Not a Flaw in Sight

Mingjing Sect was, after all, a great sect with a long history. It had produced a few Divine Fates during past calamities, so it knew a little about how they worked.

First of all, Divine Fates were powerful, but their bearers could never live a "peaceful" life.

Every bearer of a Divine Fate was a seed the Heavenly Dao watched with the greatest interest. If Mortal Fates were randomly assigned numbers and Strange Fates were elites who emerged from among those numbers, then every Divine Fate had a name, along with its own exclusive chain of missions and objectives.

Setting aside the fact that anyone chosen by the Heavenly Dao was bound to be a headstrong, unwavering martial artist bent on achieving great things, even if a Divine Fate accidentally chose an ordinary person, the Heavenly Dao had plenty of ways to turn a lazy nobody into a major figure bent on stirring up the world.

So when An Jing returned to the sect with nearly a thousand traitors and piled their skulls into a Jingguan, many of Mingjing Sect's senior figures weren't very surprised.

Jiuli Weapon Master, huh? Nothing out of the ordinary. If he'd returned without killing a single person, then everyone really would have found that strange.

That was how it was supposed to be: taking heads and piling them into a Jingguan. Now that was the Fierce God Sha Fate they knew!

The Divine Mirror Phenomenon that followed startled the other sects, but Mingjing Sect's senior figures had been prepared for it.

—If this boy really is the Child of Luck destined for Mingjing Sect's future, then the Haotian Mirror Fragment will surely react... It might even stir to life, an exceedingly rare occurrence.

Most of the time, the Haotian Mirror slept in the deepest reaches