Ling Qing nodded. "Exactly.
"Now, the people of Japan treat this world as a defensive barrier. Anyone with special qualifications can come and go through it."
Having reached this realm, he had gained a certain understanding of Instances.
Every Instance world truly existed.
In Buddhist terms, a thousand minor chiliocosms made a middling chiliocosm; a thousand middling chiliocosms made a major chiliocosm.
Three thousand major chiliocosms formed the world of one Buddha-land.
There was more than one Buddha-land world, nor were there merely three thousand major chiliocosms, nine million middling chiliocosms, and twenty-seven billion minor chiliocosms...
With the birth of a thought, a world was born; with the extinction of a thought, a world perished.
Like the Warring States Instance he had experienced—it was merely one of a world's many possibilities.
There, he had prevented the sages of the Hundred Schools from continuing to spread their teachings and established the Heavenly Court.
But in another possibility, perhaps one of the Hundred Schools had emerged victorious and made it into their own world.
Perhaps it had been abandoned by the Hundred Schools and gradually declined. Anything was possible.
Every possibility was a real world.
Yet among these countless changes, whether there existed some unchanging constant, Ling Qing did not know.
Likewise, he did not know what gifted individuals like himself represented.
But he knew that upon reaching the realm of Heavenly Immortal, one could absolutely travel freely among all worlds.
Those countless possibilities, those countless worlds, were like the stars at one's side—within reach of a hand, accessible with a single thought.
Therefore, to a Heavenly Immortal, the existence of gifted individuals was no secret.
Since Xu Fu had the possibility of becoming a Heavenly Immortal, he surely understood this as well.
"Is that so?" Xu Fu broke into a broad