Chapter 534 - Flower of Fate

The remains of Six-Path Flower were actually just a single flower with six petals remaining. The humanoid Six Flower gently cradled the remnant flower.

Just as the Divine Tree thought Six-Path Flower would empathize with it, Six-Path Flower said, “In other words, if we return to the original timeline, I should be able to fuse with it again, right? The Divine Tree in that timeline must have preserved my remains as well.”

The Divine Tree was taken aback.

It’s changed. It’s so different from the Six-Path Flower in my memories.

𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

If not for the clear resonance between Six-Path Flower’s remains and Six-Path Flower before it, the Divine Tree would have almost suspected this Six-Path Flower was an imposter.

“While that’s true, the memories contained within the remains of the same origin are identical. Receiving them twice in succession might not yield any additional effects.”

What the remains of Six-Path Flower contained most likely was the path Six-Path Flower took from quasi-Legendary to Superior Legendary.

Similar to the situation with Peanut, with the Divine Tree’s assistance, Six-Path Flower here was essentially teaching itself. The growing Six-Path Flower was fusing with the path of the peak-stage Six-Path Flower.

“Fine.”

Soon, Six-Path Flower adorned the remains like a floral accessory on its head, then sat on a branch of the Divine Tree, gently closing its eyes.

Below the tree, Lu Ran sat cross-legged, quietly guarding Six-Path Flower until Captain Doofus returned with Condor Hero after completing his trial mission. The other five participants selected their disciples quickly. After all, choosing slowly would leave no time for teaching. Because of this, within a few days, Captain Doofus had rounded them all up.

“Can this be considered an automated ascension mission completion?” Lu Ran mused as he sat on the ground.

Although he hadn’t participated much, the rewards were surprisingly decent.

Since this is a master-disciple-related secret realm, the resources are all related to comprehension and learning, right? A Millennium Soul Cleansing Fruit... Nice! I wonder if there are ten-thousand-year or million-year versions.

The Legacy Stone was something that made Lu Ran’s eyes light up. It seemed similar to a legacy crystal. Lu Ran’s first thought was to encode Six-Path Flower’s Limit Breaker ability into it and teach it to himself and all his familiars.

Although Six-Path Flower’s Limit Breaker ability hadn’t shown much value at this stage, it was the only ability that had ever broken through Limitless City’s restrictions.

With this ability, even if the surrounding universe was truly sealed by rules, they still had a chance to break through.

If one Legacy Stone wasn’t enough for all the familiars, #18’s Replication trait could replicate a dozen or so. However, this was bound to be a massive undertaking as replicating one Epic resource took ten years. They’d have to think of all sorts of ways to shorten the time.

Additionally, the Epic-grade Legacy Stone had to be capable of bearing the Limit Breaker ability. If it couldn’t, everything would be for nothing. Most importantly, #18 already had a lot on its plate and no time to focus solely on replication work. Who knew when things would settle down?

“The Instant Amnesia trait is suitable for a mature familiar. Right now, all my familiars are in a rapid growth phase, so it’s useless. I’ll save it for later. When they reach level 100 and struggle to evolve further, I’ll see if it has any use then. As for Evolution Eye...”

After the Beastmaster Era arrived, many beastmaster-themed novels he read on Blue Planet featured protagonists with this ability as a standard golden finger.

但问题是，路然感觉对自己没什么用，毕竟传说级之后，宠兽想提升种族等级，主要靠的不是融合新资源、新能力去进化了，而是去“强化”帮自己进入传说领域那个属性。

是去纵向挖掘自己那个统合了一切能力的传说力量。

比如六道花的六道轮回天赋，暗鸦的言灵之力，哈总的剑之力。

所以这个技能，对于超凡种族~霸主种族阶段帮助最大，比较适合一个大势力中的研究人员，去帮助一个势力进化出“合欢花”等功能性宠兽......

“先干正事好了。”

【您已达到’七级御兽师’晋升标准，是否现在晋升?】

“是。”路然微微一笑，然后压制外散的气息，在原地直接晋升传奇御兽师!

虽已突破，但路然没急着拿出新的御兽技能卡学习。

超级改造、守护契约、狩猎本能、进化之眼......他准备，等回归蓝星后，挑战下蓝星无限城传奇之后才能挑战的“神话秘境”看看有没有什么惊喜。

“突破了吗?”

However, the problem was, Lu Ran felt it was useless for him. After reaching Legendary, a familiar’s species advancement no longer relied on fusing new resources or abilities but on strengthening the attribute that helped them enter the Legendary path in the first place.

It was about vertically excavating that Legendary power that unified all their abilities. For example, Six-Path Flower’s Six-Path Reincarnation talent, Dark Crow’s Spiritual Speech power, and Captain Doofus’ sword qi.

