"Master, is there something wrong with the qi over Jiangzhou?"
Cultivation in the Heavenly Diviner Lineage required drawing on the world's prevailing trends and shifts in fortune, so its members frequently observed qi. As a result, they often saw things outsiders could not.
Tian Ji stood on the roof observing qi. After just a quarter of an hour, a stabbing pain shot through his eyes.
By the time he closed them, bloody tears had begun streaming down on their own, giving him a fright.
"Master, there's going to be a bloodbath in Jiangzhou City."
"Nonsense."
Heavenly Diviner did not even open his eyes.
He, too, was cultivating.
He had been somewhat reluctant to accompany the emperor on this trip.
But he really had missed Tian Ji.
After arriving in Jiangzhou, Emperor Yongchang went to Kuang Mountain, and Heavenly Diviner could not be bothered to accompany him any farther.
His Way of Heavenly Diviner told him that the closer one was to the heart of a storm, the clearer one's divinations tended to be.
And the clearer the divination, the greater the danger.
Heavenly Diviner felt that, now he was over forty, he had reached retirement age.
He no longer wanted to struggle on the front lines.
The next generation's affairs ought to be left to the young.
But Tian Ji's progress in cultivation left Heavenly Diviner deeply dissatisfied.
"Why haven't I seen anything wrong with Jiangzhou City?" Heavenly Diviner asked leisurely.
"You haven't even opened your eyes," Tian Ji grumbled. "It would be a miracle if you could see anything."
"Then do you know why I refuse to open them?" Heavenly Diviner asked.
"Because you're timid and afraid of trouble. What else could it be?"
Heavenly Diviner was exasperated at his failure to improve. "When you didn't accompany Lianshan Xin