Several Night Guards looked over. Book-Listener picked up the meat in full view of everyone, put it in his mouth, chewed a few times, and swallowed.
Sunshine Boy remained silent. Whenever anyone chewed, he heard that person's voice.
Yet no one else reacted.
Book-Listener leaned closer and whispered, "The witch said we wouldn't live long, not that we'd immediately... you know. There are ways to remedy it. Don't worry too much."
Sunshine Boy nodded.
After the witch left, Sunshine Boy waited until no one was paying attention and placed the chunk of meat on the Yellow Springs Mark on his left arm.
He silently recited, Sovereign Lord, please eat first...
He left it there for a while, but nothing changed. Sunshine Boy thought he might soon be forced to go out stealing autumn watermelons. If he couldn't deal with this meat quickly, he would have to swallow it.
His thoughts raced, and he realized that this meat was probably something like the No-Return Road or Three Paths Mountain-an eerie.
"Fate Observation and Qi Gazing!"
Sunshine Boy steeled himself and simply treated the meat as a fate mold or fate star. Using what he had learned from the Fate Measuring Sect, he expended his magical power to drive the Fortune Measuring Ruler and Fate-Setting Scale in divination.
After a while, Sunshine Boy grew a little alarmed. He hadn't expected the meat to actually resonate with his Fate Arts, producing a response similar to a fate mold's.
The Fate-Setting Scale determined that it was a void fate star, aligned with metal among the five elements. It had the form of a fate star but no actual power.
The Fortune Measuring Ruler determined that the meat actually contained the fortune of death and the tomb, yet his Qi-Gazing Technique could reveal no concrete