[HSRGSS] Chapter 138: Sham Diviner

[Random character script starting...]

[Fu Xuan]

[Randomly drawing a conceptual ability...]

[Sham Diviner: Mastery over any form of divination, but not only will the result always be wrong, the result will also forcibly alter reality.]

'Seriously? Fu Xuan's script? I was just having a scandal with her...'

Lucian couldn't help but roll his eyes as he realized that, out of all people at this particular time, it had to be Fu Xuan.

In the next moment, however, Lucian suddenly smiled.

'Well, so be it. Let's make the scandal real, then.'

With this thought in mind, Lucian vanished instantly, not bothering to inform anyone since there was really no need.

Everyone present already knew he always came and went without a trace, after all.

"Hm? Where'd Lucian run off to?" Baiheng asked, blinking her eyes in confusion.

"Maybe he went back to his room to rest." Jingliu replied calmly as she gazed at the empty chair where Lucian had sat.

"Well, I'm gonna grab a nap too, then." Jing Yuan yawned and stretched his body, then turned to the pink-haired girl across from him. "By the way, Diviner Fu, shouldn't you be on duty by now?"

"..."

However, after a few seconds of silence, the answer never came.

Everyone immediately turned to look, only to see Fu Xuan sitting still with her eyes closed, holding her phone—completely motionless.

Baiheng reached out to touch Fu Xuan, only to find her hand passing right through—her fingers clipping straight through Fu Xuan's body.

"What's... going on...?"

Baiheng was baffled, and the rest were no better.

Jing Yuan instantly shot up from his chair and leaned in, patting Fu Xuan's shoulder, but his hand also went right through.

"Diviner Fu... turned into a hologram?" Jing Yuan frowned.

'Why does this state...' Jingliu frowned, silently pondering. 'I've never seen it before, yet it feels strangely familiar…'

Of course, she had never actually witnessed such a state.

Back then, when she herself had fallen into a dream, she had been too dazed to notice. Moreover, no one had seen it, and she herself could not see it, so naturally she had no idea what Fu Xuan was experiencing now.

As for the others, it went without saying that none of them had ever seen a person suddenly turn into a hologram.

At this moment, none of them thought to connect this phenomenon to Lucian.

"Just staring at her like this isn't going to solve anything." Jing Yuan's drowsiness instantly vanished. "I'll head to the Seat of Divine Foresight and look into it."

Having his own subordinate in trouble, it was only natural for him, as an Arbiter-General, to spare no effort to rescue her.

"In that case, we'll stay here and guard her—make sure no one else gets near her." Baiheng nodded seriously.

Baiheng and Jingliu chose to remain, watching over the unconscious Fu Xuan, trying to figure out what was happening.

"Well, I'll patrol the area, see if there's any heliobus messing around." Teng Xiao donned his heavy armor, the plates clanking noisily as he went off on his patrol.

Just like that, everyone split up to help Fu Xuan return to normal.

Fu Xuan could no longer sense the people or objects around her, only faintly realizing she was dreaming.

In her dream, she saw her father and her family members, saw Master Diviner Jingtian, and saw... Lucian...

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"Ugh..."

Lucian's vision was filled with a blur of scenery as a wave of dizziness overwhelmed him.

Soon, when his sight gradually cleared, the place around him had already changed.

It was no longer Jing Yuan's bamboo courtyard but a lively street.

On this street, crowds of people bustled back and forth, but what was most important was that across the street stood a striking grand residence.

Lucian's gaze lifted, falling on the plaque above the residence gate—Fu family.

At the frontmost of the residence, its heavy redwood gate was inlaid with alloy decorations, giving off a noble and modern air.

'Fu family... Is this Fu Xuan's home?'

In Lucian's memory, Fu Xuan was born into a prestigious family of diviners in the Xianzhou Yuque known as the Fu family.

And right now, Lucian, upon seeing the style of the surrounding buildings, was convinced that he was really in the Xianzhou Yuque.

'I thought I'd get to play with Fu Xuan in the Luofu—didn't expect the script to drop me straight into the Yuque.'

It should be noted that the birthplace of the Xianzhou Alliance's divination arts was here—the Xianzhou Yuque.

In the Xianzhou Yuque, what everyone valued was not martial strength, but divination.

Astrology, fortune-telling, deduction, casting hexagrams—if you could predict fortune and misfortune accurately, you were an elite, respected by all. Even if you were useless in combat, as long as your divination skills were exceptional, you could still rise to power and prestige.

