Chapter 1044: Fate and Destiny!
Chapter 1044: Fate and Destiny!
Xu Qing's eyes shone with a strange light, and great waves surged in his heart.
His mind was shaking.
Although he was not sure of the level of this Divine Right, the fact that it was intertwined with three Divine Rights was enough to explain the level of this unfamiliar Divine Right.
"Is it fate or not?"
Xu Qing murmured and suddenly picked up his right hand. In the next moment, the unfamiliar Divine Right that seemed to be fate in his body shone brightly and disappeared from Xu Qing's body.
When it reappeared, it was in his palm.
It turned into … a carving knife!
It had a tangible touch, but it also had an illusory feeling to it. It was extremely strange.
Even the moment it appeared, the surrounding void seemed to become a little sticky, obviously affected by this carving knife.
On the other hand, Xu Qing had a strong feeling that whether it was the earth, the sky, or the countless plants and mountains, it seemed that the carving knife could cut through them all.
Once it fell, he seemed to be able to change some of the trends.
And this trend was not within the original range.
This feeling was hazy and somewhat unclear. Xu Qing's mind was filled with thousands of thoughts, but it seemed that he could not gather them into the truth. It was as if there was a layer of gauze separating him and he could not grasp the essence of his Divine Right.
But there was one thing that he was already sure of.
"There's a high probability that it's the Divine Right of Fate, but it's a little different from what I know."
Xu Qing murmured. His heart was turbulent and he could not calm down.
Because in his past experience and knowledge, he had seen a person who displayed part of the Divine Right that was similar to fate. This person was Prince Ziqing!
Prince Ziqing wielded fate!
Xu Qing took a deep breath, and the scene of Prince Ziqing attacking back then appeared in his mind. He recalled carefully.
"Ziqing relied on the remnant face to be resurrected. Then, is his Divine Right related to the remnant face?"
"As for me … My physical body also came from the flesh and blood of the Upper Desolate. Now, by chance, I also obtained this suspected Divine Right of Fate."
"Is there some kind of karma in this?"
"And Ziqing's Divine Right of Fate is related to time?"
"Then, what about my Divine Right?"
Xu Qing muttered.
After a while, he collected his thoughts.
He had already realized that he did not have enough understanding of the Divine Right in his body. If he wanted to know more about it, he needed to know more about it.
Then, it was obviously the best choice to ask instead of exploring without direction.
Even if Master wasn't here, the empress was.
Furthermore, the Empress was a deity who had already reached the Spiritual Pedestal Stage. If he were to ask her about her Divine authority, the answer she would receive would be even more accurate than his master's.
Having reached this point in his train of thought, Xu Qing looked up and sped toward the tenth Mountain Lord.
Along the way, he stopped studying the Divine Right that he suspected to be Fate. Instead, he nourished his soul while looking at the other Divine Rights.
[Voice rights, drug prohibition …]
After this, Xu Qing was even more certain that the Divine Right of Fate was powerful.
Then, he placed his focus on the candle tattoo on his back and the mask on his face.
Just like that, two days passed quickly.
With his speed, he was less than an hour away from the Tenth Sovereign's Mountain. Xu Qing's research on the candles also allowed him to make some basic judgments.
"This candle has completely fused with my physical body."
[It's as if it transferred the carrier from the previous image-recording jade slip to my physical body.]
[Maybe the way to transfer them is to extinguish the candle …]
[At this moment, although it's in an extinguished state, it gives me the feeling that it can be reignited, but it requires some specific preparations.]
[As for the specifics, I still need more time to explore and experiment.]
Xu Qing analyzed in his heart. At the same time, after more than a day of research, he preliminarily determined that this tattoo wouldn't harm him for the time being.
[As for the mask.]
Xu Qing lowered his head and flipped his right hand. The mask appeared in his palm. It was still staring at Xu Qing, as if waiting for him to make a wish.
During this day, apart from studying the tattoo on his back, he had also been studying the mask.
[Material, unknown.]
[Although it has spirituality, it's not enough.]
