Boom!
At the very moment Gu Xiaosan knelt and kowtowed,
Li Yun, already in midair, suddenly felt the Destiny River within him rumble. From somewhere beyond perception, a substantial tide of fortune surged toward him and poured directly into his body.
The fortune in the Destiny River swelled rapidly. In barely a quarter of an hour, it had filled the entire Destiny River!
"Holy shit—"
"My fortune has reached Emperor-level too?"
"Where did all this fortune come from?"
"Hiss..."
Li Yun subconsciously turned back toward Gu Xiaosan's home. Vaguely, he discovered that an inexplicable connection had formed between himself and the direction of Gu Xiaosan's home.
"Destinies entwined?"
"Karma established?"
"Gu Xiaosan has taken me as his master?"
"Because Gu Xiaosan took me as his master, it triggered a resonance, so I got to ride the coattails of this massive fortune...?"
Li Yun did not know whether to laugh or cry.
He had merely seen that Gu Xiaosan possessed abundant fortune and wanted to invest in him early. He had never intended to ride the coattails of that fortune, all right?
And he had no intention of taking on a disciple either.
Yet this...
He was speechless.
But it had already happened, and there was nothing Li Yun could do. He could hardly go back and tell Gu Xiaosan, "Don't misunderstand, I'm not taking you as my disciple," could he?
The fortune he had gained had already entered his own Destiny River. He could not exactly cast it off of his own accord, could he?
That was not how it worked.
"Forget it. Destiny is mysterious. If we're entangled, then we're entangled... Let nature take its course."
Li Yun could not be bothered to dwell on it.
He casually opened the System Panel and upgraded the Immortal Art, the Great