Chapter 9: Destiny Line Shifts, Rebirth from Death

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In the room, Liang Yi obediently sat cross-legged on the meditation cushion.

Before him stood Fang Ming, with Su Youyi curiously observing the two from the side.

"Close your eyes, concentrate." Fang Zhi's finger pressed against Liang Yi's brow.

Liang Yi obediently did as he was told, curious to know what Fang Zhi might divine, such as information about his origins. However, Liang Yi had quite a bit of faith in his own luck; after all, he was a man who hid under the Goddess of Fortune's skirt.

Fang Zhi's right hand rested motionless on Liang Yi's brow, his left hand began to calculate rapidly. He took the disciple of Chen Hua very seriously—for if anything were to go wrong, that old scoundrel would find another excuse to beat him up.

But the more he calculated, the more something seemed amiss. He discovered that Chen Hua's eldest disciple's life line, according to the Star Chart, was actually a harbinger of death.

"Impossible!" That was Fang Zhi's first thought, because Liang Yi was very much alive before him.

"Has his body been seized?" This was Fang Zhi's second thought, but he immediately dismissed it. As a peak Seventh Realm cultivator specializing in the Divine Soul and Art of Divination, it was impossible for someone to take over a body without him detecting it.

Fang Zhi furrowed his brows slightly, a layer of white mist drifted over him, and his appearance and physique changed to that of another person—a mysterious, handsome young man with deep-set eyes. By this time, he had fully concentrated and put forth all his effort, even lacking the energy to maintain the Illusion Technique.

Su Youyi began to sense that something was not quite right. Was the Sect Master of the Complete Heaven Sect, a Great Cultivator at the pinnacle of his time, needing to exert his full effort just to investigate an ordinary person's situation?

At this time, Fang Zhi's eyes started to shine with starlight, and his left hand even materialized a Celestial Stars chart as he calculated—signs that he had employed the Secret Technique of the Complete Heaven Sect.

After maintaining this state for a while, Fang Zhi's calculation with his left hand gradually slowed down, and the starlight in his eyes receded and became hidden once more. Finally, he retracted his right hand and took a long breath.

"This is too difficult! If I, Fang Zhi, ever divinate for this little rascal again, I'm a dog!" Fang Zhi silently vowed in his mind, finding divining for this ordinary person even more difficult than for a Seventh Realm Great Cultivator, yet the harvest was surprisingly significant, even causing his own bottleneck to slightly loosen.

"Sect Master Fang, how is my elder martial brother?"

Seeing Fang Zhi finally stop, Su Youyi asked worriedly from the side.

Liang Yi, who had opened his eyes, looked eagerly towards Fang Zhi, wanting to know what he had divined.

Fang Zhi took a moment to think before speaking irritably:

"Wouldn't I have figured it out with my personal intervention?"

After saying that, he sat down at a table in the room, with Liang Yi and Su Youyi taking seats opposite him.

"Your situation is extremely special, indeed the strangest life line I've ever seen. According to your life line, you should have died two days ago." Fang Zhi poured himself a cup of tea, took a sip, and then seriously said to Liang Yi.

Two days ago? Liang Yi stroked his chin: that should have been when he had just transmigrated, and even if he hadn't come then, according to the game's storyline he was guessing from, he should have been killed by the Wind Cloud Leopard, so Fang Zhi was indeed not wrong.

Seeing the silent young man before him and Su Youyi's worried gaze, he knew for sure that something indeed happened two days ago. But he couldn't be bothered to inquire further and continued to explain:

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"I originally thought you were possessed, but the strangeness lies in this: your life line isn't split into two, but rather, it has deviated near its end, presenting a scene of rejuvenation like dead wood coming to life in spring! So, you weren't possessed but it's something akin to changing fate."

Upon hearing Fang Zhi mention possession, Liang Yi remained calm on the surface, but his heart tensed up, fearing Fang Zhi might reveal some astounding truth. Only after hearing Fang Zhi's subsequent explanation did his hanging heart finally settle down.

Liang Yi pressed, "How did this change of fate occur?"

"I don't know! If I knew how to change fate, I'd have broken through to the Eighth Realm long ago and wouldn't be getting beaten down by your master," Fang Zhi replied with a belly full of anger whenever Chen Hua came up.

Liang Yi exchanged a glance with Su Youyi, both finding the situation somewhat amusing. Liang Yi pondered for a moment and simply relayed the events of the past couple of days to Fang Zhi. It wasn't anything worth hiding, he just omitted the name and power behind the man in the black robe.

"Man in black robe, strange black mist Escape Skill," Fang Zhi muttered to himself in a low voice.

"This matter is quite peculiar. I will inform your master about it. Moreover, you indeed are now able to cultivate," Fang Zhi didn't forget the small request Liang Yi had made.

"Really!? My senior brother can cultivate now??" Before Liang Yi could react, Su Youyi jumped up excitedly.

Originally, she was distressed upon hearing her senior brother's omen of death and the suspicion of possession. Only after hearing from Sect Master Fang that her senior brother was not possessed did she relax. Now that Sect Master Fang said her senior brother could cultivate, she couldn't contain herself.

"Don't make such a fuss in front of Sect Master Fang, sit down," Liang Yi said with a smile as he pulled Su Youyi, who had jumped up, back to her seat.

Su Youyi, being pulled by Liang Yi, pondered for a bit and then leaned closer to her senior brother, hugging his arm and rubbing against it happily.

"Ah, too dirty, keep your face away," Liang Yi teased with a mouthful of saucy remarks, but his face showed joy. Now he could legitimately be good to his junior sister. Looking at her now, so adorable, he definitely couldn't let her turn into the supreme demon lord of his previous life.

Watching the master and disciple pair flirting with each other, Fang Zhi smacked his lips and faintly saw the red star of marriage in the sky twinkling madly, nearly blinding him.

Seeing he couldn't shake off his junior sister, Liang Yi simply stopped trying and could only look apologetically at Fang Zhi as he said:

"Sect Master Fang, actually, there's another matter I wish to seek your insight on."

"Let's hear it," Fang Zhi was now truly curious about the young man in front of him.

"When I woke up in the forest two days ago, there seemed to be some issues with my memory. I can't remember anything from my past, including things about my master and junior sister, but I clearly remember common-sense matters," Liang Yi inquired, needing the big charlatan to cover for him.

"Memory loss? Hmm... let me think." Fang Zhi, in fact, had been invited by Chen Hua many years ago to investigate his grand-disciple. Back then, the investigation results suggested that Liang Yi's Divine Soul seemed to have some missing parts which prevented him from cultivating, but Fang Zhi could not specify what was missing since everything appeared normal.

Now, after further Investigation, that strange sense of something missing was gone, which led him to determine Liang Yi was indeed able to cultivate. Regarding the memory loss, Fang Zhi mused:

"It's probably a side effect of changing fate. Your Star Chart now shows signs of life after near death, as they say, those who escape great disasters are destined for future fortune, so your Star Chart even depicts a presence of great luck nearby."

"Although I don't know how you sought a sliver of Vitality amidst certain death and forcefully changed your fate, according to my calculations, you are free from life-threatening dangers for a long period of time. Also, while I was utilizing the Secret Technique just now, I took the liberty of divining your junior sister's fate as well, and her life line has also been disturbed by you." Fang Zhi looked interestedly at the girl beside Liang Yi.

Su Youyi: "?"