Before departing, there had been thirteen Bait Fate Stars on Fate Star Mountain. Three had been used to make Life-Replacement Wooden Children, so there should have been ten left.
Now, only nine remained.
The missing one was one of the four he had placed on the Fate Pillar when he swore the oath earlier.
"How could a Fate Star have been destroyed? Did I overlook something?"
Sunshine Boy carefully deduced the matter before finally understanding.
"Fate Patterns come in many forms: auspicious, ominous, noble, calamitous, and more. Good Fortune Born's youthful Fate Pattern is primarily calamitous. Heavenly Calamity harms others, and the poison wyrm seizes fortune. When other people's Fate Molds are affected, they will inevitably resist, which is why he struggled at every step in the Marquis Manor. Those with strong Fate Molds, such as Uncle Zhou and Song Yanxue, feared no Heavenly Calamity in their Fate Molds, so they were willing to accept him from the beginning."
"He possesses the Sunlit Golden Mountain and Tempered Through Ten Thousand Trials Fate Molds, so he is instead unafraid of those hardships. The more hardships he endures, the faster he grows."
"Even this Weird Mother is merely his whetstone."
"The shining treasured sword and the poison wyrm about to shed its skin within his Fate Mold both indicate that he is highly likely to transform calamity into nobility!"
"Once his second Fate Pattern and Fate Spirit become noble in nature, he will be able to display the bearing of a formidable hero, drawing others beneath his banner rather than suffering blows as he did before. No wonder his Fate Mold is so strong, yet his Fortune has never reached Imperial Prosperity. He has been gathering strength all along."
"If nobility came before calamity, then he would likely take the crooked road