From the look of Ling Chu now, it was clear that Taishi had made arrangements long ago.
"You even kept all this from me."
Liu Yunzheng closed his eyes, feeling somewhat helpless. After a long while, he gave a bitter smile. If he had been the man he once was, he would have opposed it with all his might. Taishi must have foreseen that, which was why he had chosen to keep it secret rather than risk a disagreement between them.
Back then, he had exhausted himself, divining the secrets of heaven countless times in hopes of finding humanity a way out. Yet every attempt had ended in a haze, without the faintest clue. Looking back now, the interference must have come from the Records of Humanity.
"Forget it..."
Liu Yunzheng could not hide his desolation. In this upheaval, he had done all he could as the Imperial Court's Celestial Master. His conscience was clear.
As a Celestial Master, he was extremely sensitive to shifts in fate. Somewhere deep down, Liu Yunzheng could already feel that his end was near. He no longer had the strength to interfere with what the future held for the Lingyang humans.
Looking at Ling Chu before him, Liu Yunzheng's thoughts shifted, and he could not help thinking of Shi Lan. From their first meeting, he had used the Records of Humanity to divine Shi Lan's future fate. In the end, all he had seen were a few shattered images; he could make out nothing.
The only explanation was that Shi Lan would one day reach the pinnacle of the Great Emperor realm. Her true body had stepped into the long river of time and space, and with that river broken, the secrets of heaven had scattered, making it impossible to see where it ended.