Heart-Inscription Dao Master smiled at Ning Ye's words. "Why must it be an immortal god? It could simply be that this cosmos gave birth to an awareness of its own body."
Ning Ye smiled. "Starwatcher Patriarch and I did indeed make that same analysis. Unfortunately... there are too many possible answers."
"But if one continues seeking, one will always draw closer." Heart-Inscription smiled. "I know why you have come. The question is, do you yourself know why you have come?"
Ning Ye found this strange. "What do you mean?"
Heart-Inscription Dao Master replied, "Starwatcher told you that the Heavenly Dao is dying, and that once the demonic Dao is destroyed, heaven and earth will undergo Nirvana and be reborn. But that is merely his judgment. I do not see it that way."
Ning Ye said, "When Patriarch told me this, he suffered Heaven's condemnation."
Heart-Inscription replied, "He suffered Heaven's condemnation for telling you that the Heavenly Dao is dying, not for telling you it would be reborn."
Ning Ye froze. Heart-Inscription Dao Master's ability to probe the mind was truly formidable—he even knew that.
Fortunately, Ning Ye was able to take such things in stride now. He did not dwell on it and said, "So what you mean is..."
"There is another possibility. If the cosmos is viewed as a living being, then the Negative Realm is a terminal disease. Destroy it, and the cosmos may yet linger on in feeble survival," Heart-Inscription replied.
Ning Ye's mouth fell open in shock.
But upon thinking about it, it truly made sense.
The matter of heaven's impending death was basically certain, since Starwatcher had suffered Heaven's condemnation.
But everything afterward was merely analysis.
Perhaps what Heart-Inscription Dao Master said was the truth.
After pondering for a moment, Ning Ye said, "Perhaps you