After Xiao Yu finished speaking, he watched the man on the other end of the video call turn from red to white before collapsing to the floor with a thud!
The livestream's scrolling comments and chat suddenly fell silent, too.
Jin Hong jerked his head up. His shyness and timidity vanished, leaving him deathly pale!
"Why??? How did she die?? Illness? An accident? Suicide? Murder? Master, please tell me!"
"I can tell you, but I can't go into too much detail, or you'll make a terrible mistake."
"What do you mean... Master, are you saying... it wasn't an accident?"
"That's right. It wasn't an accident. She was murdered."
If this had been his first day, Xiao Yu certainly wouldn't have been able to divine that clearly.
But now he had reached the Qi Refining Third Layer and could just about use one person to divine another person's general circumstances.
Jin Hong's eyes slowly reddened.
His body began trembling.
Every muscle in his body tensed and bulged!
The Livestream Viewers fell silent one by one. Nobody would joke at a time like this.
The atmosphere had been so relaxed and cheerful, yet it had suddenly become so heavy.
"Master, I want to know who killed her."
"Calm down first. Telling you now won't do you any good. Besides, you get one reading a day. Come back tomorrow."
"Master! I'm begging you! Please tell me!"
As Jin Hong spoke, he dropped to his knees with a thud.
The viewers in the livestream began pleading for him, too.
"Master, stop keeping us in suspense. Tell him now! I feel like you've already figured it out!"
"He's so pitiful. The girl he's liked for years suddenly died. Anyone would struggle to take that."
"Master, just tell him!"
Xiao Yu sighed inwardly.
"I have indeed divined some things, but if you insist on hearing them, you'll suffer heaven's punishment. You need to understand something: I'm not simply telling fortunes now. I'm revealing heaven's secrets. For your first reading each day, I can avert the consequences for you through a transaction. But for the second, you'll have to bear them alone. To put it bluntly, you'll have horrendous luck."
"You don't need to rush to hear it today. Waiting one more day will not only avert Heavenly Punishment, but also give you time to calm down."
"If I tell you now, you won't just suffer terrible luck. You'll definitely do something foolish and make a terrible mistake."
"But... I don't care about bad luck. I just want..."
Jin Hong wanted to say more, but Xiao Yu shook his head. "You don't care, but I do. If I know it'll harm you, there's no way I'll tell you. Whether you accept that or not, no matter how angry you get, my answer stays the same. Come back tomorrow."
If Jin Hong suffered bad luck, Xiao Yu would suffer along with him.
He would lose merit!
So there was no way he would tell him today.
"Master has a point. Bro, you should calm down first!"
"I'm with Master. If I knew telling someone would hurt them, I wouldn't tell them either!"
"Exactly, bro. Forget the bad luck for a moment. If Master told you now, with how worked up you are, wouldn't you want to charge over and kill the guy for revenge? What would happen to your own family then?"
"Calm down! Come back tomorrow!"
Jin Hong let out a deep, weary sigh.
The light seemed to leave his eyes all at once.
It was as though the hopes and yearnings he had harbored for years had suddenly been extinguished.
"Master, I'll come back tomorrow, then. I'll take some time to calm down."
With that, he disconnected the call and left the livestream.
"Man, that's awful. What a devastating blow."
"Yeah. No matter how amazing Master is, he can't change what's already happened."
"..."
The past couldn't be changed?
Wrong.
It could.
But that required power capable of shaking heaven and earth!
He was still a long way off.
But sooner or later, he would reach that realm.
So he needed to tell more fortunes and grow even stronger!
"Let's welcome the next person..."
"All right, all three Livestream Viewers who won the draw have had their readings. Next comes the free round. One entry per person."
After the next two readings, the livestream's cheerful atmosphere had returned.
The Livestream Viewers' goofy sides had resurfaced, too.
"Free draw, grand prize: one yuan. New viewers, let's make a deal. Whoever wins, sell me your slot, and I'll give you ten yuan. That way, you won't have to worry about the streamer scamming you, and you'll make ten yuan!"
"What a genius! I'll offer fifteen!"
"Well, well, we're auctioning slots live now? I'm in. Twenty yuan!"
"You think twenty yuan will get you one? Look at those last three! It's got to be worth at least a hundred!"
"Fine, fine. If you really win, my friend, I'll pay a hundred!"
"Hehe, I won! Hubby, I won again!!"
"Huh? Girl, didn't you just spend a hundred yuan and win a slot? Why are you entering the free draw now? And you actually won?"
"What, am I not allowed? I won, so I'm getting a reading for my boyfriend."
"???"
"Wow. Just wow. You have a boyfriend, and you're still calling Master Xiao your hubby?"
"My boyfriend is my boyfriend, my hubby is my hubby, and my guy bestie is my guy bestie!"
"Holy shit, what a player! Where's the mod? Kick this girl with her messed-up values out of here!"
"Yeah, yeah, kick her!"
"Kick her, kick her, kick her!"
"Hey, don't, don't! What are you doing? Can't a girl make a joke? Please don't kick me! My boyfriend is a girl! My guy bestie is a girl, too. It's all just messing around!"
"..."
"This girl must be seriously bored. Does she think her reputation's too good? Or does she think pretending to be a player is fun?"
"Who knows!"
Lord Purple: "I almost kicked you."
Xiao Yu also found the bizarre thought processes of this small minority of girls these days a little hard to take.
"All right, Miss Sun. Connect your video."
"Okay, hehe!"
The face of a twenty-year-old girl appeared on the video again.
Earlier, she had asked about her love life, which had turned out to be perfectly ordinary and unremarkable.
During their video call, she had actually behaved quite normally, calling him Master rather than hubby.
She was exactly the sort of girl who acted normal in real life but goofed around online.
"So where's this female 'boyfriend' of yours?"
"Master, can you do a reading from a photo? She's in class right now, and I don't want her knowing about what I'm asking, either!"
"A photo? If it's an everyday photo without makeup, yes."
Sun Luo: "Without makeup? Sure, I have some. There are a few photos on my phone that I secretly took after she finished showering."
Hearing that, the Livestream Viewers got excited again.
"Secret photos of a beauty fresh out of the shower! Boys, I'm already excited!"
"Sneaky photos! My favorite!"
"Confirmed: one horny girl!"
Sun Luo held back her laughter. When she brought out the photo, everyone was speechless.
"That's it?"
"That's it?"
"That's it?"
A perfectly uniform row of comments flooded the screen!
The girl in the photo really had just finished showering, and the angle showed it had been taken secretly, but she was fully dressed!
"Hehe, sorry to disappoint you all. I'd never show revealing photos of my bestie! Master, she actually got a boyfriend recently, but I keep feeling like there's something wrong with him. He gives me the creeps. Whenever I see him, I shudder a little, and a chill rises from deep inside me."
Xiao Yu calculated on his fingers, and his expression abruptly darkened.
"Your best friend's boyfriend is steeped in baleful energy. He's a murderer. More precisely, he's a wanted murderer on the run!"
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