Chapter 533: Chapter 306: The 6th Era: The Struggle for Fate, The Will of Heaven Cannot be Defied!_2
Five large characters were written above: ’Heaven’s Will Cannot Be Defied’!
Yu Xiong, recalling the events of the past, painfully closed his eyes.
What is Heaven’s Will?
This is Heaven’s Will!
No matter how powerful the Ancient Double Pupils are, how can they contend with the Celestial Deities who hold the Heavenly Dao Authority and can control Heaven’s Will?
If I say you can, then you can; if not, you still must.
If I say you can’t, then you can’t; even if you can, you must not!
Right or wrong, success or failure, all lies on the whim of the other!
Yu Qi, after hearing this, felt as if he had fallen into an icy pit, feeling a chill running from his head to his feet.
His face turned ashen, and even his once resolute Daoist heart showed signs of wavering.
Indeed.
No matter how strong one’s power is, how can one possibly fight against Heaven’s Will!
Even if you possess Ancient Double Pupils or have achieved Ascension, before the inviolable Heaven’s Will, all are but ants!
Even if the Datings Kingdom is merely herding the people on behalf of Heaven, it is still an agent of Heaven’s Will, an existence that the beings of Great Wilderness cannot offend!
"The Celestial Fate Sect has indeed devised a clever plan, proposing stone gambling this time, just to repeat their old trick of plundering our Yu Clan’s fortune."
"When a tiger is down and out, it gets bullied by dogs; I never thought our Yu Clan would fall to such a state."
Yu Xiong mocked himself, a hint of desolation and sorrow in his expression.
If the Datings Kingdom is merely a lapdog nurtured by the Celestial Deities, then the Celestial Fate Sect is the Datings’ hound.
In the past, the ancestors of the Yu Clan at least gambled fortunes with the deities behind the Great Court Royal Family.
But to pass down to his generation, he couldn’t even deal with the mere Celestial Fate Sect, truly a disgrace to his ancestors!
"The fortune of the Great Wilderness has run out, and us old clan elders will eventually vanish."
"But Qi, you’re different. You’re still young and have a bright future. There’s no need for a conflict with Hong Zhen."
"As long as you can survive, our Yu Clan can still leave a spark behind!"
Yu Xiong sighed.
Though he is one of the strongest in the Great Wilderness of this era, he has already prepared for the worst.
Yu Qi’s body trembled, sensing the pessimism and despair in the Clan Leader’s tone.
He stood there for a long time before speaking in a hoarse voice.
"Clan Leader, Yu Qi is ignorant and does not understand those grand principles, but if the skin is gone, how will the hair attach?"
"I was born here, raised here, and should also die here."
"If one day the Great Wilderness truly falls, Yu Qi should live and die with the tribe!"
His words were forceful, resounding like a bell, even moving Yu Xiong.
"Good, good, our Yu Clan has no cowards!"
"What about the Celestial Fate Sect? It’s just the hound of the Datings. Since it is so aggressive, then we shall fight it!"
"Let’s see whether its so-called Datings’ hound is stronger, or if our Yu Clan’s fortune is more resilient!"
Yu Xiong laughed heartily, like an old lion ready to stake everything for one last battle!
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Gambling Stone Workshop.
The crowd eagerly awaited and finally saw Yu Qi return.
Only he followed behind a silver-haired elder, and a number of clan elders, who, upon hearing the news, also rushed over with him.
The silver-haired elder walked with the stride of a dragon and a tiger at the forefront.
Though his hair was white, his aura was as deep as the sea, merely brushing past others made it hard for surrounding Qi Refiners to breathe.
It was as if an invisible mountain was pressing on them!
"Even the Clan Leader of the Yu Clan came, there will be a good show to watch now!"
"Ancient Double Pupils versus Martial Dao Celestial Eye, this is a once-in-a-thousand-years unparalleled showdown. I wonder which side will outshine the other!"
The crowd murmured, discussing in low voices.
Some Qi Refiners who loved to gamble even secretly opened betting pools, eager to stake on which side would win this contest.
"I guessed right; the Yu Clan indeed won’t shy away from battle."
"Knowing they will lose, they still dare to accept the challenge; these stubborn wilderness people are truly obstinate."
Hong Zhen sneered inwardly.
"Daoist Yu Qi is truly commendable for his courage."
He faced the many elders of the Yu Clan alone, not showing any fear but instead initiating provocation.
Upon hearing this.
All the members of the Yu Clan glared with anger, wishing to rush over and crush this little brat with a single palm.
But though Hong Zhen seemed alone, he represented the will of the Great Court Royal Family, with the entire Datings Kingdom backing him.
If anything happened to him, the entire Great Yu City might be razed to the ground.
Because of this.
Hong Zhen dared to act so wantonly within Great Yu City.
