The more Shichen heard, the more something felt wrong, and the tighter his brows drew together.
"Who is he? What does he have to do with the answer I wanted?"
Blood Eye glanced at him before continuing.
"I couldn't make out his face, but behind him was a Dao Wheel bearing more Dao Laws than I could count. He stood behind the scenes in the future, preventing anyone from ascending to the Great Dao Realm. He possessed the same divinity as the Great Dao. That was a branch with no future!"
"So when you saw my two-colored Dao Wheel of time and space, you thought he was me?" Shichen was momentarily speechless.
He finally understood why the God of Systems always stared at the Dao Wheel behind him, and why he kept saying such strange things.
"Why doesn't the Great Dao stop him?"
A derisive laugh came from Blood Eye.
"The Great Dao is emotionless and utterly impartial. It evolves all things. Unless its origin's continued existence is threatened, why would it concern itself with any of this?"
"That is why I must ascend to the Great Dao Realm, recreate the heavens, and evolve the three thousand Laws of the Dao anew! I will prove... that divinity is not the only right path!"
His voice grew increasingly impassioned, shaking the entire space.
"I must also stop that man! I will allow everyone to ascend to the highest realm! You cannot imagine how powerful such a world would become!"
Shichen fell silent.
As he pondered everything he had learned, a memory suddenly surfaced in his mind.
When his future self had once appeared, he had told him not to forget his original convictions, and to ascend to the pinnacle alongside Pangu and the others.
At the time, he had taken it