Meng Chuan crossed time and passed through eras, traveling downstream from the Emperor's Fall Era.
Along the way, beings in the River of Time inexplicably looked up now and then, sensing something. In the end, they found nothing.
They could only laugh it off as an illusion.
Through their karmic connections, Meng Chuan also found one Soul Clone after another.
He watched them descend into the world and grow, then either die young or reach the pinnacle. Emotion stirred in his heart.
These are all the lands I conquered. They'll be of great use in the future.
Tracing back and unifying one's past, gathering and claiming a portion of the future, and condensing an Illusory Dao Fruit—these were the three conditions for reaching the Other Shore.
Whether one ultimately succeeded depended on the individual. After all, the attempt to reach the Other Shore came with tribulations.
The inner tribulation was easy to weather; the outer tribulation was hard to cross.
For instance...
Other Shore Beings might stop you.
Emperor Bone Bro had suffered such a tribulation, which was how he had fallen to this state.
Whatever else might be said, those three conditions were the foundation. Without fulfilling them, one would not even have a chance to try.
When tracing back through the past, it was naturally much easier if traces of you already existed there—coordinates and anchors waiting to be found.
You could illuminate history almost in one breath.
By illuminating the Eternal Ages now, Meng Chuan would, at the very least, be able to trace himself back to the Emperor's Fall Era when he sought the Other Shore. With one more push, he could reach before Emperor's Fall and make himself relatively ancient.
Among Other Shore Beings, the stronger one was, the more ancient one became.
For now,