Chapter 4
Volume 1: Chapter 10: As Prophesized (1)
In a residence’s courtyard inside the city, there was a kind-faced cultivator who carried a sword on his back, decked out in yellow robes. He gazed after Fairy Hong Chen’s figure as she disappeared into the richly ornamented building. Seemingly coming to a realization, he murmured to himself, "I see!"
He looked like he had understood something, then gave a smile, and went back into his house. He sat in a lotus stance on the bed, both hands positioned into an Orchid Buddha Seal, each placed on the left and right knees respectively. He shut his eyes and mouth, and chanted in an obscure sanskrit.
Normal people probably couldn’t see anything, but those with profound transcendence energy would definitely see a stream of golden ‘swastika¹’ words flowing out from his moving mouth. Those words grew from small to big, quickly flying out of the door and disappearing completely without a trace...
Inside the city, the three siblings gave a long sigh of relief when they finally escaped Head Guard Huang and slipped past the city walls.
They found an old well, where Miao Yi scooped a bucket of water to cleanse himself with, then led his two siblings onto the streets. The three of them became exceptionally excited as they walked amongst the crowd, looking forward to their glorious moment of becoming Immortals.
But what gave them a headache was, they didn’t know which School of Immortals to join!
If they went according to what normal people would think, joining the greatest School of Immortals would be the best. But the three of them didn’t even know which school was the best.
Every sect wanted the treasures found from within the Boundless Secular World. From the earliest years of manslaughter and robbery, the cultivators who gathered here from different schools and sects slowly set out rules and regulations for all. For the sake of fairness, they decided that no one was allowed to pull any tricks, such as ‘pulling customers’ from the streets. It all depended on the voluntary acts of the treasure hunter. Whoever the treasure hunter chose to gift the treasures to, the treasures would belong to that person or sect.
But it was impossible to be completely fair. The bigger sects inside the Ancient City had divided residences that were lofty and grand. The smaller sects, on the other hand, owned residences with standards that were significantly worse. If depending on the voluntary acts of the treasure hunter, the smaller sects would definitely suffer the losses.
But there definitely were a lot of lofty and grand residences! The three siblings prepared themselves to compare each residence.
"Zhang Fengbao&h.e.l.lip; Zhang Fengbao&h.e.l.lip;"
As the three siblings pa.s.sed a street corner, Fatty Zhang halted in his tracks and turned his head, his face showing an expression of surprise as he looked around.
"Brother, what are you doing?" Miao Yi and Little Lu stopped to ask.
"Someone is calling me," Fatty Zhang said, still looking around.
"Who called you?" Miao Yi and Little Lu didn’t see anyone nearby.
"Listen! It sounds like it’s coming from this way." Fatty Zhang pointed towards the other end of the street.
Big brother and little sister raised their ears but couldn’t hear anything. They looked at each other and shook their heads. Little Lu laughed sneeringly, "Second Brother is lying again."
Miao Yi seemed like he didn’t dare speak highly of his little brother’s character. He frowned and said, "Little Brother, stop fooling around."
Panicking, Fatty Zhang pointed towards the end of the street. "You guys listen for yourselves! Someone keeps calling Zhang Fengbao, Zhang Fengbao."
Little Lu expressed her suspicions at Fatty Zhang as she said, "Second Brother, everyone who knows you calls you Fatty Zhang, right?"
"I&h.e.l.lip;" Fatty Zhang was speechless. He thought he was mishearing things, so he dug in his ear with his little finger and yet, he could still hear it. So he couldn’t help but cry out helplessly, "Big Brother, you guys seriously don’t hear it? You’re not playing me, right?"
Little Lu shook her head. She stared at her unrepentant second brother with disdain.
Seeing that his brother didn’t look like he was lying, Miao Yi suddenly thought about an incident which happened in the Boundless Secular World. During that time, he heard a qin’s melody and yet, Yan Beihong insisted he hadn’t heard anything at