Chapter 357: Future Feedback

【You sit down beside Lin Rumeng.】

【It is like sitting together at a mountain peak watching the sunset, only unfortunately this great sun is black, bizarre and terrifying.】

【Looking downward is a bottomless, endless abyss.】

【After a moment, Lin Rumeng speaks.】

【She says, "Do you feel anything special upon seeing me?"】

【"Yes."】

【You nod earnestly. "I can feel that you carry much suffering on your shoulders. Guarding this place all alone is very hard."】

【Lin Rumeng blinks. "Anything else?"】

【"Also..."】

【You hesitate for a moment, then say, "There is also an inexplicable sense of familiarity, but I cannot put it into words."】

【"I feel the same way toward those guardians, only that the feeling is strongest with you."】

【"Why is that?"】

【"Is there some secret hidden within me?"】

【"Could I be related to something from before the Jing Tu era?"】

【You had long thought so, but never dared say it aloud, until meeting Lin Rumeng did you finally voice what was in your heart.】

【Lin Rumeng smiled. "Perhaps. Who can say clearly about matters of the previous era?"】

【She says, "Knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing."】

【"Alright."】

【You ask no more.】

【"However..."】

【Lin Rumeng adds, "If you want to hear stories of the past, I can tell them to you."】

【"I do."】

【You nod repeatedly.】

【Stories of the past, the formation of the Shadow World and the Jing Tu World, the absence of the laws of Reincarnation — there are too many stories you want to know.】

【Lin Rumeng looks up at the sky. "Many stories I did not experience myself either; I only heard them from other guardians."】

【"A very long time ago, An Ying Zhu was not as He is now. Back then, He was called 'Black Mist.'"】

【"Across multiple eras before the Jing Tu era, countless cultivators threw themselves one after another against the Black Mist, sealing It away several times, yet could never eradicate It completely."】

【"Even before the Jing Tu era, the sages had already endured countless brutal battles."】

【"It even involved another world in the Boundless Chaos Universe."】

【"That was a vast world, even greater than the Nine-phase World before the Jing Tu era, yet in the end it still could not escape the fate of being devoured by the Black Mist."】

【"The terrifying thing about the Black Mist is that It constantly grows, constantly evolves, and possesses means that no cultivator can anticipate."】

【"At the very beginning, the Black Mist was merely a mass of unconscious matter, wriggling through the Chaos Universe, instinctively devouring everything that bore the breath of living beings in order to evolve."】

【"When It could only fight by instinct, we cultivators could always find ways to contend against It — difficult, but not hopeless."】

【"Until one day in the previous era, the sealed Black Mist showed traces of Itself in the Living World, attaching to the body of a direct disciple of a superpower faction."】

【"The trajectory of fate began to shift from that day."】

【"From that moment on, the Black Mist gradually gained intelligence, learned to scheme and lay plans, and acquired many things from living beings."】

【"Although that direct disciple of the superpower faction who had been possessed was eventually discovered and executed, and mighty experts traced the Karma of the matter and carried out a great purge—"】

【"By then the Black Mist was already in an unstoppable state, evaded the tracing, and successfully mingled within the Living World."】

【"Perhaps the destruction of the previous era was already destined at that moment."】

【"If not for a group of people turning the tide, the Black Mist would have long since devoured the entire world, and there would be no living beings left."】

【"There would only be a terrifying An Ying Zhu, walking through the Boundless Universe to wreak havoc upon even more great worlds of living beings."】

【Lin Rumeng's account makes your heart incomparably heavy.】

【An Ying Zhu is more terrifying than you imagined — across so many great eras, countless geniuses were born, mighty experts too numerous to count, generation after generation risked their lives to suppress Him, seal Him, attempt to kill Him, and in the end all failed.】

【Until the present Jing Tu era, an era of dharma decline far weaker than all past eras.】

【Can you still win?】

【Your heart harbors doubt.】

【In such an era, how can you win against an ever-growing An Ying Zhu?】

【You cannot find an answer.】

【The girl beside you has a calm expression, seemingly not worried at all.】

【You ask her again, "Why have the laws of Reincarnation that disappeared in the previous era now appeared in me?"】

【"And Lü Ya, why is she the only life capable of surviving in the Shadow World?"】

【"This must be very important, right?"】

【You feel that Lin Rumeng must know everything, but is deliberately not telling you.】

【Lin Rumeng smiles. "The appearance of the laws of Reincarnation is the result of the Jing Tu World's completion and evolution. You are the bearer."】

【"As for Lü Ya..."】

【"I truly do not know."】

【"Perhaps you will need to find the answer yourself."】

【You still want to ask, but Lin Rumeng stands up, interrupting your questions.】

【"There is not much time left for you. Cultivate well."】

【"The Immortal Gate of the Jing Shi Zhu — the final opportunity to become an Immortal — is left for you."】

Continuing to ask further is meaningless.

Ascend to Immortal! Take another step!

You have a strong yearning.

Heaven and earth shift, the fragmented pure world space reorganizes, and the ladder to Immortal appears before you again.

You take a step forward, heading toward the Heavenly Gate.

……

The feedback from the Dream Reincarnation information caused Lin Chuan to fall into contemplation again.

Many things were within his expectations.

His daughter Rumeng has already returned to normal in the future Jing Tu world, and has become the true strongest, even surpassing ordinary Immortals.

But he guesses that Rumeng's Forbidden state is still hard to lift.

According to the feedback from the Jing Tu world, Rumeng is classified as a figure born after the Jing Tu era.

It is highly likely that she only appeared after the Jing Tu era, beginning to show her talents; before that, no one knew of such a person.

Could Heaven's Will be shattered?

Only then would the Forbidden state be lifted?

Lin Chuan and his wife Mo Sangyu both make this inference: the Heavenly Dao does not permit a new Perfect Body to appear, and has restrained it.

Future Dream Reincarnation seems to precisely confirm this.

If this is true, trying to change Rumeng's state in the real world, freeing her from the Forbidden, would be unsolvable, wouldn't it?

Besides that, another piece of information also gave Lin Chuan a chill down his spine.

The worst outcome still ultimately manifested.

Even though Nan Gong Ya has been killed, and many Karma have been traced back, the result remains unchanged: Black Mist has already invaded the Living World.

The Black Mist of the Tribe of the Spirits' intelligence will be far more terrifying than before! Unwieldy!