"Impotence truly is His Majesty's greatest blessing."
The Heavenly Diviner sighed with heartfelt feeling.
With his mastery of the Divination Arts, calculating the future took the greatest toll. Calculating things that had already happened was not actually that difficult.
Previously, the Heavenly Diviner had not divined that Emperor Yongchang's calamity involved a Romantic Tribulation. What he had foreseen was a life-or-death catastrophe.
Now that the life-or-death catastrophe had vanished, a quick calculation on his fingers brought the Romantic Tribulation clearly into view.
As for how Emperor Yongchang had escaped this originally fatal Romantic Tribulation—that required no mastery of the Divination Arts.
Even by guessing, the Heavenly Diviner could trace it back to Thousand Faces.
"Fortune leans upon misfortune; misfortune lurks within fortune. Heaven's will is a blade, and human hearts are unfathomable."
After seeing the Romantic Tribulation and the means of averting it, even with his god's-eye view, the Heavenly Diviner still felt how profoundly inscrutable heaven's tricks could be.
He also became increasingly certain of one thing: he needed to divine less!
"What are you mumbling about?"
The Heavenly Queen suddenly appeared.
She gave the Heavenly Diviner a fright.
"Your Highness, how do you walk without stirring so much as a breeze?"
The Heavenly Queen retorted, "Do I need to notify you before returning to the Nine Heavens?"
The Nine Heavens was her family home.
The Heavenly Diviner was merely her subordinate, or at most a senior partner.
The Heavenly Diviner coughed lightly and changed the subject. "Weren't you going to the Western Capital, Your Highness? Why are you back so soon? Have matters there been resolved?"
"It's hardly that easy. There are suspected Demon Daoists stirring up trouble in the Western Capital."
"Demon Daoists? Is Daoism making mischief again?"
"It's no surprise. Five hundred years ago, Spirit Mountain