Illusion and Reality

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Shi Yueyao had never expected the Immortal Exalted to hand her a 16th Order Supreme Treasure just like that!

Sure enough, when the Immortal Exalted made a move, even the least he gave was a 16th Order Supreme Treasure!

And the Book of Destiny's power was terrifying beyond belief!

Through the pull of destiny and cause and effect, it could reveal the fate and causes of a single person—or even an entire world.

Didn't that mean she could spoil the future for everyone?!

The causes and destinies of everyone in the Chat Group were intertwined.

So even though they lived in different worlds, Shi Yueyao could use the Book of Destiny and the Chat Group's power to see every member's future fate.

"Hehe, now I really can spoil the future!"

Shi Yueyao hugged the Book of Destiny and began grinning foolishly.

The moment Shi Yueyao took out the Book of Destiny, it seized complete control of the Destiny Source Law and Karma Source Law in her High Martial World.

Just as the Sky Mirror controlled the sources of time and space, cause and effect and destiny in this world became unfathomably mysterious, beyond anyone's reach.

Without the Book of Destiny, using the powers of cause and effect and destiny was out of the question. Even comprehending them had become utterly impossible.

Well, the powerhouses of the High Martial World had suffered another crushing blow.

First, the powers of time and space had slipped beyond their reach. Now cause and effect and destiny had become forbidden as well.

For the world as a whole, though, this was undoubtedly an opportunity sent from heaven.

Its slowly recovering spiritual energy surged into a terrifying Spiritual Energy Tide for the second time.

The first had come when the Sky Mirror descended.

By now, the spiritual energy of the High Martial World could almost support those at the Great Emperor realm.

In the High Martial World, the Great Emperor realm was the Human Dao Apex. And because reaching it required merging with the Heavenly Heart Mark, only one person in an era could become a Great Emperor.

Hmm, that was rather like a certain red-haired author's world.

But the Great Emperors of the High Martial World were no match for those in that world.

After all, this High Martial World was merely a Lesser World whose spiritual energy had only just begun to recover.

Of course, none of that had much to do with Shi Yueyao. She had already switched to cultivating the Immortal Dao.

After refining and putting away the Book of Destiny, Shi Yueyao remembered something and began uploading novels, one after another.

Chronicles of the Primordial World, Chronicles of the Lotus Lantern, Chronicles of the Immortal Sword, Chronicles of the Ancient Sword, Chronicles of Wind and Cloud...

These were the original novels connected to the group members.

The Ninth Tier was equivalent to a Celestial Immortal in the Lotus Lantern World, and Shi Yueyao was now at the Seventh Tier. She was close to becoming an immortal herself.

So she could retrieve anything she had read at will, even if it lay buried in the deepest reaches of her memory.

Naturally, she remembered every word of the original works she had read—even those she had only glanced at.

Of course, Chinese Paladin and Chronicles of the Ancient Sword were games or television dramas, not novels. Adaptations existed, but Shi Yueyao had never read them.

So Shi Yueyao set about writing the novels herself.

Hmm, her prose was nothing special, but she was nearly an immortal. With her clear mind, she could reproduce every world's setting and story exactly as they had been.

As for novels about the Primordial Wilderness, Shi Yueyao still did not know who the Immortal Exalted was.

Although he came from the Primordial World, she did not know his name, so she had no idea which great figure of the Primordial Wilderness he might be—if he was any of them at all.

Even so, she uploaded a novel about the Investiture of the Gods along with the novel that had pioneered Primordial Wilderness-style novels.

She mixed in the many Primordial Wilderness fan works she had read, combined everything, and named the result Chronicles of the Primordial World.

That way, the Immortal Exalted could gain a clear understanding of everything in the Primordial World.

Shi Yueyao did not know that Bai Yu was not only a Transmigrator, but had read far more novels than she had!

The group members, who had been discussing Transmigrators, saw the files their group leader uploaded and downloaded them to read.

With their Spiritual Sense and divine perception, the cultivators soon finished every novel.

Well, except for Li Hanyi and Mei Changsu.

Li Hanyi had only just returned to Snow Moon City, while Mei Changsu was still in his carriage. Neither had begun cultivating yet.

So while everyone else had finished all the novels, those two had not even finished the first chapter.

World Conqueror: So that's how it is. I'm a villain? And only an early-stage villain at that?!

Maoshan Celestial Master: What a surprise. Did you think you were a good person, Chief Xiong? (eye-roll.jpg)

World Conqueror: I'm just a little dazed. Suddenly finding out I'm only a fictional character feels strange.

Demon Lord: Fictional character? I believe I'm real. Therefore, I am real!

Lord of Divine Law: I think, therefore I am. There's no need to dwell on whether you're a fictional character in a novel. Your memories are real, your past is real, and everything you feel is real. Therefore, you are real.

Crown Prince Changqin: Just think of it as someone observing your world's Fate Line and writing it down as a novel.

Suddenly learning that they were characters invented for novels left Xiongba and Lin Jiu bewildered, their feelings tangled and hard to settle.

But immortals like Yang Jian and Chonglou were not so easily shaken.

Besides, Crown Prince Changqin had a point. Perhaps some unknown being had observed their worlds' past and future, then casually recorded what they saw.

That was possible.

After all, a divine artifact like the Multiverse Chat Group could bring people in from different worlds.

To deny their own existence because of a mere novel would be absurd.

How was that any different from suicide?

Even Xiongba and Lin Jiu were only dazed and troubled, nothing more. If they had not denied themselves, then Daluo Golden Immortals like Yang Jian and Chonglou certainly would not.

Their minds were not that fragile.

Even if they took ten thousand steps back and accepted that they truly were fictional, so what?

Having read so many Primordial Wilderness-style novels, the group members understood that truly supreme powerhouses could create and destroy worlds at will.

So would it be hard for such a being to write their world's past and future, every thread of fate and cause and effect, into a novel?

Was that really so inconceivable?!

Only a frog at the bottom of a well would wallow in self-pity.

Perhaps they, too, had once been frogs at the bottom of a well. But since joining the Chat Group, they had glimpsed the boundless Myriad Realms beyond it!

As the group members read these novels that laid out their fates, no shadow fell over their hearts. Instead, their hearts shone with endless light.