Profound Heaven City.

The news that the Xuantian Dao Academy was opening its Mountain Gate spread throughout the city.

"The Xuantian Dao Academy is opening its Mountain Gate! They are going to accept disciples!"

"I've finally waited for this fated opportunity; that is the Xuantian Dao Academy!"

"Father! I want to go and become an Immortal cultivator too!!"

At the city gate, Lu Qing stood in line to enter the city. Hearing the countless bits of gossip around him, he also felt excited.

He didn't know the background of the Xuantian Dao Academy, but he knew that this was definitely a place for Cultivation. Otherwise, he wouldn't have traveled through dust and wind, enduring countless hardships along the way.

If not for the Averting Misfortune skill that had accompanied him through his Transmigration, he might have been snatched away by a passing wild beast long ago.

In short, the entire journey had been filled with bitterness and tears.

That's right, Lu Qing was a Transmigrator. When he died suddenly and transmigrated, he bumped into a golden light. Afterward, he arrived in an ancient world completely different from Blue Star, became a displaced beggar, and even obtained a Golden Finger.

This Golden Finger was actually a skill.

It was a skill from the game he was playing before he died in his previous life, called Averting Misfortune.

As the name suggests, it was for avoiding calamity. Because of the game's development, it also had an added effect of extending Lifespan, with Lifespan dropping randomly every month.

This was the reason why Lu Qing was not particularly panicked.

Translating this to the present, Lu Qing had relied on the Averting Misfortune talent to stay away from countless dangers. It was a pity that when he played before, he hadn't managed to complete the major skill that turned calamity into fortune.

The Golden Finger he possessed was a simple Averting Misfortune talent, but it couldn't be viewed that simply. At the very least, even in a ten-death-no-life situation, the Averting Misfortune talent could forcibly produce a Neutral Divination. As long as a Ominous Divination appeared, there would definitely be a Neutral Divination, and Lu Qing always acted according to the Neutral Divination.

Lu Qing recalled that not long after his Transmigration, he wanted to understand this world well, but then he saw a streak of light flying across the sky. The light was very fast, but Lu Qing was completely shocked at that moment.

Because that streak of light was clearly a human figure.

How could a person fly in the sky?

It turned out that he hadn't come to a simple ancient world, but a world where the power of Cultivation existed.

Because of this, Lu Qing made a prompt decision to seek immortality.

For an ordinary mortal, wanting to cross the vast mountains on the road was undoubtedly extremely difficult.

He kept inquiring for information; if not for this skill, Lu Qing really wouldn't have been able to make up his mind so quickly.

Once, he produced a Neutral Divination. At that time, Lu Qing was passing through deep mountains, and four great calamity hexes appeared: to the left, a tiger was preparing to leave its cave to hunt; to the right, a venomous python; behind, a jackal; and in front, a dead-end cliff.

Danger on all four sides!

After the Averting Misfortune talent activated, Lu Qing produced a Neutral Divination: 【Stay in place to resolve the current situation, neutral.】

As a result, meteorites fell from the sky in all directions, smashing the dangerous beasts on all sides to death.

Lu Qing was thus able to take a detour and leave that cliff.

Danger was everywhere. Sometimes the hexagram reading produced by the Neutral Divination could be very tricky. Lu Qing was determined to cultivation, so he had to place himself in dangerous situations and then rely on the next hexagram reading to find the path to the Cultivation World.

On the road seeking immortality, as he approached Profound Heaven City, the number of Cultivators he saw was significantly higher than before.

"I wonder if I have any Aptitude, or any Spiritual Root or something."

Although he told himself not to have expectations, who could face the prospect of Cultivation without having some?

"Guest, the hot water is here."

The waiter at the door knocked.

"Waiter, I heard there is a Dao Academy for Cultivation here?"

The waiter beamed with joy, touching the tip Lu Qing handed over, and said, "Guest, you must be from out of town. Our Xuantian Dao Academy is famous far and wide. Every year, people come here to seek immortality and cultivation. You've come at just the right time."

"The Xuantian Dao Academy is recruiting disciples in our city tomorrow. Every year, there aren't many standards for recruitment; they just use a mirror to take a look. They don't test for Cultivation Aptitude, but..."

The waiter spoke fluently, as if he had encountered many such questions here.

After the waiter left, Lu Qing understood.

Profound Heaven City was a mortal city under the jurisdiction of the Xuantian Dao Academy.

Every three years, the Xuantian Dao Academy would open its Mountain Gate. Within the surrounding area, at least according to the waiter, there was no Sect more powerful than the Xuantian Dao Academy.

