Aspiring to the Immortal Path-Chapter 1291: Ruse

When Tang Jie saw the Great Stellar Chiliocosm appear, he finally understood.

He had just witnessed a changing of epochs!

The process of one chiliocosm replacing another chiliocosm!

In this process, the old world would die and the new world would be reborn. The Heavenly Dao Law Wheel was no Heavenly Dao at all, not some source of the Heavenly Dao, but a cage, a warehouse, the place where the old world was stored!

"I see now. Chiliocosms also have lives. When their lives come to an end and they die, they will be collected and stored away, while a new chiliocosm is released to replace it. This world, and the Great Stellar Chiliocosm outside, are akin to the inside and the surface," Tang Jie muttered.

The Violet Robe Wanderer and Scarlet Cloud Fairy scowled, the Scarlet Cloud Fairy rasping, "How did you manage to do it? How did you manage to turn back history? You shouldn't have this power!"

"I truly don't have this power, but I do have this." Tang Jie slowly took out an item.

It was a book.

A Dao book.

"Inquiries to the Buddha".

Upon her return, Tang Zixi had secretly passed this book to him out of concern. The scene just now had been the result of combining this Dao book with his Heavenly Dao Realm. This had not been his intention, but when he expanded the Heavenly Dao Realm, the Time Dao power from the book had entered the realm on its own, thus allowing Tang Jie to witness the truth.

"Perhaps this is the will of the heavens." Tang Jie looked around at the stars and said, "I'm starting to understand your words from before… There really is more than one will."

Yu Cheng, Nine Disaster, Three Sages, and the Buddha Ancestor had all received the will of the Heavenly Dao and had been influenced by it, but the directions of these influences had been in opposite directions.

Yu Cheng had felt a summons to enter this world and seize that opportunity, while Nine Disaster and Three Sages had been ordered to stop him. These orders were at odds with each other precisely because… it was not the same Heavenly Dao giving the order.

This was truly too laughable, too absurd.

There was more than one Heavenly Dao Will!

There were two, and they were opposed to each other.

Thus, people could both be following the will of the heavens and end up fighting each other.

The absurd truth.

Tang Jie remarked, "I'm guessing that the epoch has changed more than once. The shattered world is gathered up and will once more begin to grow and mature. As it slowly grows stronger, the world outside will shatter and decline. New and old worlds will change places once more, and a new epoch will commence… This might have happened hundreds, if not thousands of times already."

The Violet Robe Wanderer and Scarlet Cloud Fairy said nothing, acknowledging Tang Jie's words with their silence.

"Then let me guess how things happened," Tang Jie went on. "When the Wanderer became a demon, the Scarlet Cloud Fairy looked all over for a way to save her husband. Whether it was by the will of the heavens or pure coincidence, you found the entrance to this place in the Primordial Fog Domain. You went and used the different Great Daos of this place to finally turn the Wanderer back into a human."

Tang Jie briefly paused before continuing. "Things could have ended right there. After becoming human, couldn't you have gone back to the human world to live out your days? But in this place, you found out that the different Great Daos made it so that body cultivation was very easy here, and your strength could grow by leaps and bounds. Growing stronger… isn't that what every cultivator tirelessly seeks? So you were reluctant to leave. Of course, you would occasionally, perhaps to have some fun, or perhaps to find some resources, which is why some people would encounter you and learn that there was a way to reverse becoming a demon. But in the end, you would always return here. This was your secret base, your chance to one day reach that supreme throne. Maybe you regarded this as an opportunity granted by the heavens. Thus, you cultivated here and kept it a secret."

The Violet Robe Wanderer and Scarlet Cloud Fairy trembled. It was clear that Tang Jie had guessed at what they had been thinking.

Tang Jie sighed. "Just like that, you cultivated and lived in this personal world of yours, and everything was beautiful and fine. Until you ascended to Saint Immortal… I'm guessing that you were both very excited when you started the process, very happy. But you quickly discovered the problem. Because… you could no longer leave. Because of the special nature of this world, ascending to Saint Immortal and proving your Dao in this world means that you can no longer leave. You panicked and tried to think of a way to get out."

"Shut up!" the Violet Robe Wanderer roared.

"Seems I was right," Tang Jie sneered. "You must have been very sad to have been locked up in this world, right? Perhaps in order to dispel your loneliness, to make a passage, or for some other reason, you started to call out to the outside world. Having proved your Daos, you now had this ability. Thus, some people sensed your will and came over. Those devils who died in the Pool of Demonization, Yu Cheng, and perhaps even the Martial Lord all answered your call. But things weren't that easy. Yu Cheng didn't choose the path you had arranged for him and went back to the positive plane. The Martial Lord also clearly didn't choose your path. He didn't become a Saint Immortal, instead walking the Parting Classic's path of Dao betrayal, attaining a peerless Dao Realm, forging a Great Dao weapon, and then beating the two of you black and blue before finally leaving."

