Coincidentally, the new knowledge they were to learn after the homework review did not overlap much with what came before. Previously, they had been taught how to "observe the stars," but starting with this lesson, they would learn how to judge their own fate and the fate of those around them.
Of course, beginners could basically not discern anything particularly useful from "fate." According to the teacher, this field also depended on "talent," and the way he explained it even made this mystical art seem a few degrees more scientifically grounded.
For example, as transcendents, everyone possessed a greater sensitivity to "fate" than ordinary people. If a transcendent sensed that something was wrong in daily life, suddenly felt afraid, or had the feeling that they had forgotten something, then there was generally a real reason for it. It was rarely just an illusion.
And if they felt that their auras clashed with someone else's, then trouble would most likely arise if they got together.
These were categorized as incompatible "magnetic fields," or "transcendent perception." By combining such things with calculation methods summarized by predecessors, then attempting to resonate with transcendent energy, one could try to calculate a person's fate.
Xu Zhi listened in a daze, feeling that something was off. If fate could be calculated, did that not mean that the path everyone was meant to walk had already been decided?
Perhaps the teacher knew the students would have this question, because he immediately added that a person's fate was not predetermined. Calculation merely determined what a person's destiny was like at that moment, or rather, "this is what they will most likely do." For instance, one might calculate that someone would most likely have bad luck today, but low-probability random events could turn what should have been an unlucky