This skill was most helpful from the Transcendent to Overlord species rank stages, making it more suitable for researchers in a major faction to help develop functional familiars like the Silk Tree Albizia.

“Let’s focus on the main mission first.”

[You have met the advancement criteria for level 7 beastmaster. Advance now?]

“Yes.” Lu Ran smiled faintly, suppressing his aura as he directly advanced to a Legendary beastmaster on the spot.

Although Lu Ran had broken through, he wasn’t in a hurry to take out new beastmaster skill cards to learn. Super Modification, Guardian’s Contract, Hunting Instinct, and Evolution Eye were the ones he had. He planned to wait until returning to Blue Planet to challenge the Divine secret realm, which could only be attempted after becoming a Legendary beastmaster.

“Did you break through?”

At the same time Lu Ran advanced, the Divine Tree sensed the restrictions on Six-Path Flower dissipating. During the process of fusing with the remains, Six-Path Flower’s level gradually rose to over level 70.

At this moment, Six-Path Flower felt as if it had fallen into a dream, and it began reliving everything. From its natural birth to being invited to become the guardian deity of the Beastmaster Empire, its fate took a turning point during Emperor Yun’s reign.

One path led to forming a contract with Lu Ran, while the other involved never meeting him, continuing as the guardian deity until the empire’s fall, then encountering the Divine Tree and Void Grass, with the three of them breaking through to Legendary together to challenge the world’s rules.

Due to Six-Path Flower’s millennia of experience in the empire, although it had remained at quasi-Legendary, it had accumulated a huge amount of good and evil energy. This allowed it to rapidly advance from Low Legendary to Superior Legendary in one go.

The Divine Tree and Void Grass also had their own talents. Although their starting points differed, all three grew at astonishing speeds. The events it hadn’t experienced now played out in its mind like a dream as it fused with the remains.

During the Great War, the Divine Tree, Void Grass, and Six-Path Flower were ambushed by the beast god faction in different locations.

In this battle, Six-Path Flower, who possessed the power of the Six-Path Reincarnation and should have had eternal life, sacrificed itself completely. It vowed never to reincarnate and to single-handedly slay four Superior-Legendary beast gods.

The void variant Void Grass also achieved terrifying feats in hunting, striking fear into the hearts of the beast god faction. Yet despite their strength, facing the long-established beast god faction, both ultimately fell. Only the Divine Tree, breaking through to the Primary-Divine level, prevented the plant faction from being completely eradicated in this war.

After fully reliving these experiences, Six-Path Flower entered a state of enlightenment. “Now I finally understand what’s missing to reach the Reincarnation attribute.”

Void Grass, Six-Path Flower, and the Divine Tree had always pursued their own paths. Among them, Void Grass and Six-Path Flower remained as the Grass attribute even in death. Only the Divine Tree ultimately unified the World attribute. Perhaps this was why it was the only one of the three to reach the pinnacle.

In the original timeline, the unique attribute Six-Path Flower sought to unify was the top-tier concept of Reincarnation. While the Reincarnation attribute might not be top-tier in combat, it was first-rate in cultivation.

The reason the Divine Tree said Six-Path Flower could single-handedly rival the beast god faction after reaching the Primary-Divine level wasn’t because its combat prowess would surpass its own, but because Six-Path Flower’s reincarnation abilities were far more suited to developing the plant faction than the Divine Tree’s abilities. Through reincarnation, the plant faction could birth and accumulate more and more powerhouses.

“Reincarnation is the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, where souls return to be reborn as new beings, turning like an unending wheel. Before, I could only lightly interfere with reincarnation, sending designated subjects to be reborn.

“It seemed like I controlled reincarnation, but I never considered that once a reincarnator enters the cycle, the reincarnated subject becomes part of the reincarnation system. I only mastered the ability to help others reincarnate, but I couldn’t control what happened to them after reincarnation.

“Only when I can determine the constants and variables of a reincarnator’s fate, deciding their destiny after reincarnation, will I truly become the Lord of Reincarnation. Fate is destiny, and fortune is luck.

“By weaving the fortunes of reincarnators, using luck as the variable, I can ultimately outline paths that differ in process but share the same predetermined outcome. This is the complete mastery of reincarnation.

“In my past life, even in death, I never touched the power of fate. However, in this life, through my interactions with Lu Ran, I’ve gradually mastered the power of fortune, combining luck and misfortune. Perhaps this is destiny.”

***

As Six-Path Flower’s understanding of reincarnation deepened, it used the peak Six-Path Flower’s thousands of years of experience as a foundation to begin integrating the powers of luck and misfortune into its own strength. It attempted to combine them into the Flower of Fate.

