Artifact of Fate (2)

"Xia Yuanba's talent originated from his mother, the woman named 'Dong Xue' by Xia Hongyi, but was really a God Realm woman named Yue Wugou. Her Divine Stainless Body is a miracle in the current universe, and she would've had a great future if not for the twist of fate that caused her to fall to this small city and made her the wife of the mortal, Xia Hongyi."

"My (your) current strength is insufficient to create life out of nothing. For the 'Artifact of Fate' to subsume Xia Yuanba's primordial energy perfectly, her blood must take after Xia Yuanba's mother, Yue Wugou. As for the father…"

A short pause later, the voice continued, "Xia Hongyi is ultimately just mortal. His bloodline is too weak and murky. If the Artifact of Fate were to be born from his blood, it will only diminish the energy of the primordial universe she has subsumed."

"If it wasn't for her sorrowful fate, Yue Wugou would never have been separated from her original lover, the Moon God Emperor Yue Wuya. He possesses one of the more revered bloodlines of the current universe, the Moon God bloodline. His blood will be an excellent choice to create the Artifact of Fate."

So Xia Qingyue is Yue Wuya's daughter even though it was Xia Hongyi who impregnated Yue Wugou...

"In a sense, the creation of the Artifact of Fate will fulfill their lifelong wish, even if the method is most questionable."

"The 'Artifact of Fate' will be born in Floating Cloud City. To her knowledge, she is the daughter of Xia Hongyi and Yue Wugou. However, she will feel a bloodline resonance far stronger than is normal when she is close to the blood she is created from."

"If one day she encounters Yue Wuya, the resulting bloodline resonance may expose the truth. Hopefully, the distance between these two worlds is far enough that it won't happen too soon."

"The northern Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace is a sect left behind by a denizen of the God Realm. It will be the Artifact of Fate's sect so that it may grant them the opportunity to make contact with the higher plane."

The shape of the "Artifact of Fate" was already formed while the voice was speaking.

She would be the daughter of Yue Wugou and Yue Wuya. She would believe that Xia Hongyi was her father and become a disciple of Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace. She would steal Xia Yuanba's energy of the primordial universe as her own and marry Yun Che as his wife…

"She will believe that Xia Hongyi is her father, so her surname will be Xia as a matter of course."

"Xia Hongyi is a man of single-minded love, and his love for Yue Wugou has never faded even though she has been gone from his life for many years. In that case, the Artifact of Fate shall be named…"

"Xia Qingyue (Xia's Love For The Moon)."

"Xia Qingyue…" The girl whispered the name. "She will protect Little Che well… right?"

"There is no such thing as absolution even for an Artifact of Fate. I (you) may have created her, but I (you) have no control over what she ultimately becomes. He and her final futures are even more unpredictable."

"However…"

"He will be blessed by great luck as long as the Chain of Fate remains unbroken. He will keep obtaining fortune most people cannot even dream of having, and combine that with his Sacred Body of Nothingness, he will reach the point where he surpasses every living being in the universe in a very short amount of time."

"She, on the other hand…"

"Fate automatically seeks balance, and since they are tied together by the Chain of Fate, his great fortune will be her great misfortune. Everything she cares about shall suffer the cruelest of fates."

"As a sister, her sibling will face the threat of death again and again."

"As a disciple, her sect will face the threat of destruction."

"As a daughter, her parents will meet a terrible end."

"As a parent, her children will die an early death."

"And as a ruler, the land she governs will dissolve into dust."

"Her misfortune is Xiao Che's fortune. That is how the Chain of Fate is. That isn't all. She is a creation of nothingness, so it is only a matter of time before she sees through the veil and realizes the truth of her being."

"He may have grown to the point where he no longer needs the 'Artifact of Fate' to protect him, but she will never be able to forgive herself. She may choose to end her life so that misfortune won't befall those she cares for any longer."

"An unimaginable cost, and the cruelest Chain of Fate… will you still do this?"

This was her last time asking.

The light in Xiao Lingxi's eyes remained unchanged. She said slowly and firmly, "The memories of the Ancestral God seem so close yet so far. Therefore, I cannot ascertain what I would've done as her. But right now, I will save him… even if I have to bury the entire world to do it."

"This is the final Will, the never-changing Will." The voice grew distant, and cracks began appearing on the pitch-black world. "At the cost of six hundred cycles of samsara, your (my) Will shall be done.

This was the biggest plot twist the dead man witnessed while reading the novel. To think all this had happened behind the scenes. And no one had noticed the fact that time itself had been tampered with on multiple occasions. Then again, no one would've noticed anything when time itself was frozen.

While the man was lost in his thoughts, the scene unfolding in front of him suddenly froze.

"Hm?"

The Ancestral God's voice stopped, Xiao Lingxi's expression was frozen as if it was a video and someone had paused it. What's this? Why did it stop? 

"Continue," the man voiced out and scene resumed once again.

"I will not remember any of this and will remain as Xiao Lingxi and only Xiao Lingxi in this lifetime. Nothing shall taint my identity and feelings until I meet the end of my life." 

"Stop," the man voiced out and the world froze. A curious thought appeared upon seeing this, so he decided to experiment.

"Go back," his voice rang in the empty space and the scene resumed in reverse in front of the eyes. All the words shared between the two played once again in reverse until the Ancestral God's first interaction with Xiao Lingxi.

"Stop," he said and the scene paused again, "I can easily go through these scenes but can I manipulate them?" he questioned with a furrow of his brows.

As if responding to his question, a blue translucent panel appeared in front of him. It had few tabs and in the middle of the panel were controls to pause, resume, rewind and skip the scene. This tab was the "control" tab. The only other tab was called "Fate". Curious, he pressed the Fate tab and what he saw completely blew his mind.

"This..." he breathed in deeply, "Who has the power to do something like this?!"