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"So, you spent these past few days asleep dealing with your inner demon and... absorbing this third finger?"
"Yes." Xiao Yi gave a slight nod. "Though the inner demon was fierce, generations of elders in my Wood Division have dealt with them. There are secret arts to follow, so there was a method to handling it. My deeper sleep toward the end, however, was due to receiving and comprehending this third finger."
Chen Xiaojun looked thoughtful. "Receiving it? Something like studying in a dream?"
Xiao Yi's breath carried an orchid fragrance as she lifted her almond-shaped eyes. "You could understand it that way. Three-Finger Fate Severing is entirely different from the first two fingers, One Finger Severs Yin and Yang and Two Fingers Cover All Life."
"The first two fingers had Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flower Flow as their foundation, along with the insights accumulated across my previous life and this one. There were still traces to follow in mastering them. But 'fate'... is elusive and ethereal, difficult to grasp."
"In my previous life, I belonged to the Yin-Yang School and had some sense of fate. In this life, my martial soul is connected to my divine godhead, yet my understanding remained as thin as mist. It was difficult to grasp anything substantial."
She paused, then continued, "More importantly, to truly wield Three-Finger Fate Severing, the first step is to light up one's own 'fate star.' Only then can one begin to glimpse the projected manifestation of the River of Fate and qualify to try to understand and sever a thread of its unseen course."
In truth, things had been nowhere near as simple as Xiao Yi made them sound.
The step of "lighting up her fate star" alone had nearly plunged her