Chapter 208 Mingzhuer (Two in One)
Five hundred years ago?!
Gu Fangchen's pupils constricted and he was genuinely surprised.
Although it is now basically certain that he did not really travel through time, but rather separated a wisp of soul from the original Gu Fangchen, and can only be regarded as returning to his own body.
But even if we calculate based on the original body, it has only been nineteen years to date.
Where does the causal line from five hundred years ago come from?
He also knew how the causal technique was calculated.
If we only talk about "cause and effect", the birth of any person can be traced back generations, even directly to ancient times.
Because there is cause before there is effect, and there are descendants only because there are ancestors.
However, these causes and effects have nothing to do with the subject, because the past is the past, unless one has reached the first level of cultivation and can influence the past.
——However, this is the understanding of the practitioners of the time. With the information Gu Fangchen knows now, it can be basically confirmed that even the first-grade cultivators should not be able to transcend time and dimension.
What lasts forever is the "Tao", not the "one who attains the Tao".
This also explains his previous doubt: If Xie Qian and others can really transcend dimensions, then "Mirror in the Dust" should have a segment that breaks the fourth wall to demonstrate this feature.
In the game "Mirror in the Dust", the settings of every place are very rigorous and detailed, and this link should not be missed.
Now Gu Fangchen finally understood that the reason why it was not set up was precisely because the first-grade one really couldn't do it.
However, the "causal line" is different from cause and effect. The "causal line" must be closely related to the causal subject and must be personally experienced and created by the subject to be called a "causal line."
For example, the fortune-telling technique of the "Six Star Gods" requires one to throw oneself into the cycle of reincarnation in order to weave a large enough fortune chart with countless "causal lines".
Therefore, if you don’t experience it yourself, the “causal line” cannot exist!
Since the State Master calculated that he had a "causal line" five hundred years ago, he must have really been to Garuda five hundred years ago.
However, Gu Fangchen knew clearly that it was impossible for him to appear five hundred years ago.
So far, apart from his experiences in the game, the only connection between him and this ancient country in the Western Regions was that he was tested by Princess Prajna when he just crossed over.
The way to test is to set up the illusion of time "A Dream of the Yellow Millet".
The purpose of this illusion array is to trap people inside, and after years of torture, if no way to break the array is found, they may really die of old age in it.
At that time, Gu Fangchen was in the illusion array and experienced twenty-two years in Garuda.
This also triggered the guaranteed enlightenment mechanism and officially entered the ninth level of the Shinto realm.
"But that's an illusion array... It doesn't make sense that a fifth-grade time illusion array could actually send me five hundred years into the past."
Gu Fangchen's brows furrowed more and more, and he felt that the situation was even more unbelievable.
What the hell, something that even a first-grade powerful being couldn’t do, was accomplished by an illusion array?
After so many years, this "Yellow Millet Dream" is not considered to be a rare level in the illusion array. People use it everywhere, and I don't see anyone else running around with it?
Gu Fangchen took a breath.
If it wasn't a problem with the illusion array, and it couldn't be a problem with Prajna Lotus Moon, then there was only one possibility left—
It's his own problem.
Xu Fu obviously thought of this as well, and said thoughtfully:
"Have you ever experienced a similar illusion since then? It's not simply an illusion, but uses real memories and space as a carrier."
Gu Fangchen shook his head.
Are you kidding? Ever since he improved his cultivation, he was basically the only one who could trap others in an illusion array. How could anyone else let him enter an illusion array?
Moreover, during battle, only short-term illusions will be created, rather than the kind of long-lasting and exhausting illusions.
At that time, Prajna Lianyue used the "Dream of the Yellow Millet" not to take his life, but to extract information from him.
Gu Fangchen also guessed what Xu Fu wanted to say:
"You want me to try and see if the same thing will happen again when I enter this illusion array?"
Xu Fudao:
"yes."
"If not, it would be difficult to verify whether it's your fault or not."
Gu Fangchen was speechless.
If it were any other location, it would be much easier to verify, but it happened to be Garuda.
This ancient country was completely destroyed five hundred years ago... Only one Prajna Lianyue remains.