[If I don't make a wish, it seems like it will continue to follow me.]
[As for the price of making a wish, although I still don't know the specifics, from its persistence, it must be very high.]
Xu Qing narrowed his eyes and calmed down.
This was because making a wish was just a method for him to attract the mask. It wasn't his original goal.
From the beginning to the end, there was only one goal, and that was … to obtain the reason why he wasn't tainted by karma and find a way to obtain it.
Therefore, the white dust was the main point.
Therefore, Xu Qing raised his head. The authority in his eyes shone as he condensed his fate threads.
His fate threads were shockingly resplendent, and a few of them even contained terrifying intent.
However, at this moment, Xu Qing clearly saw … white dust appearing in these fate threads.
These specks of dust slowly and silently formed outside of Xu Qing's threads of fate like living ants.
[Touching the mask can make this white dust appear in fate?]
Xu Qing fell into deep thought and was about to withdraw his gaze when he suddenly recalled the Divine Right of Destiny that he suspected to be the Divine Right of Destiny.
"What will happen if I send this Divine Right into my threads of fate?"
As soon as this idea appeared, it quickly took root in Xu Qing's mind and became stronger and stronger. Finally, after careful consideration, Xu Qing's eyes revealed determination.
[Let's give it a try!]
Xu Qing didn't hesitate. He raised his right hand and waved it. Immediately, the suspected Divine Right of Fate in his body flew out and formed a carving knife in front of Xu Qing. It went straight for the fate threads that appeared above his head.
After it instantly entered, Xu Qing tried his best to suppress the thought of cutting it. He only hovered the carving knife in his fate threads and made it remain motionless.
Just as the blade entered Fate and hovered in the air, the blade stopped …
An inconceivable scene suddenly appeared.
A black light suddenly spread out from the carving knife and instantly enveloped all of Xu Qing's fate threads, as if it had covered fate.
Then, the white dust all shook and flew up. It was actually driven away from Xu Qing's fate threads and floated in the outside world, unable to invade at all.
Next, the perception that appeared all over Xu Qing's body made his heart tremble violently, as if a storm was rumbling.
There was a rare change in his expression, and even his whole person was stunned for a moment.
Because, in his perception, at the moment when the light emitted from the carving knife covered his fate threads, he suddenly had the illusion that he had drilled out of the water, came to the surface of the water, and breathed freely.
His soul, unlimited freedom.
His body, more freedom than before.
Even compared to the feeling at this moment, Xu Qing had a strong awareness that he had been living in suffocation, living in mud, and had a huge restraint.
But, before the perception that appeared for the first time, he was not aware of the suffocation and restraint of the past.
Only by comparison could it be clearer!
As if at this moment, his fate was finally in his control.
Xu Qing breathed rapidly. It was really this contrast that made him not surprised, and at the same time, a sense of awareness emerged in his mind.
[The feeling of controlling fate?]
Xu Qing murmured.
At the same time, at the moment when Xu Qing controlled his own fate, on the Wanggu continent, in many places, there were different existences that sensed it.
The Wanggu continent, a large region shrouded in black fog.
This region, the density of the foreign substance, surpassed all the regions of the Wanggu.
All kinds of terrifying roars, constantly reverberated between heaven and earth, and did not dissipate for a long time.
And in the center of this endless black fog, there was a huge city. This was a palace.
Inside the palace, in the main hall, there was dead silence.
It was empty.
There was only one person sitting on the throne.
This person was extraordinarily handsome, wearing an imperial robe, with one hand supporting his forehead, eyes closed, and the next moment, this person suddenly opened his eyes, looked up at the sky, and slowly frowned.
[Off the hook?]
This person murmured softly, and after a long while, his brows loosened, and the corners of his mouth revealed a faint smile.
[Little brother, a little interesting.]
In the outer sea, the waves were undulating, and in the depths, black lines rose from the surface of the sea. They rapidly weaved in mid-air, and finally formed the figure of Jade Glazed Dust sitting cross-legged.
