Everything Purple Mansion Heavenly Monarch had seen was absolutely not a life that Chen Yan, after saving Chenping Continent, could possibly have lived.
No matter what his temperament was truly like, there was no way he could have been toyed with by a Body Tempering Realm cultivator like Jia Wen.
Yet in that young girl Heavenly Monarch's account, everything that had happened in Kunwu Continent along that timeline carried a hazy sense of déjà vu.
It was like that illusory dream that had begun from nothing after he had stripped away all his Karma.
Even so, by all reason, everything that had happened in Chenping Continent had already become an anchor point in the River of Time. Thus, even if he discarded all his Karma, he should have been reborn with all his memories of Chenping Continent intact.
More importantly, upon cultivating to the Hedao Realm, all the Karma he had cast aside would return to him.
The restored him would have been almost incapable of becoming friends with Shen Xuanwei.
Nor could he have undergone such a drastic change in temperament and destroyed Kunwu Continent.
That was not his way of doing things.
In other words, it was not a decision the current him could have made.
As for his future self...
Who could say for sure?
It was precisely because of this that Chen Yan once again posed such a question to the young girl Heavenly Monarch before him.
"Not necessarily."
That was the young girl Heavenly Monarch's answer to Chen Yan's question.
"I told you, this is merely one possibility. If I were to read again from that node in the River of Time, it would very likely develop in an entirely different direction."
Immediately afterward, the young woman in a crimson-purple Daoist robe continued:
"But anchor