"Was it fate?"
"Or an understanding of human nature?"
Sitting in the secret chamber he used for seclusion,
Lu Yuan questioned and answered himself.
Unfortunately, most self-posed questions could never be answered.
Lu Yuan was no exception.
No matter how he calculated,
it seemed he had no choice now.
The outcome brought about by coincidence after coincidence was inevitable. By the time he realized something was wrong, he was already deeply trapped in the game.
Of course.
Taking a step back,
he could indeed abandon everything he currently possessed.
To put it bluntly, you could rule the heavens and the earth, but could you stop me from dying?
As long as I did not want to live,
no one could hold me hostage.
Perhaps you really could revive me and prevent my death. Even if I annihilated my body, you could still cross the river of time and rewrite the past, allowing me to live with a body once more. Even if I annihilated my own soul, you could still cross the river of time, return to the past, stop all of this, and even rewrite my thoughts so I could never conceive of destroying myself.
After all, speaking objectively,
that unknown existence who seemed to be plotting against him, stood above the Star River, and called himself Lu Yuan's Past Self was unimaginably powerful. Lu Yuan even suspected that everything he possessed now was part of that unknown existence's power, including his Space-Time Force and Power of Destiny. If that being had not granted him permissions, he would not even have been able to wield those two powers. Although the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had given him the Power of Destiny, and the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena had given him the Space-Time Force, to an existence that grasped power