After giving Ban Lan his instructions, Zhang Yu's consciousness returned once more to his divine energy avatar. Thinking of the prophecy Ban Lan had just mentioned, he mused, From the sea?
The near seas around Eastern Court Prefecture and Celestial Xia's homeland were indeed far from peaceful. All manner of mystical living beings were emerging. These things had not been born from nothing—either they had long slumbered beneath the seabed, or they had come from the interlayers or the deeper reaches of the sea.
Yue-Pacifying Prefecture had an underwater cavern eye, and many things within it matched the mystical living beings now appearing.
After considering it, he realized that the defenses of the Guardian of Rectitude garrisons had previously focused on land. It seemed they would need to strengthen their defenses against threats from the sea.
But that was merely passive defense. To resolve this trouble, they still had to begin with the prophecy itself.
Ban Lan and the others could not see through it, but with Zhang Yu's cultivation, he immediately recognized that the prophecy had actually been inscribed into heaven and earth through spirituality, making it a part acknowledged by the world.
Thus, once the prophecy had been made, as heaven and earth continued their course, when the opportunity arrived, the foretold outcome would inevitably reveal itself.
Yet to accomplish such a thing naturally required paying a corresponding price.
Moreover, spiritual prophecies depended on fate and opportunity. If one could not come to pass for a long time, it would inevitably be gradually twisted and degraded amid the exclusion and workings of heaven and earth. Perhaps its final result would bear an entirely different meaning from the original, and those who benefited might not be the original maker of the prophecy or the one it foretold. It was