Novel Full Chapter 391: Mr. You’s Vision
Seeing the young cultivator in plain-colored daoist robes who had appeared from the shadow, Yin Xia’s pupils contracted for an instant.
Nine hundred thousand years ago, the prime culprit behind the fall of Wind Ravine Valley’s first Immortal Ascension cultivator, Realman Cangfeng.
If not for Cangfeng Realman’s premature death, Wind Ravine Valley today should at least rival Lingxiao Temple in status within the cultivation world of Chenping Continent.
Among Wind Ravine Valley’s three Immortal Ascension cultivators, Realman Shuangyu was the calmest and most steady. Otherwise, Wind Ravine Valley could not have successfully revived under her stewardship.
But that did not mean Realman Shuangyu was without emotion.
Just like three thousand years ago when Yin Xia slapped the contemporary Sect Leader of Lingxiao Temple to death, in that situation she actually had many more dignified options to choose from.
Yet it was precisely because of that slap that, for the following ten thousand years, Lingxiao Temple regarded Wind Ravine Valley as an implacable enemy.
Although relations between Wind Ravine Valley and Lingxiao Temple later eased somewhat, to this day the two remain the coldest pair among the Five Great Sects.
When she had just learned that the main cause of Cangfeng Realman’s death was the young cultivator now standing in the shadow wearing plain-dyed robes, she had been furious beyond doubt.
Yin Xia wanted to interrogate him properly and demand a reasonable explanation.
But when she actually stood face to face with him…
She could not bring herself to utter a single accusatory word.
This was fear born from the heart.
“…”
Realman Shuangyu was silent, her gaze tilting downward, yet she could not see her own toes.
Mr. You clasped his hands behind his back and paced slowly within Caijun Tower, walking quite casually past True Person Xu Zhou and Realman Shuangyu.
“Please give us an explanation.”
The middle-aged man in gold-and-red daoist robes, Lingxiao Temple’s True Person Xu Zhou, Lou Ye, looked Mr. You straight in the eye and asked.
Mr. You smiled faintly at the question and said:
“What kind of explanation do you want?”
“Whether it’s fragments of the Heavenly Summit Mirror or that brat who serves as a vessel for causality, neither may fall into the hands of Gu Jing and Qiu Siruo, otherwise everything that has happened across these sixty thousand-plus years on Chenping Continent could be completely overturned…”
As he spoke, this Immortal Ascension great power from Lingxiao Temple paused for a moment:
“Or are you actually on Heavenly Summit Mountain’s side?”
Compared with others, Lou Ye showed a more flamboyant, straightforward exterior, but his heart was far more cautious than he appeared.
When he briefly led Lingxiao Temple in the past, it was the era when Lingxiao Temple shook off the shadow of Wind Ravine Valley, so after Realman Shuangyu’s fall, many inside Lingxiao Temple wanted to declare war on Wind Ravine Valley to avenge past grievances.
But back then, Lou Ye—who had not yet ascended but was known for his toughness and pro-war stance, serving successively as Supreme Martial Pacification Elder and Supreme Pivot Elder of Lingxiao Temple—stepped on the brakes personally.
A hardline stance was the only posture available to Lou Ye while leading a severely wounded Lingxiao Temple.
Yet he clearly understood what true rational action required.
Facing True Person Xu Zhou’s interrogation, Mr. You still wore that same calm, detached expression.
“If I sided with Heavenly Summit Mountain, then…”
His gaze swept over Lou Ye, then Yin Xia, then over Kong Yang, who sat upright on a meditation cushion, expressionless with lowered eyes, and he shook his head with a smile:
“You all should, by now, have been swept into oblivion along with the dust of these sixty thousand years of history.”
“…”
The ascenders fell silent.
Because Mr. You had spoken the truth.
“Of course, do not place too high expectations on me, for I am not on your side either.”
Finally Mr. You broke the silence first, speaking slowly:
“If I must say, I stand on the side of Heaven’s Dao.”
After all, the Dao of Heaven does not err.
Or rather, the Dao of Heaven will correct original mistakes.
“So what does Heaven’s Dao want you to do?”
Lou Ye pressed on.
“Why must attention be focused on me instead of on matters more important?”
Mr. You said:
“For example, what exactly Su Hongzhen was seeking back then, what those sixty thousand years of causality truly represent, how they relate to the Cause of Calamity…
And above all, how to obtain the real answer.”
Mr. You’s voice echoed through Caijun Tower; the three Immortal Ascension great powers were mute.
“Any insights?”
Lou Ye asked.
“The era we currently inhabit is wrong.”
Mr. You said:
“At some branching point in the long past, the established causality and fate suffered an unknown deviation. From that moment, with the birth of the Cause of Calamity, Chenping Continent’s long path to immortality was also cut off.”
Realman Shuangyu showed a pensive expression. Although she was not skilled in the Dao of heavenly mechanisms and causality, as an Immortal Ascension cultivator she naturally held some understanding of fate and karmic law.
“So?”
Lou Ye continued.
Mr. You did not answer Lou Ye directly. Instead he turned his gaze toward Kong Yang.
“If Heaven’s Dao has already gone astray, then whatever we do now is merely mending the barn after the sheep has been lost.”
Kong Yang spoke:
“There is only one method to correct the error.”
Silence fell again within Caijun Tower. After a few breaths, Realman Shuangyu’s voice pierced the stillness:
“Change the past?”
“That’s right. Only by correcting that long-ago error at its source in the past can the Cause of Calamity be truly resolved.”
Mr. You nodded and said:
“The current so-called Cause of Calamity was merely loaded into the vessel of causality along with those sixty thousand years of causal threads. That is purely a temporary, surface-level remedy.”
“In other words…”
Lou Ye of Lingxiao Temple seemed to grasp something.
“Including the currently missing Realman Sun-Eroding, the youngest among the recorded ascenders was Caiyun, born sixteen thousand years ago.”
Mr. You said:
“What you need to do has never been to guard your own Heavenly Summit Mirror fragments on Heavenly Summit Mountain against those two Immortal Ascension cultivators, but rather to use the fragments of the Heavenly Summit Mirror and the causality vessel that is Chen Yan to correct the error in causality.”
“That’s just your personal vision, isn’t it?”
Realman Shuangyu said in a low voice:
“Even if everything you say is true, after causality is corrected, what exactly will change?”
“Do you think you still have alternatives?”
Mr. You let out a hollow laugh:
“It merely returns everything to the unknown. Even after causality is corrected, what sort of situation will unfold then?”