Master Diviner Jingtian of the Yuque's Divination Commission and General Yao Guang were the two strongest diviners in the Yuque, revered and admired by everyone.

Below them were the ancient diviner families, each with thousands of years of heritage.

And the Fu family was one of them, while Fu Xuan was none other than the family's genius heiress.

'In a place where divination rules, I don't know a single divination art... tch...'

Lucian couldn't help but complain in his heart.

'Not gonna lie, this conceptual ability looks usable, but also kinda ridiculous.'

Sham Diviner—even the name sounded lame in his eyes.

From its description, when the ability was activated, it granted mastery over any form of divination, which was decent, but then came the line, 'not only will the result always be wrong.'

Fortunately, the ability was evidently still useful—at least he knew that meant he could flip its divination results to his advantage.

However, that final line, which said 'forcibly alter reality,' was too vague, so he would need to run some tests to figure it out.

As Lucian stood at the roadside, lost in thought, nearby pedestrians began to chatter.

"Hey, look, that's the Fu family's genius heiress."

"Oh, so cute! I bet she'll grow into a tall beauty one day."

"I heard the Fu family divined her future and said that she'll one day become a Master Diviner."

"Yeah, boundless prospects ahead! And when she does, the whole Fu family will share the glory."

"See how many people are escorting her? Shows just how much they treasure her."

Lucian snapped out of his thoughts and followed their pointing fingers.

He saw a group of people surrounding a little pink-haired girl, leading her toward the Fu residence.

As his gaze locked onto the girl, who looked awfully familiar, he raised his eyebrows in surprise.

'Isn't that Fu Xuan? But she looks young, barely ten years old or so...'

Lucian pondered for a moment before turning to his side.

"Hey, old man, what year is it in the star calendar right now?" Lucian asked as he grabbed a passing elder by the shoulder.

"Huh? What year? Uhh... let me calculate..."

As he spoke, the old man casually pulled out an astrolabe from his pocket, pinched his fingers to divine, then answered a few seconds later.

"It's Star Year 7802. Oh, and tomorrow will rain, by the way."

Right after saying this, the old man tucked away his astrolabe and strolled off normally, as if what he did was nothing special.

Lucian, staying silent, could not help but admire the Xianzhou Yuque as he realized that this Xianzhou ship was truly a land of hidden masters.

Even an old man in slippers could do divinations so casually.

"7802, huh? Doesn't seem like any major events happened this year..."

Lucian muttered, glancing at the heavily guarded Fu residence, then at the little Fu Xuan surrounded by her escorts.

"Yeah, it's safe enough to approach her..."

However, where was he supposed to find an opening to approach her?

Force his way in, get humiliated, and then massacre the Fu family in anger, like in those Chinese novels?

Unfortunately, that would only make him Fu Xuan's sworn enemy—the one who wiped out her family, clearly not a good idea.

In the Xianzhou Yuque, where divination reigned supreme, brute force could never earn true respect.

Knowing this, Lucian understood that the only way was to rely on his new conceptual ability—to become a sham diviner—no, a great diviner—and thus earn Fu Xuan's acceptance.

Not wanting to waste time any longer, Lucian immediately activated the Sham Diviner.

In the next second, several forms of divination instantly surfaced in Lucian's mind, but since he had no divination tools at hand, he chose the simplest form—finger-calculation.

Lucian pinched his fingers, and knowledge of hexagrams and years of practice automatically filled his mind, as if he had trained divination all his life.

In just a few seconds, the result appeared.

"Hmm... the Fu family will be safe tonight, with no bloodshed..." Lucian muttered quietly, then recalled the description of the Sham Diviner.

According to the description, it meant that since the result was guaranteed wrong, the Fu family would definitely face bloodshed tonight.

Reaching a conclusion, Lucian then walked to the front of the Fu residence's gate, blocking the path of Fu Xuan and her escorts.

"Please wait, everyone. I've recently calculated the Fu family's fate, so I came here to warn you." Lucian said with a friendly smile. "Tonight, the Fu family will face a bloody disaster."

Upon hearing this, Fu Xuan and her escorts froze for a moment, then one of the escorts suddenly burst into laughter.

"Hahahaha, this trick again? If I asked you why you know that, would you say 'the secrets of heaven can't be revealed'?"

He was a middle-aged man with long hair styled in a semi-bundled hairstyle, looking like a typical character from Xianxia stories.

"Boy, I've heard that line too many times. If you want to scam us, be more creative..."