Hearing the shopkeeper's cold words, Chu Changzui's confused mind gradually recalled the scene of that day.

What did the shopkeeper say to him that day?

Ah... That's right.

Chu Changzui suddenly seemed to remember something.

He suddenly remembered that it was because of the few words the shopkeeper said to him at that time that he had the illusion that the shopkeeper seemed to be warning him... Because the shopkeeper said this to him at that time. ——She heard

Chu Changzui finish his story, then lowered his head to look at the sign in his hand, stroked it twice, and suddenly said, "Do you really... believe this so much?"

Chu Changzui thought it was a bit strange for the shopkeeper to ask this question.

He was a fortune teller, what else could he believe in if he didn't believe in fate?

This is probably like asking a swordsman whether he believes in the sword in his hand, and a knifeman whether he believes in the knife in his hand.

Fate is arranged by heaven, just as most of the knights in the world must abide by the "Way of Heaven" to practice, Chu Changzui's "Way" is to tell fortunes to predict good and bad luck.

Although their Guigu Sect looks extraordinary and seems to be different from other sects, only Guigu Sect itself knows that they are no different from other sects.

This is the so-called entering the Tao by comprehending the Way of Heaven.

Anyone in the martial arts world must obey the Way of Heaven, and no one can escape this rule.

After hearing his words, the shopkeeper slowly raised his head and glanced at him. Just with this glance, Chu Changzui was slightly stunned at the time.

Because that look was very similar to the look his master gave him when he knew he had done something wrong but was unwilling to remind him directly, and wanted him to figure it out on his own.

However, that look only lasted for a moment, so fast that Chu Changzui thought it was an illusion.

Soon, the shopkeeper's face was only cold again.

Chu Changzui had been in a trance for the past few days, so he thought it was normal for him to have hallucinations, and he never thought deeply about what was hidden behind this expression.

"It's ridiculous..."

The shopkeeper only said this one sentence at the time.

Chu Changzui thought the shopkeeper was saying that he was ridiculous, and he immediately lowered his head. He was not as skilled as others, so it was understandable to be ridiculed.

But the next two sentences the shopkeeper said were like riddles, and Chu Changzui never understood what they meant.

"You say that only because you are controlled."

What does controlled mean?

Chu Changzui looked up curiously at the shopkeeper.

Controlled by what? Could it be... God?

This sentence sounded like this on the surface, but Chu Changzui immediately abandoned this idea.

How is it possible.

Chu Changzui remembered that he smiled and thought to himself, I am really going to die, I can't even understand what the shopkeeper said, how could the shopkeeper mean this.

Everyone is controlled by fate, everyone is subject to the way of heaven. From ancient times to the present, how many strong people have worked hard to practice, all in order to get the favor of heaven one day, and the shopkeeper is naturally the same. No matter how strong he is, what difference can there be.

"But..." the shopkeeper said again.

"A truly powerful person disdains to be controlled by anything."

Chu Changzui was at a loss at the time.

He had not yet known the true meaning of this sentence.

...

Feng Qing actually always wanted to be a cool person in the eyes of others, which can be seen from her iron bangs.

But her few friends said that they felt that Feng Qing's nosy feeling was more like... the aura of a neighborhood committee lady.

Thinking about it carefully, Feng Qing actually likes to meddle in other people's business. If the children of the east family don't learn, she will go over to persuade them to learn. If the young couple of the west family quarrel, she will also sigh. Obviously, no one is willing to pay attention to her, but she likes to step forward in such matters.

Isn't this kind of person just... a standard neighborhood committee auntie.

Feng Qing's friends looked at Feng Qing, who was complacent about her "middle school second" and wiped away the tears from their eyes at the same time, and then chose to hide the truth from her.

Let her be happy alone, sometimes people can be so happy, it is also a kind of ignorant bliss.

At this moment, Feng Qing leaned against the wall and looked at them, and her eyes were like those of a neighborhood committee auntie who saw someone spitting everywhere.