As Princess Garuda, Prajna Lianyue had no connection with Gu Fangchen, who was a low-level centurion at the time, so it was naturally impossible for her to get any information about Gu Fangchen from her.
When Gu Fangchen thought of this, he was suddenly stunned.
Originally, due to the characteristics of the Time Illusion Array, after breaking the array, the memories within the array would gradually fade away. After such a long time, he had almost forgotten the twenty-two years he had experienced.
But at this moment, when Xu Fu brought it up again, he remembered the daughter he adopted in the illusion array.
The fuzzy memory suddenly became clear again.
It was during his tenth year of fighting at the bottom level that he found the baby girl on a slaughtered battlefield.
Because I didn't know how long I would have to stay in this illusion, I decided to play a cultivation game to relieve my boredom.
However, because he himself was also a low-income person, he could not provide too good conditions. They could only depend on each other, try to save money, and arrange all the good things for his daughter.
After all, Gu Fangchen thought at the time that he was just in an illusion. Once he broke the illusion, he would still be the Prince of Zhenbei when he got out, and he would not be short of these things.
The people in the illusion array have a short life, and all they see is the barren and endless yellow sand.
Gu Fangchen was naturally happy to play the role of a kind and gentle old father, giving everything for his daughter, and even died because of his daughter in the end.
At that time, as a centurion, Gu Fangchen's life was not good, but definitely not bad. The house he lived in was not located in the first ring road, but it was a good place within the third ring road.
The time period was still several decades away from the destruction of Garuda, which was considered the heyday of the country. Naturally, it was impossible for someone to attack directly.
Therefore, the soldiers who killed Gu Fangchen in the illusion array at that time were not from the enemy country, but were the personal guards sent by the top leaders of Garuda.
These guards secretly searched everywhere for girls of marriageable age and captured them, and finally found Gu Fangchen's home.
With Gu Fangchen's low-level status, he had no channels to obtain information from high-level officials, but with his identity as a player, he could guess their purpose.
At that time, it was almost time for the princess to make a great wish.
After the fall of the ancient Zhou Dynasty, there were no more gods in the true sense in the world. The only ones that existed were those that had been integrated with the consciousness of "Tao" and resided in the exercises.
Although the legend is described in a very dreamy way, about an ancient country suffering from a sandstorm, with thousands of miles of barren land and thousands of people dying every year, Princess Prajna was compassionate and made a great wish. She dug out her eyes as a sacrifice to the sky, and the heaven took pity on her and sent down a sweet rain.
But in fact, it was just that the adaptability of the technique was high enough, which triggered the remaining "Tao" in it and brought about strange phenomena in heaven and earth.
In essence, it is similar to the vision caused by Gu Fangchen's poetry recitation, and not as powerful as the legend says.
But before the princess made her wish, Garuda had never stopped changing the climate and environment, and the method they used, judging from secretly capturing young girls, was definitely not the right way.
Gu Fangchen fought desperately to block the guards and created a way for his poor daughter to survive.
Gu Fangchen just needed to escape from the illusion, so he committed suicide.
Otherwise, he actually had a chance to make a bigger noise.
"If all of Garuda is destroyed... Mingzhu'er should be dead too."
Gu Fangchen muttered to himself.
He named his adopted daughter Mingzhu, which means the apple of his eye... Although it was a bit casual, he was playing a low-level soldier at the time, and it would be wrong to have too high a level of education, so he could only choose a simple name.
But the implication remains unchanged. At least during those twelve years, he really played the game of development wholeheartedly.
Xu Fu heard this and said calmly:
"Mingzhu'er?"
Gu Fangchen coughed twice, keenly sensing a hint of danger in the Imperial Master's tone, and quickly said:
"She is the daughter I adopted in the illusion array."
He roughly recounted his experience in the illusion array. Even if Mingzhu'er hadn't died at that time, with the resources a centurion's daughter could get, she probably wouldn't have been able to become a cultivator and wouldn't have lived to this day.
But when he suddenly realized that the experience might be true, Gu Fangchen felt a little melancholy.
