Just how strong was Heavenly Fate?
This was a question that troubled many Huaixu martial artists, especially those of the younger generation.
Having yet to live through the long years, they had never witnessed firsthand those beings whose talent alone was enough to drive every peer into despair. They had only glimpsed fragments of those true geniuses—beings who nearly transcended human understanding—between the lines of stories, legends, and myths.
Heavenly Fate.
It was not merely as simple as "the Heavenly Dao's favor." Rather, an individual first possessed talent beyond all others, perseverance and intellect surpassing everyone else, and only then would the Heavenly Dao bestow upon them a great destiny, making them a master of Heavenly Fate.
It was not that they could change the world because they had been chosen by the Heavenly Dao. Rather, because they had always possessed the potential to shake the causality of the world, they received its investment.
Legend had it that each master of Heavenly Fate would establish an era centered upon themselves, bringing shifts of ages and replacements of Heavenly Sects, with the rise and fall of all things changing in turn.
Yet the history described in such accounts was not intuitive.
The merit they achieved seemed like something others could achieve as well. Not to mention that even in eras when Heavenly Fate existed, there would still be powerful figures capable of contending against it—just as whenever the Seven Killings Tribulation emerged throughout history, even after it grew to its final realm, the strongest of the Heavenly Sects could still match it, even defeat and suppress Heavenly Fate with the strength of their sect, [Winning Half a Move Against Heaven].
Of course, the Seven Killings Tribulation possessed enough power to shatter the once-unbreakable order overseen by Heaven, disrupt the balance of