The Truth

"Dreaming a Thousand Years?"

Aaron was momentarily stunned.

In that instant, he felt as though he had transformed into a butterfly upon the river of time.

He could even snip out a stretch from its upper or lower reaches, forming a world suspended between illusion and reality.

"Zhuang Zhou dreamed of being a butterfly; the butterfly dreamed of being Zhuang Zhou. It is nothing more than that... A dream is the same!"

"It sounds mysterious, but in truth, it's just a virtual reality world... only with an incredibly high degree of realism, along with simulated pasts and futures..."

Aaron smiled. When he looked upon this world again, those flowers and grasses, those mountains and waters... all gave him entirely new insights.

"This ancient world, this Great Liang... is indeed sustained by Dreaming a Thousand Years... But the game Ancient is more than just that..."

"After all... although Dreaming a Thousand Years can create such a realistic world, allowing players to descend into it and interfere with the history of the real world... if I'm not mistaken, that should be the effect of two other divine abilities—Descent of the Heavenly God and Demon Stains the World..."

"My initial deduction was correct... This game, Ancient, is composed of several of the Ancient Six Divine Abilities. As for the game's purpose?"

"I'll know after running a simulation."

With a cheat at his disposal, anyone who didn't abuse it and instead insisted on personally investigating the mastermind behind the scenes was an idiot!

[Day One: You comprehend the principle of 'beyond the Three Realms, outside the Five Elements'... You ascend Three Realms Mountain. Because you possess 'Dreaming a Thousand Years,' you do not die...]

``` [Day Two: You meet a man on Three Realms Mountain. He calls himself 'Xu Fu,' the GM