The Truth of That Year! (W Words)

There was one more thing!

The Heavenly Dao of the Cultivation World had been damaged, and it had continually grown weaker. That was precisely why the Cultivation World had been unable to produce another Great Emperor for nearly seven million years...

This seemed to fit the theory that after Earth collapsed, it had been "barely reassembled," but had ultimately suffered enormous damage—and that damage had continued to worsen?

It was like a person who had been cut in half at the waist...

Although they were later pieced back together and seemed fine on the surface, the damage still remained? "Not only that..."

He thought of something else.

The Tao Te Ching! The Diamond Sutra! When he and Qi Zixiao had first recited these secret arts of Taoism and Buddhism in the Cultivation World, merit had descended from the heavens and gathered into rings... "At the time, I found it very strange."

"On a tiny Earth, with only two scriptures, why had they caused such a tremendous upheaval in the Cultivation World?"

"Looking back now, there's an explanation for it."

"If the Cultivation World is the 'lost' Earth, then the Tao Te Ching, the Diamond Sutra, and the others are lost masterpieces... People have long forgotten them, but the Heavenly Dao still remembers."

"Because these scriptures are of immense benefit to the people within this world, when they reappeared, the Heavenly Dao granted merit as a reward..."

Qi Zi discovered a problem.

If the Cultivation World was presumed to be the future Earth along this timeline, then many of his old questions could be answered with ease.

Questions for which he had originally been unable to find answers now seemed to be spilling their answers out on their own... "If that's really the case..."

Qi Zi murmured, "If that's really the