Chapter 185 Divination

Gu Shen's mental strength poured into the Calamity Bracelet.

Most sealing items are graded according to the scarcity of their abilities.

Items related to "karma" are ranked extremely high, even if they only have a slight connection, they are at least "Grade A."

The bracelet is an item that directly divines the future.

Its effect: the scenes seen by the user will definitely happen!

This is terrifying.

As one of the scattered and unowned [Three Fated Artifacts], according to the Nagano sealing item grading standard, this bracelet is of an extremely high grade, and giving it an "S-grade" would not be an exaggeration.

But objectively speaking, the Calamity Bracelet is not an easy-to-use "sealing item."

Because the disorder of its information often leads to misdirection!

The bracelet's previous owner, Meng Xiao, died because of this "misdirection."

When a person possesses the ability to "peek into the future," their mentality will change.

There is also a very important factor. Unlike the divination techniques secretly passed down in the Five Continents, the [Three Fated Artifacts] are of such a high grade that they can even glimpse information related to the Seed... Back then, Meng Xiao even used this bracelet to get a small glimpse of the scene on the second floor of the attic.

This sense of "control" that transcends the upper limit of the rules often makes people forget reality.

"I will protect you. You can 'cast your spell' without worry."

Grandpa Gu's words put Gu Shen completely at ease.

He didn't avoid anything.

All his mental strength poured into the [Bracelet]...

The cold wind howled on the snowy mountain, but it was all pushed away by the "Limitless Scale."

Gu Shen closed his eyes.

His consciousness immersed into the Calamity Bracelet.

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A scene of chaos.

This time, he was like a traveler walking in the river of time.

In the elongated images on the timeline, Gu Shen didn't see any scenes of himself.

This situation was rare.

Gu Shen looked around at the "gray mist."

Could it be that he wouldn't encounter any calamities in the future?

He had always been curious about the exact effect of the Calamity Bracelet... If he didn't use it, would he not encounter those "unlucky things"? Judging from Meng Xiao's case, the Child of Blessing died because he looked at the bracelet.

Inverting cause and effect.

If he didn't look, didn't peek into the future, could he avoid this tragedy?

Or perhaps... the bracelet also has limitations on its divination.

Human vision has its limits.

The bracelet's divination time also has a farthest limit.

Just as Gu Shen was puzzled, the gray mist dissipated, and a large number of images overlapped, rushing into his mental sea like a tide...

"..."

Good heavens!

He thought everything would go smoothly, but he didn't expect there to be too many calamities, and the bracelet needed to process them for a while?!

One picture after another flooded into his mind.

The first picture was almost entirely dark, with only a swaying white flower.

The second picture was of scarlet blood flames.

The third and fourth pictures were of collapsing mountain caves and surging azure seawater...

The fifth, the sixth...

Too many pictures!

These pictures appeared without any logic or chronological order. Since they flooded in all at once, Gu Shen didn't dare to guess what these calamity divinations meant.

In fact, the information contained in these pictures was not much, and they didn't seem difficult to guess—

The first picture.

The white flower swaying in the darkness was very familiar to Gu Shen. It should be the Divine Shrine Mountain of the Li Family Zongtang.

Now, the summit of Divine Shrine Mountain had been "cured" by him.

Although in the Mystic Realm, many flowers of broken order still grew all over the mountains.

But at least the summit was as white as a snow mountain.

Looking at this picture alone, it might indicate that Divine Shrine Mountain would suffer a calamity in the future... However, the divination given by the bracelet was often related to him on the causal line. Could it be that he would experience the calamity of Divine Shrine Mountain in the future?

This was not the information he wanted.

Skip.

The "scarlet blood fire" in the second picture was easier to extract information from than the first.

Blood fire was Owl's ability!

Since the picture was too dim... Gu Shen couldn't see any other "objects" besides the blood fire. He could only assume that the calamity hint in this picture was that he might suffer a calamity because of "blood fire" in the future.

Now, Owl was far away in the Southern Continent.

So this was not the information he wanted either.

Continue to skip.

Collapsing mountain caves, surging seawater...

These were puzzling.

And what was "strange" was that the bracelet rarely gave such a large number of disordered pictures. After the fourth picture, there were many "repeated" pictures—

Tangled scarlet seaweed.

Countless rolling stone chips.

This scene was like a "drowning person" using their eyes as a camera, "filming" the scene as they fell into the sea. This was probably the reason why the Calamity Bracelet was stuck.

The bracelet captured too many frames of this suffocating "drowning" perspective.

Each frame was sent to his mental sea.

"What the hell is this?"

Gu Shen had a headache, feeling both horrified and strange.

He endured the discomfort of wanting to exit the Calamity Divination and browsed these "drowning scenes" that contained no information. At the same time, a doubt arose in his heart. He originally wanted to "capture" information about the dangers related to the suppression.

