The turn of events came so quickly that Lin Ke could barely react.
"Kill you?"
Lin Ke frowned. "It doesn't have to come to that. There must be another way."
Lin Zhi believed Lin Xuanji would inevitably kill them one by one to cultivate some technique.
But Lin Ke felt that rather than bare his neck for the blade, he should burn with all his might.
Dying with a blade swinging in his hand was better than closing his eyes and waiting for death.
"No, this is destiny."
Lin Zhi shook his head and looked straight into Lin Ke's eyes. "Feng He can conceal Heavenly Secrets, while I study the principles of fate..."
"As a remnant soul, I could only see the light when Feng He fell into unconscious sleep. Fortunately, the methods of the Daoist School aided me. After twenty years of arduous study, I finally caught a glimpse of Heavenly Secrets."
As he spoke, goodwill showed in Lin Zhi's expression. "With the Lianshan Changes, I was naturally no match for Lin Xuanji when trying to divine his fate. Fortunately, none of those around him could resist my divination."
"And he never imagined that a wisp of one of his descendants' souls still existed in this world, attached to a pawn in his own hand. That was precisely how I managed to calculate it all."
At this point, Lin Zhi could not help sighing mournfully.
"Yet even after divining his children's fates, I could scarcely believe it. From Lin Yi, the Lin Family's eldest young master seven hundred years ago, to Lin Mo, its youngest member today, every one of them met an unnatural death, without exception."
"The deaths ordained within those unnatural ends were thus called unnatural deaths."
"But then a turning point appeared!" Profound relief shone in