Madam, please ascend.

Chapter 338 The Divine Calculator

If you were to ask who is the most anxious person right now, it would undoubtedly be the fortune teller in Crescent Moon City, who is wandering around aimlessly like a headless fly.

They had originally agreed with Zhao Wuxiang to search for Tianzhu separately. However, after a whole night, not only did they find no clues, but they had even lost Zhao Wuxiang himself.

"I told you long ago that this trip would be very unlucky, but you just wouldn't believe me. You might just stumble somewhere!" The fortune teller was lying in the shade in front of a tavern. Because he was dressed so much like a beggar, the passersby all avoided him.

He was about to take out his precious abacus when the fat shopkeeper, who had been watching him for a long time, finally couldn't help but rush out and say, "I'm not trying to be mean, but you should at least look for the right place to beg for food. This is a liquor store. What good will it do you to stay here?"

The old abacus said pitifully, "I'm not a beggar."

"Do you want more wine?"

"Uh... it's not impossible."

"Get lost!" The fat shopkeeper, having exhausted his last bit of patience, kicked the old abacus out, not even willing to offer him the shade under his own eaves.

He wasn't a heartless person; he just felt that in Crescent Moon City, anyone with hands and feet could make a living. If a beggar looked perfectly capable and insisted on begging, then he shouldn't blame others for looking down on him.

Old Abacus was thinking that if the fat shopkeeper was willing to let him drink, he wouldn't mind giving him a chance, but he didn't expect to get kicked in the butt, and all those thoughts vanished immediately.

"Tsk, this Crescent Moon City is really a small temple with a lot of evil spirits." Old Abacus rubbed his butt, thinking about what to do next.

Just then, a girl in green happened to pass by and witnessed him being kicked out of the shop.

The girl couldn't bear it, so she stepped forward and gave him a silver ingot.

She didn't say anything after that and walked straight out of the city.

Old Abacus stared at the girl in green and naturally recognized her as Ye Nianyi, thinking to himself that she was a kind-hearted person.

Meanwhile, Ye Nianyi was on her way to the Flying Heaven Secret Realm. Yun Yi said that he had to leave Crescent Moon City, otherwise the city would likely suffer a great calamity.

Knowing that her cultivation was insufficient to help, Ye Nianyi decided not to stay and cause trouble, and instead took the opportunity to visit Zhuozhuo's hometown.

Moreover, she had lied beforehand that Nangong Zhuozhuo had gone to the Flying Heaven Secret Realm first, and that she needed to meet up with her.

Yun Yi was "very pleased" by this, thinking that Ye Nianyi was a sensible girl who never made things difficult for anyone.

He instructed Ye Nianyi to stay in the Flying Heaven Secret Realm and return after things were settled here.

Ye Nianyi nodded in agreement, tidied herself up briefly, and then prepared to leave Crescent Moon City.

But unexpectedly, she ran into the fortune teller first.

For some unknown reason, Old Abacus suddenly flashed and inexplicably appeared in front of Ye Nianyi, blocking her path.

Ye Nianyi had no idea that the beggar in front of her was a member of the Overturning Heaven Pavilion, and had even been secretly following her for a long time. She asked in a gentle tone, "What's wrong?"

The old man said, "I won't take your money for nothing. I'll tell your fortune as a way of repaying you."

"This...isn't necessary..."

Before Ye Nianyi could finish speaking, she saw Old Suanpan conjure an abacus out of thin air, his five fingers flying as he manipulated the abacus beads, a sight that dazzled the eyes.

Interestingly, the pedestrians around suddenly stopped in their tracks, maintaining their final poses, as if time had stood still within a radius of several feet.

"He's a master." Nangong Zhuozhuo sensed the aura outside and reminded herself in her heart.

Ye Nianyi became wary, never expecting that her momentary act of kindness would lead her to get involved with such strange people and strange events.

Fortunately, the old abacus was just for divination and seemed to have no other intentions.

Before long, he suddenly covered the abacus beads with his hand, closed his eyes, and muttered incantations. If Ye Nianyi hadn't sensed the strange fluctuations in the spiritual energy nearby, she would have thought the old beggar was more like a madman.

The fortune teller suddenly spoke up, saying, "Your fate has changed."

Ye Nianyi expressed her doubt with her eyes: "?"

"It's good that things have changed. Living a carefree life is the best outcome. Gong Che was never a good match for you. There's nothing wrong with being a carefree goddess."

He actually knew Gong Che?! This terrified Ye Nianyi, and she didn't know what to do for a moment.

The fortune teller didn't care about her reaction and finally said, "Remember, pluck the flower while it's in bloom, lest you break a bare branch. This advice is also for the girl inside you."

After saying that, he disappeared in a flash, and the surrounding pedestrians returned to normal, some leaving and some staying, as if nothing had happened.

Even Ye Nianyi doubted whether she had just seen things, and whether there was any fortune-telling beggar who had come here.

But Nangong Zhuozhuo warned her, "Quickly, let's go, this person is strange."

Upon hearing this, Ye Nianyi quickened her pace and headed towards the Worry-Free Spring outside the city.

Along the way, she pondered the meaning of the saying, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, for ye may ye have no flowers left to pluck."
Nangong Zhuozhuo reminded him, "Idiot, I was obviously telling you to find an opportunity to win over Yun Yi, otherwise you'll miss your chance!"

"Zhuozhuo is annoying."

The two girls hurried on their way, but this time the fortune teller didn't secretly follow them.

He could still distinguish which matter was more important than the other.

He leaped into the air, holding an abacus in one hand and frantically manipulating the beads with the other, appearing almost frenzied.

At the same time, streaks of light kept flying out from the abacus beads, flying into various parts of Crescent Moon City, searching for the presence of Tianzhu and Zhao Wuxiang.

The streaks of light moved like dragons and snakes through the city's alleyways, finally converging in mid-air, beneath the old abacus's feet.

He said, "Between life and death, friend and foe? Zhao Wuxiang, what exactly happened to you?!"

"This is really troublesome. Now I don't even have any help. It seems I have no choice but to resort to the worst possible solution."

"I only hope that the Pavilion Master will remember my hard work and great contributions and give me some compensation."

Having said that, the fortune teller finally made up his mind, suddenly bit his tongue, and spat a mouthful of blood onto the abacus.

Then, the precious abacus, even though no one was moving the beads, inexplicably started moving on its own.

The fortune teller made a strange hand seal, chanted incantations, kept his eyes closed, but a "heavenly eye" quietly opened between his eyebrows.

In this eye, the world is a hazy gray, and all illusions have nowhere to hide.

Its gaze swept across Crescent Moon City, from the ground to the blue sky, finally landing on the Heavenly Sea Treasure Ship in the horizon.

"Open!" the diviner uttered softly, and then a giant golden pillar suddenly emerged, its light dazzling and incomparably brilliant.

Poor fortune teller's third eye kept bleeding after he finished doing this, and this supernatural power consumed a lot of his lifespan in an instant.

Now that they had finally found the location of the Heavenly Pillar, Old Calculator did not hesitate and directly used the "Great Evolution Escape Talisman".

As the talisman transformed into a ball of clear light, a tall figure emerged from it.

He was none other than Xiao Buyi, the Seven Killers, a master who had attained the Dao through martial arts and ascended to the Ascension Realm!
(End of this chapter)