"Destiny?" Hearing Xiao Yan's words, Qingtan and the others exchanged bewildered looks. The word was hardly unfamiliar to them; sometimes, they even used it every day. But talking about it was one thing, and actually coming into contact with it was another. Destiny had always been something elusive and intangible, leaving them feeling as though they were lost in the clouds as they listened to Xiao Yan.
"Let me give you a simple analogy. Say there are two cups of water in front of you, one poisoned and one not. Without knowing that one of them is poisoned, you choose a cup and drink it. In that situation, there are only two possible outcomes: you die, or you live."
"In your original destiny, you drank the unpoisoned water, survived, and went on to accomplish great things. But at the moment you chose your cup, the kind of fluctuation this one mentioned appeared, causing you to drink the poisoned water instead. As a result, the entire future after that cup of water changed. That's what I meant when I said it had something to do with destiny."
"That's probably what happened to Lin Dong. When he was breaking through to the Ancestral Realm, that power affected him, and the result was that this entire world fell." Xiao Yan paused, then turned to Qingtan. "As for you, according to this one, the fluctuations around you are a little stronger than Lin Dong's, so whatever was changed about your destiny should be even more important..."
"Then what about you?" Lin Jing suddenly remembered that the plane spirit had said the fluctuations around Xiao Yan were thousands, even tens of thousands of times stronger than everyone else's combined. Then...
"Me... probably my entire life was rewritten?" Xiao Yan laughed self-deprecatingly. He had only arrived