The world had many names for "Fate Masters": fortune-tellers, physiognomists, yin-yang masters... From ancient times to the present, many people had regarded them as mysterious figures, seemingly capable of reaching through heaven and earth—or merely playing at gods and ghosts.
But to Li Yaowen, walking the path of a Fate Master was not complicated.
For people like Goddess Xia Yan and Guan Tong, both the Heaven-Chosen Divine Sect and the imperial dynasty believed they controlled "fate," could represent the Heavenly Dao, could manipulate life and death, and could save living beings from fire and flood through the past and future.
But that was not so. Goddess Xia Yan's so-called "Heavenly Dao" still gathered the spiritual energy of the Far West into the Divine Sect's blessed grotto-heavens, yet in the end, she could not even predict the Heaven-Chosen Divine Sect's rise and fall. Guan Tong's [Fate Principles World] had once made the Great Emperor wary, and he had competed for the Human Sovereign's [Causality Law], yet he still could not escape the fate of being schemed into Azure Cloud Prefecture.
Fate... Li Yaowen felt it was more like the absolute control a higher-dimensional life-form held over a lower-dimensional one.
In her classification, Fate Masters fell into three tiers. These were not tiers of strength, of course, but of their potential and the heights they might reach.
In truth, everyone held sway over fate. Everyone was a Fate Master.
For instance, anyone could control the fate of ordinary flowers and plants. With a little learning and attentive care, anyone could determine whether they lived or died. If a human wanted one dead at the third watch, it could not live until the fifth. Humans could even decide where it grew and what nutrients it absorbed. The same went for raising livestock: whether