Chapter 263: Chapter 121 Not This Fate
“You’re both married?” the Master of Heaven Mandate Hall asked in surprise.
“Yes!”
Luo Ruoxin and Luo Qiqi nodded at the same time.
The Master of Heaven Mandate Hall and the Space-Time Saint exchanged glances, each frowning.
Cultivation values Wealth, Comrades, Dharma, and Land, a teacher can provide three of those, but the “Comrade” aspect, particularly important, cannot be given by the teacher.
Especially when they comprehend the fragments of the heavens, any minor incident during the final battle for destiny could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
A powerful cultivation partner can not only help in crucial moments but also share insights and confirm each other’s destinies. Even more so, once they completely open up to each other, their destinies can merge and they can share Life and Death.
That is, if one party perishes, the other can use their own destiny to retrieve and resurrect them.
The two of them, although talented, have only reached Dharma Form Realm, and even if their spouses are strong, they are probably only at Galaxy Realm, Tier 1 or 2. With such power and without a significant destiny, it’s nearly impossible to reach the pinnacle of this era. From any perspective, their so-called husbands would only be a burden.
“He’s not worthy of you!” the Master of Heaven Mandate Hall spoke first.
The Space-Time Saint also looked towards Luo Qiqi, “You too, whoever this person is, he’s not worthy of someone with your talent.”
“Not worthy?”
Luo Ruoxin and Luo Qiqi exchanged looks and laughed simultaneously.
Their husband, wherever he went, was always at the pinnacle of existence. If one were to talk about being worthy… he was more than just that; it was surprising to hear that he wasn’t worthy of them!
Master of Heaven Mandate Hall continued, “I’m stating the facts! Where are they? Bring them here to see me, I will show them the difference between themselves and you…”
Since they didn’t believe it, the plan was to make the other party recognize the difference and leave by their own accord.
Luo Ruoxin turned her head, “Zhang Xuan, the esteemed Hall Master wishes to meet you!”
“Cough, cough!”
Zhang Xuan stepped forward, “I have seen the Hall Master!”
“Are you her husband?”
The Master of Heaven Mandate Hall frowned and inspected the youth before him closely.
His cultivation was at the peak of the Dharma Form Realm, still much weaker than Yan Sansan they just saw; surely nothing special at first glance.
“And your husband, where is he? Call him over too.”
The Space-Time Saint said to Luo Qiqi.
Luo Qiqi also turned her head, “Teacher Zhang, this Saint wishes to meet you!”
Zhang Xuan scratched his head, also bowing, “Zhang Xuan has seen the Space-Time Saint…”
“???”
The Space-Time Saint and the Master of Heaven Mandate Hall were both stunned.
The husbands of these two extraordinary geniuses were the same person? This guy… even if he accumulated good karma for eight thousand lifetimes, he wouldn’t be worthy!
Instantly, their anger intensified.
Such talent, monopolizing one person was already hitting the jackpot, but to have both… was it even shameless?
The Master of Heaven Mandate Hall couldn’t hold back, staring intensely with oppressive intent: “I’m giving you two choices now. First, take a sum of training resources, a decent destiny, divorce them, and have no further relations. Second, be crippled, annihilated in both body and spirit, erased from this world henceforth.”
Zhang Xuan was startled, “Are you saying, if I don’t divorce them, you’ll kill me?”
Always observing the fun, waiting for his disciples and others to be taken away for optimal cultivation, he never dreamed that the problem would fall on him.
“That’s one way to understand it!” Master of Heaven Mandate Hall nodded.
Zhang Xuan looked helplessly towards Luo Ruoxin and Luo Qiqi, “What do you think?”
“What else can we think?”
Seeing the problem pushed to themselves, Luo Ruoxin rolled her eyes and saluted the Master of Heaven Mandate Hall, “Senior, if you feel my husband and I are not worthy, then you’re not qualified to be my teacher, after all, I’m not eager to be your student…”
“Senior, same as Luo Ruoxin, if you want to kill Teacher Zhang, I have only one path, which is to fight you relentlessly, unless you kill me first, or else, I must continue.”
Looking towards the Space-Time Saint, Luo Qiqi’s gaze was resolute.
Both had different personalities and circumstances, but both harbored the same feelings for Zhang Xuan.
“This…”
The Master of Heaven Mandate Hall and the Space-Time Saint exchanged glances, each frowning.
After waiting so long and finally finding geniuses who had comprehended their own destinies, it would be a loss if they grew apart over this.
“Fine, let’s have a private talk with this Zhang Xuan!”
The Space-Time Saint waved his hand lightly, and Zhang Xuan immediately felt the space around him twist and turn, although he could see Luo Ruoxin and others, he couldn’t feel or sense them, as if they had disappeared.
It felt like he had entered into a television, where people and things of the outside world no longer had any association with him.
Zhang Xuan was startled.
To cut through space-time this smoothly, the opponent’s strength was probably far beyond Ouyang Hai whom he had met before.
“Our strength, you’ve seen it!”
