Altering Fate

"The death of a mortal is as insignificant as the scattering of a speck of dust in the universe. It doesn't deserve a reaction from you, much less this level of sorrow."

The illusory voice resounded in the colorless world. "Your soul has crumbled, and I have awakened. This cycle has failed, and our stainless sacred body will not be complete."

"No matter. There is no gain, but there is no loss either. You may as well reawaken your will now, experience this mortal plane as your mortal self, and postpone the completion of your reincarnation to the next life."

"Now, let our wills merge together once more. When you have returned to your true self, this insignificant memory will be buried in a universe of other memories. You won't feel any sadness toward his death any longer."

"No… No!!"

The Ancestral Will approached, but what she got was firm rejection.

Xiao Lingxi subconsciously pulled away from her own Will. The emotions she radiated were fear and determination.

She was the Ancestral Will before this life after all. Her current self couldn't comprehend it, but she could still vaguely sense the kind of existence she was. That was why she was afraid. She was afraid that she would treat her identity as Xiao Lingxi and even the person she cherished the most, Xiao Che as nothing if she accepted her.

"Save him… save him… save him…"

She pleaded in a whisper again and again. She pleaded with her other self to save Yun Che.

A long sigh resounded in the colorless world.

"How is my (your) will so powerful despite being a newborn…"

"Once upon a time, I (you) was an existence who overlooked everything and everyone in the world. The extraordinary emotions of mortals have always been interesting to see, but that was all. To think… that my (your) emotions would burn this bright when I (you) was reborn as a mortal…"

"Save him… please save him!" She kept repeating the same thing again and again. "You can save him… you definitely have a way to save him!"

"The cycle of life and death is difficult to defy. It is one of the basic laws I (you) have established during the creation of the world. That being said, there is some wriggle room to this law."

"I (You) have not completed our reincarnation, so I (you) cannot reverse his death directly. However, I (you) can reverse the wheel of time of this world to the point where he is still alive."

"This way, it will be as if he has never died in the first place, thus circumventing the laws I (you) have put in place."

"However, you (I) should be well aware of the price of doing so."

"It doesn't matter, nothing matters anymore…" The girl muttered while shaking her head strongly. Her soul was still in shambles, and it was incapable of fitting anything besides the desire and determination to save Yun Che. "I just want him to come back to life… I just want my Little Che to come back to life."

"Your will is my will, especially since the will sitting in your (my) mind is the strongest will you (I) have ever had since the beginning of your (my) existence. I won't be able to defy it."

"You (I) are free to act as you wish without care for the consequences, but you must be aware that he is just a mortal; an incredibly fragile mortal even by mortal standards. He is almost incapable of weathering any danger as long as he is stuck with a body that is unable to cultivate."

"Unless he is protected by sufficient power, anyone can drive him into a dead end just like today."

Xiao Lingxi: "..."

"You may be able to save him today, but are you really going to save him again, and again, and again? Every time you use this method to save him, your already incomplete Sacred Body of Nothingness will be damaged more and more, not to mention that the amount of damage done will only increase with each repetition."

"Moreover, he won't live to see his one hundredth birthday given the state of his body. What will you do then?"

The girl's eyes grew unfocused once more. However, a strange divine light gathered in her pupils almost instantly.

"In that case, give him part of your (my) Sacred Body of Nothingness. Give him the power… to protect himself from anything."

"Ai—" Yet another long sigh resounded throughout the colorless world before the voice continued. "The Sacred Body is born from the nothingness of Primal Chaos. It is also the Ancestral Body that only belongs to I (you). To grant even a sliver of it to a mere mortal? What a ridiculous notion this is."

"However, you (I) can only obey what you (I) desire."

"Well… it is possible to grant him a Sacred Body of the mortal level, but you should know that my (your) current condition won't even allow me (you) to manifest my (your) strength, much less gift him my (your) powers directly."

"Even if it can be done… he still doesn't have the profound veins to bear our power, or any power at all. Without power, anyone can take his life whether he has a Sacred Body or not. In that sense, the only good the Sacred Body will do for him is to extend his lifespan."

Xiao Lingxi whispered while staring at the black nothingness in front of her. "There exists countless lives and endless fates in this world… why must his fate be so unfair?"

"He was born a cripple, scorned and treated with indifference because of his disability, and now he was killed when he was but a young man…? Why must my Little Che suffer such a fate!?"

A long silence later, the voice asked, "You (I)... wish to rewrite his fate?"

"He will have a Sacred Body, and his fate will be rewritten!"

Her voice sounded unusually low and slow. She seemed to be awakening her memories, because no one had never seen such eyes on Xiao Lingxi until now.

Not to mention that the declaration she made was something only the Ancestral God herself possessed the right to declare.

"The Sacred Body will grant him the ability to accept any form of power including the laws of nothingness that a mortal should never be able to contact. He will gain power beyond this maximum limit of this godless world in just a very short time."

"Altering his fate will ensure that he will always survive tribulations no matter how dire they are. He will be blessed with a luck so great that all of the world's greatest opportunities and fortunes will fall on him alone…"

"You (I) can do it… I know that you (I) can do it."

The voice responded, "Fate is the one thing no one should ever interfere with. It is one of the most basic, but most important laws I (you) have established since the creation of the universe."