Chapter 493

Chapter 493: Did Your Mom Pick You Up Off the Street?
“What, what, what! They devour other people’s fortune and can still become Half-Immortals? Then what about unlucky people like us who get hit by their Fate-Devouring Method? That is way too unfair!”

Ancestor Sui Bian was filled with anger.

The Divine Maiden shook her head slightly.

“Luck Devouring Art is not the sort of Demonic Arts you imagine, that devour other people’s fortune at will,” she said.

“Its real purpose is to balance the fortune of heaven and earth and repair gaps in the laws.

“The cultivators who practice Luck Devouring Art do not keep all the fortune they absorb for themselves. They use part of it to help those whose fortune is lacking.

“For example, cultivators who are about to break through but do not have enough fortune to pass their cultivation bottleneck. By bestowing blessings and giving them fortune, you can help them break through.

“In this way, their fortune increases, and the fortune between heaven and earth becomes more balanced.”

Everyone listened in a daze.

Ancestor Sui Bian scratched his head and said, “It kind of makes sense when you say it like that, but why do I still feel something is off?”

Yu Zhao also fell into thought at this time.

Thinking back to what Ye Cong Xin had done, the doubts in her heart grew even stronger.

If Luck Devouring Art was really, as the Divine Maiden said, a mutual benefit Cultivation Technique, then why did the Luck Devouring Art Ye Cong Xin used look just like Demonic Arts?

Or was she mistaken, and the Cultivation Technique that Ye Cong Xin cultivated was only similar to the Divine Maiden’s, but not the same one?

Thinking this, Yu Zhao could not help but ask, “If Luck Devouring Art is meant to balance fortune, then why would someone use it to steal others’ fortune and even cause their deaths? How do you explain that?”

When the Divine Maiden heard this, her eyes darkened.

“The person you met definitely was not from Eastcoming Immortal Island,” she said, “or they were a traitor of the Immortal Island. They changed the rules of Luck Devouring Art and turned it into an evil art of plundering! In any case, that is not the true Luck Devouring Art!”

Yu Zhao’s gaze suddenly sharpened.

“And what about you?” she asked. “Are you practicing the real Luck Devouring Art?”

The Divine Maiden was rendered speechless.

“Right!” Ancestor Sui Bian said. “You sound so noble right now, but at the start you wanted to steal the spirit power of the four of us. Clearly you’re no good person either!”

Ancestor Sui Bian slapped his forehead. No wonder he had felt something was strange.

The Divine Maiden spoke so righteously, but everything she had done was bad.

“Just hearing the name Luck Devouring Art sounds shady,” Old Black Daoist said, curling his lip.

His words hit a sensitive nerve in the Divine Maiden.

She screamed hoarsely, “You are not allowed to insult Luck Devouring Art! It is the strongest Magic Arts in the world! It is Immortal Arts!”

Everyone was startled by her extreme reaction.

In her mind, Yu Zhao quickly connected what the Divine Maiden had just said with how she was acting now.

“Your Mother came from Eastcoming Immortal Island,” Yu Zhao said, “and she cultivated Luck Devouring Art from childhood. That is what you call the Half-Immortal Realm.

“Later she came to the Middle World and gave birth to you. Influenced by her, you worship Eastcoming Immortal Island as your faith and treat Luck Devouring Art as an Immortal Technique.

“But for some reason, you are unable to go to Eastcoming Immortal Island, and the Luck Devouring Art you cultivate is incomplete. Afraid of suffering backlash, you hid your own Primordial Spirit inside the Stone Idol and used a Clone Technique to show yourself to others.”

The Divine Maiden stared at Yu Zhao in shock. “You…”

She only managed one word before closing her mouth again. She was unwilling to go deeper into this topic.

Yu Zhao’s words had only been a guess at first, but the Divine Maiden’s unconscious reaction indirectly proved her right.

Ancestor Sui Bian asked curiously, “But that means the one practicing Luck Devouring Art is your own mom. Why would she not be willing to teach you?”

The Divine Maiden kept her mouth shut.

Ancestor Sui Bian looked her up and down and said, “You weren’t picked up off the street by your mom, were you?”

