Chapter 492

Chapter 492: I’m Not Jealous, Not At All
“Gahaha, you fell for it!”

A moment ago Ancestor Sui Bian’s face had been full of anger, but now he was laughing like crazy, even wiggling his butt in pride.

“You really took us for fools. You tell us to come down and we just come down? Of course we left a backup! We noticed long ago that something was wrong with you!”

After he finished, he poked the Old Black Daoist beside him and said, “Well? How was Ancestor’s acting? Wasn’t it great? I was so into it just now, my tears almost came out.”

Old Black Daoist gave him a disdainful look and said, “I’m too lazy to even talk about your lousy acting. It was way too stiff! And those lines, like ‘if you have the guts, come at me’… so cheesy.”

“If my acting is bad, you’re not any better!”

Seeing the two of them about to start arguing again like no one else was there, the Divine Maiden grew strangely furious. She screamed, “Shut up! Shut up! How could I possibly fall into the hands of idiots like you!”

“Hey, how can you still be cursing us!” Ancestor Sui Bian was unhappy. He said, “Your true body is in our hands right now. If you dare curse again, I’ll turn your Stone Idol into a stone stool and sit on you every single day!”

When the Divine Maiden imagined that horrible scene, she went silent at once.

Ancestor Sui Bian snorted proudly, stepped forward, snatched the Jade Scepter from the Divine Maiden’s hand, and swung it around with great gusto.

The Divine Maiden was angry but did not dare speak, and could only watch him in frustration.

After Ancestor Sui Bian had his fun, he skipped past the eager-looking Old Black Daoist, handed the Jade Scepter to Senior Xiu Yu, and then formed hand seals to place several restriction wards on the Divine Maiden.

“Let’s go,” he said. “Time to go up and meet your true body.”

Under Ancestor Sui Bian’s threat, the Divine Maiden unwillingly opened the entrance, and they returned to the main hall.

Yu Zhao was still sitting on the Stone Idol’s neck, looking down at the Divine Maiden from above. She said, “Talk. Who exactly are you, and what is going on with the Cultivation Technique you practice?”

The Divine Maiden stayed silent for a long time, so long that they all thought she would never speak, when she suddenly opened her mouth.

“You said just now that you met someone who cultivated the same Cultivation Technique as me? Was that true?”

Yu Zhao had not expected her to ask that. She thought for a moment, then nodded and said, “Yes.”

“What kind of person was she? Where did you see her?” the Divine Maiden pressed.

Ancestor Sui Bian grew impatient. “Hey, hey, hey, we’re the ones asking questions right now. You need to understand your situation!”

“If you are not willing to answer,” the Divine Maiden said, “then even if I die, I will never tell you the answers you want.”

“Is that so?”

Yu Zhao tightened her grip. The Stone Idol’s throat gave a crisp cracking sound, and the Divine Maiden’s face instantly turned even paler. A few purple blood marks appeared on her neck.

Pain made the veins on her forehead bulge, but she still bit her lip hard and did not make a sound.

Seeing her look of unyielding determination, Yu Zhao hesitated for a moment and decided to trade with her first.

“I did meet that person,” Yu Zhao said. “She was not as smart as you. She also seized other people’s fortune, but she chose to start from love, and later reaped what she sowed.”

Compared to Ye Cong Xin, the Divine Maiden’s methods were without a doubt much more clever.

At least the Divine Maiden did not have to rack her brains every day, wear a mask, and fawn over others.

But when the Divine Maiden heard Yu Zhao’s words, she could not hide her shock.

“How could that be… It shouldn’t be like that…” she muttered under her breath, her expression a little dazed.

It seemed that Yu Zhao’s words shattered some belief the Divine Maiden had held for a long time, making her whole world collapse.

Yu Zhao knocked on the Stone Idol’s head and said, “Your turn to talk.”

The Divine Maiden closed her eyes. When she opened them again, she seemed to have returned to that lofty, otherworldly Divine Maiden from before.

