Chapter 1536 - Seeing Me Is Like Seeing the Heavens

In the present day, few people had even heard of the House of Little Joys.

Here in Sky Tripod Immortal City, the House of Little Joys’ reputation was far beneath Lunar Sky Tower. It was to the point that few asked or spoke of it.

Only those old-timers who’d survived the Age of Fallen Immortals knew how terrifying the House of Little Joys’ foundations were.

“The ancient spring and autumn, the little joys of the Immortal Dao.”

A long time ago, that phrase represented a mysterious trading company, one that transcended all others. Even top experts of the Immortal Dao had to treat it with respect.

Only the most prominent experts of the Immortal Dao were qualified to pass through their doors and become their guests!

Throughout the ages, the House of Little Joys had passed on ancient rules regarding the Joyful Fortune Drawing. Very, very few people knew them.

Even within the House of Little Joys, few people knew these rules.

The rules were simple——

Anyone who requested to draw a fortune was to be treated as a VIP guest!

And if someone showed up offering to solve a riddle? Assuming they succeeded in drawing a jade fortune stick from the Joyful Fortune Drawing, the House of Little Joys would do its utmost to grant whatever request they might have!

This was why Su Yi said he’d come to answer a riddle rather than simply to draw a fortune.

When the woman in palace garb saw Su Yi break the formation on the tortoise shell and draw a fortune with ease, she reacted as if she’d been struck by lightning. Her heart and body quivered uncontrollably!

Her beautiful, dignified face looked dazed. Her expression filled with excitement and shock.

Throughout the young years since the Age of Fallen Immortals, no “drawer of fortunes” had visited the Sky Tripod Immortal City branch of the House of Little Joys, much less an even rarer “answerer of riddles!”

This was absolutely the first time since antiquity!

But a moment later, the woman in palace garb realized that something wasn’t right.

The jade fortune slip... flew out of its own accord!

This completely overturned her view of the world. Despite having worked for the House of Little Joys for countless years, this was her first time encountering something so out of the ordinary.

“Indeed, it’s just like it was back then...” murmured Su Yi.

The fortune stick that had flown into his hands was emblazoned with a unique sealing power. It had sensed how he’d broken the formation earlier and resonated with his palm imprint.

The woman in palace garb couldn’t help but ask, “Young Lord, might I ask what’s written on that jade fortune stick?”

Su Yi passed it to her. “See for yourself.”

The woman in palace garb accepted the jade fortune and saw a line of text on its surface, like naturally formed glyphs of the Immortal Dao.

"Seeing me is like seeing the heavens!"

The woman in palace garb gasped. Her eyes widened, and she stammered, “That... you... don’t tell me... you couldn’t be...”

She seemed overcome with shock, to the point of incoherence.

Su Yi couldn’t help but find this amusing. “You hold rank in the House of Little Joys. Don’t tell me you don’t know the rules of the jade fortune sticks?”

The woman’s face heated up and flushed bright red. She lowered her head in shame. “Young Lord, please permit me to report this to my master.”

Su Yi subtly inclined his head. “Be quick about it.”

The woman in palace garb scurried off.

...

Beneath the nine floors of the House of Little Joys, they’d opened a hidden realm. It wasn’t large, only about ten thousand feet across.

The air was permeated with immortal qi, and the terrain was lush with pine and bamboo. There was a gazebo, a pavilion, and a little lotus pond with bright green leaves.

It was like the house of an immortal, a treasure ground.

There were currently four people seated inside the pavilion. The most striking of them was a woman sprawled out on a soft couch.

She was an extraordinary, exquisite beauty with jade ornaments in her hair. Her skin was as soft as lamb suet, and she was audaciously dressed. Sheer white gauze covered her chest, revealing her slender waist. Her legs were long and thin, and she wore jade anklets, one on each foot.

She was like a sultry immortal enchantress, a dazzling beauty.

Especially her bewitching eyes. When they glanced about, they were as charming as could be, enchanting beyond compare.

“The recent incident at White Deer Mountain’s Ascension Pool has caused a big stir. The Church of the Pure One and the other immortal factions are doing their best to seal all word of what happened, but that’s not enough to hide from the Little House of Wishes,” said a man dressed like a scholar. “They say that one of the new ascendants from the Human Realm is an extraordinary figure suspected to carry an enormous secret. The Church of the Pure One had their sights on him even before he rose to the Immortal Realm.”

“Have we determined who that ascendant is?” said a valiant, fierce-looking middle-aged man in black robes.”

“We have not.” The scholar shook his head.

“There’s something else too,” a white-haired old man said in a hoarse voice. “There’s solid proof that not long after the storm at White Deer Mountain, a group of Void Realm True Immortals from Cloud Apparatus Immortal Manor died brutal deaths here in the Jing Province. They say there were more than twenty of them!”

A series of gasps rang out.

“Void Realm True Immortals... Those are top experts by the standards of the Jing Province. Who’d dare believe that Cloud Apparatus Immortal Manor had lost so many of their experts all at once?”

“Who did it?”

“We don’t know. Cloud Apparatus Immortal Manor has sealed off all word of this incident.”

As they conversed, they subconsciously avoided looking at the beautiful woman sprawled out on the couch.

“None of that has anything to do with us.”

