Chapter 42: Stone of Destiny (1/2)

All of the windows in Wang Chong’s room were shut, even the doors were latched. At this moment, it was as though his room was a separate world.

And Wang Chong was at the center of this ‘world’!

“Think, think! What did I just hear? Destiny, destiny…”

Wang Chong sat by the side of his bed with his eyes closed. He tried his best to recall the words of the voice he heard in the main hall. Subconsciously, he rubbed his hands against his knees.

Wang Chong didn’t even feel that nervous when he led thousands of troops to conquer the battlefields in his previous life.

But now, Wang Chong felt tense.

“Right, Destiny Struggler! It’s Destiny Struggler! …”

Weng! The moment the words ‘Destiny Struggler’ flashed across Wang Chong’s mind, it was as though he had found the key to opening a gate and changes immediately occurred within Wang Chong’s mind.

A huge amount of information surged into Wang Chong’s mind, and Wang Chong heard that emotionless mechanical voice once more. Just that this time, the content was slightly greater than what he heard previously:

【User has awakened! You have successfully altered the destiny of your clan and received the approval of your clan. Thus, you have been awarded the title ‘Destiny Struggler’!]

【Destiny Warrior: Everyone is just a tiny insignificant ant on the web of destiny. The more one struggles, the tighter one is bound by it!]

【Title: Destiny Struggler. Reward: 50 Destiny Energy!]

…

Upon hearing those voice, all kinds of illusions flashed across Wang Chong’s eyes. They were all the various matters that had happened after Wang Chong’s reincarnation; Admitting his fault before his parents, causing a ruckus at the Vast Crane Pavilion, persuading his father… All of it appeared one after another. Wang Chong felt like an onlooker evaluating his previous actions.

Sssss!

Upon seeing this sight, Wang Chong gasped. His conjecture wasn’t wrong, something had really happened to him.

That bizarre voice and the ‘Destiny Struggler’ clearly weren’t normal. No wonder his body felt more nimble after his reincarnation. No wonder he felt practicing Dragon Bone Art was significantly easier than before. No wonder he absorbed the Body Tempering Pill much faster than he had expected…

In that instant, Wang Chong understood that the feeling he felt wasn’t an illusion. There was truly some kind of mysterious power within his body.

But why did he never felt it before?

A storm raged in Wang Chong’s mind. Thinking back, the moment when the voice appeared was when he received the approval of his big uncle, who usually disliked him.

“…So, does this mysterious power require certain conditions to be activated?”

Wang Chong sat motionlessly by the bed.

Today’s events were too shocking to Wang Chong. He needed to ponder over the matter to comprehend what was happening to him.

“User has awakened… Is that referring to me? Since it appeared in me, does it mean that I have become its host? But what did ‘Destiny Struggler’ mean? Did it appear because my actions has changed the destiny of myself and my clan?”

Countless thoughts flashed through Wang Chong’s mind. The three sentences gave him too few information to infer what was going on so Wang Chong could only try to dredge up as much as he could from them.

Furthermore, regardless of how that mysterious voice came about, Wang Chong’s intuition told him that it had to do with his reincarnation.

In his previous life, such an incident had never occurred.

All of this started only after his reincarnation.

“…So, is it all because of that shooting star?”

Somehow, that shooting star floated into Wang Chong’s thoughts. That was his final sight before his death in his previous life, and it was a mystery which had plagued him since.

Weng!

Just when the thought appeared in Wang Chong’s eyes, the sight before him suddenly turned dark and Wang Chong found himself standing within an endless space of emptiness.

The darkness stretched beyond the horizons, and at the very center of this darkness, a slight radiance appeared. Then, it slowly expanded a hundredfold, forming a mountain-like bundle of light.

“It’s that shooting star!”

Wang Chong’s heart tightened as he recognized that bundle of light.

The bundle of light was the radiance from the shooting star Wang Chong last saw before his death. At the same time, it was the ‘culprit’ for bringing him over from another space-time continuum on a sweltering summer to this world.

Looking at the brilliance which could match up to a comet, for a moment, Wang Chong was at a loss for words.

After going through so much, Wang Chong had never thought that he would see it again under such a situation.

“Indeed, everything that had happened is related to it!”

Wang Chong muttered as he fell into deep contemplation. He felt complex emotions toward the shooting star. On one hand, it was an object of intense loathe. It was the one who destroyed his very first life by forcefully dragging him into this world.