The Divine Maiden’s face changed at once. She glared viciously at Ancestor Sui Bian. “What do you know! Only those born on Eastcoming Immortal Island can cultivate the true Luck Devouring Art! As for me… I only inherited half of Mother’s bloodline, so of course I have no way to cultivate the complete Immortal Technique!”

Her voice was full of deep hatred and unwillingness.

This was a pain that would always be in her heart.

Ancestor Sui Bian was startled by her reaction. “I was just saying whatever came to mind. Did you have to get so worked up?”

The Divine Maiden still glared fiercely at him.

Old Black Daoist smoothed his messy beard and said, “How come I’ve never heard of a place called Eastcoming Immortal Island before? Who knows if it’s real or fake.”

“You are a frog at the bottom of a well,” the Divine Maiden snapped. “Of course you do not know how vast the world is! Eastcoming Immortal Island is a sacred land that has stepped beyond the dust of the mortal world. How could Common Mortals like you even peek at it?”

Listening to how highly she praised Eastcoming Immortal Island, Yu Zhao could not help becoming interested. She asked, “Where is Eastcoming Immortal Island? How can one find it?”

“Other than people of Eastcoming Immortal Island, no one knows where the island is,” the Divine Maiden said. “Even I have never set foot on that holy land.”

Ancestor Sui Bian shook his head as he listened. “Tsk. After saying so much, you yourself have never even been there, yet you’re still bragging like this?”

The Divine Maiden was so angry she almost spat blood. She still wanted to say more, but Old Black Daoist was already losing patience.

“Enough, enough, stop talking about all this useless stuff,” he said. “Since you also don’t know where Eastcoming Immortal Island is, let’s talk about what’s in front of us.

“You just said Luck Devouring Art is an Immortal Technique. Then why are you doing this sort of thing, stealing other people’s spirit power?”

The Divine Maiden was choked by his words and speechless for a moment. After a short silence, she slowly said, “My Luck Devouring Art may be incomplete, but I never planned to harm the lives of those believers. As for you…”

She let out a cold laugh. “You were the ones coveting my Jade Core and came here to cause trouble. If I did not resist, wouldn’t that be letting you have your way?”

When Yu Zhao and the others heard this, they actually felt that what she said made some sense.

The four exchanged looks, and Yu Zhao was the one to ask the final question.

“You just mentioned the backlash of Luck Devouring Art,” she said. “What is that about?”

“If you recklessly steal the fortune of others,” the Divine Maiden said, “you go against the laws of heaven and earth. Once the Heavenly Dao notices, it will send down Heavenly Lightning Punishment. The greater your sins, the stronger the Heavenly Lightning Punishment.”

Yu Zhao frowned. She remembered the scene of Ye Cong Xin crossing her Heavenly Tribulation in the previous life.

At that time, everyone thought Ye Cong Xin was crossing the Heavenly Tribulation for Ascension to the Middle Thousand World. But what if what she went through was not Heavenly Tribulation, but Heavenly Lightning Punishment sent down by the Heavenly Dao?

Ye Cong Xin, as a puppet, would bear the Heavenly Lightning Punishment, while the real culprit escaped the heavenly calamity and continued to live freely.

What a clever scheme.

At this moment, Yu Zhao could almost be sure that what was inside Ye Cong Xin was not a Malevolent Spirit, but an Old Fiend who had mastered Luck Devouring Art.

She still did not know how he had persuaded Ye Cong Xin to cooperate with him, but knowing his background made Yu Zhao feel a little more at ease.

Just then, a terrifying pressure suddenly shrouded the space above them.

Their shoulders suddenly felt heavy. In an instant, it was like they had lost all power to resist. Their whole bodies trembled, and even moving became extremely difficult.

The Divine Maiden’s face turned as pale as paper. Despair overflowed in her eyes as she muttered, “It is backlash. The backlash is here.”

Backlash?

They thought back to what the Divine Maiden had just done, and strange looks appeared on their faces.

“No way,” Ancestor Sui Bian said. “Isn’t this backlash coming a little too fast?”