The Great Bed of the Primordial World: I Kidnapped Nuwa to Modern Times for Farming
Chapter 15

You have a wife-boosting fate, isn't it suicide to tell fortunes for Empress Nuwa?

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The next day...

A cacophony of gongs and drums...

Chen Xuan was groggily woken up. He got up and washed up decisively. After years of working hard outside, he felt the joy of the temple fair once again, a true childhood memory.

"Feng Xi... hurry up! This year's temple fair is very lively. Let's go offer incense early. I heard there's an old divine stick who's very good at fortune-telling. You can all go ask him about your horoscopes..." Mom Chen was very enthusiastic, having prepared the joss paper and candles for worship early on.

"Coming right up..." Lady Nuwa said helplessly.

"Hey, hey... Mom! I'm your son, why are you leaving without even calling me?" Chen Xuan chased after her.

The three walked on the road, looking like a family of three going out, happily heading to a grand temple fair three kilometers away, which villagers from ten miles around were coming to attend.

At a glance, there were at least four to five thousand people, with many more still arriving. It was a grand temple fair.

"Lady Nuwa... are you really going to enter the temple to worship the gods?" Chen Xuan was very curious, looking at the lively scene ahead where a deity statue was being carried back around the village.

"Nowadays, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is scarce, and it's long been impossible to deify. Even if this Palace were to worship a god, it wouldn't be something later-generation gods could bear, because this Palace is a primordial deity..."

Lady Nuwa saw through the essence of heaven and earth at a glance, and also saw through the truth of the temple fair. In her eyes, no deity dared to be arrogant.

"Awesome..." Chen Xuan gave a thumbs-up. It was good to cling to a powerful figure.

Some TV dramas showed that when true gods are worshipped, endless karma descends, which no deity can bear and would instantly explode. Is it true or false?

"What are you two standing there stunned for? Come in with me to welcome the deity..." Mom Chen called out.

"Mom... you go ahead! We'll walk around. It's fine if one representative goes. Sincerity is what matters," Chen Xuan chuckled and refused.

"Alright, alright... you two enjoy your time together. It's a good day today, so I won't scold you..." Mom Chen happily agreed and went up with a smile, only to meet a group of aunties, and they entered the temple together.

People came and went. Lady Nuwa's demeanor everywhere, a perfect goddess, attracted many eyes. For some reason, looking at her for too long made people feel a sense of haziness, of unreality.

Otherwise, with her heroic presence, the whole place would have been in an uproar, and even the temple fair would have turned into a divine maiden's descent...

"A very nice temple fair, with people coming and going and plenty of incense. It's a pity my cultivation can't be used, otherwise I would directly deify you and absorb endless incense power..."

In Lady Nuwa's eyes, strands of incense power coiled around heaven and earth, accumulating a large amount of the power of sentient beings on a deity statue ahead. In a place abundant with spiritual energy, new deities would surely be born.

What has Earth experienced in this Age of Dharma's End?

The ancient gods of the Primordial World, only legends remain, all vanished without a trace. Have they truly been extinguished?

Nuwa didn't know, she could only explore step by step...

"What god are you planning to deify me as?" Chen Xuan joked.

"What god can you be, you useless thing? You're fit to guard the toilets..." Lady Nuwa rolled her eyes. From her initial coldness, nobility, and arrogance, she had begun to show much more humanity, becoming utterly charming.

"Hmph... I must be deified as the Golden Palace Supreme Emperor. When we return to the Primordial World, I'll go fight for it. You have to help me... tsk tsk..." Chen Xuan was smug, imagining himself becoming the ruler of the three realms.

"Dream on..." Nuwa walked forward. People were coming and going, and it seemed very lively.

So there was indeed a fortune teller setting up a stall...

He wore sunglasses and set up a fortune-telling stall. He was about sixty years old, with a bit of a Republican era style. He was telling a woman's fortune, touching her hand bones and looking at her palm lines...

"Master, how is it? I heard you're very accurate. When will I be loved by a domineering CEO?"

A beautiful woman with a charming gaze looked at the old fortune teller with deep affection, her eyes full of expectation. He had a sharp tongue and could tell the vicissitudes of life.

"No... your life has many stories. Before the age of thirty, you'll have a love that's like Kyōka Suigetsu. After thirty, it's hard to say. You'll get married hastily, have a son and a daughter. It will seem like a happy family, but it's just for show..."

"Why..."

This immediately made the woman panic.

"Because the world has changed..." the old divine stick sighed and said, "In a truly prosperous era, men don't marry and women don't love. By the time you're sixty, you'll still be driving to travel and living a life of enviable singlehood, traveling the world..."

"You quack... talking nonsense..." The woman was furious and cursed as she walked away.

