Lianchi said eagerly, "Let me cast a divination for her daughter."
As he spoke, he spent a few moments calculating from the time Xue Yi had given birth, and her daughter's future became clear at once. "Given her location and the time of the birth, she should have given birth to a mentally disabled daughter. Our intervention made the baby healthy, but the timing has destined her daughter to become mentally disabled in the future all the same. At five months old, a high fever will damage her mind. This child is also fated to suffer a peach blossom calamity. She will die in childbirth at fourteen, giving birth to a son. That child will be exceptionally intelligent and seems to have something unusual about him, but I can't see any further."
Lianchi could not help sighing again. "This is fate. Even human intervention can only delay it. After all the twists and turns, things always return to where they began. It would have been better to let her be born mentally disabled in the first place, rather than give this brothel woman false hope."
Chi Yu said, "Tsk, Senior Brother Lianchi, I really don't like hearing you say that."
Lianchi was taken aback. "Was I wrong?"
Chi Yu looked up at the sky. "Senior Brother Lianchi, you weren't wrong. For mortals, this is destiny. But even if it's destiny, does that mean they have to accept it?"
Lianchi asked in bewilderment, "Long Junior Brother, with your exceptional comprehension, you should understand this better than I do. Destiny is what it is; it cannot be changed. Though we are cultivators, we are still constrained by the Heavenly Dao. Everyone has their own fate. However much we defy heaven... we are only struggling within the bounds the Heavenly Dao permits."
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