She thought that her eyes were normal, and she usually looked down on feudal and superstitious people in this way.

However, in the eyes of others, Feng Qing's eyes at this moment, combined with her bangs, turned into a very scary expression.

- It was like looking at a group of ants.

She was leaning against the wall, wearing only a simple gauze gown, looking like she had just grabbed a piece of clothing and put it on after being woken up. Despite this, she looked unexpectedly like a ghost standing there.

Chu Changzui felt like he was hallucinating for a second.

For such a long time, Chu Changzui himself did not understand why the shopkeeper had such an aura, as if the shopkeeper did not care about anything else.

Her eyes were so indifferent. Although what was happening in front of her would probably shock the entire martial arts world if it were spread out, in her eyes, it seemed like just a farce.

A farce that was not worth her interest.

Feng Qing looked at Chu Changzui, furious. If it happened to her, her mother would have beaten her brains out long ago.

She had to be strong and not be brainwashed by feudal and superstitious people!

It was a waste of her trying so hard to persuade him not to be controlled!

This man looked like he couldn't even get out of the palm of his elders, so why should she be afraid of him? Would she be happy to be forced to do this and that by him?

Feng Qing got even angrier when she thought about it.

When she got angry, her eyes got even more fierce.

It was also her fault that she was not very eloquent, so when she wanted to persuade him that day, she couldn't utter a few words for a long time, and could only sit there and get angry.

But today is different.

Because today, she had a cheat sheet.

Feng Qing felt a little relieved, and she glanced at the cheat sheet hidden in the palm of her left hand.

Fortunately, she had a script. Even if she was reading it, she had to read it with a little intonation, and it would be better to read it in a broadcasting tone, otherwise it would feel like a waste of the script.

She thought her movements were quite small, even smaller than when she was asked a question in class and peeked at her deskmate's answer, but... what she didn't know was that the people in front of her were a group of martial artists who could kill a fly with a sword, and their eyesight was extraordinary.

The movement that was very small in Feng Qing's eyes was as clear as it could be in the eyes of this group of people.

Therefore, in the eyes of this group of people in front of them, they saw the shopkeeper lower his head, glanced at his left hand, and then suddenly smiled.

Then, at this moment...

the sky and the earth changed color.

...

The countless lines seemed to be forcibly pulled, and suddenly the chaotic state became silent.

At that moment, the people present suspected that they had lost their five senses.

Their hearing, vision and even touch seemed to be frozen in an instant.

And then in this freezing state...

the wind suddenly became stronger.

Before the shopkeeper stretched out his hand, the surrounding destiny branches were just shaking slightly.

But when the shopkeeper stretched out his hand, everything changed.

After this silence continued for a while, those lines suddenly went crazy and began to gather towards the shopkeeper.

They were all located... in the shopkeeper's hand.

And at this moment, the shopkeeper gently closed his hand again.

She looked up at everyone, then a slightly sarcastic smile appeared on her face.

Chu Changzui was shaking with fear as he watched.

He suddenly realized that he finally understood what the shopkeeper meant by that day's words.

It was a very simple literal meaning. It

was so simple, yet so difficult.

"Belief in fate is the most ridiculous thing in the world."

"And in my opinion, it is the stupidest thing."

The wind around was getting stronger and stronger, blowing up all the fallen leaves on the ground and dispersing the last dark cloud in the sky.

The moon rose again.

Chu Changzui looked at the shopkeeper in front of him with difficulty.

He felt that he might never forget this scene in his life... a scene that he might only see once in his life.

"Only confused people will believe in this kind of thing, and people are willing to be controlled by it, but... when you think about it carefully, isn't this a little ridiculous?"

The dark cloud that was blown away in the sky was just like the one in Chu Changzui's heart at this moment.

Confused people...will only believe in this thing?

Chu Changzui was stunned.

He entered Guigu Gate at the age of three, and has been a genius that the world has admired since he could remember. Everyone said that he was one of the most powerful people in the world.

But no one has ever said such words to him.

