In its place appeared a Fate Spirit.
Li Qingxian's first Fate Spirit.
It was an enormous book that seemed woven from the stars, with rows of writing brushes hanging neatly from its cover. Their densely layered bristles resembled a human beard.
Below the beard of bristles, an inkstone was set into the book, ink flowing within it like a gaping mouth formed from a pitch-black abyss.
The entire book of stars resembled an abstract, enormous human head.
Fate Spirit: Wenkui.
Li Qingxian smiled and nodded. It certainly lived up to being a Fate Spirit formed from several upper-rank Fate Stars.
The Wenkui Fate Spirit was one of the finest Fate Spirits for those who were not martial cultivators.
Unlike certain Fate Spirits, it did not directly grant wealth and status or make someone stronger. Instead, it maximized their capacity to learn and enhanced their wisdom, rather than merely increasing their store of rote knowledge.
Wenkui and Wenqu were Fate Spirits of the same tier.
For practitioners of literary cultivation, however, Wenqu had the edge, because Wenqu was the foremost star of literary cultivation.
Wenkui was different. It was not as specialized as Wenqu, but its influence was far broader.
There had once been a martial cultivator who acquired the Wenkui Fate Spirit by sheer accident. At first, he was unremarkable, but through continual learning, he attained mastery of the martial path in middle age. Eventually, he founded a sect, reached Beyond-Rank, and became a model for cultivators.
However, the strongest cultivation Fate Spirit currently known in the Fate Arts Realm was neither Wenqu nor Wenkui, but Wenchang.
Legend had it that more than half of all literary cultivation sages possessed the Wenchang Fate Spirit.
For the two Fate Stars, dripping water forms a sea and heaped earth reaches mountain, the