?55: Chapter 55: Co-ruling Destiny (Please follow!) 55: Chapter 55: Co-ruling Destiny (Please follow!) All of this had to start with a certain divination using the Primordial Instrument.

    In this divination, Chen Jingxuan unexpectedly saw an extremely conspicuous blood light…

    If ignored, this blood light would bring a terribly painful lesson to Da Chu.

    “Divination Skill can glimpse the secrets of heaven, but it cannot fully know one’s fate.”

    Chen Jingxuan said, “Just seeing to whom the blood light belongs, I paid the price of three years of my life…

    To root it out, relying solely on the ‘Primordial Instrument’ for deduction is impossible.”

    “So…

    that’s why we have today’s situation?”

    Xie Xuanyi murmured.

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    Chen Jingxuan calmly said, “The situation in Lichao City, Jiang Qihu is a chess piece, and so is the Bai Ze Secret Realm.

    In a certain sense, I too am a chess piece.

    Everything I’ve done is to make the Demon Country believe…

    that within this secret realm, which emerged by a twist of fate, there is an opportunity related to the ‘Dao Brush’.”

    The Demon Country also had internal strife now.

    Several Great Venerates were digesting the heritage left by “Mo Zhen Venerable.”

    Upon learning this news, the Demon Country Venerable would certainly do everything possible to snatch the ‘Dao Brush’ inside the Bai Ze Grotto Heaven!

    Xie Xuanyi frowned slightly, “So, the Bai Ze Secret Realm is something you fabricated, and the so-called opportunity related to the ‘Dao Brush’ is also fake?”

    “Not at all.”

    Chen Jingxuan shook his head and chuckled, “How could Jingxuan have such great ability to concoct a secret realm of an ancient demon sage’s grotto heaven out of thin air?

    This Bai Ze Grotto Heaven is real.”

    “Calamity lies where fortune leans, fortune dwells where calamity hides.”

    The Little National Master said indifferently, “That divination, though I saw the blood light, I also saw the key to breaking the situation…

    There was a flicker of fortune in Lichao City.

    I sent Qihu to check it out, and sure enough, he discovered something unusual.

    The hidden array patterns of the Bai Ze Grotto Heaven had revealed a flaw after the long years of erosion, making this grotto heaven a critical point for Lichao City’s involvement.”

    The Bai Ze Secret Realm did indeed exist!

    This was the brilliance of Chen Jingxuan’s plan; the bait was real, so how could the big fish not bite?

    “So…

    that’s why Jiang Qihu leaked the news,”

    Xie Xuanyi murmured to himself, “This probing move is also a way of ‘seeking the enemy’, right?”

    Chen Jingxuan expressed regret, “The Demon Country is very cautious and did not reveal their true hand.

    Qihu just had a brief ‘Divine Soul encounter’ with Dragon Wood Venerable.

    It is obvious that the Demon Country also does not believe that someone as loyal as him would choose to betray Da Chu…

    It’s just that the news of the Bai Ze Secret Realm is too attractive.”

    “These days, many ‘Cultivators’ have been converging towards Qing State.”

    Chen Jingxuan tapped the table again, and each chess piece burst with wind and thunder, transforming into a reflection of the landscapes of various border towns.

    The Primordial Instrument was monitoring Qing State at all times!

    Seeing this scene, Xie Xuanyi’s heart skipped a beat.

    But he quickly regained his composure.

    Xie Xuanyi intentionally observed for a while and did not find the scene of Tai’an City.

    The scenes that appeared before him were limited to the border of Qing State…

    Indeed.

    This made sense.

    Although Chen Jingxuan was a talented individual, he was ultimately a mere mortal.

    To monitor an entire state with his own power was already an act against the heavens.

    Who would scrutinize each and every city in detail?

    “I think…

    the ‘existence’ that the Demon Country has been deliberately protecting has likely already arrived in Lichao City.”

