Chapter 55: The Star of the Moon
As soon as dawn came, I arrived at the central hall. Asher was already there waiting for me. Seeing me approach, Asher lowered her scepter in her left hand and bowed to me.
"Palace Master, morning."
"Asher, has the soothsayer of the Buyue clan arrived?" I smiled and looked at Asher.
"This should be on the way here." Asher looked up at me. I saw a slight surprise in his brown eyes.
When I left the Pleiades Palace last night, I had already decided, my uncle was right, Asher was old, and the Liuli Palace should need a new soothsayer.
"Asher, when those teenagers from the Buyue clan come, take a good look at it for me, and choose a few more advanced divination skills."
"Yes, Palace Master."
"By the way, Asher, don't you wonder why I suddenly want to choose a soothsayer?"
"Hehehe, I'm not curious."
"Tell me about it." I looked at Asher with a smile on his face, and I was a little surprised.
"Xiu is now the palace master, not the playful young master before, every decision, Asher will definitely obey, there will be no objections."
Looking at his loyal countenance, I did not speak again. I understand that this is not flattery, but I still will not change my original intention in front of my uncle in the Pleiades Palace.
After a while, the soothsayer of the Buyue clan arrived.
There were about a dozen people in the group, all of whom looked like teenagers of the same age, with cyan robes, which were extraordinarily close to the long body, and their delicate faces were full of vitality, as if they had their own divination temperament.
"The diviner of the Buyue clan, salute the palace master, and salute the patriarch." Several teenagers knelt on one knee in unison. Looking at me and Asher, their pupils were exactly the same color as Asher's.
"Get up."
"It's the palace master."
"You are the newly trained soothsayers of the Buyue Clan?"
"Yes, Palace Master", a teenager in the front row walked out and answered my question with his possession.
"I heard you say that the patriarch just now, is he calling Asher?"
"Yes, Palace Master, Mr. Asher is the patriarch of our Buyue clan and an example for our younger generations to follow."
"He's my godfather here too." I glanced at Asher, it turned out that he was still the patriarch of the Buyue clan, and I always thought that he was just the elder soothsayer of the Liuli Palace.
After settling the boys, I left Asher alone in the main hall.
"Does Father know?" In the empty hall, my voice was exceptionally loud.
"What does the palace master mean?"
"Does my father know your identity as the patriarch of the Buyue clan?"
"I don't know." Asher replied naturally.
"If it weren't for these soothsayers, maybe I wouldn't have known ......."
"Heh, Xiu, it's not important, the important thing is that these teenagers are already advanced diviners in this generation, and you have to choose a better person from these people, who can support you in the future and govern the Liuli Palace."
Asher ...... "I didn't dare to speak, I don't know if Asher already knew what I really thought, and after a pause, I asked Asher again.
"The patriarch of the Buyue clan, it should be a great honor, right?"
"Repair. In Asher's life, the greatest honor is to stay in the Liuli Palace. With that, Asher saluted me and left. Looking at his clumsy body, I was suddenly upset and didn't know what to think of him.
Asher's loyalty should have seeped into his bones.
Although the Liuli Palace is not as big as Musha and the Yin Clan, it is still relatively famous in the entire Ethereal Continent, there are a total of six small tribes around, and each of them is headed by the Liuli Palace, the Buyue Clan, the Water Spirit Clan, the Shenmu Clan, the Xianle Clan, the Nanyu and the Xiye Six Clans, among which the Buyue Clan is good at divination, so it is also the best among the six clans, and the best soothsayers among them will be sent to the Liuli Palace, and after layers of screening, they will become the divisthants of the Liuli Palace.
And these things that were screened were all handled by Asher. Ever since the young man of the Buyue clan had settled in the Liuli Palace, Asher had been busy, and occasionally, I would see his gray figure busy in the main hall. I'll also go to other courtyards to see how those teenagers are doing their divination.
A few days later, one morning, Asher told me that he had selected two good soothsayers from among the teenagers and asked me to decide which one to keep. This is also a lively day for the Liuli Palace.
Me, Asher, Mother, Sisters, and Dreams. They all gathered in the main hall to watch this high-level divination competition.
Wait until we're all seated. Asher called the two teenagers to the center of the main hall, and they introduced them one by one, one was called Hope and the other was called Qingshan. I deliberately glanced at the young man named Qingshan, except for the color of the pupil, he was very similar to Xifeng, with a handsome face, radiant facial features, and as sharp and agile as Xifeng.
When they were finished, Asher sent a servant to bring a box. Then he attached it to my ear and told me that in the box was a mirror that he had put in himself, and the first level of the assessment was to guess the object in the air, and let the soothsayer divinate what was in the box, and then tell the answer.
The first is prayer, he steps forward, sits cross-legged on his knees, crosses his index fingers in front of his chest, and begins divination. After a while he got up and saluted me, and when the divination was over, Asher came up to him, and he gave Asher the answer. I saw Asher's frown loosen instantly.
