Ceremony of Fate

A few hours later...

"It is time for the main event!"

All eyes turn to look at Xun Ying.

Xun Ying who just woke up a few minutes ago rubbed her eyes and sighed.

Tian Ming and Zhao Yiyang were very excited as they carried Xun Ying.

A man in a yellow robe and had a very shiny head, who stand out from the rest of the crowd, came forward as he wraps his bead necklace around his right and hand said, "Amitabha. Shall we begin?"

Nearby a young man dressed in blue, said in an irritated tone, "Can you act regularly?! In this world, we don't even need monks!!! Pull off your disguise and act normally or else I'll kick you."

The monk -cough- the man in yellow robe sighed and said, "You always ruin the fun."

He pushes the area near his temple where you can see a barely visible black mark. Soon his whole head started to change.

A dark reddish hair appeared as his beard disappeared, a flame-shaped birthmark appeared on his forehead. After a moment the once monk had become a young man. Xun Ying was surprised, but even more so when she saw that no one else seems to be shocked, not even Zhao Cheng.

The blue-robed man said, "Do you want to get beaten? Hurry up and stop wasting time!"

The red-haired man sighed again and said, "Okay, then let's begin."

After burning some talisman, the man took a jar of wine out of nowhere and pour it around him into a spiral shape.

With a flick of his wrist, a red fan appeared out of nowhere and the red-haired man begins to wave the fan around in a long and slow rhythm, creating waves of red and gold sparks while he chanted.

"Summoning the god of destiny

I request thy presence

I call upon the god of Serenity

to show the future of this blessed one.

Blessed with longevity and prosperity

I request the Great God who creates,

To show the little one's potential

for you have seen this child's fate

Shown through the items in this hall

lead the little one and guide her through

Oh, Almighty God, Theodore

grant us your gift and show the little one her path

With the natural elements of Eververse

And across time you shall transverse

Tell us this child's worth."

At this moment, a huge amount of elements surrounded Xun Ying, forming a cloud and carried her away from her grandparents' arms. Floating up high, Xun Ying can see everyone in the room and similarly everyone can see Xun Ying clearly. Instead of crying due to great heights, Xun Ying started giggling. Her melodic voice can be heard by everyone. [This is fun! It's so high up here!]

She then slowly observe everything from above and decided to flow to a corner. As she moves, everyone's eyes followed her. She floats around the table and decided to grab a dish in front of her. Everyone was stunned.

Someone coughed and said in shock, "She! She! She picked the rarest dish out of this whole ceremony!!! The recipe for this dish has been lost for almost a hundred years and needed a total of one year to prepare it from scratch and one wrong move in making the dish would completely ruin the taste! With one bite of this dish, everyone who consumes it would be relieved of any pain and expel cold qi from the consumer's body! Because of the fragility of the fish, only cooks above S ranking would be able to successfully make the dish and because the material and the process were rare and extremely nobody would try this even if they had the recipe. One look at this and cooks below S+ rank would be able to gain insights!"

Xun Ying looked at the person that spoke and rolled her eyes. [Isn't this just a plate of salted fish? Where the hell did the process of preserving it for one year to make this dish come from?! What nonsense is the person blabbering about? Is that person's head okay? Could it be that all of his hair is white because he has some mental issues?! What is going on in his head?!]

Xun Ying really wanted to crack open that person's head and see what is going on in there but was too lazy to do so, besides she was hungry. She took a bite of the fish and was pleased by the burst of flavor. The taste is definitely better than all the fish dish she had eaten in her past life combined.

She could feel a warm current spreading throughout her body as her mind grew clearer.

Then someone shouted, "Wait, look! The little one is still floating! That means the process hasn't ended yet!"

Everyone snapped out of their trance and stared intensely at Xun Ying. Xun Ying ignores those stares and finishes eating before continuing floating and saw something that catches her eye.

She floated quickly towards the opposite corner of where she was originally before. She arrived in front of a painting of the 4 guardians; the white tiger of the west, the azure dragon of the east, the vermillion bird of the south, and the black tortoise of the north The painting then started to move and float towards Xun Ying slowly. And before anyone can react, Xun Ying disappeared or more precisely she got sucked into the painting.

When Tian Ming finally reacts, he rushes towards the painting and shouted, "Give me back my granddaughter!!!"

But Zhao Yiyang was one step ahead of him and shook the painting roughly, "Give me back my Ying'er!!!"

Zhao Cheng then took out a scissor and threatens the painting, "Give me back my little cousin!"

The whole family is staring intensely at the painting with murderous intent.

If the painting is human, he would definitely be scared to death but because it was paper, there was no response except if people observe closely the top of the paper is a bit damp.