Above the sea of clouds, a streak of escaping light flashed by. As Meng Qi checked Spirit Inspiration King's hoard, he pondered the two questions he had just asked.
Learning when the Heavenly Court had fallen was the main purpose of this trip. He wanted to travel back through time, witness the process by which the heavens had collapsed, and find the trail of the scattered Dinghai Pearls, thereby narrowing down their approximate locations and laying the groundwork for finding them after returning to the future. Asking when the Devil Master had attacked the Heavenly Court, on the other hand, had been a sudden inspiration.
He still remembered his first visit to the Journey to the West World, when he had asked a little demon about it. The demon had conflated the Devil Master's attack on the Heavenly Court with the Heavenly Court's fall, and had even thought the former directly caused the latter. This clearly contradicted the timeline of antiquity he had pieced together.
Based on the direct or indirect confirmation of ancient witnesses such as the Demon Buddha and Sha Wujing, he believed the Investiture of the Gods War had come first. The Heavenly Court had benefited from it and forged a firm alliance with Yuanshi Tianzun and Moral Heavenly Venerable, who had been pulling the strings behind the scenes, thereby thoroughly suppressing the forces of Buddhism, the demons, and others. The Heavenly Court had reached its zenith—but nothing in this world lasted forever, and a peak often marked the beginning of a decline. As the Heavenly Emperor's cultivation advanced day by day, he might no longer have been content to serve as a front man for Yuanshi Tianzun and Moral Heavenly Venerable, presiding over an empty throne while the Other Shore Beings kept out of sight. Thus