Gale winds howled past his ears.
Arms spread wide, Xia Sheng leaped with all his strength, mentally preparing to return to the village and visit Brother Emperor Zhao's statue.
His extraordinary luck these past few days had been truly unusual.
From the initial landslide and rainfall to the later sinkhole and meteorite, each incident had been more outrageous than the last.
He felt that even someone who had socketed the "Strong Fortune" Life Soul would not have luck like his.
So this was not luck at all. It was more like an invisible pair of hands forcibly dragging him out of danger whenever he was about to face a fatal threat.
Several consecutive tests had all proven this.
An unknown power really did exist.
This made him extremely curious.
Where did this power come from?
And what was its purpose? Why go to such lengths to protect him?
He could not think of an answer.
So he chose the most direct way to solve the problem: when in doubt, ask Guide.
Guide's answer confirmed that there was indeed such a protective power operating in secret.
But the question was how to draw it out of hiding.
It concealed itself too well. It could easily resolve any conventional test by acting from the shadows.
That left only the final and most extreme method.
Stake his own life.
Since the other party cared so much about his safety.
He would turn up the pressure.
If the hidden power's desire to protect him was strong enough, it would inevitably stop him more directly when he acted to seek death.
If it did not intervene.
Then his soul would return to Emperor Zhao, and he could resupply before setting out again. That would be no loss either.
Now, his body hung in midair.
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