The graduation assessments of the four grades were all over, and after determining the number of students who needed to be admitted for the new autumn examination, Xia Fan, the chief examiner of the autumn examination, came to the main square of Shenwu Academy.

The gate of the academy had not yet opened, and there were only two people in the large square at this time, he and Yuzhen.

Originally, according to the usual practice, the entrance examination should be divided into two sessions: morning and afternoon.

But Xia Fan felt troublesome, so he simply combined these two occasions into one, canceled the entrance assessment in the morning, and held it in the afternoon when the sun was about to set.

The number of students to be recruited for this autumn examination is no different from that of previous years, the difference in number is very small, and the number of people who come to take the exam has not changed.

If it was carried out according to the rules of the previous exam, it would have to be carried out all day, so Xia Fan even simplified the assessment directly.

I just haven't told anyone else about it yet.

Anyway, Yu Yan let him be fully responsible, and he naturally has the right to change the assessment method.

"Are you sure you're leaving?"

Aftershock asked, holding a broom, sweeping the ground of the square little by little.

"Well, after selecting the freshmen for the autumn examination today, I will probably leave the capital early tomorrow morning."

Xia Fan nodded, and then asked curiously: "Why do you have to plan so much, with your realm, you can directly use your vitality to blow all this dust away." ”

"Wouldn't that be a lot less fun? I've lived in the academy for decades, and I'm very familiar with every grass, tree, brick, and tile here, and I love the joy of cleaning with your own hands, and you're too young to understand. ”

Aftershock said leisurely.

"Okay...... Kindness...... I had a question in my mind that I had been trying to figure out. It's just that you said before that it was a secret and couldn't tell me, but I have to leave tomorrow, and if I don't understand, I'm really unwilling. ”

Xia Fan touched the tip of his nose, and then said: "On the first day I first came to the academy, I was stunned by the vitality leaked by that mysterious sealing box in your basement, and afterwards I asked you what was in that box, but you didn't tell me. I don't know now...... Can you say that? ”

"This one...... How so...... Your Majesty summoned our brothers before the big trip, so His Majesty also told the two of us some things, such as ...... Something about the Suzaku Holy Emperor. ”

Yu Zhen stopped his cleaning movements, looked at Xia Fan with a strange gaze and said.

Xia Fan tensed, and suddenly turned his head to look at the aftershock.

"Don't be nervous, about the fact that you have the inheritance of the Vermilion Bird Holy Emperor, after Your Majesty's big trip, only our brothers should know. As for the inherited treasure set, our brothers don't have any ideas. Destiny is ethereal but real. Just like the Vermilion Bird Holy Emperor Treasure Refining Set, it is not available to those who have great chances and atmospheric luck, so in my opinion, you may have a lot of ups and downs in this life, but you are bound to reach the peak in the end. Because fate ...... On your side. ”

Yu Zhen reached out and patted Xia Fan's shoulder, and said very easily.

"Fate?"

Xia Fan frowned slightly.

"Believe it or not, there is indeed a destiny in this world. I have seen many young talents like you, who are full of self-confidence, who only believe in the sword in their own hands, and never believe in the so-called destiny. They believe that man will conquer the heavens, and their own destiny will be controlled by themselves. But these people ...... In the end, they all succumbed to the arrangement of fate, without exception. ”

Aftershock looked at the sunset that had begun to set in the distance, and said with some feeling.

"I don't understand much...... What do you mean...... A lot of things are already predestined? Whether you do it or not, or how you do it, the end result cannot be changed? ”

Xia Fan asked tentatively.

"That's right, the world is wonderful, once there was an inner region mighty who flew up to the sky, and found that the whole world was round and round, and beyond the continent was an endless ocean, and it was boundless from afar. We don't know what is outside the world, even if there are rumors that the center of the inner domain is the Tower of Babel, but no one has really been able to successfully climb to the top, so strictly speaking, the perception of the world is still at a rather shallow stage. ”

Aftershock withdrew his gaze towards the sunset, looked at Xia Fan very meaningfully, and continued: "I don't know if you feel this way, this world ...... Don't you think it's alive? ”

Is the world alive?

Xia Fan's pupils contracted instantly, and this was the second time he had heard this.

The first time I heard it, it was from Lijue, who was in the Beast Wasteland at that time, and Lijue told him such a sentence.

Although Xia Fan thought about what this sentence meant, but then came to the capital, and all kinds of things happened one after another, making him gradually forget about this matter.

Unexpectedly, just when he was about to forget, he actually heard this sentence again from the mouth of Aftershock.

Xia Fan's back was cold, and for the first time he had some kind of weird feeling.

"The world is a living ......"

Xia Fan muttered and repeated.

"Actually, I also had this feeling after breaking through and transcending the level of the Supreme of Martial Arts, so under the level of the Supreme of Martial Arts, it should not be possible to have this kind of cognition. I don't know how to describe it to you, I can only choose this way that you can probably understand, the despair of our world is that the fate of all people has been determined from the moment he was born, and there is no power to change it. “

Aftershock grinned, a somewhat desolate smile.

didn't give Xia Fan a chance to reply, so he continued: "I also felt ridiculous after thinking about this matter at first, but looking back on my life and thinking about it carefully, it seems that this is indeed the case. So from then on, I no longer continued to work hard to cultivate, but hid in the academy and did something I liked, if fate allowed me to break through and become a saint, then I would naturally be able to become a saint, if fate I was destined to not be a saint, then no matter how hard I tried, it would be useless. ”

"I've always felt ...... This kind of thinking seems a little too extreme......"

Xia Fan's brows furrowed even deeper, because he vaguely felt that what Aftershock said should be right.

It's just that why this is the case will take time and other experiences to verify and recourse.

"The reason why I'm telling you this is just so that you can see more clearly, the thing like the treasure refining set handed down by the Vermilion Bird Holy Emperor is destined to be the darling of fate, and it can't be obtained by the Chosen Son, since it has fallen into your hands, then in my opinion, many times you don't need to be so careful. Because destiny is on your side, what is there to be afraid of? ”

The aftershock's voice was a little erratic, and it seemed to be a little emotional.

Xia Fan tilted his head and thought for a while, and said, "I know, perhaps, I should indeed be more proactive." ”