Outside the Ancient Profound Treasury, two Fate Arts Masters took out their Fate Disks and, drawing on their status as guest elders of Ancient Profound Mountain, divined the mountain's momentum configuration.
Pale white mist billowed above their Fate Disks, forming two clouds the size of tabletops.
One explained, "Fate molds, fortune, momentum configurations, and the like are mysteries beyond mysteries, invisible to the eye. What you see now are manifestations created by our Fate Artifacts after our divinations through Fate Arts. They merely make things easier to observe; they don't mean fortune or momentum configurations actually look like this..."
"Our divinations of the sect's momentum configuration yield similar strengths, so the clouds are similar in size. Any change in the sect's fortune or momentum configuration will be reflected in these clouds..."
The elders of Ancient Profound Mountain watched the white clouds in silence.
These two Fate Arts Masters and the schools behind them had worked with Ancient Profound Mountain for years. With oaths binding them as well, there was no cause for concern.
Li Qingxian entered the treasury once more and summoned his many Inner Gods.
"You may begin. Take only one-fifth of the total. After taking the most valuable items, pick out some special fate materials I can use."
The Inner Gods became streaks of afterimages, darting through the treasury.
Thousandfold thunder arts jujube wood, flat peach living cores, Heavenly Vein Divine Pills, earth vein divine iron...
Outside the treasury doors, the elders' faces suddenly darkened in unison.
They saw the white clouds before the two Fate Arts Masters shrinking little by little.
"Gentlemen, what does this mean?" The second elder felt his face going numb with anger.
"Ahem, presumably, he is collecting items from the treasury. They are all precious treasures, after all. Once removed, they will affect