Passing the Flame! Passing the Flame!
Who could have imagined that the Hope's Flame, once extinguished, would become Vessel?
No one, except the Hope's Flame.
When He learned of His Subgod identity, He knew that He must possess a Vessel of Destiny, but He could never produce it. At that time, He guessed that the Vessel was very likely His body.
Only when hope is truly shattered will the Change abandoned by Destiny return to the right path of Destiny, be accepted by Destiny again, and become Vessel of Destiny.
This was the last bit of help He could offer Cheng Shi.
Faced with that dilemma, the Hope's Flame offered its own answer: between Cheng Shi and the world, it chose Cheng Shi.
No, it should be said that he chose not an individual, but Fire Seed that resisted Destiny from beginning to end and held hope from start to finish!
Just like Him, even though He was abandoned by [Destiny], He still held onto hope!
Cheng Shi looked at the floating [Destiny] Vessel in front of her, tears streaming down her face.
He understood what the Candlelight Person meant; the other party wanted him to take this Vessel and, in his Predestination capacity, try to petition the [Covenant] for the Divine Authority to succeed [Destiny].
Compared to false [Deception], the [Destiny] of this world is undoubtedly the most Cheng Shi deity.
Whether this recognition will be accepted by the Covenant and truly become Divine Authority in Cheng Shi's hands remains to be seen.
But even in this uncertain situation, the Hope's Flame resolutely chose to entrust this last hope to Cheng Shi, which shows that anyone whose life is related to Destiny likes to gamble, and right now, it is a last-ditch effort for life and death!
From the emergence of the Hope's Flame its fading away, He never looked directly at the Outer God, ignoring the [Destiny] that did not belong to the current world. The Outer God [Destiny] remained silent, silently observing everything the other did, without interfering or commenting.
His cold gaze remained Change, and the spinning spiral did not cease; His Indifference remained constant, as if he were certain that everything they had done was meaningless.
Even so, even if there was no hope at all, Cheng Shi did not want the Hope's Flame to die in vain. He could not let everyone down again, especially not let everyone's lives down again. So his eyes instantly became resolute. He grasped the [Destiny] Vessel in front of him, felt the surging [Destiny] energy on it that he had never felt before, and once again spoke those words to the Void.
This time, however, [Deception] has been replaced by [Destiny].
"I, the traveler of [Nothingness], the Predestination by [Destiny], Cheng Shi, request, under the witness of [Justice) ], to succeed the Fallen God... the Divine Authority of [Destiny]!"
This was no longer a shout, nor was it hysteria. Cheng Shi's tone was calm, as calm as if he had seen something he had left behind on the roadside and then bent down to pick it up, nothing more.
The Outer God [Destiny]'s gaze grew even colder in response.
Knowing why [Destiny] died, He was naturally certain Predestination [Destiny] could not succeed [Destiny]'s Divine Authority. Moreover, [Destiny] in this world also Predestination [Destiny]. Even if He still had attachments after death, those attachments should have been to uphold the purity of the Sacrifice and prevent them from being contaminated, rather than using His Divine Authority to distance [Destiny] Predestination]!
"Don't struggle in vain, [Destiny] is dead, it can no longer protect you."
You were never Emissary of Destiny. The Hope's Flame may have had the chance to inherit everything from Destiny, but it entrusted hope to you...
Unfortunately, His hope was shattered, just like His life.
And you, my Believer, recognizing reality and embarking on the path you should take is the best thing you can do for them.
Otherwise, the Curtain of time will only grow ever brighter, and you will be left to chew on this pain alone on the Predestination path.
As he spoke, his cold eyes turned to An Mingyu beside Cheng Shi. Clearly, this Prophet, who had been repeatedly abandoned by Destiny, was about to face the end of his prophecy.
Cheng Shi was enraged. He gripped the Vessel tightly and said, word by word, "Without Justice), whether I can inherit Divine Authority is not up to you!"
"Maybe my word doesn't count, but does His word count?"
They broke the rules of the [Covenant] themselves, convening a farcical the Gods' Covenant Assembly under a grand pretext. Did they really think that just because they were the framework of Covenant [Covenant], they could disregard it and cause an imbalance of Justice?
He can't come, and it's even unknown how long he will live!
The moment the words left his mouth, the Void changed!
"!!!"
Amidst the stunned silence of the enormous skull, the bewildered look in the cold eyes, and Cheng Shi's ecstatic anticipation, a scale constructed of starlight suddenly appeared before everyone's eyes.
