Chapter 77: Summoned by Tributiourning Camity to the World

  “If I was merely uain before, I am now fully vinced.”

  At that moment, the Sword Spirit spoke with vi: “You carry the ‘Seven Fiends’ Fate, favored by the Sun, Moon, and Five Stars*, by Yin and Yang, by the Five Elements, and by the Seven Primeval Baleful Forces. In this world, no baleful aura easily harm your body.”

  Truly, as it is said:

  The moon’s chill and the sun’s warmth both burn away our mortal span. Water and fire show no mercy; earth and wood wound us—and the keen edges of bdes and ons are her than the razor tip of Taibai Baleful Qi.

  Those who bore the Seven Fiends Fate saw their lifespans cut short, being a source of tless disasters and tributions. They also represented seven dire star signs born from the chaotiversion of the Seven Luminaries**.

  《Red Star Guarding the Heart》 and 《Taibai Dev Mao》 were two among them.

  If one could gather all Seven Fiends within his Heaven?Ordained Fate, it would mean that person was born to spark turmoil and unleash every manner of evil and woe.

  —A Seven Fiends Celestial Fate?

  An Jing stood there in a daze, unsciously murmuring to himself, “I am… of a Celestial Fate?”

  “Yes.”

  The Fuxie Sword Spirit spoke early: “Those of the Seven Fiends are ceived from camity, born of adversity. They e in respoo tributiourning camity to the world.”

  “In other words, it is her a ‘Strae’ nor a ‘Divie.’ This is a ‘Celestial Fate!’”

  Among the Seven Fates, the Evil Fate brings about self?inflicted harm, while the Eerie Fate forces a ceaseless transformation of body and soul—binding its bearers to a destiny steeped in camity.

  Mixed Fate reflects the manifold phenomena of the mortal realm, and the Fual Fate is destio reveal one’s innate brilliaogether f a banced, mediainy.

  Those of the Strae transd ordinary reasoning, while a Divie—esteemed as the Dao’s executor—bestows upon its adherents a Fate of Great Virtue.

  Though a Heaven?Ordained Fate of Great Virtue is precious and rare, there may still be many with somewhat simir fates in the same era, all vying against one another. Even for a so?called Divie, if the same Immortal God were reborn, distins like “Nine Heavens Thunder’s Universal Transformation” reat Emperor of the Southern Pole’s Immortal Life” might still arise.

  But only a Celestial Fate is born in accord with destiny and emerges in respoo tribution. For each specific type of Celestial Fate, there be only one bearer in aire era. Even if the underlying foundatios, every geion is absolutely unique.

  At this very moment, the Sword Spirit was wholly vihat An Jing possessed a Celestial Fate: “An Jing, you were w before why your fual Fate grew in essence when you rescued Huo Qing, weren’t you?”

  “The reason is that you are a ‘Seven Fiends Celestial Fate!’ Because you ged someone else’s fate—you altered Huo Qing’s ‘certaih fate!’ That, too, was a form of subversion!”

  “ging a fate? Even reversing someone’s fate ts as subversion?”

  An Ji astonished. Straight away, he asked curiously, “How did you arrive at that clusion?”

  “There is no doubt that Huo Qing was inally fated to die.”

  With firm, unyielding words, the Sword Spirit said something rather harsh toward Huo Qing, but An Jing agreed: “Indeed, he should have died in that gang flict back then, and ter, when he ran into Daqiang and the others, he was also supposed to die… He was destio take the bme.”

  Then An Jing suddenly realized: “Ah, I see now. So that’s what you mean by a ‘life-or-death tribution’? I reversed that life-or-death tribution, so that ts as ging fate?”

  “ly, but you’re close.” The Sword Spirit seemed very pleased by An Jing’s quick thinking.

  “As for Huo Qing, I have examined him thhly. He is sensitive yet appreciative, clever yet self-destructive, bright yet off the proper path. His Heaven?Ordained Fate is quite lowly, aends to take risks. He is a det person whles to do genuine good.”

  “Put simply, he is like duckweed drifting along or leaves caught in the wind. He ot aplish what he truly desires, nor he bee the man he wishes to be.”

  “His inal destiny had already reached a dead end. With his abilities, he could never have escaped Daqiang—even if Heaven took pity a him survive in the wild, he still wouldn’t have had the skill or resolve to defeat Daqiang, nor to evade the Day?Tiger Gang’s relentless pursuit.”

  “Yet you altered his fate!”

  “An Jing, you saved Huo Qing’s life, and in gratitude, he offered you that rare nourishihod. That is your karmik. You helped him overe two major life-or-death tributions in succession, thereby opening a new path in a destiny where he was inally meant to die.”

  The Sword Spirit now wore an expression of sudden uanding. He had ruly entered a Celestial Fate before, and now that he had, many of the old depis suddenly made sense. “I recall a certain True Person once said, ‘The world is like the tide; fate flows like a current.’ tless tributaries jostle and alter one another, plement and merge together, thereby f this plex mortal realm.”

