Qingque shook her head. "You fiend, you really don't understand humans at all."
"The universe is just like the jade tiles on a card table. Once the tiles are shuffled, the overall trend of victory or defeat has often already been decided."
"Although what tiles are played on the table, what tiles remain in the tile mountain, and what kind of hand the person next to you wants to form—these can all be calculated."
"But if everything is only calculation, then it loses all its flavor."
"Adapting to circumstances, blocking with soldiers when soldiers come, twisting and turning, mountains and rivers exhausted."
"It is bits of calculation, bits of the unknown, bits of losing control that constitute the jade tiles—that is, the true joy of life."
"If there is an inevitable losing situation before me, does that mean my choices on the card table have no meaning? No. Choice itself is the meaning."
"Just like how I keep choosing in order to lose with some dignity, the Master Diviner is also making her choices for a certain goal."
"You just said it yourself—the Master Diviner must, day after day, year after year, sort out the complicated threads of destiny in order to preserve this giant ship."
"In this card game of the universe where there are only losers, she keeps choosing and keeps struggling, just to let the Xianzhou Luofu sail forward one more second."
"Hehe. The Master Diviner is truly the best card player in my mind."
"How could someone like the Master Diviner torment herself over something as predetermined as destiny?"
"Heliobus, you cannot understand human joy."
"You are imprisoned in the illusion of determinism and cannot free yourself, so you hope that everyone who peers into the future must endure the same pain as you—"
At this point, Qingque revealed a look of contempt that did not match her usual demeanor. Her tone was extremely sarcastic.
"To repeat myself—you really, really, really—completely don't understand humans."
Several clusters of green flames rose from Fu Xuan's body, only to shrink back into her the next instant.
She panted heavily and pointed a finger at Qingque's nose.
"You said a whole lot, but directly avoided the most critical question—"
"I said it. The path of destiny has always had only one. There is only one end point."
"If choices with different processes cannot change the end point, then they are meaningless."
"Qingque, the one who completely doesn't understand is you, because you simply cannot prove that the end point of destiny can be changed."
Qingque: "..."
She was a little angry.
This damned Heliobus was occupying the Master Diviner's body and spouting such nonsense.
Leon easily sensed his bestie's low pressure and felt somewhat surprised.
However, this was not the time to keep eating melon and watching the show.
When it was time to act, act.
What he needed to do was not complicated.
"I can give you the proof that the end point of destiny can be changed, on Qingque's behalf."
Fu Xuan's gaze suddenly turned to him. "How are you going to prove it?"
Leon turned his palm upward and stirred up a whirlwind.
"Follow my hand. Don't blink."
The girls' gazes subconsciously followed Leon's right hand, but they never expected—
He swung his palm outward with a hurricane, flipping the nearby Pathfinding Guide sand table completely upside down until it was in utter chaos.
Fu Xuan's face darkened.
"What is the meaning of this?"
"Can't you see? I think I expressed it quite directly."
Leon slowly opened his always-squinted eyes. Indifference surged in his eye sockets.
"You use rogue thinking to interpret your bullshit so-called great principles. Then naturally, I can use the most primitive, darkest law to prove it to you—"
"In this vast universe, how are you and I any different from these sand tables that can be flipped at any moment?"
"An ant trying to discuss the end point of destiny in front of a god? Ridiculous. Whether one lives or dies, how one dies or lives—aren't completely different destinies all decided by the god?"
"Now that the sand table has been flipped, I can change the end point to wherever I want. I will crudely crush your theory that destiny will only lead to the same end."
"Heliobus, I ask you: how will you refute this dark jungle law that the supreme being can arbitrarily decide the destinies of others?"
More flames rose from Fu Xuan's body. She clutched her forehead and gritted her silver teeth.
"…You… you…"
"You what you? A mere ant who borrowed someone else's identity and thinks you can see through destiny? Please, you are truly weak."
Leon was merciless, every word striking at the heart.
Finally, Fu Xuan let out a strange low roar.
"Ugh aaaah! Don't waver, Fu Xuan! Don't resist me! Don't be deceived by this girl and this boy's sweet words!"
Stelle shouted sharply: "Huohuo—!"
"Understood!" Huohuo summoned the Ten Lords Commission's special anti-Heliobus artifact.
Qingque rarely showed an angry expression. "Xiyan, get out of the Master Diviner's body!"
The players who saw this scene had not yet had time to express their thoughts when the screen split, about to enter battle.
However, not long after, those players who had prepared for battle were caught off guard once again.
They had just entered the turn-based battle screen when a palm reached from left to right and forcibly wiped the battlefield away.
Clearly, Leon had acted again. It was still that visual effect of casually resolving the battle with one slap.
"Meaningless dying struggles. It would be better not to waste everyone's time."
They didn't even see the words "Battle Victory." The scene returned directly to the story dialogue, plus Leon's two light and casual sentences—
Ah Xian almost couldn't hold back from needing to change his panties.
Perhaps only someone with a sufficiently jumpy way of thinking would do something like directly erasing the battle process.
According to current danmaku reports, if you initially chose other members of the Astral Express crew in the story, you would have to fight a turn-based battle here.
Only with Leon did it directly end the battle for you.
Flames shot out from Fu Xuan's body surface and finally condensed into a small purple fireball.
"Master Diviner! You… are you alright?"
Seeing Fu Xuan clutching her forehead with a face full of exhaustion, Qingque worriedly stepped forward two paces.
"I'm fine… just a bit of a headache." Fu Xuan shook her head.
Huohuo took out a bottle of medicine. "After being parasitized by a Heliobus, there will be some discomfort, but taking some medicine should make it fine."
Fu Xuan raised her head. Her gaze fell on the flame not far in front of her that was emitting an aura of self-doubt.
"Is this ball of fire Xiyan? Although it doesn't have much power, if one gets entangled with it, it really will make one fall into endless despair."
Xiyan was so honest that it had completely lost even the thought of escaping.
"Quickly… quickly throw me… into the darkness… I saw it. You threw me… into the prison cell."
Huohuo activated the artifact and thoroughly captured Xiyan. Only then did she let out a sigh of relief.
Fu Xuan swept her gaze over everyone. While her cheeks were somewhat flushed, her eyes held gratitude.
This time, the Master Diviner's dignity had really been thrown into the sea.
Sigh...
But one thing at a time. The mess caused by herself had to be borne by herself.
"Everyone, Qingque, thank you all for turning the tide."
"Small matter. Master Diviner Fu is much more frank and straightforward this time." Stelle smiled nonchalantly.
"You're welcome, Master Diviner."
Qingque's focus, however, was not on Fu Xuan's thanks. Instead, it was on a certain sentence from earlier—
She rubbed her hands together, her face full of anticipation.
"Right. Just now when the Heliobus was possessing you, you fired me. That decision should have been serious, right?"
"Next, I'll have to trouble you, venerable elder, to issue a written notice to unilaterally terminate the contract."
"That way, with all the years of seniority I've accumulated in the Divination Commission, I can get a pretty decent compensation… Hehe~~"