Master of Heaven Mandate Hall stared over, and with a flash of his eyes, Zhang Xuan immediately felt an immense pressure spreading towards him, like a huge mountain falling in front.
His scalp exploded and Zhang Xuan felt like a boat in a storm, about to capsize at any moment.
The Space-Time Saint had yet to make a move; just the aura from the Master of Heaven Mandate Hall alone made him feel he could collapse at any moment.
Snap!
His spine bent under the tremendous pressure, and was about to break.
This was an intimidation!
The other party, knowing they could not sever Luo Ruoxin and Luo Qiqi’s relation with him, decided to teach him a lesson, making him wise up and retreat.
Fists clenched, veins bulging from Zhang Xuan’s forehead.
Despite being the master of a realm, the World’s Teacher, he still fell short when faced with the figures at the pinnacle of the Source World—otherwise, Nie Yun wouldn’t have been nearly killed by a falling slap.
“Taking on my destiny, she will possess the same strength I have.”
Seeing him desperately resisting, Master of Heaven Mandate Hall looked over dispassionately, his gaze void of emotion: “Not only that… but she could also become the Hall Master of Heavenly Destiny Hall, controlling the strongest authority under the sky, her every move causing storms, her voice shaking the mainland. As for you… your life’s struggle might amount to becoming the Zhou Yi Dynasty’s Heavenly Destiny Hall Master, or maybe the leader of the Wanxiang Sect, don’t even dream of catching up, let alone seeing the dust of her back.”
“I…”
Zhang Xuan wanted to speak, but found that under the opponent’s invasive power, his senses, smell, touch were all fading away, as if non-existent, wanting to say something but unable to utter anything.
The opponent intended to use their overwhelming strength to influence his belief and spirit, rendering him unable to harbor thoughts of resistance.
“The Master of Heaven Mandate Hall is not wrong, being my disciple, she would inherit the Space-Time Destiny. Although I have no disciples or forces, this is one of the strongest among the Second-level Heavenly Destinies. Once fully mastered, no one under the sky can confine or bind her, truly galloping across the world.”
The Space-Time Saint also looked over, “The most crucial part is, having thousands of years of life, just cultivating in seclusion a bit, and it’s decades, a hundred years of time… can you even wait that long?”
“To know oneself is precious, if they don’t want to give you up, it shows they value loyalty and righteousness, but you, knowing you can’t keep up yet still burden them, that’s truly ungrateful…”
Unexpectedly humiliated by them this way, Zhang Xuan grit his teeth, circulating the strength within him to resist the oppressive power.
Master Teacher Continent, the heavens, Empyrean… from starting his cultivation, he had endured hundreds of battles and oppressions, and he had never given in, nor would he now.
The power of the New World flowed slowly within him, the pressure did not decrease in the slightest, Zhang Xuan’s thoughts flickered, his Pathos of Heaven destiny pulsated, streams of pure strength flowed within his veins.
The pressure eased a lot.
“This is the suppression of destiny…”
Zhang Xuan realized.
The pressure forcing his senses to vanish was not due to cultivation but due to the tier difference in destiny.
Some people, despite striving their whole lives, could become billionaires, standing above others, yet some are born with everything, not needing to fight for it.
Many things, if not had at birth, are unreachable for life, no matter the effort later.
This was the difference of “destiny.”
In front of him, one controlled the Supreme Secret Technique of Hongyuan Tier-1 Empire while the other controlled a complete Second-level Heavenly Destiny. Indeed, anyone felt insignificant in front of them, and they certainly had the right to be arrogant.
But, that was others, not him. While his Pathos of Heaven destiny was currently weak, as time passed, it would undoubtedly reach the pinnacle too.
Straightening his back bit by bit, Zhang Xuan’s senses returned.
“Ungrateful? If really leaving because I can’t keep up, that would truly be ungrateful…”
Zhang Xuan’s cool voice shattered their somber speech, tearing through the surrounding confined space.
Unexpectedly, in front of them under their pressure not only could he stand upright but also speak. Both the Master of Heaven Mandate Hall and the Space-Time Saint were taken aback.
A minor figure not even reaching Galaxy Realm could do this under their destiny’s pressure, unimaginable if seen firsthand.
But, that was only up to now.
In their eyes, a 27- or 28-year-old at the Dharma Form Realm in front of genuine talent was nothing really.
They had seen the most formidable talent, who stepped into Galaxy Realm at seven and reached Transcendent Mortal 7-dan by twelve.
Only that kind of person deserved their disciples.
“So what if you are not ungrateful?”
The Space-Time Saint snorted disdainfully, “They still wish to be with you now because they haven’t seen the clear wind atop the mountain, haven’t experienced the high vistas, don’t know what a true genius really looks like. But once they do, even if you have some talent, what does it really count for?”
Zhang Xuan shook his head, “Who can say about the future? Who could guarantee that I can’t catch up with your so-called geniuses?”
“Catch up?”
The Master of Heaven Mandate Hall let out a cold laugh, shaking his head reluctantly, ‘You… don’t have that fate!”
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