Hongyun Gets His Fish Bombed

Jiangbei, a secluded mountain forest.

The north wind howled, and white snow blanketed the world in frost. Beneath goose-feather flakes falling upon a thatched hut in the forest, a man stood with his hands behind his back.

"What heavy snow."

He wore a crane cloak, a smile at the corner of his lips, and lightly waved a feather fan. He cut a dashing, carefree figure, looking at first glance like nothing more than a young nobleman out to tread upon the snow.

Yet when he stood amid the snow, even this overwhelming wintry vista lost its splendor. All things in heaven and earth seemed to crowd around him alone, as though he had gathered all the blessings, wealth, and fortune in the world. He was Heaven's darling, stirring involuntary envy and resentment in all who saw him.

It was none other than Hongyun True Person!

At this moment, Hongyun was making the most difficult decision of his life: whether to go to the bottom of that lake in Jiangnan and retrieve the remnant fragment of his former Grotto-Heaven.

There must be something wrong with that fragment.

It's too much of a coincidence.

But if I don't retrieve it, when will I recover to Foundation Establishment Perfection and seek Gold to ascend? I'm afraid I won't even recover to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage!

At the thought that even trash like the Peak Master of Heaven Mending could bare his teeth at him, Hongyun felt stifled. He raged impotently for quite some time before calming himself again. He then formed a hand seal and chanted an incantation, beginning to calculate karma and divine his imminent fortunes and misfortunes in order to make the most correct judgment.

Yet after several consecutive divinations, he found nothing at all.

Hongyun could not help sighing again,