  “But a Celestial Fate—especially the 【Seven Luminaries, Seven Fiends】—is like a vast and turbulent torrent! Us sweeping current, celestial stars and mountains and seas alike lose all color in this world!”

  “Any fate swept up in your current will deviate from its inal course… and that deviatioher leading to life or death, good or evil—is ehe Celestial Fate’s doing!”

  Hearing the Sword Spirit’s expnation, An Jing began to uand as well. He muttered inwardly, “So this is my Celestial Fate… Huo Qing’s brand?new future, carved out of nowhere, is part of my Celestial Fate?”

  “Perhaps.”

  The Sword Spirit spoke slowly, choosing its words carefully. “I ot be entirely certain, but the Seven Fiends Celestial Fate is famed for ‘rebellion.’ Throughout history, those who possessed the Seven Fiends Celestial Fate were the renegades of their era—eae sparked a great cataclysm and became a dreadful demon lord who left not a single rooster crowing across thousands of miles.”

  “They might not have paved a pletely new road, but they certainly overthrew all that existed iime, causing every fate to derail from its 【Fixed and Absolute Track】 and move into unknown realms.”

  “I believe no one ow predict Huo Qing’s future. That ‘subversion and derailment’ and ‘uability’ may indeed be the essence of the Seven Fiends.”

  “It doesn’t seem quite that simple.”

  An Jing fell into thought, then broke into a rexed smile. “Still, that’s easy enough to verify.”

  “ging the fate of aire group might be tough for me right now, but altering a few people’s fates shouldn’t be a problem.”

  “Let’s see how it unfolds.”

  “An Jing, do not take this lightly.”

  In trast to An Jing’s casual tohe Sword Spirit’s voice was extremely solemn. “Whether or not you truly possess the Celestial Fate is still specution. But even if it’s just a guess, the Heavenly Will Demonic Sect will not stand by idly.”

  “You must uand that this demonic sect champioial Fate as their bareating anyone who holds such a Fate as the ‘Holy Son.’”

  “The reason the Heavenly Will Demonic Sect has persisted in gathering the Children of Camity, carefully cultivating them until their Heaven?Ordained Fates awaken, is likely to find the possible ‘Seven Fiends Holy Son!’”

  “Looking back, it’s lucky they failed to see that you are truly the Seven Fiends Celestial Fate. Otherwise, their elites from the main mountain would have swarmed in to capture you and take you back as the Holy Son!”

  —Why did that sound like: “If you get caught, you’ll have to return to the main mountain and i tless riches”?

  An Jing stifled the urge to mock this notion. He also uood that the Heavenly Will Demonic Sect’s Holy Son might not truly be an heir, but more likely some ‘sacrificial role’ akin to a living duit for their rituals.

  He definitely would not trust a demonic se such matters.

  “Sigh, the Celestial Fate… It sounds quite impressive, stronger even than the reination of an Immortal God.”

  Repeating the phrase in his mind, An Jing frowned as he looked at his own hand. “But I don’t feel anything special.”

  “My Divine Ability is merely ‘dense Qi into Armaments.’ Although it carries immeential, it still seems ner than a typical Strae.”

  “And on top of that,” he pined, “with my luck, trouble follows me wherever I go—is this so-called Celestial Fate’s prote?”

  “It’s different.”

  The Sword Spirit responded seriously, “Though I’m not particurly knowledgeable about Heaven?Ordained Fates, I’ve heard that Celestial Fate, unlike Divie, doesn’t start out so powerful. One must tinuously fulfill one’s heavenly calling and ride the grand momentum of Heaven’s Will to gradually grow stronger.”

  “In the beginning, it may indeed match a typical Strae, or even be weaker. But eventually, ohe Fate has fully matured, once all karmic forces verge and the time, pce, and people alighat predestined moment es—the Celestial Fate will expand to an unimaginable degree.”

  “It’s the same for you: out of the Seven Luminaries Fiendish Stars, only two have awakened so far.”

  “As for your luck…”

  The Fuxie Sword Spirit gestured for An Jing to look around. “We desded into the Tianyuan World ahat a ruin cave—which obviously tained many hiddes—only to stumble upon an Immortal Path warship.”

  “Right afterward, we entered the turmoil among Xuay’s upper ranks caused by that warship’s arrival.”

  “All of this might be ce, but I doubt it!”

  “I suspect the time and pce we arrived iianyuan World weren’t random, but lio your Celestial Fate!”At that moment, the Sword Spirit’s tone carried a hint of awe. “That is what it means to ‘e in respoo tribution.’ As for ‘returning camity to the world,’ I’m irely sure what it entails…”

  “Perhaps onough people whose fates you’ve ged start to verge, the entire world’s flow of fortune will shift.”

  “And wheablished order colpses, it may well give rise to an unpreted camity.”

  (End of Chapter)

  *The Five Stars are the panion, Child (Fame), Money, Career, and Parent Stars.

  **The Seven Lumiypically include the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.