1. Strings of Fate

(School bell chimes)

"In 2 days, summer break will start. I recommend that you kids enroll for summer camp, to assure that no one will slack off during summer. Anyone can approach me in the faculty to sign up before the term ends."

"Class dismissed!"

"Zhao hurry up! we need to be fast or we won't get grandma Wu's sweet mooncakes that will be sold today!" said by the kid beside Huang Zhao who urges him to pack his things fast, Huo Feng.

(rustle.. rustle..)

"No need to rush Feng, you do know the keepers grand daughter right?"

"who, Miss Wei? yeah I do remember her. Her family moved to the city a year ago. Why?"

"Well, she's here and will help grandma Wu the whole summer to tend the shop. I was able to speak with her last night when mother brought me with her to shop, I told her to have some sweets for us in reserve for today's grand reopening."

Huo Feng was dumbstruck knowing that his friend was able to speak with Wu Wei, one of the town's beautiful girls. Then he snapped out of it when he remembered that his friend has a very thick skull when it comes to the opposite gender.

He deeply sighed and said, "Zhao you're still a kid at heart.."

"huh? whose still a kid at heart? it was you who keeps pestering me the whole week since grandma Wu posted that she'll reopen her shop for the summer."

"oh.. right speaking of.. come on hurry up!" Huo Feng did not bother talking any further when he noticed almost everyone has left the room. Huo Feng held unto Huang Zhao's clothes, tugged him all through school hallway, they ran and left the school grounds.

Summer is in the air and all the other kids around has the same excitement that they have, eyes glistening, expecting their summer will have full of fun memories. While running they've heard the other kids talking about what they'll do the whole summer, sharing their soon to be, wonderful adventures.

Even though Huang Zhao told Huo Feng that it would be fine even they don't have make it early, he still urged his friend to run as fast they can to grandma Wu's shop that is over kilometer away from their school.

Huo Feng chose to make a detour so they can get there faster.

Just as they were running, Huang Zhao felt that someone is watching, but when he stopped and looked around but he did not saw anyone. They are currently in a middle of a rice field and no one, besides the two of them are there, but he was so sure of what he have felt. Huo Feng shouted for him to hurry up, he thought nothing of it further and catched up with his friend who still runs like there is no tomorrow.

"Feng! just slow down will you? I can assure you that miss Wei will leave some for us!"

"I don't need candies anymore! I want to see miss Wei and her sweet smile instead!"

"what did you say? slow down will you? those candies won't be going anywhere! we can walk it from here, we're almost there and I'm already freaking tired!" He shouted to his friend that is almost beyond his view.

Huang Zhao still continued running with Huo Feng long past the fields until they can't be seen with the naked eye.

After they left, the air on the field rippled and a rift suddenly appeared, a man whose looks in the ages of 25 with a majestic bearing, floated out of that rift and landed on the spot where Huang Zhao stopped, he lift his hand and multitudes of strings appeared and surrounded the mysterious man. He can see within the strings that it upholds all laws and essence of life with different auras that eminates from each string. He can see life and death and dictate who will live or die from the strings.

Each string is connected to all kinds of beings, whether it's a man or beast as long it has a sprit. He can see varying colors from within and he can judge each being and see their past and future. A being who has a normal lifespan is identified as white with tinges of varying color which has the majority of strings that surrounds him.

Black represents beings near death, Red shows as a being whose very sensitive with their emotions, Orange shows an arrogant being with great ambitions, Yellow for very intelligent or well educated beings, Green for beings that are selfish or self centered, Blue for those who have royalty in blood or beings that are beloved by the heavens and Violet for those beings who has strong willpower and valiant nature.

The strings are identified as karmic strings that encompasses all laws of life through a beings past and future lives.

Besides those white strings others can be seen as silver for cultivators who has yet to reach immortality and gold for beings who have already attained eternity.

But the mysterious man has raised one of it's brows.

What made Huang Zhao's string different is the blue aura with a tinge of violet that eminates on it and inside that aura is a translucent string. A string that can't be identified properly due to it's nature and no one throughout their history has ever explained it's existence. For what they have known so far, beings who has this string can either be an important person or a being that has the ability to destroy everything in it's wake. But no one can tell how long that person can live because it has never showed black in color, even if before that person dies.

"hmm.. that kid was able to feel my presence?" he was momentarily stunned, the man smiled and held on to the karmic string connected to Huang Zhao.

"It's the first time that I've seen a mortal who has a translucent string but it has been a while since I've last visited this world. Maybe this time we'll have a really good show to watch."

"Well it has been a whole chaos cycle since we last came here but in their time it has only been a hundred years", said by another man that suddenly appeared beside the him, who looks like in his middle ages but still good looking as the first man. "Does having a really old age made your life boring and miserable?"

The man with a majestic bearing suddenly frowned. "How about we made it much more entertaining then?" he sneered.

"Crap!"

Then all of a sudden the middle aged man became pale, he forgot that the person beside him does have a vain personality.

Cough! Cough! "I know that we will have a good show this time!" the middle aged man immediately replied then changed the topic "You must remember that Autarch Nuwa originally created this world and hidden it, then a lot of things changed when this world became the heart of this realm when it was remade by the Grand Autarch"

"The quintessence of our chaos verse is nurturing this realm, that is why warriors from this world are special" he continued saying.

While his eyes still following Huang Zhao, the mysterious man was silent for a moment and said.."yes this world might be special to nurture them, but they are still mortals that can be easily broken".

"In this realm I can only see their fate but cannot control them, but nevertheless we can only leave it to them until how long they can survive the trials" he let go of Huang Zhao's karmic string and sighed deeply and he suddenly looked above the world they are in and far beyond the three realms.

A smile can be seen on his face and he said "little brother the fun is about to begin"..

"The thousand year war will soon start"