The scene fell silent once more. Only after a long while, when Long Jing had digested all the information he had received from Cheng Shi, did he raise his head again and cautiously ask:
"Lord, is the deduction of time real or false, in the end?"
Real or false?
That was a good question.
Cheng Shi let out a bitter, complicated laugh, unsure how to answer.
If even the world beneath our feet was fake, then what meaning did the truth or falsehood of the deduction have?
But even if a world was not truly a world, the people in every world were still so real. Take Long Jing and Qin Xin... even the Blind Man who had come to this world and stood before me. I couldn't possibly deny their existence or negate their meaning.
So existence... perhaps it had already fused with Nothingness long ago.
As Cheng Shi, there was nothing wrong with having such thoughts. But as Lord Hour Hand's follower of time, he absolutely could not voice such an opinion.
Thus, Cheng Shi reined in his thoughts and said with a smile:
"I can understand your shock at Divine Majesty of time, but mortal, your words border on blasphemy.
"As a Walker of Nothingness, there is nothing wrong with considering everything illusory. But you must see clearly where you stand. This is not the void of Nothingness, but the galaxy of existence.
"My lord is also existence, so the power of deduction that evolved from Him must likewise be existence.
"So, do you understand?"
Cheng Shi's words were an indirect way of telling Long Jing that no matter what he had heard from another version of himself, the story might differ because the worlds were different, but the other world was absolutely real.
As for whether