Chapter 1021: Chapter 1019: The Future Cannot Go a Single Day Without an Emperor 3
Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators
The Dream-Making Expert
“What did you say?!”
Lin Qi was shocked and furious. He grabbed Thunder Bird Bubu in one hand.
He had originally intended to send Thunder Bird Bubu to Yuyao to seek reinforcements, to find help and break out of this deadlock.
But instead—
Yuyao had also fallen deep into danger, and needed him to go rescue her?
“Master, don’t panic.”
“I’m just the messenger.”
“Whatever the Divine Mother said, that’s what I answer back.”
Thunder Bird Bubu was so frightened it shed feathers. It hurried to explain.
“Anyway, that’s exactly what the Divine Mother’s reply said.”
“She said she’s been trapped by a group of Ancient Gods in one of the Abysses within the Ancient God Macrocosm.”
“She’s been trapped there for three thousand years now.”
“Unable to escape.”
“If Master has a way, it’d be best if you could go help her get out.”
“If there’s no way, then forget it.”
“She can still hold on for now.”
“Oh, right.”
“She also said the Supremes, for some unknown reason, have all run off to the Primordial Era.”
“Before she was trapped in the Abyss, she once obtained a stone tablet passed down from the Primordial Era.”
“That tablet seems to have been left behind by the Heaven-Abandoning Emperor.”
“On it were written eight words: The Future Cannot Go a Single Day Without an Emperor!”
“Mm, that’s all the information the Divine Mother gave.”
Thunder Bird Bubu told Lin Qi everything from Yuyao’s reply, down to the last detail.
Lin Qi was first shocked and furious that Yuyao had also fallen into imprisonment, and had been trapped for three thousand years.
Then he was stunned by the words on that stone tablet.
What did it mean, the future cannot go a single day without an Emperor?
Translate that. Translate that.
What the hell did it mean, the future cannot go a single day without an Emperor?
Lin Qi did not believe Yuyao would be mistaken about the origin of that stone tablet.
Since Yuyao believed the tablet had been left behind by the Heaven-Abandoning Emperor.
Then naturally there could be no mistake.
So what exactly was the Heaven-Abandoning Emperor trying to tell him?
To make him stay in this future, ten thousand years later, and not leave?
That ran completely counter to Lin Qi’s own wishes.
Right now, he was eager to leave this time and space ten thousand years after, and return to ten thousand years ago.
Because if he could do that.
Then all the many problems he faced in this future, ten thousand years later, would be easily resolved.
But if he stayed.
Lin Qi’s eyes turned cold. Countless thoughts flickered through his mind.
Assuming this is indeed true information, unaltered by the Supremes’ interference.
Then what use is it for me to stay?
Lin Qi pondered.
He tried to judge the truth or falsehood of those words by weighing the gains and losses of remaining in this future, ten thousand years later.
And from what he could see at present.
Staying offered absolutely no benefits.
Instead, it was nothing but a host of predicaments laid out before him.
Oh, and now there was one more problem added to the pile.
That was Yuyao, trapped by a host of Ancient Gods in some Abyss deep within the Ancient God Macrocosm for a full three thousand years.
So he would have to be senile to choose to stay in this future, ten thousand years later.
He was naturally not senile.
So why would the Heaven-Abandoning Emperor want him to stay?
Or was the message left on that stone tablet simply forged by the Supremes?
No. It couldn’t possibly be forged.
After all, the Supremes were not that stupid.
If it were not the case that staying in this future, ten thousand years later, truly held some opportunity capable of reversing everything.
Then even if They forged such a stone tablet, it could not possibly fool me.
In other words, whether the message on that stone tablet was truly left by the Heaven-Abandoning Emperor, or was a forgery by the Supremes.
It all proved one thing.
That staying in this future, ten thousand years later, truly did hold some benefit I have overlooked, one that would definitely move my heart.
What could it be?
Lin Qi thought hard, but for a moment could not grasp the key.
Seeing Lin Qi sink into thought.
Thunder Bird Bubu curled its beak, tiptoed over to Wang Ling’s side, and said softly.
“Little Ling, you really are a heartless bastard.”
“And here I treated you like a brother.”
“That’s how you talk about a brother.”
“The Old Man being here too, you couldn’t even secretly find a way to give me a heads-up.”
“If I’d known earlier that the Old Man was here too, then I wouldn’t have come.”
“I’d have just found the Lord God, issued a mission, and sent someone else to deliver the medicine.”
“That way, I’d still be a free and easy bird.”
“Now look at me.”
“I have no freedom, I’ve lost my freedom…”
“What did you just say!”
Lin Qi suddenly asked, giving Thunder Bird Bubu a fright.
It raised its head with an ingratiating, bewildered look, straining to think about what it had just said.
“If I’d known earlier that I was coming, you wouldn’t have come.”
“That’s it.”
“If you’d known earlier that I was coming, how could you possibly have come!”
A thought stirred in Lin Qi’s heart. He understood why the Heaven-Abandoning Emperor had left such a message.
Hoping he would stay in this future, ten thousand years later.
It was because a thousand pieces of gold cannot buy knowing beforehand!
If he could stay in this future, ten thousand years later, and grasp all the events yet to come.
Then even if he could do nothing at all.
As long as he could transmit all the information of future events back to the past.
Then what would happen?
The past can change the future, but the future can equally reverse the past.
Even bolder, even crazier.
As long as he could obtain the ability to endlessly transmit information into the past.
He could even manufacture countless ‘Reborn Ones.’
Thereby changing the minds of countless people in the past.
For instance, their blind loyalty to the Supremes, shaking the nearly deep-rooted reverence countless powerhouses in the past time and space held toward the Supremes.
After all, according to Thunder Bird Bubu’s earlier description.
The Myriad Realms outside had now fallen into utter chaos.
All cultivators were going mad, all of them frenzied in despair within the apocalyptic Great Destruction.
For the sake of growing stronger, they would stop at nothing.
If these people could be made to carry their present madness back to ten thousand years ago, or even to more distant eras.
Then what would they do?
Would they, knowing that the end of the Great Destruction, in which no one could attain eternal life, was fast approaching, still maintain their devout reverence for the Supremes?
Or would they begin to strive to resist the apocalypse, even at the cost of struggling against the Supremes?
After all, as the saying goes.
Today we die too, raise a great cause and die too, it’s death either way—why not die for our world?!
Even if one feared the Supreme might all the more.
But if one knew that in the end there was still only a dead end.
Then this Myriad Realms.
One dared not say that all endless sentient beings and every cultivator could unite.
But at the very least.
Even if only ten percent of cultivators awakened because of this, willing to fight against the Great Destruction.
Then what would the Myriad Realms become?
Lin Qi did not know.
But he finally understood why the Heaven-Abandoning Emperor had left him the words: the future cannot go a single day without an Emperor.
Likewise, he finally understood why the final main battlefield would be in the past.
Because in the past, every tiny, seemingly trivial change that might have appeared insignificant at the time.
Might truly be able to reverse the future.
This was probably also the true reason the Supremes had been so decisive, all charging together into the past.
They wanted to eternally seal the past, to anchor the future.
And if he could remain in the future, using the apocalyptic scenes of the future to awaken the living beings of the past.
Lin Qi closed his eyes.
He pondered, he deduced, he calculated.
Then he opened his eyes.
Now only one question remained.
How could he, through the traceless, and very possibly completely shattered River of Time, sound this doomsday whistle from the future to the people far away in the past!