"Heaven and earth give birth to all things, and they strive to improve themselves. Humans are the greatest feng shui. If you want to change your fate, change yourself..." The old divine stick smiled and looked around at the people, his eyes landing on Chen Xuan.

Chen Xuan was also quite curious. What if he let the old man tell his fortune? He said, "Old man... tell me my fortune? I feel like I'm about to take off..."

He had earned ten million, rented a hundred acres of land, and most importantly, tricked Lady Nuwa into planting crops with him. It was truly the peak of his life.

The old divine stick took a sip of tea and smiled peacefully, "I've noticed you for a long time. Let me see your palm..."

The old divine stick glanced at his palm, touched his bones, and looked at his face a few more times. Finally, he took out a tortoise shell for divination. It seemed as if everything was clear.

"How is it? Will I become the richest man in the world, unreachable in the future, and marry an incredible fairy?" Chen Xuan was very excited.

Because he wanted to find Lady Nuwa to create a fairy for him...

The old divine stick shook his head, leaving Chen Xuan hanging. Looking at Chen Xuan's eyes, he was very surprised and said, "Strange! Strange..."

"What's wrong?" Chen Xuan was also curious. Did this master in the Age of Dharma's End really have such abilities?

Lady Nuwa was also surprised. After arriving in later generations, even though she was a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, she couldn't glimpse the lifelines of sentient beings. Did this old man have heaven-defying abilities?

"Ahem... ahem..." The old divine stick coughed and said, "Your fate is unparalleled in history."

"Hiss... could it be that I'm the prophecy in the last page of the 'Pushing Back the Clouds' book, the sage of 'Sunrise in the East, Ziwei descends to the world'?" Chen Xuan rubbed his hands together. This was the great sage of the Ziwei star, worshipped by all beings.

"No..." The old divine stick shook his head and said, "You are, throughout history, one of the best wife-boosting fates, not a wife-boosting appearance. Whoever marries you will soar to prosperity, like Fengming Qishan, embarking on a great and glorious path..."

Pfft...

Nuwa chuckled on the spot...

She looked at Chen Xuan with a strange gaze. Even though she came from the Primordial World, she didn't understand much about the patriarchal society of later generations, but she knew its value – a destiny unmatched through the ages...

"So! In ancient times, my wife had the fate of an empress?" Chen Xuan said with a bit of pride.

The old divine stick looked at him as if he were an idiot and didn't answer. He turned to Nuwa and asked, "Miss, do you want your fortune told?"

Nuwa smiled and said, "My fate, do you really dare to tell it?"

The old divine stick took a sip of tea and said, "From high officials and nobles to wandering soldiers and peddlers, who do I, with my infallible divine calculation, dare not tell? One hundred yuan per reading..."

"Little Xuanzi, pay..." Nuwa sat down and had Chen Xuan handle the transaction.

Chen Xuan immediately handed over two hundred yuan, adding his own share. He was very curious. Would a mere mortal who tried to tell the fortune of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal be sent to the afterlife on the spot?

The old divine stick looked at his palm, his heart trembled, and then he looked at Nuwa's face. It was blurry, as if it led to an endless void, the end of heaven and earth...

Thump...

The old divine stick immediately knelt down, kowtowed three times to Nuwa, and then, covered in cold sweat, quickly packed up his things and hurried away.

Pfft...

He hadn't even walked ten steps when he spat out a mouthful of blood and stumbled away again, leaving in a hurry...

"What happened? That old divine stick suddenly kowtowed and even vomited blood..."

"He seemed to be telling the fortune of that girl, and for some reason, he suddenly knelt down, his face pale, trembling all over, and hastily packed up and left..."

"Hiss... I've always heard that some mysterious things, once touched, bring karma. This old divine stick must have revealed too much of the heavenly secrets and suffered a backlash..."

"Everyone, hurry into the temple fair and worship the gods properly..."

The surrounding aunties were terrified. They believed most in the mysterious and rushed into the temple to offer incense.

"Nuwa... what is this?" Chen Xuan was bewildered.

"Gods must not be blasphemed..." Nuwa's ethereal words, like a great bell, shook their hearts.

"You're the greatest, you're amazing..." Chen Xuan was speechless.

The two watched the bustling crowd. Villagers from at least a dozen villages had come. About half an hour later, Mom Chen returned, holding a small yellow dog, looking very happy.

"Mom... where did you find it?" Chen Xuan was speechless.

"I saw it on the road. See its injured leg? I picked it up. We'll keep it at home from now on." Mom Chen was proud. Doing good deeds brought joy from the bottom of her heart.

"Let's go! We're going back..." Chen Xuan took the dog and said, "From now on, you'll be called Big Yellow..."

Whine whine whine...

The puppy seemed to protest with a few barks

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