Lu Yin sighed helplessly. "I have a question for you." He looked at Jian Wu. "If one day, the Anti-Flowing Camp Faction used Human Civilization to pry at the Main Dao, and succeeded—but Human Civilization was certain to be destroyed in the process—what would you choose?"
Jian Wu's expression didn't change, but the flicker in his eyes showed that he was thinking.
Lu Yin didn't rush him. He calmly took a sip of tea.
A moment later, Jian Wu spoke. "In the universe, all life will eventually perish. The essence of life is to be rearranged. Civilization is merely an illusion formed by beings uniting to survive."
Lu Yin understood. "You may leave."
Jian Wu rose and was about to go, but after a moment's thought, he downed the tea in the cup on the table.
Lu Yin gazed at the empty teacup, wondering what Jian Wu was thinking.
Perhaps the Main Dao of Time's show of force had worked. Perhaps there was another reason.
For the next two hundred years, the Time Sequence suffered no further losses. As for the Reserve Sequence, it was outside the Time Dao's sphere of concern.
Two hundred years wasn't long, but it was enough time for some things—for instance, gathering the materials the Heavenly Will Civilization needed, and searching for the Mother Tree.
Lu Yin acquired quite a few more Green Light Spots.
The Heavenly Will Civilization had also gathered almost all the materials required to set up and perform the Consciousness Flow of Heavenly Will Twelve Turns. It wouldn't be long before they could help Lu Yin make his first attempt.
What Lu Yin needed wasn't to absorb the consciousness of a single object, but to absorb consciousness on a vast scale and produce an unmistakable effect. That was why gathering the