Stealing Fortune

Hearing Ancestor Sheng mention the reason spiritual energy had vanished, Xu Chunniang's heart stirred.

She suppressed the urge to press for answers and quietly waited for what came next.

Sheng Qingyun's fingers twitched, sending a fire serpent toward the ice. Watching the ice melt away beneath its fiery tongue, she nodded in satisfaction and continued.

"While you were in seclusion, I had been wondering whether I should go look for you. I never expected you to emerge just at this time.

"Perhaps it truly was Heaven's will."

After a sigh of emotion, she suddenly asked, "Do you know what Great Fortune is?"

"Great Fortune?"

Xu Chunniang pondered for a moment before answering uncertainly.

"I only know that every race must be protected by Great Fortune in order to prosper and endure. Even the most ordinary low-level demonic beasts have Great Fortune watching over them.

"Once a race is exterminated, its Great Fortune will be stripped away."

Sheng Qingyun nodded. "What you said is correct, but not comprehensive enough. Fortune is that which all things bear. It is not merely races that possess Great Fortune—the entire Northwest Continent, even the whole Qiankun Realm, has its own Great Fortune."

Upon hearing this, an astonishing conjecture arose in Xu Chunniang's heart.

"Could the disappearance of spiritual energy be connected to the Great Fortune of the Northwest Continent?"

"Yes. In truth, someone proposed this possibility a thousand years ago, but the loss of spiritual energy was not obvious then, so the theory was unanimously refuted by everyone else."

At first, Sheng Qingyun had been unwilling to believe that the draining of Great Fortune had caused spiritual energy to diminish.

But as the loss of spiritual energy grew ever more severe, she had no choice but to believe it.

"For more than two thousand years,