When the Truth Came Out, She Was Stunned!

"Thank you, Senior Zhuge, for easing this junior's worries."

Hearing Zhuge Qingchen's promise, Fang Yueheng immediately said with utmost respect.

Zhuge Qingchen was the young master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, a mysterious figure hailed as the "Heavenly Secrets Saint Son"!

And now, the other party was actually going to stay by his side day and night for the next two days...

Fang Yueheng was naturally thrilled. At the same time, he realized that if even a great expert whom Senior Zhuge treated with such reverence said his problem was serious, then a whole string of terrible things might really befall him...

Fang Yueheng was still thinking when Su Li's clear, melodious voice rang out: "Fang Yueheng, male, 15 years old, early stage of the second level of the Golden Core Realm.

"You have two talents: Withered Forest and Earth Pulse.

"You have two physiques: Mysterious Wood Spirit Body and Mysterious Earth Spirit Body.

"Your father is Fang Yuanhao, age 35, cultivation level...

"Your mother is Qin Xiangwen, age 33, cultivation level...

"You have an older half-brother, Fang Yueyu. His mother is a maid named Chu Yulian..."

Fang Yueheng's breath caught slightly, and a trace of apprehension stirred in his heart.

Although this information could be obtained through investigation, he didn't believe that a great master who had attained the Dao would bother investigating a mere True Disciple like him.

"Master Su sees all with perfect clarity and understands everything at a glance. Every word you've spoken is true. Yueheng is in awe."

Shock showed in Fang Yueheng's eyes. He clasped his hands and bowed deeply.

Su Li nodded slightly. He glanced at the handsome men and beautiful women gathered around Fang Yueheng, but heard none of the "disdain" in their hearts.

In other words, no one was outwardly showing respect and anticipation while secretly looking down on him with contempt.

Su Li felt a little disappointed. He genuinely wished a batch of prodigies would show up, mock and look down on him in their hearts, and let him rake in a hefty haul.

But there wasn't a single one! Not one!

"Could Yun Wanchu have sternly warned them in private?"

Su Li wondered. Then he silently focused on Yun Wanchu beside him, opened his Life Archive, and examined it closely.

After reading it, Su Li was utterly at a loss for words.

Because Yun Wanchu really had done exactly that just before they arrived!

[Master Su Li is helping a friend defy fate and change their destiny. He has sealed his own cultivation with a divine art, which is why he seems so ordinary. But you must not show him the slightest disrespect!

He has devoted himself entirely to divining the secrets of heaven. As a result, despite being only twenty, he has already acquired some of the abilities of Peeking into Spirit and even Peeking into Saint!

His divination skills rival those of Senior Zhuge Wuwei, the Pavilion Master of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, and in some respects, have even surpassed them!

Even Mystic Master Zhuge Qingchen respectfully calls him "Brother Li" and plans to learn from him...

More importantly, Master Su has twice saved this Holy Lord's life through his divinations! And in doing so, he saved your lives too!

The Holy Lord was originally going to take you to the Blazing Wasteland for training yesterday. But Master Su divined a great calamity in advance, so you didn't go.

You all know what happened yesterday—the Heavenly Town Soul Stele descended, the void in the Blazing Wasteland collapsed, and the laws fell into chaos!

Every living thing in that area perished, their souls scattered and their ashes blown away!

That was a lifesaving kindness to you as well! A debt of immense gratitude!]

[You are all peerless prodigies, chosen from ten thousand at the Wanli Holy Land. You should understand right from wrong and know what matters!

I don't care how extraordinarily gifted you were before. In front of Master Su, put away your pride and complacency! Put away your defiance! Put away your arrogance!

You must treat Master Su as you would treat the Holy Lord... No, with even greater respect than you show the Holy Lord!

If I discover that you've disrespected Master Su, harbored ill intentions toward him, or acted one way to his face and another behind his back, I'll cripple your cultivation on the spot and expel you from the Wanli Holy Land!

For the worst offenders, I'll execute you on the spot, without mercy!]

...

Su Li saw some of the details in Yun Wanchu's Life Archive and was speechless.

Was he supposed to need the respect of these prodigies? Their favor?