The sound of [Order] resounded throughout the Cosmos once more, and the brilliance of the stars painted the Void with dazzling splendor.
Justice) has come; He has come in response to the covenant, bearing divine Divine Authority!
The Outer God [Destiny]'s eyes swirled, unable to comprehend why [Justice) ] had descended upon this place. Even if Cheng Shi was Predestination, even if the original [Destiny] inexplicably favored Cheng Shi was not the Emissary at all; he had no right to inherit Divine Authority!
The Outer God [Destiny] can only be understood as [Justice) ]. For the sake of the last shred of face of the Cosmos, and to retaliate against himself for instigating [Chaos] into [Order], he did not hesitate to deviate from the rules of the [Covenant], taking a desperate gamble to impose Divine Authority on the Predestination order.
This lose-lose situation of contaminating the Sacrifice was absolutely unacceptable to Him, so in an instant, the Void boiled and Storm raged.
The Bitter Wind from the deep Nothingness almost froze everything in front of them, and the dim, Seven-Colored Radiance bent the Balance Beam of the brilliant balance, locking them firmly in the darkness of the Void.
Even so, [Justice) ] still issued the Divine Resonance of [Order] that commanded the stars to maintain their order.
"I have come to bring the Divine Authority of the True God to my successor."
This action is in accordance with the rules, protected by the [Covenant], and cannot be defied by the gods!
The Bitter Wind in the Void intensified, and the Outer God [Destiny] coldly said:
"Rule?
Which rule ever acknowledges Predestination Destiny is the Emissary?
The Iron Rule of Order is [Chaos], are you [Chaos] too!?
What are you struggling with Justice)?
The moment you deviate from the [Covenant] and act arbitrarily, the [Covenant] will kill you. Afterward, the [Covenant] will dissolve itself, and there will be no more rules to restrain me in the Cosmos. At that time, the Predestination will remain the Predestination, and you...
They probably won't live to see the end of this era.
Do you still insist on slapping a hat of Divine Authority on the Predestination, a hat that could be swallowed up by Nothingness at any moment?
The Radiant Balance were gradually enveloped in darkness, yet the Divine Resonance of [Order] still pierced through the Void and spread throughout the Cosmos:
"I bring Divine Authority to my successor, but I never said that I brought Divine Authority [ of Destiny]!"
"What!?"
Not only the Outer God [Destiny], but even Cheng Shi was stunned.
The Divine Resonance of [Order] reverberated through the Void:
"I bring with me the Final Decree of [War], which leaves all Divine Authority to a... Mortals."
The [Covenant] did not restrict the granting of Divine Authority, and the Final Decree was inviolable. [War] succeeded to the throne only recently, yet left Final Decree before his death. I came in accordance with the edict and have not violated any rules!
"!!!"
In that instant, the Void changed color, Cheng Shi fell silent.
Qin Xin!
Even though this Fire Keeper was already dead, he still left hope for Cheng Shi!
He knew that handing over Divine Authority to Cheng Shi would be tantamount to sentencing the entire world to death. Predestination, the Cosmos would have no answers. In this grand Creator's Experiment, the world could only move towards destruction. Yet he still did it, using his last drop of blood to defend his will and belief in protecting the good.
"The Fire Keeper will never sacrifice friends and the good things in exchange for an 'old' world; not in the past, not now, and not in the future."
He said it, so he did it.
At this moment, the flames of [War], which had clearly been extinguished, were reignited before the world!
Passing the Flame! Passing the Flame!
Who would have thought that Qin Xin would be the flames of [War]!
All of this happened so suddenly that Cheng Shi was so shocked that he was momentarily bewildered. And it was at this moment that the Void, which was filled with the thick power of [Destiny], suddenly dried up.
The friction of the Bitter Wind sparked tiny sparks, which flashed by in an instant and were swept towards Cheng Shi by the wind.
Cheng Shi felt as if his blood had been called upon, boiling over in an instant. Then his hair, temples, eyebrows, and eyes were all ignited, turning into raging flames that burst forth with the last glimmer of blazing white light in the world!
How to survive? Only through Blood and Fire!
At this very moment, witnessed by [Justice) ], and in the silence of the Outer God [Destiny], Faith is finally corrupted, and the Predestination will is shattered!
Cheng Shi stared at the raging Crimson Flame engulfing his body, his gaze sharpening. In an instant, he coated the [Destiny] Vessel in his hand with Bloodfire, and hurled it straight towards those cold eyes.
"Now you can kill me, you bitch!"