He was absorbing his harvest.
And originally, before completely absorbing, he would not wake up.
But now, an inexplicable feeling that he had never felt before made him wake up from his deep sleep. After revealing himself, he looked up at the sky.
[A character in my story has disappeared from the story...]
Demon Feather Holy Land, at the top of the Tenth Mountain Sovereign, the Empress who had transformed into Lu Lingzi opened her eyes.
He gazed at the foot of the mountain with a strange expression.
An hour later, a voice came from the foot of the mountain.
[Blood Dust Master requests an audience with the Imperial Sovereign.]
The empress seemed to be deep in thought. She raised her hand and grabbed downward.
In the next instant, Xu Qing's figure appeared in the hall, right in front of her.
As soon as he appeared, Xu Qing hurriedly bowed to him.
However, the Empress's voice was already echoing in the air.
[To be able to prevent me from noticing anything when I was in the secret realm and under the eyes of my doppelganger, and only at the moment when this Divine Right is activated, I can sense it … Xu Qing, you have this extra Divine Right on your body.]
[Its name is Destiny!]
Xu Qing immediately looked up at the empress.
This was exactly what he wanted to ask. Now that the empress had seen through him, his desire to know more about the Theocracy grew stronger. Hence, he took a deep breath and spoke respectfully.
[Your Majesty, can you enlighten me?]
The Empress's gaze fell on Xu Qing's head. After a long while, she slowly spoke.
[Fate, which is fate and Destiny, refers to the trajectory of all things in the world by the combination of fixed numbers and variables. It is also one of the highest Divine Rights in the system of deities.]
[Fate and Destiny are two completely different concepts.]
[Fate is fixed, and it refers to a specific trajectory, like a path that originally existed.]
[In the battle when I became a deity, you should have seen with your own eyes how Prince Ziqing controlled the fate of others like this.]
The fate of others became a book in Prince Ziqing's hands.
Through fate, he saw the past and deduced the future.
This future could be deduced countless times, but they all existed in the first place.
He extracted the future that belonged to the desperate situation and replaced everything, thus changing and influencing the fate of others.
When Xu Qing heard this, he instantly understood more than half of it. He felt like he was suddenly enlightened. At the same time, his emotions fluctuated greatly.
The scenes of Prince Ziqing attacking back then appeared before his eyes. The power of his Divine Right was extremely powerful.
[Therefore, the countless future trajectories of his opponents that Prince Ziqing deduced through this Divine Right are all real. This is fixed.]
[At the same time, it is also the word 'fate' in the Divine Right of Fate?]
Xu Qing murmured.
The Empress nodded and continued speaking.
[Destiny is a variable. It refers to the traces beyond the fixed. To be precise, it refers to the new paths that can be opened up.]
[A future path that originally didn't exist is created through the fusion of luck and misfortune. It exceeds the fixed range. This is a variable.]
[Your Divine Right is the luck in fate, and it is also a variable.
It is a variable!]
Xu Qing took a deep breath. At this moment, his thoughts were completely clear.
[Your Majesty, do you mean that my Divine Right of Fate can turn luck and misfortune into two hands to fiddle with a person's fate and form a new fate beyond the existing one?]
The Empress nodded.
[Your understanding is correct.]
[Although your Divine Right of Destiny and Prince Ziqing's Divine Right of Fate come from the same source, they have different directions. However, they can all be described in one sentence.]
[Everything is possible.]
[For a fixed number, the countless trajectories that exist in the first place can all become reality.]
[For variables, it is naturally possible to create a new path to replace the original one.]
Xu Qing closed his eyes. After carefully analyzing and absorbing the Empress's words in his heart, he opened his eyes.
His eyes were clear as he spoke softly.
[Therefore, Prince Ziqing's Divine Right of Fate is similar to a book. Because that book of fate has already been written, Prince Ziqing flipped through it and found the most suitable page.]
[And my Divine Right of Destiny has turned into a carving knife … Its function is not to flip through the book, but to carve a new path of Destiny on it and become a new page.]