Star Iron: Maple of Reincarnation

"Master, please have some tea." Little Fu Xuan obediently handed warm tea to a young man with long flowing hair.

Because this Yuque Taibu loves tea tasting, and even his apprentice has done some research on the tea ceremony, Fu Xuan is well versed in how hot the water should be to brew various types of tea, and also knows what kind of water can make the tea more flavorful. It can be said that Fu Xuan's current tea ceremony is inseparable from her master.

Fu Xuan has been studying under this Yuque Taibu since he was young, and has been following him for five years.

For the immortal species, five years passed by in a flash.

"Fu Xuan...how did you do with yesterday's homework? Do you have any insights?" Yuque Taibu was very satisfied with this future successor. Even though she was so young, he felt that he had almost taught her all the skills in these five years. She lived up to expectations and mastered the skills very quickly.

Perhaps what Fu Xuan lacks now is the accumulation of experience. Apart from that, he can already be the fortune teller of an immortal boat.

"Master, Fu Xuan was studying the 'Six Essentials of Divination' yesterday, and there was one thing he didn't understand..." said little Fu Xuan.

"Tell me about it." Yuque Taibu said with a smile.

"It says that divination requires sincerity, which means that one must be 100% sure of the result of the divination and execute it unswervingly. I don't think that's right." Fu Xuan said bluntly, "Divination is just a tool, a means to help people seek good fortune and avoid disaster. Since it is a means, why should we be led by the nose?"

"Do you think there will be problems with the divination results? Then what's the point of divination?" Yuque Taibu admired Fu Xuan for daring to discuss with him. Only those who have their own ideas are real fortune tellers.

"The purpose of divination is to avoid disasters in advance, that's all. Believe it or not, it all depends on people's perspective. If it is possible, it is not impossible to break bad luck." Fu Xuan said.

"I think that the divination results must be correct. This is the wisdom passed down from generation to generation. If you are sincere, it will work. Otherwise, divination has no practical meaning and is just a trick to fool people." Master Fu Xuan said.

"Could it be that the divination results say that I will die tomorrow, so I should commit suicide today? How can such a ridiculous thing be possible?" Fu Xuan said anxiously. She couldn't understand, if divination was like this, then life was such a boring thing. It was nothing more than a kite following a predetermined trajectory, and she was nothing more than a puppet in the stage play of fate for entertainment.

"I predicted five years ago that I would die in your hands, but I still accepted you as my apprentice. Fate cannot be changed, but life must go on." Yuque Taibu said calmly. "My broken arm is the price I paid for fighting against fate."

"This..." Fu Xuan was very puzzled. She didn't expect that in front of her mentor, she would be seen as a traitor who killed her master. Did she really want the position of Taibu so much?

The extremely angry Xiao Fu Xuan decisively left Yuque Taibu Si, leaving Yuque Taibu, who looked indifferent, drinking tea alone.

Fu Xuan didn't know what he was angry about. Maybe it was because he had absolutely no intention of killing his master but was wrongly accused. Damn fate, damn divination!

Just as Fu Xuan was walking quickly on the streets of Yuque angrily.

"Announce the order of the Ten Kings, surrender quickly and do not resist!" Some human puppets captured a tall Cloud Rider.

Fu Xuan then recognized that this person seemed to be someone he knew, Chang Sheng, a short-lived person, someone he wasn't sure if he could be considered a friend.

In fact, my acquaintance with Changsheng was entirely due to another person - Qingfeng, an unknown guest.

The initial encounter was very cliché and awkward. When Fu Xuan was a kid, he forgot to bring his Xundi when he bought dessert, so Qingfeng paid for it. Later, as an unknown guest, Qingfeng often traveled to various families in Yuque to do commissioned tasks, the Fu family also had some small commissions with him.

Because Qingfeng had been to many places as an unknown guest, when he came to the Fu family to complete the commission, Fu Xuan would ask Qingfeng to tell her more stories about the outside world. After a few visits, the two became familiar with each other.

Later, no one knew where Qingfeng found a strange short-lived creature named Changsheng. It was said that Changsheng couldn't afford a meal and was sponsored by Qingfeng, so he relied on Qingfeng, the cash cow. Since Qingfeng himself didn't care, Fu Xuan didn't care either.

Because of Qingfeng, Fu Xuan and Changsheng were half acquainted. After all, he was always there in the stories, so it was hard not to know him. Fu Xuan did not have the ambition to monopolize Qingfeng, so he maintained a lukewarm relationship with Changsheng.

The relationship between them changed after Qingfeng left. After all, Qingfeng was an unknown guest, he had to go out to explore and could not stay in Yuque forever.

