Li Shen and the others rose from their seats, stepping out of the restaurant after Hao Ziyue and Xiao Bai had finished eating. However, the four of them didn't plan on returning to the sect early.
Outside the restaurant, Li Shen looked up. The three cultivators from the Forest Leaf Sect had gone to inform their elders and sect leader.
'They're so confident they can destroy my sect's protector,' Li Shen explained.
'Let them try it, if necessary use the sect heirloom to try to break it,' Li Shen said, smiling widely.
Ye Fa turned her head to the side, seeing Li Shen smiling for no reason. She also saw the cultivator's departure earlier, there was a bit of worry in Ye Fa's heart.
'What if they manage to destroy it?If they succeed, that means the Forest Leaf Sect will have the entire assets of the Azure Pillar Sect completely,' Ye Fa explained.
'But the senior's face didn't look anxious.Instead, he looks like he's enjoying accompanying Ziyue and Xiao Bai.What exactly is he planning?' asked Ye Fa, curious.
Ziyue and Xiao Bai seemed to be enjoying the festivities in the city, playing small games, gambling, and seeing dance performances.
As the night wore on, more and more people arrived and the excitement increased.
When it came to money, the three of them didn't dip into their pockets at all. Food, games, and snacks were all provided by Li Shen, considering he was very rich —perhaps the richest in the entire kingdom on planet Azure.
One by one, they played prize games, such as catching fish, guessing dice, and throwing arrows from a distance.
Hao Ziyue and Xiao Bai seemed to enjoy it, but Ye Fa was different. The woman was constantly haunted by their sect's condition.
Li Shen saw Ye Fa's uneasy face. The man immediately asked without hesitation.
"What's wrong?" asked Li Shen.
"It's been three hours since we had our chat with the three Forest Leaf cultivators. I'm worried that they've already broken into our sect's protection," said Ye Fa.
"HAHA!"
"You're worried about something that can't possibly happen," Li Shen retorted, making Ye Fa curious about what he meant.
While walking with Ziyue and Xiao Bai, Li Shen explained that the four primordial beast gems he used for protection were high-level gems.
Usually, cultivators used those gems to fight. Yet, their power was just as strong when used as defense.
"The Forest Leaf Sect is a second-tier sect, just like the Mountain Goose. I doubt they have any ancestors," Li Shen said.
"But they have nascent soul stage cultivators," Ye Fa explained.
"It doesn't matter."
"Even if they had 1000 Nascent Soul cultivators, they wouldn't be able to destroy my four sect protectors," Li Shen explained.
'Senior seems very confident about the sect protector's abilities,' Ye Fa explained.
'What am I worried about?Senior, who has a higher cultivation than me, looks relaxed, why should I be worried?" asked Ye Fa.
Ziyue and Xiao Bai stopped at a clairvoyance that was crowded with people. Li Shen also stopped and looked at it.
With his qi power, he wrote down something on a piece of paper after scanning a person's mind and destiny. Afterward, the person paid some spirit stones or coins to the fortune teller.
There were two different transactions in the Qing Kingdom, using copper coins or spirit stones. However, when compared per piece of each payment tool, spirit stones are superior.
Simply put, one low spirit stone can buy one basket of vegetables where if bought using copper coins, a basket of vegetables costs 10 copper coins.
Even so, spirit stones are limited in number and mostly only owned by cultivators. Because of this limitation, they preferred to use spirit stones as a means of payment rather than a cultivation tool.
"Is he a fraud?" asked Ye Fa, Li Shen shook his head.
From the eyes of ordinary people, the clairvoyant might be a fraud, but not to the eyes of cultivators. Clearly, the clairvoyant old man was using a certain technique to predict someone.
"He used a first-level technique to tell someone's fortune. I don't know what that technique is because I don't think it's very useful," Li Shen said.
"Not useful? Wouldn't it be if we had that technique, we could foresee disasters or calamities that would happen?" asked Ye Fa.
"For you guys, it might be useful. But not for me. After all, not knowing about the future will make you excited for the day, right?" asked Li Shen.
Ye Fa was stunned to hear Li Shen's words. His senior was right, life would be much more meaningful if they didn't know what their future would be like. It would make every moment special and unforgettable.
"How is it? Are you guys interested in trying it?" asked Li Shen to Ziyue and Xiao Bai.
Both of them nodded. They looked impatient to find out what their future would be like, but they had to queue up for their turn.
After a long wait, their turn came. Hao Ziyue was the first to be fortunetold, she used spirit stone low to pay.
"I see light and leaves. I see, you stand at the peak of alchemists in the Qing Kingdom. I have found a word that suits you," explained the fortune teller, using her technique that emitted green light.
The fortune teller took a paper and wrote something on it. When she was done, she gave it to Ziyue.
"Look! She wrote down that I'll be the Queen of Alchemists," Hao Ziyue said, feeling happy.
Li Shen nodded. The astrologer was astute and insightful. He used the dominant element on Hao Ziyue's body to determine a suitable future for her. The light element might be useful in combat, but not with leaves.
The right choice of the combination of the two elements was the alchemist, let alone the calm and stable nature of the leaf element.
Now, it was Xiao Bai's turn to be fortune told. The fortune teller did the same and wrote something down on a piece of paper.
"With your extraordinary latent power, you will become the best cultivator in all of Qing. You will destroy thousands of monsters and gain hundreds of concubines," the old man explained.
The word the clairvoyant wrote down for Xiao Bai was Fire Emperor, an overly exaggerated word for a Qi Condensation stage 4 cultivator. However, it was enough to get him excited.
"Woah, Fire Emperor and Queen Alchemist. Isn't that great, Senior Li Shen?" asked Ye Fa, Li Shen nodded.
'That clairvoyant makes me have to work extra hard to make his predictions come true,' complained Li Shen, glaring irritably at the old man.
The fortune teller's old man noticed Li Shen's sharp gaze, then acted indifferent while turning his face away.
Li Shen sighed, it wasn't easy to make Hao Ziyue into the Queen of Alchemists and Xiao Bai into the Fire Emperor.
But there was no harm in trying. If they showed such potential, Li Shen would not hesitate to teach them many things.
"How was it? Did you guys enjoy everything tonight?" asked Ye Fa, her two disciples nodded.
"It's almost midnight," explained Li Shen, looking at the large clock on the tower of the Wei Family residence.
"We should go home and welcome our guests there."
"Guests? Could it be those three cultivators?" asked Ziyue.
Li Shen nodded slowly with a smile, "Right. We should leave now. We can't keep them waiting too long."