When the complete prophecy appeared before Dumbledore.
The old man finally could not hide his astonishment. He felt that perhaps, given Zhang's character, even though he did not know what exactly had happened, he was quite likely to have recorded the entire prophecy.
This was precisely the original intention behind his keeping Zhang Xiao, wishing to have a "limited" discussion with him about the prophecy.
Yet, he had not expected in the least that Zhang would actually record the complete prophecy.
Dumbledore remained silent. Thinking of what Zhang Xiao had just said, he felt a slight headache.
Zhang appeared to understand how prophecies worked even more than he had imagined, which meant the originally arranged plan for the conversation might need to be adjusted.
"I must admit... Zhang, you have once again exceeded my expectations, such as this-"
Dumbledore pointed his finger at the Whirling Jade Disc carrying the recording, and then pointed at his own temple:
"And then there is your view on prophecy."
Zhang Xiao remained unmoved, single-mindedly wanting to see how Dumbledore planned to sweet-talk and hoodwink him, for this prophecy involved matters of far too great a scale.
Although it could be said that Trelawney's predictions almost always came true once she made a genuine prophecy.
Yet Zhang Xiao firmly refused to believe in so-called unchangeable destiny. Compared to a fatalism filled with pessimistic coloring, he preferred and firmly believed in a different saying:
"The movement of heaven is full of power, the noble one strives without ceasing."
Heaven and Earth are not benevolent, treating all things as straw dogs. If there truly were such a "Heaven", it would never arrange every single trajectory of all living beings.
It should be aloof and detached, merciless and devoid of emotion, like a deity statue, sitting there accepting