Chang Sheng joined the army, but he still had time to hang out in various corners of Yuque, probably because he liked to slack off. In fact, Chang Sheng had tried to slack off with Fu Xuan several times, but Fu Xuan declined every time.

There are two reasons. The Fu family has always not wanted Fu Xuan to have any dealings with such a short-lived person with mediocre qualifications. After all, the Fu family is also ranked among the top in Yuque. It would be both degrading and meaningless to associate with such a person. Before Qing Feng was here, after all, he was an unknown guest with good skills and experience, worthy of the Fu family's friendship. It was okay for Fu Xuan to deal with such a person, and the Fu family was embarrassed to drive away that Changsheng.

The second reason is that Fu Xuan himself is dissatisfied with Changsheng's lazy behavior. Perhaps it is also because of the influence of his family's ideology that Fu Xuan has more or less developed a habit of looking down on short-lived people.

All in all, Fu Xuan and Chang Sheng's interactions became less and less frequent after Qing Feng left. Chang Sheng was not a fool. He could feel the Fu family's malice and Fu Xuan's displeasure. After several unilateral exchanges, the two of them stopped communicating.

Now when we met on the street, it was such an embarrassing scene.

What did he do to be caught by the Ten Kings?

"Fu Xuan - Fu Xuan - you know me, I can't possibly collude with the medicine seeker!" Chang Sheng saw that Fu Xuan seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw. This was the only powerful person he could talk to in Yuque, and now he could only hope for the illusory friendship between him and Fu Xuan.

Seeking medicine? Collusion? Xiao Fuxuan didn't understand. So you want me to help you get away with it?

One of the Fu family's mottos is that they must not have any conflict with the Ten Kings Division unless absolutely necessary, and it would be best if they didn't even have the chance to have any contact.

"Greetings, Young Master Fu." The chief judge of the Ten Kings Division had to give Fu Xuan some respect. Her reputation as a genius had spread throughout Yuque, and if nothing unexpected happened, she would be the next Yuque Grand Astrologer, not to mention that she had the support of the Fu family.

"What did he do?" Fu Xuan asked curiously.

"The evidence is solid that he colluded with the medicine seeker to endanger Yuque. This judge is going to arrest him and bring him to justice. He will be exiled according to the law and will not be allowed to enter the Immortal Boat in this lifetime." The judge responded respectfully.

"I don't know what the medicine is? I really don't know. He is dying and I want to save him! I am not lying." Chang Sheng said crazily. If he was an immortal, Fu Xuan would feel that with such strong emotions, the demon's Yin body would probably die hundreds of years earlier.

"Fu Xuan...you know me. I would never harm Yuque. We are friends, right? You know me." Chang Sheng burst into tears. "You just need to ask them not to exile me for the time being. I will find evidence to prove my innocence."

Fu Xuan didn't choose to speak in the end.

Witnessed Changsheng’s transition from excitement to indignation to despair.

The judge took Changsheng away, and Fu Xuan did not show her help for her so-called friend. She was willing to trust the Ten Kings Bureau more, as this independent organization would never arrest people at random. The fear of the Ten Kings Bureau in her family motto made this fear embedded in little Fu Xuan's bones.

Fu Xuan, who is famous for his rationality, will naturally not lose the big picture for the sake of small gains.

But in the end, she was proven to be totally wrong. But if Fu Xuan were to choose again, she would make the same choice, a choice that she would regret very much. Perhaps this is what is called fate.

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"I once went to a planet covered with dense forests. There were only plants there. It seemed that the evolutionary tree had taken the wrong branch, and no fungi that could decompose wood fiber evolved. As a result, even the dead plants there could not be decomposed. In the end, there was only oxygen on that planet..." Qing Feng, who was wearing half a mask in his memory, described it vividly.

As the figure in Fu Xuan's memory slowly faded away, the true reality of today was revealed.

"Look at the five brave warriors rising into the sky from the clouds, fighting with the sudden demon for three days and three nights. It was a fight that caused darkness all over the sky, and the sun and moon were turned upside down. In the end, they killed the demon and saved our fairy boat..." The storyteller was telling the story happily, and the people below were applauding.

Sitting at the end of the rows of seats was Fu Xuan, who was drinking Xingyu Bobo. Listening to the storyteller, she felt as if she had returned to the past, the time when she and Qing Feng were together.

"If it were you, you would probably do better than me." Unconsciously, a tear appeared in the corner of Fu Xuan's eyes. After feeling the warmth, Fu Xuan quickly wiped it away with his sleeves, as if nothing had happened.