Central Plains, Heavenly Calculation Mountain Range

"I want you to recruit a main lineage of diviners and turn it into our Merak Divination Division."

As she spoke, Grandmother Yao seemed somewhat nostalgic. "Back then, I had a good relationship with the sect master of the Central Plains' Plum Blossom Sect. You could even say we were friends who had entrusted our lives to one another."

"But at the time, I was a lone rogue cultivator with no fixed abode, living even more miserably than he was. Now that Old Madman has invited me to wield the authority of an ultimate sacred land, I can finally be considered qualified to extend a helping hand to old Mei."

The Plum Blossom Sect was a reclusive ancient sect of the Central Plains, belonging to the diviner lineage.

They wielded Plum Blossom Divination and studied the arts of divination, taking the peerless Daoist canon, the Book of Changes, as their foundational scripture. Based on the numerical principles of the innate Eight Trigrams, they could cast hexagrams anytime and anywhere, calculating fortune, fate, auspiciousness, calamity, blessings, misfortunes, and all manner of prophecies with extraordinary accuracy. Their abilities were unfathomable, like those of gods and ghosts.

Of course, diviners revealed the secrets of Heaven and were thus highly susceptible to Heaven's envy.

Whether through shortened lifespans, depleted vital blood, or severe damage to their origins, the number of disciples in every generation had always been exceedingly small. They aged before their time and found it difficult to ever flourish.

Compared to the vast populations of the great sacred lands and aristocratic clans, which numbered in the millions, a diviner sect with a thousand members was already considered large. More often, their teachings were passed down through a single line from generation to generation, sometimes even ending altogether.

The sect masters of the