Chapter 665: The Predetermined Future (23)

Splash!

"... Ah?"

Who is Zhang Mang? And who is Minghui?

And... Ran, Dong?

What are those?

I can clearly understand every word spoken in this, so why is it that I simply cannot comprehend what is being expressed?

Is it my problem?

Is my brain not good enough?

This dream is so strange; how could I dream of such things?

Or... wait!

How am I in a dream?

!!!

Dong Yushu opened her eyes wide, flipped up from the ground, and quickly looked around.

"Who is it!!?"

Her expression was tense, her whole body taut, and a bolt of thunder gathered in her palm, ready to be unleashed at any moment.

"Who is speaking!?"

The Daoist Temple was silent, just as it was before, with no one answering.

Only a few blades of grass trembled lightly, as if shocked by her bravery.

Wow!

How dare you speak like that?

Child, you are truly not afraid of death!

But she dared not be presumptuous, fearing she would expose herself.

"... Ah! Mmph!"

Dong Yushu realized where she was at this moment, immediately restrained her aura, and covered her mouth, not daring to be presumptuous again.

I was careless!

My bad habit of liking to sleep has struck again; I actually fell asleep at a time like this, and I actually forgot what place this is!

"Apologies! This junior was momentarily confused; I hope the senior will not take offense!" Dong Yushu bowed repeatedly, hoping the senior expert was magnanimous and would not hold a grudge against a child like her.

But before Dong Yushu could finish apologizing, she froze again, staring blankly at her palm, suddenly noticing something different.

What?

At this moment, she felt her body filled with power.

It was an unprecedented feeling; after waking up, she felt the Dharma Power in her body had increased by more than double!

Her cultivation realm had not improved, but the storage of Dharma Power within her body had grown by a full fold, as if it had been forcibly expanded by someone, yet it left behind no side effects.

"This is..."

After a brief moment of shock, Dong Yushu's face filled with wild joy, and she excitedly bowed toward the direction of the main hall: "Many thanks to the senior for the gift!!!"

If the previous series of accidents could still be called coincidences—perhaps there just happened to be no Restriction, or the incense ash just happened to have such a function.

Then the changes manifested in Dong Yushu's body at this moment proved that although this senior expert did not intend to show their face, they knew of her existence and had provided help.

Her meridians had been forcibly cleared by someone, and then forcibly widened and extended, which was equivalent to a qualitative leap in her aptitude.

Such help would not be easily given by outsiders; even if one sought out a senior expert to act, one would need to pay a huge price to have any chance of moving the other party, and even then, the final result could not be guaranteed.

But now, Dong Yushu had a feeling that with her current talent, she had a chance to surpass that monster at the top of the ranking in the future!

"Isn't it just having a pair of four eyes! What's so great about a Double Pupil! Isn't it just being born into the Yuwen Family with a good father? Hmph, what's so great about that?"

"Yuwen Tianye, nothing more than that!" Dong Yushu's eyes shone, feeling she had encountered a great opportunity.

Although the Immortal Gods did not openly interfere with the world after descending, some subtle influences in the shadows had never ceased.

Especially in the Southern Border and Eastern Wasteland, the infiltration was quite deep.

The general rhetoric was roughly:

"There are true Immortal Gods in the world; with all the Immortals descending to the dust, yet you still honor this Divine Emperor—what does that count for?"

"Instead of offering your life in vain to the Divine Emperor, why not believe in us? We can even bestow upon you Chang Sheng!"

They also sent out their own spokespeople, infiltrating the entire Divine Dynasty and the Royal Court, from the high levels to the bottom, carrying out a top-down infiltration.

The Southern Border Divine Dynasty naturally would not sit and wait for death, using various methods to fight back, but the results were minimal.

The Immortal Gods did not care about the life or death of their spokespeople at all; even if those people were cleared out, a new batch would soon appear.

To them, they were just a group of useful chess pieces, to be discarded once used.

But even facing such treatment, those people, even knowing they could die at any moment, were never in short supply.

For power, for wealth, for status, for lifespan... there would always be people wanting to become their spokespeople.

And under such layers of infiltration, the already unstable Royal Court mechanism in the Eastern Wasteland almost completely fell apart, and although the Southern Border Divine Dynasty was a bit stronger, its ruling power dropped significantly.

New-generation Southern Border citizens like Dong Yushu no longer held the immense worship for the Yuwen Family of the past, but rather awe, and the fear far outweighed the respect.

Regarding the most outstanding disciple of the Yuwen Family of this generation, at the Void Refining Peak, almost certainly the next Divine Emperor candidate, and currently the top of the Southern Border Hidden Dragon Ranking, Yuwen Tianye, in her heart, he was merely someone she thought, "A great man should be like this; one day I will surely replace him!"

If possible, she would certainly not miss the chance to pull him down from his pedestal.

"There is a chance! With this kind of talent, I might really have a chance in the future!"

The more Dong Yushu thought this way in her heart, the more grateful she was to the senior expert who had acted to bestow this opportunity upon her.

This was the greatest opportunity of her life so far!

Dong Yushu knew clearly in her heart that even though she had not yet truly met the other party, she already owed two great debts of gratitude.

One is the grace of saving a life, providing spiritual medicine to heal wounds.

The other is the grace of a second life, allowing her talent to receive a massive boost and granting her the opportunity to contend for the Southern Border.

"This junior will never forget Senior's great kindness; if there are any arrangements, this junior will certainly obey your commands."

Dong Yushu did not take what she had heard earlier to Heart Star, simply treating it as a dream she had after falling asleep.

And the tolerant deity did not dwell on this point, nor did he come forward to explain, or even descend a divine oracle.

Ren Yidao had already "seen" that scene of the future and had proactively provided "help," so regardless of whether Dong Yushu knew about it later, intentionally or unintentionally, her own will had no influence on the subsequent development, and the future would not have any major changes.

The world operates this way and does not change because of the shift of individual will.

However, it will undergo a tiny bit of... deviation because of the will of certain existences.

For example, the Traveler of Ten Thousand Generations.

Thirty years have passed; Ren Yidao cannot yet be considered a true Traveler of Ten Thousand Generations, but he has already gone very far in his mastery of the Art of Ten Thousand Generations.

For him now, influencing one person is not a difficult task.

Especially since Dong Yushu was saved by him and can be considered, to a certain extent, a person related to him, it is even easier.

However, if he wants to influence thousands upon thousands of people and find a path of survival among countless dead ends, he is still lacking, and he cannot do it yet.

But...

It is not far off now.