707 A Great Dream
Zhang Yantang finally broke free of the illusion and the script Qingshi Fulin had arranged for him.
Qingshi Fulin let out a sigh, yet he did not lament whether all the investments he had made had gone to waste.
Dong E'qing understood his feelings perfectly.
Qingshi Fulin waved a hand, and the illusion within the ruins completely dissipated. It turned out that the layers upon layers of illusions surrounding Zhang Yantang had all been interlinked.
Unfortunately, Zhang Yantang would never see what it looked like when everything was revealed. When he slowly opened his eyes, all he saw was familiar surroundings. He had returned to the Zhang Household's small courtyard in Haining City.
Everything he saw was made up of the people and things he had known for more than a decade.
Yet all of this had been nothing more than a probing exchange between Zhang Mingshu and Qingshi Fulin across the river of time.
After reviewing the events for a while, Qingshi Fulin let out another soft sigh. "I was still a step too late. Back then, I wasn't as decisive as he was. I should have abandoned everything outright and returned to the mortal world."
Qingshi Fulin had waited in the Immortal Realm all along, constantly building up his strength. Only when the opportunity for the revival of the world's Spiritual Mechanism and the return of the Immortal Realm appeared did he descend to the mortal world.
In his previous life, Zhang Mingshu, who carried the Life Book, had abandoned everything long ago and come to this world that was on the verge of entering the Age of Dharma Decline.
It could be said that he had wagered everything.
In the end, just as this world was about to take the final step into