As the Zhao Family and the other aristocratic clans of the Upper Nine Gates lowered their banners and stilled their drums, the commotion Fang Shu had caused had an ever smaller impact within the Immortal Prefecture.
But that did not mean Fang Shu slowly vanished from certain people's sight.
Aside from the Zhao Family and their ilk, another group had now taken notice of Fang Shu because of it.
One day.
Fang Shu holed up in his Fang Immortal Cave, continuing to train his newly acquired spirit pet—Curse Frog Mantou.
After days of study, he had confirmed time and again that this frog had hatched early because of the Heaven-Human Five Decays Curse-Killing Art he had cast.
Moreover, during the curse-killing process, the little creature had absorbed more than the power of the curse.
After a dozen or so immortal mountain disciples died under his curses, the frog had actually absorbed some kind of fortune from their deaths, just like the suppressing objects Fang Shu refined. Only then had its vitality grown strong enough for it to hatch ahead of time.
This discovery greatly piqued Fang Shu's interest and further convinced him that the creature would be an excellent helper for bearing calamities and casting spells. Thus, not long after Curse Frog Mantou entered the world, he subjected it to all manner of tests.
Fang Shu cast nearly every spell he knew on it, studying just how much the frog could endure. He also wanted to know how much karmic burden it could shoulder if, one day, his spell failed and he suffered a backlash.
Inspired by the creature, Fang Shu also began trying to devise a secret art of "fortune transfer."
This "fortune transfer" was not the change of luck mortals hoped for when they prayed to gods and