“My Cultivation Technique was learned from my Mother,” she said. “She comes from Eastcoming Immortal Island of the Great World, and those born on the Immortal Island practice Fate-Sight Art and Luck Devouring Art from childhood.”

“Luck Devouring Art?”

Yu Zhao instantly remembered Ye Cong Xin’s past deeds.

Those people who had vanished for no reason had most likely died under Luck Devouring Art.

Ancestor Sui Bian, on the other hand, was very interested in Fate-Sight Art.

“You can really see through our fortune?” he asked. “Then tell me, between me and him, whose fortune is stronger?”

Ancestor Sui Bian pointed at Old Black Daoist as he spoke to the Divine Maiden.

Although Old Black Daoist kept a look of indifference on his face, his ears were standing tall.

“You,” the Divine Maiden said.

She answered with great certainty.

Before Ancestor Sui Bian could burst out laughing, Old Black Daoist exploded first. “That talk of fortune is all vague nonsense, not something you can rely on at all! I’m not going to believe that rubbish!”

“Fortune is not fixed, and it is not vague and empty,” the Divine Maiden said. “Among you, your fortune is the worst, which is why you are so poor and down on your luck. And she…”

The Divine Maiden lifted her head to look at Yu Zhao above the Stone Idol, her expression complicated. “Among all those I have seen in my life, her fortune is the strongest. I did not lose to you all. I lost to her. I lost to a Heaven’s Chosen.”

The three, including Ancestor Sui Bian, all turned their eyes to Yu Zhao.

Yu Zhao did not know how to react and could only show a polite smile.

“Whew…”

Ancestor Sui Bian let out a long breath and loudly comforted himself. “It’s fine, it’s fine. Yu Zhao is a disciple of my Five Elements Dao Sect. If she’s powerful, that just means my Five Elements Dao Sect is powerful. I’m not jealous. I’m not jealous at all.”

Old Black Daoist’s eyes were almost red from staring.

What about their Heavenly Sword Sect disciples!

One useless person after another!

Why had no one managed to come up yet!

[What about the disciples of our Heavenly Sword Sect? A bunch of useless brats! Why has no one made it up here yet? This old Daoist can’t hold on much longer!]

“You absorb other people’s fortune,” Yu Zhao asked, “is there no limit?”

“Of course there is.”

A hint of reverence appeared in the Divine Maiden’s eyes.

“Fortune is a gift from the Heavenly Dao,” she said. “If you forcefully disturb it, you will definitely suffer backlash. So, if you want to practice Luck Devouring Art, you must do good and gather merit to offset your sins.”

Everyone was stunned.

They had originally thought that those who practiced such a Cultivation Technique had to be evil and twisted, but they never thought these people would also do good deeds.

“So those blessings…” Ancestor Sui Bian said.

The Divine Maiden said calmly, “I give part of the fortune I collect to cultivators who are about to break through, to help them break through faster. That is also a kind of merit.”

Ancestor Sui Bian was a little confused. “You absorb fortune on one side and send it out on the other? That feels kind of weird.”

Yu Zhao also felt it was strange.

In Ye Cong Xin, she had only seen plundering.

She had never seen her doing good deeds and gathering merit.

If they really cultivated the same Cultivation Technique, then why was Ye Cong Xin not worried about backlash?

Yu Zhao’s pupils trembled.

Could it be that someone else was the one who practiced Luck Devouring Art, and Ye Cong Xin was only their puppet?

Thinking of this, Yu Zhao immediately thought of the Malevolent Spirit inside Ye Cong Xin.

Could it be that it was not a Malevolent Spirit, but a cultivator who knew Luck Devouring Art, using Ye Cong Xin’s body to absorb fortune while hiding in the dark to control everything?

Once the time was right, he could throw away the puppet and have her bear the backlash of the Heavenly Dao for him.

“The reason Eastcoming Immortal Island is commonly called the Immortal Island,” the Divine Maiden said, “is because the cultivators who practice Luck Devouring Art have already surpassed the realm of ordinary cultivators and stepped into the Half-Immortal Realm. They absorb fortune to benefit more people, not for selfish gain.”