"Oh? What was the result?" The Demonic Cultivator Body raised an eyebrow and pressed for an answer.
The Tiandao Palace Holy Son said, "When I asked about the situation here, I obtained the Already Fulfilled hexagram! Its upper trigram is Kan, water; its lower trigram is Li, fire. Water lies above fire, and all six lines are in their proper places. According to the hexagram, the eight chains here will eventually be broken. All that is needed is time."
As he spoke, his brows furrowed ever more deeply, and he clearly seemed burdened with worries.
"Oh? Then this should be a good thing. Why, then, does the Holy Son look so troubled? Could the problem lie with the second hexagram?"
The Demonic Cultivator Body continued questioning him.
He had considerable confidence in the Tiandao Palace Holy Son's divination results.
After all, divination was itself one of the methods of deduction.
The Tiandao Palace Holy Son replied, "The second hexagram was the Dispersion hexagram! Its upper trigram is Xun, and its lower trigram is Kan—the image of wind sweeping over water. This image signifies that everything is like the moon in water and flowers in a mirror; all endeavors are difficult to accomplish."
Beneath his worried expression, his eyes rolled restlessly as his thoughts raced.
The unfavorable hexagram worried him greatly, yet it had not completely extinguished his hope.
He silently analyzed it, trying to find a way to break the deadlock.
After all, what a hexagram revealed was one thing; it did not mean everything was beyond change.
Between heaven and earth, all things had always possessed a sliver of life and variables.
"What did the Holy Son ask about with this second hexagram?" the Demonic Cultivator Body hurriedly asked.
"The gains from this journey!" the Tiandao Palace Holy Son