s hearts, and then pushed them back up!

”Interesting, give me a reading then.” Lu Xiaobu got interested and sat down.

”What do you want to know?” The fortune teller asked directly without hesitation.

”Tell me how much money I can spend today.” Lu Xiaobu’s lips curled into a smile.

”Tsk tsk tsk, that’s indeed a strange question. I’ve been fortune telling for years, many ask how much they can earn, but you’re the first asking how much you can spend!” The fortune teller chuckled, finding this person amusing: ”Tell me your birth date and time.”

Lu Xiaobu wrote down his birth date and time and handed it to the fortune teller.

The fortune teller took the birth date and time and started calculating, nodding his head and mumbling as if it was the real deal.

But as he continued, the fortune teller suddenly widened his eyes, staring at Lu Xiaobu: ”Is this real?!”

”Could it be fake?” Lu Xiaobu laughed.

”Hiss! Something’s not right!” The fortune teller suddenly stood up, carefully examining Lu Xiaobu, frowning more deeply.

Finally, as if there were nails under him, he stood straight up, pacing back and forth, occasionally glancing at Lu Xiaobu.

”What’s up? Do I have a disaster looming?” Lu Xiaobu laughed; this seemed quite authentic.

Who knew, the fortune teller suddenly sat back down, let out a long sigh, and, looking seriously at Lu Xiaobu, said: ”I ordinarily just tell fortunes for fun here, not expecting to really read for anyone, but today your situation is too strange! I’ll just say what I found out, whether it’s true or not, I don’t wish to know!”

”Go on.” Lu Xiaobu raised an eyebrow; did he really find something out?!

He wasn’t entirely skeptical about this stuff either; after all, when he went to Xiangjiang, he had met a bunch of Feng Shui Masters, and encountering a mystic master from the Mainland wasn’t too surprising!

”According to your birth date, you should have died several years ago!” The fortune teller’s first sentence was quite alarming!

However, Lu Xiaobu’s eyes only squinted a bit!

This guy caught on, his predecessor indeed died!

”You don’t have to tell me if it’s true or false, if you’re willing to listen, I’ll continue.” The fortune teller inquired.

”Continue.” Lu Xiaobu nodded.

”Fortune telling is considered mysticism because it’s not entirely predestined. A person’s birth date and time can determine some things, but it’s within a range, from the highest peak to the lowest trough, what one becomes still depends on oneself!”

The fortune teller explained gradually.

”However, your birth date is strange; it’s conflicting before and after, sealing your fate with no way out, it’s a certain death fate, which logically shouldn’t exist. The Heavenly Dao takes one out of fifty, so logically, such a certain death fate shouldn’t exist!”

”Unless!” The fortune teller paused: ”Unless someone deliberately cut it off for you!”

Lu Xiaobu squinted again, still not speaking.

What he said wasn’t wrong. Do you remember in Xiangjiang, where that old geezer used the current lineage to meddle!

”You should have two older brothers, and they’re quite talented, right.”

The fortune teller continued, but didn’t let Lu Xiaobu answer: ”Your road was cut off, but it wasn’t just your road, it was the road of the three brothers!”

”However, someone forcefully renewed your path! Your two brothers should have had their paths renewed!”

”That person had a good plan, one to renew for three! However, the Heavenly Dao is fair, exchanging one for one is already the limit!”

”Yet that person forcefully attempted to do it, resulting in your road being shortened even more, though your two brothers had their paths continued!”

”To be honest, from a benefit standpoint, it’s not a loss! It’s like someone destined to die in three days, being able to use two days of his life to exchange for someone else to live decades!”

”But from a human standpoint, it’s not fair to you!”

”Presumably, that person is also very pained!”

The fortune teller’s voice was somewhat somber; even someone like him, mentioning such things couldn’t help but feel a bit teary-eyed!

After all, only those of closest kinship would do such things, whether they’re parents, which child isn’t their child?! Sacrificing one to save another?! What were they thinking?!

”Phew!” Lu Xiaobu let out a sigh.

Although he had speculated before why the stone slab left by his mother would specifically apologize to him, hearing confirmation today still left him feeling uneasy.

He couldn’t quite describe the feeling, but it was definitely choking him!

”Please continue.” Lu Xiaobu lit a cigarette, tossed one to the fortune teller, gesturing him to go on.

The fortune teller accepted without hesitation, lighting the cigarette and continuing: ”However, the strange thing is here, you were supposed to be dead, yet you’re alive and well!”

Lu Xiaobu shrugged, not planning to explain anything.

”No matter what fortuitous encounter you had, the result is good. Surviving after apparent death, emerging transformed! Your current fate no longer concerns these words!”

The fortune teller, cigarette in mouth, picked up the paper with Lu Xiaobu’s birth date and time, lit it with a lighter:

”You are you, but also not you! In a mystical sense, you’ve transcended the Three Realms, no longer within the Five Elements!”

”The benefit is you are completely free, with no more constraints!”

”The downside!” The fortune teller gestured to Lu Xiaobu’s back, then said: ”You’re free, but as your accomplishments grow larger, you’ll seize more opportunities that were originally meant for others!”

”Hence, your enemies will be countless! Or rather, you’re like someone with a Taunt Aura!”

Lu Xiaobu turned his head; it was Zheng Hai.

He was coming over with a group, and it surely wasn’t for anything good!

”Taunt Aura? I’d say it should be called a Protagonist Aura!” Lu Xiaobu laughed heartily and stood up: ”How much is the divination fee?”

”A hundred million.” The fortune teller spoke.

”Alright, your reading made me happy, so I’ll give you a hundred million.” Lu Xiaobu laughed heartily, unconcerned.

”I won’t take it for free, here’s something for you, you’ll find it useful soon.” The fortune teller took out a brocade bag and handed it to Lu Xiaobu, then turned to leave.

Only a distant voice echoed back: ”A lone boat on the vast sea, carefree under heaven and earth, lamenting for eternity! My name is Ye Changsheng, come find me if you have time!”