After an unknown amount of time, an incredible wave of power suddenly radiated from Six-Path Flower. This power startled the Divine Tree, Lu Ran, and even the Flower God, who had been guarding the Divine Tree all along.

Using Six-Path Flower’s own life as a reference, it borrowed the Divine Tree’s Primary-Divine power to record the world and fused the different paths of fate, finally comprehending the true meaning of reincarnation.

It was the reincarnation of Six-Path Flower. Only by personally experiencing different fates could Six-Path Flower take this final step.

[Species: Six-Path Reincarnation Flower]

[Attribute: Reincarnation (the ultimate sublimation of Life, Death, Time, and Space)]

[Species Rank: Superior Legendary]

[Level: 80]

[New Species Talent 1: Fate’s Gaze (Can see the fate and key fate nodes of other beings.)]

[New Species Talent 2: Fate Weaving (For lives sent into reincarnation, can determine their final destiny. An invisible hand called fortune will guide their fate to achieve the result desired by the Lord of Reincarnation.)]

[New Species Talent 3: Lord of Reincarnation (As a being with the Reincarnation attribute, unless the universe ends, you can always reincarnate and revive in the future as long as traces of you remain in the universe, no matter the cause of death.)

Lu Ran and the Flower God stared dumbfounded at Six-Path Flower floating in the air. Only when Six-Path Flower opened its eyes did it snap out of it. Its gaze, capable of seeing through fate, immediately put pressure on the Flower God, who was also a Superior Legendary.

“As expected of Senior Six-Path Flower...” The Flower God marveled.

It’s too strong. Its progress is simply meteoric.

As Six-Path Flower completed its transformation and finally unified the Reincarnation attribute, the Divine Tree said, “Congratulations, my old friend.”

Six-Path Flower spoke slowly. “Thank you. It’s a pity, though. I’m truly not cut out for combat. Not a single combat talent. But this is enough. With these eyes, there are many more things I can do...”

“Like what?” Lu Ran asked.

Six-Path Flower glanced at him. “Remove your Time Shield.”

Lu Ran scoffed. “That’s not even that impressive...”

“I’m worried you’ll turn into a vegetable again like last time.”

Lu Ran was taken aback. “Fine, fine. Let’s try again.”

Six-Path Flower looked at Lu Ran. “Remove your Time Shield.”

Lu Ran replied, “Done.”

“Now, I’ve already seen your fate. In the future, you will undoubtedly become a Mythical beastmaster.”

Lu Ran was baffled.

No shit. Barring accidents, even I know I’ll make it!

Six-Path Flower fell silent. “But for some reason, after you become a Mythical beastmaster, everything beyond is shrouded in darkness. I can’t see further.”

“Is that so?” Lu Ran pondered slightly.

Six-Path Flower smiled. “However, it makes sense. Our fates are intertwined. While I can see others’ fates clearly, I can’t see my own. So it’s natural that I can’t see your entire fate either. Even so, this is quite remarkable. But since frequently observing fate will worsen my luck, I won’t reveal too much of the heavens’ secrets.

“After we return to the original timeline, you’ll encounter a critical juncture in your fate. Captain Doofus might advance to Intermediate Legendary in his base form because of it!

“Anyway, although the vision is blurry due to our contract, in just a moment, I’ve already grasped how you’ll train your familiars in the future. At key moments, I’ll give you reminders to avoid detours. This way, they might reach their peak even faster.”

Lu Ran was stunned.

You’re spoiling the plot, aren’t you?

The Divine Tree said, “Eyes that can see through fate? Can those eyes affect Primary-Divine beings?"

Six-Path Flower looked at the Divine Tree. “In your future, you’ll battle the Chaos Dragon God and end in a stalemate. Countless years later, you’ll awaken again and fight the Chaos Dragon God a second time. In that battle, with my help, you’ll finally defeat the Chaos Dragon God. Though I didn’t see that, I guessed it.

“I wouldn’t casually pry into a Primary Divine’s fate. That’s not the key ability. The key is the power to weave fate! For example...”

Six-Path Flower bent down and gently stroked a blade of grass on the ground.

“For example, this blade of grass is just an ordinary blade of grass—not even a supernatural life yet. But I can send it into reincarnation. And I can weave its final destiny, such as it killing Sudden Death King.”

Wait, who’s Sudden Death King?

The Divine Tree and Flower God wanted to ask, but let Six-Path Flower finish.

“Once woven, no matter what species this grass reincarnates as, fate will always influence it, leading it through all sorts of adventures until it gains strength comparable to Sudden Death King’s and forms a life-and-death grudge with it.

“If it fails to fulfill its destiny in this life, it will continue reincarnating on its own. Even after countless cycles, it will chase its predetermined fate. This is reincarnation and fate.”