The Game of Fate
Chapter 1070

Side Story: The Past That Had Never Been Severed, Part Twenty-Four

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The Red-haired Man seemed to possess a special ability, able to directly slip into the body of a squad of Yin Cha, thereby evading the watchful eyes of the gate-guarding Ghost Generals and Yin Cha to enter Ghost Gate Pass.

The Ning'an County Annals were not some tome under key protection by the Underworld Bureau. Or rather, no one had looked through them for a very long time. After searching around, the Red-haired Man quickly found the relevant records in one of the storehouses.

Before dawn, the Red-haired Man once again took advantage of a squad of Yin Cha leaving the Underworld Bureau. When they passed the inn, he slipped out of one of them and returned to the room where he had been resting.

Inside the guest room, the scholar-like man turned over and tucked the blanket around his shoulders more tightly, his mind racing.

The Sun family's deep fortune was clearly due to blessings left behind by their ancestors. Eight times out of ten, it was because they had formed a bond with that Mister Ji or the Literary Sage—or perhaps with both of them. And the blessings brought by that karmic opportunity might not necessarily have been bestowed by that immortal, considering that this was no longer that immortal's era.

Yet the Sun family's ancestor had treated Mister Ji with sincerity and kindness. At the time, Mister Ji had been a master of Great Magic Power, Great Divine Ability, and Great Wisdom, one who held all living beings under heaven in his heart and who, in the unseen currents of fate, would contend against the great calamity. He would surely have been Favored by Heaven and Earth. If some of the Sun ancestor's actions had moved Mister Ji, Heaven and Earth would naturally respond.

Thus, the conclusion

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