I am eight years old again, and I will never serve as a cauldron for the empress again.

"Sacrifice one's lifespan?"

Upon hearing these four words, Nalan Hansheng's heart trembled.

"To gain extraordinary power, one must pay a corresponding price!"

The old village chief said.

"In the Thirty-Three Villages Beyond the Heavens, the theme is always trade! It's just that the content and emphasis of each trade are different! In Fengyun Village, there are three types of trade: sealing oneself, sacrificing one's lifespan, and becoming a villager! In order to obtain something beyond fate!"

"This process is commonly known as, changing one's fate!"

The old village chief spoke each word with conviction.

"Change my fate?!"

Zhuang Zhou raised his eyebrows slightly.

A spiritual practitioner.

Going against the will of Heaven.

I don't believe in fate!

If you don't believe in fate, how can you talk about changing it?

Zhuang Zhou never expected to hear the words "change fate" from the old village chief.

He was surprised and looked at the old village chief.

The old village chief seemed to have sensed Zhuang Zhou's doubts.

He laughed heartily: "My fate is in my own hands, not in the heavens; it's just youthful arrogance!"

"First, fate; second, luck; third, feng shui; fourth, accumulating good deeds; fifth, studying. This is the ultimate life realization of all spiritual practitioners! Fate is like a trend, a predetermined trajectory. It may be unlucky or lucky, good or bad, and the beginning and end of fate are determined at the moment of your birth. Luck or tribulations determine the amplitude of your life. For example, you should have been able to get rich and obtain five taels of silver, but because of the blessing of luck, you obtained fifty taels of silver. This is the effect of the power of luck!"

"It cannot change the predetermined direction of fate, but it can influence the degree of good or bad fortune! Feng shui and yin virtue are the same principle; they influence fate through an external force, locking in the degree of good or bad fortune!"

The old village chief's words enlightened Zhuang Zhou.

This is another perspective on good fortune and misfortune, and destiny.

"I called the three of you here today for a reason! Nalan Hansheng is here because he is my grandson. Out of personal motives, I gave him the opportunity to enter Fengyun Village! Zhuang Zhou and Liu Yang are different. Both of you have already come into contact with the trajectory of fate to some extent."

"If I'm not mistaken, Zhuang Zhou must be the one who changed his fate! Someone used unparalleled supernatural powers to alter the trajectory of your destiny. The future is chaotic and unpredictable! At the same time, you have also cultivated a technique that can change your fortune. Your fortune power is concentrated, eliminating disasters and increasing blessings, with infinite possibilities!"

"Liu Yang is the legendary 'Calamity Body,' and according to common sense, such a physique should not even exist in the world! She is born with calamity and can absorb and release the power of tribulations! The influence of this physique on the power of destiny is unimaginable!"

The old village chief said.

Zhuang Zhou was suddenly taken aback. He had thought that the old village chief had come to him because he was good at healing or had some special talent.

Unexpectedly, the real reason was that he was the one who changed his fate.

Rebirth is Zhuang Zhou's greatest secret.

The old village chief saw right through it.

"Don't be nervous, I pose no threat to you! When I became the old village chief of Fengyun Village, it was already destined that I could only become a puppet of this village, unable to escape for all eternity!"

The old village chief could only manage a wry smile.

"Then what exactly do you mean by the extraordinary power you mentioned earlier?"

Zhuang Zhou asked.

"That's something beyond fate!"

The old village chief's expression turned serious.

“Fate is predetermined, and mortals cannot change it! This fate refers not only to your fate, but also to the fate of heaven and earth and the universe! However, some cultivators like to challenge the heavens and are unwilling to submit to fate, so they have invented all sorts of methods!”

"The arts of fortune-telling and fate-altering are varied and numerous! But those are merely the most rudimentary methods. Above fortune-telling and fate-altering lie transcendent methods, such as the art of immortality and extraordinary objects! You should have already come across the art of immortality. It creates some immortals who can defy fate through various means and obtain endless lifespans. Fate is a predetermined beginning and end, but the immortals attempt to use the art of immortality to change the end, or even to make it an endless one!"

"Strange objects are similar, except that the means to change one's fate are condensed into the object itself! Strange objects have two states. The first is the ordinary state, which can be controlled by inputting magic power, and its power is ordinary! The second state requires sacrificing oneself, whether it be one's essence, blood, lifespan, or soul, to unlock and activate it! Strange objects in that state can grant you power that transcends fate, and this power is extraordinary power!"

"To use a somewhat inappropriate analogy! No matter how much an ant trains or how hard it tries, even if it has strength hundreds or even thousands of times greater than its own limits, it is still an ant and cannot compare to an elephant! But a wondrous object can allow an ant to temporarily gain the strength of an elephant through sacrifice. This is the extraordinary intelligence that the ant gains, leaping above its destiny as an ant!"

The old village chief's words enlightened Zhuang Zhou.

He has a clearer understanding of this strange object.

"However, fate is the greatest rule of heaven and earth! All those who violate the rules will be noticed by fate, and then their deviations will be corrected! For example, those who tell fortunes are easily punished by heaven. They will inevitably suffer one of these fates: widowhood, orphanhood, loneliness, disability, or death. And those who try to change their fate by using their supernatural powers to alter the karma of others will end up causing the karma of others to fall upon themselves! These are all methods by which fate corrects deviations!"

"Then come the so-called immortals you see. Immortals cannot live forever. The more they crave immortality, the further they stray from the path of fate, and the stronger the force of fate's correction becomes! Once their identity as immortals is exposed, they are likely to be rejected by heaven and earth and suffer endless calamities!"

"The same principle applies to extraordinary objects! In their ordinary state, extraordinary objects cannot alter the user's fate, so they can be activated by inputting magical power! However, once an object generates extraordinary power, it will grant you power beyond your destiny! In this case, the power to correct deviations will emerge. As the saying goes, fortune and misfortune are interdependent. Obtaining power beyond destiny is, in a sense, a blessing, while actively sacrificing one's lifespan, essence, and soul is a curse! In this way, fortune and misfortune cancel each other out, and cause and effect are balanced. Unknown and unpredictable calamities can be transformed into a cost that one can control. This is what makes extraordinary objects different! Of course, if an extraordinary object is used for too long and deviates too far from the trajectory of destiny, it will also cause the heavens and earth to reject it, and destiny to be corrected!"

The old village chief explained the advantages and disadvantages of the strange object in great detail.

Upon hearing this, Zhuang Zhou felt a surge of excitement.

The price of sacrificing rare objects might seem harsh to others.

But it meant nothing to him!

Essence, blood, and soul are all renewable resources to him; he can have as much as he wants, and they are not even worth the cost.

Lifespan, however, cannot be renewed.

However, he was pursuing the ultimate realm, and the lifespan he gained with each breakthrough in a minor realm was several times that of others at the same realm, so this was not a significant price for him.

Strange objects.

You can gain power beyond destiny!

This was incredibly tempting to him.

Zhuang Zhou's future path may be countless times more difficult than that of Nalan Hansheng and others!

He came from a previous life.

Now you know how cruel the golden age of prosperity really was!

Many heroes rose up.

All races vie for supremacy.

Saints are as common as grass, and emperors are as withered as grass.

Perhaps immortals will appear in the future.

He no longer has much time to grow!

Zhuangzi feared that one day he would be powerless to help his relatives and friends in a crisis.

Therefore, he needs power beyond destiny.

Even at a terrible cost, we must change their fate!