Once Zhao Lingyin erected the Divine Bridge, it would draw the Qing Sage Primordial Lord into action. She would be stripped of everything tangible and intangible—her fleshly body, soul, cultivation, fortune—and reduced to another's incarnation;
But if she remained in the Origin Core Realm, she would ultimately die of old age eight hundred years later!
It seemed... this was an unsolvable dead end.
After a moment of silence, Shen Mo suddenly said, "The scenes we saw earlier were not all dead ends! In other words, under certain circumstances, Ling Yin can erect the Divine Bridge while still escaping this fatal calamity?"
Although the vast majority of what they had seen were paths where towering ancient trees had their "future" severed, a very few stretched onward into an unknown distance.
"Difficult! Far too difficult!"
Guan Ling's brows had never relaxed. She had been pondering ways to break this impasse.
The future lay within chaos, yet different people and events exerted different degrees of force in collapsing "the falsehood of the future" into "the reality of the present." Put plainly, setting aside changes within things themselves and speaking only of human influence: the higher one's cultivation and the stronger one's power, the more one could steer the future toward the direction one desired and grasp one's own fate and that of others!
Take Shen Mo at this moment. A single word from him could perhaps alter the fates of hundreds of millions of living beings within the Azure Cloud Grotto-Heaven, changing their futures. A Body Tempering Realm disciple, meanwhile, could only possibly change the future of themself and their loved ones by fighting with every last ounce of strength. If their influences upon the "future" came into conflict, all the Body Tempering Realm disciple's efforts might not outweigh a single thought from