A Reckoning on My Fingers
These disciples joined the sect before the age of twelve, or even younger, and were brainwashed day after day, year after year. Even if their Lineage gave them a lot of education on Lineage honor when they were young, they were basically brainwashed by the sect after twenty or thirty years and had no attachment to mortal Aristocratic Clan.
Over the years, the powerful and wealthy among the common people gradually realized that a gifted young man could only serve as their backer for twenty or thirty years at most.
Therefore, gradually, in the upper echelons of the capital, people generally judged the rise and fall of a Lineage over a long period of time by whether or not a member with Dual Spirit Root or above appeared in each Lineage within the next twenty or thirty years.
If not, then it is almost predictable that this Lineage will rapidly decline in the circles of power and wealth until the day when a member of the Lineage with Dual Spirit Root or above appears again.
Therefore, one can imagine the immense pressure Mo Yuanjiao, who possesses the superior talent of Single Spirit Root but refuses to join a sect, must have felt.
It was only because the direct descendants of the Mo Household family genuinely doted on Mo Yuanjiao that he was able to temporarily get what he wanted.
However, this was only a short time after the disciple recruitment period ended, and it was only the first thirty years.
After all, the Mo Household has produced a member with a single Fire Spirit Root, Mo Yuanjiao. Who knows, one day Mo Yuanjiao might change his mind and ask his family to pull strings to get him into a sect?
Because of this concern, the upper echelons have not yet taken any advantage of the Mo Household's misfortune.
However, as time goes by, the Mo Yuanjiao gets, the less valuable his cultivation will be in the sect. It's hard to say what will happen to the Mo Household then.
Therefore, Mo Yuanjiao was extremely eager to find out what the fortuitous opportunity in his dream was.
It wasn't that he disregarded the overall interests of his Lineage, but ever since he had that dream the night before the three major sects recruited disciples, whenever he had the thought of otherwise joining one of these three sects, a great sense of loss and regret would rise in his heart.
Having read countless stories since childhood, he believed that he might be the chosen one, and that this must be divine guidance for him!
If he misses this opportunity, he might be missing a true path to immortality!
He knew that among the three major sects, the elder with the highest cultivation level was only at the Late Golden Core.
Many storybooks describe that above the Golden Core stage is the Nascent Soul, and above the Nascent Soul are even more powerful beings!
He believed that the fortuitous opportunity that Heaven had guided him was definitely a chance to become one of those even more powerful beings!
Seeing the fortune teller frowning and fidgeting with his fingers for a long time without finishing the calculation, he became a little anxious.
But he dared not utter a sound, for fear of disturbing this master.
After a long while, Song Jusheng finally opened his eyes. He looked at Mo Yuanjiao's anxious expression and thought to himself: Kid, do you think I can't handle you?
He took a sip of the tea in front of him before saying calmly to Mo Yuanjiao:
"I just did some quick calculations, and your fortuitous opportunity is quite extraordinary..."
"Please enlighten me, sir!" Mo Yuanjiao immediately bowed deeply.
Song Jusheng stroked his beard, feeling somewhat pleased, but his expression remained unchanged. He pretended to ponder for a moment before speaking:
"Although your fortuitous opportunity is currently waning and seems to be lying dormant, given time, it will surely purple qi again, allowing you to stand out from the crowd. It is an extremely favorable fortuitous opportunity."
Upon hearing this, Mo Yuanjiao was extremely excited:
"Please tell me, sir, how can I obtain this fortuitous opportunity?"
Seeing his impatient look, Song Jusheng shook his head with a profound expression and said:
"I've only foreseen that the fortuitous opportunity lies in the far east... the rest is a secret that cannot be revealed."
This kind of thing can't be explained too clearly, otherwise it's easy for them to see through it.
Even so, their Shangyang Sect is indeed located directly east of the capital of the Pusi Kingdom.
In the past, it was always the sects themselves who came to the Pusi Kingdom to recruit disciples, and the sects also sent people to their posts in the capital. Therefore, ordinary people basically did not know the specific locations of the three major sects.
Their approximate location is also very vague and cannot be taken seriously.
Therefore, he wasn't afraid of being discovered by Mo Yuanjiao that he was deceiving him.
It seems that when he travels eastward to the Shangyang Sect, he will surely believe that Shangyang Sect is his fortuitous opportunity and willingly join it.
Therefore, he wouldn't be considered to have violated the rules of the Three Kingdoms.
Song Jusheng was very satisfied with his method. After collecting the five coins on the table, he left the teahouse without looking back.
Watching his decisive departure, the simple-minded Mo Yuanjiao immediately believed his reply without a doubt.
After all, what con artist would go to so much trouble just to swindle five coins?
Moreover, in the capital city, this group of people clearly came from a powerful and wealthy family. Who would dare to deceive him for just five coins?
So Mo Yuanjiao immediately said goodbye to his friends and left the teahouse.
As soon as he got home, he found his father and told him that his fortuitous opportunity lay in the East, and then expressed his intention to go to the East to seek that fortuitous opportunity.
After hearing his detailed account of the process, General Mo was not entirely convinced.
However, given Mo Yuanjiao pleading and the fact that his youngest son had refused to join the three major sects, he thought it might be better to let him go out and explore.
What if this fortuitous opportunity really is real?
It's nothing more than trying anything as a last resort. If he goes out and doesn't find his so-called fortuitous opportunity, he might be willing to join one of the three major sects when he comes back.
Thus, General Mo granted Mo Yuanjiao's request to go out.
He also assigned his personal bodyguards to accompany him and gave Mo Yuanjiao a Storage Bag that he himself treasured to pack his luggage.
The impatient Mo Yuanjiao, carrying the Storage Bag given to him by his father, rode his beloved steed away from the capital early the next morning.
Behind him, a personal guard on horseback followed, carrying a huge bundle on his back.
There was no other way; the family had prepared too much luggage for Mo Yuanjiao, but the Mo Household only had one Storage Bag.
I can't let go of so many things.
We can only trouble General Mo's personal guard.
They traveled eastward, passing through three provinces and sixteen prefectures, and after more than a month, they finally entered the territory of Hufang Province.
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Meanwhile, in Xiushui Village...
For three days in a row, Lin Xiao was dragged out of bed early every morning by Lin Dayou and made to kneel in front of his mother's grave.
Lin Xiao would kneel before his mother's grave every day, then take out a Peach Blossom Spirit Gathering Formation and place it under his knees, cultivating as he knelt.
Although the Spiritual Qi here is certainly not as dense as in the cultivation room inside the sect, he couldn't bear to turn on auto-cultivation, so he had to make the most of his time to cultivate.
After three days, Lin Xiao immediately got up early and went up the mountain. During these three days, Sun Yigao's body had fully recovered, and he was able to go up the mountain to cultivate with the others every day.