Someone murmured in a low voice, "That monkey... is really going to Change Fate against the heavens?"
Someone sneered. "The wheel of Fate turns as it will. How could a mere Demon Monkey disrupt it?"
Even more ancient beings closed their eyes to divine the outcome. The hexagrams at their fingertips shattered in an instant, revealing only a chaotic, disorderly mess.
The currents of heaven and earth fell into disarray, the Star River trembled faintly, and all beings of the Three Realms felt their hearts tighten, as though some eternal, unchanging law was quietly beginning to loosen.
In the unseen depths, a streak of purple light descended from the deepest reaches of the Grand Unity Heaven Realm, piercing through the clouds of the Nine Heavens and falling upon the Heavenly Dao altar.
Ten thousand rays of rosy light shone forth, and a thousand streams of Auspicious Qi filled the air. Zixia, the Daughter of Fate, descended into the world at that moment.
She had been born in the supreme Grand Unity Heaven Realm, wrapped in innate purple qi, with a golden seal of Fate between her brows. From birth, she had been intimately bound to the course of heaven and earth and the fortunes of all beings.
She was the chess player nurtured by the Heavenly Dao itself, the final shackle meant to perfect Fate and correct the chaos.
Yet the instant Zixia opened her eyes, her predetermined destiny deviated.
Because the Five Heavenly Realms were not within the Prehistoric Universe, she did not have to immediately obey the Heavenly Dao's mission and gather the shattered threads of fate.
She gained a brief moment of freedom and whispered to herself:
"So this is Fate... So the paths of all beings were drawn long ago within a net."
"Since I was