    Chen Jingxuan stated calmly, “If I’m not wrong, once the Bai Ze Secret Realm appears, that significant blood light will surge to the sky.”

    “You’re mad, this is tampering with predestined calamity…”

    Xie Xuanyi frowned and said, “Heaven’s secrets have their determinations, how can they be trifled with so casually?”

    The game Chen Jingxuan had set up was to force the blood light, with an identity yet to be determined, to appear before its time!

    This was disrupting the numbers of fate, violating the heavenly Dao!

    Xie Xuanyi was a Sword Cultivator, not one who practiced the arts of great fortune, but he knew…

    this was a taboo among taboos.

    Such actions might seem to be for the sake of national destiny, but if anything went wrong, the retribution for interfering with predestined calamity would fall entirely upon the meddler.

    Heaven’s Dao is unpredictable; fate has its measurements.

    Those who are able to glimpse a thread should be grateful and respectful.

    For so long,

    the cultivators who practiced the art of fortune-telling always emphasized “acting in accordance with heaven.”

    But Chen Jingxuan now, was “acting against heaven”!

    “Destiny is in my hands.”

    With an unchanging expression, Chen Jingxuan said indifferently, “Whatever tribulation there is, I will carry it myself.”

    “…”

    Xie Xuanyi didn’t know what to say for a moment.

    He stared at the foolish man before him, who entered the fray with an air of indifference, and asked seriously, “Is everything you’re doing worth it?”

    When Shen Yan was slain before, she scoffed at Da Chu.

    On this journey, Xie Xuanyi saw the ruin and desolation of Da Chu today…

    although he did not know what had actually happened in the Imperial City these ten years.

    But he knew.

    Shen Yan might not have been wrong.

    Today’s Da Chu was in the midst of chaos, from top to bottom, a complete mess.

    For Chen Jingxuan to clean up this mess…

    it would be difficult.

    Moreover, the situation in Lichao City was just the first step in reclaiming the national fortune; each subsequent step would only be harder.

    Those who probe into the secrets of heaven pay an unknown amount of life in return.

    “Perhaps it’s not worth it.”

    Unexpectedly, Chen Jingxuan did not give Xie Xuanyi a satisfying answer.

    This young Confucian scholar, with prematurely white hair, sat in front of a desk, waving his sleeve to extinguish the luminous chess pieces, maintaining a dignified posture, yet his eyes flickered with a touch of disappointment.

    Chen Jingxuan spoke softly, “Ten years ago, Da Chu did something that greatly disappointed me…

    Back then I was young, unable to change many things.”

    “But now it’s different.”

    “There are some things I want to try.”

    Chen Jingxuan looked up.

    He didn’t know why he was opening up to a stranger he had never met before, revealing such thoughts.

    But a cultivator of the “great fortune” values following one’s heart.

    After expressing his thoughts to Jia Liu in front of him, Chen Jingxuan felt much more at ease in his Heart Lake.

    Ten years ago…

    Xie Xuanyi’s expression remained unchanged, but a complex emotion surged within him.

    Was the disappointment Chen Jingxuan spoke of the decree Da Chu obstinately issued to hunt him down years ago?

    “Before Qihu set off, I used the Primordial Instrument to perform divination again.”

    Chen Jingxuan’s words interrupted Xie Xuanyi’s thoughts.

    He cleared his throat, “This time, in the ‘Lichao City’ situation, I saw a ray of light not controlled by fate.”

    “???”

    Xie Xuanyi was stunned.

    “This ray of light had not appeared when I was arranging the plans—”

    “But this time, the ‘Primordial Instrument’ divination showed this ray of light to suddenly appear amidst countless entwined threads of cause and effect, almost level with me.”

    Chen Jingxuan smiled and said, “This is why we meet tonight.

    Friend, whether you believe it or not, I have been waiting for you in the ‘Supreme Dao Library’.”

    “For the situation in Lichao City, I wish to ask you to join me…”

    “To hold destiny together!”