"The advantage is... no matter what goal you want to achieve, you will basically not fail."
"The Book of Stealing Life?"
As he pondered these four words, he sensed something unusual about them.
Any method that requires a century to establish, whatever it may be, will likely be extremely difficult to deal with.
"There's something I don't understand."
Shen Qian stared at Zhou Yiwang and said, "Is the way of destiny really so mysterious? More than seventy years ago, I wasn't even born yet, so how could you have foreseen today?"
"Controlling one's destiny does not equate to being omniscient and omnipotent."
At this moment, Zhou Yi Wang was like a gentle elder, patiently answering Shen Qian's questions, "When you peer into destiny, all you can see are some vague colors... Well, or to put it another way, you know abstract painting, right? Yes, it's actually a large-scale abstract painting."
"It only offers some inspiration from the model lake, and everyone will have their own interpretation, but when you are proficient enough, you can always find those destined trajectories in it."
"It won't tell you what will eventually happen, but it will tell you where you'll land."
Shen Qian only half-understood Zhou Yiwang's explanation and could only secretly complain that communicating with charlatans was truly exhausting.
However, he could roughly understand what Zhou Yiwang meant. The other party might not know exactly what would happen decades later, but he could foresee some trajectories from the revelations of fate and thus make arrangements in advance at the Wanxiang Tower.
Because he was quite certain that this would be a very important turning point.
Sure enough, the King of Zhou Yi's next sentence confirmed his guess.
"I don't know where the 'fire seed' will land, but I can guess that such a shocking scheme cannot be separated from the White Emperor and the Prince of Jiangling. With the White Emperor's abilities, leaving behind the Myriad Pagoda must symbolize more meaning. I only need to know this much."
King Zhou Yi smiled.
"Then what use is this 'Life Stealing Manual'?"
At this moment, Shen Qian acted like a curious student, seemingly unconcerned about his own situation, and then asked a question.
"Because you are so unusual."
King Zhouyi said approvingly, "I have interfered in the fate of countless people and have quietly stolen the lives of many, but the most common methods of stealing lives probably won't work on you, after all, you have the residual aura of other great emperors on you."
"In just one or two years, you have risen from an unknown border town boy to become one of the strongest humans. The wonder of the 'Fire Seed' far exceeds my imagination. I have to be extremely cautious."
At this moment, King Zhou Yi spread his hands, seemingly somewhat helpless, "Look... to deal with you, I have already sacrificed two once-in-a-million royal clones, plus the Life Stealing Diagram that took a hundred years to set up. This is a huge investment, so naturally I can't afford to lose out."
"So, even Ling Tianhou was just testing the waters?" Shen Qian found it quite absurd.
“Of course,” King Zhouyi laughed. “Although it is a pity that the avatar was swallowed by the Candle Dragon, if it weren’t for that, how would I have known that you have the ability to enter and exit the River of Time, and that you have a very deep connection with that ancient beast, the Candle Dragon?”
"This at least eliminates one unexpected event... such as the sudden appearance of Zhulong at this time, adding some variables that I don't want to see to this perfect ending."
Upon hearing this, Shen Qian tried to sense the snake scale left by the Candle Dragon inside the spatial ring, but as expected, there was no reaction.
"So now, your ultimate plan is to kill me and take the 'fire seed'?"
He looked up before sinking in.
"No, no, why would I want to kill you?"
King Zhouyi shook his head. “The ‘fire seed’ cannot be touched by fate. How could I know that if I kill you, the ‘fire seed’ will disappear without a trace?”
After a moment of silence, a terrifying aura suddenly erupted from his body. He threw a punch, and the Yuan Power carrying a scorching aura instantly pierced through the void, striking Zhou Yi Wang, who was not far away.
King Zhou Yi neither dodged nor avoided the attack, but simply watched as the refined Yuan Power, infused with the power of the strange fire, pierced through his body with a "whoosh".
However, nothing happened.
King Zhouyi stood unharmed, as if everything that had just happened was just an illusion.
Shen Qiantong shrank back, already sensing something. "Is this an illusion?"
"No, this is the destiny space generated by the Stealing Fate Record; you can think of it as an alternative realm."
Zhou Yi Wang laughed and said, "Here, only fate can leave its mark; everything else is illusory."
Seeing that Shen Qian was frowning, Zhou Yiwang, ever the teacher, gave a demonstration.
"for example……"
Zhou Yiwang suddenly waved his hand.
Shen Qian felt a sharp pain in his head, and then he raised his head blankly. He saw specks of light seeping out of his body. The light floated into the air and formed a series of slideshow-like images that kept flashing in the sky.
Among them are his youthful image of sweating profusely in the physical testing hall while wearing his school uniform, his secret following behind Ding Yi pretending to be going the same way, his childhood memory of being tricked into getting a haircut by Wang Xiaojuan with an ice pop in Lucheng, the day he got drunk after entering the Tower of Babel, and his moment of glory at Jiangzhong Military Academy...
This is more than just a memory.
This is his life, everything he has experienced.
Just then, Zhou Yi Wang suddenly grabbed the image of the day the college entrance exam results were released and abruptly pulled it away.
Shen Qian didn't feel much, but suddenly felt a void in his heart, and his eyes became even more blank. He felt as if he was missing something, but he couldn't say what it was.
Because everything from that day had been forcibly stripped away by King Zhou Yi.
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