Numerological divination could ultimately produce only a configuration of trigrams. One still had to interpret and unpack the imagery in the Hexagram in light of real-world information, so the more one knew, the clearer the results became.
Shi Feiyang could divine matters involving people and things he already knew, or those that appeared in the original novel, with great clarity. But for anything wholly unknown to him, he could obtain only an abstract, hazy outline.
Jiang Shu, for example, was one of the esteemed Seven True Ones, the future leader of the Green City Sect, and the master nominally shared by all the Nineteen Heroes of Green City. Yet he barely appeared in the original novel, existing almost entirely in other people's accounts.
Thus, Shi Feiyang's divinations concerning him were also vague, and he had to ask Jiang Shu himself for the details.
Jiang Shu had Reincarnation to cultivate anew because of flaws in his temperament and the incompleteness of his character. He had therefore sealed his memories. Otherwise, like Old Man Withered Bamboo, he would have been unable to truly experience all the stages of human growth from life's very beginning. Instead, he would have acquired all manner of vexations, which would not only do nothing for his cultivation but needlessly entangle him in unnecessary karmic ties.
As a result, he now genuinely possessed a youth's disposition. From his perspective, he had admired the immortal path since childhood and loved the serene life of immortals, while also possessing a chivalrous spirit that urged him to uphold justice and right wrongs.
Heaven had indeed treated him generously: he had discovered the cave abode of a Sword Immortal of an earlier generation, obtained cultivation scriptures and a flying sword, and mastered Daoist arts. He was in the bloom of youth, brimming