I will teach you how to cultivate immortality

Chapter 416 The Power of Destiny (23)

"Supernatural powers are indeed an accelerator of civilization."

After glancing at the incantations and talismans on the Thousand-Mile Transmission Talisman, Li Boyang said with such certainty.

The existence of these proverbs and incantations is like an open-book exam for a nascent civilization.

As a truly high-dimensional script, the existence of proverbs and incantations may not be as significant as the legendary "theory of everything," "unified field theory," and "grand unification theory."

However, the various mathematical formulas and physical theorems contained therein are the cornerstones that drive the continuous progress of basic disciplines such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry.

For any civilization, these are ultimate conclusions that would take countless years to deduce.

However, in this mythological era, a thousand years ago, Wu Yao had already glimpsed these answers through the "Divine Power of Destiny".

Even more absurdly, due to the textual characteristics of proverbs and incantations.

While practitioners reverse-engineer these formulas and theorems, they are often able to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying principles and patterns.

Problems like those caused by language barriers that create comprehension barriers simply don't exist in proverbs and incantations.

"You've said that countless times, I'm tired of hearing it."

She decisively stopped practicing her fist techniques and casually summoned a cloud to sit down.

"Speaking of which, what are your plans regarding that little girl who's been living in your house all this time?"

"Your parents have long treated her like their own daughter..."

"If you decide to send her away, you have to prepare early."

Li Boyang raised an eyebrow slightly in surprise and asked in return, feigning astonishment.

"You mean Xiao Xi?"

"She's so well-behaved and obedient, how could I possibly bear to send her away?"

Rolling her eyes in annoyance, Xi Luo felt that she would be driven to death by Li Boyang sooner or later.

By now, Xi Luo no longer expects to outlive Li Boyang and inherit those wondrous magical treasures from him.

Xi Luo's life goal became to avoid being angered by the other party even once, and to live one more day.

"I hate your 'pretending to be stupid' personality."

“That girl may be obedient, but she is also very dangerous, not much less so than Lu Huaijin.”

In Xi Luo's mind, although Lu Huaijin was Li Boyang's apprentice, he was also a very dangerous guy.

This danger does not lie in Lu Huaijin's strength, but rather in the other party's abilities and personality traits.

As the half-body of the Guhuoniao, he also cultivated the extremely bizarre "Six Desires Heavenly Demon Chapter".

Xi Luo wouldn't be surprised if Lu Huaijin suddenly went berserk and committed some act of murdering his master.

More importantly, as Lu Huaijin has grown up over the years and gradually become more independent, he has also become more capable of handling things on his own.

Her reputation in the Hundred Mountains region has also started to go astray.

Labels such as evil, cold-blooded, and paranoid have become the consensus among the spirits and gods who are hostile to him.

The fact that Xi Luo would compare the well-behaved Xiao Xi to Lu Huaijin shows how much she fears him.

“She’s different from Lu Yatou.”

Li Boyang saw through Xi Luo's thoughts at a glance, but simply shook his head.

Xiao Xi is the mixed-race demigod that E Tu brought from Gao Village Town five years ago.

She was born with snake hair and a snake tail, and she also had a third eye open between her eyebrows. She was once so weak that she almost died.

It was thanks to Li Boyang's costless feeding of elixirs and the meticulous care of Li Yu and Chen Yun that this demigod, a hybrid of human and divine blood, was able to grow up safely.

"It's different? What's different?"

"Is it that uncontrollable prophetic ability?" Xi Luo was telling the truth, compared to the naturally evil Lu Huaijin.

Xiao Xi's danger lies entirely in the fact that she has no control over her abilities.

It awakened the ability to petrify living beings shortly after birth.

In the years that followed, the half-human demigod repeatedly defied everyone's expectations, displaying all sorts of mysterious and bizarre talents.

Until a year ago, Xiaoxi suddenly gained the ability to foresee the future.

If Li Boyang hadn't popularized divination methods long ago, making divination a basic skill in the mountains and rivers of Baidi, it would have been different.

Xiao Xi's tendency to predict disasters and deaths from time to time is enough to instill fear and panic in most people.

Most uninformed people would rather believe that Xiao Xi was not making a prophecy, but a curse.

"So you know it's a prophetic ability?"

"If it's not a curse, what's there to worry about?"

Before Xi Luo could refute him, Li Boyang went a step further.

"Xiao Xi's prophetic abilities did not come from her divine father, but from her mortal mother..."

"Or to be more precise, that celestial eye that can only see the future came from the witch of Huaijiang."

With a single sentence, Li Boyang shut Xi Luo down. Seeing her speechless expression, he continued.

"Xiao Xi's father is a god of curses, so she was born with an extraordinary talent for cursing."

"But prophecy is not a curse, but a means of directly discerning the future that is more effective than divination."

Divination is a form of prediction, a kind of fortune telling based on big data.

However, prophecy involves directly seeing the future and then recounting what one has seen.

Both have their advantages and disadvantages, and they complement each other.

After all, prophecies only show a fragment of a future moment, not the whole story.

If the details of cause and effect are not clearly understood, it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that "the actions taken to avoid this outcome actually become the cause of this outcome."

"The profound wisdom that reveals one's destiny in past lives—that is, the knowledge of past lives."

"In a sense, Xiaoxi's 'predictive ability' is actually a simplified version of your sister's 'divine ability'."

After gazing intently at Xi Luo for a long time, Li Boyang succinctly revealed the root cause of her dislike for Xiao Xi.

"She doesn't have your sister's lingering soul, nor is she your sister's substitute."

"She was a new life born by chance, influenced by a piece of Soul Jade."

"All of this was caused by Xiaoxi's snake god father, and has nothing to do with her."

Xi Luo kept saying that she was different from Shi Tianjun, and that she had completely accepted her sister's death.

But when the moment actually came, Xi Luo couldn't suppress the regret and hope in her heart.

"Xi Luo, I don't know when you discovered this."

"But I must tell you that what you said before was absolutely right, the Huaijiang witch is already dead."

"This is the answer confirmed by the Heavenly Fate Bone Armor; she cannot come back to life."

Li Boyang slowly stood up and walked to Xi Luo's side, speaking softly.

"Let's go! Let's go see Lord Eclipse."

“My gut feeling tells me that if I don’t go to see him soon, he’s probably going to cause some trouble again.”

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(End of this chapter)