Facing the Dragon Emperor's questioning, the Demon Emperor merely thought for a moment before saying, "Why not?"
"The future you choose is yours to bear." The Dragon Emperor nodded and said nothing more.
Then the Dragon Emperor looked at Wang Qi again. "All right, Wang Qi. You still have something very important to ask me, don't you? And this time, I actually feel that I will definitely answer you. How unusual."
Wang Qi pondered for a moment, then asked, "In the foreseeable future, will I have any... major entanglements with the Savior Devil King?"
The Dragon Emperor and Demon Emperor looked at each other. After a moment, the Dragon Emperor shook his head. "A tremendous variable will arise around you very soon. As for that variable... for now, I still hope you can choose for yourself. But one thing is certain: when that variable occurs, this little Water Folk fellow will not yet have recovered."
Wang Qi fell into thought again.
"Then... the divine mystery of having past and future united as one only takes effect after one attains that fruition?"
The Dragon Emperor nodded. "That is correct."
That was only natural.
Otherwise, every living being had the potential to reach the Limit of Dao Integration. If retrograde currents from the distant future could truly affect the time before one attained past and future united as one, then this universe would already have dragons everywhere.
It was simply unknown whether the Nascent Soul Method had been designed that way from the start, or whether the physical laws of this universe were themselves like this.
Wang Qi pondered again.
Judging from things so far... having past and future united as one was very likely something one attained once and retained forever.
The instant a reverse-temporal logic gate appeared, it had already