Chapter 1
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Chapter 1: Launching with a Heaven\’s Secret Pavilion
Southern Wilderness, Linglong City.
On a main road, a pavilion was built.
Ye Xu gingerly hung up a signboard and removed the red cloth covering it.
Heaven\’s Secret Pavilion!
Flanking the pavilion’s entrance was a pair of couplets.
Top line: Knowing future and past; mastering all time.
Bottom line: Judging Yin-Yang; severing the Five Elements.
Horizontal banner: Heaven’s secrets can be measured.
“Knowing past and future? What arrogant boasting!”
Pedestrians passing by cast sidelong glances at this newly appeared shop, most with scorn.
In this world, there were formidable figures capable of plucking stars and seizing moons, boiling seas and scorching mountains. Yet even such beings dared not rashly claim mastery over all time and future, much less recklessly speculate upon Heaven’s will.
One must understand—Heaven’s Dao recoils against trespass.
Those who attempted predicting the heavens would inevitably suffer Heaven’s backlash.
That a young man should spout such grand claims was truly audacious.
“My humble shop has opened! I hope you all will kindly support it!”
Clad in blue robes, Ye Xu possessed handsome features, his smile radiating a spring-like warmth.
He cupped his hands in a bow, expression genial.
Yet most passersby remained unimpressed.
Who would believe someone still smelling of milk possessed such abilities?
Ye Xu didn’t mind.
Fortune-telling relies on voluntary seekers.
Hands clasped behind his back, he strolled into Heaven’s Secret Pavilion.
Today marked his second day since arriving in this world.
Upon arrival, he had awakened the Heavenly Machine System, establishing Heaven’s Secret Pavilion.
As its name implied,
the system could calculate Heaven’s secrets and deduce all things under the sky.
Once anyone stepped inside the pavilion, their previous lives, present circumstances, and every hidden past became transparent to Ye Xu.
Moreover, within Heaven’s Secret Pavilion, Ye Xu reigned absolutely invincible.
Yet beyond its threshold, he was utterly powerless.
In this world, cultivators roamed everywhere. Presently, Ye Xu was but the most ordinary mortal, devoid of even a spark of magical power.
“Until I gain sufficient strength, I’d best remain right here.”
Ye Xu thought to himself.
Sitting on the master\’s chair, he casually pulled out a history of the Yuan Realm from the bookshelf and began reading with relish.
Similar to the novels he had read in his previous life, the history of the Yuan Realm was filled with successive generations of sacred beings, and even featured Great Emperors Repairing the heavens, composing a poignant and heroic human history.
\"If I could manage to fool one or two Great Emperors, I wouldn\’t have to worry about heavenly secrets points.\"
Deducing heavenly secrets required heavenly secrets points.
Heavenly secrets points, in turn, were exchanged for rare treasures of heaven and earth, techniques and secret techniques, spiritual pills, and magical artifacts.
Essentially, anything deemed valuable by the system could be converted into heavenly secrets points.
Ye Xu could also use heavenly secrets points to directly enhance his strength.
But for now, that was just a thought.
Ye Xu continued browsing the history of the Yuan Realm.
…
At that moment, two women slowly walked into Linglong City.
One of them was a beautiful woman who appeared to be in her early thirties, dressed in purple palace robes, her long hair pinned up high, exuding a dignified aura, with a faint trace of anxiety hidden between her delicate eyebrows.
The other was a young girl, about sixteen years old, clad in snow-white robes, her dark hair cascading like a waterfall. She had an exquisite, oval-shaped face, and her sparkling, animated eyes shone brilliantly.
\"Master, it\’s been over ten days, and we still haven\’t found a single clue about the Nine-Grade Golden Lotus. What are we to do?\" asked the girl in white, Ye Xian\’er, her delicate willow-like brows furrowed in worry.
\"The Nine-Grade Golden Lotus is an ultimate medicinal king; how could it be so easy to find?\" the palace-robed beauty chided. \"Xian\’er, no matter how difficult it is, we cannot give up.\"
Ye Xian\’er\’s expression turned serious.
Only by finding the Nine-Grade Golden Lotus could their Master be saved.
\"Huh? Heaven\’s Secret Pavilion?\"
Ye Xian\’er\’s gaze shifted, catching sight of a building nearby.
\"Foretell the future, comprehend the past; Divine Yin and Yang, sever the Five Elements? Such audacious claims!\"
The palace-robed beauty gave a light snort, her eyes carrying a touch of disdain.
Linglong City was but a tiny speck on the vast land of the Southern Wilderness, yet the one who wrote this couplet had the most arrogant boast.
Not even Saints dared to rashly discuss heavenly secrets.
What worthy abilities could a mere Heaven\’s Secret Pavilion possibly have?
