Who could have imagined that the flame of hope would be transformed into a vessel after it died?
There was no one, except the flame of hope.
When He learned of His divine identity, He knew that He must possess a vessel of destiny, but He could never produce that thing. At that time, He guessed that the vessel was very likely His body.
Only when hope is truly shattered will the changes abandoned by fate return to the right path of fate, be accepted by fate again, and become a vessel of fate.
This was the last bit of help He could offer Cheng Shi.
Faced with that dilemma, the flame of hope offered its own answer: between Cheng Shi and the world, it chose Cheng Shi.
No, it should be said that he did not choose a particular individual, but a spark that resisted fate from beginning to end and held hope from start to finish!
Just like Him, even though He was abandoned by fate, He still had hope!
Cheng Shi looked at the floating "Fate" container in front of him and tears streamed down his face.
He understood what the Candlelight Man meant; the other party wanted him to use this container, in his established capacity, to try to petition the Covenant for the authority to succeed to Destiny.
Compared to false deception, the destiny of this world is undoubtedly the most righteous deity.
Whether this recognition can be accepted by the Convention and truly become power in Cheng Shi's hands remains to be seen.
But even in this uncertain situation, the flame of hope resolutely chose to entrust this last hope to Cheng Shi, which shows that anyone whose life is related to fate likes to gamble, and right now, it is a last-ditch effort for life and death!
From the emergence of the flame of hope to its fading away, He never looked directly at the Outer God, ignoring the "Destiny" that did not belong to the current world. The Outer God "Destiny" remained silent, silently observing everything the other did, without interfering or commenting.
His cold gaze remained unchanged, and the spinning spiral did not stop. His indifference was as always, as if he was certain that everything they had done was meaningless.
Even so, even if there was no hope at all, Cheng Shi did not want the flame of hope to die in vain. He could not let everyone down again, especially not let everyone's lives down again. So his eyes instantly became resolute. He grasped the container of [Destiny] in front of him, felt the surging [Destiny] energy on it that he had never felt before, and once again spoke those words to the void.
This time, however, [deception] has been replaced by [fate].
"I, the Walker of Nothingness, the Mandate of Fate, Cheng Shi, request to succeed the fallen deity... the authority of Fate, under the witness of Justice (Order)!"
This was no longer a shout, nor was it hysteria. Cheng Shi's tone was calm, as calm as if he had seen something he had left behind on the roadside and then bent down to pick it up. That was all.
The Outer God [Fate]'s gaze grew even colder in response.
Knowing why Destiny died, He was certain that the established order could not succeed Destiny's authority. Moreover, the Destiny of this world also reveres the established order. Even if He still had attachments after His death, those attachments should have been to uphold the purity of the offerings and prevent them from being contaminated, rather than using His authority to distance the established order from the established order!
"Don't struggle in vain. Fate is dead and can no longer protect you."
You were never a messenger of fate. The flame of hope may have had the chance to inherit everything from fate, but it entrusted hope to you...
Unfortunately, His hope was shattered, just like His life.
And you, my believer, recognizing reality and embarking on the path you should take is the best thing you can do for them.
Otherwise, the curtain of time will only grow ever brighter, and you will be left to chew on this pain alone on the predetermined path.
As he spoke, his cold eyes turned to An Mingyu beside Cheng Shi. Clearly, this prophet, who had been repeatedly abandoned by fate, was about to face the end of his prophecy.
Cheng Shi was enraged. He gripped the container tightly and said, word by word, "Without justice (order), whether I can inherit power is not up to you!"
"I may not have the final say, but does He have the final say?"
He broke the rules of the "Covenant" himself, and convened a farcical meeting of the Covenant of the Gods under a grand pretext. Did he really think that just because He is the framework of the "Covenant," He can ignore the "Covenant" and cause the fairness to be unbalanced?
He can't come, and it's even unknown how long he'll live!
The moment the words left his mouth, the void changed!
"!!!"
Amidst the stunned silence of the enormous skull, the bewilderment in the cold eyes, and Cheng Shi's ecstatic anticipation, a scale constructed of starlight suddenly appeared before everyone's eyes.
The sound of "order" resounds once more throughout the universe, and the brilliance of the stars paints the void with dazzling splendor.
Justice (order) has come; He has come in response to the covenant, bearing divine authority!
The Outer God [Fate]'s eyes swirled, unable to understand why [Justice (Order)] had descended upon this place. Even if Cheng Shi was predetermined, even if the original [Fate] favored Cheng Shi without any reason, Cheng Shi was not the messenger at all, and he had no right to inherit the authority!
The Outer God [Fate] can only be understood as [Justice (Order)]. For the last shred of face of the universe, and to retaliate against himself for turning [Chaos] into [Order], he did not hesitate to deviate from the rules of the [Covenant], taking a desperate gamble to impose authority on the established order.
He absolutely could not accept this lose-lose situation of contaminating the offerings, so in an instant, the void boiled and a storm raged.
The biting wind from the deep void almost froze everything in front of them, and the dim, iridescent light bent the scales of the brilliant balance, locking them firmly in the darkness of the void.
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