Seeing Through Fate

As Li Chang'an tried to use his thoughts to make contact with these omnipresent "threads," his spiritual power began to drain frantically.

At the same time.

Scene after scene began appearing in his mind.

The past life of this Thousand-Year Soul Beast was almost instantly laid bare before him.

It had lived for one hundred and sixty-three years. Relying on its decent bloodline and having accidentally eaten some plants capable of increasing its cultivation, it had become a Thousand-Year Soul Beast in less than two hundred years.

At this point.

Li Chang'an finally understood that the "threads" he saw were actually a manifested form representing fate. They were what that intangible, formless, and omnipresent fate looked like in his mind.

In essence, these threads were products of his imagination. He believed fate should look like this, subconsciously viewing all living beings as puppets controlled by invisible fate.

Thus, the fate presented before his eyes was a world covered in omnipresent threads. If it had been someone else, it might have taken on an entirely different form.

Li Chang'an decided that, for now, these threads could be called Fate Threads!

"My eyes can actually see fate!"

"Is this truly an ability possessed by Nine Infants?"

"Or is it because I have a bloodline from another world, and after arriving in this world, it underwent some wondrous chemical reaction with the rules here, resulting in a beneficial mutation?"

"In the Original Work, the Auspicious Beast possessed the power of fate and could even influence the fortune of the soul beast race. Could it be that after awakening my bloodline, the world automatically recognized me as an Auspicious Beast?"

For a time, countless guesses surged through his mind. Yet without reliable evidence, he could not determine which one was the truth.

"Forget it."

He shook his head, deciding not to dwell on where the ability of these eyes had come from. As long as it was useful, what did it matter where it came from?

"Since I can see the past, can I see the future?" Li Chang'an turned his gaze toward that Ten-Year Soul Beast again, and his spiritual power began draining frantically. At the same time, scene after scene flooded into his mind. He truly saw this soul beast's future.

It would be eaten by a suddenly arriving Man Faced Demon Spider!

The time was six minutes later.

After receiving this information, Li Chang'an could not help but be stunned.

He really could see the future of others.

Then the question was, could the future be changed?

He decided to test it.

A few minutes later.

A strange sound came from nearby.

The rustling sounded like someone changing clothes, yet also like leaves scraping against one another. The many animals that had been resting and drinking water all seemed to sense something. Their bodies instantly tensed, and without a second thought, they scattered and fled.

Seeing its prey flee, the creature lurking in the shadows knew it had been exposed and immediately sprang out. It was a spider, a bizarre giant spider with a body over one and a half meters in diameter and eight spear-like long legs exceeding three meters.

Its entire body was covered in glossy black armor. The tips of its long legs were slender, silently piercing into the ground with every step, demonstrating their sharpness. At the same time, white markings on its lower abdomen formed the shape of a hideous human face.

Li Chang'an recognized it at a glance as a Man Faced Demon Spider! A nightmare for small soul beasts.

The spider's eight long legs moved rapidly, even leaving a string of afterimages behind. In the blink of an eye, it arrived before the Thousand-Year Deer Soul Beast, the strongest among those present. Two of its front legs instantly rose and stabbed downward at its head.

But the Thousand-Year Deer Soul Beast was no pushover either. Faced with the menacing Man Faced Demon Spider, it knew it could no longer escape. Its wild instincts erupted, armor-like flowing light appearing across its body. Then it raised its sharp antlers and fiercely rammed them toward the spider!

Unfortunately, the gap in strength between the two was far too great.

This Man Faced Demon Spider was nearly two thousand years old, far older than the deer. Combined with its bloodline advantage, it merely spat out the spiderweb it had long been preparing in response to the Thousand-Year Deer's desperate attack.

Ordinary spiders wove their webs from silk, but it was different. Its web was sprayed directly from its mouth. Not only was it incredibly sticky, it was also extremely tough. It carried terrifying neurotoxin.

In an instant, it enveloped the Thousand-Year Deer's entire body like a giant net. The deer lost its balance and tumbled to the ground.

By then, the other soul beasts had already fled amid the chaos.

Only the Man Faced Demon Spider and the Thousand-Year Deer Soul Beast, tightly bound by the web, remained at the scene. Of course, there was also a certain nine-headed giant snake hidden in the shadows.

The Man Faced Demon Spider moved its eight long legs and slowly approached the Thousand-Year Deer struggling on the ground within the web. Its struggles were gradually weakening as the web's neurotoxin rapidly invaded its body.

If nothing unexpected happened, the Thousand-Year Deer's fate was already foreseeable.

Fortunately, it was lucky enough to encounter Li Chang'an, who wanted to test his ability.

Rumble rumble rumble!!!!!!

A terrifying pressure, as though the heavens were collapsing and the earth splitting apart.

Suddenly descended upon the area.

The Man Faced Demon Spider, which had been slowly walking over to enjoy its prey, suddenly stiffened, standing motionless where it was. The Thousand-Year Deer, which had still been faintly struggling in the web on the ground, also instantly stopped moving.

Time seemed to freeze at that moment!

Only the rippling water on the lake and the leaves around them stirred by the breeze showed that time had not stopped.

At this moment, Li Chang'an, hidden in the shadows, finally stopped concealing his aura. The terrifying bloodline pressure originating from a Ferocious Beast of another world was released without reservation.

The suppression of lower life forms by higher life forms was revealed here without the slightest doubt.

A colossal creature slowly slithered out from the darkness, its massive body twisting as it moved. It came directly to a spot not far from the two soul beasts, lowered its head, and examined the two little creatures so intimidated by its majesty that they did not dare move. Finally, its gaze settled on the Thousand-Year Deer.

One of the nine snake heads opened its mouth and, like spitting phlegm, sprayed out a tiny wisp of flame that landed on the spiderwebs binding it.

In an instant, the tiny flame spread at lightning speed, burning the webs away completely in the blink of an eye.

Yet even after the webs binding it had vanished, the Thousand-Year Deer still did not dare move. It closed its eyes, looking as though it were willingly awaiting death. His majesty was simply too terrifying.

Li Chang'an, however, assumed the creature had been hit by neurotoxin and was temporarily unable to move. So he decided to help it a little more. The same fire-breathing snake head opened its mouth again, but this time, it spat out a stream of clear water.

It drenched the deer from head to hoof.

This water carried detoxifying and purifying effects, something he had naturally comprehended after awakening his ability to control water and fire. Of course, if necessary, he could also spray poisonous water. Whether it saved lives or took them depended entirely on his will.