During his conversation with the Heavenly Emperor.
The Heavenly Emperor had gained much, and Lu Yuan had gained no less.
The Heavenly Emperor's gains lay in the progress of One Qi Transforming into Three Purities and his insights into the Red Dust Threads. The experience Lu Yuan brought from his self several hundred thousand years in the future had indeed given his present self tremendous inspiration. Although the Red Dust Threads were difficult to study, preliminary estimates suggested that it would take several hundred thousand years to uncover the mysteries of the Time Force within them. Note that it was only possible, not certain. Still, to someone with a lifespan of several million years, that was no more than an ordinary person spending ten years researching something. He believed that no Heavenly Sovereign would refuse such an investment, because every Heavenly Sovereign lived for over a million years. They could afford it.
Lu Yuan's gains, meanwhile, lay in updating his understanding of the Myriad Heavens' overall situation and supplementing certain secret records that had already been lost in later generations.
After all, history was always written by the victors.
And being misunderstood was also the destined fate of the strong.
It was like a writer penning an article, then taking a reading-comprehension test on that article, only to fail even to reach a passing score.
Sometimes, a strong person's true nature was simply not what history recorded. History would not distort things too wildly—it would not portray someone temperamental and volatile as refined and easygoing—but with only slight changes in wording, the overall meaning could change immediately.
Take "temperamental and volatile," for example.
It could be twisted into innocent-heartedness combined with stubbornness.
Innocent-heartedness meant never concealing one's emotional changes: laughing when one wanted to laugh and getting angry when one