"So it still couldn't be done."
Venerable Xuanyuan sat upright in his cave abode, not a ripple stirring in his eyes.
Even though he had personally witnessed his son perish on the Life-and-Death Platform.
Venerable Xuanyuan had actually anticipated this outcome long ago.
Without his involvement with the Ancient Demon Cult, Xiao Yu's aptitude and comprehension could never have earned him the title of Law-Breaking True Lord, let alone a place in the Jade Purity Golden Register as one of the Sect Master's many disciples. His defeat at Chen Beiwu's hands was only natural.
Before Xiao Yu stepped onto the Life-and-Death Platform, two-thirds of the many visions of the future Venerable Xuanyuan had divined had ended in Xiao Yu's defeat and death. The remaining third had been shrouded in obscurity, beyond even a Spirit Transformation Venerable's ability to observe.
When cultivation begins, one believes the Heavenly Mandate can be overturned. Midway through, one learns how hard it is to defy. At cultivation's pinnacle, one understands what the Heavenly Mandate truly is. Perhaps this was simply my child's allotted fate!
Venerable Xuanyuan sighed inwardly.
Low-ranking cultivators of the Immortal Alliance often said, "Once a golden core enters my belly, my fate belongs to me, not Heaven." They believed that cultivating immortality meant defying Heaven, that every step, from qi refining and foundation establishment to golden core and nascent soul, broke the restraints heaven and earth imposed on human cultivators.
Little did they know that every sip and every morsel might have been predetermined. How could defying Heaven and changing one's fate be easy?
What some low-ranking Immortal Alliance cultivators called defying Heaven and changing fate was merely a cultivator seizing a minuscule thread of uncertainty within the great tides of heaven and earth, then rising with the current.
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