A world-destroying fire ignited in his palm, emanating an unusual aura.
After devouring a world that had not completely collapsed, the World-Burning Flame grew stronger once more, and the aura it emitted was enough to make even a Great Venerable tremble.
The Celestial Destiny Venerable seemed to have already guessed what the fire Lin Moyu was talking about. He only glanced at it briefly before paying no more attention. His reaction confirmed to Lin Moyu that he definitely knew.
The Venerable One of Destiny sipped his tea and said slowly and methodically, "I have met you."
Lin Moyu said, "Does Fellow Daoist Tianming know that in the world I once lived in, there was a mysterious person?"
ADVERTISEMENTThe Celestial Destiny Venerable nodded slightly, "Of course I know, it was that person who gave you this fire."
Sure enough, he knew it all; he must have seen it when he was speculating about the future.
Putting away the world-burning flames, Lin Moyu said in a low voice, "Please explain in detail. If you have the means, you may open the door."
He still had some questions and curiosities about the mysterious master, and perhaps he could find the answers today. It wouldn't be a bad thing to pay a price for it.
Venerable Tianming shook his head, "No need. The original reason I called Fellow Daoist Lin over was to tell him some things."
He paused for a moment before continuing, "Actually, I was the one who started all of this."
Lin Moyu was somewhat surprised. He remained silent, waiting for the Venerable One of Destiny to continue.
"When I was making predictions about the future, I saw a lot. Everyone knows that there are countless possibilities for the future, which are constantly changing. A single prediction is not accurate, especially the longer the prediction period, the more accurate it becomes."
"The future I predicted back then involved something much more distant, so distant that the time could not be calculated accurately, and the accuracy was even lower. Even if I predicted it a hundred times, I would not have an accurate answer."
"Everyone thinks so, but they don't actually realize that the future can be predetermined to a certain extent."
"For example, I can solidify some conditions, so that under specific conditions in the future, they will become fixed and the variables will be greatly reduced."
"This is my ability. At the time, no one knew about it except myself. However, I had to find and pinpoint those conditions myself."
"Thus, through repeated deductions, I saw the most likely future, a future that did not undergo any changes. Even if I changed some conditions, the direction of this future remained stable, with minor differences but generally consistent."
ADVERTISEMENT"Therefore, I was 80% certain at the time that the future of our world seemed to have been fixed by some unknown."
"At that time, I met the future Fellow Daoist Lin. To be precise, I didn't know it was Fellow Daoist Lin at the time."
"(bfdd) At the same time, I also saw this peculiar fire."
"Fellow Daoist Lin, do you know why I know this fire is called the World-Burning Fire?"
Lin Moyu shook her head. "I don't know."
With a smile on his face and a calm tone, Venerable Tianming said, "In the future, there will be no sound, only images. But I discerned the name of this fire from the lip movements of Fellow Daoist Lin in the future: the World-Burning Fire. I think I am right."
Lin Moyu could tell from his confident tone that he was quite certain of his prediction.
"I have deduced the origin of this fire and know that no one but Fellow Daoist Lin can control it."
"Moreover, no matter how we deal with this fire, it will eventually return to Fellow Daoist Lin's hands for various reasons, because this fire belongs to Fellow Daoist Lin."
"However, different processes will lead to different results. If we seize this fire, we will all perish because of it, without exception."
"After informing everyone of this result and discussing it, we decided to hand over the fire to Fellow Daoist Lin as a way to establish a good relationship."
"The key issue is how to hand it over, so I came up with a solution. I had Fellow Daoist Tianzai create a clone, and when Fellow Daoist Lin arrives in this world, it will follow him to the world where Fellow Daoist Lin is and wait for him."
Lin Moyu said, "Wait a minute, I've only been in the Great World for a few decades since I was born, while the person who gave me fire was a figure from millions of years ago. The timeline doesn't match up."
The Celestial Destiny Venerable laughed and said, "Fellow Daoist Lin may not know, but before obtaining the Celestial Calamity Scepter, Fellow Daoist Tianzai was known as Celestial Venerable Tianyu.
He is skilled at manipulating time, and if he can combine it with some time-manipulating magic treasures or time-refining stones, reversing or accelerating time would not be difficult for him."
"In the small world where Fellow Daoist Lin was born, perhaps only a few decades have passed, but in the great world where that small world is located, millions of years have passed, and even tens or hundreds of millions of years have passed in the entire realm."
With the power of a Great Venerable, manipulating time within a realm is not difficult, let alone a small world within that realm.
Lin Moyu remained silent. With his current understanding, he knew that what the Venerable One of Destiny said was entirely possible.
Venerable Tianming continued, "I don't know what Fellow Daoist Tianming will ultimately choose to do, whether to reverse time or accelerate it. That's up to him to decide."
ADVERTISEMENT"But no matter what we do, a problem will arise: spacetime will become disordered, and things that do not belong to this world or to this spacetime may appear."
"It is also possible that things related to this world, which are clearly in another space-time, will be presented simultaneously somewhere in this world, and on a large scale."
Lin Moyu was startled. He realized that the ancient battlefield ruins he saw outside the Great World contained something similar to the Divine Tower, as well as Meng Anwen's message.
I've never understood how this came about. The small world was indeed taken away by the Great Lord of Calamity, but why did things from the small world appear in the large world? And why did the ancient battlefield ruins appear?
This mystery remained unsolved for so long, but now it's finally clear.
The small world belongs to the large world. Although it was separated from the large world and forcibly taken away, the small world and the large world still have a mysterious connection.
Because of the influence of time, some things that happen in the small world outside will also appear in the large world due to the distortion of spacetime and time.
This is like a void projection of a small world, entering the larger world along the rules.
In other words, Meng Anwen and his comrades may be fighting a major battle with some enemy elsewhere.
The projection of the great war enters the vast world along the rules, and is then materialized by the rules.
In reality, that great war never actually happened in the world.
It was a bit confusing, but Lin Moyu quickly sorted out her thoughts and figured out most of the things.
"Fellow Daoist Tianming, besides the World-Burning Flame, that mysterious master also seems to be connected with the undead..."
Lin Moyu was interrupted by the Celestial Destiny Venerable before she could finish her question.
Venerable Tianming said, "Fellow Daoist Lin, please don't be in a hurry.
Let me continue.
Fellow Daoist Tianzai has created an avatar.
His avatar will give the fire seed to Fellow Daoist Lin.
At the same time, I have also given him some projections of skeletal spirits so that he can refine them into his avatar."
"In this way, Fellow Daoist Lin will believe that he is related to the mysterious master, and will naturally form a karmic bond with Fellow Daoist Tianzai during the True Banquet."
"That's what I said at the time, and Fellow Daoist Tianzai didn't refuse. It seems he did just that."
"Actually, I know exactly what he's going to do."