"What do you mean, he's going to die?"
Lin Qiye stood before the Seer of Secrets' cell, one hand gripping the bars as he frowned deeply.
The Red-eyed Black Shadow shook its head. "I don't know the specifics either."
"Can't you foresee the future?"
"I can only see an object's future within the next week, and only the events that the object itself experiences. It isn't indiscriminate precognition."
Lin Qiye's gaze narrowed slightly.
"Are you telling the truth?"
"I swear in the name of the Supreme Lord I serve."
"Can the future be changed?"
"It can." The Red-eyed Black Shadow nodded faintly. "My Eye of Secret Peering is not precognition in the absolute sense. It is merely a deduction of the future. When the predetermined course of events is disrupted, the future changes accordingly."
"In other words, if someone intervenes, he might not die?"
"Theoretically, yes, but it isn't that simple." The Red-eyed Black Shadow drew a line through the air, and several black threads appeared from nothingness. "Everything has its own predetermined trajectory. Some call it fate, others call it destiny...
Suppose these threads are the trajectories of fate for all things. Different objects and living beings have fate threads of different thicknesses.
Take an insect, for example. Its fate thread is very thin. Say it was originally meant to be born on Monday and accidentally stepped to death by a passerby on Sunday. To interfere with its fate, all one needs to do is make the passerby walk by a second earlier or later. The price of interfering with its fate thread is very small.
But the closer an existence is to the limits of the world, the thicker its fate thread becomes. Every gesture it makes can affect tens of thousands of lives, even the laws of