This Damned Thirst for Survival

Early the next morning.

When Ji Yaozi went to the restaurant to eat, he saw Jiang Luo, who was already halfway through his meal. He took two buns and two eggs and sat down, greeting him, "Why are you so early today?"

Jiang Luo looked up, "I haven't slept all night."

"Up all night?" Ji Yaozi remembered something and said carefully, "Because of you and Chi You?"

As he said this, Ji Yaozi looked at Jiang Luo with a sympathetic look in his eyes.

Chi You is Jiang Luo's former lover, and he has even started to work hard for Chi You. He has even become married to Chi You and wants to avenge Chi You. Although the two of them seem to have fallen out, Jiang Luo now has to fight Chi You in the guise of being brainwashed, so you can imagine how complicated it is.

Ji Yaozi brainstormed that it was going to be a sigh of relief for both of them.

As soon as Jiang Luo saw Ji Yaozi's expression, he knew he was imagining things, and he didn't explain, swallowing the last mouthful of rice without expression, "Lao Ji, let me ask you something."

Ji Yaozi said, "What?"

"Why do you have Yuan Tianzhu there."

Ji Yaozi froze, then thoughtfully, "I knew you were going to ask that question."

He crushed the tea egg on the table and said slowly, "There are four days left before you go down to the trial, will you be back when the trial is over?"

Jiang Luo: "Guess?"

"You," Ji Yaozi said with a mixture of anger and laughter, "I didn't mean to change the subject, it's just that you have to know that the more you know the deeper you get involved, do you really want to get involved in all this trouble?"

Jiang Luo laughed instead, "You think I haven't gotten involved?"

He glanced at Ji Yaozi with a smirk, and Ji Yaozi saw clearly the stupidity and cool contempt in his eyes, the fire of his soul dazzling, unyielding and insistent, "Whether you tell me or not, I'm already involved. I don't like people who involve me, but in this case, I'm going to figure it out."

He is curious about a lot of things and wants to get to the bottom of it. Chi You's secret always feels like it has something to do with these things too.

So, how could Jiang Luo miss out?

What's more, he had to kill the predestined man.

Ji Yaozi's hand couldn't help but exert a force, and the shell of the tea egg instantly shattered, he sighed back, "You're right."

"This Yuan Tianzhu, was given to me by the Predestined," he said in a lowered voice after a long time, "thirty years ago, the Predestined did a divination for the metaphysical community, divination like this for the entire future often requires a huge price to pay, heavenly information cannot be revealed, trying to get a glimpse of heavenly information The life and longevity of the diviner can be seriously damaged or even killed as a result. Before the Predestined Man, no one had ever thought of divining the future of the metaphysical community, the metaphysical community is not like other circles, although small, everyone in it is deeply hidden, feng shui metaphysics is even more pervasive in life, divining the future of any of us is several times more difficult than for ordinary people, and it was only after the Predestined Man divined the future of the metaphysical community that we knew how strong he was."

"If it were anyone else doing such a divination, even your master Feng Li, it would take a dozen people to divine together, and after the divination all prepare for a half-folded life expectancy to succeed," Ji Yaozi's tone grew complex, his expression surfacing with a few moments of fear mixed with reverence, "but the predestined man He only had a white head."

Jiang Luo furrows his brow.

"The results of his divination were not very good. The Fatalist told us that in thirty years' time, the occult world would experience a devastating catastrophe, and that both the six great houses and the twelve colleges would be destroyed at the hands of one man," Ji Yaozi said, "Who is this man? . It wasn't until twenty-seven years ago that the predestined man went to the middle of Chang Baishan, and Chi You was born, that we knew Chi You was the man of the prophecy."

"But those who know about it are only those in the older generation, which adds up to less than ten people."

Jiang Luo found it interesting, "Then why didn't you kill Chi You when he was just born?"

Ji Yaozi smiled helplessly, " Jiang Luo, do you know about predestination?"

Jiang Luo raises an eyebrow and gives him a look to continue.

Ji Yaozi said, "There are two widely circulated sayings in the metaphysical world, one is that the heavenly information I have just said must not be revealed, and the other is that diviners do not divine themselves. Anyone who knows how to divine and tell fortunes knows how mysterious this stuff is. Often it is what we know and therefore do that leads to the results in divination."

