The candlelight in front of the table flickered, and the dim light hid Xu Xianxian's profile in the shadows.
"Xian'er, are you leaving?" Bai Suzhen was, after all, a half-step celestial being. After a brief wave of emotion, she gradually calmed down. "I can drive your consciousness out, so you can wake up."
She did not explain the problem of time to her Taoist partner. The perspectives that a half-step celestial being and a mortal can see are fundamentally different.
Just like the air seen by ordinary human eyes is colorless and transparent, in the eyes of ordinary earthly immortals, it is composed of countless microscopic granular structures.
In the eyes of Bai Suzhen, a half-step celestial being, the air was merely a series of black and white lines, imbued with extremely subtle basic rules. These fine lines of rules were like strings; a slight pluck could change the structure and concept of the air, for example, turning "air" into a candle.
The same is true for time and space. Human language and words cannot carry the concrete amount of information about these two things, and using consciousness, we can only communicate with peers in the same field.
"If only my consciousness remains here, then it won't be long before I'm naturally expelled." Xu Xianxian was, after all, a near-legendary fairy. Even if she couldn't figure out the specific principles, she could still guess a few things. However, her eyes still revealed disbelief. "It's just that this is different from what I initially thought."
She originally thought that this was just a projection of established history, similar to the Soul game, with some strange characters and settings, a real illusion pieced together between reality and falsehood.
But I didn't expect...
"...This might be the result of my human robbery." Bai Suzhen was silent for a moment, her eyes wandering from Xu Xianxian's pupils to her pink lips. She whispered, "The laws of nature in this world are not completely in a state of rules, but rather materialized into entities, dormant in the inner core of the world."
"This world is but a broken fragment, long since abandoned by the Heavenly Court. Therefore, this strongest individual, who has yet to develop consciousness, has become what people call 'Heaven's Way.'"
"Although he has no consciousness, he will instinctively feel threatened, so he will suppress, restrain, seal, or even kill an Earth Immortal like me who is on the verge of breaking point."
"Compared to demons and spirits, weak mortals, who possess rich emotions and consciousness, are easier to control and draw nourishment from for personal development. Therefore, the Heavenly Dao separated a portion of itself and bestowed upon them the destiny of humanity, allowing them to establish dynasties and nations, with unified societies and institutions, and civilizations that can continuously improve and evolve."
Xu Xianxian frowned slightly. She heard from Bai Suzhen a secret about Earth that would never be known in the future: "So...?"
"So, with no one left to counter it, the Heavenly Dao gradually drained the world's spiritual energy, suppressing demons, spirits, and other transcendental beings. This left us reduced to ordinary animals and plants, to be wantonly harvested by ordinary mortals. Then, after death, these mortals returned to the earth, their emotions and consciousness transforming into nourishment for the world, completing the cycle of reincarnation."
Bai Suzhen smiled, and her beautiful eyes showed the traces of time.
She pointed under her feet, her eyes seeming to penetrate the not-so-thick stone slabs and extend to the end of the stones, soil, and magma, the deepest part of the world.
At the junction of time and space, there is a group of rules like stars, which are gradually materializing into conscious life. The process of degeneration is not fast, and is even very slow. Even ten thousand years is just a basic unit of measurement.
"'Heavenly Dao' also wishes to give birth to a complete consciousness and become a true celestial being!"
Bai Suzhen sighed, thinking of the failures over the past thousands of years, or even longer ago. Seeing Xu Xian'er in the future, she realized that she would still fail for thousands of years.
But she was ultimately different from those fallen earthly immortals. Those people died completely, their bodies and souls annihilated. But even if she failed once, twice, ten times, or even more, she would always turn back in the long river of time and start over again.
Moreover, every time she looks back, her cultivation speed will become faster and faster, and the time it takes to be promoted will become shorter and shorter, until the moment she is promoted to a celestial immortal.
"Are you going to fight something so huge and ancient?"
Xu Xianxian glanced at Bai Suzhen. For some reason, whenever she saw her appearance, she couldn't help but think of Zhen'er.
But in my heart, there was an indescribable strange feeling.
Bai Suzhen, Ophelia, and Bai Zhen'er are all 'Bai Zhen'er' in different worlds and times. Perhaps there are more in the past and future.
Although each Bai Zhen'er she met was different, they always met and got to know each other in a funny way, and recognized her identity at a glance. This sense of fate made Xu Xianxian inexplicably more irritable and uneasy.
She didn't like this kind of thing that was arranged by fate.
Bai Suzhen seemed to sense what Xu Xianxian was thinking. She gave her a somewhat sad look, then reached out and touched her head, her fingertips sliding through her soft hair. "It's not that I want to compete with Him, I can't beat Him. I just want to escape from this bondage, that's all."
"If we cannot escape, then the cycle between us will continue until we are completely lost in time and then destroyed."
She then raised her head and looked towards the north. Even through the wooden house, she could see a huge, winding black dragon circling above the vast land.
This is the destiny bestowed upon mankind by Heaven, and is also a part of its rules.
At this moment, the black dragon's pupils seemed to pierce through space, staring at her with eyes filled with hostility. Any Earthly Immortal would be targeted by the dragon's aura, whether they were Taoists or demons, but only the peak Earthly Immortals would be completely targeted.
This is a natural disaster, but also a human disaster.
"Xian'er, your appearance reminded me, but it also accelerated the battle between me and the Black Dragon." Bai Suzhen's eyes flashed with a sharpness, and she suddenly laughed again. Her eyes turned to Xu Xianxian with an unusually gentle look: "But it looks like I still lost this time!"
Xu Xian'er had an additional memory from the future, so she understood without being told that she had failed this time.
"No..." Under the obscuration of light and shadow, Xu Xianxian's expression became somewhat unclear. Her initial shock and disbelief had faded, and her tone now sounded calm and cold: "I will help you escape the shackles of this reincarnation."
If her meeting with Bai Zhen'er was arranged, repeated in the future and the past, and she played her role in history like a puppet, then this ridiculous and funny ending should have been broken long ago.
She is Xu Xianxian, not Xu Xianer.
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