The phantom in the black robe stood before us, its eyes seeming to see through everything as they regarded us with keen interest.
"Don't bother with him. He's just here to tag along." I still had a lingering shadow from the losses caused by that previous incident. The black-robed figure's purpose in coming here was to unsettle us, so ignoring him was actually the best choice.
Xia Ruize stared at him in a daze. This was probably his first time seeing an older version of himself who looked so similar, so it was only natural that he was astonished. "Yi Tian... this can't be what we'll look like when we're old, can it?"
"Children of destiny generally grow into something like this. What? Don't tell me you still don't know that destiny has gathered around you, allowing you to cut through every obstacle along the way?" The black-robed figure seemed to have noticed Xia Ruize's wavering, so he changed targets and began chatting him up.
Xia Ruize thought for a moment, then gritted his teeth and asked, "What do you mean? Are you talking about fate?"
"Exactly. The fates of the children of destiny are extraordinary. They can always attract other threads of destiny to converge around them. Then they continually solve whatever problems they encounter, either with those people's help or by accomplishing everything themselves. You call all this fate. But I call it the end. We children of destiny exist precisely to change this world." The black-robed figure smiled.
"Shut up." I waved my hand, stopping Xia Ruize and the black-robed figure from talking. Then I said to Xia Ruize, "What child of destiny? They're merely watching our actions from the heavens and adapting on the fly, joining forces and manipulating the entire world in the palm of