The Young Master and the Heaven’s Secret System

Zhao Kingdom, Ba Commandery, Qingling City.

When the first ray of morning sun hit Qingling City, the streets were already bustling with activity.

At the most prosperous part of the Eastern Market, countless small stalls had already been set up, and right in front of a medicine shop stood a small fortune-telling stall.

Next to it stood a cyan-ink banner which read: “The profound mysteries of the Yi changes connect heaven and earth; the miraculous art of destiny recognizes Yin and Yang,” with the horizontal inscription: “Destiny is ordained by heaven.”

A cyan-ink bamboo cylinder rested on the stall, carrying a slightly profound aura.

Those who traveled the world to read characters and sell divinations either put on grand airs or kept their eyes tightly shut with an expression that suggested they knew everything.

However, this stall owner was a youth who had just reached his capping ceremony, exceptionally handsome and possessing a somewhat refined, scholarly air, currently staring with a pair of eyes that rolled about as he sized up the crowd.

People of his own age walked past with mocking smiles, but Luo Chen did not mind at all, thinking that others laughed at his madness while he laughed at their inability to see through the world.

It had already been three years since he traveled to this world, and he was already completely familiar with its social dynamics and structural layout.

This continent had demons, monsters, cultivators, and even the legendary immortal families.

Traveling to this world, he had also unexpectedly awakened a Heaven’s Secret System.

This Heaven’s Secret System could peer into the secrets of heaven, calculate a person’s past and future, and deduce a person’s fortune or misfortune, but it required consuming system points.

The amount of points consumed depended entirely on the cultivation level of the person being observed.

The higher the cultivation, the more points were consumed.

System points could be obtained by offering spirituality to the system, and the offered items had to be heavenly materials and earthly treasures, such as spiritual treasures, Dharma treasures, spiritual stones, spiritual pills, and other cultivation resources, with corresponding points granted based on the grade of the offered item.

But as a man of heaven’s secrets, Luo Chen discovered that this system could only peer into the secrets of others, yet was completely unable to check his own destiny and future.

Furthermore! Luo Chen discovered that his system seemed to have developed a bit of a glitch!

“Immortal! Can you calculate marriage?”

Luo Chen raised his head, and standing before the stall was a butcher with greasy hands, holding a pig-killing knife, speaking in a muffled, heavy voice.

A first customer had finally arrived, but he looked like someone without much money, so Luo Chen glanced at him: “One tael of silver!”

The butcher’s bell-like large eyes stared wide: “I am asking you if your calculations are accurate!”

“If it is inaccurate, no money will be taken!”

The butcher hesitated for a moment, as one tael of silver was worth several catties of pork, before grinding his teeth and pulling out one tael of silver to place on the stall table.

Luo Chen remained perfectly calm and pushed the cyan-ink bamboo cylinder forward: “Draw a stick!”

The butcher held his breath, suddenly stared wide, and fiercely drew out a bamboo stick to hand over to Luo Chen.

Having a system to tell fortunes meant that he did not actually need bamboo sticks, as this was merely for show.

[System detection, about to deduce the heavenly secrets for Han Erniu, this deduction requires the consumption of three points. Please confirm, Host.]

Three points was already the absolute minimum consumption, which also meant that he had a completely ordinary destiny.

He would not have any grand fortunes in this lifetime.

Confirm!

[Han Erniu, from the east of Qingling City, thirty-eight years old this year! Separated from wealth with bare walls at home, naturally fond of gambling, squandered all family property, causing his parents to die of anger because of it.]

[At twelve years old, apprenticed under his third uncle and learned how to slaughter pigs.]

[At fifteen years old, through a matchmaker’s proposal, became engaged to the daughter of the Zhu family from Shangshu village, but because of his improper behavior toward the girl, the Zhu family was infuriated, and the marriage alignment was broken.]

[Afterward, he became addicted to gambling, his parents died of anger, his bad reputation spread far and wide, and no matchmaker ever approached his door again.]

[At thirty-nine years old, met his death as a bystander when high-level cultivation experts fought.]

Looking at Han Erniu’s heavenly secrets, he was indeed bound to die early without ever marrying, dying next year, so where would any marriage come from.

[The Host can consume three hundred of his own points to change his destiny, your current points are two thousand one hundred and thirty-nine points.]

Luo Chen shook his head, as a mere ordinary passerby did not interest him.

[Prompt: You have peered into Han Erniu’s heavenly secrets, the Host can choose to conceal the heavenly secrets, reward: deduct 200 points, and bring down an unprovoked disaster.]

[The Host can also choose to reveal the heavenly secrets, punishment: points +50, and choose one of the two punishments below.]

