Chapter 731 - 461: Attempting Possession (Part 2)
Moreover, fortune also follows cycles. Typically, a person’s fortune is heavily influenced by celestial bodies, resulting in significant changes daily, monthly, and annually.
In traditional mystical study, there’s another saying: a minor cycle every five years, a major cycle every ten years.
Every ten years, a major cycle is replaced,
If you had good luck in the past ten years, your luck might diminish in the next ten years,
Conversely, if you had bad luck in the past ten years, your luck might improve in the next ten years.
And because everyone starts their cycle in different years, the timing of each person’s major cycle change is also different.
Many people might clearly feel that after a certain time point, their overall fortune seems to significantly rise or fall.
But some people cannot perceive it because their fortune changes are not noticeable.
This kind of intangible thing is hard to detect unless the change is very obvious or precisely monitored and recorded,
And usually, only oneself can detect their fortune changes.
Unless a person suddenly gains a large amount of money after a particular time, they become noticeable to others.
Although there are formulas to calculate fortune in mystical study, few people bother to calculate others’ fortunes.
However, Wang Ye nowadays could see through someone’s fortune at a glance.
Because, to put it simply, fortune is the sum of variables. Once you understand the variables, you can easily see the geometry of a person’s fortune.
If an ordinary person’s single day is rated as 1, Wang Ye’s fortune now exceeds quadrillions, making it very difficult to calculate using numbers, as the variables within him are nearly infinite.
This is sometimes referred to as the weight of fate. In the comic "Under One Person," there’s a similar explanation—"the sum of individual changes is the whole world’s change. A stone weathers, I eat a few pickles, both are part of world change, but individual changes affect the world change to differing extents. Some people strive hard but cannot make waves; some make a slight mistake and the world turns upside down. The weight of fate is different."
The weight of fate doesn’t fully manifest in strength but also in potential.
Strength is only a small part of fate’s weight,
But if a person’s potential is high enough, it can make fate’s weight explode.
Even without this strength, the system hidden in Wang Ye’s mind could offer him an infinitely high fate’s weight.
And a person’s fate weight, or fortune, also affects the fortunes of those around them.
For instance, Old Yi before him, as a high-ranking military officer, his fate weight is only a hundred times that of an ordinary person, but now, influenced by Wang Ye, it’s pushed to five digits.
This is because Old Yi’s future has been completely altered by Wang Ye’s fate weight, and the heights he might reach have been elevated exponentially.
If Old Yi is like a meteorite commonly seen in the cosmos, Wang Ye is a black hole at the center of the cosmos. He can change the course of this meteorite from countless light years away.
"Since the future can’t be changed, what’s the point of knowing it?" Old Yi seems to be in deep thought.
"It makes your direction clearer," Wang Ye said. "The future doesn’t need changing, you just need to comply with your future."
Human nature will always lead people to try changing what cannot be changed.
But in reality, it’s meaningless.
Following the wind, although the direction is not under your control, will be much more comfortable than against it.
Conversely, if you start walking against the wind, you might exhaust halfway, eventually returning to the intended direction and ending,
so changing is meaningless; rather than changing, it’s better to comply with the future from the start.
All the futures Wang Ye sees, he never tries to change, always acting according to the future he predicts.
And even if he could change the future, it would not benefit Wang Ye in the slightest. If the future proceeds as he predicts, he can fully control the future. This comprehensive control is very addictive, but if he changes the future, he cannot control it anymore, needing to recalculate to know the new future.
Know that calculation has inertia, if he never tried changing the future, and the future hasn’t changed, he can continue using the existing information and formulas for prediction. But if the future is changed, he needs to start calculations anew, and the amount of computation is extremely daunting, even Wang Ye finds it intolerable.
Seeing Old Yi appearing confused, Wang Ye smiled and interrupted: "Alright, stop pondering. I have a more important matter to discuss with you."
Old Yi looked up and asked, "What is it?"
Wang Ye succinctly said, "I want to try possessing you."
But this statement left Old Yi shocked, "Possessing? Is it the Primordial Spirit Emergence you demonstrated to me a few days ago?"
Wang Ye nodded and explained: "That’s right, I will try to temporarily replace your Primordial Spirit, taking control of your body.
During this process, try to relax and don’t resist, or it will harm your Primordial Spirit.
If all goes well, neither of us should have any side effects.
Moreover, my Primordial Spirit will also enhance your physical qualities, stimulate your body potential and healing ability, improve your genes, directly evolving you to a higher level, maybe even painlessly transcend human limits and step into the extraordinary.
Of course, if you think the risks are too high, you can refuse. But you must help me find another candidate."
After saying that.
He quietly waited for Old Yi’s response.
Hearing this, Old Yi thought for a long time before responding: "I have no problem, possess me."
This opportunity to be possessed while enhancing physical quality is very rare.
He also reviewed the situation of that test subject some days ago,
Although they could evolve their body by absorbing the mist released by the Crystal Cluster,
They still couldn’t avoid the step of cultivation and absorption.
Moreover, the consumption of the Crystal Cluster is huge,
But now Wang Ye gave him a chance to painlessly break through human limits. How could he refuse this opportunity? Although he is now old and no longer has the same physical demands as ordinary soldiers, this doesn’t mean he doesn’t need physical quality anymore. In fact, it’s because he’s old that he craves youthfulness and health more,
Years of intense military training when young left many old injuries on his body,
And now aging, these old injuries flared up, most being bone issues like knee joints, elbow joints, ankle joints, spine, etc.
These bone-related old injuries make him need to walk slowly, or the pain becomes unbearable.
And Wang Ye placed before him the opportunity to step into the extraordinary, how could he miss it?
This outcome did not surprise Wang Ye, he calmly said: "Sit in the chair, relax, and prepare yourself."
"Okay."
Following Wang Ye’s instructions, Old Yi sat in the chair,
Then quietly waited for Wang Ye’s possession.
The process of possession is invisible and intangible. Old Yi only felt a strong force pushing his body backward, suddenly his vision went black, feeling like being forcefully stuffed into a washing machine, spinning wildly, he wanted to vomit but couldn’t because he is now in a pure Primordial Spirit form, without digestive organs, naturally can’t vomit.
This feeling resembles when the protagonist in "Doctor Strange" was hit by the Ancient One and his Soul was ejected.
But it’s more mystical.
More ethereal.
However, in the current actual world.
Old Yi, who was sitting quietly with eyes closed, unexpectedly opened his eyes.
But his eyes no longer looked muddy as before, instead carried an irresistible sharpness.
"Very good, succeeded."
The voice coming from his throat turned out to be Wang Ye’s.