"This wasn't pure idiocy?"
Jiang Qiao watched with great interest.
Although they were far apart,
he heard their conversation clearly.
"These people are ordinary people themselves, yet they want to grant you supernatural power and help you become a Special Ability User?"
"Are they kidding?"
It suddenly reminded him of a certain Master who swindled people under false pretenses.
His own business ventures had been disastrous.
He was even more of a sucker when it came to stocks.
Yet he claimed he could adjust fortunes and change destinies, making his clients' regular income and windfall profits soar, ensuring everything went their way.
That alone would have been one thing.
But there was something even more outrageous.
He claimed he could see the karmic ties of your previous life.
Jiang Qiao did not have much prejudice against divination and fortune-telling. He had researched it for fun himself back then.
After all, he collected rent from ten buildings.
He never had to worry about food or money.
Aside from gaming and traveling, he spent his days reading Ghost Stories and studying mysticism.
It was just something to pass the time.
Besides, the city he lived in had a particularly strong folk-custom atmosphere.
He had been exposed to such things since childhood.
So he had long grown used to them.
But...
This Master had been utterly ridiculous. Ask him about something from ten years ago, and he would be vague and evasive, yet he would open his mouth and tell you all about your past life.
There was no way to verify it anyway, so he could just make things up, couldn't he?
Yet plenty of people believed him. People seeking the Master to adjust their fortunes, people asking him to deal with their karmic creditors—it was an endless stream.
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