Dylan and the fat man snickered endlessly.
There wasn't the slightest trace of embarrassment on Doctor Xiao's face.
"Diviners are absolutely rational."
With a solemn expression, he watched vast streams of data cascading down the Sky Monitoring Instrument's screen, recording the key figures and checking Jiang Yu's earlier hypothesis, while making that incomprehensible remark.
The others were all left utterly baffled.
Hugging his hard-shell notebook, the doctor multitasked as he patiently explained:
"Our control over our own lives is like a Registered Wizard's control over their body—we know how much we need to spend each day, how much we need each month, and how long our clothes will last. There are no such things as the 'pocket money' you mentioned—I can say with certainty that today's Mars was an accident, a complete accident!"
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"Extra material possessions cannot make our magic more powerful. On the contrary, they only affect the speed at which we recite spells and widen the distance between us and truth! Why do ascetics often become more powerful? Because they understand restraint! From that perspective, you should also curb your material desires—for example, keep your monthly spending below one Jade Coin."
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"The most important thing in peeping at fate is learning the word 'restraint.' Your divination techniques have always lacked spirituality, and the key reason is that you cannot grasp the proper balance between restraint and peeping—on this point, the methods of old-school diviners are quite effective—material restraint can in turn affect the spirit, allowing you to maintain reverence and caution toward fate at all times."
"Theoretically, fate should find it very difficult to make me encounter unexpected events anymore—so why did something like this happen today? I think it may be related to the World Ascension—or perhaps this hall, or even Jiang Yu's surroundings, are