Space.
"...Me?"
Jialan pointed at herself in confusion.
"Jialan is the contingency plan?" Lin Qiye frowned. "Why have you never mentioned this to me?"
"More precisely, the contingency plan is the Immortal Pill inside Jialan's body." Destiny Monk slowly spoke. "Back then, in order to withstand this great calamity, Lingbao Tianzun specially refined a pill. Although it was later destroyed by the Key of Doors striking from afar, two pill fragments that still retained medicinal power were preserved... They were the Eternal Pill and the Immortal Pill."
"I already know all that. So?"
"Since they are only half-pills, swallowing them immediately grants godly-realm defensive power, as well as the overwhelming regenerative ability of eternal life and immortality... In a sense, they are the first and last examples in this world of an 'artificial Forbidden Ruin.'
"More importantly, after the pills are swallowed, they cannot be digested at all. In other words, so-called immortality and eternal life are powers the human body draws from the pills; they can never truly be integrated into oneself... Do you know why?"
"Why?"
"Because these two pills were never meant for humans to consume."
Jialan froze. "Not for humans? Then who were they for? Gods?"
"No, for it..."
Destiny Monk pointed somewhere. Lin Qiye and Jialan turned their heads at the same time, their gazes narrowing slightly.
That shattered divine kingdom was still standing with difficulty upon the moon.
"Heavenly Court?"
"More accurately, the Heavenly Court Origin." Destiny Monk paused. "And that pill was not originally called the Eternal Immortal Pill. Its name... was Eternity.
"Lingbao Tianzun's original intention in refining this pill was to integrate it into the Heavenly Court Origin. In that way, the Heavenly Court would become a super divine kingdom capable of moving freely, while possessing both immortality and eternal life...