"The star chart can always reveal where fate lies. In particular, everything that occurs naturally—be it an event or an object—cannot escape the gaze of the starry sky. And as for a fate that even the star chart cannot observe..."
The old man stopped halfway through, but Xu Zhi understood what he meant.
If even the starry sky that watched over all things on earth could not detect something, then it had to be extremely well hidden—and unnatural.
Unnatural. Interfered with. Who could accomplish that?
It had to be someone so powerful as to be beyond reach, powerful enough that even the star chart could not see through them.
Xu Zhi had read in books that every extraordinary person had their own path. Once an extraordinary person became powerful enough, their path would no longer guide them forward. They would need to create the road beneath their own feet.
To evade the star chart's trajectory, they must have long since begun walking their own path and traveled a considerable distance upon it—perhaps even begun taking control of their own fate?
Xu Zhi thought of the "Archbishop" in the prison. Was it that kind of extraordinary being?
Clearly not.
It could not control its own fate. It had been imprisoned.
That meant the event foretold by this photograph of the star chart was at least more extraordinary than that Archbishop!
Then... who else could it be?
Xu Zhi's heart jolted, and even her breathing slowed for a moment. You've got to be kidding me. If this is really a recent photograph, then this teacher assigned it as homework for the freshmen during class?!
Shouldn't this be some incredibly secretive, life-threatening matter?!
Xu Zhi felt that she no longer understood the educational philosophy of the real world.
The old man did not