A Test from Tianjin's Noble Lady! (Five Thousand Words, Please Vote!)

If there was no major matter, then there was a minor one.

Li Xiang narrowed his eyes and quietly activated the Fortune Teller's Ironclad Divination.

His vision warped subtly. In his eyes, Zhang Yunshang, seated behind the broad desk, underwent a heaven- and earth-reversing change.

A vast, visible tide of Fortune rose from her simple blue-and-white qipao.

Brilliant red and rich purple dominated it: red dazzling to the eye, purple regal. They were the colors of power and wealth.

But that was not all.

Other colors wound through the red and purple in a dazzling tangle.

Black Death Qi, gray misfortune, green vitality—the currents of Fortune were anything but still. They twisted, tore at one another, and merged in a frenzy.

Deep within them, Li Xiang seemed to glimpse the shadow of a divine bird clad in five brilliant colors.

It was not soaring through the heavens. It struggled in agony amid flames, its wings half-ruined, while the light of new life grew within the ashes.

A phoenix rising from the ashes, reborn in fire. It held countless possibilities—and countless dangers.

Interesting... Li Xiang marveled inwardly.

Such an omen of Fortune either marked a short-lived soul blazing at its brightest before death, or the rebirth of a True Dragon or heavenly phoenix after calamity.

Whichever it was, Zhang Yunshang's present condition was deeply unstable.

This went far beyond replacing her heart with a Zombie Heart. Her fate had been changed in defiance of heaven, and the entire course of her life had veered sharply.

[Completed one divination. Fortune Teller experience +1]

[Level: Lv10 (81/100)]

The Fortune Teller's experience bar crept forward another notch.

Its Profession experience was nearly full.

He had not even completed the Cook's advancement ritual, and another advancement ritual was about to unlock. There was