Lu Sizhan said, "Many things in the world are predetermined. Whenever great upheaval occurs, people who are difficult to understand will appear. You can think of them as born in response to the times, or the times as shaped by them. There's no explaining it. In any case, this person's appearance is bound to change certain circumstances. Once some people find out, they won't be able to sit still."
Lu Siyu rolled her eyes. "You're being so cryptic."
"Girl, it's just as well you don't want to marry him. I only hope you can live an ordinary, happy life. This man is destined for anything but an ordinary one," Lu Sizhan said. Then he turned and went back inside.
Lu Siyu gazed toward the horizon. The Beast Carriage had already disappeared.
Inside the Beast Carriage, Lu Yin gazed out the window. One meteor after another streaked across the distance. Perhaps they were people, perhaps other creatures. The Mother Tree stretched between heaven and earth, forming the most magnificent backdrop.
Raindrops fell onto his hand. Was it raining?
Lu Yin stared absently into the distance. Of the conditions for becoming a Lower Supreme God that Lu Sizhan had just mentioned, there was one he hadn't asked about, though he knew it was the most important: one must not cultivate the Sequence Rule.
In the Threefold Universe, the Sequence Rule was the cornerstone of the path to becoming powerful. Anyone capable of cultivation would never pass it up. That was common knowledge.
But in the Nine Heavens Universe, his conversation with Si Jiu Shi and the many things he had learned in other ways had made Lu Yin realize that the Sequence Rule could make someone, but it could also limit them.
The Sequence Rule was a shortcut to eternal life,