Hanyu's face lit up with a grin. If Hun Bugui said so, then it was real.
"You need fortune?"
Hun Bugui wasn't stupid. He quickly caught on. Of course, it wasn't hard to guess. Why else would Hanyu come looking for him?
Still, just thinking about that stuff made Hun Bugui shake his head.
"I can't help you with that."
He refused almost without hesitation. It was simply too difficult.
Hanyu casually drew Hexi Slash again. Hun Bugui's face turned green all over.
He kept backing away, waving his hands with an exasperated look. "Be reasonable. It's not that I don't want to help. Your request is just too difficult. Can you let me finish first?"
Shi Xiu, standing nearby, couldn't help chiming in. She spoke hurriedly. "He's right. What you want really is hard to get. You're asking too much."
If even Shi Xiu was saying the same thing, Hanyu grew quite curious.
"Heavenly Dao Sect can produce stones as easily as anything. Why can't the two of you do the same?"
Hanyu had simply assumed too much. In Heavenly Dao Sect's small world, fortune clung to stones, but that didn't mean things worked the same way over at Yanluo Hall.
Hun Bugui gave a bitter smile and slowly explained, "The key is, you said theirs is on stones. Of course that's easy. But..."
"But over on our side, fortune clings to the Enlightenment Dao Tree!"
Hanyu's eyes flew wide open. Good heavens, had these two sides done so many wicked things that even fortune would rather cling to stones on one side and trees on the other?
And all just to keep it away from their cultivators.
"It may not be the fortune itself. It could have been a method the Heavenly Dao used back then," the Artifact