Wei Yan withdrew his Divine Awareness, allowing his pupils to return to their normal pitch-black color, but his focus remained locked on the final, most striking anomaly. Unlike the other fragments of color that were gifts or talents, the rainbow light that swooped toward the back of Yonghe Middle School's gymnasium carried the Burden of Real Destiny—a cosmic responsibility whose weight could crush the souls of ordinary people if they lacked a vessel strong enough to accommodate it. With calm but determined steps, Wei Yan began walking away from the management room, parting the crowd of students still joking around, unaware that the world order had just shifted in their school.
Every step Wei Yan took toward the back of the gymnasium felt like a synchronization between the real world and the dimensional authority he possessed. He could feel the rainbow's frequency vibrating violently, trying to connect with a host amidst the increasingly clear din: the sounds of mocking laughter and suppressed sobs. There, amidst the dull dust of the school year 2016, the most unpredictable laws of destiny were being forcibly enacted. Wei Yan emerged from behind the corner of the wall just as the rainbow light completely absorbed the previously overlooked figure, causing his eyes to narrow as he realized who the anomaly had just chosen to shoulder the heavy burden that would likely disrupt the tranquility of his "normal times."
Wei Yan follow the one that caught his eyes that make he immediately move to that direction.
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Wei Yan take a peek and stood just a few meters away from the bullying ring, leaning his shoulder against a concrete pillar as he watched the rainbow fragment within Lin Fan begin to vibrate violently, ready to explode to turn the tide. However, his sharp eyes soon caught another detail hanging around the teenager's neck—a unique jade pendant, a pale green tending to white, protruding from the torn collar of his uniform. The pendant emitted a faint, ancient resonance, as if acting as a physical anchor for the rainbow energy that had just descended from the heavens.
The scene felt so real yet so artificial to someone who had traversed the multiverse and been reincarnated like himself. The appearance of a downtrodden child, the hidden heirloom, and the great destiny that had just descended; all these variables combined to create a scenario too perfect to be mere coincidence. A faint, ironic smile tugged at Wei Yan's lips as he realized the irony of the reality he was facing in Yonghe City.
As he tidied up his clean, spotless graduation document folder, he muttered softly in a tone only he could hear, "Isn't this cliché almost like the novel I read?"
Wei Yan continued to observe with an increasingly sharp gaze. He realized that the synchronization between this event and the literary patterns he knew was almost too precise to be considered a mere anomaly.
"Enrolling in high school..." he muttered to himself, clutching the blue folder in his hand.
He concluded that Lin Fan was currently at point zero of that clichéd timeline. In most urban cultivation novels he had read, the protagonist's timeline usually began just before the National High School Examination—a moment when social, academic, and humiliation pressures were at their peak, the perfect catalyst for the awakening of hidden powers. However, Lin Fan had just graduated from junior high school and was about to enroll in the same high school as him at Yonghe.
This meant that Lin Fan was in the early preparation phase, long before the great "storm" of the final year of high school began. Wei Yan's analysis continued with a colder analogy: he saw this phenomenon as the process of weaving destiny, but at this point the universe had only provided the ideas and materials. The fabric of destiny had yet to be woven; Lin Fan was just the raw thread that had just been dyed by the rainbow fragments, while the white-green jade pendant was the needle.
Everything is still just unformed potential. For Wei Yan, this is an incubation period where the "protagonist" will begin to accumulate his strength. If this timeline continues to follow the pattern of the novel, then their high school years in Yonghe will no longer be simply a place to study, but a stage where the threads of fate will intertwine, overlap, and ultimately form a pattern that determines who will reign supreme at the top of this new world hierarchy.
Wei Yan closed his eyes again for a moment, expanding the reach of his Divine Consciousness to synchronize more specific data. If Lin Fan was the male variable carrying the rainbow anomaly, he needed to determine where the other fate fragments—especially those that fell to women—were located within Yonghe City.
His scan revealed a highly structured distribution map, as if fate were arranging the pieces on a chessboard. On the educational level, Wei Yan discovered three dominant entities whose energies had recently advanced; they were confirmed to be attending Yonghe National High School, the same building as his destination. Meanwhile, the other four were scattered throughout the city's junior high schools, likely the seeds of power that would blossom in the future.
His scan extended to the public sector, where he detected two women holding strategic positions in two different companies in Yonghe's business district, emanating a strong aura of golden prosperity. However, what caught his attention most were five individuals affiliated with the city's major families. They are caught in a family dynamic that Wei Yan is very familiar with through novel literature: some are revered as "golden children" because of their new talents, and others are being suppressed as "family disgraces" because their powers have not yet fully awakened.
"Just within the city of Yonghe, the distribution is already this dim and complex," Wei Yan thought as his eyes reopened, staring coldly at the still-slumped Lin Fan. He realized that Yonghe had now become a miniature stage for the multiverse. With so many clichéd variables gathered in one city—from the corporate genius to the outcast young lady of a major family—the stage for his high school years had been perfectly set as the center of a storm of destiny that was just beginning.
Wei Yan's mind sharpened as his Divine Consciousness penetrated the deepest social strata of Yonghe. Amidst the majestic energy radiance, he detected three signs of destiny pulsing at different frequencies—frequencies born of suffering and perseverance. They were women from commoner backgrounds trapped in tragic situations: one struggling as a single parent, one caring for a seriously ill parent, and the other a girl who helped her parents sell food every night at Yonghe's night market.
For this world's narrative, they were strong candidates to be the "heroines" to be rescued by the protagonist. However, Wei Yan was no mere spectator.
"The beginning phase is the phase in which the foundation is laid," he thought coldly. Without hesitation, he began manipulating the energy flow that had just descended. Using his authority as a dimensional ruler who had traversed the multiverse, Wei Yan performed a locking and redirection of destiny. He severed the threads of causality that would have connected these destiny hosts to Lin Fan or some other random variable, then reconnected them to the center of his own energy orbit. Metaphysically, he had simply hijacked the universe's script before it could even be read.
Wei Yan didn't stop there, spreading subtle yet irresistible mental suggestion frequencies. Specifically for seven selected individuals—including those with dominant potential and those with tragic backgrounds—he implanted a powerful subconscious urge. Whatever financial obstacles or family problems they faced, their minds were now locked on a single goal: enrolling and attending Yonghe National High School.
With this single action, Wei Yan had set the chessboard. He had gathered all the crucial variables, all the highest-quality "ingredients" of destiny, into one place. When the new school year began at Yonghe, National High School would be no mere school, but a gilded cage where Wei Yan held the key to complete control over all the main actors of destiny.
He looked back at Lin Fan, who was still curled up on the ground, while the rainbow light on the boy's body dimmed as if he had lost his bearings. Wei Yan's smile widened slightly, filled with a quiet triumph. "The materials are all gathered on one table. Now, let's see how this stitch will turn out in the future."
With the asset analysis complete, it was now time to make the call. Wei Yan turned to leave the warehouse area, ignoring Lin Fan, then reached for his phone to call one of his women in charge of the business sector. As soon as the dial tone connected, his cold expression melted into an intimate warmth. "Honey, I miss you. Have you eaten?" Wei Yan greeted softly, letting his tone caress the woman on the other end of the line with the deep affection of a husband.
Hearing the sweet reply from the other end, Wei Yan smiled faintly as he continued walking toward the school gates, with no intention of ending the conversation. "I have a small request for you, honey. Please transfer one million to Yonghe National High School immediately. I've already decided to attend there, so make sure everything is ready for me."