Fated Past

Was it really an illusion?

That depended on whom one asked.

If one asked these spectators, even if they could not be certain that everything they had seen was an illusion, there seemed to be no better explanation. Even if it was not an illusion, they could only treat it as one. Besides, they could not do anything about it anyway...

But to Lu Yuan.

This was no illusion.

Including those shattered Array Runes, the entire Teleportation Array was a physical object from the past that had descended into the present—or, relative to the Teleportation Array itself, the future. In truth, it was a natural phenomenon caused by overlapping space-time. The mountains, rivers, villages, and everything else that had originally been there, including all manner of living creatures and plants, had merely been temporarily separated on the spatial level.

It was like placing two sheets of white paper together.

Then taking a Fountain Pen or pencil and writing forcefully on the first sheet.

When you finished and moved the papers apart, there would be indentations on the second sheet as well.

The principle was the same.

Thus, to be more precise, the terrain where the Teleportation Array stood had never changed from beginning to end. The Teleportation Array that descended from the perspective of space-time had blocked their senses, preventing them from observing the mountains and rivers on another spatial plane. And the moment they stepped onto the Teleportation Array, they had already entered a space-time cycle at a single location—a Teleportation Array from more than five hundred years ago!

In other words, everyone present at the time had been living more than five hundred years in the past!

At least from the perspective of time, yes.

After all, senses were unreliable, and eyes were even less reliable.

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