As for more inside information, he couldn't ask any more; the waiter was a mortal and didn't know the ways of Cultivation.

Lu Qing had already decided to join this Dao Academy. Of course, the main reason was that his Averting Misfortune talent hadn't shown any activity; it seemed there was no danger in joining this Dao Academy.

A small calamity was still a calamity. Living a new life, Lu Qing only wanted to walk the path of immortality safely and steadily.

As this thought crossed his mind, the next moment, a sudden realization appeared in his heart.

Several hexagram readings popped up. "No way, another omen of calamity has appeared."

【Great Ominous Divination: Do not sleep, hear movement in the next room, eavesdrop, discover someone else's secret, be silenced, ten deaths and no life, great calamity.】

【Ominous Divination: Wake up at midnight, open your eyes, discover movement outside the window, be poisoned with a Gu, henceforth be distanced from the path of Dao, become a Puppet in others' hands, calamity.】

【Small Ominous Divination: Wake up at one in the morning, go to the next room, obtain a bottle of Five Spirit Liquid, consume it to slightly increase Comprehension, but the Five Spirit Liquid contains someone else's poison. Consuming it is like pulling on seedlings to help them grow; you will be discovered at tomorrow's disciple selection site, lose your chance at the path of Dao, small calamity.】

Lu Qing had always been determined to cultivation. Perhaps because the skill was influenced by him, "losing the chance at the path of Dao" had turned into a "small calamity" in the hexagram reading. If it were back in the mortal kingdom before, losing the chance at the path of Dao would have been a Neutral Divination.

"This is too exaggerated; the dangers of the Cultivation World are impossible to guard against."

Because the Averting Misfortune talent itself came from a game skill, the developers there hadn't intended to develop any difficulty.

Therefore, the hexagram readings used simple and easy-to-understand language, clearly writing out the origin of the hexagram reading.

Sometimes Lu Qing hoped this Averting Misfortune talent wouldn't activate, but since it had appeared, he hurriedly looked for the Neutral Divination.

As for what was said above, he would follow the Neutral Divination. After all, looking at the calamity hexes above, as long as he slept through the night and didn't wake up even if he heard movement, the calamity would avoid him on its own.

"I only have one life."

【Neutral Divination: Sleep through the night until nine in the morning; you can avoid this calamity situation of endless trouble, no aftermath, neutral.】

"Hiss."

"What is this?"

Lu Qing's scalp tingled. He had entered this Profound Heaven City, and two calamity situations had rushed at him one after another, unavoidable. If not for this Neutral Divination, he would have had to face the next calamity situation related to this one.

He respectfully declined to have anything to do with calamity situations.

It looked like this Five Spirit Liquid calamity situation was far from over; on the contrary, it would be endless and entangling.

Fortunately, there was the Neutral Divination for him. As for those great Opportunities of great fortune, Lu Qing had no luck to enjoy them for now.

After washing up, he immediately looked at the sky outside. The moon had just risen, and Lu Qing decided to start brewing sleepiness now.

He also specifically asked the waiter to get him a few cotton balls to stuff into his ears, pretending not to hear anything. Even if it was a last resort, he would keep his eyes tightly shut.

He also shut the window tightly. Now, even if you wanted to make noise for me to see, I wouldn't even look.

Even if the Emperor of Heaven came, he wouldn't wake up.

Lu Qing slept soundly.

Midnight arrived, and rustling sounds rang out from the next room.

By one in the morning, there was the sound of wind and rain outside the window, pitter-patter, accompanied by the sound of blades, drowned out outside the closed window.

At six in the morning, the breakfast stalls opened, people in the inn woke up, and several voices appeared downstairs.

A little past nine in the morning, the waiter's voice sounded outside the door.

"Guest, I've brought you the washbasin, towel, and breakfast!"

In this life, Lu Qing was somewhat prone to being easily alarmed. Fortunately, he was also someone who had dabbled in hypnosis in his previous life, so he had given himself a suggestion, allowing him to sleep somewhat soundly.

Naturally, he had also used money to pave the way with the waiter beforehand to get this treatment.

Because he knew the time for the Dao Academy's entrance screening for disciples was three days in Profound Heaven City, and they wouldn't wait if you were late.

"Brother Waiter, you can just leave it outside the door."

"Alright!"

He had slept soundly, and upon waking up, he didn't discover any other disturbances for the time being.

Because during the time he had just Transmigrated, Lu Qing had suffered quite a bit. Those times without risks were purely because he wasn't full.

Now that he had food to eat, he couldn't treat himself poorly.