Chapter 152: False God

Early the next morning.

When Ji Yaozi went to the cafeteria to eat, he saw Jiang Luo, who was already sitting there half-eaten, and he took two buns and two eggs and walked over to sit down, greeting him with, "Why are you so early today?"

Jiang Luo looks up, "Didn't sleep a wink."

"Didn't sleep all night?" Ji Yaozi remembers something and cautiously says, "Because of what happened between you and Chi You?"

So saying, Ji Yaozi looked at Jiang Luo with sympathy in his eyes.

Chi You is Jiang Luo's former favorite lover, and even for the sake of Chi You, Jiang Luo has begun to rise up, and he is even married to Chi You, wanting to avenge Chi You's death. Although it seems that the two of them have broken up, Jiang Luo now has to disguise himself as a brainwashed person to fight with Chi You, so one can only imagine what kind of complicated feelings he has in his heart.

Ji Yaozi's brainstorming is going to make both of them sigh.

As soon as Jiang Luo saw Ji Yaozi's expression he knew that he was imagining things, he didn't explain and expressionlessly swallowed the last mouthful of rice into his stomach, "Old Ji, let me ask you something."

Ji Yaozi said, "What?"

"Why you have Primordial Heavenly Pearl there."

Ji Yaozi froze, then thoughtfully, "I knew you were going to ask that."

He crushed the tea egg on the table and said slowly, "There are four days left, you will go down to the mountain to go to the trial, when the trial is over, will you still come back?"

Jiang Luo: "Guess?"

"You know," Ji Yaozi said, laughing and angry, "I don't mean to change the subject, it's just that you have to realize that the more you know, the deeper you'll be involved, and do you really want to get involved in all this trouble?"

Jiang Luo laughed instead, "Do you think I haven't gotten involved yet?"

He glanced over at Ji Yaozi with a smirk, and Ji Yaozi clearly saw the stupidity and cool contempt in his eyes, the fire of his soul flaring, unyielding and insistent, "Whether you tell me or not, I'm already involved. Life needs some exciting spice to get through the waves, and while I don't like the people who got me involved, I'm going to have to figure it out for this one."

He's curious about a lot of things and wants to get to the bottom of them. Chi You's secret always feels like it has something to do with those things, too.

In that case, how could Jiang Luo miss it?

Not to mention, he's going to have to kill the Predator.

Ji Yaozi couldn't help but apply a bit of pressure to his hands, the shell of the tea egg shattered in an instant, and he sighed as he looked back, "You're right."

"This Primordial Heavenly Pearl, was given to me by the Fated Man," after a long time, he lowered his voice, "Thirty years ago, the Fated Man did a divination for the metaphysical world... Divinations like this for the entire future often require a huge price to pay... Heavenly chances cannot be divulged, and if one wants to peek into the heavenly chances, the diviner's life and lifespan will be heavily damaged or even die as a result. Before the predestined man, no one has ever thought of divining the future of the metaphysical world, the metaphysical world is not compared to other circles, although small, but every one of them is deeply hidden, feng shui metaphysics is even more permeated in life, measuring the future of any of us is several times more difficult than an ordinary person, and it was only after the predestined man measured the future of the metaphysical world that we realized how strong he was."

"If it was anyone else doing such divination, even your master Feng Li, it would take a dozen people to do it together, and all of them would have to be ready to have their lifespans half-folded after the divination in order for it to be successful," Ji Yaozi's tone gradually became more complex, and a few moments of fear intertwined with reverence surfaced on his expression, "but the predestined man , he only grayed his head."

Jiang Luo frowned.

"The result of his divination was not very good, the predestined man told us that in thirty years, the metaphysical world will experience a devastating catastrophe, both the six great families and the twelve colleges will be destroyed in the hands of one person," Ji Yaozi said, "Who is this person, we have searched for him for three years and have not been able to find him . It wasn't until twenty-seven years ago, when the Fated Man went to the middle of the Changbai Mountains and Chi You was born, that we realized that Chi You was the one in the prophecy."

"But those who know about this matter, full of them are only those among the older generation, adding up to less than ten people."

Jiang Luo thought it was interesting, "Then how come you didn't kill Chi You when he was just born?"

Ji Yaozi smiled helplessly, "Jiang Luo, do you know about predestination?"

Jiang Luo raised his eyebrows and gave him a look to continue.

