"You saw it?"
"For an instant."
Jiang Sheng seemed to be answering Xuanche Immortal Monarch, but his mind remained immersed in that fleeting glimpse.
In that instant, countless branching times and spaces seemed to unfold before Jiang Sheng. Their overlapping projections showed different scenes: in one, Wang Cunyang defeated Zhou Huo with One Sword Opens Heaven; in another, Zhou Huo drew his blade, struck down ghosts and gods, and defeated Wang Cunyang; in yet another, Wang Cunyang and Zhou Huo grievously wounded each other...
Every possibility manifested in turn. Yet within that luxuriant candle flame, Karmic Cause and Effect converged, settling on the scene in which Wang Cunyang's sword met Zhou Huo's blade and Wang Cunyang scraped out a victory.
This divine ability to glimpse the future was not Jiang Sheng's own power, nor was it something he could command at present.
To trace the past and gaze into the future—that was an ability possessed only by mighty Pure Yang cultivators who had stepped beyond the Three Realms and outside the Five Elements, almost severed themselves from fate, and were no longer burdened by Karmic Cause and Effect or trapped by Calamity Aura.
As for Jiang Sheng, though he could defeat many Mahayana cultivators, he had, in the end, only reached the Five Calamities.
And that Azure Lotus lamp was merely a Mahayana Immortal Treasure.
If there was anything peculiar about the Lotus Lamp in Jiang Sheng's sea of consciousness, it was that it was a relic of the previous epoch. Not only did it contain the Laws of the years and carry the power of time, it had also survived the transition from that epoch's Epoch End Calamity to the dawning of new laws in this one. It could be said to carry the karmic legacy of Sanxuan and