[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky":3,"chapter-i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-357":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Must Immediately Strike It Lucky",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2294129,4487,"Chapter 357: Your Calculations Are Impressive, Daoist!","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-357",357,"\u003Cp>“Feng Daoist, what brings you here… oh, forgive my addled mind—you’ve come for the medicine, right? You’ve timed it perfectly; the train just arrived. Though this port suffered damage, it’s not all bad—this batch of herbs, originally meant for export, is now stuck here, and prices have dropped significantly…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Feng Xue enter the shop, the broker Daoist immediately rushed over; his shrewd, mercantile expression made it impossible to associate him with a cultivator—unless one could directly see lifespans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But cultivators come from all walks of life; who knows what their sect’s founding ancestor might have done? Even today’s famed orthodox sects all rose through rebellion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pah! They call it supporting the dragon!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So it’s hardly surprising that a sect exists whose purpose is to train disciples by making a powerful cultivator humbly serve every customer as a merchant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Still, I wonder—after a hundred years, when your sect faces customers who demand refunds only, return items after wearing them, or swap new for old—will you still hold your ground?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue mentally scoffed, yet smiled outwardly and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The herbs aren’t urgent—just deliver them to my home later. I’m mainly here to ask you about something.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The broker froze, thinking, “Aren’t you married to a great demon? Why are you asking me, of all people?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t unreasonable for the broker to think this way—these days, every shop had hidden functions: for summoning spirits or exorcising ghosts, go to the rice shop; for loans, go to the temple; for gambling, go to the fabric store; and if you came to a broker’s shop to ask questions, you were almost certainly inquiring about local skilled experts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, brokers handled rentals, and they’d naturally ask why you were renting—so they knew better than anyone where the skilled experts were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Feng Xue clearly hadn’t thought this far—he said directly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Didn’t the Japanese cause trouble earlier? I’m just curious—haven’t we planned any retaliation?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t a major matter, but Feng Xue had been puzzling over it for days. A few days ago, he could understand—the port capital needed rebuilding, so other matters were postponed. But it had been several days already—why was there still no action? Could the orthodox cultivators here really have turned into ninja turtles? But those cultivators in Lu City weren’t like this at all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You mean this?” The broker had been considering whether to introduce Feng Xue to a member of the Joyful Sect for business, but upon hearing this question, he suddenly felt relieved he’d paused to think—pushing those skilled experts out of his mind, he replied:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ve come to the right person for this—after all, we oversee the ships.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ships?” Feng Xue was startled. So these cultivators weren’t just retaliating—they planned to strike back on enemy soil?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes. You may have spent too long inland and aren’t familiar with affairs along the border. Due to differences in living conditions, human spiritual currents vary between nations. For example, our land is vast and rich, with a long history and an Underworld bureaucracy—Heaven watches, the dead know, the people are pure-hearted—so our human spiritual current leans toward benevolence. But some nations endure barren mountains and cruel waters, frequent natural disasters—where human spiritual currents have no moral boundaries. If such nations happen to be neighbors, friction is inevitable…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the broker spoke, he suddenly remembered Feng Xue was a disciple of the Divine Thunder Sect—his sweat broke out instantly. He feared continuing might embarrass himself, but years of business experience saved him—he quickly shifted his gaze and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Look at me—how could I let you stand at the door? This matter is long-winded—let’s go inside and talk.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without giving Feng Xue a chance to object, he called to his staff and led him toward the private room reserved for business discussions, all the while mentally rehearsing his words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once they entered the elegant chamber and the staff served tea and snacks, the Daoist finally had his phrasing ready:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Friction between human spiritual currents concerns national destiny. Yet the more civilized a nation, the less aggressive its human spiritual current. In ancient times, our Central Plains dynasties were often bullied by foreign human spiritual currents for this very reason. But over time, we learned a pattern: send skilled spirit Daoists to remote borderlands to fight a few battles, thereby exploiting the nature of human spiritual currents to create localized warlike energies capable of resisting foreign encroachment.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So someone has already departed?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xue inwardly nodded, filing away this method of artificially altering human spiritual currents. The broker continued:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Actually, this happens every year—but usually not until after the New Year, around the sixteenth day of the first lunar month. But since the Japanese pirates have insulted us so directly, several Grand Masters decided to make a grand move. Didn’t the Dragon King Temple just get torn down? They carried its foundation straight out to sea.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“????” Feng Xue didn’t fully grasp the meaning—his knowledge of spirit Daoism came entirely from Old Li, who wouldn’t explain anything about temple foundations to someone who hadn’t even cultivated a phantom spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But seeing the broker’s “you get it, right?” expression, Feng Xue wanted to ask—but the man continued immediately:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This mission likely won’t earn merit, but it may yield substantial dark virtue—enough to earn a new page in your ancestral genealogy. Many want to go, but you haven’t yet entered the Dao—if…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No problem—I’ve brought three phantom spirits to guard me!” Feng Xue cut him off, pulling a red cord with three plaques from his collar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The broker nearly collapsed on the spot. Even the weakest—the Moon Goddess—wasn’t the issue; one was clearly a Fate Deity radiating intense spirit and will, the other a Thunder Deity charged with dragon qi, embodying destruction, ruin, and judgment…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ve brought two Zhengshen of the Thunder Bureau? No—the Thunder Bureau doesn’t have goddesses… Could it be the Tai Sui Bureau? But given your fortune, maybe they’re Zhengshen of the Wealth Bureau! My goodness! Are you some mortal envoy? Are you the current Patriarch of the Divine Thunder Sect?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment, the broker doubted whether the Divine Thunder Sect had merely gone silent on the surface—and adopted a new alias—how else could they produce two entirely unknown great deities?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But compared to these two, wasn’t the third one a bit… beneath them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait… Moon Goddess?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The broker’s eyes suddenly lit up—he understood Feng Xue’s true purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I knew it! The current emissary of the Divine Thunder Sect wouldn’t be ignorant of human spiritual conflicts—he’s been waiting for this! I recall one of Japan’s three great deities is a Moon Goddess… something like Tsukuyomi?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The broker glanced at the other two plaques. He hadn’t recognized them before—but now, linking them to the Western lands, the connections became clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So the Divine Thunder Sect’s disappearance these past years… they went to the Westerners’ territory! And their arrival in the port capital—wasn’t it always meant to head to Japan?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1162,"2026-06-20T04:32:50.332Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","782a066a7e26c3cda5ae072ee1998c288ff461216efc63e9f08786f2e094c11b","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-358","i-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-chapter-356",365,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-must-immediately-strike-it-lucky-cover.jpg"]