Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle

*To her own surprise, the Fate Divine Spirit was extremely eager to recover her memories.*

*But she did not know why she wanted to regain them.*

*Reason told her she was merely curious as to why her heart ached so badly, wanting to solve the mystery.*

*Yet her feelings told her that if she did not recover her memories, she would lose something forever.*

*What she would lose was incredibly important to her, more important even than life itself!*

"The place where the Lady once lived?"

"Sure, sure."

"Master, let's take the Lady to see it."

Jiang Xue'an was extremely excited. If anyone present wanted most to see the Fate Divine Spirit reunited with the Master, it was her.

The Lady could fall in love with the Master once; she could fall in love a second time, a third time, an infinite number of times!

*Memories could not control everything.*

*She firmly believed in this truth.*

Xiao Ye sensed the Fate Divine Spirit's coldness toward him. His expression stiffened as he forced a smile and sighed,

"If you want to go, then we'll go with you."

"If your memories can't be restored, we can still be friends."

The obsession-formed Qingcheng had waited for him alone for a hundred years, then used her great divine power to destroy Ouyang Dingtian, causing her own soul to collapse and vanish.

*He owed this friendship.*

*Besides, somewhere in his heart, perhaps he still harbored hope—the hope that the Fate Divine Spirit would recover her memories and be with him once more.*

The coldness in the Fate Divine Spirit's eyes remained as she said politely, "Human Emperor, thank you."

"..." Xiao Ye's expression stiffened again,

*The wife who had once lain beside him now said thank you as if he were a stranger—so polite, so distant.*

*A strange pain stabbed through his heart.*

The Ancestral Empress's beautiful eyes shone with a glimmer,

The place where the Human Emperor had once lived?

As Empress, she had at this moment gotten the Human Emperor to lower his guard toward her; perhaps there was some goodwill as well.

*But she needed more than that, she needed to gain the Human Emperor's trust!*

*Make the Human Emperor fall for her, marry her!*

A blue Light Gate appeared, leading everyone into the Endless Void.

Cheng Bingxi went to cultivate in the Space-Time Hall.

Xiao Ye summoned the Bronze Hall, issuing a mental command for the Bronze Hall to spit out the Destiny Rule Origin Essence that had been inside the Altar World.

The massive, magnificent Destiny Rule Origin Essence, so vast the eye could not take in its end, returned to Blue Star's space. Spanning the Endless Void, its entire body radiated brilliant light and burst forth with endless vitality.

Countless strands of Destiny Rule Power pierced the void like chains, linking to every aspect of Blue Star.

Across the Blue Star World, the Destiny Rules that had almost vanished instantly filled up again.

Everyone's fate returned to its proper course.

Billions of humans who had fallen into madness suddenly recovered their senses and gazed around themselves in confusion.

Earlier, some of them had undergone drastic personality shifts, some had changed orientations, some had their fortunes altered, and so on.

Now, all of them reverted to normal.

Especially those humans and ferocious beasts with the Destiny Attribute—their Destiny Templates had suddenly become burdens, as useless as dead objects, unable to be sensed. No matter how they tried to adapt, they could not transform into beasts, could not use their Talent Skills, and their cultivation speed had plummeted to nearly nothing.

But now, the Destiny Templates and Destiny Attributes suddenly revived.

Their cultivation speed not only returned but was several times faster than before.

And the root of it all was in the Endless Void.

Under the Ancestral Empress's guidance, the Fate Divine Spirit controlled the Destiny Rule Origin Essence, letting it shine gloriously, bathing all living things of Blue Star in its light.

All living things, including Xiao Ye, Cheng Bingxi, Ziran.

Meanwhile,

The fate of trillions upon trillions of living beings on Blue Star appeared in her mind.

Humans, ferocious beasts, Magic Plants, Spiritual Artifacts, Supreme Treasures...

The destinies of all things were, in an instant, laid bare before her.

Past, present, future.

She saw it all clearly, knew it all inside and out.

*She could feel pain herself, so she paid special attention to the fates or glimpses of fate that brought pain to living things.*

Scene after scene flashed through her mind.

Disappointment, regret, love and longing.

All were scenes of families torn apart, shattered hopes, betrayal, getting stabbed in the back, lives gone awry, being abandoned, targeted, hunted, abused, loving in vain... and so forth.

The Fate Divine Spirit skimmed through these images indifferently, the coldness in her eyes growing ever more severe.

Finally, she looked away, consumed by a biting chill.

*Reason told her that maybe her own inner pain came from something similar.*

*Betrayed, or perhaps loving someone in vain?*

Xiao Ye watched quietly from the side, sensing the Fate Divine Spirit's chill growing ever stronger, with no idea what she was thinking about.

*But he could sense that the Fate Divine Spirit's cold indifference was directed at him.*

*This chill made him deeply uncomfortable, his brows tightly furrowed.*

The Fate Divine Spirit withdrew her will from the Destiny Rule Origin Essence and returned to her own body.

Her cold, beautiful face revealed the unrest within her heart.

Suddenly, she noticed that Xiao Ye and Ziran were also connected to Destiny Rule chains.

These chains allowed one to view the fate of a lifetime.

The Fate Divine Spirit's gaze penetrated the chains—wanting to see Xiao Ye's and Ziran's fates just as she did with all other living things.

In this way, she hoped to unravel the source of her own pain and curiosity.

But when she looked over, all she saw were two dense clouds of mist. The haze blocked her, even as the Fate Divine Spirit, from seeing anything.

*Why was it like this?*

Human Emperor and Ziran—were they not both from Blue Star?

*Why could she not see these two people's destinies, nor change them, let alone control them?*

As the Fate Divine Spirit, she could see the destinies of all living beings in existence, could alter their fate, could command their fate.

If she willed someone to live, they would live; if she willed them to die, they would die.

Should she will them to have repeated good fortune or constant misfortune, for their cultivation to skyrocket or collapse, all could be accomplished at a snap of her fingers, with a single thought.

But the destinies of the Human Emperor and Ziran...

They were not under the control of the Destiny Rule Origin!

Their fates were even beyond the Destiny Rule Origin Essence, their statuses even higher than its own.

As the Fate Divine Spirit, who governed destiny, she could not see an inch of their fate, much less change or control it.

She suddenly looked at her own fate, and to her astonishment, found that hers too was a haze of mist.

*She could not even control her own fate? What kind of Fate Divine Spirit was that?*

At that moment, she suddenly understood.

Divine Spirits were not omnipotent. There were some things even Divine Spirits could do nothing about!

Withdrawing her gaze, the Fate Divine Spirit rubbed her temples in frustration.

The Human Emperor had said she died to save him.

*Was the reason for her pain really unrequited love?*

*But what was love, anyway?*

In the fate of Blue Star's beings, love meant flushed cheeks and a racing heart. It meant enduring companionship, growing old together…

The Fate Divine Spirit shook her head.

*She could see others' destinies, but as of now, she did not understand what love was.*

The Ancestral Empress waved her hand, and a Spatial Teleportation Gate appeared before everyone. She smiled and said,

"Blue Star is back on the right track."

"Fate Divine Spirit, if you want to see the place where you once lived, come with us."

"Hang City Base City—that is where you spent many years."

The Fate Divine Spirit gave Xiao Ye a cold glance, then stepped into the teleportation gate.

Sighing, Xiao Ye's face filled with complex emotion as he pulled Ziran and Jiang Xue'an in after her.

The Ancestral Empress noticed all this, filled with thoughts of her own.