Tiexin Shi was puzzled. "Destiny Missions? Who issued you these missions? Are you taking orders from someone?"
"Not someone else—you. Destiny Missions are the deepest desires and wishes in your heart. By completing them, we can strengthen our synchronization, evolve together, and share what we have while supporting each other."
Shi Tiexin explained it carefully once, and Tiexin Shi immediately understood. "So this is like the common people welcoming the Red Army to liberate them? That's great. I only wish you'd come twenty years earlier!"
Shi Tiexin asked, "What is your wish?"
"A wish..." Tiexin Shi sat cross-legged within the Martial Heart Zen Lotus. Ripples spread across the heart-lake beneath the lotus. His expression was calm as he said with a somewhat Zen-like air, "I don't have any particular wish."
"No wish?"
"More or less." Tiexin Shi considered it. "Now that you're here, it's like I have superpowers. What would a man want to do after gaining superpowers? I think there are probably three things. The first is—avenge grievances."
Shi Tiexin nodded vigorously. "Makes sense. That's exactly what Scholar Stone did. So, do you yearn for revenge?"
"I did at first. But later, that guy set fire to a granary for an insurance scam and accidentally burned himself to death, so that was that."
"This... all right, then what's the second?"
"The second is—make money when you have money to make. Make mountains of it, spend it extravagantly, live in limitless luxury, stand above everyone else."
"That makes a lot of sense too. That's exactly what Black Venerable did. So, do you yearn for wealth?"
Tiexin Shi shook his head. "Of course I yearn for it, but I wouldn't call it a wish from the bottom of my heart. Money will always be made. Especially in Gao Country—so long as