At this moment, he could hardly remember what the little girl looked like.
But I still remember it clearly. She was a slender, thin, pretty girl with a pair of blue eyes like glass gems, which were transparent and beautiful to the extreme.
Even though everything related to Garuda is buried under the yellow sand, that beautiful blue color still seems to be shining.
It is completely different from the numb and hopeless eyes of the Garuda people in the yellow sand.
That was the color that Gu Fangchen polished himself.
It was a peerless pearl that he picked up from the yellow sand.
It's a pity that if nothing unexpected had happened, Mingzhu'er would have also fallen asleep in the yellow sand along with Garuda...
But...are there really no accidents?
Gu Fangchen's expression suddenly became a little strange.
He remembered that he had seen the same shade of green. Shortly after he broke the illusion array, he was curious and lifted the veil of Prajna Lianyue, and saw a pair of eyes beneath her veil.
It was a completely consistent, transparent blue color like glass.
However, because in Gu Fangchen's eyes, "The Yellow Millet Dream" was just a real dream, so although he had doubts in his heart, he did not connect the two together.
After all, who the hell could have imagined that an illusion could actually come true?!
To Gu Fangchen at that time, the world was still running according to the rules of the game. He had no idea that the problem lay with him!
At most, it proved that the original legend was untrue and that Princess Prajna did not dig out her own eyes.
There is more than one person with blue eyes in the world.
But at this moment, Gu Fangchen knew that he actually had a causal thread five hundred years ago.
In other words, he might be able to turn illusions into reality...
Since Mingzhuer is real, is there really such a coincidence in the world?
The two people who are from the same Garuda family have exactly the same eye color.
More importantly, Prajna Lianyue spent her entire life wanting to resurrect a person who had never appeared in history...
In the original game, although it was the players who forced the player into a desperate situation, he eventually burned himself to death.
But in fact, the main reason is that after Prajna Lianyue gathered all the conditions for resurrection and even sacrificed the entire Tara religion, she still failed to resurrect.
Therefore, Prajna Lianyue fell into despair and madness, and chose to end her life with a fire.
All the conditions were clearly met, so why did the resurrection fail?
This was also a controversial point among players, but at the time most people felt that there was something wrong with the method.
However, Gu Fangchen now feels that... there might be something wrong with the person.
Whether it is resurrecting a non-existent person or resurrecting a living person, it is impossible.
Xu Fu noticed Gu Fangchen's silence and asked:
"What did you think of?"
Gu Fangchen took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly.
"I did think of a clue. Perhaps without using the illusion array to conduct the experiment, we can still find out whether it was because of me that the illusion array turned from fake to real."
By experimenting with the illusion array, it is possible to change the past again.
If any butterfly effect occurs, he won't dare to gamble again.
He has now deeply experienced the consequences of the "butterfly effect". After he killed Gu Yuye, which caused the plot to shift drastically, Ning Caiyong revealed that his cultivation had disappeared, and Emperor Yong'an became a head on his waist.
If we add more fuel to the fire, who knows what outrageous changes will happen next...
Now, he only needs to continue to help Prajna Lianyue complete the resurrection ceremony, and by the way, get some information out of her, so that he can determine the truth.
This does not conflict with Gu Fangchen's original plan, so why not do it?
At the same time, this discovery by the State Master may seem to have nothing to do with his origins, but in fact, it may confirm his existence and what significance it holds for the person who chose him.
Because there has always been a most abnormal thing about Gu Fangchen.
This time, maybe we can figure it out...
He raised his head and looked at the three big words "night watchman" above his head.
The biggest abnormality in Gu Fangchen is this "random career experience system" derived from the game!
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P.S. The previous story is in Chapter 15... I know you guys probably forgot everything.
After filling this hole, it is almost entering the final stage. There was actually a Confucian line related to Gu Youren and another one related to Ning Caiyong, but I cut them all, so it feels normal to speed up the progress.
I wrote earlier that the Imperial Master was found the next day, which really shocked me. So I thought about it and decided to cut two lines without destroying the structure, which would not affect the completeness of the plot. There are still two volumes left.
(End of this chapter)
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