Jiang Luo could not help but think of the "Wu Shu Gua" that he had once divined, and it was because he had known the sign and wanted to avoid it that he had finally fulfilled it.

"Therefore, we dare not act rashly," Ji Yaozi said, "I, Dean Xu, and even the vast majority of the Six Families cannot be sure whether it was our knowledge of the contents of the divination and therefore doing something to Chi You that led to the subsequent destruction of the metaphysical community, or Chi You is inherently evil."

"We were divided, part of us thought Chi You should be taught to be good, part of us wanted to kill Chi You instantly, but in the end the cautious side prevailed and Chi You managed to survive. In the time that followed, Chi You did well, he was gentle and kind, gifted but humble, no one disliked him, Dean Xu even became friends with Chi You, he never believed that Chi You would be the one to destroy the occult world as predicted by the Fates, and many unknowns became fans of Chi You, they followed him, they couldn't resist Chi You. It was impossible to deny Chi You's charisma, and everything seemed to be going well. But as the thirty-year period approached, Chi You died early."

"Dean Xu was so distraught that he and I believed that Chi You's death was the work of people who knew the contents of the divination back then. Those people were big shots, and it was so that you wouldn't be killed by them too that Dean Xu and I didn't want you to avenge Chi You and secretly hid your relationship with Chi You."

Ji Yaozi said ruefully, "Chi You is dead and we all agree that the end has been changed and the future of the metaphysical world will no longer be as it was divined. When the Fates knew that Chi You was dead, they also came down from Chang Baishan."

Jiang Luo, who had been listening quietly, suddenly said, "Wait, you mean that the Fatal Man hid on Chang Baishan from Chi You's birth to his death?"

Ji Yaozi laughed, "This word 'hide' is not quite the right one, the predestined man has always been a spectator, he rarely gets involved in the affairs of the mortal world."

Jiang Luo ignored Ji Yaozi's comment when he received an affirmative answer.

Why, he wondered with gusto, had the predestined man been in hiding for twenty-seven years?

Is Chi You alive and well so he dare not come down from the mountain?

Why would you be afraid?

The prophecy was that Chi You would destroy the metaphysical world at the end of the thirty-year period. There was no need for the predestined to hide within the thirty years.

Is it because he is afraid of Chi You?

Afraid of what Chi You might do to him?

Jiang Luo found it increasingly interesting, intuiting that there was more to the prophecy that had not been explored, "But the Fates and you found out that Chi You, although dead, became a stronger evil spirit, right?"

Ji Yaozi shrugged his shoulders and laughed bitterly twice.

"But even if he becomes an evil spirit, you don't believe he will destroy the occult world," Jiang Luo said to himself, "and by helping me, you are actually doing more to help him."

Ji Yaozi stiffened unnoticeably, Jiang Luo was too perceptive. Fortunately, Jiang Luo did not continue to hold on to him and asked instead, "If the Fatal Man is so strong, why didn't he just strike and finish Chi You off last night?"

Ji Yaozi doesn't know why either, but he has his own speculation, "Just because a predestined person is called by the word predestined doesn't mean he's out of it, he doesn't strike, most likely because he knows it won't work if he does, instead he'll achieve the opposite effect and will submit to fate."

Fate or no fate, Jiang Luo didn't believe in this stuff at all. He snorted, "I thought you would say that the Fates are so kind as not to take the lives of others."

Ji Yaozi pursed her lips, "Maybe, who knows about him."

The two of them finished their meal and headed for Xiaoquan Pond. After seeing the figure of the Fatalist in the woods, Jiang Luo remembered something and asked, "One last question, how strong is the Fatalist?"

Ji Yaozi was silent for a moment, waiting for the soil beneath his feet to move from bitter winter to spring grass before he said, "He is a god."

Jiang Luo pauses in his steps, his expression stunned.

What is it?

Ji Yaozi also paused as he looked away from the predestined man, his voice so soft that it was scattered by the wind, fear unknowing and deep in his bones, "He accepts our offerings, he is the closest thing to a god in this world."

"He's a false god."