At Great Deer Pass, atop the watchtower.
Xie Chun'an looked up at the heavens, where winds and clouds churned.
As the fortunes of north and south confronted one another, the Divine Dragon and Scarlet Phoenix were also locked in battle.
The two were evenly matched, a magnificent sight to behold!
With only a single glance!
Xie Chun'an felt a stabbing pain in his eyes and did not dare look again.
Those who stole heaven's secrets and calculated fate and fortune often could not escape calamity's entanglement.
Everything under heaven came at a price!
Yet Xie Chun'an had remained safe and sound for many years. Though already advanced in age, his household was harmonious, with both sons and daughters.
He turned to look at his beloved daughter, Xie Lingxuan. As the years flowed by, her bearing had become ever more transcendent, like an "immortal maiden" from a painting.
At his side, his second son Xie Linghao already had frost at his temples, while Xie Lingxuan seemed forever youthful, her beauty untouched by age.
She looked like a woman in her early twenties.
The fortune and blessings surrounding her were like a "living spring," benefiting her younger brothers and sisters alike, granting them smooth fortunes free of disaster and hardship.
And the greatest beneficiary was none other than Xie Chun'an himself.
When he had left the mountains, his master had once divined his fate and foretold that he would not live long, that he was destined for a short life.
Yet after the birth of his eldest daughter, every strand of fate had been reversed. He had now passed eighty years of age.
When one person attained the Dao, even the chickens and dogs ascended to heaven!
Xie Chun'an even suspected that the daughter he had personally delivered was an exiled immortal