All Roads Were Dead Ends

The emotions between one person and another could not be shared, not even if you had mind-reading.

After returning to Carefree Immortal Island, Chen Zhixing discovered at some point that he had gained this minor divine ability, and it made him realize with sudden clarity that he had already advanced to the twelfth sequence.

Did mind-reading count as a divine ability?

Perhaps it did, but Chen Zhixing felt this little divine ability held no meaning for him. Not only could he not understand the thoughts he read, it instead burdened him with all sorts of needless vexations.

For example, he saw a Star Palace disciple sitting upright at one side of the lotus pond, gazing at the pond full of blooming lotuses with a worried frown.

Out of curiosity, Chen Zhixing used the divine ability to probe him, but the answer he heard made even his heart go rigid for a moment.

One Star-Colored Lotus fetched three Superior-Grade Spirit Stones from outsiders. There were ten thousand lotus platforms in this pond. If I stole one a day, surely no one would notice, right?

That was the disciple's inner voice.

Would he be discovered? No.

This pond of lotuses bloomed all year round, and there were not ten thousand flowers as that disciple believed, but a full twenty-one thousand three hundred. And even if no one picked them, even if they were left to grow freely, their blooming period was only three months.

In other words, never mind picking one a day; even if that disciple picked a dozen or so each day for three straight months, as far as the appearance of the whole pond was concerned, there would not be the slightest damage.

After all, flowers bloomed and flowers fell. Who would go count them every day?

But then