"Enough, since you want to gamble stones, then start now."
Yu Xiong snorted coldly, too lazy to waste words with Hong Zhen.
"Since the senior has commanded, then the junior will comply."
"These Exotic Stones were all brought out from my sect’s treasure vault. If Yu Xiong senior is concerned that I tampered with them beforehand, feel free to inspect them."
As Hong Zhen spoke, he placed the dozen or so Exotic Stones one by one on the table.
The name of the Youyu Clan’s double pupils is known to almost everyone.
To make a move under the gaze of a double pupil is to court humiliation, akin to showing off one’s meager skills before a master craftsman.
Moreover, this time, he was essentially gambling fate with Yu Qi, not needing to resort to any secretive tricks.
But just in case.
Yu Xiong personally scanned it with his divine thought, confirmed there were no issues, and then nodded to Yu Qi.
"All these mystical stones were brought by me. For fairness, let Daoist Yu Qi choose first."
Hong Zhen said generously.
Yu Qi remained silent, merely walking to those dozen or so mystical stones and intently observing the patterns on their surfaces.
The next moment.
He took a deep breath, and astonishing divine light began to flow in his eyes as they opened and closed.
Just revealing a thread of pressure made others feel overwhelming fear and trepidation!
Especially when he used the double pupils.
Complex runes surfaced deep in his pupils, like manifestations of the Heaven and Earth Laws, possessing some unimaginable mighty power!
Before this pair of double pupils, all things in the world were laid bare!
"What a terrifying aura, is this the power of the ancient double pupils?"
The crowd’s expressions slightly changed.
Yu Qi had just set foot on the path of cultivation recently and could not even utilize one percent of the double pupils’ power.
Yet, even so.
When everyone saw the divine light in his eyes, they felt an unprecedented sense of life and death crisis.
He was merely at the Divine Bridge Realm of a Qi Refiner, yet his power was already terrifying beyond words.
What then, when he achieves great success, will the power of the double pupils be like?
In the crowd.
Lu Yuan looked at Yu Qi’s pair of double pupils, feeling a twinge of shock in his heart.
It must be said.
The bloodline of Emperor Shun is indeed powerful.
If Lu Yuan were to battle Yu Qi now, he feared that aside from using [Heaven’s Will], he would have no way to withstand a single strike from the double pupils.
While everyone marveled at the power of the double pupils.
Yu Qi once again lifted his eyes to those mystical stones, and found that they suddenly appeared different.
In the eyes of others.
These mystical stones, apart from being covered with countless Dao marks on the surface, were no different from ordinary stones.
But in Yu Qi’s eyes.
The Law Dao Marks on all the mystical stones’ surfaces were extremely complex and mysterious, capable of blocking any probe.
"So it still doesn’t work?"
Yu Qi felt unwilling and continued to try several times.
But the results were the same as before.
These mystical stones seemed shrouded in a fog, and even when he pushed his double pupils to the extreme, he couldn’t penetrate this barrier.
"Qi has failed."
Yu Xiong’s heart sank, his face turning somewhat unsightly.
If the ancient double pupils and the Martial Arts Celestial Eye could not exert their effects.
Then Yu Qi could only gamble on who had better luck with Hong Zhen.
But with the lessons from back then, Yu Xiong knew better than anyone else what the outcome would be when gambling fate with the Celestial Fate Sect!
"Could it really be that Heaven intends to destroy my Youyu Clan?"
Yu Xiong clenched his fist, his heart full of anger and sorrow.
Peerless strongmen like them were able to know more insider information.
Thus, the stronger one’s cultivation, the more one believed in fate.
Many people mistakenly thought that human will could prevail over divine will, changing fate with effort.
Yet little did they know.
Many things were already predestined in the shadows.
As the saying goes, if it’s in your destiny to have an official position, there’s no need to read the books.
No matter how talented you are, even if you are the top scholar of the dynasty, shining brightly, if no one helps, you could end up suppressed by superiors, always ranked at the bottom in assessments, just a junior official.
But if fortune favors you, and you have destiny’s favor.
Even if you are illiterate, of humble birth, just an ordinary herdsman.
When the time comes, you can dress in fine clothes and a spirited horse, be enfeoffed as a king or a minister!
It can be said.
Everyone’s fate is already arranged by divine will before birth!
This is what common people call divine will, or heaven’s decree.
Divine will wants to terminate the fortune of the Youyu Clan.
Thus, out of nothing, it handed down a decree, causing the ancestors of the Youyu Clan to lose their Dao heart, blinding themselves and dying!
Now divine will wants the destruction of the Youyu Clan.
Thus lending a hand through Daoist Hong Zhen, cutting off Yu Qi’s path and seizing the fortune of the Youyu Clan.
Divine will cannot be defied.
Defying it will inevitably bring about boundless calamities!