"Eldest Senior, my Fate Pattern..."
At this moment, even Gu Yeqi, who was usually quite slow, realized that her acquired Fate Pattern was closely linked to An Jing’s, just like Cang Linzu’s.
She felt a mix of excitement and confusion — a faint purple glow with a hint of green shimmered behind her head and shoulders, but Gu Yeqi couldn’t see her own Fate Pattern’s totem or understand its essence.
"Your Fate Pattern is the exceptionally rare Heaven Star Mandate ’Purple Qi’."
An Jing didn’t need Life Observation Eyes to naturally know every detail of Ye Qi’s Fate Pattern. He took a deep breath and calmly said, "It’s fine. Don’t worry, it’s all good things."
"I just didn’t expect... such a coincidence."
All Four Excess Stars are actually people around me?
No. That thinking is reversed.
It would be more accurate to say that among the people around me, the Four Excess Stars were bound to appear. I simply protected everyone around me, so it was the earliest and closest companions who awakened this Fate Pattern.
Now, An Jing’s Four Excess Stars and [Seven Luminaries and Seven Fiend Heavenly Fate] are completely gathered.
Corresponding to Mars is Lu Hou, Star Responder Huo Qing. The awakening condition is the ’collapse of unrighteous rites and law,’ and rectifying it corresponds to Huo Qing’s connection to the ’Guiyi Army’ as an external enemy, and his parents’ causal relationship with the Tianyuan Realm Group.
Corresponding to Morning Star is Comet, Star Responder Nian Quan. The awakening condition is the ’disasters of unbridled desires,’ and suppressing it corresponds to Nian Quan’s connection to his mother and the Tianyuan Realm Group, as well as his own infiltration within the ’inside.’
Corresponding to Star Suppressing is Jidu, Star Responder Cang Linzu. The awakening condition is the ’chaos of Heaven, Earth, and Man,’ and solidifying it corresponds to Cang Linzu, a former Martial Arts Academy student, choosing to join Da Chen’s army and witnessing the world’s changes from within.
Corresponding to Age Star is Purple Qi, Star Responder Gu Yeqi. The awakening condition is the ’imbalance of universal phenomena,’ and restoring it corresponds to Gu Yeqi, who chose to join the sect from the outside after leaving Da Chen’s Hanhai Gu Family, witnessing the changes of the world.
From these Four Excess Stars, one can discern the key destiny points of the two worlds: ’the collapse of rites and law and the unrestrained desires in Tianyuan Realm Group’ and ’the imbalance and chaos among the various forces in Huai Xu Realm leading to great calamities.’
And An Jing stands right at the center of these destiny points: he holds the [Heavenly Profound True Talisman], related to the [Ancient Immortal Ruins], and is determined to destroy the [Tianyuan Realm Group], with two companions connected to the Guiyi Army and the group respectively.
Similarly, in Huai Xu Realm, An Jing is involved in the plans related to the internal [Heaven and Earth Core], positioned at the center of destiny tensions among Dust Li, Da Chen, and various powers. Even if he eats noodles without chopsticks, hundreds of people would ponder the profound meaning behind his actions.
The Four Excess Stars are all [Strange Mandate Patterns], non-disaster world, the most powerful Fate Patterns between Heaven and Earth. What distinguishes the [Heaven Star Mountain Sea Fate] as the strongest among the strange fates is its potential to directly reach Divine Mandate.
[Jiao Chu Shen Shou Luohou Star Lord][Jiao Zhong Shen Wei Jidu Star Lord][Heavenly Purple Qi Dao Star Lord][Taiyi Yuebei Hui Star Lord] — these are the divine mandates that the Four Excess Stars can awaken, and only possessing such star mandates can advance to these divine mandates. Essentially, it’s a guaranteed path without competition from others.
Hence, the peak state of the [Seven Luminaries and Seven Fiend Heavenly Fate] is theoretically one heavenly fate supported by four divine mandates, and with normal development, it could indeed confront the Heavenly Ancestor sect head-on with one Lingxiao and four Pure Yang.
But compared to other three stars, Purple Qi is unique.
Just as among five stars, Taibai carries fiend without excess, Age Star inherently brings fortune, making Purple Qi particularly special: it lacks significant calamities and negative phenomena, the most it can be said is lofty ambitions, detached from earthly reality.
Back in Hanging Fate Manor, Gu Yeqi already showed similar traits. Despite her great talent and being able to keep pace with An Jing, she didn’t care for martial arts or great affairs. She merely wished for a peaceful life, growing vegetables, collecting herbs — just like her past life — as long as it was calm, she was content.
This similarity to An Jing made him fond of this little sister. They could enjoy calm afternoons with blank minds whenever they were free.
Unfortunately, this world doesn’t allow people to live peacefully or daydream quietly.
Therefore, even Gu Yeqi must fulfill her Fate Pattern — to restore the imbalance of universal phenomena and eradicate the source of all disasters.
Simply put, it means agriculture.
"Ye Qi, your Fate Pattern has completely awakened and is related to the issues you’ve encountered around Mingguang Peak recently."
Adjusting his words, An Jing steadied himself and said slowly, "You mentioned demon spirits and demons obstructing things... it sounds simple, but actually, it’s probably quite complex. Tell me carefully about the problems you’ve faced."
"Alright, Eldest Senior."
Gu Yeqi explained to An Jing the dilemma she encountered around Mingguang Peak.
Mingguang Peak is located on the northern mountains outside Bright Mirror Sect, with rich earth veins and abundant spiritual fiends. The surrounding land is filled with spiritual mechanism. With minor adjustments, it could become excellent spirit land, serving as a perfect logistical base.
Though it’s on the fringe of Bright Mirror Sect, it connects to the sect’s sect-suppressing formation. In theory, not to mention demons, even demon spirits awakening would be the most benign and tame ones.
Yet, for some unknown reason, around Mingguang Peak — possibly other places too, but Gu Yeqi focuses only on Mingguang Peak — a group of demons appeared. These demons commandeered a large number of demon spirits and neither attacked Mingguang Peak nor invaded the formation. They didn’t even target the Children of Calamity.
They only did one thing: obstruct Mingguang Peak’s reclamation efforts.
"In simple terms, they don’t let us farm or adjust the earth veins!"
Gu Yeqi summarized, "I can’t understand why these demons are doing this. If they truly wanted to cause destruction, they could cause much greater damage. But in reality, they just prevent us from reclaiming, trying to limit us around Mingguang Peak."
"It’s indeed very strange, Eldest Senior. We won’t starve; the sect even provides free rations. I want to farm mainly because not planting spirit plants in spirit land is a waste. Setting aside how these demons appeared, what exactly is their goal?"
Gu Yeqi was deeply puzzled, and An Jing also fell into contemplation.
The unexpected presence of demons signifies abnormality, undoubtedly driven by Great Heavenly Demons.
Evidently, these abnormal demons are likely related to the True Lord infiltrated and corrupted by Heavenly Demon within the sect.
As for their purpose, could it be to hinder the development of Mingguang Peak? Or perhaps some crucial setup by the Heavenly Demons is near Mingguang Peak, and they don’t want Ye Qi’s group to approach?
But such actions seem rather reckless, unwarranted unless...
Their goal is precisely to stir suspicion.