"The future is not singular. What you saw was merely some of its possibilities. There is no need to worry too much. In my own future, I once saw quite a few scenes similar to yours."
Tongtian's indifferent answer did not put Yi Yin at ease. His anger and pain did not stem from seeing himself being killed.
What Yi Yin cared about was how Dajia had left Parasol Palace. That place was one of Shang Yi's divine realms left in the mortal world. Without Shang Yi's approval, how could Dajia, who had lost more than half of his divine authority, have departed Parasol Palace?
One possible future was that Shang Yi would anticipate his own death.
It was precisely because Yi Yin understood this that he suffered.
Having risen from humble beginnings to reach this point, Yi Yin placed great importance on Shang Yi, whom he had befriended in his youth.
For a long period afterward, the concepts of Shang Yi and the Shang Dynasty had remained blurred together, causing him to extend that importance to the Shang Dynasty itself.
Though even Yi Yin himself did not know which mattered more now, the Shang Dynasty or Shang Yi, the choice Shang Yi might make was still something he could not accept. Looking at Tongtian, he asked again, "Teacher, is the future you saw absolute?"
"An absolute future? What do you think the future is? Merely the workings of heaven and earth at this moment, and the choices of all beings in the past and present? It is not so. Too many factors can affect the future. They may originate in the present, or in the past, or may even be born from the future."
As Tongtian spoke, he could not help recalling some bizarre events he had witnessed over