And that old Yun—he was all obsequiousness and sincerity in front of him, but with his disciples, he wielded both carrot and stick, exuding authority like some great big shot!

Unforgivable. Simply unforgivable!

Su Li seethed with indignation. He withdrew the system's virtual light screen and said to Fang Yueheng, "Those basic facts are easy enough to divine. They don't matter. What matters is tomorrow.

"At noon tomorrow, your mother will get into a fight with Zheng Xueyan, Liu Songquan's mother. Your tribulation will begin with that fight, then spiral out of control. So tomorrow at noon, you can come see me with Zhuge Qingchen..."

As Su Li spoke, he added, "All right, you may leave."

Fang Yueheng froze, puzzled. His mother was gentle and virtuous, and had never picked a fight with anyone. How could she possibly get into a fight with Zheng Xueyan, Liu Songquan's mother?

Still, Fang Yueheng didn't question him. The truth would become clear at noon tomorrow.

After respectfully thanking Su Li with a bow, Fang Yueheng stepped aside.

Just then, a girl with long, straight legs and a pale blue spiritual gauze dress walked over.

Her eyes were large and bright. Her deep, dark gaze brimmed with intelligence and spiritual insight.

Her bearing was a little aloof, but her coolness was nothing like Hua Ziyan's reclusive coldness. Hers was more like a highly rational indifference.

"Master Su, thank you for saving my life."

The girl bowed gracefully, bringing with her a faint, fragrant breeze.

Su Li nodded. "Yun Qingxuan, the eldest disciple of the Wanli Holy Land. Twenty-six years old, late stage of the ninth level of the Golden Core Realm. You haven't formed a Spiritual Infant yet, but you secretly used an ancient formation to test yourself. When you eventually form one, it'll be a three-star Spiritual Infant.

"Your talent is Cloud Thunder Totem, and your physique is Cloud Thunder Spirit Body.

"Your physique is rather special. It came about because your mother's bloodline contains a wisp of an ancient Dao-mark aura of wind, fire, and thunder.

"That's why your younger brother, Yun Qinghong, has the Flame Thunder Totem talent and the Flame Thunder Spirit Body."

Yun Qingxuan's beautiful eyes lit up. She stared at Su Li's face, not looking away for a long time.

"You're very shocked, and you think I'm incredibly capable? This is only an appetizer."

"Ever since you were little, you've carried certain burdens, so you've always been extremely rational. Until you accomplish your goal, you won't let your emotions or desires sway you.

"That's why you cultivated an extreme technique that rejected love and severed affection, to temper your resolve.

"That's what made you utterly rational, even cold and heartless.

"Also, your fate has been smooth lately, with everything going your way—unless you touch that forbidden thing."

As he spoke, Su Li looked at Hua Ziyan and said, "Fairy Li, take out your Purple Rhyme Pot."

"Master Su, here's the Purple Rhyme Pot you asked for."

"Senior Hua, pour some of the spring water from your Miraculous Holy Spring into it."

"All right, Master Su."

"Yun Qinghong, activate your Flame Thunder Spirit Body and release your Flame Thunder Totem. Gather your Cloud Thunder Spirit Flame and use it to boil the tea."

"All right, Master Su. But... there's no tea in it."

After Yun Qinghong came over and gathered his Cloud Thunder Spirit Flame, he hesitated as he spoke.

Su Li casually glanced at Yun Qingxuan. "Weren't you planning to give me a gift and ask me to divine the origin of that item? And didn't you also want to know what kind of tea leaves those are?"

Boom!

Yun Qingxuan's whole body shuddered, and her mind went completely blank!

When Su Li had exposed the burden she carried and her secret, she'd been shocked—but since he hadn't said exactly what the secret was, it hadn't hit her all that hard!

But now, the mysterious tea leaves and the mysterious item she'd brought had both been last-minute decisions she'd made just before leaving. No one else knew about them!

In fact, she hadn't even planned to take them out. Only after he exposed the burden she carried had she decided on the spur of the moment to offer him a gift!

And he'd immediately divined it?

Yun Qingxuan had met Heavenly Secrets Masters before. There were no shortage of masters in the world skilled at reading the currents of fate.

But at that moment, she was truly stunned!