[One: Han Erniu’s pig-slaughtering skills.]

[Two: Han Erniu’s three methods for scaling a widow’s wall.]

Luo Chen felt somewhat helpless, as this glitch showed no signs of improving.

Normally, heavenly secrets could not be leaked, so not leaking them should grant a reward.

Yet now, it instead forced you to reveal the heavenly secrets, otherwise deducting points was a small matter, but bringing down an unprovoked disaster was something no one could endure.

He could only choose to reveal the heavenly secrets, and this punishment left nothing more to be said, as it felt like taking him for a divine joke.

He temporarily had absolutely no interest in a widow’s wall.

“Hey! Young master, have you calculated it yet?”

“Do you see any prospects for my stall?”

Han Erniu instantly became energized…

Crash…

Luo Chen helplessly packed up his stall that was broken all over the ground, as it could no longer be set up.

Were people these days all so lacking in composure?

One must accept the losses in gambling, so blame heaven if you must.

Holding eight copper coins in his hand and hoisting the broken banner, he decided it was better to fill his belly first.

Passing through the Eastern Market, he arrived at a broken shed by the outer city entrance.

This shed sold some wontons, tea, and such, and the customers were mostly traveling vendors.

Because he came frequently, the old man running the noodle shed already recognized Luo Chen, and seeing him listless, knew that something had gone wrong again.

This was a common occurrence for Luo Chen.

“Shopkeeper, the usual.”

“Alright! One bowl of wontons coming up… Young master, please take a seat first.”

Luo Chen found an empty seat and sat down, looking at the sky, it was already noon, and he felt anxious.

Because the system rules stipulated that he had to tell fortunes for people at least three times a day, and he could not forcefully drag people to give them a divination.

Otherwise, punishments would appear at random.

Furthermore, for the first three times, if someone came for a divination, he could not decline, or else he would be punished all the same.

Therefore, Luo Chen would choose to give divinations to some ordinary people in this ordinary city, since if he happened to encounter an all-powerful figure who became displeased, that would not be a loss caused by someone like Han Erniu.

Losing his life meant King Yama would not care, and the Ox-Head would not care either, leaving no place to even argue his case.

While slurping the wontons, he pondered over going to the west of the city in the afternoon, where there were also many people, and if his luck was good, he would always run into a few bewildered individuals.

After finishing the wontons, he patted his belly, instantly feeling a bit more energetic.

Hoisting the banner, the words “Destiny is ordained by heaven” drifted in the wind.

The person drifted along too!

In the west of the city, people were surging, and above the blue tiled roofs, a beautiful figure clad in a brocade wind-cloak trod on empty air, completely disregarding the crowd below, a solitary figure proud against the world.

‘To think that I, Gu Huchan, would have such a day, who in the world would have expected that the secret treasure of the Cold Moon Kingdom would actually fall into my hands. Even more unexpected is that the Empress of the Cold Moon Kingdom actually hid such a massive secret inside this secret treasure.’

‘With this secret treasure in hand, why worry about the Cold Moon Kingdom not submitting, and when the Cold Moon Kingdom changes masters in the future, it might not even be impossible to help me cultivate divine abilities.’

‘It is just that this Cold Moon Empress is murderous by nature…’

Gliding hundreds of miles in an instant, her divine sense swept out, discovering that she had already entered the borders of the Zhao Kingdom.

Sweeping a glance, she recognized this as precisely Qingling City of the Zhao Kingdom.

With disdain in her heart, she knew the Zhao Kingdom lacked talent and possessed no great figures with divine abilities, so her mind instantly became at ease.

Just as she slowed her pace, her two eyes suddenly focused…

Below was a young young master, hoisting a broken banner: “The profound mysteries of the Yi changes connect heaven and earth; the miraculous art of destiny recognizes Yin and Yang. Horizontal inscription: Destiny is ordained by heaven!”

What arrogant words, I wonder if your destiny is to be ordained by me.

Moreover, looking at this little appearance, it makes one’s hands itch.

“Young master!”

Luo Chen was walking leisurely when he suddenly heard a clear, beautiful female voice from behind, knowing naturally that this was no arrival of marriage alignment, and turned his head.

Standing behind him was a beautiful woman clad in a brocade wind-cloak, her features delicate and charming, sufficient to bewilder Yangcheng and infatuate Xiacai, yet possessing a trace of malevolent aura.

“In broad daylight, you actually dare to set foot in a human city, you have certainly eaten quite a lot of leopard gall.”

Luo Chen muttered in a low voice, not expecting to be heard by the woman.

Her heart shook violently, wondering if this person truly possessed the ability to peer into heaven’s secrets, to actually be able to perceive her true form.