Ke Ding's expression changed drastically upon hearing this. How had this been dragged onto him too?!
Damn... I still underestimated him.
His heart skipped a beat, his thoughts churning wildly as he slowly forced out a strained smile. "Dao Ancestor, karma bears no weight; its mysteries between Heaven and Earth cannot be grasped."
"Karma has never been something living beings can scheme against. Across countless ages, it descends unwittingly... it does not move according to the will of us cultivators."
Looking every bit the old scholar, Ke Ding actually began discoursing on abstruse mysteries and debating the Dao with Chen Xun. Before he could continue—
Chen Xun raised a brow and calmly cut in. "Then I suppose it is priceless. Even handing this Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace over to this Dao Ancestor would not repay it?"
"Dao Ancestor!" Ke Ding changed expressions with astonishing speed, his emotions rising and falling in a spectacular display. He resumed his timid Immortal appearance. "What exactly do you require? Our Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace owes you a favor—what could we possibly refuse to give?!"
"Heavenly Secrets Dao Art."
Chen Xun murmured softly, narrowing his eyes as he finally revealed his purpose. "I wish to borrow it for a look. Nothing much—just to calculate fortune and fate now and then."
"I have seen countless cultivation arts from every race, but this path alone has been difficult to find. You know I did not find a storage ring on that Jiang Clan Immortal."
"And those ancient inscriptions of yours—I would like to study them when I have nothing to do. Learn more, enrich myself."
At this point, Chen Xun revealed a faint smile. "If one does not read more, the years ahead would be far too hard to endure. We Immortals should suffer no backlash from