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"": "Then he explained, "That's true, but not entirely."
"Many Taoist Grounds have tried casting hexagrams to work out what happened."
"Nothing about Primordial Calculation can be divined anymore. Once the Mountain Gate entered a heaven-veiling land, it would block all hexagram signs. In theory, they succeeded. What's even more frightening is that they succeeded at their original Mountain Gate. In other words, they made a massive change to its feng shui. But it's also possible they all died. Dead people and a ruined Mountain Gate would leave no hexagram signs to speak of."
"They let people hide from Heavenly Calculation, so Heavenly Calculation repaid them by wiping them out," Xu Lu explained.
Luo Bin placed a chess piece somewhere else.
"...Mr. Luo, you really are a..."
Xu Lu stared blankly at the board, looking bitter and helpless.
"I'd be better off playing a few games with the old men at the village entrance."
"That's not important. You can go later. So you mean Primordial Calculation really was wiped out?"
"You said you'd never entered Primordial Calculation's Mountain Gate. That it was the old Mountain Gate? Then there must be a new Mountain Gate, right?"
Luo Bin's eyes shone as he began setting up the pieces again.
Xu Lu first waved a hand to indicate that he was done playing, then said, "Wouldn't the new Mountain Gate be yours, Mr. Luo? Primordial Calculation wasn't wiped out. If it had been, how could you exist?"
"All I'm saying is that something certainly happened at that old Mountain Gate. No outsider knows exactly what, but a spark definitely survived. It must be extremely dangerous there, which is why even a disciple like you knows absolutely nothing about the old Mountain Gate and has to ask people like us."