Ji Yaozi said, "There are two popular sayings in the metaphysical world, one is what I just said about heavenly chances not being divulged, and the other is that diviners do not occupy themselves. Anyone who can divine and tell fortunes knows how esoteric this stuff is. Often it is what we know and therefore do that leads to the results in divination."

Jiang Luo could not help but think of the "Wuhui Gua" that he had once divined, and it was precisely because he knew the Gua signs and wanted to avoid them that he finally answered the Gua signs.

"Therefore, we dare not act rashly," Ji Yaozi said, "I, Dean Xu, and even the vast majority of the six great clans, are unable to determine whether it was our knowledge of the contents of the divination and therefore what we did to Chi You that resulted in the destruction of the metaphysical community afterward, or whether Chi You is inherently evil."

"We had a disagreement, part of us thought that Chi You should be taught to be good, part of us wanted to kill Chi You right away, in the end, the prudent faction prevailed, and Chi You managed to survive. In the time that followed, Chi You really did well, he was gentle, kind, gifted but low key and humble, no one would dislike him, Director Xu even became a childhood friend of Chi You, he never believed that Chi You would be the one who destroys the metaphysical world as predicted by the fatalists, and many unknowns have become fans of Chi You, and they are all in pursuit of Chi You. They can't resist Chi You's charisma, and everything seems to be going in the right direction. But when the thirty-year period was approaching, Chi You died prematurely."

"Dean Xu was grief-stricken, and both he and I believed that Chi You's death was the work of the people who knew the contents of the divination back then. Those people were big shots, so in order to prevent you from being killed by them as well, Dean Xu and I didn't want you to avenge Chi You's death and secretly hid your relationship with Chi You."

Ji Yaozi said mournfully, "Chi You died, and we all agreed that the ending had been altered, and that the future of the metaphysical world would no longer look the way it had been divined. The Fated One came down from Changbai Mountain even after he knew Chi You was dead."

Jiang Luo, who had been listening quietly, suddenly said, "Wait, you mean the Fated Man has been hiding on Changbai Mountain from Chi You's birth to his death?"

Ji Yaozi laughed, "That's not a very good use of the word 'hide', the Fated One has always been a spectator, he rarely gets involved in the affairs of the mortal world."

After Jiang Luo got the affirmative answer, he simply ignored Ji Yaozi's remark.

Why, he wondered with interest, had the predestined man been in hiding for twenty-seven years?

Is Chi You alive so he doesn't dare to come down?

Why would you be afraid to?

The prophecy was that Chi You would destroy the metaphysical world at the thirty-year deadline... there was no need for the predestined to go into hiding in thirty years, huh?

Is he afraid of Chi You?

Afraid of what Chi You will do to him?

Jiang Luo thought it was getting interesting, and he intuited that there was something left unexplored about the prophecy, "But the Fates and you guys found out that Chi You died but turned into a stronger evil spirit, right?"

Ji Yaozi shrugged and laughed bitterly twice.

"But even if he becomes an evil spirit, you don't believe that he will destroy the metaphysical world," Jiang Luo muttered to himself, "You're helping me, in fact, more than anything else, to help him."

Ji Yaozi's body stiffened imperceptibly, Jiang Luo was too perceptive. Fortunately, Jiang Luo didn't continue to hold on to him and asked instead, "Since the Fated Man is so strong, why didn't he just step in and finish Chi You off last night?"

Ji Yaozi doesn't know the reason either, but he has his own speculation, "Although the predestined man is called the word predestined, it doesn't mean that he is out of predestination, he doesn't make a move, most likely because he knows that if he makes a move it won't work, on the contrary, it will achieve the opposite effect, and he will submit to the destiny."

Fate or not, Jiang Luo didn't believe in this stuff at all. He snorted, "I thought you'd say that Fated People are kind enough to not want to take other people's lives."

Ji Yaozi pursed her lips, "Maybe, who knows about him."

The two finished their meal and walked towards the small spring pool. After waiting to vaguely see the figure of the Predestined Man in the middle of the woods, Jiang Luo remembered something and asked, "One last question, just how strong is the Predestined Man?"

Ji Yaozi was silent for a moment, waiting for the soil beneath his feet to step from bitter winter into spring grass before he said, "He is a god."

Jiang Luo stopped in his tracks, his expression stunned.

What's that?

Ji Yaozi stopped as well, he looked at the Fated Man in the distance, his voice was so light that it was dispersed by the wind, the fear was senseless and deep in his bones, "He accepts our offerings, he is the closest thing to a god in this world."

"He is a false god."