"Cui Sujing..."
Hearing this name, Qiu Yan pondered for a moment and immediately understood their purpose. He had the men led into the main hall to wait, while he summoned Yang Huang and gave him several instructions.
Yang Huang looked surprised when he heard them, but recalling Qiu Yan's capabilities, he nodded and left. He actually mounted a horse and rode straight out of the residence.
After Yang Huang departed, Qiu Yan remained seated instead of going out. With a slight stir of his senses, his consciousness drifted through the Void, observing a vast mass of Fortune gathering there. From time to time, traces of it fell upon him, as though it might descend at any moment.
"The merit from quelling the White Lotus Sect rebellion has brought me quite a bit of Fortune. Since the rebellion was put down so swiftly, my name will surely be recorded in history, granting an added boost to my Fortune. To have none before and none after—this is precisely such a situation."
With that thought, Qiu Yan's mind shifted, and his perception reached deep into the Void, arriving within the Fortune mass of his own school.
This mass of Fortune had expanded more than tenfold from before. As Qiu Yan spread out his senses, he immediately detected several faint clusters of Fortune nearby.
These were the Fortunes of Great Rui's other schools.
Compared to those schools, Qiu Yan's mass of Fortune could not yet be called large, though it already surpassed several of them. Yet four years ago, when this Fortune mass had truly taken shape, it had been the smallest among them.
"A school's Fortune is influenced not only by the depth of its exploration into learning, but also by the number of its students. The more people follow a school's doctrine,