Chapter 7: Helping The Children Of Destiny
To avoid falling behind the fast-approaching deadline, multiple disciples were told by Lao Jun to begin their challenges simultaneously.
Three of them walked closer to the crowd and initiated their first challenge one by one.
"I have some talent in calculating good feng shui for cultivation chambers. Who wants to compete with me on this?" shouted a girl in strikingly luxurious clothing.
It was clearly a skill for folks with exceptional backgrounds. All the unselected participants began exchanging awkward looks, not daring to challenge her.
"If nobody steps up, it’ll be her victory in the first round," Lao Jun said with a derisive sneer on his face. The provocation finally made them stir.
A scholarly-looking young man stepped out from the back of the crowd and gave her a strange salute.
Han Xuhan didn’t know what it signified. But judging by how the girl tensed up and returned his salute, he suspected that it was some kind of obscure sectarian acknowledgement.
"I have studied this discipline briefly. How do you propose we settle this?" He said in a gentle tone.
"Each of us shall draw a word map of an abode, containing a number of flaws according to the principles of feng shui.
"Then we will exchange the maps, and within a timeframe of a hundred breaths, we will try to point out the flaws we discover in each other’s map."
"Ah, very direct. Whoever finds more flaws wins, is that it?" the scholar said, sounding rather happy about the arrangement.