Su Jiu stepped forward and touched the woman's forehead. A wisp of spiritual energy slipped into her mind, calming her a little.
Beside her, Yun Huanling spoke through Divine Sense. "I just did a rough divination. This girl seems to have a rather unfortunate fate. Her husband and her close friend both betrayed her, and her life should have ended here."
"I couldn't divine anything beyond that. It probably has something to do with you saving her. Her chart of destiny has fallen into disorder, so I can't work out what will happen to her in the future either."
Su Jiu was briefly taken aback. Was her existence already affecting other people's destinies?
Although the woman had calmed down, the hatred in her eyes had not diminished. She kowtowed several times to Su Jiu and Yun Huanling and replied, "I've thought it through. I don't want to go to a sect anymore. Please, immortal master, give me a cultivation manual." She was not a cultivator. Walking to a nearby city on her own two feet would take more than half a month, and even then, there might not be a sect recruiting disciples.
Rather than pin her cultivation on so many uncertainties, she might as well ask for a manual and start cultivating directly. As for whether she had good aptitude or might squander her potential, she had no time to consider that anymore. She only wanted to enter this world as quickly as possible and gain at least some ability to protect herself at the outset. Otherwise, when she faced them again, she would only be even more helpless, and they would surely kill her without leaving so much as a bone.
Su Jiu had guessed some of what she was thinking, but before giving her a manual, she