Ye Xian\’er stared intently at the Heaven\’s Secret Pavilion. To her senses, the aura emanating from this building was profoundly strange, seemingly containing an extremely profound and mysterious principle.
As she looked, she actually felt a sense of sudden enlightenment! Her Qi flowed smoothly, and her cultivation level broke through!
\"Xian\’er, you… you broke through?\"
The palace-robed beauty stared at her disciple in surprise. \"Did you just experience sudden enlightenment?\"
\"Yes.\"
Ye Xian\’er nodded, puzzled. \"I don\’t know how it happened. I was just looking at the building when I achieved sudden enlightenment and then broke through to the Divine Spring Realm.\"
\"Master, why don\’t we go in and take a look?\"
Ye Xian\’er felt that her breakthrough had a lot to do with Heaven\’s Secret Pavilion.
\"Don\’t waste time… Xian\’er, you…\"
The palace-robed woman was about to stop her, but Ye Xian\’er had already walked into Heaven\’s Secret Pavilion.
In the attic, a youth in green lay lazily on a grand chair. In one hand, he held a history of the Yuan Realm, and in the other, he held a cup of tea, relaxing contentedly.
The moment the master and disciple pair stepped into Heaven\’s Secret Pavilion, Ye Xu sensed them instantly.
Two streams of information flooded Ye Xu\’s mind.
Name: Qi Hongchou.
Strength: Six Stars of the Dao Palace (Noble).
Affiliation: One of the ten great sects of the Southern Wilderness, Tianxin Sect.
Master: Qi Qingsi, the Third Elder of Tianxin Sect, currently gravely injured.
Purpose of the journey: To find the Nine-Grade Golden Lotus and save Qi Qingsi.
Name: Ye Xian\’er.
Strength: Early-stage Divine Spring Realm.
Affiliation: Tianxin Sect.
Master: Qi Hongchou.
Purpose of the journey: To find the Nine-Grade Golden Lotus and save Qi Qingsi.
The information about both was already clear to Ye Xu.
However, he did not rise. Instead, he set aside his book and pointed to the teapot on the table, smiling kindly as he spoke. \"Miss Qi, Miss Ye, meeting is fate. Have a cup of warm tea first!\"
\"Playing tricks!\"
The palace-robed woman snorted softly, then immediately realized something was wrong.
How did he know her and Xian\’er\’s surnames?
\"How do you know me?\"
Qi Hongchou felt a shock in her heart. She shielded Ye Xian\’er behind her and demanded sharply.
She asked herself—though she was a Six Stars of the Dao Palace Noble, in the Southern Wilderness, she was still only a minor figure, not known to just anyone yet.
Unless, this person had investigated her.
\"This is Heaven\’s Secret Pavilion. If I want to know something, there\’s nothing I can\’t know.\"
Ye Xu slowly stood up, clasping his hands behind his back, his deep gaze fixed on Qi Hongchou.
\"Pure nonsense!\"
Qi Hongchou\’s expression was icy cold; of course, she didn\’t believe Ye Xu\’s claim.
Ye Xian\’er was also very excited.
But unlike Qi Hongchou, Ye Xian\’er leaned more toward believing Ye Xu\’s words.
This Heaven\’s Secret Pavilion seemed like a world apart. Standing inside it, the earlier sensation felt deeply profound.
The youth before her might truly be an otherworldly expert capable of predicting the heavens.
\"Who are you, exactly?\"
Qi Hongchou glared coldly at Ye Xu while secretly channeling her magical energy.
As a cultivator, Qi Hongchou had numerous enemies. The youth before her could well be a master sent by someone to strike at her.
But one thing puzzled Qi Hongchou peculiarly.
There was not the slightest fluctuation of magical power coming from Ye Xu.
Just like an ordinary mortal.
But Qi Hongchou didn’t let her guard down—how could such a mortal possibly know her surname?
Qi Hongchou quietly mustered her magical energy.
But the next moment,
a dreadful despair rose from within her.
Without her realizing when, her magical energy had been sealed—she couldn\’t muster a shred of power.
She had become an ordinary person.
\"Who are you, exactly?\"
Unlike her earlier interrogating tone, Qi Hongchou\’s voice now quivered with dread.
To seal her magical energy without a sound showed terrifying power—even her own master couldn\’t do that.
Could he be… a Heavenly God?
Qi Hongchou stared at Ye Xu in terror, her expression frantic, her mind racing for a solution.
\"Rest easy. I bear no ill will toward either of you.\"
Ye Xu smiled.
Hearing this, Qi Hongchou finally felt less afraid.
The person before her, though appearing as a youth, might actually be one of those old monsters unfathomably skilled at preserving youthful looks.
\"Since you\’ve stepped into Heaven\’s Secret Pavilion, it is fate.\"
\"Given that, I can tell you the whereabouts of the Nine-Grade Golden Lotus.\"
