All of it made Xu Qing think about the True God he had imprisoned in the Green Heaven....0

To mortals, fate was a mysterious thing that could hardly be comprehended. But to most cultivators who walked a path that defied heaven, there was a point in life in which they had to bow their head to fate. When that happened, they would smile bitterly... and admit that they accepted fate. That was just the helplessness of life. It was a way to add meaning to fickle reality. There was no point in fighting it. It was better to just acclimate to how things worked.0

Unfortunately... some living things, for instance gods or immortals, were higher forms of existence. To them, fate was not something mysterious. Nor was it something unperceivable. They could see the evidence of fate, and could even lift the veil covering it. Some could even tamper with it, making certain things uncertain, or uncertain things certain.0

Back in the Fifth Star Ring, there had been a very famous god known as the god of pain! Bimo Si! Though hē was not a God Lord, hīs godly authority was special. In fact, it was so special that, if hē encountered a God Lord in hīs heyday, that God Lord would treat hīm with honor.1

That was because hīs illusions contained truth! That was why, when hē encountered Xu Qing during hīs attempted return, the unleashing of hīs godly authority caused certain things to change.1

Right now, the fear within Xu Qing was like the wings of fate flapping. What he had sensed just now, other than something similar...0