Wang Ping heard the Ancestor Master's words, and interest instinctively rose in his eyes. Rain Lotus's vertical pupils, meanwhile, were filled entirely with the Ancestor Master's figure.
"Hahahaha!"
Yuxiao gave no answer. Instead, he suddenly burst into wild laughter and pointed at Wang Ping, as though saying, I'm laughing at you.
Wang Ping raised his brows slightly. Rain Lotus seemed about to ask something, but Wang Ping stopped her within the Spirit Sea. Star Sea merely watched Yuxiao quietly.
After roughly a dozen breaths, Yuxiao finally stopped laughing. Staring at Wang Ping, he said, "With your current cultivation, do you still not understand what it means to know the future or obtain the future? Why didn't Xiao Shan tell you the answer? Because the moment he glimpsed the future, he destroyed his own memories!"
"A future that is known is no longer the future. I became like this precisely because I knew the future. From the moment I learned of it, my thoughts underwent earth-shattering changes. Back then, an old predecessor warned me that only Saints could know the future, because they were Saints."
"But I stubbornly clung to my own views, naively believing that I could control it. Yet reality was not so. That is human nature—complex and terrifying. Just like your reaction earlier. With your cultivation, you must know what happens when one learns the future, yet your human nature habitually overlooked it."
"Saints are not benevolent; they treat the common people as straw dogs. That saying is excellent, but though you understand its principle, you cannot comprehend it fully. Perhaps there are not many in the entire universe who can truly grasp it."
"Only when cultivation reaches a certain level can you see the future. It is not that you first understand the future and then change