In the afternoon, his parents weren’t home, and Sister Grace wasn’t home either. It was the perfect opportunity to conduct his own experiment. The broken jade pendant on his chest seemed to sense Brian Carter’s gains, and actually began to emit a faint warmth.

　　He returned home.

　　Brian Carter took everything out and laid it on the table. He calmed his mind, washed his hands, and with an ink brush, carefully drew two yin-yang fish—just like those from his dream world—on the white jade.

　　He meticulously compared them to the images in his memory, and, finding no difference, finally took a deep breath. With a dagger, he mercilessly sliced open the tip of his right middle finger.

　　Blood gushed out.

　　“That really hurts.”

　　But the pain was secondary. Brian Carter immediately pressed his bleeding finger onto the white jade, shivering for a moment but forcing himself to endure it. Using his own blood, he smeared it over the drawn yin-yang fish pattern.

　　Bit by bit, he smeared the blood. One yin-yang fish was completely covered in blood, leaving only the eyes blank. The other had only its eyes smeared with blood, the rest of its body left blank, with just a blood outline around it.

　　Halfway through, the blood coagulated, so he cut himself again...

　　Finally, the two yin-yang fish turned into two blood fish.

　　Fearing it wasn’t enough, Brian Carter cut his finger again, letting the blood drip onto the jade, making it as saturated as possible.

　　Then, after waiting for half an hour, when the blood on top began to dry, he cut his finger again to drip more blood. After repeating this three times, at the moment when the blood was most saturated, he placed the Star Soul Jade directly in the center of the two yin-yang fish.

　　Immediately, he pressed the broken jade pendant from his chest onto the Star Soul Jade. At that moment, the white jade suddenly emitted a blinding blood-red light, rising up and instantly enveloping the Star Soul Jade, then the broken jade pendant.

　　With a boom, the light suddenly expanded three feet, enveloping Brian Carter’s entire body.

　　Then the white jade, along with the Star Soul Jade and the broken jade pendant, floated into the air, spinning. The blood-red light grew more intense, and the Star Soul Jade visibly disintegrated, finally turning to powder and vanishing. Then, with a whoosh, two yin-yang fish appeared in the air, swaying their heads and tails as they spun around, transforming into a stream of light that shot into Brian Carter’s forehead.

　　Countless streams of information, like rays of light, surged into his consciousness!

　　Brian Carter felt as if he’d been hit head-on by a speeding train—his consciousness exploded into a sky full of stars!

　　Thud!

　　He fell straight backward like a wooden post.

　　He landed on the soft mat he’d prepared in advance.

　　For a while, his mind was a kaleidoscope of strange lights and colors...

　　...

　　While he was unconscious, a ray of light rose from his chest and shot straight into the awakened Star Soul in his dantian.

　　The Star Soul, which had been like a weak little flame, suddenly expanded, spreading throughout his body with a boom. Every meridian was filled with the light of the Star Soul, and the surface of his entire body was covered in a glowing, web-like pattern.

　　In an instant, his whole body was like a small sun, the light so dazzling it couldn’t be looked at directly.

　　Then the light suddenly contracted, returning to the dantian. The Star Soul was still a cluster of flame, but now it burned vigorously, the flame leaping with vitality.

　　The color of the flame slowly changed, from red gradually turning to deep purple...

　　With every flicker, a trace of energy spread throughout his body.

　　...

　　A long time later.

　　Brian Carter slowly woke up, muttering, “...Heavenly physiognomy... what the heck is that?”

　　...

　　Countless pieces of knowledge crashed around in his mind, making Brian Carter feel as if his head would split open. After a while, he finally sorted it out, and couldn’t help but mutter, “Could it be that I really was a street charlatan in a past life?”

　　Nothing else.

　　What now filled his mind—almost everything imaginable—was actually a complete set of physiognomy techniques!

　　“Heavenly physiognomy!”

　　“Everything has its form: the heavens have their secrets, the earth its terrain; mountains have their height, waters their depth, grass its lushness, trees their roots... and the form of man is the foundation!”

　　“Life and death, fortune and misfortune, can be seen at a glance; past and future, previous and next lives, are all clear in an instant...”

　　“A person’s fate is the will of heaven; life and death depend on fate, fortune and misfortune depend on luck—this is destiny. The roots of yin and yang give rise to all, and before the heavenly physiognomy, nothing can be hidden...”

　　Finally, beyond the physiognomy techniques, there was an Eye of Fortune.

　　“An extra bonus?” Brian Carter muttered to himself. “The Eye of Fortune—using one fortune point, you can see a person’s fortune or misfortune for three months? Fortune points... one drop per reading? Ten drops make a point? Can be used to improve cultivation?...”

　　“I’m so confused...”

　　In the end, Brian Carter finally understood. Heavenly physiognomy, the physiognomy of all things—right now, he could only access the physiognomy of people; the rest was still out of reach.

　　And he himself was only at the lowest level of a physiognomist, the apprentice stage. At this stage, he could only see the surface—commonly known as a street charlatan.

　　To see a person’s specific fortune or misfortune within three months, he needed to use fortune points and the Eye of Fortune. Fortune points could only be gained after a reading was verified.

　　To level up, to improve his cultivation, he had to keep reading faces, keep getting verifications, in order to gain fortune points and enhance his abilities. Then he’d be able to read more, and gain more...