Buddha's Mount

After leaving the imperial city, Li Huowang glanced back at the palace of red walls and golden tiles, then turned and headed due north along the road paved with gray-white stone slabs. He walked with his head lowered in thought, not even looking at the road ahead.

"Dad, this is wonderful! I don't have to be separated from you anymore!" Li Sui said happily. "I'm still your daughter. I won't turn into someone else!"

"You've always been my daughter. No matter what happens, you'll always be my daughter." Li Huowang touched his stomach and replied distractedly.

Xuanpin was gone. The new Monitored Heavenly Bureau was now called Guyuan. There had to be some unknown changes in history.

Where had she come from? Did she have something to do with Forgetful Dao? With Xuanpin gone, where was he supposed to get such a massive amount of Primordial One Qi?

When he looked up at the sky, his heart was filled with doubt.

This happened to confirm Zhuge Yuan's guess. Once he could travel to other worlds, the future might have undergone irreversible changes. That was why Zhuge Yuan had encouraged him to take the initiative to change things, rather than worry about a future he could not see clearly.

The timeline of this world had already become a tangled mess. Making it messier would only mean adding another needle capable of choosing its own direction through the knot.

Brother Zhuge really was incredible.

The other hallucinations discussed matters nearby. After listening for a long while, Li Huowang merely scratched the back of his head. He looked up at the sky, thick with piled-up clouds. The doubts in his mind were probably about as numerous as those clouds.

In the end.

He chose to stop thinking and help the emperor kill people