Behind the Plaque Guardian Servant lay an expanse of void, where invisible power obstructed Fate Observation and Qi Gazing.
A Fortune Fish leaped from the water and landed in the Heaven's Mandate Instrument.
A vortex opened in the void, and Li Qingxian cast his divine sense into it.
A resplendent palace rose before him, with glazed green tiles, vermilion and cyan pillars, Seven Beasts Ridge-Press atop its roof, gold-leafed beams and rafters, jade steps before its gates, and wing towers on either side. It was lofty, majestic, and magnificent beyond measure.
"A typical prince's palace. Those who possess such a Fate Mansion are chosen nobles born with golden spoons in their mouths. So long as nothing goes wrong, they are destined to become Upper Rank, perhaps even First Rank. To have such a person's Fate Mansion forcibly stripped away and placed into a Fate Servant is unimaginable. Just as I expected, this Plaque Guardian Servant came from no ordinary background. It must have been personally refined by an Upper Rank Fate Arts Master of the Fate Lord Sect."
Li Qingxian walked to the vermilion gate studded with bronze nails, but it did not budge.
He consumed Fortune Fish again—one, two, three, four, five.
Five Fortune Fish leaped forth, and the great gates slowly opened with a thunderous rumble.
"If this truly were a palace Fate Mansion, five Fortune Fish would not be enough. But because he is a Fate Servant rather than a True Person, it can be opened."
Standing upon the jade platform at the entrance, Li Qingxian looked into the palace.
The four Fate Grounds of youth, young adulthood, middle age, and old age unfolded upward in sequence like four broad tiers of steps. Each of the first three Fate Grounds had four Fate Stars, while the Elderly