The beautiful woman had spoken up for the first time. Her voice was soft and pleasing to the ear, with a hint of a distinctive rasp. It tugged on the heart, turning listeners’ bones to jelly.

The scholar, the middle-aged man in black, and the white-haired elder were shaken to the core. They ceased their conversation and listened attentively.

The absolute stunner rested her head in her hands, her eyes sparking as she sank into thought. “Our first step is...”

She’d only just said this when a respectful voice resounded from beyond the hall. “Disciple Yue Ning has come with an urgent report.”

The stunning beauty furrowed her delicate brow and glanced at the scholar.

Although she said nothing, the scholar stiffened and felt intense pressure bearing down on him. He steeled himself and said, “Your Excellency, Yue Ning isn’t a reckless or impetuous child. She wouldn’t have come if this weren’t an urgent or thorny problem.”

“Mm.” The stunning beauty grunted. “Then let’s hear her report. If she interrupted us over something trivial...”

Her voice trailed off, but the scholar’s forehead was already covered in sweat. He said solemnly, “Rest assured, Your Excellency. If so, I’ll naturally punish her severely.”

From beginning to end, neither the middle-aged man in black nor the white-haired elder dared interject. Both were as silent as cicadas in winter.

The stunning beauty said no more.

The scholar coughed dryly. “Yue Ning, if it’s urgent, hurry up and say it.”

“Master, just now, an ‘answerer of riddles’ came calling!” said the upright, dignified beauty standing outside. This was none other than the woman in palace garb, the one who’d welcomed Su Yi.

An answerer of riddles!

This was an absolutely shocking development. The grand hall sank into silence.

The scholar, the middle-aged man in black, and the white-haired elder were flabbergasted. Their expressions filled with disbelief.

The absolute stunner reclining on the coach silently sat upright, a dazed look in her charming, beautiful eyes.

After countless years, another answerer of riddles has finally come knocking on our door!!

The woman in palace garb was still standing outside the hall, so she couldn’t see their reactions. She hurriedly continued, “Just now, I brought the answerer of riddles to the hall on the ninth floor. I watched personally as he effortlessly broke the immortal formation on the Xuanwu Divine Platform....”

She’d only just said this when the scholar couldn’t help but ask, “Which... jade fortune stick did that esteemed personage draw?”

The scholar had no idea who Su Yi was, but he was already starting to use honorifics!

The others were excited too.

Even the charming beauty looked attentive, and her ample chest heaved beneath the white gauze covering her chest. She obviously wasn’t calm either.

The woman in palace garb said hurriedly, “Master, the answerer of riddles didn’t draw a fortune. Rather, one of them flew to him of its own accord and landed in his hand!”

“This...” The scholar and the others looked at each other in a daze.

The woman seated on the soft couch shot up. When her jade-like bare feet hit the floor, the bells hanging from her anklet let out a soft, crisp chime.

The crowd shuddered, as if they’d heard a magic invocation!

When they looked at the enchanting beauty, they saw that her face was full of undisguisable excitement. Rare as it was, she’d... lost her composure!

This was the scholar’s first time seeing this extraordinary, terrifyingly powerful Immortal Lady this excited. Even her breathing sped up, and her chest heaved beneath its sheer white wrapping.

It was a soul-stirring sight. At least, it would have been if anyone dared to admire it.

Before the woman in palace garb could continue, that enchanting beauty asked, “Did the jade slip say, ‘Seeing me is like seeing the heavens?’”

Seeing me is like seeing the heavens!

The scholar’s scalp went numb.

Outside the hall, the woman in palace garb said respectfully, “Yes, that’s the one!”

Whoosh!

𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Before her voice had even finished echoing through the air, the enchanting beauty’s sultry figure had disappeared into thin air.

The others looked at each other and saw the astonishment on each other’s faces.

“‘Seeing me is like seeing the heavens.’ Someone has actually drawn that mysterious fortune stick once more?” murmured the scholar, as if recalling something. His expression shifted erratically.

“The ancient spring and autumn, the little joys of the Immortal Dao, Who is supreme in this floating world? Seeing me is like seeing the heavens!” The middle-aged man in black robes took a deep breath. “They say that the House of Little Joys has passed these four phrases down for generations. Each represents a supreme expert at the pinnacle of the Immortal Dao. And the last phrase represents the most mysterious of the four!”

“Who is he?”

“I don’t know, but Her Ladyship surely does!”

“Don’t just stand there! Hurry! Let’s go to the ninth floor!”

All of a sudden, the scholar, the middle-aged man in black, and the white-haired elder shot out of the hall, quick as if their eyebrows had caught on fire.

“Master...” The woman in palace garb was still standing outside the hall. She opened her mouth to speak, but the others were already gone.

Only the scholar’s voice remained, emanating from afar. “Yue Ning, Quick! Go fetch the immortal brew I’ve been saving for a special occasion. Bring tea and Nine Purities Immortal Spring Water too. Bring them to the hall on the ninth floor. Hurry!”

The woman in palace garb, Yue Ning, was stunned. Her master had always been incredibly calm and steady. A mountain could crumble in front of him, and he wouldn’t bat an eye. Yet now, he was frantic!

A moment later, she hurried off, not daring to delay.

She was already fully cognizant that this answerer of riddles had an utterly extraordinary status!