"No, it wasn't like that!" the Scarlet Cloud Fairy shrieked. "He didn't have any Dao Realm back then and was no match for us."

"Then how did he leave? I don't believe you would simply let him go!"

"He snuck away!"

"And why did he sneak away?"

"Because he found out that we were tricking him."

"'Tricking him' about what?"

The Scarlet Cloud Fairy was just about to answer when the Violet Robe Wanderer shouted, "Silence! Don't take his bait!"

The Scarlet Cloud Fairy realized what was going on, and her eyes turned murderous. "You're playing me?"

Tang Jie chuckled. "You can think of it that way. But even if you don't tell me, I can still guess what happened."

"Impossible!" the Violet Robe Wanderer snarled.

Tang Jie's next words instantly silenced him. "It must have to do with the changing of epochs, no? You want the epoch to change?"

The Violet Robe Wanderer and Scarlet Cloud Fairy both stared at Tang Jie in shock.

He had so easily exposed their greatest secret that the couple couldn't help but wonder if he was seeing right through them.

But Tang Jie didn't consider this a big deal.

For him, guessing this was completely expected.

Of course, if he hadn't seen the changing of epochs for himself, he would have never even considered this option. But now that he had seen how this universe was operating, he simply needed to follow that line of thought to the end to figure out what was going on.

If one was imprisoned in this world and couldn't leave, the only hope was that the epochs would change. The inside world would become the surface world and the surface world would become the inside world.

At that time, they would still be living in this world, but it would then be a growing world with limitless possibilities, not this compressed world where there was only death and silence. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

"But, fortunately or unfortunately, the Great Stellar Chiliocosm is far from declining. It is still very young, in the prime of its youth, perhaps able to go on living for tens of millions of years," Tang Jie casually said. "There is no such thing as true eternity in this world, and nobody can wait that long, and even if they could, they wouldn't want to. Thus, you tried to think of a way to advance the changing of epochs… By the Heavenly Dao, for the sake of your freedom, you were willing to destroy the entire universe!"

Tang Jie roared out these last words.

"That's not what's happening!" the Scarlet Cloud Fairy shouted. "This isn't our will, but the Heavenly Dao's will. It wants to come out! It doesn't want to wait!"

"So you're saying that I guessed right?" Tang Jie's eyes lit up.

He finally found out the answer, one that he had dearly wished wasn't true.

The changing of epochs was imminent!

A ruse, this was all a ruse!

There was no opportunity to surpass the Heavenly Dao here! Or perhaps, one could say that if one wanted to surpass the Great Stellar Chiliocosm's Heavenly Dao, the simplest method was to just destroy the world, after which one would reign supreme!

It was a trick from the very start!

Tang Jie was so shocked that he started to shake.

The Scarlet Cloud Fairy said in a trembling voice, "We didn't want to do this, but it's controlling us. The Stellar Heavenly Dao is trying to stop this from happening, while we have been tasked with pushing it forward. We tried to resist, even influencing Yu Cheng to back out, but we…"

The Scarlet Cloud Fairy couldn't keep going, her entire face beginning to distort as an immense energy erupted from her body. As that terrifying power struggled to break out, the Scarlet Cloud Fairy shrieked, "It's controlling my body… No, Tang Jie, you have to leave and stop Yu Cheng. Up there is not an opportunity, but the new epoch! If he gets through the obstacles set up by the Heavenly Dao Law Wheel and reaches the top of the tower, the changing of epochs will begin."

"Say no more!" the Violet Robe Wanderer shouted.

"I'm going to say it!" the Scarlet Cloud Fairy firmly replied. She was shaking, the power within her reaching a level that not even Tang Jie could imagine. But she still did not attack, doing all she could to prevent her body from attacking Tang Jie.

Gazing at her husband, she softly said, "We have erred for too long. I don't want to keep being wrong."

"Scarlet Cloud…" The Violet Robe Wanderer stared at his wife in shock.

The Scarlet Cloud Fairy squeezed out a smile. "Actually, I've already been very happy to be with you for so long… You know what? I've actually never wanted to leave. Because when I'm with you, I already have the entire world."

The Violet Robe Wanderer continued to stare at his wife.

Suddenly, he walked over and hugged his wife. "I'm so stupid, always thinking about getting out. Scarlet Cloud, I was wrong."

He turned to Tang Jie and shouted, "Go! Stop him, Tang Jie!"

As the Violet Robe Wanderer spoke, the Scarlet Cloud Fairy began to give out heat and light, as if she had become a miniature sun.

Tang Jie no longer hesitated, and a path appeared through the stars that led straight to the tower.

Tang Jie flew onto that path.

Behind him, a brilliant supernova lit up the darkness of space…