Perhaps ninety-nine percent of the Unusual Persons in the world had no idea that the undisputed foremost family of the Nine Provinces was actually this destitute.
Old walls, broken tiles, beams and pillars riddled with insect holes-some of the houses looked as though they might collapse at any moment.
Figures emerged from their doorways to gaze at the heavens.
They could all be seen wearing coarse hemp clothes, with freshly harvested grain piled inside their houses. They actually farmed for a living.
Of course, the foremost family in the world would never have kept such a low profile.
Revealing heaven's secrets brought heaven's erosion.
They were enduring their own "tribulations."
After every divination, depending on the magnitude of the matter, members of the Yuan Family would encounter different disasters. Their houses might collapse, or their heads might be split and bloodied. Nothing went smoothly.
These disasters could not be blocked with the abilities of Unusual Persons. They had to be endured in full.
Heaven's secrets must not be revealed.
In fact, every diviner understood upon entering the profession that they were never people with vast Divine Abilities. They merely suffered disasters on behalf of others.
Thus, the Yuan Family had only ever told fortunes for money when they were at their most destitute.
Once the family prospered, they shut their gates and withdrew from the world.
But later, Ghost Creatures wreaked havoc. The Dao Alliance, which governed the world at the time, had even fewer members than the Netherworld did now, and neither transportation nor communication was well developed. Once some villages and small towns suffered a Ghost Creature attack, almost everyone would be wiped out.
Left with no choice, the sixth family head led the Yuan Family back into the world. They performed divinations and slew ghosts, calculating in