[How could a boy in the [mid-stage embryonic breath realm] possess such an astonishing fate pattern?]
[Stranger still were his statuses:]
[[Fate pattern exchanged], [Heaven's Mandate shattered], [Supreme protection].]
[Fate pattern exchanged?]
[Your thoughts were abruptly dragged back to the [Fourth Ordinary Simulation].]
[Back then, Chen Qingyan had told you himself—]
["I was already a dead man, powerless to turn back the heavens.]
[But in my early years, I once used a secret art... to exchange for everything belonging to a direct descendant of the Chen Family in the [future], one who possessed the [hidden dragon in the abyss] fate pattern!"]
(This was mentioned in chapter 14.)
[If his words were true, there was indeed a method for exchanging fate patterns.]
[But Chen Qingyan had spoken of a [Chen Family descendant], while Mo Wuyou belonged to the Mo Family.]
[Moreover, the [Chen Family] had been wiped out a thousand years ago.]
[Neither the timing nor the bloodline matched.]
[Yet the [fate pattern exchanged] status could not be false.]
[And what explained [Heaven's Mandate shattered] and [Supreme protection]?!]
[For a moment, your thoughts were in disarray.]
[While you pondered, Mo Wuyou came back to his senses.]
[From his perspective, he had been whisked out of the smithy and brought to this open stretch of land in a mere instant.]
[Before he could panic, his gaze landed on your "other self."]
[The next instant, his pupils contracted sharply.]
[His expression held neither terror nor wariness]
[—but disbelief.]
[As though he had seen someone who could not possibly be there.]
[He blurted out involuntarily:]
["You... are you Senior Chen Fan?!"]
["???"]
[Your face remained impassive, but waves surged through your heart.]
[Before the [First Future Simulation], you had never used the [Spacetime Token] to connect to the [future].]
[*There should have been no