Evening.
Ghost Market Street, Treasureless Pavilion.
It wasn’t yet time for the night market to open.
The main hall of Treasureless Pavilion remained unlit, its doors still shut.
In a small room in the inner quarters.
Shen Buyao stared silently at the large sheet of paper spread across the table for a long while.
Then, she turned to Shen Jiuyi sitting across from her and said:
"Big Cow, hurry up and analyze the chart already!"
"I don’t understand this crap—what am I even looking at?"
"Isn’t that why I called you here?"
Shen Jiuyi held a pen in her hand, having stared at the drawn chart even longer than Shen Buyao.
But her prolonged silence was driving the antique-obsessed sister up the wall.
"Buyao, are you absolutely sure you got Lin Yu’s accurate birth details? No mistakes?"
Shen Buyao crossed her arms, her tone firm:
"Our landlady told me this herself."
"Down to the exact hour—it can’t be wrong!"
Shen Jiuyi bit the tip of her pen, giving Shen Buyao a grave look.
Shen Jiuyi: "…"
Shen Buyao: "???"
Shen Jiuyi: "Tsk…"
Shen Buyao: "Just analyze the damn chart already—why are you staring at me?"
Shen Jiuyi took a deep breath:
"Buyao, in all my years studying Zi Wei Dou Shu under ‘Grandma,’ I’ve… never seen a destiny chart this overwhelmingly powerful!"
Shen Buyao raised one eyebrow skeptically.
She glanced at the handwritten chart on the paper, baffled:
"Look, I might not know much, but I’ve heard a thing or two."
"Aren’t charts with stars like Purple Star, Broken Army, or Greedy Wolf supposed to be the impressive ones?"
"Lin Yu’s chart doesn’t even have any of those flashy constellations!"
Shen Jiuyi immediately shot her a disdainful look.
It was a look Shen Buyao knew all too well—the same one she gave Shen Jiuyi whenever the latter went off about "antique trivia."
Shen Jiuyi continued with a deeper explanation:
"Amateurs should really keep quiet."
"What makes a destiny chart overwhelmingly powerful?"
"It’s not about one palace showing wealth or high status."
"The most crucial thing is… the stars being in their rightful positions!"
"The Sun governs career—when it resides in the Career Palace, that’s its rightful place."
"The Moon governs wealth—when it resides in the Wealth Palace, that’s its rightful place."
"…"
Shen Buyao, lost in the jargon, cut her off impatiently:
"Ugh, fine, fine, we get it—you’re the expert, okay?"
"Can you dumb it down for me? What does it all mean?"
All that technical talk might as well have been gibberish to her.
Shen Buyao wasn’t here for a lecture.
Shen Jiuyi sighed in resignation, her expression cold:
"The Heavenly Secret Star in the Life Palace means this person is incredibly sharp, well-liked, and has a knack for deep understanding and research."
"Plus, their IQ is off the charts—don’t even think about outsmarting them, or they’ll destroy you."
Shen Buyao nodded approvingly:
"See? Now that’s something I understand. Go on."
Shen Jiuyi then proceeded to break down the rest of Lin Yu’s destiny placements in plain terms.
But this was just the appetizer.
Zi Wei Dou Shu had evolved over time, now incorporating broader analyses tailored to modern circumstances.
A person’s destiny shifted every ten years in major cycles.
At twenty, Lin Yu was currently in the midst of a powerful phase.
And based on Shen Buyao’s descriptions of his recent changes, the chart aligned perfectly.
Moreover, the analysis suggested that for the next year, Lin Yu’s unstoppable momentum would continue unabated.
Nothing—divine or demonic—could stand in his way.
After several minutes of explanation, Shen Jiuyi concluded with emphasis:
"To sum up Lin Yu’s destiny—he has the toughest fate I’ve ever seen!"
Shen Buyao’s hands clenched, her heart skipping a beat: "!!!"
Now she understood why Shen Jiuyi had kept glancing at her during the reading.
In Zi Wei Dou Shu, there existed an exceptionally rare destiny configuration…
The Calamity Star: representing impulsiveness and a tendency to attract misfortune.
The Lonely Star: representing isolation and self-reliance.
When both appeared in a chart, it formed the "Calamitous Lone Star" destiny.
In the twelve palaces, no other stars interacted with these.
Or, to put it another way—forming deep relationships with others would inevitably bring them calamity.
Ever since "Grandma" had analyzed Shen Buyao’s chart as a child, her life had unfolded exactly as predicted.
Her expression flickered with complexity for just a moment before she scoffed, reverting to her usual defiance:
"Pfft, Big Cow, quit trying to scare me with this nonsense."
"I don’t believe in this outdated crap—my fate is mine to control!"
"Got it? Screw destiny!"
Shen Jiuyi folded the paper on the table and asked nonchalantly:
"If you don’t believe it, why did the Shen family split apart?"
"If you don’t believe it, why have you pushed away everyone who tried to get close all these years?"
"If you don’t believe it, why did you rent an apartment after I calculated your wealth luck lay at the crossroads of east, west, south, and north?"
"If you don’t believe it…"
"Then why did you bring me Lin Yu’s birth details to analyze?"
Shen Buyao’s eyelids twitched, her hands gripping tightly behind her back: "!!!"
Shen Jiuyi hadn’t raised her voice, yet her words carried an invisible weight.
Shen Buyao quickly changed the subject:
"Whatever—this ‘Calamitous Lone Star’ nonsense means nothing. No one stays with anyone forever anyway, and I don’t need that."
Shen Jiuyi: "You don’t?"
Shen Buyao: "Do I?"
Shen Jiuyi: "Don’t you?"
Shen Buyao: "Do I?"
Shen Jiuyi: "You’re the most stubborn person I’ve ever met."
Shen Buyao: "You fu—"
Shen Jiuyi: "I’m your grandma."
Shen Buyao: "…"
Realizing she was outmatched, Shen Buyao turned and headed for the door, muttering:
"Stay here for a bit. I’m going out."
Shen Jiuyi raised an eyebrow:
"Where to?"
Shen Buyao glanced back, her tone petulant:
"To find Lin Yu, strip down, and make babies with him. Got a problem?"
Shen Jiuyi shook her head calmly:
"Blessings."
……
Meanwhile.
In the apartment’s first-floor kitchen.
Lin Yu was chopping vegetables with a knife, preparing to show off his cooking skills to Chen Qimeng.
Suddenly, the system’s notification echoed in his mind.
[Ding!]
[Congratulations, Host! You’ve successfully bound your first Daoist cultivation partner!]
[Partner’s sect identity: Elder of the Heavenly Artifice Pavilion, Hidden Vein of the Mystic Gate (Shen Buyao)]
[Rewards: 100 Sect Contribution Points, 200 Spirit Stones]
"Holy shit!!"
Lin Yu’s hand jerked, his mind reeling.
The knife slipped, nearly slicing his finger.
Lin Yu: "???"
What the hell is that antique-obsessed woman…
Doing?!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
g Yu was preparing for retirement when her organization decided to eliminate her. She transmigrated to a zombie apocalypse world. However, a tiny unexpected situation occurred: She somehow transformed into an adorable little girl?!
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
