Fate

For a long time, the old man was shocked. He didn't think that the book he had picked up during one of his journey to be a chaos cultivation technique!

"A–Are y–you sure that's what it says?" The old man wanted confirmation.

Chen HaoYu nodded and said it again, "Sevenfold Chaos Technique"

Hearing it the second time, the old man took a deep breath and sighed, "Now that I know about it. I want to take it back but haha without you, I wouldn't even know that this a chaos cultivation technique..."

Seeing this, Chen HaoYu said, "Umm, you could've just take it back if you wanted it right?" Chen HaoYu didn't want to give it back too but he knew that this did not belong to him and that it was the old man who had gotten this book first so it was only right for the old man to take it back and even if that's not it, the old man is surely powerful enough to beat Chen HaoYu and forcefully take the book.

The old man smiled, "I know what you're thinking but I won't take it back because I believed that this book is fated to be with you. Do you know that in cultivation there is a saying?"

"What is it?"

The old man touched the book with reluctant eyes but let it go before saying:

When fate arranges, none can defy.

Perish is the fate of those who disobey.

Blessings come for obedience.

"And then there's another one" the old man continued.

Who can withstand the wrath of the heavens?

Who can outrun the hands of fate?

Who can hide from the vision of the heavens?

"That's why I wouldn't take it back, not because I wanted to but because I know that this book is fated to be with you. Not only that I wouldn't be able to use this anyway." The old man patted Chen HaoYu.

"How do you know that this book is fated to me?" Chen HaoYu understood about fate but what he couldn't understand was how did the old man come to the conclusion that this book is fated with him?

"You're still young, once you've grown and learned more. You will naturally understand. Anyway! I'll be leaving now, I suggest you to cultivate that but also be careful when cultivating it. I don't know how chaos energy works, I won't be able to guide you and I'm pretty sure no one will be able to guide you so you can only do it on your own. But if there are other cultivation problems that doesn't include chaos energy then you can ask me." The old man said before leaving.

Looking at the book and the old man's back, he pondered about this so called fate.

...

That evening, the library was already about to close when Zhao Congming came.

"Hey MengYao! You're closing already?"

Li MengYao answered as she was packing her bag, "Yeah I am! Why are you here?"

"Well I'm looking for HaoYu, I've seen that he works here so I thought that you might know where he lives?"

"I do know where he lives but why are you looking for him? You can just come here in the morning, his shift is in the morning."

"I know but I just want to know where he lives hahaha!"

"No!" Li MengYao firmly shocked her head.

While Li MengYao walked home, Zhao Congming kept pestering her.

Until they've reached Li MengYao house and coincidentally Chen HaoYu just entered his house from his outside walk.

Looking at Chen HaoYu's house that sat next to Li MengYao house, Zhao Congming smiled, "Woah! Don't tell me that you didn't want to say where he lives because your neighbors? Is there something going on between the two of you? Hmm?"

"There's nothing! Now that you know where he lives, why don't you go over?" Li MengYao said as she was about to open her house.

Closing over, Zhao Congming continued with his teasing, "Changing topic ey? Hahaha come on, tell me! Since when did the two of you become together? Have you guys done anything?"

Suddenly, a wet root that makes you feel disgusted envelope Zhao Congming feet and it slowly creep up to him.

"Ah! What's this? Get off!" Zhao Congming tried to shake it off but to no avail. Then he noticed a bluish brown glow emitting from Li MengYao's hand.

Before Zhao Congming could speak, Li MengYao said with a murderous eyes, "Do you believe that if you continue to spout nonsense, you'll be buried alive?"

Sweating, Zhao Congming immediately answered, "I believe! I believe! Please take it off!"

Li MengYao entered her house first before the root went back.

"Phew! Scary, HaoYu I'll pray for you." Zhao Congming still didn't give up in thinking that way and just when he was about to go to Chen HaoYu's house, he found himself stuck in the ground with only his head popped out of the ground.

"Damn it! You could even hear me when I'm just mumbling!" Zhao Congming could only turn his head to looked angrily at Li MengYao's house, only to see the door creaked and Li MengYao popping her head out and then smirked at him before closing again with a bang.

"Ahhh!!! HaoYu!"

Chen HaoYu went out of his house when he heard Zhao Congming shout, only to find Zhao Congming himself stuck in the ground and couldn't help laughing at him.

"Don't laugh at me! Help me up!"

Wiping his tears from laughing hard, Chen HaoYu helped him and asked, "What did you do that you get yourself stuck?"

Good thing that when Zhao Congming was pulled, the soil wasn't hard.

Patting off the dust, Zhao Congming said, "It's because of that MengYao your wife!"

Once again, Zhao Congming suddenly found himself stuck in the ground.

"Who's my wife!" Chen HaoYu angrily said and when he saw Zhao Congming stuck in the ground again, he went and took a basket from his house before covering Zhao Congming's head.

Satisfied, Chen HaoYu went inside the house.

"Ahhhh!!! The two of you are really the same!" Since then Zhao Congming never learned his lesson.