Chapter 1639: Chapter 147: Facing the Saint Master Directly!
Zhou Yan stood outside the Tianji Sect, completely unable to perceive the existence of the Tianji Sect.
If it weren’t for the unique sensing of the Heavenly Mechanism Power that felt like a soul tethering a dream, Zhou Yan might even doubt whether the Tianji Sect existed here.
It seemed, in an instant, the seas had transformed into mulberry fields.
The once vast mountains, with their complex landscapes, had changed entirely, becoming exceptionally ordinary, without any trace of the beautiful yet perilous charm.
"Tianji Mountain... it seems to have truly overlapped with the Tianji Mountain of past memories. It seems as if the future has returned to the past, but time is continuously flowing forward, only due to the change in rules that led to this occurrence."
"Perhaps we can see what different developments and changes will happen in the future."
"Just as... something that has always puzzled me still lies hidden in my heart."
Zhou Yan murmured to himself.
The initial confusion had completely vanished.
Zhou Yan was no longer the ignorant Zhou Yan from the Sword Burial Ancestor Star.
Even if there are doubts, now, with extreme capability, Zhou Yan can quickly derive part of the results.
Then, after thoroughly understanding numerous results, the world harbors hardly any secrets.
For him, strategizing is quite simple.
Zhou Yan flew around Tianji Mountain in a circle and then instinctively took out a Heavenly Mechanism Soul Stone, starting to condense Soul Energy runes and begin engraving.
The Heavenly Mechanism Soul Stone, after changing the Tianji Thirty-Three Heavenly Road and the Heavenly Mechanism Hall, still had five pieces left.
And now, Zhou Yan took out one to attempt a derivation experiment.
Because there are some things, seemingly, he now has a profound understanding and some analysis.
In Zhou Yan’s hands, the Heavenly Mechanism Soul Stone, after carrying Zhou Yan’s soul aura, engraved with complex Heavenly Mechanism Runes, formed a token akin to a Heavenly Mechanism Order.
Soon, this token was like the Ten Thousand Soul Heavenly Mechanism Order in Zhou Yan’s hand before.
After Zhou Yan carefully refined it, this Heavenly Mechanism Soul Token, amidst the endless Heavenly Mechanism Power and Soul Energy rune combinations, flickered with light and after a moment, transformed into a state of Return to the Truth.
Quickly, this state of the Heavenly Mechanism Soul Token turned to a pale gray, but its ancient charm was exactly the same as the Ten Thousand Soul Heavenly Mechanism Order.
Not only the various textures and marks, but even the old and mottled aura were identical.
Zhou Yan looked at the Ten Thousand Soul Heavenly Mechanism Order in his hand, his eyes reflecting a thoughtful expression.
After a long time, his expression remained unchanged, but his eyes harbored a glimmer of bizarre and complex hues.
"This Heavenly Mechanism Order is nearly identical to the first Heavenly Mechanism Order I obtained."
"The familiar feeling I had back then came from my familiarity with the Heavenly Mechanism Order?"
"I, in the past, was familiar with the Heavenly Mechanism Order I would create in the future?"
"Then, familiarity seems very reasonable."
"There were several unique points of time distortion in the Tianji Mountain back then, could it be... I returned to the past?"
"Clearly, in true Supreme Dao of rules, this is impossible."
"But, in this world’s epoch, its rules are peculiarly mysterious—where future and past seem somewhat blurred."
"Then..."
Zhou Yan thought of the situation of two Zhou Yans in the Sword Burial Ancestor Star back then, a certain change involved the existence of two Zhou Yans.
One was the correct path, another was called the ’wrong path.’
And the subsequent changes presented a result where one now could develop multiple different futures, and among multiple different futures, they were parallel to each other.
Meaning every possibility would occur, and cultivators could use their abilities to alter the bad aspect of the unknown impending future, to manifest the good aspect.
Back then, all this seemed extraordinarily reasonable.
Even before this, Zhou Yan felt the same way.
But now, changes in Tianji Mountain, and the Ten Thousand Soul Heavenly Mechanism Order he created, led Zhou Yan to form a different view on this situation.
Which is—two Zhou Yans exist, then one of them must not belong to that space-time.
Similarly, people familiar with different realms have different histories and insights, and apparently, they are not in the same space-time.
Perhaps only in this way can various different situations occur.
Zhou Yan derived this result, and suddenly his heart shivered, his face instantly turned incredibly solemn.
He thought of the Chaos Dao, and the theory of Chaos Dao.
The beginning is the end.
It’s like a circle.
Then, the past, future, and present themselves... should exist simultaneously!
Only, in the midst of change, a fracture is produced!
This enlightenment caused Zhou Yan’s body to suddenly tremble, as if he abruptly grasped an extremely crucial thing.
At that moment, Zhou Yan’s eyes instantly became incredibly sharp, it seemed, in his gaze, he had glimpsed the greatest link between this world and that world.
"Unexpectedly, it’s like this—but now that I, Zhou Yan, am here, this point, you will not be able to achieve!"
