Chapter 463: The Primordial Battlefield Truly Exists

The great battle scene before his eyes vanished.

The two Supreme combatants whose clash had touched the River of Years, affecting past and present, blocked Kamikawa Mitsu from using this place to glimpse the past any longer.

Yet he paid no heed to that, standing there in a daze.

Anyone who didn't know better would think Kamikawa Mitsu had been frozen in place, turned into a stone statue, utterly motionless.

He was stunned by the words the latter had spoken, nearly unable to believe his own ears, thinking it an illusion — yet he knew it was no illusion.

After a long silence, Kamikawa Mitsu finally came back to himself, but his shock had not diminished in the slightest.

He considered whether this might be some illusion or phantom array, after all this place was saturated with the deathly Yin Qi that could corrode even the minds of gods and demons.

The thought was quickly dismissed by him.

If it were the deathly Yin Qi corroding his mind and producing an illusion, then that illusion should have been one driving him into demonic obsession, depravity, madness.

The deathly Yin Qi corroding gods and demons only ever made them fall into demonic obsession and demonic barriers; never had it been heard that the deathly Yin Qi could make one merely startled — and only startled.

That one sentence Kamikawa Mitsu had heard with perfect clarity, and within it was mentioned "the Primordial Battlefield"!

Once is coincidence, twice is coincidence.

What about the third time? Kamikawa Mitsu understood the principle that things do not exceed three.

Most crucially, the third coincidence was not vague and indistinct. In the first two, figures who looked exactly like the fictional Cangjie and an ancient god had indeed appeared, but Kamikawa Mitsu had not obtained their true names, so he could only treat them as coincidence, unable to confirm.

By the same logic, the severing of the River of Years only proved that there existed beings who could transcend the River of Years, and that such beings could intervene in the River of Years — it did not prove that the severing of the River of Years was done by the future side as Kamikawa Mitsu had imagined.

It could still be coincidence.

The third time was different — it mentioned the "Primordial Battlefield" from Kamikawa Mitsu's own fabrication.

The Primordial Battlefield was a hypothetical place Kamikawa Mitsu himself had invented; it did not exist at all. If it were merely a name, there might still be the possibility of a name collision.

But the Primordial Battlefield was not a name — it was the place of the great war of gods and demons, where the Immortals, the Supremes, and the Paramounts had all fought.

The one who spoke of the Primordial Battlefield was a Supreme, and further said he regretted not killing his opponent there. The Primordial Battlefield in that one's mouth must therefore be a place where even a Supreme had taken part in battle.

A place that could make even a Supreme strike out, and it was called the Primordial Battlefield.

Such a coincidence was absurdly contrived.

"It came true — the Primordial Battlefield I made up has come true."

As Kamikawa Mitsu's words fell, as if struck by a thought, he jolted and said:

"No, it's not just the Primordial Battlefield that came true — everything I made up may have come true."

The third coincidence verified that the Primordial Battlefield Kamikawa Mitsu had invented truly existed; his fabricated Primordial Battlefield had come true. Then what about the first two he had taken as coincidence? Perhaps those were real too!

One must realize that these three "coincidences" were all interconnected.

The fictional Cangjie looked exactly like a Supreme of the past; that Supreme's descendants had taken part in an unprecedented great war involving all the heavens and worlds.

The severing of the River of Years — this was spoken by a Supreme during an unprecedented great war involving all the heavens and worlds.

The Primordial Battlefield — this was spoken by a Supreme, and this Supreme was involved in an unprecedented great war of all the heavens and worlds.

All three were connected to one unprecedented great war.

Kamikawa Mitsu could not help but think: his fabricated Primordial Battlefield had come true, the severing of the River of Years had come true, the fictional character had come true — these were all part of the script of the Primordial Realm he had written…

Then could this unprecedented great war actually be the one he had written… the war between past and future?

He had previously thought that for the Immortals, Supremes, and Paramounts of all the heavens and worlds to take part, there must be some reason or thing that drew them in and made them join.

At first he had assumed it was the secret to attaining the Supreme and the Paramount, but that line "cannot retreat" made him reject that idea.

Now, turning his thoughts around.

What if that reason was the war between past and future?

That reason would be enough to make the Immortals, Supremes, and Paramounts of all the heavens and worlds strike out.

As for how to explain that line "cannot retreat."

Kamikawa Mitsu felt it might… be related to Him!

No one knew better than he what the cause of the war between past and future was.

It was Him!

He and another player in the game of chess had brought about the war between past and future, using all beings as pieces and the ancient and present worlds as the board, playing their game thus.

As for why He wished to play this game against another player.

Kamikawa Mitsu did not know.

Because he had not considered that far — because in his scripted setting, He and the other player, who made all beings tremble in oppression, should not be known.

The Primordial Realm had always been a lie he had fabricated.

Faced with a lie, he naturally could not let all beings know it was a lie.

The only way to keep all beings from investigating, or rather from being able to know it was a lie, was a single method — mystery and the unknown.

Whether man or god, the unknown that is powerful is always what inspires the most awe, and the most fear.

Fear could make gods, demons, monsters, and Buddhas all dare not touch it. Thus, even if all beings were curious, they would not dare probe too deeply, afraid of being drawn in; they would only think of becoming powerful — powerful enough to qualify to glimpse this secret.

Therefore, Kamikawa Mitsu had set a realm that was almost impossible to exist — the sole realm.

The Paramount — transcending the River of Years, traversing past, future, and present — yet even such beings were treated as pieces. Hence, for all beings to become powerful enough to qualify to glimpse, they had to reach at least the Paramount, if not the sole realm.

And the Paramount was equally ethereal and unattainable.

One could say that the "lie" Kamikawa Mitsu had designed was almost a lie whose truth would never be uncovered.

It was for this reason that Kamikawa Mitsu had never thought about who He and the other player were, nor the reason for their game.

These were secrets unattainable for all beings.

If he had designed the identities of He and the other player, and also designed the reason for their game, and then designed subsequent scripts according to that reason, then inevitably someone would, through the clues scattered across script after script, uncover the identities of He and the other player and the reason for their game.

When that time came, all beings would lose their fear of the "lie."

By then, it might well be discovered that the Primordial Realm itself was false — after all, any design would have loopholes.

Having designed the ending, people looking back at each plot event would inevitably find loopholes.

After all... there is no wall that never lets wind pass through.

After all... there is no such thing as a perfect thing in the world; flaws always exist.

Recalling all of it, Kamikawa Mitsu felt a chill run down his spine.

If what he invented had truly come to pass, then didn't that mean He and the other player truly existed!

Kamikawa Mitsu felt some regret.

He regretted how he had invented two unsolvable entities—it was like bringing suffering upon himself.

Know this: He and the other player conducted their game using all living beings as pawns; Kamikawa Mitsu, as one of the world's living creatures, was, in other words, among those beings.

So!

Kamikawa Mitsu himself might be used as a pawn in the game between Him and the other player.