Chapter 25 - Lin Mufa

Currently, it was in the middle of the day.

Wang Tian was sitting on the front porch of the only big house in the village, his gaze upward toward the blue sky in the distance, eyes blurry.

Quite a long time passed while Wang Tian waited in the village. More than two years to be exact.

While he might look like he was just idling every day, Wang Tian's divine senses were observing this mortal realm.

He watches as the people in this realm were living their life, at the same time, he was looking at their destiny.

He found the fate of some people to be dense enough that he had to pay great attention to them. But that was all there was to it.

He didn't try to interfere with anything. Wang Tian was watching them like he was watching tv shows. Some of them were interesting enough to watch, and some were not.

Today was just the same as the other days, after a daily scan of the whole realm, Wang Tian retracted his divine sense and looks in the distance towards the line of trees at the edge of the village.

In the distance, a figure could be seen moving under a tree followed by a rhythmic sound of the tree being hit by a sharp object.

A middle-aged man was under the said tree, chopping it.

Lin Mufa.

It was the name of the middle-aged man.

Lin Mufa arrived just yesterday evening, exhausted, with small injuries all over his body.

He was both lucky and unlucky to be in such a state. He was lucky because the beasts in this area had long gone after being scared by Wang Tian's aura just after Wang Tian arrived here, otherwise, the bear would not be the concern Lin Mufa would have. And he was unlucky because just before he arrived in this village, he was chased by a bear.

What he didn't know was the bear had long stopped chasing after him when he was near the proximity of the village. If it was any other village, the bear would've chased Lin Mufa inside the village.

The village, the 5 houses, was located at the center of a clearing with quite a large space before the edge of the forest.

While Lin Mufa was running from the bear, Wang Tian had actually noticed him long before Lin Mufa even met the bear.

Wang Tian had noticed him when Lin Mufa had just entered the forest on the other side of the mountain. Just a little further away, there was a village with a few dozen people.

Yesterday, the village was raided by a group of bandits.

Wang Tian knew it but he didn't pay the village any attention, much less offer some help. He could do it with ease but such was the way of the world. Wang Tian was not here to save people. If they come to his front door, so be it. But he would not move

Bandit raid was a common thing in this world. If the villagers had the power, retaliating against the bandits would be the normal course of action.

Unfortunately, the villagers were only farmers and some weak hunters. They couldn't do anything towards the bandits equipped with better leather armor and lethal weapons.

Almost all the villagers were killed save a few who managed to escape in the chaos.

The surviving few villagers spread in all directions but only Lin Mufa ran towards the forest, in the direction of the mountain. And the rest was history. As for Lin Mufa's small injuries, that was because he had run through some thick bushes and branches. In the process, he lost his sense of direction for a bit and met a bear.

After running away aimlessly from the bear, Lin Mufa arrived at the vicinity of Wang Tian's village and was saved.

Wang Tian didn't expect Lin Mufa to arrive in this village safely. Wang Tian had thought that Lin Mufa would be killed by the bear. That's because Lin Mufa doesn't even have a sliver of fate in him.

In some scenarios, when someone with no fate was being chased by something dangerous, they would usually die. And if someone with fate was in that position, they would sometimes either manage to reverse the situation or they would fall into some unexpected lucky encounter.

And Lin Mufa was obviously someone with no fate in him, so the second scenario was not possible.

After Wang Tian investigates Lin Mufa's fate, Wang Tian found out that Lin Mufa was supposed to die in this village, exactly where he had just passed out from being exhausted, Lin Mufa would then be killed by the bear after it catches up.

However, something changed.

Wang Tian had a clue about what it was.

The moment he arrives and resides here in this village, the fates of some people would change. Specifically, the people who were supposed to meet their end in this village, near this village, or if they just had to pass this village.

It was not noticeable in the short term, but when enough time passes and more people arrive here, the chain reaction of Wang Tian residing here in this village would be even more noticeable.

Although Wang Tian was curious about the people who might come here, he didn't try to find them. When the time comes, he would find out eventually. And if he likes them, he might consider taking them in. If not, he would just send them off on their way. But that doesn't mean he would kill them, he would let them out into the world to see what they can do to change the fate of others after they strayed off their initial fate where they weren't supposed to exist anymore, or in another word, already dead.

The day after, when Lin Mufa woke up on a bed, he was surprised at his healthy and clean body without any visible injuries or even hidden ones.

After Lin Mufa went outside and saw a young man in the village, he immediately knew who had saved him. He went straight in front of the young man and kneeled down while offering his words of gratitude.

"Master Immortal, thank you for saving my life!"

It was the only thing he could do. Besides, even though his injuries weren't life-threatening, to heal his body in a single day and even get rid of his hidden injuries, only the immortals could do it.

"It was nothing, stand up." replied the young man shortly and Lin Mufa was brought to stand unknowingly.

"Since you have nowhere else to go, you may stay here."

After Lin Mufa thought about it, he realized that really he had nowhere else to go back to.

While he was still thinking about it, the young man pulled an axe out of thin air and gave it to him.

"Take this, this is for you."

"Thank you, Master Immortal!" Lin Mufa replied as kneeled down in gratitude.

"My surname is Wang. You can address me as Young Master Wang. And stop kneeling. A bow would suffice."

"Yes, Young master!" Lin Mufa was about to kneel again but he managed to stop himself and bowed.

The young immortal master should've known that he was a woodchopper since he was given an axe, but Lin Mufa tried not to think how he knows. He knew that the young man was a master immortal, and that kind of thing must've been easy for him.

"There are 4 empty houses there. Choose whichever you like."

"Yes, young master!"

"Now go."

Looking at the 4 houses facing each other in pairs across the road, Lin Mufa chose the one on the right side of the main house. It was closer to the main house where the young master lived. So he decided to choose that one, in case of the young master ever need his help, he could be there as soon as possible.

After looking around inside the small house for a while, Lin Mufa thought that this house was so much better than his previous one, which was kind of obvious. It was even much better than the house owned by a merchant in his previous village.

After that, Lin Mufa went out of the house and headed straight to the edge of the clearing to start his work. At least familiarizing himself first.

The days soon passed.

With the addition of someone else in the village, although it was only a single person, Wang Tian felt nice about Lin Mufa's presence.

Perhaps it was because he had lived with Liu Kong previously, but Wang Tian actually felt a bit lonely in the two years before Lin Mufa arrived.

Even though Wang Tian was observing this realm every day, it was a different thing.

It's like when you are home alone watching the television versus when you are at home with someone else but you were the only one watching the television. The vibe just hits differently for some reason.

Perhaps it was one of the reasons why Wang Tian decides to let Lin Mufa stays. After all. Wang Tian was still a human at his core no matter what kind of being he was right now. And humans are social creatures.