As the saying went, fortune-tellers could not tell their own fortunes. Was that not the same principle as skilled swimmers drowning in water and skilled boxers dying beneath another's fists?
Those who understood the Book of Changes did not divine; those who mastered it did not perform augury.
Liao Rushan had not foreseen what changes would befall his own life of profound enlightenment in Ying Kingdom!
Just as the reclusive master who had stepped into the half-step Boundary Breaking Realm, "Twelfth Terror," had not foreseen that his two sons would become the greatest tribulation of his life.
Then how could Mud Bodhisattva, who had completely chosen seclusion after the fall of the Heavenly Alliance, have foreseen that one day a master would find him and invite him back into the world?
Anyone capable of finding Mud Bodhisattva was surely more skilled than Mud Bodhisattva himself.
Jiang Dali had once mobilized the entire Black Wind Stronghold to search the various Vassal States for Mud Bodhisattva's whereabouts, yet found nothing. Such divining grandmasters truly deserved the title of Ethereal Master. Finding them depended entirely on one's own fate and opportunities; it could not be forced.
Yet there was one exception: using the same methods of calculation and geomancy to locate a person through their fate, one could eventually find them.
Since the deaths of Tianji Twelve and Hundred Knowledge Madman, almost no one in the world had successfully located Mud Bodhisattva through fate-reading arts.
Originally, Ghost Valley Gate might have had some hope. Yet though masters had emerged endlessly from Ghost Valley Gate's lineage, the greatest among them were merely comparable to Liao Rushan and still could not be called Ethereal Masters.
Only two people were exceptions. Even Hundred Knowledge Madman had been utterly unable to read these extraordinary figures—Di Shitian and