To fulfill your Heavenly Mandate, you had to enter free mode at certain critical moments and make your own choices.
If you chose wrong and took a completely different path, you naturally couldn't fulfill your Heavenly Mandate.
For instance, if Lin Nuo Yi hadn't made the Three-Year Agreement, or something similar, in the Xiao Family hall, her Heavenly Mandate would have ended before it even began.
It didn't have to be a Three-Year Agreement, but she had to make some kind of pact with Nalan Yanran.
Likewise, if Lin Nuo Yi had used any means to throw away the ring as soon as Medicine Elder emerged from it, her Heavenly Mandate would have failed.
Of course, Lin Nuo Yi could never be that foolish.
They had already been warned about certain key points of the Xiao Yan template when they made their choices.
"Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river. Don't look down on a poor young man" had been written right there on the template.
Real Protagonist Templates all contained clues about their Heavenly Mandates. The famous saying on Xiao Yan's template and the line on Han Li's template, "A lone traveler on the long road of Cultivation," were both clues.
Han Li's Heavenly Mandate was Cultivation itself. Once he successfully cultivated to a certain realm, he could fulfill it.
A fake Protagonist Template like Chu Feng's naturally offered no such clue.
What clues did a dead man need? (goofy.jpg)
As for the Wang Teng Template, did that line about someone "destined to leave an indelible mark on Ancient History" count?
Right now, Chu Feng was panicking.
Because of their choices, the Five Women's experiences differed somewhat from the original plots of their respective protagonists.
But on the whole, everything was still progressing smoothly