He has never thought of rebelling against the way of heaven.

The way of heaven... The way of heaven...

What kind of person would think of rebelling against it!

And what kind of person would have such full confidence!

Chu Changzui felt that his three views had collapsed.

Of course, as an ancient man, Chu Changzui might not necessarily understand what the three views are.

His feeling now was one of shock and trance, just like a primitive man living on the earth, who had never thought that the earth under his feet was round, but was suddenly lifted into outer space to overlook the earth. Is

there anyone in this world who can resist the way of heaven?

However, what happened in the next second had completely shocked Chu Changzui to the point that he forgot what had happened before.

He clearly saw that the shopkeeper's hand was just casually placed, but the surrounding silk threads had been grasped by her.

They... were like captured moths that could not escape, but they were like pets begging for mercy, entwining around her little finger and acting coquettishly.

As he watched, Chu Changzui swallowed his saliva.

Wait, these silk threads are actually acting... coquettishly like the shopkeeper?

Or are they... begging for mercy?

Why are these lines so afraid of the shopkeeper?

Chu Changzui looked at Feng Qing in shock.

Even with this scene in front of him, the shopkeeper still had an indifferent look on his face.

A person who did not believe in the Way of Heaven at all, a person who had never succumbed to the Way of Heaven.

At this time, Chu Changzui realized why the shopkeeper spoke to him in that tone that day.

She did not believe in the Way of Heaven, because she had always been going against the Way of Heaven.

Others were trying every means to comprehend the Way of Heaven, but she regarded them as little clowns.

How arrogant, how terrible, how...

makes people want to tremble.

At that moment, when Chu Changzui looked at the shopkeeper's eyes, there was no longer a look of shock, but an indescribable enthusiasm.

So what the shopkeeper said... was actually what he meant?

At that moment, Chu Changzui even felt as if he had been enlightened.

This sudden enlightenment even made him forget the pain in his body, and he was deeply shocked.

The man in front of him was actually someone who dared to despise the way of heaven.

Chu Changzui even had a strange intuition, which was a strong intuition that he had never had in all his years of fortune-telling.

——The shopkeeper... seemed to be able to do everything.

Chu Changzui has been in the martial arts world for so many years, and he has met many people and masters. Among them, there are those who dominate the martial arts world in some aspects like Li Guxing, and there are also those who are as scheming as him, but... he has never seen anyone like the shopkeeper.

She is really the most terrifying person Chu Changzui has ever seen.

So terrifying... that Chu Changzui feels that he has been firmly controlled by the shopkeeper.

...

Feng Qing nervously started with her own plain words mixed with cheat sheets.

She had no idea what was going on, and Chu Changzui wrapped himself up very tightly, so she couldn't see the shocked expression on his face.

In her eyes, the people in front of her just suddenly turned their heads and looked at her.

Was it because her sudden appearance was a little too strange?

Hiss... That's right. After all, there are not many people like her who meddle in other people's business these days. It's good enough that this group of people didn't scold her on the spot as "lunatic, who are you?". It's simply impossible to expect this group of people to talk to her.

The thought made her even more panicked.

It was precisely because of this that Feng Qing didn't feel the weird atmosphere in the scene at all.

She looked down at the cheat sheet in her palm again, [We must curb the trend of incorporating feudal superstition into TV dramas, and subtly influence the audience to create a good atmosphere.]

Well... forget it, this sentence doesn't seem to be suitable to say now, let's skip it and change to the next one.

"Do you understand what I mean now?" Feng Qing looked at Chu Changzui.

Chu Changzui was still confused.

He felt that he understood, but it seemed that he did not understand at all.

He only knew one thing.

...The shopkeeper was so strong that he was not a human being.

At this time, the shopkeeper looked at her hand and suddenly said something with a smile.

She was holding a bunch of flying tangled wires in her hand.

"Instead of believing in the illusory destiny, it is better to believe in yourself."

On that pretty face, there was an arrogant smile, which shocked everyone around him and made them speechless.

"Are you right?"