The people of Great Shang loved divination because shamans danced to summon spirits and used tortoise shells to tell fortunes during sacrifices. Everyone believed in it.
Immortals loved divination because they could genuinely divine things.
Chen Jiugong and Yao Shaosi performed a divination. The moment they obtained the result, they hurried back to the residence, their faces anxious, and sought out their master, Zhao Gongming.
Chen Jiugong said, "Master, Three Turtles Devour Zhou may portend upheaval. Why don't we return to the mountain?"
Beside him, Yao Shaosi looked just as agitated.
Third-generation disciples like them knew a little about the Investiture List. After the list had been signed, Tongtian had told everyone in the Interception Sect to shut their mountain gates, quietly recite the Yellow Court, and stay out of mortal affairs.
Now that they had entered court service, merit might be within reach, but they were also beginning to worry about their lives.
What was the most miserable fate on the immortal path? The merit remained, but the person was gone.
Zhao Gongming calmly picked up a piece of jade from the ground and asked, "What did you divine?"
"The turtle is no noble! A dragon-horse once bore a diagram on its back and presented the River Diagram to the sage emperor Fuxi. The sage emperor developed the Eight Trigrams and derived the Linked Mountains Classic. Later, a divine turtle offered a script, presenting the Luo Shu to Yu the Great. Yu the Great deduced its principles and derived the Return to the Hidden Classic."
"After Yu the Great received the divine turtle's script, the Linked Mountains Classic and the Return to the Hidden Classic spread throughout the world. That was why people began using tortoise shells for divination."
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