"Was it to win the ancient war?"
No response.
"Was it to destroy the Tide of Truth so the black water would stop flooding everything?"
No response.
Well, this was harder to guess than he had expected.
Xu Yuan thought for a moment, then snapped his fingers. "I've got it. It was to repair Yanmen completely, then join forces with Lu Feiming to defeat the Ancient God."
Still no response.
How exhausting.
To save time, Xu Yuan decided to look at the answer.
"Cycle Field."
He spoke the words silently.
Layers of light and shadow appeared before his eyes. From the Universe's perspective, everything from the past unfolded in his memory.
This time, he finally spotted a crucial point.
The Universe had decided to hold the Dark Crown Ritual in the Three Realms because its civilization had developed Imago Art.
Imago Art.
Or perhaps the Dark Crown Ritual!
"So our focus is Imago Art and the Dark Crown Ritual," Xu Yuan ventured.
In an instant,
countless movie scenes surfaced in his mind. Characters popped up one after another, giving the camera a thumbs-up:
"Yes!"
"Exactly."
"You're doing great!"
"That's it!"
"Keep going!"
The images flashed past and vanished.
So in the end, it came down to what human civilization had achieved!
Why?
Why did the Universe favor Imago Art?
The Blood Lord Great World's Bloodline Art could use Netherworld Passage to connect two worlds, raise the dead, and even summon powerful beings across time and Emptiness.
Why Imago Art instead of Bloodline Art?
Xu Yuan sank into thought.
All right.
If it's Imago Art, what should I do?
Master the True Explanation of Imago inside and out, then find the other half of the Jade Slip held by the Demon-Suppressing Heavenly Venerable.
Beyond that,
there was something even more important.