The fire mage from the game world

“The fortunes of the strong are powerful. This doesn't mean every strong person is lucky, but rather that the fortunes of the strong are more difficult to influence compared to the weak.”

“If these ghosts are truly manifestations of my luck, does each battle they fight, each death they suffer, signify a weakening of my fortune?”

Without special means, ordinary people cannot see fortune, nor do they know whether their current luck is good or bad.

The Celestial Tribulation allows one to visualize fortune by making oneself unlucky.

“What I need is to understand the essence of these ghosts.”

If the deduction is correct, these ghosts fighting openly will not bring him any influence.

Yet, a phrase emerged in Chen Yi's mind.

High ambition, paper-thin fate.

So, he couldn't kill them; instead, he had to prevent the ghosts from dying.

Chen Yi dispelled the spell in his hand and then tried to sense the malice from the world, the root cause of this malice, and the essence of these ghosts.

Whenever one ghost fell into a disadvantage, facing death.

Chen Yi would intervene.

The spell imbued with [Burning Simulation] could frighten the ghosts and give the dying ghosts time to breathe.

Chen Yi inexplicably thought;

When I really prepare to sell this spell in the future, I must sell it for a higher price, otherwise, it would be a bit of a loss.

But it didn't seem right.

Others don't have Chen Yi's deep understanding of burning, and this spell won't exert much power in their hands.

Chen Yi observed these ghosts for two days while intervening in this way.

During this period, there were constant inexplicable attacks, but they couldn't break through his defenses.

At first, they couldn't break through his defenses, but as his luck continued to decrease, a new change occurred.

An ordinary chopstick broke through Chen Yi's skin, and a few specks of crimson appeared.

“Huh?”

That chopstick carried a strange power, directly causing true damage.

Just like Chen Yi, who carries [God's Lament], would inflict an additional 30% true damage on enemies with luck below 1.

The world's malice was further revealed.

And it was impossible to guard against.

Day 5;

Only two ghosts still had the strength to fight; the remaining ghosts were floating in the air, half-dead, because they had no strength left.

Chen Yi crushed an epic-quality Ember Remnant without a word, continuing to observe and comprehend.

He didn't know how the Ember Remnant in his hand suddenly deteriorated; what poured into his body was not vitality but a power of death.

Chen Yi's lips twitched; he was used to it.

Day 7;

With Chen Yi favoring one side, not a single ghost died.

But they were all half-dead.

Chen Yi pulled out the steel bar from his chest; it was finally over.

God knows what kind of life he had been living these past few days.

A strong person who could fight against the Four Signs of Celestial Decay almost died in a small room.

Fortunately, he finally understood what fortune was.

Fortune is the upcoming encounters and trends; it seems illusory but actually exists.

Even a strong person who cultivates time wouldn't dare to say that they have seen through the past and know the future.

And fortune is a possibility.

An existence with enough luck can choose the future they want.

“Countless fortunes make up fate.”

Chen Yi is not a mage specializing in fate and luck, so he can only understand it to this extent.

Even in the eyes of mages, luck and misfortune are metaphysics.

This kind of thing doesn't have elemental particles.

It's more like a quantum state.

You think it exists, and it does; you think it doesn't exist, and it doesn't.

Chen Yi's understanding allowed Chen Yi to touch the fortune that had turned into ghosts.

Chen Yi combined these ghosts together, and as he guessed, these ghosts had a tendency to merge, trying to form something.

However, it seemed to lack something, and the conditions for fusion couldn't be met.

Soon, Chen Yi received information transmitted from the dark.

It didn't know where it came from, but he just knew, like the instinct of life.

Chen Yi looked strange: “The calamity of being extorted...?”

That's right; this is the information Chen Yi sensed.

In this day and age, someone dares to extort Chen Yi's money?

Before Chen Yi could think more.

He saw a scavenger flying in, presumably kicked in by someone.

The first thing this person did when he got up was not to look at who was nearby but to hurriedly check the thing in his hand.

A torn voucher.

“It's over, it's over; this is the payment.”

“It's all your fault! Why did you dismantle your home for no reason? Now my voucher is...”

Chen Yi interrupted him: “How much money?”

“Ah…”

Chen Yi's unconventional approach stunned the person: “You… what do you know? This is a payment worth a Primal Crystal, it's my savings of 3 years!”

Chen Yi wanted to say that he had it, but Chen Yi didn't have it on hand.

“Bi Jiu!”

Bi Jiu poked his head out from the roof of another house: “Huh?”

“Lend me a Primal Crystal.”

Bi Jiu looked at Chen Yi with disdain, the first time he had seen a strong person in such a miserable state.

After Bi Jiu finished despising him, he spread his hands: “I don't have it either.”

Although I don't have it either, it doesn't stop me from despising you.

After all, our identities are different.

You are the supreme commander of the player faction, and I am just a stinky mercenary.

It's not strange for a mercenary to have no money… right.

In the end, Chen Yi borrowed it from Qiuka.

Charizards like shiny copper coins.

Qiuka collects crystals, such as Primal Crystals and Turbid Mental Crystals.

Spending money to avoid disaster.

The scavenger looked at Chen Yi as if he were an idiot, then left happily.

At this moment, Chen Yi's calamity was completed.

Chen Yi carefully pondered this so-called calamity of being extorted; after a long time, he didn't see anything special, but it was just such an ordinary step that allowed him to cross the final calamity.

The only price to pay was a mere Primal Crystal.

At this moment, in the River of Fate, Chen Yi's fate was flashing.

Although Chen Yi's fate is hidden by the game world, thus largely exempting him from divination, prediction, and fate-related abilities, it still fluctuates in the River of Fate.

“The path of fortune is indeed peculiar; this may have a certain relationship with each person's fate.”

“When the calamity will befall is probably also greatly related to the ghosts.”

“Bi Jiu said that his calamity waited for more than 90 years to arrive.”

“None of the ghosts representing my fortune died, so the calamity came so quickly.”

All the ghosts in Chen Yi's hand merged together under the influence of fate, and finally turned into a phantom of a silver chess piece. The phantom was slowly turning into a solid body, and the fate in the River of Fate was turning into a phantom.

Chen Yi saw this silver chess piece for the first time, but Chen Yi just knew what the thing in his hand was.

His fate!

His body, no, the individual life belonging to Chen Yi, instinctively craved this chess piece.

The chess piece that turned into a solid body entered Chen Yi's body, the third tribulation ended, and luck returned to normal.

“I see, this is the ultimate purpose of the third tribulation.”

“My fate in the River of Fate has descended, leaving only a phantom in fate. Although I can't completely get rid of fate, it minimizes the impact of fate.”

“When I have true attributes to support the spiritual body, it can be called fate hidden!”

“And reclaiming one's fate is also a kind of life completion, one of the foundations for leaping towards a 7th-order life.”

The third tribulation of Celestial Decay does not greatly improve strength, but it is a very crucial step in achieving 7th order. It represents the perfection of life.