What did these pictures mean?

He couldn't find any clues.

And after the many pictures of falling into the deep sea reached their end, Gu Shen finally saw the "divination scene" he wanted to see—

Boundless black silk threads spread and weaved, like a large fish.

Endless darkness, it was unknown where it was.

A ray of strong light shone down from above.

In the darkness, a lazy and insane figure was revealed.

Han Dang sat on a "throne," his hands clasped together in front of his abdomen, his expression calm and serene. On the armrest of the throne, there was a bloody head.

This head had empty eye sockets, its eyes gouged out.

Fresh blood flowed from the eye sockets.

The mouth was still twitching.

Even in this state... it wasn't dead yet?

Wrapped in such a cold and gloomy atmosphere, Han Dang leaned calmly on the throne. Behind the throne, there seemed to be countless points of light flickering, like fish scales.

Han Dang sat numbly, and slowly turned his head, eventually looking directly at himself outside the "Calamity Divination perspective."

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"!!!"

Gu Shen woke up from the divination in shock, his back covered in cold sweat.

This was the first time he had seen such a "weird" scene.

The last scene.

Han Dang, was looking at him?

Since he used the bracelet to watch from the perspective of a traveler, he could remain calm most of the time... But this time, Gu Shen actually had the illusion that he had been "discerned" by Han Dang.

He knew.

This was impossible.

Han Dang's gaze just happened to fall on him.

But this coincidence was a little too horrifying...

"What did you see?"

Grandpa Gu supported the domain and asked with great concern.

"I... I saw Han Dang."

Gu Shen's voice was hoarse. He recalled the last scene and murmured, "He was in an extremely dark environment, surrounded by countless black silk threads, woven into a domain."

The Calamity Bracelet gave information about Han Dang, and he felt much more at ease.

If using the bracelet to divine didn't show any scenes related to this suppression... that wouldn't be a good thing.

Because it would likely mean that the "mission" carried out by the enforcement officers of the two continents at great cost would ultimately be fruitless.

No conflict would erupt.

Naturally, there would be no misfortune.

However, this time, the Calamity Divination didn't provide much information about "Han Dang."

The bracelet's perspective focused on Han Dang.

Gu Shen couldn't see the surrounding environment clearly.

Combining it with the previous "drowning picture," could it be that Han Dang and his group were hiding underwater?

No... one couldn't come to such a conclusion so rashly.

The information given by the bracelet had no temporal connection at all. The previous white flower picture and blood fire picture were enough to prove that.

Forcibly connecting them would only lead to becoming "unfortunate."

Gu Shen frowned and said, "By the way, behind Han Dang, there were many scattered points of light..."

The picture given by the Calamity Bracelet was very blurry.

Those points of light were not the main subject of the picture, so they shouldn't be "dangerous items."

"Is it this?"

Gu Qilin waved his hand and summoned an illusory mental image.

It was an old-fashioned spherical nutrient pod.

The mental projection magnified the nutrient pod many times.

Gu Shen's eyes lit up, "Yes, it should be this thing... Han Dang is in the [Azure King Authority Realm], and behind him is filled with floating 'spherical nutrient pods.'"

This scene could explain why the scale of the battles at Kujira Snow Mountain and White Whale Mountain Range during the two previous suppressions were smaller than expected!

Because Han Dang's summoning was very successful.

Many Snow Cage criminals were attracted to the [Azure King Authority Realm] by him.

"I roughly guessed what Han Dang and the others are doing."

After confirming the spherical nutrient pod, Gu Qilin's voice became low.

"They want to use the [Azure King Authority Realm] to sink, and then use the 'summoned' criminals as nourishment, providing 'winter fuel'. Those nutrient pods came from a proposal twenty years ago... Now, not many people in Nagano know about it anymore. Back then, we called it the 'Star Cluster Project'."

"Star Cluster... Project?" This was the first time Gu Shen had heard of it.

Chu Ling also gave her response after searching, "Search for keywords failed. Insufficient permissions."

"This is a plan proposed by Jing Shanyan."

Gu Qilin said, "This plan is too complicated to explain. No one saw any 'clues' at the beginning. Nagano even invested funds to start researching it, until later everyone discovered the problem... Now the project has been abandoned, and the nutrient pods used in the experiment back then were all disposed of and buried. What you saw in the divination scene was likely Jing Shanyan's private stash from twenty years ago."

"Wait..."

Gu Shen suddenly felt that something was not quite right.

"You mean, this is Jing Shanyan's plan?"

Grandpa Gu was stunned.

"But, I also saw... on Han Dang's throne, there was a head."

Gu Shen rubbed his brow and murmured, "If I didn't see wrong, that head was the first Chief Inquisitor... Jing Shanyan."

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(There will be more tonight.)