Lin Hao looked at Zhou Renjie, frowning.
He had originally thought that Zhou Renjie's visit today was to first confirm a date for their duel, and then host guests from various factions to serve as witnesses.
This was the usual procedure in the sorcerer community.
He hadn't expected Zhou Renjie to want to duel immediately.
If he hadn't gone to Tianchi before, Lin Hao wouldn't have minded a duel now.
However, due to several major divinations he had performed recently, he was currently unable to divine or tell fortunes at all.
The fastest he could recover would be in a month.
"What? Scared?"
Seeing Lin Hao remain silent for a long time, Zhou Renjie sneered at him.
"Scared? Who do you think you are? Would my senior brother be afraid of you?" Xiao Hei said disdainfully, looking at Zhou Renjie.
"You!" Zhou Renjie glared at Xiao Hei, then let out a cold laugh, his eyes filled with killing intent. "If I hadn't promised Xiao He to leave your head for her, you would have been a corpse by now!"
"Anyone can talk big. Why don't you try it?" Xiao Hei said, stepping forward. Zhou Renjie's expression changed instantly, and he stumbled back three steps before finally regaining his balance.
After steadying himself, Zhou Renjie's face turned completely grim.
"Good, good, good!"
Zhou Renjie looked at Xiao Hei and said three "good" words as if he were laughing in anger.
Then, he secretly formed a curse seal with his hands and was about to cast it on Xiao Hei.
However, at that moment, Lin Hao flicked his cigarette butt towards Zhou Renjie's wrist.
"Hiss!"
Zhou Renjie cried out in pain, gasping, and then looked up fiercely at Lin Hao.
Lin Hao remained unfazed, smiling faintly. He looked at Zhou Renjie and said, "Since you want to duel now, then let's duel now."
As Lin Hao spoke, he secretly formed several hand seals behind his back.
Of course, Lin Hao was not as despicable as Zhou Renjie, secretly using curses to kill.
The hand seals Lin Hao formed were meant to obscure heavenly secrets.
However, with Lin Hao's current strength, he could only obscure heavenly secrets within a five-mile radius.
Lin Hao hadn't wanted to use this method, but Zhou Renjie insisted on dueling him now.
Since that was the case, he could only resort to this plan.
Moreover, he guessed that Zhou Renjie was so eager to duel him.
It was likely because he had already figured out that Lin Hao was currently unable to divine or tell fortunes, which was why he was so impatient to duel him.
Upon considering this possibility, Lin Hao decided not to hold back.
He wasn't a saint, and if others wanted to make things difficult for him, he certainly wouldn't show mercy.
"What did you say? Duel now?" Zhou Renjie looked at Lin Hao, his face filled with surprise.
At this moment, he was genuinely shocked.
According to the information he had, wasn't Lin Hao unable to tell fortunes or divine recently?
How could he dare to agree to a duel now?
Was the information false?
"What? Am I not clear enough?" Lin Hao looked at Zhou Renjie's uncertain gaze and instantly understood that his previous guess was correct.
Zhou Renjie was indeed deliberately seeking trouble while he was unable to divine or tell fortunes.
However, his plan had gone awry...
Thinking this, Lin Hao shook his head and then said to Zhou Renjie, "Are you going to duel or not? If not, then leave quickly. I need to go into seclusion."
"Heh, I thought you were scared. I didn't expect you to have some courage," Zhou Renjie sneered at Lin Hao.
At this moment, although he was still filled with uncertainty, he had no choice but to press on.
Besides, he believed that Lin Hao was just bluffing, trying to intimidate him with his aura.
Moreover, even if Lin Hao could truly divine and tell fortunes, he might not necessarily lose to Lin Hao.
He believed his physiognomy and divination skills were superior to Lin Hao's.
Zhou Renjie thought this, then looked at Lin Hao and sneered, "Since you've agreed to the duel, let's start now."
"Liu Yongchang and Lai Qingsheng are your people. I will read their fortunes and divine for them three times each. As for President Zheng and the others, they came with me, so you will read their fortunes and divine for them, also three times. Whoever is more accurate wins."
"Agreed. You are the guest, so you go first," Lin Hao said calmly, nodding.
"Heh, then I won't be polite."
Zhou Renjie sneered at Lin Hao, then his gaze immediately fell on Liu Yongchang.
As Zhou Renjie's gaze landed on Liu Yongchang, Xiao Hei immediately tugged at Lin Hao and whispered anxiously, "Senior brother, aren't you unable to divine? Why did you agree to him?"
"Although this Zhou Renjie is ordinary, he knows simple physiognomy and divination. Why don't we just drive him away and duel him after a month?"
"It's alright, I have a plan."
Lin Hao waved his hand, telling Xiao Hei not to worry, and then looked towards Zhou Renjie.
Meanwhile, Zhou Renjie stared at Liu Yongchang, completely bewildered.
He hadn't taken this matter seriously at first. It was just reading fortunes, and for ordinary people at that. He had been practicing for so many years, reading fortunes for people more than a hundred, if not a thousand, times.
He was very confident in his physiognomy skills.
However, when he looked at Liu Yongchang and prepared to read his fortune, he was instantly dumbfounded.
Because he couldn't see anything on Liu Yongchang's face. It was as if Liu Yongchang's luck had been deliberately shielded.
But how was this possible?
To shield a person's luck, such a technique could only be performed by a master at the peak of the Human-level Diviner.
And in his entire life, he had only met three masters at the peak of the Human-level Diviner.
As for their Zhou family, in the past hundred years, only his elder brother had reached the peak of the Human-level Diviner.
Zhou Renjie thought this, then looked at Liu Yongchang, his mind filled with disbelief.
The path of a diviner was divided into three stages: Heaven, Earth, and Human.
Heaven-level Diviners were divine seers, transcendent beings, now legends.
Earth-level Diviners were Grandmasters who could establish their own schools. The number of Earth-level Grandmasters today could be counted on one's fingers.
Human-level Diviners were experts, their whereabouts elusive, all pillars of their respective families and sects.
Those below the Human-level were collectively referred to as beginners.
Zhou Renjie looked at Liu Yongchang and couldn't help but wonder if a master at the peak of the Human-level had indeed intervened and shielded Liu Yongchang's luck.
As Zhou Renjie pondered this with disbelief, he suddenly turned to look at Lin Hao.
But then he shook his head.
Although Lin Hao had some reputation before, he knew that Lin Hao's strength could never be that of a master at the peak of the Human-level Diviner.