In other words, at least on the current timeline, everything was unified—and unique.
The basis for this lay in what exactly the Heavenly Monarchs had observed within the River of Time.
Once some accident occurred, causing the course of events to deviate irreversibly from the timeline originally observed,
it meant that the myriad karmic threads within the River of Time would also be thrown into disorder, then reset.
This was the true reason why the River of Time was also known as Time Turbulence.
Chen Yan's gaze swept across the True Purity Realm Sages present, including Pu Wenyu and Yu Li, as well as many unfamiliar faces he did not recognize.
He knew that the reason these great True Purity Realm cultivators had halted at the border of the Southern Bright Region was the white-haired young man—and the pitch-black, ancient jade pendant in his hand.
...A Dao artifact?
Before this, Chen Yan had seen only one Dao artifact.
The Tian Ding Mirror.
That bronze mirror, with its metallic texture and scarcely larger than a palm, was unlike the jade pendant held by the white-haired young man. At a single glance, one could sense the great Dao foundation within it, towering above the Heaven and Earth Laws.
The Profound Yin Jade was entirely black, its jade ancient and unadorned, with faint, inscrutable patterns flowing across its surface.
Those patterns had not been carved by human hands. They were more like traces left upon the artifact by the great Dao itself, every single one suffused with a terrifying aura that made one's heart quail.
Unbound by heaven and earth, unrestricted by laws.
At every moment, it proclaimed its existence as a Dao artifact.
But the Tian Ding Mirror was different.
That bronze mirror looked like nothing more than an utterly ordinary mirror.