Still, considering that not a single Auspicious Beast had successfully become a god throughout the Douluo Continent's long history, they merely possessed the potential for godhood. What that potential granted them was control over a portion of destiny's power, making them the world's darlings, existences akin to children of destiny.
It was precisely for this reason that Heavenly Origin Power favored Auspicious Beasts. Their bodies were like priceless treasures capable of absorbing vast amounts of the world's Soul Power. Wherever they were, the surrounding Soul Power would change, and even destiny itself would shift.
In other words, an Auspicious Beast was like a national treasure, and one that could bring good fortune at any moment.
As destiny's darlings, Soul Beasts such as Auspicious Beasts rarely faced threats to their lives. The reasons such threats appeared could roughly be divided into two categories.
The first was encountering an enemy who countered an Auspicious Beast's luck, such as Yang Ming, a cancer upon the world in the eyes of the World Consciousness. No matter how powerful an Auspicious Beast's luck was, it would be useless against him.
The other was a destined ordeal. Precisely because they possessed some ability to control destiny, bottlenecks were bound to appear in their own destinies, much like the bottlenecks Spirit Masters encountered during cultivation. It was a mystery within a mystery.
Of course, Yang Ming could also imitate Huo Yuhao in the original story and obtain a trace of destiny power from the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's third, vertical eye.
However, Yang Ming had a premonition that if he truly seized that trace of destiny power, he would likely fall into the World Consciousness's trap.
Time reigned supreme, space ruled as king; when destiny remained absent, cause and effect was emperor.
Once something became entangled with a