The version of himself in that timeline felt unfamiliar to Chen Yan.
It was as though he was not himself, but someone else entirely.
And the purpose of his true self's existence was to fix everything he had experienced as an "anchor" in the river of time.
This meant that he would eventually become enemies with the versions of himself in countless timelines.
But what Chen Yan found most inconceivable was still that great demon of the fifteenth realm.
A demonic beast that Immortal Cultivators called "the End," yet which had existed before heaven and earth were born.
Devouring the worlds of this existence was almost an instinct for that being.
The Endless Sea, the Wusheng Desert...
The "boundaries" beyond each domain seemed to exist because of the End Beast, which was merely kept outside those domains by the Heaven and Earth Laws constructed by the Heavenly Dao. That was all.
Heavenly Monarchs who had cultivated to the Void Creation Realm, the thirteenth realm, could observe existences in different timelines to a certain extent.
And because the Purple Mansion Heavenly Monarch had sensed something amiss, he had crossed the river of time to reconstruct his original timeline completely.
Then what of the Primal Beginning Realm, the fourteenth realm, and the Celestial Heaven Realm, the fifteenth?
Even a version of himself in the True Purity Realm in a certain timeline could use some means to cross the river of time and meet the Chen Yan of this timeline, let alone that shriveled eyeball that had been pursuing him all along...
This meant that, quite possibly, the End Beast of the fifteenth realm...
Also knew of his existence in this timeline.
Strength.
Still, only strength could determine his future.
Since existences that had already reached the thirteenth realm or higher could cross