Rumble—
Across the vast, boundless sky, a sudden thunderclap exploded out of the clear blue. The endless sea of clouds abruptly vanished into thin air, as though erased by some power.
Above the zenith, the true body widened his eyes in utter disbelief. Deep within his pupils, countless "fleeting fragments" suddenly flashed—each one unmistakably a "scene" of the future.
The long river of spacetime surged on in mighty waves, flowing without end toward an unknowable future.
As early as several lives ago, the true body had understood one principle: the past was fixed, the present was singular, and only the future could not be predicted.
Perhaps an unintentional shift in his thoughts could give rise to an entirely new future spacetime.
After dozens of Ruins Days spent facing the wall and comprehending the Dao, he had actually seen the future.
These "scenes" concerning the future were not continuous images, but isolated "fleeting fragments."
Several breaths later, a trace of understanding flashed through the true body's eyes. By now, he had reorganized all the future "scenes," and in the end discovered that there were a total of nine kinds of "future" that might become reality.
The nine "futures" varied in span. The shortest covered only two Ruins Days, while the longest could not be estimated at all in terms of how many tens of thousands of years had passed.
Because in the final "scene" it presented, there was only one dazzling "Great Sun," so immense it reached every distance and shone across all heavens and myriad worlds.
In a daze, Zhao Sheng "saw" that atop a tall mountain outside Xiang Er Cliff, his clone Zhao Qiong Tian had transformed into a streak of rainbow light and charged into that dark, profound land of nothingness in the distance, never to return.
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