"This is... me?"
Island Master of Heavenly Mystery Island stared blankly at the scene before him.
In the image, he sat behind a silver-white desk, with brain-computers flickering with various colors of light behind him.
Each brain-computer possessed the functions of at least ten World Cores.
Whatever they were calculating had to be something extremely important.
At the very least, it had to be more important than the matter at Mengxi Daoist Temple!
Shen Lin remembered that, according to the records he had seen earlier inside Mengxi Daoist Temple, there had only been one brain-computer used to calculate and deduce the temple's data.
But there were dozens of them here.
Just then, the "Island Master of Heavenly Mystery Island" in the image spoke after a moment of silence.
"Just now was our ten-billionth deduction of the future."
"As always, it failed!"
"Very few positions of transcendence remained, and the empire ultimately chose time."
"But time, like the Dao of Strength, is likewise a Great Dao above everything else."
"Ever since we learned about transcendence, we have been using nearly all of the empire's computing power to make deductions."
"But after all these years, every single deduction has produced nothing but errors!"
"This time, we came closest to success."
"My deduction was not wrong. Fortune Power is a manifestation of the Time Dao."
"Fortune is a living being's possibilities in the future. It might die tomorrow, or it might continue growing until it becomes a powerful existence in the Inner Void Realm."
"It is the collapsed state of countless possibilities. It can also be viewed as the infinite changes contained within every person."
"And change is the profundity of time."
"Once we understood this point, we were actually not far from final success. It's just that..."
In the image, Island Master