(An elder at home passed away yesterday, and I hurried home. I was busy until midnight, so the update was delayed again.)
This Lin family ancestor was a female cultivator. By the time she was born, the Lin family had already risen to prominence, with talented members emerging in abundance. The Lin family's formations were renowned, firmly establishing it as the foremost formation lineage in the Jialuo Ghost Domain.
Yet this female cultivator was not devoted to formations. Instead, she possessed extraordinary talent in divination and attained profound mastery, nearly reaching the point of supernatural skill. Within just a few thousand years, her reputation had become known among cultivators across the Three Realms.
The art of divination could foresee calamities, discern fortune and misfortune, distinguish yin from yang, and understand the course of destiny. It was a strange art that calculated future events—mysterious and difficult to explain.
The Cultivation World had long recorded that the foremost masters of divination possessed abilities unfathomable even to ghosts and gods. They could discern life and death, measure a person's opportunities, and perform feats so wondrous that they were utterly inconceivable and beyond description.
However, this path entangled one in too many causes and effects and stained one with karmic obstacles. Thus, only those blessed with great fortune could dabble in it.
Of course, even if one wished to study it, one still needed unparalleled talent. Otherwise, even the most astonishing genius could not comprehend so much as the basics of divination.
Yet this Lin family forebear, named Lin Ruoling, had shaken the Three Realms with her renown in her era. Even the foremost divination masters of the Spirit Realm admired her immensely. Throughout her life, she had helped countless Mahayana cultivators fulfill their wishes, causing numerous Mahayana cultivators across the Three Realms to