Next up is Aoyama. There was still a difference between his divination method and prayer, and I saw him walk up to the box, stretch out the palm of his right hand and caress it over the box. Saluting to me, I didn't expect him to be so quick in divination, and I thought to myself that his divination skills should be above prayer, but I saw Asher's face suddenly become grim. Asher didn't say anything, slowly walked to the box, opened the box, and sure enough, it was a shining mirror.
Asher announces the results of the divination. Both Hope and Aoyama got it right.
The crowd applauded.
Next up is the second level, Spiritism.
The servants carried in a two-meter-long pool. Asher walked there and used her magic to conjure up a water snake and a turtle. Asher said that the water snake and the turtle each represent prayer and green hills. The pool represents the Glass Palace, and if you want to be unique here, you must use spiritual magic to eliminate the threat. After saying the rules, he let Hope and Aoyama choose.
Hope chose the turtle, and Aoyama chose the water snake.
When the water in the pool begins to turbulent, the competition between the two begins. The water snake represented by Aoyama sent out its first attack, and it suddenly rang out to attack the turtle, saying that it was too late, and the turtle represented by Hope immediately retracted its head and limbs.
Aoyama's first attack failed. I called Asher to his side and asked him why he chose the water snake and the turtle, these two are completely different from each other, and the snake is evil, and the turtle is good at defending, not good at attacking. This seems to be a little unfair to the two people who are together.
Asher smiled and said lightly. This seems to be a test for the two teenagers, Aoyama and Hope. In fact, it was also his divination of the two of them. After the competition, he can divinate who is more suitable to stay in the Liuli Palace. After listening, I have to sigh at Asher's wisdom, his ideas are always so patterned. No wonder he stayed with his father for hundreds of years.
Aoyama launched another new round of attacks. This time he circled around Hope, and the water in the pool began to surge in its entirety, gradually forming a whirlpool that enclosed Hope in the middle. At first, the hope was still shrunk in the turtle's shell. Gradually, he couldn't stand it anymore. Struggled to flow out of the whirlpool. Aoyama's offensive became more and more fierce. Seeing that the hope gradually became unbearable, when we all thought that the hope was going to lose. The whirlpool suddenly became smaller, and the doctor's body suddenly writhed wildly, as if struggling, and when he looked closely, it turned out that he was bitten seven inches by expectation, which was the fatal part of the water snake, and the green mountains by the pool continued to use spiritual magic, wanting to break away from the mouth of prayer. However, the bite was too tight, and Aoyama struggled for a while, then gave up resistance.
This game is expected to be won.
When Asher announced the results, I was a little disappointed. Maybe it's because the green mountains are more like the stream wind. But the rules are the rules, winning or losing are in my own hands, and I won't ignore the face of the Liuli Palace.
Soon, the third game began on Asher's orders. Asher stepped forward and bowed to me. It is said that this final test must be decided by the palace master.
I looked at the two handsome teenagers, Hope and Aoyama. After thinking about it, he said to the two of them:
"The flowing galaxy outside the palace, at this time, there is a sunset on it, who wants to find a narcissus from there. Whoever stays in the Liuli Palace can become a high-level soothsayer. ”
"Yes, Palace Master, we will definitely comply with the Palace Master's request."
After the two teenagers finished speaking, they walked outside.
"Hehehe, Xiu, did you remember the story I told you?"
Asher looked at me. Brown Hitomi smiled slightly.
"Sort of." I answered softly and looked at the palace gate.
"That's... Cultivating hope, who will be left? ”
"He's a lot like ...... Creek Wind." I lowered my eyes and looked at the dark sound on my chest.
I don't know what Xifeng is doing at this time? Did he know that in the Liuli Palace, there was a young man just like him.
"Xiu refers to Qingshan, right?"
"Asher thinks like that, too?"
"No, I just saw that Xiu looked at Qingshan's expression differently, however, this young man is really good, but in the first level of assessment, I couldn't divinate his life, and the number of hopes is easy, but there will be some panic in the near future."
"Why can't you do divination?" I looked at Asher in amazement, how could a senior fortune teller like him not take a person's life?
"At first, I didn't notice him, but in the last few days, when he stood out from the teenagers, I slowly noticed that there was some fog on him, so the divination was always vague."
"Has this ever happened before?"
"Yes."
"When, where?"
"When I was three hundred and fifty years old, I became a senior soothsayer. I can't see my fate as clearly as I do today. ”
"What did you do?"
"I remember that I told him at that time, and he took me to the study of the Liuli Palace to consult the classics, and after rummaging, I saw on a yellowed scroll that if there was a fog around the diviner, it meant that he was the star of the moon."
"Moon Star!"
"Yes, but that's not a compliment to the soothsayer, he actually represents the fortune teller's fate."
"How?"
"The star, which represents the soul of the dead"
Asher said in a deep voice. The brown pupils were so deep again.
I seem to get it.