GA: Chapter 139: Fate Is Never a Fixed Road — It Holds Infinite Possibilities!
Among the angels, she was among the youngest. Most of her life until now had been spent in research, and she had never needed to understand things like this. They only needed to follow Queen Kesha's commands.
"We are still in the early stages of the spiritual revival. Neither cultivation techniques nor methods for utilizing spiritual energy have been developed."
"In that respect, humans hold no advantage over the mutated creatures."
"These things are simply variables introduced into this world — unknowns. Whether mutated creature or human, I look forward to seeing both sides reach heights through their own strength that even I haven't anticipated."
A calm voice resonated through empty space, and Bai Xuan's figure materialized before everyone present.
If Tenshi Zixin's appearance had only made the mutated killer whale and mutated giant octopus pause for a moment due to her sacred and pure presence, then Bai Xuan's arrival made them feel something from the depths of their very being — fear and reverence.
It wasn't only the perception of Bai Xuan's power. It was also their own Devil Fruit abilities.
The Devil Fruits were Bai Xuan's creation. Whether they had obtained those abilities through devourment or by consuming the fruits directly, they were both connected to him.
If he wished it, he could leverage that connection in an instant — redirecting their consciousness and thought, reshaping them into whatever "form" he desired.
Not that he had any interest in doing so. With the hold that [Authority of Nature] gave him over the Earth, he could accomplish that effortlessly without any connection at all.
Without question, the two creatures froze — as if time itself had stopped — locked in the positions they'd been in, not daring to move.
When Tenshi Zixin saw Bai Xuan, she drifted quietly to a position before him, placed her right hand over her heart, and bowed lightly.
"Greetings, chosen one. I am Sacred Kesha's right-wing guardian — Angel Zixin."
"Your information should have already reached you. Huaxia civilization — Bai Xuan, welcome to your arrival."
Bai Xuan replied.
"Additionally — on behalf of the Celestial Base King, I bring her regards."
As those words left her, Zixin seemed to remember something. A faint blush crept across her face. She stole a careful glance at Bai Xuan, then couldn't help dropping her gaze.
On behalf of the Celestial Base King Hexi?
It was only a single sentence from Zixin, but it was enough to infer something.
Bai Xuan already understood why Tenshi Zixin had come. Hikari hadn't tried to hide it — she'd stated the purpose openly and without reservation.
Field experience. Growth. Exchange. All of those were reasons. But more than anything, it was about seeing whether the two of them had any possibility of walking forward together.
The specific cause was undeniably the Sacred Knowledge Treasury.
98% compatibility. By all measures, Bai Xuan was the most suitable person for Tenshi Zixin — which, conversely, meant Tenshi Zixin was also the most suitable person for Bai Xuan.
Other worlds might produce someone even better matched. But that possibility was vanishingly small, approaching zero without quite reaching it.
With numbers like those, Sacred Kesha's decision to act wasn't difficult to understand.
What puzzled Bai Xuan was why the compatibility between him and Tenshi Zixin was this high in the first place. He had no doubts about the angel civilization's technology, nor about the Sacred Knowledge Treasury's accuracy in this domain.
The Treasury's calculations accounted for far more than genetic compatibility — it factored in personality, mentality, emotional resonance.
Current human technology had no way to accomplish that. The angel civilization did.
In the original story, what Tenshi Zixin wanted was a brave and kind person. Hikari had even explained her reasoning for choosing Zhao Xin — he didn't have Ge Xiaolun's indestructible body, yet he charged to the front without a second thought. That said something about his character.
There was also this: the Treasury's analytical accuracy was unquestioned — but angels could still choose whoever they loved. It was simply that when they actually met the person the Treasury had identified, the choice rarely needed to be made at all.
Because what the Treasury identified was almost always the angel's ideal.
But brave and kind?
Did he actually possess those qualities right now?
Bai Xuan genuinely doubted himself on that.
Though — everything he knew about this came from the animated work itself. Perhaps the angels had indeed originated from that story, their personalities and circumstances nothing more than settings and plot. But after Tenshi Hikari had joined the chat group, much had already changed.
That world was no longer something existing only in imagination. It was absolutely real.
Every story was branching toward a different path.
Fate had never been a fixed road. It stretched outward without limit, holding within it infinite possibility.
It was both vast in scale and immeasurably grand — an epic built collectively by countless living beings, each one a participant in its construction.
To exist within it was to find that even the smallest variable could unfold into limitless directions.
The Celestial Base King Hexi's distrust of the Sacred Knowledge Treasury was information Hikari and Bai Xuan had shared between them — yet Tenshi Zixin had said she was bringing greetings on behalf of the Celestial Base King.
Under normal circumstances, if it were Sacred Kesha's command, she would be representing Kesha.
So — the Celestial Base King Hexi had approved.
Had Sacred Kesha persuaded her? Or was there something else layered beneath this?
Bai Xuan shook his head. Honestly, he didn't enjoy overthinking things — but beings at the level of Sacred Kesha and Hexi, gods of a civilization of their caliber, tended to weigh every word and every decision with considerable deliberation.
The chat group held many powerful people. More would arrive in the future.
Their raw strength might surpass the angel civilization's by a wide margin — some of them capable of destroying planets or even galaxies without effort. Individual power far exceeding anything the angel civilization possessed, including Sacred Kesha herself.
But in terms of thought and wisdom, they weren't necessarily superior.
From what Bai Xuan remembered, many protagonists in the works he'd encountered ended up with extraordinary power by the end — reversing time, rewriting the past, nothing beyond their reach. And yet their behavior and decisions remained those of someone seventeen or eighteen years old.
The moment emotion rose in them, consequences ceased to matter. Context and causality ceased to matter.
Across countless years, their minds had barely grown at all.
Perhaps the protagonist's halo shielded them — they could act recklessly and follow every impulse without consequence.
But could people like that truly be called strong?
If that halo were stripped away — placed in a world that ran on reality rather than narrative — would they still have achieved what they had?
"Let's step back."
Bai Xuan glanced at the center of the battlefield where the mutated killer whale and mutated giant octopus were still locked together, and the corner of his mouth curved upward slightly.
Two mutated creatures, both possessing devourment ability.
One had devoured the Dark-Dark Fruit. The other the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
At the current rate — barring any surprise — the world was about to gain its own version of Blackbeard Teach.
A body built on the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, claiming the Dark-Dark Fruit's power through the ability of devourment.